However, experts pointed out that it is not suitable for wind-heat type cold, and if you want to prevent and treat wind-cold type cold, it is best to drink only ginger soup instead of coke.
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Cooking shredded ginger with cola is considered by many people to be a "good medicine" for preventing colds by combining Chinese and western medicine. It tastes good and can prevent colds, killing two birds with one stone. Therefore, many people never forget to order a pot of tea at the dinner table in winter. Yin Zhichao, a researcher at China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out that cooking ginger with cola to prevent colds is only a folk saying, which has not been proved by experiments and there is no scientific basis to prove whether it is really effective, so it is not suitable for popularization.
In fact, ginger is a pungent and warm product, which can relieve sweating, dispel wind and dispel cold. Many folk prescriptions use ginger as the main medicine to treat cold-type colds, so when people encounter wind, rain and cold, taking ginger soup in time can achieve good results. However, Yin Zhichao pointed out that cola is a carbonated drink after all, and its specific ingredients are not clear to the Chinese because of the "secret formula". It is not known whether cooking cola and ginger together will produce substances that are harmful to human health, so to prevent colds, it is best to cook soup directly with ginger instead of coke. Especially for the elderly with chronic diseases, it is best not to drink cola and ginger soup.
In addition, not all colds are suitable for sweating with Xin Wen's ginger soup. Chinese medicine divides colds into different types, such as wind-cold and wind-heat. Wind-heat cold belongs to wind-heat injury to human body. If you take ginger-like warm medicine at this time, it will add fuel to the fire, which will aggravate the internal heat. Therefore, drinking cola ginger soup at this time can not only prevent colds, but also aggravate the cold.
So how to distinguish between wind-cold and wind-heat colds when you have a cold? First of all, it depends on the cause. If it is cold, the patient will feel cold, runny nose and pale tongue coating. This type can choose to drink ginger soup; Patients with wind-heat often have fever symptoms, such as sore throat, yellow runny nose and dry stool. Such patients are advised to use pungent and cool drugs to soak in water, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and isatis root, or take some Chinese patent medicines such as Yinqiao Jiedu Granules to treat the symptoms.
It is even more impossible to use "Cola Ginger Soup" for influenza, because Chinese medicine believes that the flu needs bitter and cold Chinese medicine to clear the plague and detoxify, and the sweet "Cola Ginger Soup" obviously does not have the nature of bitter and cold.
References:
Coke, ginger and Baidu encyclopedia