Coke and ginger can be drunk when you have a cold, but coke and ginger can only be used to treat the wind-cold type of cold, according to Chinese medicine. The main reason is that ginger is a pungent and warm product, which can sweat and relieve the surface, dispel wind and cold, and many folk remedies for wind-cold type colds use ginger as the main medicine, so when a person encounters wind and rain, wind-cold attack, take brown sugar ginger soup and cola and ginger soup in time and will achieve good results.

Ginger Cola

Materials

Main ingredient: 1 fresh ginger, Cola 500ml

Practice:

1, wash the fresh ginger. Peel it and cut it into small julienne strips.

2, wash the cooking pot, pour in the cola, while adding the shredded ginger, cook on medium heat until boiling, and continue to cook on low heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and smother until warm to drink.

Expanded Information:

Classification of Colds

Chinese medicine categorizes colds into wind-cold, wind-heat, and other different types, not all of which are suitable for taking pungent and warm ginger soup and sweating to treat. Wind-heat cold belongs to the human body injured in the wind heat, if this time and then take ginger warming medicine, as on fire, more heavy internal heat. And the flu can not use "ginger cola", because the Chinese medicine that the flu urgently need to use bitter cold Chinese medicine to clear the plague, and "ginger cola" obviously does not have the nature of bitter cold.

So how do you differentiate between a cold, windy cold? The first thing to do is to look at the cause of the disease, if the wind cold, the patient will feel the whole body afraid of cold, snot, and the tongue is pale white, this type of choice to drink ginger soup; and the wind heat patients often have fever symptoms, sore throat, yellow snot, dry stools, such patients are recommended to choose the pungent and cool medicines, such as chrysanthemums, honeysuckle, bluebells, etc., to drink water.

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