Suffering from a cold, many people like to cook cola ginger soup to drive away the cold and prevent colds. However, experts warned that cola ginger soup 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 ginger soup instead of cola. 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. However, Chinese medicine practitioners pointed out that cooking ginger with cola to prevent colds is only a folk saying, 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, cola is a carbonated beverage, and its specific ingredients are not clear to the Chinese because the formula is confidential. It is also unknown whether cooking cola and ginger together will produce substances that are harmful to human health. Therefore, to prevent colds, it is best to cook soup directly with ginger instead of coke. 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. 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 away the plague and detoxify, and the sweet cola ginger soup obviously does not have the nature of bitter and cold.