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Boiled Coca cola for Flu?
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by Tris Marlis @ Makansutra:
In Hong Kong, boiled coke and lemon is a common
remedy for cold. Electrolyte drinks like 100 Plus is believed to ease diarrhea.
Adding salt to your Sprite, 7Up or Ginger ale helps soothing sore throat. Drink
soda to help you recover basic ails, does it sound like hogwash, and how does it
work?
Mdm Pang Yet Lan who used to run a coffeeshop at Sim Place had a
cold for weeks, then her Cantonese customer recommended boiled coke
with lemon to her. “It worked wonderfully,” she says.
Boiled coke and lemon is a remedy that started in Hong Kong.
There’s a story about a businessman who was trying to sell his coke during
winter time, but people wanted hot drinks, so he boiled it with lemon and
claimed that it will cure cold. That business trick became a ‘remedy’ that
people in Hong Kong have been practicing for decades.
Many who tried soda drinks as remedy can’t really explain how it
works. Mdm Pang believes that boiled coke with lemon or adding salt to Sprite
helps detoxify. We consulted Dr Jeffrey Chua at local hospital to find out
explanation behind these theories.
“Remedies like these are really a hit and a miss, it doesn’t work
on everybody. Most of these remedies are passed on from generation to generation
without really a scientific basis for it,” Dr Chua replies in an email.
According to Dr Chua, it’s a known fact that lemon contains
vitamin C, which helps with cold. In his opinion, adding coke is just to make it
tastes better and balances the tartness and acidity of lemon. Same explanation
applies to the remedy of Sprite and salt that is said to soothe sore throat. Dr
Chua explains that sore throat means there is inflammation and when there is
inflammation, there is accumulation of fluids. “Salt is a natural dehydrator, it
draws water out from our cells. Gargling (not drinking) salt water soothes sore
throat. Soda like Sprite or 7 Up only add taste to the solution,” he adds.
As for diarrhea, he explains that “electrolyte drinks like 100
Plus and Gatorade taken after bowel movements helps the body replenish its loss
fluids and electrolyte.” Again, he advised that this remedy is not a cure for
diarrhea. In fact, he says that diarrhea has a lot of causes, as long as it’s
not bacterial cause, the body will cure itself sooner or later.
So these remedies have been a theory for long, but it’s never
been medically proven. Soda as remedy, is it a hit or a miss for you?
( Courtesy:
http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/ )
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