spayder26
spayder26 t1_j2fwfkf wrote
Reply to comment by Monsantoshill619 in ELI5. Why is honey and lemon a popular cure for cold like symptoms. What makes lemon more effective than say an orange or lime? by alexkid_in_realworld
Just in case you don't know, sucrose is sugar, which would make roughly 37% of that thing, which looks like cough syrup.
What nobody is telling you is its water content (medicine doesn't tipically show dry content data) for people like you who doesn't know it and also doesn't understand that ingredients are listed in amount order.
spayder26 t1_j2f52en wrote
Reply to comment by Cloudinterpreter in ELI5. Why is honey and lemon a popular cure for cold like symptoms. What makes lemon more effective than say an orange or lime? by alexkid_in_realworld
it is probably right, you just need to dilute it in water
spayder26 t1_j2czq64 wrote
Reply to ELI5. Why is honey and lemon a popular cure for cold like symptoms. What makes lemon more effective than say an orange or lime? by alexkid_in_realworld
Any lighty acidic hot beverage with fructose (or sucrose) would cause the same effect of reducing coughing (most regular cough "medicine" is 99% sugar), so if you ran out of lemon you could try with apple cider vinegar, and honey can be really substituted with any other syrup.
Lime would be ok but most orange variants are heavily engineered towards sweetness in detriment of acidity, so not as effective.
A century ago, the original treatment on Europe was hot herbs/lemon liquors (diluted in water) and sweet wines, which also comes with a few extra "side effects".
spayder26 t1_je6ttxj wrote
Reply to People who existed before Mirrors lived their whole lives without knowing what they looked like by frombaktk
Yeah because water doesn't exist, neither polished metals, neither your own reflection on the eyes of your dying enemies.
What's between your ears dude?