High School Department
“The Effect of Coke with Lemon and Ginger as a Medicine for Coughs and Colds”
In Partial Fulfillments of the Requirements in
BIOLOGY
1st Quarter
Submitted by:
15 See, Adrian
Submitted to:
Mr. Jun dela Bajan
July 29 ,2011
I. Statement of the Problem
Cold and coughs are the most common diseases. Medicines are very expensive. Coke mixed together with lemon, and ginger can relieve coughs and colds.
II. Statement of the Objectives
1) To determine effectiveness of coke mixed with ginger as a cough or cold reliever.
2) To determine whether coke, lemon, and ginger is more or less effective than medicine in relieving coughs and colds.
3) To determine if coke and ginger will relieve or worsen cough and colds.
III. Significance of the Problem
This study will be able to help save money on buying medicines for coughs and colds. It will help people to relieve the most common diseases with an easy mixture of coke, lemon, and ginger. This study will help parents in giving medicine to their children. Some medicines have a bitter taste, but when the kids realize that they will be taking coke as a medicine, they will surely drink. Colds and coughs are the most common diseases and they spread very fast, without a strong immune system, people can get these diseases.
IV. Review of Related Literature
Introduction
➢ Liquid medicines are flavored to mask the unpleasant taste of the drugs they contain. That's an obvious advantage for any product sold over the counter, so many patent medicine manufacturers added flavoring to their nostrums in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They weren’t working with the synthetic drugs we have today, but the herb-based ingredients in the old patent medicines weren’t particularly palatable either. A common practice was to dissolve the plants in alcohol and flavor them with a sweet syrup. Fletcher’s Castoria, a children’s stomachache