I've actually tried it on several occasions when I was sick or nauseous for one reason or another and it really does work well. Just keep the bottle around and take a quick sip when you need some relief.
For me it works a lot better than ginger ale, even though that's supposed to help too.
While I don’t drink soda anymore, ginger ale is the one exception when I am very stressed.
> People typically eat breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. You might even say habitually.
They're talking about straight up cocaine and opiates. A glass of Coca-cola contained about 1/4 of a line of coke in it originally.
Most spices have medicinal purposes. Inadequate muscle mass -- aka protein -- is linked to insulin resistance. I have eaten butter sandwiches to stop the bone and tooth pain no pain killers helped with.
Food has tremendous chemical impact on the body. We are only beginning to comprehend it.
People typically eat breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. You might even say habitually.
Around that time, it became obvious to the medical profession that there weren’t any health benefits to carbonated water on its own, so people started selling it as a treat
With my first pregnancy, I threw up morning, noon and night for eight months. Carbonated water was one of the things I could keep down and it helped make it vastly more bearable.
Keep in mind these fountain drinks with stuff added for "medicinal purposes" existed at a time when, no, you couldn't go to Walmart and select from a wide assortment of reliable OTC drugs without a prescription. If your medicine cabinet at home has multiple different OTC pain killers and cold medicines, my feeling is you really don't have a leg to stand on for scoffing at such practices from a hundred or more years ago.
Coca-Cola absolutely contained ingredients with medicinal properties. It's the one that is probably the best documented. That doesn't mean the others didn't also have real medicinal benefit. It just means we don't necessarily have the records of what went in them and the proof that X ingredient absolutely has medicinal uses.