Whether patients with cold and cough can drink ginger candy water depends mainly on the type of cold, some can drink ginger candy water, some can not drink, as follows: 1, you can drink ginger candy water: from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the patient is the invasion of external cold evil and caused by wind-cold cold, cough, you can drink ginger candy water, the patient will appear cold, fear of cold, cough, cough clear phlegm, nasal congestion, runny nose, runny nose symptoms. It is necessary to keep warm, and to treat with medicines that are pungent and warm, remove cold and promote the lungs, and ginger sugar water has just this effect, which can remove the cold Qi in the body and relieve the symptoms of coughing after wind-cold cold. 2, not to drink ginger sugar water: the patient is not able to drink ginger sugar water after coughing caused by wind-heat cold due to the invasion of external heat evil, and should be treated with medicines that have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying and pungent and cooling.