If you have a cold, drinking ginger soup doesn t work, what to do

Updated on healthy 2024-06-19
18 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    That's for sure, otherwise the pharmaceutical factory would have changed to Jiang Yuan.

    Hehe, take some good medicine soon.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Not all colds are suitable for drinking ginger soup, so it is necessary to distinguish the types of colds.

    The main symptoms are light fever, no sweating, head and body pain, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough, spitting out thin white phlegm, no thirst or thirst for hot drinks, thin white moss, tight pulse, and the treatment should be based on Xinwen Jiebiao. Therefore, you can drink ginger soup for wind chills and colds, because ginger has the effect of warming and dissipating cold.

    External wind heat is also wind heat cold, mainly manifested as fever, slight bad wind, head swelling and pain, sweating, throat redness, swelling and pain, cough, phlegm sticky or yellow, nasal congestion, yellow discharge, thirst and drinking, red on the tip of the tongue, thin white and yellowish moss, pulse floating, the treatment should be based on the pungent and cool solution, at this time, if you drink ginger soup, it is not conducive to the disease.

    Therefore, you must first distinguish whether you have a wind-cold cold or a wind-heat cold, and then decide whether to drink ginger soup. It should be noted that ginger soup cannot cure diseases, only regulate. If you have a severe cold, you will also need to take medication.

    For wind-cold colds, Jingfang granules are commonly used, and for wind-heat colds, Chai Yin oral liquid is commonly used, both of which are traditional Chinese medicines with high safety.

    Winter is coming, the temperature is getting lower and lower, everyone must pay attention to keeping warm and cold, especially people with poor physical fitness, eating a balanced diet, exercising appropriately, and enhancing resistance.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    If you have a cold, a chill, a fever, a headache and nasal congestion, the folk commonly use ginger syrup** The specific method is: use a large piece of ginger to slice or shred and fry the water, add a little brown sugar (white sugar is also acceptable), and take it in one go. For patients with mild colds or strong constitutions, they can often be cured with medicine.

    This method is most commonly used to prevent colds, such as walking for a long time in the cold night, being rescued from falling into the water, and suddenly being exposed to rain, drinking a bowl of ginger brown sugar water in time, sweating warmly, and feeling comfortable, which can often achieve the purpose of prevention. It is best to sleep on the lid to sweat after taking it to avoid wind chill.

    The reason why ginger syrup can prevent and treat wind chill and cold is because ginger has the effect of sweating and detoxifying. Ginger is not only a must-have spice for families, but also one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicines. Due to different processing and processing, the medicinal use of ginger is divided into ginger, dried ginger and cannon ginger, and attention should be paid to the difference in use.

    Ginger is fresh, pungent and warm, long in diverging wind chill, and can stop vomiting, and is mostly used for wind chill cold and vomiting; Qianjiang is a dry product for the mother and wife, the taste is pungent and hot, the power of dispersion has been reduced, and the power of temperature is strengthened, which is the key medicine for the spleen and stomach deficiency and cold syndrome, and can return to yang and warm the lungs; After the artillery, the pungent taste is weakened, the taste is more bitter, and the warm menstrual hemostasis is its strength, and it is mostly used for deficiency and cold bleeding syndrome. Therefore, the predecessors had the saying that "ginger walks but does not guard, dry ginger can walk and can guard, and cannon ginger guards but does not go". It can be seen that ginger is the most suitable for ginger syrup for the prevention and treatment of colds, and if you can't find ginger for a while, dried ginger can also be substituted.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    According to the patient's feelings and the nature of the disease, Chinese medicine divides colds into two types: wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold: wind-cold colds are mostly caused by the external attack of wind-cold and the loss of lung qi in patients. Such patients often present with:

    Severe chills, mild fever, no sweating, headache and body pain, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough, spitting up thin white sputum, thin white tongue, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses the method of Xinwen to relieve the surface of wind and cold, and the patient can drink some hot soup or hot porridge at the same time as taking the medicine to make his body sweat, which will help his body's **; Wind-heat colds are caused by the evil form of wind-heat, which causes the patient's lung qi to be out of harmony. Such patients often present with:

    Severe fever, head swelling and pain, sweating, redness, swelling and pain in the throat, cough, sticky or yellow sputum, nasal congestion and yellow discharge, red tongue, thin white or yellowish moss, etc. Such patients should not drink ginger soup. This is because ginger has a pungent and warm medicinal properties, has the effect of sweating and dissolving the surface, dispelling wind and cold, and is suitable for wind and cold.

    Therefore, when we suffer from wind and cold, drinking a bowl of hot ginger soup, or boiling ginger with brown sugar into ginger syrup to drink, does have the effect of dispelling cold evil, and the disease will be relieved. However, for patients with wind, heat and cold, because they have already felt the heat, if they are allowed to take ginger warm medicine at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire and will be counterproductive. Therefore, when we catch a cold, we must treat it differentiatedly, and we must not always adopt the method of "drinking ginger soup to cover sweat".

    It is still recommended that you go to the hospital for a check-up, the symptom **, your own blind medication may be bad and aggravate your condition, I wish you an early **.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Colds are different according to **, there are wind-chill colds and wind-heat colds. Ginger is pungent and warm, has the effect of sweating and relieving the surface, dispels wind and dispels cold, and is of great help to the wind chill caused by wind chill. When boiling ginger soup, adding red dates, brown sugar and other medicines has a better effect.

    However, for wind-heat colds, drinking ginger soup is tantamount to heating on heat, and some patients with hot constitution are not suitable for drinking ginger soup. The symptoms of wind and heat** are often manifested as inflammation of the throat, accompanied by swelling and pain, and yellow and thick nasal discharge. For this condition, the patient can drink foods such as watermelon tomato juice, lemonade, loquat, rock sugar pear, etc. in moderation.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    Soak the ginger and red dates in water for 20 minutes, then add brown sugar, bring to a boil over medium heat and simmer for 15 minutes. If you have a cold and a fever, add a few pieces of green onions, and if you have a cold and cough, add a few cloves of garlic.

    The colds of this season are generally wind-chill colds. If you don't have heart disease, soak your feet in hot water until you sweat all over your body, then drink ginger jujube water, and then cover your sweat with a quilt to relieve your face. Sweating.

    That's it! I dealt with my symptoms in this way and the results were immediate. Four seasons health in autumn to protect the lungs, don't eat cold.

    You have to eat according to the nature of the food. Eat only warm foods, not cold foods. In addition, there are four acupuncture points in the human body that are most susceptible to the invasion of wind and cold, namely the Mingmen acupoint, the Dazhu acupoint, the Yongquan acupoint and the Shenque acupoint (navel).

    Pay attention to these acupuncture points to keep warm. Tapping the lung meridian and the large intestine meridian at the same time is the line along the thumb on the arm. Hope it helps.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Ginger soup with brown sugar.

    Ingredients] 20 grams of brown sugar, 4 slices of ginger, 3 sections of green onion, appropriate amount of water.

    Method] (1) Add ginger, green onion and water to the clay pot, and bring to a boil.

    2) Add brown sugar and bring to a boil.

    Features] The soup is sweet and spicy, drink it while it is hot, it can go to the wind chill and stop vomiting. Ginger has the function of sweating and detoxifying, warming and stopping vomiting, and is used in combination with brown sugar and green onion, which has a particularly good effect on dispelling wind and cold.

    It can cure colds.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Whether drinking ginger soup after a cold has any effect depends on what type of cold it is, and it has a certain effect on wind-cold colds. If the nose is mainly runny, the fear of cold and the fever are not obvious. In such cases, ginger soup can be used.

    In fact, colds can mostly recover on their own, considering that drugs may affect the fetus, try not to use drugs if they can do without medicine.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Colds are divided into three types: wind-chill cold, wind-heat cold, and summer-damp cold, which are generally external diseases caused by the invasion of wind evil into the human body, with chills, fever, headache, nasal congestion, cough, etc. as the main symptoms. **When you have a cold, you can use ginger to decoct brown sugar water, because ginger, green onion white, etc. are all spicy and warm foods, which can sweat and relieve the surface, and regulate the lungs and beggars.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Ginger as a warm thing, on the one hand, has the effect of dispelling cold and anti-evil, on the other hand, it can also be used to warm the body, in the early stage of suffering from wind and cold, drinking hot ginger water is indeed beneficial.

    Ginger is a daily seasoning and can be used as medicine. It has pungent and warm medicinal properties, can sweat and dispel the surface, dispel wind and cold, and has a mild effect, and is suitable for mild symptoms of wind and cold. If you feel the wind chill in winter, drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, or boil it with brown sugar to make ginger syrup, which will make the patient sweat slightly, which is indeed effective in dispelling cold and evil.

    Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the bitter and warm things have the characteristics of divergence, when the external evil qi is still on the surface of the skin, and the xin emits sweat, the evil spirit is easy to come out with sweat, and the disease will be solved.

    The symptoms of a wind-chill cold are usually chills, runny nose, etc. Ginger is warm, which is the "killer" of wind and cold, and has the effect of fever, dispelling wind and dissipating cold. Therefore, drinking ginger soup for such patients can drive away the "cold" and improve the symptoms of colds.

    The health care network reminds that patients with wind, heat and cold must not drink ginger soup. Wind-heat colds are mostly presented with sore throat and yellow phlegm, and if such patients drink ginger soup, it will be like "adding fuel to the fire" and will inevitably backfire.

    Three kinds of ginger soup to treat wind chill and cold.

    1. Brown sugar ginger soup. Brown sugar has the effect of nourishing blood and invigorating blood, and when added to ginger soup, it can improve body surface circulation, ** cold and flu. It should be noted that ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for wind chill cold or stomach cold after rain, and cannot be used for summer heat cold or wind heat cold.

    2. Jujube ginger soup. Jujube has a sweet and warm taste, which has the functions of nourishing and nourishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves: ginger has a pungent and warm taste, which has the effect of warming and dissolving cold; The combination of the two can give full play to the role of ginger, promote the circulation of qi and blood, and improve the symptoms of cold hands and feet.

    In addition, ginger is re-warm, and jujube is re-nourishing, which is very effective for stomach diseases caused by cold.

    3. Cola ginger soup. It has the effect of preventing cold and removing phlegm, increasing calories, warming the stomach, and is most suitable for winter health, which has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of colds, and can dispel wind and cold.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Useful, ginger is penicillin that grows in the ground, a slight cold at night on the big vertebral point (the position of the neck) pillow a hot water bottle, sleep overnight without taking medicine can be good, serious eat aloe vera mineral crystal + aloe vera gel, 1-2 days can be good, no need to inject medicine to take medicine, I wish you good health.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Of course it works. Specific method: Put brown sugar in the water, add shredded ginger after boiling, and boil for two or three minutes. Drink it while it's hot, then cover it with a quilt, and it's best to get a good night's sleep, and you'll feel comfortable when you're sweating all over.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Hello!! If you have a cold, add a small amount of brown sugar and cook it with ginger for 10 minutes, so that it is more effective! Eat more nutritious vegetables and exercise more when you have a cold! Keep warm! Thank you!

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Yes, ginger soup is hot! Drink a bowl of ginger soup to sleep and sweat, it's fine! I think it works! (for informational purposes).

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Good! Because a cold is a cold, and ginger is a cold, it is best to drink ginger soup for a cold.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    It's definitely good, the medicine is bitter and good for illness, but the ginger soup is so hard to drink, are you sure you want to drink it?

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Is it useful to drink ginger soup when you have a cold? This is a very common question. Ginger soup is considered a good dietary treatment in Chinese folklore, especially when you have a cold. Does drinking ginger soup really work for colds?

    From a pharmacological point of view, ginger has certain anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects, while also increasing immunity in the body. Therefore, drinking ginger soup may be helpful in relieving cold symptoms.

    Ginger soup can relieve coughs and sore throats. Ginger contains some compounds, such as gingerols and curcumin, which have analgesic and sedative effects. These ingredients are able to reduce sore throats and reduce the frequency and intensity of coughs.

    Drinking hot ginger soup can also warm the body and soothe discomfort.

    Ginger soup is also effective in relieving nasal congestion. Nasal congestion caused by colds is mainly caused by swelling of the nasal mucosa. Ginger contains volatile oils and other components, which have the effect of dilating blood vessels, which can reduce nasal congestion and relieve nasal congestion.

    Ginger also has a certain sweating effect. When we catch a cold, the body will experience symptoms of fever, which is a self-protection mechanism for the body to fight off the virus. Drinking ginger soup can help us better dissipate excess heat in the body by promoting blood circulation and dilating microvessels, increasing the temperature of **.

    Although ginger soup has some effect on relieving cold symptoms, it does not ** cold. Therefore, we still need to pay attention to rest, maintain adequate water intake, and follow the doctor's instructions to use medicines reasonably to catch a cold.

    To sum up, drinking ginger soup can be helpful in relieving cold symptoms. It relieves coughs and sore throats, relieves nasal congestion, and helps dissipate excess heat from the body. But it should be noted that ginger soup does not **catch a cold, and still needs rest and medicine**.

    If you are interested in drinking ginger soup, it is recommended to choose fresh ginger soup, which can retain more of the active ingredients. If you have any questions or concerns about ginger soup, it's best to consult a doctor.

    Drinking ginger soup can help relieve cold symptoms, but it can't catch a cold. Attention also needs to be taken with rest and medications**.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Not all are wind chill cold, if you are cold and cold, take ginger and green onion brown sugar water in time to sweat and dispel cold, generally sleep after sweating and cold will be much better, but it should be noted that if it is a wind-heat cold, people cannot drink ginger soup. 

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