Jiang Shui, a kind of brown sugar, is a famous folk cold medicine in China. It is simple to make, and the materials are brown sugar and ginger that are always available in our family.
As we all know, brown sugar is a kind of nutrition for women. Eating brown sugar also has the effects of promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and tendons, warming spleen and strengthening stomach, removing blood stasis and promoting new life. Especially for postpartum women, eating a proper amount of brown sugar every day can not only increase various nutrients needed by the body, but also have the effect of enriching blood and benefiting qi, and can also obviously promote the contraction, recovery, lochia discharge and milk secretion of postpartum uterus. However, it is best not to eat brown sugar directly. Boiling brown sugar into brown sugar water is easier to absorb nutrients than eating it directly, and it has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach and warming the stomach. Brown sugar water is the most common and practical brown sugar health drink in the early days.
On the other hand, ginger is a popular condiment. There is a folk saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". Ginger is not only used for food, but also for medical care and health preservation. Chinese medicine believes that in summer, the yang in the human body is transported abroad and the abdomen is cold, so eating ginger in summer is beneficial to human health.
Therefore, mixing brown sugar and ginger to make syrup is a good product to treat colds and warm the stomach, and it can also reduce fever and relieve dysmenorrhea of girls.