If you drink ginger soup before meals, you can increase your appetite and promote nutrient absorption. [2]

air-condition disease

In the hot summer, many families and offices are air-conditioned, and people are prone to "air conditioning disease" while enjoying the cool breeze. Often manifested as abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold, waist and shoulder pain and other symptoms. Chinese medicine believes that ginger has three functions: sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming stomach and stopping vomiting, and detoxifying. People who have been in air-conditioned environment for a long time often drink ginger soup, which can effectively prevent and treat "air-conditioned diseases". If it is inconvenient to bring ginger soup to work, you can also bring some shredded ginger and brew it with boiling water, which can also resist the invasion of "air conditioning disease". Friends who like to drink tea add some green tea, which not only tastes good, but also is more conducive to health. In addition, ginger soup should not be too light or too strong, and drinking a bowl every day can play a role. You can also add a proper amount of brown sugar to ginger soup, because brown sugar has the functions of warming the middle warmer, soothing the liver, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and regulating menstruation. Patients with severe symptoms can drink ginger soup as water. [3]

Treat abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.

High temperature in midsummer, all kinds of germs are active in reproduction. If you are not careful, you will get sick from your mouth, which is easy to cause acute gastrointestinal inflammation such as abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Drinking some ginger soup properly can play a preventive role. Ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially against salmonella.

cold

In summer, in order to escape the heat, people are used to blowing fans, turning on air conditioners and even sleeping outdoors, which can easily cause exogenous cold. If you can drink 1 bowl of brown sugar ginger soup in time, it will help to dispel cold and reduce fever, or you can get the same effect by soaking your feet with ginger soup (adding some salt and vinegar). However, for the wind-heat cold, the human body has already felt the heat evil. If we take warm ginger medicine at this time, it's like adding fuel to the fire, which is counterproductive. Therefore, the treatment of colds must be based on syndrome differentiation, and the method of "ginger soup covering sweat" cannot be used. [4]

The most important thing when catching a cold is to "eat according to your own constitution and time". Liao Guisheng, a Taiwanese doctor of traditional Chinese and western medicine who has studied dietotherapy, thinks that cold dietotherapy should change with the course of disease. Some foods are suitable for aftercare at ordinary times, but it is best not to eat when you are infected with inflammation or flu.

Gingerol and gingerol in ginger can sweat and drive away accumulated heat in the body, especially ginger with less water, which can better promote blood circulation. Adding brown sugar can supplement calories. But ginger soup is only suitable for people with exogenous cold, not suitable for drinking. Moreover, ginger can promote blood circulation. If there is inflammation or bleeding, don't eat it.

Some people think that you should eat more fruits during a cold. Liu Jianhui, a doctor at Tai 'an Hospital in Taiwan Province Province, said that it depends on personal circumstances. Eating more fruits can supplement vitamin C, but whether vitamin C can treat or prevent colds is still controversial.

Moreover, fruit juice or fruit is mostly cold, which may cause bronchial contraction and aggravate cough. Except for fever, it is not suitable for eating during a cold. In particular, fruits with more water, such as watermelons and pears, are cooler. If you cough, have a runny nose, have loose bowels, and your hands and feet are cold, it is easier to make your condition worse.

Inflammation or flu: pears, watermelons, sugar cane, coconut milk, onions, black bean soup, etc.

Generally, when there are inflammatory reactions such as sore throat, runny nose or thick yellow sputum, fever and high fever, it is not advisable to take tonics, such as ginseng, angelica, astragalus and sesame oil, so as to avoid adding fuel to the fire and aggravating the condition. Chinese medicine believes that cold fruits such as watermelons and pears have antipyretic effects and can be used to "reduce fire".

In addition, the onion and black bean soup recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books can not only relieve headache and stuffy nose, but also help people with fever. The practice is to take green onions and black beans to make soup. Scallion has the effect of sweating, in which malic acid and phosphoric acid can stimulate blood circulation, and the effect of sweating is faster than ginger soup; Fermented douchi can replenish protein in the body.

Prevent a cold

White radish and tea white radish have anti-inflammatory, bactericidal and diuretic effects, and are good natural anti-inflammatory drugs. In daily life, adding honey to raw radish juice can relieve sore throat after drinking. Harvard University in the United States also found in a study that people who drink five cups of black tea or green tea every day for two weeks will greatly enhance their immunity and drive away more than 10 times of cold and influenza viruses than people who don't drink tea. [5]

relieve the summer hea

Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "refresh the mind" (that is, refresh the mind). When fainting due to heatstroke in summer, drinking 1 cup of ginger juice can make patients wake up quickly. For patients with fever, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea, it is also beneficial to eat ginger properly every day. [2]

Waist and shoulder pain

Summer heat is hard, some people like to take a bath or sleep outdoors, and their shoulders and backs will suffer from diseases such as wind, cold and dampness, especially the elderly are prone to scapulohumeral periarthritis. In this case, you can burn some hot ginger soup. First add a little salt and vinegar to the hot ginger soup, then dip the towel in water and wring it out. Hot compress the affected area several times. This method can relax muscles, promote blood circulation and greatly relieve pain.

And ginger soup will do, no problem.

Have a happy day!