Ginger tea is often recommended as a cold-dispelling drink during colds. Many people must have had uncomfortable drinking experience: drinking ginger tea with slight cold symptoms makes the symptoms worse, and taking common cold medicine seems to have no effect.

Just like the principle of food supplement mentioned above, ginger tea has many positive meanings, such as the sudden deterioration of the weather, catching a cold in the rain, hiking and getting cold. Drinking a cup of hot ginger tea quickly is definitely a good way to keep fit, which can immediately warm the cold body and replenish calories. What a wonderful thing! However, if you still drink it when you have a cold, or even take it as a cold medicine, it is easy to backfire.

A Chinese doctor in Compendium of Materia Medica mentioned that ginger tea was made in Zhu Gekongming, because the central part of Sichuan is humid, and soldiers are prone to get sick in marching operations. So I gave the whole army brown sugar and ginger to drink, which improved the combat effectiveness and won a great victory. The world calls it "marching soup".

This clearly tells us that ginger tea is a kind of drink when it is wet, cold, hungry and tired, but modern people are almost overnourished and drink it at any time. Of course, drinking it will cause problems. Personally, I found from my personal experience that every day in winter and spring clinics, there is a drama of fever and secondary infection after drinking ginger tea. I'm tired of watching it, and patients don't like it, but I can't say it.