Tips for reducing fever with ginger slices

Ginger slices are a common condiment in our daily life. At the same time, it is also a traditional Chinese medicine that can remove wind and cold. When the baby has a fever, ginger slices can also be used to reduce the fever. Of course, the effect of reducing fever is not particularly obvious. The most important method is to relieve symptoms such as runny nose and sneezing caused by colds. It is also good in removing moisture from the body.

Tips for reducing fever with ginger slices

1. Apply ginger paste to wrist

Take a piece of ginger, wash it, and cut it into small pieces; put the ginger into the garlic mortar. Mash ginger into a paste; apply the paste on the high bone of the wrist (the protruding bone at the wrist) and secure it with medical gauze. After about 10 minutes, take your temperature again and you will find that it has started to drop. After half an hour, it will return to normal levels.

2. Coriander, radish and ginger soup

Prepare coriander, radish, ginger, and rock sugar; wash the coriander, remove the leaves and leave the rhizomes, and take 3 pieces; wash the ginger, slice it, and take 2 slices; wash the white radish, slice it, and take 2 slices; put the coriander, ginger slices, and white radish slices into a pot, add rock sugar and appropriate amount of water and boil for 15 minutes; after cooking, let it stand until the temperature is suitable and then give it to your child to drink.

3. Sesame brown sugar ginger soup

Cut two large slices of ginger and two sections of green onion (the closer to the root of the onion, the better), put them into boiling water (a large bowl of water) and cook for more than 10 minutes, mash a handful of raw sesame seeds, put them in a bowl, add some brown sugar, and then pour the boiling ginger soup into the bowl.

4. Soak your feet in ginger

Ginger contains gingerol, which can stimulate blood circulation and induce sweating, and can promote the excretion of sweat. In theory, it can indeed reduce fever. But considering the baby's age, if the baby is a few months old, it is not suitable to use ginger foot soaking to reduce fever, because ginger is more irritating and will irritate the skin on the soles of the feet; if the baby is a few years older, you can try soaking ginger feet.

Other tips for reducing fever in babies

Tip 1:

Use 10 grams each of bamboo shavings, silkworm sand and tangerine peel. Wash the tangerine peel, put it into the pot together with silkworm sand and bamboo shavings, add cold water and boil it for another three minutes after the water boils.

For most people, the fever can be reduced by drinking it once. For severe cases, you can drink it two or three times. You don’t need to drink it again after the fever is completely reduced. For very young babies, they cannot drink too much medicine at one time. It is best to divide a bowl of medicine into several times and feed it to them once every 4 hours until the fever subsides. In short, the medicines in this prescription are quite safe and can be used with confidence by children and the elderly.

Tip 2:

2 grams of ephedra, 2 grams of cinnamon twig, 6 grams of bupleurum, 15 grams of white peony root, 10 grams of poria, 3 grams of licorice, 2 grams of tangerine peel, 10 grams of atractylodes, 2 grams of perilla leaf, 3 grams of Shenqu, and 2 grams of Pinellia. This recipe can be used by both adults and children, but the dosage is different. Parents can take this recipe to ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to determine the dosage.

Tip 3:

Fenghan Ganmao Yitie Ling is a traditional Chinese medicine plaster. Its medicinal ingredients are 15 grams each of ephedra and Elsholtzia ciliata, 10 grams each of isatis root and dandelion, and 12 grams of platycodon. When using, grind the above medicines into fine powder. The general dosage for adults is about 3.5 grams, and the dosage for children is about 1 gram. Pour the powder into the center of the navel, then apply it with a regular musk pain-relieving ointment to fix it, and do not let the powder spill.