The practice and efficacy of red dates, brown sugar and ginger water

Red dates, brown sugar and ginger water, just by looking at the name you can guess what the basic ingredients are and understand what its function is. Whether it is red dates, brown sugar or ginger, they can help people drive away the cold and replenish qi and blood. It is especially helpful for female friends and is very suitable for women to drink during menstruation. Let’s take a look at the method and specific effects below.

Ingredients

6 red dates, some water, some brown sugar, some ginger

step

1. Prepare a few red dates

2. Slice ginger

3. Cut the red dates a few times so that the flavor can be better released.

4. Put ginger and red dates into a casserole filled with water and cook over low heat for more than ten minutes.

5. Add brown sugar after cooking for more than ten minutes, cover the lid and cook for a few more minutes.

6. Drink it while it’s hot. You can also eat ginger.

Effects and functions:

Brown sugar is a nutritional supplement for women. Postpartum women can eat a proper amount of brown sugar every day, which can not only increase the various nutrients needed by the body, but also has the effect of nourishing blood and replenishing qi. In addition, eating brown sugar can promote blood circulation, invigorate blood circulation and relax muscles, warm the spleen and stomach, and remove blood stasis and promote new blood.

Red dates are recorded in the Chinese herbal book "Ben Jing". Red dates are sweet and warm in nature, and belong to the spleen and stomach meridians. They have the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, and alleviating the medicinal properties. Modern pharmacology has found that red dates contain rich nutrients such as protein, fat, sugar, organic acid, vitamin A, vitamin C, trace calcium and multiple amino acids.

Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has many functions such as dispelling cold and inducing sweat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, harmonizing the stomach, and stopping vomiting. Drink ginger and brown sugar water to cure colds; ginger is known as the "holy medicine for vomiting"; ginger can also be used to treat enteritis, dysentery, etc.; external application of ginger also has a certain therapeutic effect on vitiligo, alopecia areata, and tinea manuum. There is a saying among the people that “three slices of ginger in the morning are better than drinking ginseng soup” and “October ginger is like little ginseng”. There is also a proverb that goes "Three slices of ginger a day keeps the doctor away."

Although red dates, brown sugar and ginger water is not as valuable as health products, it is very practical. Regardless of its price, it can indeed dispel cold and replenish blood. Many people want to make red dates, brown sugar and ginger water at home. If you don’t know how to do it, you can read the introduction above. You will definitely learn it in the end.