Can I drink ginger soup when I have a cold?

When it comes to ginger soup, many people are familiar with it, especially some older people, who usually have very deep memories of ginger soup. A long time ago, they usually took ginger soup to keep out the cold. When it comes to colds, most people should have had similar experiences of illness, of course the severity of the cold is generally different. In many cases, colds need to be treated, and diet should also be taken care of. So, can you drink ginger soup when you have a cold?

The above question is one that many friends are extremely concerned about, because they often encounter such problems in their daily lives, so due to their lack of understanding, they are often indifferent. There are many ways to treat colds, and many medicines are very effective in treating colds. But when you have a cold, there are often many foods that you cannot eat. So, let’s talk about whether you can drink ginger soup when you have a cold.

If the cough is caused by cold, you can drink ginger soup. Guidance: It can help dispel the cold, and you can also add brown sugar to it and cook it together for better results.

Wind-cold colds are caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil and the failure of lung qi to flow freely. Symptoms include: severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating, headache and body aches, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, cough and thin white sputum, no thirst or thirsty and liking hot drinks, and thin white tongue coating. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses the method of using pungent and warm herbs to relieve the symptoms of colds. While taking medicine, drinking some hot soup or hot porridge can make the body sweat, which helps to dispel the cold and strengthen the body to eliminate evil.

Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil invading the surface and disharmony of lung qi. Symptoms include: severe fever, headache, sweating, red and swollen sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion and runny yellow nose, thirst and desire to drink, red tip and edges of the tongue, and a thin white or slightly yellow tongue coating. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses the method of using spicy and cool herbs to relieve symptoms of colds caused by wind and cold, and sometimes uses spicy and cool drinks such as mint tea as an auxiliary treatment. People with colds should compare their symptoms and carefully distinguish different types of colds. If they are unable to determine what type of cold they have, they should seek help from a professional doctor.

Ginger is a daily condiment and can also be used as medicine. It has a pungent and warm nature, can induce sweating, relieve exterior symptoms, dispel wind and cold, has a mild effect, and is suitable for mild symptoms of wind-cold colds. If you catch a cold in winter, drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, or boil ginger sugar water with brown sugar, which will make the patient sweat slightly and has the effect of expelling the cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pungent and warm things have a dispersing property. When external evil qi is still on the skin surface, dispersing food can induce sweating, and the external evil qi will easily be expelled with the sweat, and the disease will be cured. Ginger, which is warm in nature, has the effect of dispelling cold and resisting evil on the one hand, and can also be used to warm the body on the other hand. Drinking hot ginger water is indeed beneficial in the early stages of a cold. By the same token, eating spicy hot pot can also have a similar effect of sweating and detoxification. As for wind-heat colds, the human body has already been affected by the heat evil. If you take warm medicines such as ginger at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire, which will be counterproductive. Therefore, when treating colds, we must differentiate the symptoms and treat them based on the symptoms, and we must not simply adopt the method of "sweating out with ginger soup".

To sum up, we know one thing, that is, you can drink ginger soup for colds caused by wind and cold, and ginger soup can also play an auxiliary role in treating colds to a certain extent. But everyone must understand one thing, that is, ginger soup is only auxiliary in treating colds, and generally only mild colds can be treated with ginger soup. However, common colds or more serious illnesses cannot be cured by drinking ginger soup, so our friends must be clear about this.