What to do if you sweat after drinking ginger soup

Ginger has a stimulating taste, so adding ginger to dishes can effectively remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor of the dishes. In addition, ginger has a very strong medicinal effect on the human body. For example, after a person catches a cold, he can drink a bowl of ginger soup, because the stimulating ingredients in the ginger soup can effectively prevent colds. But what should some people do if they experience sweating symptoms after drinking ginger soup?

People often say that if you have a cold, drink a bowl of ginger soup while it's hot, cover yourself with a blanket and take a nap, and you will feel better in a day. In fact, not all colds are suitable for treating by drinking ginger soup and sweating.

According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, colds are divided into four types: wind-cold colds, wind-heat colds, summer-heat colds, and seasonal colds, also known as influenza. 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.

Wind-cold colds are caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil and the failure of lung qi to flow freely. 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.

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. Summer-heat and dampness colds mostly occur in summer, and the treatment should focus on clearing away heat and dampness. Epidemic colds are caused by viruses, and the treatment should focus on clearing away heat, detoxifying, and dispersing wind and relieving the surface. Therefore, in the treatment of colds, it is necessary to differentiate the symptoms and treat them, and the method of "covering with ginger soup to sweat" must not be adopted.