Ginger tea is a kind of drink, which is decocted with a little tea leaves and a few slices of ginger peeled in water and taken after meals. It can induce sweating, relieve exterior syndrome, warm lung and relieve cough, and has obvious curative effects on influenza, typhoid fever and cough. Drinking ginger tea after meals has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and relieving cough, which is beneficial to treating influenza, typhoid fever and cough. So what are the effects and functions of ginger tea, and what are the practices of ginger tea? The following small series will take you to understand.

Ginger tea is also a favorite drink of British people, which is similar to ginger soup used in China to treat colds. The method of British ginger tea is very simple. Just put a section of fresh ginger when making tea, and then add sugar to stew for more than ten minutes.

Efficacy and function of ginger tea

1. Relieve nausea and nausea. Drinking 1 cup of ginger tea before traveling can prevent nausea and vomiting related to motion sickness (motion sickness, seasickness, airsickness, etc.). When nausea and nausea occur, drinking 1 cup of ginger tea can also relieve the symptoms.

2. Promote stomach digestion. Ginger tea can help digest and absorb food and relieve bloating caused by excessive diet.

3. diminish inflammation. Ginger has anti-inflammatory effect and is an ideal family food for relieving inflammation of muscles and joints.

4. Allergy prevention through nose. Ginger tea helps to relieve nasal congestion caused by common cold, and also can relieve respiratory symptoms caused by environmental allergies such as pollen.

5. Improve blood circulation. The vitamins, minerals and amino acids in ginger tea help to restore and improve blood circulation and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Ginger can prevent fat deposition in arteries and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.

6. Reduce menstrual discomfort. Soak the towel in hot ginger tea and then apply hot compress to the lower abdomen, which can relax muscles and relieve dysmenorrhea. If you drink 1 cup ginger tea with honey at the same time, the effect will be better.

7. Enhance the immune system. Ginger is rich in antioxidant gingerol, which helps to enhance human immunity and prevent many diseases.

8. Help relieve stress. Ginger tea has the effect of relieving stress and tension. It is believed that the strong aroma of ginger tea is inseparable from this therapeutic effect.

Medicinal health care

Ginger tea is only effective for wind-cold colds, but drinking it for wind-heat colds will aggravate the symptoms.

The difference between wind-cold cold and wind-heat cold is that wind-cold cold is caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil and the failure of lung qi. Symptoms can be seen as follows: aversion to cold, mild fever, anhidrosis, headache and body pain, nasal congestion and clear nose, cough and white sputum, thirst or thirst for hot drinks, thin and white fur; Wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil invading the exterior and lung qi disharmony. The symptoms are severe fever, slight aversion to wind, swelling and pain in the head, sweating, swelling and pain in the throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose and yellow nose, thirst and thirst, red tongue tip, thin white and yellowish fur.

Wind-cold cold is an external attack of wind-cold in traditional Chinese medicine, while ginger is hot, which can dispel external evils and is effective.

However, wind-heat cold is the internal resistance of real evil, and drinking ginger tea will aggravate the symptoms.

Medicinal value

Ginger: pungent and warm. Dried ginger: pungent, hot. Both enter the lung, stomach and spleen meridians. Ginger: relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, and stopping vomiting by warming. Dried ginger: Warming the middle and dispelling cold, returning to yang and dredging veins. Canned ginger: removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. The volatile oil can promote blood circulation and sweat. Ginger spicy can promote gastric juice secretion and intestinal peristalsis, help digestion, and can cause dry mouth and sore throat when used in large quantities.

Ginger is used as a spicy vegetable, and dried roots are used to make tea. Ginger can warm the stomach, help the absorption of food and suppress nausea. It is said that chewing ginger slices can prevent carsickness more than any medicine.

Ginger tea has a pungent and pungent fragrance, which can promote blood circulation at the end of limbs. It is recommended that people who are afraid of cold drink more. It is also very effective for nausea when you are afraid of happiness, but you can only use 1/2 tablets for a cup of tea. You can also cut ginger into slender slices and chew two or three slices in your mouth.

Europeans seem to think that ginger has a sweet taste and is often used to make cookies or bread. Its efficacy promotes digestion, strengthens the circulatory system, and relieves nausea, carsickness, aversion to happiness and chills.

matters need attention

When you are pregnant, you must absolutely observe the dosage (1/2 tablets for a cup of tea). Tear it up by hand and soak it again, and the fragrance will come out easily.

The practice of ginger tea

Laojiangcha

Ingredients: 6 grams of black tea, old ginger 10 grams, and appropriate amount of honey.

Production: add water to black tea and old ginger to decoct tea, and when it is warm, add honey to drink.

Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer to dispel cold, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. It is suitable for stomachache caused by cold pathogen.

Note: Damp-heat stomachache should not be used.

Jujube ginger tea

Ingredients: seven or eight jujubes, three or four slices of ginger and a little brown sugar.

Time: 30-45 minutes.

method of work

1. Seven or eight red dates, three or four slices of ginger, and some boiling water. After washing, put it in a thermos cup and fill it with boiling water, and keep the lid tightly! You can drink it in an hour!

2. You can add brown sugar or honey when drinking (Note: When adding honey, the water must be below 60 degrees, otherwise the nutrition of honey will be lost, remember to remember! )

Sydney rock sugar ginger tea

Cough constantly causes pain in the lungs. Drinking this tea can slow down these symptoms, but also moisturize the lungs. It can also be better to add a proper amount of Fritillaria cirrhosa to stew together, but adding too much will produce bitterness.

Ingredients: Sydney 1 piece, 50 grams of ginger, 80 grams of rock sugar and 600㏄ of water.

Time: 30-45 minutes

Practice:

1. Wash and drain Sydney, peel and slice for later use.

2. After washing the ginger, peel and shred it for later use.

3. Take a casserole, add the Sydney slices made in 1, shredded ginger made in 2/and crystal sugar, then add water and cook for about 15 minutes, and you can drink it.

Nanjiangcha

Time: 30-45 minutes

Ingredients: 20g ginger slices, 2000㏄ water.

method of work

1. Wash the ginger slices and put them in a pot with water. Boil them with high fire and then turn to low fire for 45 minutes.

2. After filtering the southern ginger slices, add appropriate amount of brown sugar or rock sugar (or no sugar) according to personal preference, and let it cool before drinking.

Brown sugar ginger tea

Ginger: 50g brown sugar: 75g

Efficacy: Warming uterus and promoting blood circulation.

Practice: Chop the ginger into pieces, add three bowls of water to make a bowl of water. If it is to replenish blood, please add red dates. Add brown sugar when the pot is almost left with a bowl of water. Brown sugar doesn't need to be boiled for so long.

Boiled ginger tea

Ingredients: a slice of ginger and a cup of boiling water.

Production: a piece of ginger can be used for a glass of water, which can be brewed with boiling water and drunk hot.

Efficacy: 1. Drink before eating cold things in summer, which can prevent palace cold.

2. Ginger is warm and has the effect of warming the middle and dispelling cold.

Note: there is a folk saying that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", and it is best to drink it in summer.