Can I drink ginger water if I have a cold stomach?

Of course you can drink ginger water, but drink it hot.

Stomach cold is a term in traditional Chinese medicine. It refers to the syndrome of yin-cold stagnation in the stomach caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach yang qi, overeating raw and cold food, or direct cold evil. Symptoms include epigastric pain, which is relieved by warming, vomiting and salivation, a taste for hot drinks, inability to digest food, a pale tongue with white slippery coating, and a slow and slow pulse. Treatment should be to warm the stomach and dispel cold.

Syndrome differentiation and treatment

1. Stomach deficiency and cold (stomach yang deficiency)

Syndrome: epigastric cold pain, lingering, coming on and off, liking warmth and pressing, relieved after eating, general vomiting of water or undigested food. He or she eats less, has a pale mouth, is not thirsty, is tired and weak, is afraid of cold and has cold limbs, has a pale, fat and tender tongue, and has a slow and weak pulse. Treatment Principle: Warm the body and strengthen the stomach. Main recipe: Lizhong Soup. You can also use Xiaojianzhong Decoction, Lizhong Decoction, Xiangsha Liujunzi Decoction, and Xiangsha Yangwei Pills. Prescription: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon twig, dried ginger, galangal, peppercorns, white root, and jellyfish.

2. Symptoms of cold stomach

Syndrome: epigastric cold pain, severe pain, aggravated by cold, pain relieved by warmth, epigastric distension, nausea and vomiting, pain after vomiting, light mouth and no thirst, Flooding with clear water, dripping sound from the epigastrium and abdomen, white and slippery tongue coating, stringy or heavy pulse. Treatment principles: Warming the stomach, dispersing cold and relieving pain. Main ingredient: Magnolia officinalis Wenzhong soup. Prescription: Magnolia officinalis, tangerine peel, licorice, costus, dried ginger, poria, cardamom.

Clinical Prescription

1. Burnt Eggs with White Wine

Put 50 ml of strong white wine in a small bowl, break in 1 egg, light the white wine and wait until After the wine is dried and the eggs are cooked, eat it once on an empty stomach in the morning.

2. Pork belly and old ginger

1 raw pork belly (washed), old ginger (sliced). Put the old ginger into the pork belly, stew or steam it, and eat it in 2 to 4 times.

3. Fennel and orange core powder

Fry equal parts of fennel and orange core, grind into fine powder and mix well. Take it with warm water every time you have stomachache or before breakfast and dinner. .

4. Fragrant ginger drink

Cumin, dried ginger, woody root, and licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

5. Cornus officinalis and sand summer tea

Evodia officinalis, Amomum villosum, ginger, pinellia, Codonopsis pilosula, Shenqu, 3 jujubes. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.

6. Cinnamon bark and brown sugar drink

Decoct cinnamon bark in water to remove residue and extract juice, add brown sugar, mix well and drink hot. This drink has the effect of warming the stomach and dispersing cold, and can help treat stomach pain and bloating caused by cold in the stomach.

7. Pepper red date tea

Take 10 jujubes (pitted), put 5 white peppercorns in each jujube, steam them in a steamer, and then mash them. Mung bean-sized pills, take 7 to 10 pills each time. This pill has the effect of warming the stomach and replenishing blood, and can assist in the treatment of cold stomach pain.

8. Ginseng and jujube tea

Decoct Codonopsis pilosula and jujube together and drink it. You can also add tangerine peel to regulate stomach qi. Function: It can assist in the treatment of spleen deficiency, loss of appetite, muscle weakness in the limbs, anemia, and heart palpitations after illness.

Preventive dietary therapy methods:

(1) Nutmeg black-bone chicken pot: 1 black-bone chicken, remove the hair and internal organs and wash; put apples and cardamom into the belly of the black-bone chicken Inside, seal the incision with a toothpick, add an appropriate amount of water, cook, season and eat. This meal has the effect of warming the body and dispersing cold, strengthening the stomach and relieving pain. It can be eaten whether you have stomach problems caused by cold evil, or stomach cold or stomach pain caused by drinking cold food.

(2) Dried ginger, dates and mutton: cut mutton into pieces, astragalus, 10 jujubes (pitted), and dried ginger. Stew the above ingredients with appropriate amount of water, season with seasoning and eat. This porridge has the effects of warming yang, nourishing qi, and strengthening the stomach. It can assist in the treatment of symptoms such as stomachache due to coldness and chills in the limbs.

(3) Ginger sugar, fresh ginger and white sugar can help treat cold stomach pain. Fresh ginger (finely minced), sugar, pickled together; eat 3 times a day before meals, 1 spoon (ordinary tablespoon) each time.

(4) Burn eggs with white wine: Pour Erguotou white wine into a tea cup, beat an egg, light the wine, and the eggs will be cooked when the wine is dry. Eat it on an empty stomach in the morning. Note that the eggs come without any seasoning. It can be taken if the stomach is cold and the stomach hurts.

(5) Spring amomum villosum soaked in honey: Spring amomum villosum is soaked in honey. There are finished products, which can be eaten directly. The effect is obvious. The stomach will feel comfortable soon after eating it. It is green, safe and has no side effects. It can heal the stomach. cold.

(6) Pepper soaked in brown sugar and water: Pepper has the effect of warming cold phlegm and exhausting exhaust. It can assist in the treatment of chest and diaphragm distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and loss of appetite caused by cold.

Usage: Grind the pepper into powder, add water and brown sugar and swallow it; you can also use pepper soaked in wine and rub it on the outside of the chest to help treat stomach pain caused by cold. In addition, smash the peppercorns, rinse them with boiling water, and then soak them with brown sugar water for 2 to 3 days. Oral administration can help treat stomach pain caused by stomach cold.

(7) Galangal porridge: galangal, japonica rice. First fry the galangal, remove the residue and extract the juice, then add the rice to make porridge. Take on an empty stomach. Warming and dispelling cold. It is effective for cold stomach pain, cold cholera, vomiting and diarrhea, and abdominal pain.