Can I put sugar in ginger soup?
Sugar is not recommended, but brown sugar is better.
Ginger soup has the function of improving cold constitution, enhancing resistance and immunity. It is a natural internal heat margin and helps to restore physical strength. It is a good food for dispelling cold. There is a folk saying that "radish is eaten in winter and ginger is eaten in summer", but a single ginger soup is spicy and hard to swallow. People usually add some sugar to improve the taste of ginger soup.
However, ginger soup is hot in nature, while sugar is cold in nature. Mixing the two will reduce the medicinal properties of ginger soup. Especially for the treatment of wind-cold cold, adding white sugar to ginger soup may aggravate the condition of wind-cold, so it is recommended to use brown sugar, and the combination of the two can enhance the efficacy.
Prepare about 30g of brown sugar. Brown sugar can nourish the blood, nourish the face and keep the body warm. Brown sugar is also very good for coughing. When people catch a cold, the digestive ability in the body is very weak. At this time, you can eat some brown sugar, which can also supplement qi and blood and enhance physical strength.
Practice of expelling cold and ginger soup
Old ginger 1 piece, washed without peeling, cut into pieces with a knife, or crushed and squashed with a knife. Ginger can not only be used as seasoning, but also a good food for health and dietotherapy. Don't throw away the ginger when cooking, but eat it!
6 red dates, washed and set aside. Jujube has the function of promoting qi circulation, promoting blood circulation and enriching blood. Eating jujube can help people recover their physical strength when they are cold and tired. Of course, red dates can also be replaced with scallions, which are the white parts of onions, and scallions have the function of cooling and publishing.
Put water in the pot, put ginger and red dates in it, then boil it with high fire, then turn it to low fire, and simmer slowly for 3-4 minutes to let the spicy ingredients in ginger boil out.
When it is almost cooked, pour in the prepared brown sugar and cook together for 1 min. At this time, the ginger soup is sweet and spicy.
The taste of ginger melts into the water. At this time, you can take out the cooked ginger soup, drink it in hot water, cover the quilt and sleep. You will soon sweat, and the cold in your body will be discharged with sweat, and your cold will be fine.
Efficacy and function of ginger
First, help digestion
Staying up late to watch the ball "three slices of ginger in the morning are better than drinking ginseng soup", and ginger is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food. Everything grows in summer, and the anode is yin, and the heart is flourishing and the kidney is failing. After staying up late, it is good for men to come to a few slices of ginger in the morning. You can soak ginger in vinegar. Add aged vinegar, crystal sugar and ginger slices into a glass jar, and it is best to soak them for half a month and eat two or three slices every morning. In addition, you can eat more black fungus and black sesame seeds to help the viscera detoxify and have the effect of tonifying the kidney.
Second, enhance immunity
Ginger contains mineral elements such as protein, fat, cellulose, carbohydrate, carotene, riboflavin, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and many trace elements, and is the most common seasoning food in human daily life. Slice or smash ginger, and boil water with wormwood. Boil and simmer 10 minutes. Soaking feet at night can replenish yang, warm the body and enhance immunity.
Third, relieve headache symptoms
The best time to wash your hair in a day is noon. At this time, the sun is the most abundant, because the scalp is most prone to moisture. If it is not dried in time, it will easily cause headaches and migraines. At this time, it is best to use shampoo containing ginger, or soak your hands in hot Jiang Shui for about fifteen minutes. The pain will ease or disappear.
Fourth, improve the body yang
After the summer solstice, the temperature rises gradually, and the amount of sweating will also increase. Therefore, the human body needs a lot of water. People often use ice water and cold drinks to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It should be noted that it is not appropriate for female friends, especially those with cold constitution and weak constitution, to eat too much cold drinks during pregnancy. Male friends can eat ginger in moderation, which is also beneficial to the protection and promotion of male functions. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "a man cannot live without ginger for a hundred days". In summer, everything grows, the anode is yin, and the heart is flourishing and the kidney is failing. Therefore, it is very beneficial to protect and enhance the yang of the body by supplementing ginger in moderation.
Fifth, hair growth
Why can ginger grow hair? Because ginger contains gingerol, gingerol and gingerol, which are collectively called "gingerol", one of the major functions of "gingerol" is to dilate blood vessels and promote blood circulation, and blood circulation will bring more nutrition to hair, stimulate hair follicles and accelerate hair growth. So ginger is a wonderful hair growth remedy.
Taboos for ginger use
1. Don't peel. Some people like to peel ginger, which can't give full play to the overall effect of ginger. Fresh ginger can be shredded and sliced after washing.
2. Anyone who suffers from excessive fire due to yin deficiency, red eyes and internal heat, or who suffers from carbuncle, swelling, furuncle, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes and hemorrhoids should not eat ginger for a long time.
3. From the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with cold stomach and fever after cold or rain, not for patients with summer heat or wind-heat cold, nor for treating heatstroke. Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but not for other types of vomiting.
4. Don't eat rotten ginger. Rotten ginger will produce a highly toxic substance, which can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells and induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer and so on.