The protagonist of ginger soup is ginger. Ginger can be used as cooking seasoning and medicine. Although it is not a panacea for all diseases, it is indeed a good medicine, which has preventive and therapeutic effects on many diseases. Ginger is pungent and slightly warm. When it enters the lung, stomach and spleen meridians, it can sweat outside the lung meridians and resolve phlegm. When it enters the stomach meridian, it can warm and stop vomiting. Therefore, ginger has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and detoxifying, so it is very effective to treat colds.

For the general population, ginger soup is suitable, and those with yin deficiency and internal heat and excessive pathogenic heat are forbidden to eat. So can pregnant women drink ginger soup if they catch a cold? I'm afraid taking medicine will have side effects on the fetus. It is ok for pregnant women to drink ginger soup when they have a cold. Ginger is homologous to medicine and food, which is harmless to pregnant women and fetuses. In addition, brown sugar can be added to ginger soup, which is more beneficial to pregnant women. But ginger soup is only suitable for the early stage of exogenous cold, and it is not suitable if it is a hot cold or fever.