How about drinking ginger soup in summer?
It is very good to drink some ginger soup in summer.
Air conditioning is often blown in summer, which is vulnerable to cold and causes colds. Drinking some ginger syrup will help to drive away the cold in the body. Colds caused by summer heat and wind heat are not suitable for drinking. Moreover, gingerol in ginger has a certain stimulating effect on the heart and blood vessels, which can speed up blood circulation, open pores and increase perspiration. With sweat, it can take away the residual heat in the body and has a certain heatstroke prevention effect.
In addition, eating cold food often in summer will lead to excessive cold qi in the spleen and stomach, and symptoms such as palpitation and nausea will appear. Drinking some ginger soup will help warm the spleen and stomach to prevent serious illness.
Recommended practice of ginger soup
Brown sugar ginger soup
Practice: Insist on taking chives and ginger, rinse them separately, put them into a small pot, add a bowl of water, boil them until they are half a bowl, remove residues and leave soup, and add brown sugar.
Efficacy: Brown sugar has the functions of nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation. When added to ginger soup, it can improve body surface circulation and treat colds. It should be noted that ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for stomach cold after wind-cold cold or rain, and cannot be used for summer-heat cold or wind-heat cold.
Jujube ginger soup
Practice: use jujube 10, 5 slices of ginger and appropriate amount of brown sugar to decoct soup instead of tea, once a day.
Efficacy: Jujube is sweet and warm, and has the functions of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the functions of warming the middle warmer, relieving exterior symptoms and dispelling cold. The combination of the two can give full play to the role of ginger, promote the circulation of blood and improve the symptoms of cold hands and feet. In addition, ginger and jujube are very effective in treating stomach diseases caused by cold.
Green tea ginger soup
Practice: Take 5g of green tea and 5g of shredded ginger, and brew with boiling water for 10 minutes.
Freshly squeezed ginger juice can prevent heatstroke, especially with green tea that can clear away heat and detoxify, benefit qi and comfort. It is especially suitable for drinking when summer heat and autumn heat alternate, and has the effect of clearing away heat and comfort.
Cola ginger soup
Practice: Peel the ginger, cut into filaments, pour the coke into the pot, add the ginger and bring it to a low heat, and slowly cook for about 10 minutes, so that the ginger flavor can penetrate into the coke and turn off the fire.
Efficacy: it has the effect of preventing cold and removing phlegm, increasing calories and warming the stomach. It is most suitable for winter, and has a good effect on preventing and treating colds, and can dispel wind and dispel cold.
Vinegar ginger
Practice: Slice ginger, put the sliced ginger into a jar, pour rice vinegar or aged vinegar, and the vinegar is filled. Take a small piece of plastic wrap and fold it into a small piece. Wrap the stacked plastic wrap around the jar mouth, cover it and seal it firmly. You can eat it after a week in the refrigerator.
Efficacy: Soaking ginger in vinegar has the effects of nourishing stomach, losing weight, preventing alopecia, preventing chronic diseases and improving human yang.
Matters needing attention in eating ginger soup
1, ginger is a pungent thing, which can promote blood circulation. Excessive consumption will increase bloody lochia, make lochia endless, and the endometrium can't be repaired well, resulting in anemia and postpartum weakness, so you can't drink ginger soup immediately after delivery.
2. Anyone suffering from excessive fire due to yin deficiency, red eyes and internal heat, or carbuncle, swelling, furuncle, pneumonia, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, lung abscess, tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, diabetes and hemorrhoids should not eat ginger soup for a long time.
3, taking ginger soup can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is not suitable for other types of vomiting. 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.
4, do not use rotten ginger, rotten ginger will produce a highly toxic substance, which can denature and necrosis liver cells and induce liver cancer and esophageal cancer. That "rotten ginger doesn't taste bad" is unscientific.