It can be used to treat colds. Because ginger is a pungent food, it can sweat and relieve exterior symptoms, dispel wind and dispel cold. Therefore, drinking a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup, cola ginger soup or scallion soup in time when encountering wind, rain and wind and cold has a good effect on treating colds. However, it should be noted that it is only suitable for wind-cold type colds.

If it is cold, the patient will feel cold, runny nose and pale tongue coating. This type can choose to drink ginger soup; Patients with wind-heat often have fever symptoms, such as sore throat, yellow nose and dry stool. Such patients are advised to use pungent and cool drugs to soak in water, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and isatis root, or take some Chinese patent medicines such as Yinqiao Jiedu granules to treat the symptoms.