During pregnancy, it is beneficial for pregnant women to drink some Jiang Shui properly. When drinking ginger water, attention should be paid to avoid drinking it at night, but in the morning or at noon. When drinking Jiang Shui, care should be taken not to peel it, because the nutritional value of ginger skin is particularly high, and if it is removed, it will affect the overall efficacy.

The protagonist of ginger soup is ginger. Ginger can be used as both cooking seasoning and medicine. Although it is not a panacea for all diseases, it is also a good medicine, which has preventive and therapeutic effects on many diseases. Ginger is pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature. When it enters the lung, stomach and spleen meridians, it can perspire outside the lung meridian, and can dissipate phlegm. When it enters the stomach meridian, it can warm up and stop vomiting. Therefore, ginger has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, and detoxifying, which is very effective in treating colds.

Drinking ginger soup depends on indications.

First, the wind-cold cold is caused by the invasion of wind-cold evil and the loss of lung qi. The symptoms are: aversion to cold, mild fever, anhidrosis, headache and body pain, nasal congestion, watery nasal discharge, cough and white sputum, thirst or thirst for hot drinks, thin and white fur. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) mainly treats wind-cold cold by pungent warming and relieving exterior syndrome. Drinking some hot soup or porridge while taking medicine will make the body sweat, which will help dispel wind-cold and strengthen the body resistance.

Second, wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat evil invading the exterior and lung qi disharmony. The symptoms are: severe fever, swelling and pain in the head, sweating, swelling and pain in the throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose with yellow nose, thirst, red tongue tip, thin white or yellowish fur. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) mainly treats wind-cold colds by pungent and cool solutions, and sometimes it also uses pungent and cool drinks such as mint tea as auxiliary treatment.