Can I drink ginger and jujube tea after entering the dog days?

When summer comes, some people start preparing mung bean soup to relieve the heat. However, some people start buying ginger and red dates after the beginning of the dog days, preparing to make ginger and red dates tea. Many people know that ginger and jujube tea can help dispel the cold. So can we drink ginger and jujube tea after the beginning of the dog days? In fact, experts tell us that the dog days of summer are the best time to drink ginger and jujube tea. Why is this? Let’s see what the experts say!

Ginger and jujube tea is the best drink during the dog days

As the saying goes, "Eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer." Drinking ginger and jujube tea can not only strengthen the stomach and eliminate dampness, but also replenish blood and qi. It can sweep away all the disease in the body at once!

During the entire dog days period, it is the best time to drink ginger and jujube tea. Why? Because after a winter and spring, the body has accumulated a lot of disease and toxins. In the hot summer, the body's yang energy is empty. Drinking a cup of ginger and jujube tea at this time can not only replenish the body's yang energy to warm the middle, but also use the yang energy to disperse and detoxify. It just fits the purpose of "nourishing yang in spring and summer" in "Huangdi Neijing", so from now until the end of the dog days, drink a cup of ginger and jujube tea every day to get rid of diseases and dampness.

Ginger and jujube tea preparation method

Ingredients: 6 jujubes, 2 to 4 slices of ginger, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Steps: Wash and slice the jujube and ginger, put them into the pot, add water to 1200ml, and start the health soup mode; after the health pot automatically powers off, add brown sugar; start the herbal tea mode and wait for the health pot to automatically power off.

Production precautions: First, choose the right materials. To make a cup of therapeutic ginger and jujube tea, choosing dates is also key. Only using jujube can achieve the detoxification effect. The dates should be chopped and boiled in water to extract the nutrients and exert better medicinal effects.

For ginger, it is best to choose dried ginger

Dried ginger is not the ginger bought at the vegetable market, but the dried ginger specially used as medicine. You need to wait until the coldest time of the year when frost falls before harvesting. Then the fruits will grow older, be more solid, have less moisture and be easy to dry. The ginger we use for cooking is fresh ginger, which is harvested at the turn of spring and summer. It is relatively tender and delicious. Dried ginger is spicier than fresh ginger, and has the effects of being pungent and hot, warming the middle and dispersing cold, restoring yang and unblocking meridians, and warming the lungs and transforming phlegm. It has unique effects in warming the stomach and unblocking meridians. If you just want to relieve the symptoms, or if your stomach has just caught a cold, you can use ginger.

But if you want to warm the spleen and stomach and relieve stomach cold, the heat of ginger will last too short a time, so dried ginger is more suitable. Secondly, put the ginger and dates into the pot with cold water. Only by putting the ginger into the pot with cold water can the flavor of the ginger be released, which can be easily achieved with a health kettle. The ginger and jujube tea brewed in this way has no ginger flavor. Even people who don’t like ginger can drink this cup of ginger and jujube tea.

Benefits of ginger and jujube tea

It has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold, stopping vomiting, restoring yang and unblocking meridians, replenishing blood and strengthening qi, drying dampness and reducing inflammation. Drinking it can cause blood vessels to dilate, the whole body to feel warm, and it has a cardiotonic effect. It promotes digestion, increases intestinal motility, protects gastric mucosa, and has a significant inhibitory effect on gastric ulcers. Ginger and jujube are choleretic, analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anti-influenza and upper respiratory tract infection. It has a stronger effect on rheumatoid arthritis and lumbar muscle strain. This recipe can be consumed for a long time.

Who should not drink ginger jujube tea?

Ginger and jujube tea has the effect of dispelling cold and keeping warm, but because brown sugar is used in the production of ginger and jujube tea, the taste is sweet. Therefore, diabetics and obese people should try not to consume it. So as not to increase blood sugar levels unnecessarily or cause excessive sugar intake. People with red lips, dry mouth and fever in the five parts of the body due to Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should not use it.