Can I drink ginger soup for a fever and cold? What kind of food therapy can I use?

Generally speaking, you should not drink ginger soup if you have a fever cold. Ginger soup is suitable for relieving and treating patients with colds caused by wind and cold. For the treatment of heat cold, you can use watermelon, lemon, loquat and other fruits for diet therapy, the effect and function are very good.

Depending on the nature of the pathogenic factors felt by the patient, colds can be divided into wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds. Experts point out that colds can be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat types, and not all colds are suitable for treating with ginger soup. It is okay for colds caused by wind and cold, but not for colds caused by wind and heat.

Ginger is a daily condiment and can also be used as medicine. It has a pungent and warm nature, can induce sweating, relieve exterior symptoms, dispel wind and cold, has a mild effect, and is suitable for mild cases of wind-cold colds. If you catch a cold in winter, drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, or boil ginger sugar water with brown sugar, which will make the patient sweat slightly and has the effect of expelling the cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pungent and warm substances have a dispersing property. When external evil qi reaches the skin surface, dispersing substances can induce sweating, and the external evil qi will easily be expelled with the sweat, and the disease will be cured.

Dietary treatment for wind-heat cold:

1. Watermelon and tomato juice: appropriate amounts of watermelon and tomato. Take the watermelon pulp, remove the seeds, and squeeze the juice with gauze. First blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, peel them, and squeeze out the juice with gauze. Combine the two juices and drink as tea. Clears away heat, detoxifies, dispels summer heat and eliminates dampness. It is used to treat summer colds, with symptoms including fever, thirst, irritability, red and hot urine, poor appetite, indigestion, etc.

2. Hot lemon water: squeeze lemon juice, add sugar or honey, and then add warm water. When you have a cold, drink 500 to 1000cc a day, which will relieve your runny nose and get rid of the cold faster, especially when you have just caught a cold. You may even recover without taking any medicine.

3. Mulberry leaf and loquat porridge: 18 grams of mulberry leaves, 10 grams of loquat leaves, 100 grams of sugarcane, 6 grams of mint, wash and chop, add appropriate amount of water, boil and extract juice, add 60 grams of rice and cook until the porridge is thick, eat while hot.