What are the benefits of drinking ginger soup?

As the saying goes, if you keep some ginger at home, you won’t panic when you have a minor illness. This actually means that eating ginger can prevent diseases. Ginger is pungent and warm, which can promote blood circulation and has a warming and tonic effect. Drinking ginger soup is good for both men and women and can warm the stomach. We often boil cola ginger tea to treat colds and drive away the chills. In fact, drinking ginger soup has more benefits than these. Drinking ginger soup has many benefits. Below, the editor will introduce to you the other benefits of drinking ginger soup.

1. Increase appetite

If you have a poor appetite, you can drink some ginger soup before meals to increase your appetite and promote nutrient absorption.

2. Prevent air-conditioning disease

In the hot summer, many homes and offices turn on air conditioners. While people enjoy the cool breeze, they are also prone to air-conditioning disease. According to traditional Chinese medicine, ginger has three major functions: inducing sweating and relieving exterior symptoms, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting, and detoxifying. People who work in air-conditioned environments can effectively prevent air-conditioning disease by drinking ginger soup regularly.

Ginger soup should not be too light or too thick. Drinking one bowl a day will be enough to have the effect. You can also add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to the ginger soup, because brown sugar has the effects of nourishing the middle and soothing the liver, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and regulating menstruation. For patients with more severe symptoms, ginger soup can be drunk as water.

3. Treat abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea

In the hot summer, various pathogens multiply actively. If you are not careful, you will get sick through your mouth, which can easily cause acute gastrointestinal inflammation such as abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Drinking some ginger soup appropriately can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Ginger can act as some antibiotics, especially effective against Salmonella.

4. Treat colds and flu

In summer, in order to avoid the heat, people are accustomed to using fans, air conditioners, and even sleeping outdoors, which can easily cause colds. If you can drink a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup in time, it will help to dispel the cold and relieve fever, or soaking your feet in ginger soup (with a little salt and vinegar) can achieve the same therapeutic effect.

Now everyone only knows the benefits of ginger soup, but few people know that adding other ingredients can also have good benefits. Different ginger soups have different effects. You can try adding brown sugar or jujube to ginger tea, which has good effects. In addition, it is generally necessary to choose fresh ginger for making ginger soup. Come have a bowl after reading this.