In air-conditioned offices with many people, drink ginger soup.
As the temperature rises, the use of air conditioners increases, and the number of patients with "air-conditioning sickness" has also significantly increased. Experts remind: People who often stay in air-conditioned rooms should drink more ginger soup to effectively prevent and treat air-conditioning sickness.
Ginger promotes sweating and releases the exterior:
According to reports, patients with air-conditioning sickness are closely related to the body's inability to sweat. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believes that "nurturing yang in spring and summer" means that during these seasons, the yang energy of nature rises, and those who maintain their health must protect the yang energy within their bodies to keep it abundant and its circulation unobstructed. However, modern urban populations stay in air-conditioned rooms both day and night. Although they can enjoy the coolness of air conditioning, it suppresses yang energy, hinders its dispersion, leading to an imbalance between yin and yang, and ultimately affects the body's vital energy, resulting in a weakened immune system. Experts point out that ginger has three major effects: promoting sweating to release the exterior, warming the stomach to stop vomiting, and detoxification. People in air-conditioned environments can effectively prevent and treat air-conditioning sickness by drinking ginger soup regularly.
Morning is the best time to drink ginger soup:
Morning is the best time to drink ginger soup. Because after a night in an air-conditioned room, the cold air has made the body's internal coldness worse. Drinking ginger soup can dispel the cold from the body, help it sweat, and effectively detoxify. Additionally, in summer, a person's gastric acid and digestive secretions decrease, weakening the body's resistance to bacteria. The stimulation of cold and heat between air-conditioned rooms and the outside can easily cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, leading to bacterial invasion and gastrointestinal diseases such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen.
How to make ginger soup?
Ingredients:
1. A piece of old ginger, smashed with a knife and placed in a pot, add brown sugar. Add water and bring to a boil!
2. Place the smashed old ginger, brown sugar, and water in a covered container like a small steaming pot, and add very hot water. Cover it. Of course, you can also heat it on a stove!
The time doesn't need to be too long, 2-3 minutes is enough!
Ingredients for Red Date Ginger Soup: 30 grams each of dried ginger and red dates.
Method of preparation and use:
Boil the two ingredients above in water, then simmer over low heat for about 40 minutes. Add 30 grams of brown sugar, bring to a boil again, drink the soup and eat the dates. Effects and indications: Treats the common cold.
Ingredients for Sweet Vinegar Pig Trotter Ginger Soup:
1 pig's trotter (cut into pieces), 1 small piece of rock sugar, 250 grams of ginger, an appropriate amount of sweet vinegar.
Method:
1. Remove the hair from the pig's trotter and cut it into pieces. Boil in boiling water for 5 minutes.
2. Peel and smash the ginger, then place it together with the pig's trotter in a clay pot, add vinegar.
3. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 2 hours. Add rock sugar to taste and it's ready.