Eating ginger in summer is really effective in removing moisture! Red dates and ginger tea can relieve heat and dampness

As the saying goes, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer." In the hot summer, people whose spleen and stomach are prone to moisture can eat a little ginger to dispel wind-cold and rheumatism. Chinese medicine practitioners point out that ginger, which has the effect of promoting diuresis and dissipating heat, is a holy product for cooling off in the hot summer. People may wish to add an appropriate amount of ginger to vegetable and fruit dishes such as loofah or to tea every day to promote the flow of yang energy and help dissipate heat.

Luo Mingyu, executive director of the Taiwan Association of Clinical Chinese Medicine and a Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that in the summer, when the temperature is high and the body is hot, eating ice, using air conditioning, or consuming too much cold food such as watermelon can easily lead to "external cold and internal heat" in the human body, and the heat in the body cannot be dissipated. Therefore, the hotter the weather, the more you should eat ginger in moderation, because ginger is "the best dehumidifier in the body."

Eating ginger in summer can help induce sweating and eliminate dampness

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is pungent and warm in nature, dispels wind and cold, promotes sweating and removes dampness, warms the middle and stops vomiting, warms the lungs and stops coughing. Simply put, ginger can expel the body's cold, help promote sweating and remove dampness, warm the lungs and protect the stomach. In addition, sweating can eliminate moisture and edema, while also consuming calories and adjusting the body's metabolic function.

Especially in hot summer, many girls are obese because they drink ice drinks or eat cold food for a long time, which causes "cold and dampness accumulation" in the body. The accumulated water in the body cannot be discharged smoothly, causing edema and obesity. Ginger can help sweat, remove moisture, promote peripheral blood circulation, help eliminate edema and lose weight.

As the saying goes, "Eating ginger in the morning is better than drinking ginseng soup." Ginger (as shown in the picture) is not only a great product for relieving summer heat, but it can also eliminate dampness and reduce edema.

Eating ginger in the morning is better than eating ginseng soup

Chinese medicine practitioner Luo Mingyu emphasized that there is a saying: "Eating ginger in the morning is better than drinking ginseng soup." Eating ginger in the morning has the best health-promoting effect. There are two reasons:

• 1. Promote digestion: Ginger is best at promoting the Yang energy of the Yangming Meridian. 7-9 am is the time when the body's Qi and blood flow into the Yangming Stomach Meridian. Eating ginger at this time can generate stomach Qi and promote digestion.

• 2. Refresh the mind: Ginger is spicy and warm, which can speed up blood circulation and has a refreshing effect. If you wake up in the morning feeling groggy and groggy, 1 to 2 slices of ginger can immediately make your body refreshed.

Healthy ginger tea / Helps to relieve heat and dissipate heat

【Red Dates and Ginger Tea】

• Ingredients: 3 slices of ginger, 2 red dates, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

• Method: Add the ingredients into 500 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 10 minutes before drinking.

• Function: Warm the body, warm the meridians to relieve pain, nourish and replenish blood.

【Dried Tangerine Peel and Ginger Tea】

• Ingredients: 3 slices of ginger, 3 slices of tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

• Method: Add the ingredients to 500 ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 10 minutes before drinking.

• Efficacy: Warms the lungs, resolves phlegm, relieves cough, prevents colds or the initial onset of colds, and can be drunk when suffering from cold cough and white phlegm.

Ginger tea taboos: not suitable for dryness and heat

However, Chinese medicine practitioners also remind us that ginger tea has an excellent effect in dispelling cold and is suitable for people with cold constitutions. On the contrary, people with dryness, heat, yin deficiency, and hyperactivity of fire constitutions are not suitable for drinking ginger tea. These people have hot palms and soles, dry mouth, dry skin, and frequent constipation. Drinking ginger tea will only add fuel to the fire.

【Intimate Reminder】：

The time to drink ginger tea is also very important. It turns out that ginger tea is best drunk during the day and should not be drunk after dusk. The main reason is that after dusk, the yin energy begins to flourish and the yang energy begins to converge. Eating warm food or even supplements at this time will affect sleep, and long-term consumption will be more harmful to the body.