Drinking ginger and honey water reduces appetite? Sweating ≠ weight loss

Recently, a weight loss recipe has been circulating on the Internet, sparking heated discussion among netizens. It is that drinking ginger and honey water can reduce appetite and thus achieve weight loss effects. The method is to soak ginger in honey for half a day, then add water to brew and drink it, or eat it directly. It is claimed that ginger can promote blood circulation to achieve the effect of burning fat, losing weight and reducing appetite. Is it really that magical? Chinese medicine practitioners say that the effect of losing weight through ginger may not be as great as expected.

Ginger has the effects of warming the stomach, dispelling cold and preventing diarrhea, and is often used as an auxiliary medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine practitioner Chen Meifei emphasized that ginger is mostly used as an additive to medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. Since ginger has the effect of warming the stomach, it can be combined with a variety of food ingredients and medicinal materials to help the medicinal effects be exerted. In addition to the above-mentioned effects, ginger can also help eliminate summer heat, but there is no record of it being used for weight loss. The so-called claim that drinking ginger honey water can help reduce appetite, burn fat and lose weight is just an Internet rumor.

In addition, it is not easy to achieve the so-called effect of promoting blood circulation by simply eating ginger. Because in order to promote blood circulation, according to traditional Chinese medicine, two conditions are needed, namely, activating blood circulation and replenishing qi. However, ginger only has the effect of activating blood circulation in the human body. If the human body only has the effect of activating blood circulation but lacks Qi, the blood circulation will not be good. Therefore, it is not feasible to promote blood circulation by eating ginger to suppress appetite and burn fat.

Ginger warms the stomach, dispels cold and prevents diarrhea

Although ginger has no effect on weight loss, for people who suffer from weak spleen and stomach, prone to diarrhea, frequent nausea and vomiting, diarrhea after eating cold food, fear of cold, and cold hands and feet, adding more ginger to their daily diet or drinking ginger tea with ginger can help improve the above symptoms.

However, it should be noted that people with hot constitution, dry mouth, and bad breath should not consume it excessively. Instead of failing to replenish the body, it will aggravate the severity of the above symptoms.

Boiling ginger and brown sugar into tea and drinking it is very effective in treating the early symptoms of a cold.

Ginger tea helps to sweat and relieve cold

In addition, according to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", ginger has the effects of dispersing and promoting sweating. It is very effective in treating symptoms such as colds and flu. If people have mild cold symptoms, they can cook ginger and brown sugar together into a sweet soup, which can help sweating and relieve cold symptoms.

It should be noted that sweating does not mean losing weight or slimming down. It simply excretes water from the body. Only water is reduced, not fat or weight. At most, it can only achieve the effect of reducing edema.

【Tip from Chinese medicine practitioners】:

Although ginger contains a variety of nutrients, it helps the human body to promote blood circulation, sweat, and warm the stomach. It helps the body absorb medicines. It can also be added to dishes to help remove fishy smells and increase the flavor of food, but it should not be consumed in excess.

Excessive consumption of ginger can easily lead to excessive liver fire and cause a burden on the body. Therefore, for patients with constipation, hepatitis, diabetes, hemorrhoids and other diseases that have excessive liver fire in their bodies, it is not advisable to over-consume it. If it is really necessary to eat it, it should be cooked before eating to avoid making the symptoms worse.

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