5 recipes of ginger tea to help reduce swelling

Spring is here and flowers are blooming. The March sunshine is warm and gentle. Short skirts and dresses are appearing on the streets, bringing beautiful scenery to the streets. However, after a winter, many people have accumulated a lot of fat from the waist to the thighs and buttocks, making it difficult to show off their slim curves. How can we eat healthily and burn fat easily in spring? Chinese medicine practitioners recommend ginger, mainly because ginger is spicy and warm in nature, which can drive away the coldness in the body, and can also induce sweating and remove dampness. Ginger skin in particular can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, which is especially effective.

Chinese medicine practitioner Liao Qianhui has designed 5 different ginger teas to help people with different body types lose fat and slim down, allowing them to show off their beautiful bodies with confidence.

[Removing blood stasis and reducing fat: Ginger and rose drink]

Ingredients: three slices of ginger, two cents of Chuanxiong, and five roses.

Brewing method:

1. Crush the above materials and put them into the filter bag.

2. Pour in 600cc of boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes before drinking as tea.

Efficacy: Promotes qi and blood circulation, relieves menstruation and pain, removes blood stasis and reduces fat.

Applicable to: obesity caused by liver depression and qi stagnation. Stiffness and soreness in the head, shoulders and neck, dull pain in the chest, abdomen and ribs, etc.

Remove blood stasis and reduce fat: Ginger and rose drink. (Photo provided by Dr. Liao Qianhui)

[Diuresis and swelling reduction: ginger black tea]

Ingredients: three slices of ginger, 1 bag of black tea bag.

Brewing method:

1. Add three slices of chopped ginger with skin into the brewed black tea.

2. Pour in 600cc of boiling water, cover and simmer for ten minutes before drinking.

Efficacy: Promote sweating, eliminate moisture, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.

Applicable to: obesity due to spleen deficiency and edema with swollen limbs and loose muscles.

Diuretic and anti-edema: drink ginger black tea. (Photo provided by Dr. Liao Qianhui)

[Slimming and thin legs: Ginger, Poria and Four Peels Drink]

Ingredients: 1 qian of ginger peel, 2 qian of Poria peel, 2 qian of tangerine peel, and 2 qian of mulberry bark.

Brewing method:

1. Crush all the materials into a filter bag and put it into a thermos cup.

2. .Pour in 600cc of boiling water, cover and simmer for ten minutes and then drink it as tea.

Efficacy: Diuretic and detumescent, regulating qi and strengthening the spleen.

Applicable to: obesity due to spleen deficiency and edema. Symptoms include less urine volume and edema of the body, especially the calves, which feel swollen in the evening. In severe cases, the skin will become concave when pressed.

【Warming and resolving phlegm and dampness: ginger and cinnamon twig drink】

Ingredients: 3 slices of ginger, 2 qian of cinnamon twig, 2 qian of Poria cocos, 1 qian of Atractylodes macrocephala, 1 qian of licorice

Brewing method

1. Crush the Poria cocos and put it into a filter bag together with other materials.

2. Pour in 600cc of boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes before drinking as tea.

Efficacy: Warming the yang and transforming phlegm, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness.

Applicable to: obesity due to yang deficiency, cold and dampness. Symptoms include fear of cold, easy to catch cold, excessive phlegm and chest tightness.

**【Burning fat and slimming waist: Ginger and hawthorn drink】

Ingredients: three slices of ginger, two cents of fried hawthorn, and two cents of cassia seeds.

Brewing method:

1. Place all materials into a filter bag.

2. Pour in 600cc of boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes before drinking as tea.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness, helps digestion and resolves accumulation, activates blood and lowers blood lipids.

Applicable to: people with lower abdominal obesity. Abdominal distension, indigestion, difficult bowel movements, and high blood lipids.

Burn fat and slim waist: Ginger and hawthorn drink. (Photo provided by Dr. Liao Qianhui)

【Doctor’s Tips】

TCM physician Liao Qianhui pointed out that in TCM obesity science, fat is formed by the accumulation of three pathological products: "phlegm and dampness", "water retention", and "blood stasis" in the body. Especially after the Chinese New Year, most of the weight gain is due to edema. Ginger, an ingredient we use almost every day in our cooking, is actually the best dehumidifier in our body! Ginger is spicy and warm in nature. It can expel the coldness from the body and induce sweating and remove dampness. Ginger peel, in particular, is particularly effective in promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.