Norns People often say, cold Now, drink a bowl of ginger soup while it's hot, cover yourself with a quilt and sleep, and the sweating sickness will be cured. However, experts tell us that colds can be divided into wind-cold and wind-heat, and not all colds are suitable for treatment by drinking ginger soup to cover sweat.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that colds are caused by the human body sensing evil spirits in nature. The righteous qi in the human body fights to resist the evil qi. When good and evil fight against each other, people will have symptoms such as fever, aversion to cold, and headache. These symptoms are also called superficial syndromes.
According to the patient's feelings and the nature of the disease, traditional Chinese medicine divides colds into two types: wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds.
①Wind-cold colds are mostly caused by the external attack of wind-cold evils, causing the patient's lung qi to lose its circulation. Such patients often present with severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating, headache and body aches, nasal congestion and runny nose, cough , vomiting thin white phlegm, thin white tongue coating, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses pungent and warm methods to relieve symptoms of colds. While taking the medicine, the patient can be given some hot soup or hot porridge to make the body sweat, which will help the patient's recovery.
②Wind-heat colds are caused by the evil wind-heat attacking the surface, causing the patient's lung qi to become out of balance. Such patients often present with severe fever, headache, distended pain , sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose and runny nose, red tongue, thin white or yellowish coating, etc. Such patients should not drink ginger soup. This is because ginger has pungent and warm medicinal properties, has the effects of sweating, relieving the surface, dispelling wind and cold, and is suitable for colds and colds. Therefore, when we suffer from colds and colds, drinking a bowl of hot ginger soup or boiling ginger with brown sugar into ginger syrup will indeed have the effect of dispelling cold evil, and the disease will be relieved accordingly. However, for patients with wind-heat and cold, since they have already experienced the heat evil, if they are allowed to take ginger-based warm medicine at this time, it will be like adding fuel to the fire and will be counterproductive. Therefore, when we treat colds, we must differentiate and treat them based on syndrome differentiation, and we must not always adopt the method of "drinking ginger soup to cover sweat".
