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Air conditioning offices are crowded.GingerSoup
As temperatures rise, the usage of air conditioners increases, leading to a significant rise in patients suffering from "air conditioning sickness."Experts advise: People frequently in air-conditioned environments should drink more ginger soup to effectively prevent and treat air conditioning sickness.
Ginger can induce sweating and resolve exterior conditions:
It is said that the reason for "air conditioning sickness" patients is related to their inability to sweat normally.According to traditional Chinese medicine, one should nourish yang in spring and summer because during this time, natural yang energy rises. One must protect and maintain abundant internal yang qi so it flows freely; otherwise, balance between yin and yang can be disrupted, weakening the body's defenses.Nowadays, urban populations spend their days and nights in air-conditioned rooms, enjoying its coolness but at the expense of suppressed yang qi and blocked dispersion. This imbalance affects one’s vital energy and immunity.Experts note that ginger has three main effects: inducing sweating and resolving exterior conditions, warming the stomach to stop vomiting, and detoxifying.People in air-conditioned environments can effectively prevent "air conditioning sickness" by drinking ginger soup regularly.
The best time to drink ginger soup is in the morning:
In the morning, after a night in an air-conditioned room, body chill has worsened. Drinking some ginger soup can drive out this internal chill, help your body sweat, and effectively detoxify.Additionally, due to reduced stomach acid and digestive juices during summer, people are more susceptible to gastrointestinal disorders from cold or hot stimuli, leading to symptoms like vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.Ginger is warm in nature, able to warm the stomach and strengthen the spleen.
How to make ginger soup?
Ingredients:
1. A piece of old ginger, chopped and placed in a pot with brown sugar.Add water and boil!
2. Chopped old ginger + brown sugar + water placed in a covered container with hot water.Cover it.Of course, you can heat it on the stove!
No need to cook for too long, just 2-3 minutes.
RedJujubesGinger soup ingredients: dry ginger and jujubes each 30 grams.
Preparation method:
Put both ingredients in a pot with water, boil them, then simmer for about 40 minutes. Add 30 grams of red sugar and boil again before drinking the soup and eating the jujubes.Effectiveness and indications: treat colds.SweetVinegarPig's feetGinger soup ingredients:
One pig's foot (cut into pieces), one small piece of rock sugar, 250 grams of ginger, an appropriate amount of sweet vinegar.
Method:
1. Remove hair from the pig's foot and cut it into pieces, then boil in hot water for five minutes.
2. Peel and crack the ginger along with the pig's feet and put them in a clay pot, add vinegar.
3. Bring to a boil, then simmerfor two hours, adding rock sugar to taste before serving.2 hours, add rock sugar to season and it's done.