What are the benefits and effects of brown sugar ginger tea?
What are the benefits and effects of brown sugar ginger tea? Many people use ginger tea to maintain their health, because it can help dispel the cold and dampness that cause many chronic diseases, and it has no side effects. After brown sugar is added to ginger tea, the taste is improved and the effects are enhanced. So what benefits and effects does brown sugar ginger tea have? Let us learn about it together below.
The benefits of brown sugar ginger tea
1. Preventing colds (ginger tea is only effective for wind-cold colds, and has no effect on wind-heat colds)
The difference between wind-cold colds and wind-heat colds: A wind-cold cold is caused by an external attack of wind-cold pathogenic factors and failure of lung qi to diffuse. Symptoms include: severe aversion to cold, mild fever, no sweating, headache and body aches, nasal congestion with clear discharge, cough with thin white phlegm, no thirst or thirst with a preference for hot drinks, and a thin white tongue coating. A wind-heat cold is caused by wind-heat pathogenic factors invading the exterior and disharmony of lung qi. Symptoms include: severe fever, slight aversion to wind, distending headache, sweating, red and swollen sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, nasal congestion with yellow discharge, thirst with a desire to drink, red tip and edges of the tongue, and a thin white slightly yellow tongue coating. In traditional Chinese medicine, a wind-cold cold is an external attack of wind-cold, while ginger is hot in nature and mainly disperses with pungent flavor, so it can dispel external pathogenic factors. If you have caught wind-cold, drink a bowl of hot ginger tea to make the patient sweat slightly, and the exterior pathogenic factors will leave with the sweat, and the illness will resolve accordingly. So it is effective. But a wind-heat cold is excess pathogenic factors blocking internally, and drinking ginger tea will instead worsen the symptoms.
2. Preventing flu
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "when healthy qi is preserved within, pathogenic factors cannot invade," meaning that in the course of disease occurrence, the body's own disease resistance is crucial.
Drinking ginger sugar water and fumigating with vinegar are simple and effective for preventing swine flu.
3. Warming the womb, promoting blood circulation, aiding conception, and treating menstrual pain
Due to diet and lifestyle habits, many women have a cold womb. Ginger tea can warm the womb, make menstrual blood flow smoothly, improve menstrual pain, and also aid conception. This effect is very good. Many returning customers say that ginger tea really is very effective at improving menstrual pain. (Drink it often in ordinary times; do not wait until it hurts to drink it)
4. Warming the stomach and removing stomach cold
The main cause of stomach cold is poor eating habits, such as uncontrolled eating and frequently eating cold drinks or icy foods. In addition, the fast pace of life and high mental stress make stomach problems more likely. Therefore, it is necessary to develop good eating habits. Drinking more ginger water can regulate the symptoms of stomach cold and restore a healthy spleen and stomach. Of course, when stomach pain occurs, be alert to organic lesions of the stomach, and it is best to go to the hospital for a gastroscopy.
5. The folic acid, trace substances, and other components contained in brown sugar can accelerate blood circulation, increase blood volume, stimulate the body's hematopoietic function, expand blood volume, and improve the supply of nutrients, oxygen, and moisture to the local skin.
6. Certain natural acids and pigment-regulating substances contained in brown sugar can effectively regulate various pigment metabolism processes, balance the amount of pigment secreted in the skin and the distribution of pigment, and reduce abnormal local pigment accumulation.
7. Substances such as amino acids and cellulose contained in brown sugar can effectively protect and restore the fiber structure and water-locking ability of the epidermis and dermis, strengthen skin tissue structure and skin elasticity, while also supplementing skin nutrition and promoting cell regeneration.
8. Traditional Chinese medicine nutrition believes that brown sugar, which is warm in nature, exerts its blood-tonifying effect through "warming and supplementing it, warming and unblocking it, warming and dispersing it." Relatively speaking, although white sugar is sweet in taste, it is white in color and neutral in nature, so its blood-tonifying effect is far inferior to that of brown sugar. Therefore, families should keep brown sugar on hand and eat it, and ordinarily should pay attention to adding some brown sugar to the diet, which can maintain normal metabolic function and delay aging.
9. Some vitamins and electrolyte components contained in brown sugar can, by regulating the concentration of certain substances between tissues, balance the water metabolism of the intracellular environment, remove cell metabolic products, and keep the internal and external environment of cells clean.
10. Various vitamins and antioxidant substances contained in brown sugar can resist free radicals, rebuild and protect the basic structure of cells, and maintain normal cell function and metabolism.
How to make brown sugar ginger tea
① Prepare ginger and brown sugar. After washing the ginger, peel it and grate it into ginger paste, then put it in a bowl.
② Add brown sugar and stir it a little, then cover with plastic wrap.
③ Put it in a steamer and steam over high heat for 30 minutes. When drinking, scoop out one spoonful and mix it with boiling water.