Perilla and ginger boiled water together has the effect of resolving phlegm and cough, moving qi and stomach.
Perilla is a medicinal food ingredient, the edible part is mostly its young leaves, and perilla leaves are also common Chinese herbs. Perilla leaves are pungent, warm, and belong to the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effect of relieving cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), moving qi and harmonizing the stomach. It can be used to treat wind-cold cold, cough and vomiting, vomiting in pregnancy, fish and crab poisoning.
Ginger also belongs to the medicinal food ingredients, is the fresh rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae. It is pungent and slightly warm. Attributed to the lung, spleen, stomach meridian. It has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by gastric cold by warming the spleen and stomach), and relieving the surface and dispersing cold (removing the cold from the surface of the muscle). Clinically, it is used to treat symptoms such as wind-cold cold, stomach-cold vomiting and cold phlegm cough.
Therefore, perilla and ginger boiled together in water has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, moving qi and harmonizing the stomach, warming and stopping vomiting, and relieving the surface and dispersing cold. When taking traditional Chinese medicine, it should be taken under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner and in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, and should not be used on its own, so as not to cause damage to the organism.