Brown sugar and ginger water cannot get rid of dampness.
Brown sugar is made from the juice of sugar cane through extraction and refining. It has the effects of tonifying the middle and slowing down the liver, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation, and harmonizing the stomach and lowering rebelliousness (regulating the stomach qi and making the upwardly rebellious qi descend). It can be used to relieve heartburn, bad breath from eating garlic, and irregular menstruation in women.
Ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae. It has the efficacy of relieving surface cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), warming the spleen and stomach to stop vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), and warming the lungs and resolving drinks (facilitating the flow of stagnant water and fluid by warming the lungs).
It is mainly used to treat mild wind-cold flu, cold spleen and stomach, cold stomach and vomiting, cold lung and cough. Ginger has a detoxifying effect on some toxic drugs, and can detoxify fish and crab.
The common medicines used to dispel dampness are patchouli, pelargonium, poria, yam, cardamom and cangzhu.
Brown sugar ginger water has the effect of tonifying the middle and slowing down the liver, harmonizing the stomach and lowering the rebelliousness, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting, harmonizing the blood and removing blood stasis, warming the lungs and resolving the effect of drinking, but it does not have the effect of dispelling dampness.