Whether you can drink brown sugar ginger water for a cold and fever depends on whether it is a wind-cold or wind-heat cold. If the fever is caused by wind-cold, you can drink brown sugar ginger tea to disperse wind and cold, sweat and reduce fever. But if the fever is caused by wind-heat cold, it is not suitable to drink brown sugar ginger tea, because wind-heat cold patients themselves will have a sore throat, dry mouth, bitter mouth symptoms, and brown sugar, ginger is a relatively warm and dry food, may aggravate the above symptoms, so it is not suitable to drink, wind-heat cold fever patients can drink mint water.