Ginger can be consumed in summer as an ingredient, cooked with other foods, or made into ginger tea and ginger syrup to drink together. As a proprietary Chinese medicine, it can be taken internally in decoction or pounded juice and ingested for better results.
As food, in summer, ginger can be consumed as an accessory to make steamed fish, coleslaw, etc.; it can also be boiled and consumed as brown sugar ginger tea, etc., which replenishes water and the nutrients in ginger; or make sugar water, such as ginger sweet potato sugar water, which is a good choice for eliminating summer heat.
As a traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is pungent and slightly warm. It belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving surface cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and detoxifying fish and crab. It is used in treating wind-cold cold, cold stomach and vomiting, cold phlegm and cough, and fish and crab poisoning. It is forbidden to be taken in cases of Yin deficiency and internal heat and solid heat.
As a medicine, ginger can be taken internally in summer by decocting soup or pounding juice.
Moderate intake of ginger in summer is enough to avoid affecting the dietary balance; when used as medicine, it needs to be used under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.