Ginger and pepper water is not recommended to drink long-term. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes “stopping the disease (for medicinal drugs, the disease is generally cured should be discontinued, so as not to damage the body)”, the disease is cured or symptomatic relief that is to stop the use of medicines, ginger and pepper flavor pungent and warm, long-term drink easy to help the heat injury to the yin, resulting in body heat, thirst and other adverse reactions.
Ginger has the efficacy of relieving cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), warming the stomach to stop vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), and resolving phlegm to stop coughing, while peppercorns have the efficacy of warming the middle and relieving pain (easing the pain by warming the spleen and stomach), and killing worms to stop itching.
Combined, they have the effect of warming the middle and stopping vomiting, dispersing cold and relieving pain. However, the two medicines are pungent and warm, easy to heat and hurt the yin, especially for the body heat patients and patients with yin deficiency and internal heat avoid taking.
Ginger and pepper water is not recommended for long-term use, Chinese medicine need to be in the Chinese medicine practitioner under the guidance of diagnosis and treatment in accordance with the course of treatment, the disease is cured or symptoms can be discontinued, do not take medication to aggravate the condition.