Icing sugar ginger boiled water to take has the effect of relieving the surface of the cold (to remove the cold on the surface of the muscle), warming and stopping vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by gastric cold), and promoting the production of fluids and moisturizing dryness. Drinking water has limited active ingredients and generally fails to achieve therapeutic effects.
Rock sugar is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the lung and spleen meridians, with the effects of harmonizing the middle and easing the pain (relieving pain by regulating the spleen and stomach), generating fluids and moistening dryness. It can be used to treat abdominal pain, dry mouth and thirst, and cough with dry lungs. Caution should be exercised if the middle part of the body is full of dampness. Children should not eat more.
Ginger belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridian, pungent flavor, slightly warm nature. It has the effect of relieving cold, warming the surface, stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is used in the treatment of wind-cold cold, cold stomach, vomiting, cold phlegm and cough. It is not suitable for people with Yin deficiency and internal heat.
Boiled water with rock sugar and ginger can relieve wind-cold and cold, lung-cold cough, etc. as prescribed by the doctor. Adverse reactions are not clear.
Patients who are not feeling well are advised to consult a doctor in time, and should not self-medicate to avoid delaying the condition.