Drinking ginger water has a certain effect of dispelling dampness, generally better for the treatment of cold dampness people. However, the efficacy is very small, generally recommended under the guidance of a physician and other drugs with the decoction of the soup to be taken internally.
1. The efficacy and function of ginger: ginger has the effect of warming and stopping vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold), sweating and relieving the surface, and dispelling dampness, which can remove surface dampness as well as internal dampness, therefore, proper consumption of ginger water has a certain effect of dispelling dampness in the body.
2. Other medicines to dispel dampness: In addition to ginger, clinically, the effect of dampness effect is more effective medicines, more commonly used medicines are poria, white lentils, red beans and so on.
For patients with heavy dampness, in addition to drugs to dispel dampness, generally can also be used in conjunction with the spleen drugs, such as Job’s tears, yam, atractylodes macrocephala, etc., with each other, to dispel the effect of dampness is better.
Specific drug selection and compounding is generally recommended under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.