Dampness is too heavy with ginger to remove dampness, generally can be divided into edible, external use of two kinds.
1. Edible methods for the ginger can be stewed with other ingredients, such as jujube ginger soup, barley ginger tea and so on. Ginger has a strong warming effect, so it has a certain effect of eliminating dampness. As the ginger skin is cold in nature, you can peel the ginger, soak it in water or drink it with boiling. The best time to take it is in the morning, which can follow the growth of yang qi and fully mobilize the body’s yang qi.
2. The external method is to apply ginger juice in the navel and soles of the feet, or soak the feet in ginger boiled water, through the pungent warm dispersal effect of ginger, can be effectively removed from the body of dampness.
Ginger has the effect of warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), which can disperse the cold and warm the middle and move the qi. Dampness is a yin evil, and its nature is heavy, turbid and sticky. Therefore, with the help of ginger’s warming and dispersing effect, it can effectively promote the discharge of dampness in the body, so as to achieve the effect of eliminating dampness.
Ginger can be used to dispel dampness through the above methods, specific can consult a professional physician’s opinion.