Gastrointestinal colds belong to the category of “colds” in Chinese medicine. If you have a cold or wind-cold, you can drink ginger water, but if you have a hot or wind-cold, you can’t drink ginger water.
Gastrointestinal colds produce gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, and may sometimes be related to wind-cold that enters the stomach, accompanied by other symptoms such as runny nose, headache, and often a thin white tongue. Drinking ginger water at this time can warm the inside of the body and ease the urgency, drive the cold and wind out of the body, so that the gastrointestinal cold can be relieved.
If the stomach and intestinal cold manifests fever, redness and swelling of the pharynx, as well as the symptoms of wind-heat colds such as runny nose, then drinking ginger water to warm the stomach and intestinal colds will aggravate the condition and make the stomach and intestinal colds even more serious.
Whether or not to drink ginger water after the occurrence of gastrointestinal cold, need to be judged on a case-by-case basis, need to be under the guidance of a doctor to drink ginger water, if the condition continues to worsen, it is best to consult a doctor in a timely manner.