Chronic bronchitis can be eaten with ginger if it is symptomatic and contraindications are ruled out. Direct consumption of Chinese medicine may not be able to play a good therapeutic effect, and the efficacy of a single medicine is not as good as a combination. If you are not feeling well, please consult a physician for diagnosis and treatment, and do not use medication arbitrarily.
Ginger in Chinese medicine generally refers to ginger and dried ginger.
Ginger is pungent in taste, slightly warm in nature, and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Its effects include relieving cold from the surface of the body (removing the cold from the muscle surface), warming the spleen and stomach to stop vomiting (warming the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by cold in the stomach), resolving phlegm to stop cough, and relieving the toxicity of fishes and crabs. Note that this drug will help heat and hurt yin, so it should not be used in cases of heat or yin deficiency and internal heat.
Dried Ginger is pungent in taste and hot in nature. It belongs to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians, and its effects include warming the middle Jiao and dispersing cold (dispersing cold by warming the spleen and stomach), restoring yang qi, warming the meridians and warming the lungs to dissolve fluid (promoting the flow of water and fluid that have stopped accumulating by warming the lungs). Note that it should be used with caution in pregnant women, and is contraindicated in cases of Yin deficiency and internal heat, blood heat and bleeding.
Chronic bronchitis is the concept of Western medicine, its symptoms such as long-term cough, sputum, etc. can be attributed to the Chinese medicine “cough” internal cough classification, which ginger and dry ginger for phlegm-dampness in the lungs have a certain effect, and accompanied by heat or yin deficiency evidence of coughing should not be used.
If you are not feeling well, please consult a medical professional, and do not take medication on your own to avoid delaying your condition.