The medicinal ingredient of brown sugar and ginger water is ginger, which has the effects of relieving cold (removing the cold from the muscle surface), warming the stomach and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), and can be taken during menstruation to alleviate abdominal pain and relieve vomiting caused by stomach cold. Brown sugar is not a medicine and has no therapeutic effect.
Ginger is used for treating wind-cold and vomiting caused by cold stomach. Taking brown sugar and ginger water during menstruation can relieve abdominal pain and vomiting caused by wind-cold. It should be noted that ginger is pungent and warm, so it should not be taken by people with heatiness or yin deficiency and internal heat. Adverse effects are not clear.
If symptoms such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea or amenorrhea occur, one should go to a regular hospital and use the medicine under the doctor’s guidance.