The main ingredients of ginger and jujube tea are ginger and jujube, which belongs to the category of warm food. Chinese medicine believes that ginger and jujube tea is effective in warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispelling the cold by warming the spleen and stomach with medicines), benefiting the qi and tonifying the middle. Drinking some ginger and jujube tea appropriately during menstruation can drive away cold and warm the body, helping to relieve the symptoms of cold hands and feet during menstruation.
Ginger, pungent in flavor, slightly warm in nature. It belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and detoxifying fish and crab. It is used for wind-cold cold, stomach cold vomiting, cold phlegm cough, fish and crab poisoning.
Jujube, sweet in flavor and warm in nature. Attributes to the spleen, stomach and heart meridians. It has the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting qi (treating qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen), nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind. It is used for spleen deficiency with low food intake, loose stools (thin and unformed feces), and women’s dirty agitation (upset and depression, sadness and wanting to cry for no reason).
However, if there is low menstrual blood flow and dysmenorrhea during menstruation, patients should still go to the hospital as soon as possible and seek professional treatment, and should not blindly treat or believe in any folk remedies, so as to avoid improper treatment methods.