Colds are categorized into wind-cold, wind-heat, and summer-dampness, and the treatment is not the same according to the different evils felt. For example, drinking ginger soup, ginger pungent and warm, and lowering the rebellious, stop vomiting, for the external wind-cold cold cold. If it is a wind-heat cold, ginger soup with the wrong medicine, the more you use the more heat, it is wrong, such as summer damp cold, summer heat evil feeling, with patchouli Zhengqi or winter melon, lotus leaves to treat the effect. Therefore, the wind-cold cold drink ginger soup has a certain effect of relieving the surface sweating, the other two types of colds can not be so treated. After a cold, you need to rest, drink as much water as possible and eat well to speed up the healing of the cold. Therefore, drinking ginger soup can not cure all colds.