Not all types of cold and nasal congestion can be solved with ginger. The solution for wind-cold cold and nasal congestion is to take ginger internally in decoction or pounded juice; other types of cold and nasal congestion caused by ginger have inaccurate efficacy.
Ginger has the effect 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), warming the lungs and relieving cough, and detoxifying, which is effective in treating wind-cold cold, cold spleen and stomach, and lung-cold cough. The adverse reactions and contraindications of this product are not clear at present.
From the point of view of the efficacy and action of this product, ginger only for wind-cold cold nasal congestion caused by the therapeutic effect, its use for internal decoction or mashed juice. For other types of nasal congestion caused by colds and flu, other treatments should be chosen under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.
If there is a need for ginger medication, it should be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own to avoid adverse consequences.