Can I eat ginger with a sore throat?

The most common cause of sore throat is Yin deficiency and lung dryness or internal heat toxicity, and ginger is a warm food, so do not eat ginger when you have a sore throat. If the sore throat belongs to the type of heat and toxicity, the patient can eat vegetables and fruits that have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the throat, such as boiling soup with winter melon to clear the lung, and boiling soup with pear, or boiling soup with pear, double flower, forsythia, etc., which can have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the throat. Patients can boil water with herbs to drink, for example, they can boil water with mint, rutabaga and orris to drink, which can clear heat and detoxify the lungs and benefit the throat, or they can use Luo Han Guo to drink water directly, which also has the effect of clearing heat and benefitting the throat. If the sore throat is caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness, you can boil pear soup or cook pear, white radish, wolfberry, etc., which has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lung, and relieving the cough. Patients can choose several herbs to boil water to drink, such as north and south sage, maitong, raw earth, Zhi Mu, lily and so on, take one or more of them to boil water to drink, can play a nourishing yin moisten the lung, pharyngeal effect.