The efficacy of ginger, jujube and hawthorn brewed together in water includes detoxifying and dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi (treating qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen), and eliminating food and strengthening the stomach.
Ginger, jujube and hawthorn are all medicinal foods. Among them, ginger has the effects of relieving cold, warming the spleen and stomach to stop vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm, relieving cough, and detoxifying fish and crab poisonings, which can be used to treat wind-cold colds, stomach colds, vomiting, coughing with cold phlegm and fish and crab poisonings, and so on. However, ginger should be prohibited for those who have internal heat and solid heat syndrome.
Jujube has the effect of tonifying the middle Jiao, nourishing the blood and tranquilizing the spirit, and can be used to treat spleen deficiency with little food, weakness and loose stools (thin and unshaped feces), women’s dirty agitation (upset and depression, sadness and wanting to cry for no reason) and other illnesses. Anyone with dampness, phlegm, stagnation, tooth disease or insect disease should not take jujube.
Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting circulation of qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of impurities and reducing excess fat), and can be used for treating stagnation of meat and food, stomach and epigastric distension, diarrhea and abdominal pain, and other diseases. People who are allergic to hawthorn should avoid taking this medicine.
Ginger, jujube and hawthorn together with the adverse effects of drinking water is not yet clear, if the patient takes the period of abnormal physical discomfort, need to consult a doctor in a timely manner.