The incidence of colds and flu increases during autumn. Wu Kuo-Pin, Superintendent of Xinyitang Chinese Medical Clinic, Taiwan, pointed out that during a cold, it is necessary to maintain the yang energy of the body (positive force in our body) in order to recover quickly. However, many patients have taken inappropriate measures when catching a cold or flu, which has caused the body’s yang energy to drop rapidly, which is not helpful for curing a cold.
Timing for Taking Ginger Tea
One time, a friend of Dr. Wu caught a cold, and he heard that drinking ginger tea could dispel the cold from the body, so he brewed a pot of ginger tea and drank it. However, at that time, he already had symptoms, including a sore throat, indicating that the pathogenic wind and cold had deeply entered the body and started to become inflamed and turned into pathogenic heat. Drinking ginger tea at that moment was the wrong approach, which made the symptoms worsen….