Can children drink sweet and sour ginger tea? What are the benefits?

Sweet and sour ginger tea is a conditioning type of ginger tea with a sweet and sour taste that can help stimulate appetite and aid digestion. Children can drink sweet and sour ginger tea. Of course, if you brew the tea at home, it will be safer and more reliable for them to drink. Always keep some sweet and sour ginger tea at home. When your child has anorexia or catches a cold, you can drink it directly after heating it up, and the effect will be faster.

1. Can children drink sweet and sour ginger tea?

Li Shizhen said, as the saying goes: "Eat radish before going to bed and ginger when getting out of bed", which means that ginger can stimulate appetite and radish can help digestion. Ginger has the effects of inducing sweating, relieving exterior symptoms, warming the middle and stopping vomiting. Children are prone to anorexia and picky eating. At this time, drinking sweet and sour ginger tea can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal motility and enhance appetite. This is the reason why people often say "If the food is not tasty, eat ginger". Children love playing in water and are prone to catching cold, which leads to the invasion of cold air. At this time, taking sweet and sour ginger tea can help remove the cold and prevent colds.

2. Benefits of Sweet and Sour Ginger Tea

1. Prevent colds

One of the functions of sweet and sour ginger tea is to prevent colds. Headache, body aches, nasal congestion and clear runny nose, mild fever, no sweating, and cough with lots of sputum caused by a cold. Symptoms caused by wind-heat include red, swollen and painful throat, stuffy nose, yellow discharge, headache and fever. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, a cold is an external attack of wind and cold, and ginger is hot in nature, which can mainly dispel external evil. If you catch a cold, drinking a bowl of hot sweet and sour ginger tea will make the patient sweat slightly, which means that the cold evil has flowed out with the sweat, and the disease will be cured. Therefore, sweet and sour ginger tea is very effective in preventing colds.

2. Prevent heat stroke

Many of my friends still don’t know that sweet and sour ginger tea can also prevent heatstroke. Sweet and sour ginger tea is not only a good helper in the medical field, but also a good tea among health foods. In the hot summer, children like to keep cool and like to use fans and air conditioners. This can easily cause a cold, which in turn causes symptoms such as headache, nasal congestion, and cough. At this time, in order to prevent colds and heatstroke, drinking a cup of sweet and sour ginger tea in time can help drive away the cold in children's bodies. This can effectively prevent colds and heat stroke.