1) Ginger and Sugar Tea
Ingredients: Clean shredded fresh ginger 9g, brown sugar 12g.
Process: Infuse them in boiling water.
Directions: To be taken warm at a time. After taking it, one should lie in bed until he or she perspires a bit. It is applicable to common cold of wind-cold type.
2) Decoction of Chinese Green Onion, Prepared Soybean and Yellow Wine
Ingredients: Chinese green onion 30g, prepares soybean 15g, yellow wine 50g.
Process: First decoct the prepared soybean for 1o minutes; then put in the cut-up Chinese green onion with hairs and go on decocting for 5 minutes more; and finally sift the decoction from the dregs and pour in the wine.
Directions: to be taken warm, twice a day. It is applicable to common cold of wind-cold type.
3) Five-Ingredients Decoction
Ingredients: Schizonepeta 9g, clean perila leaf 9g, tea leaves 6g, fresh ginger 9g, brown sugar 30g.
Process: Decoct the first four ingredients and sift the liquid from the dregs; then put in the brown sugar and stir it to have it dissolved.
Directions: To be taken in several separate doses on the same day. It is applicable to common cold of wind-cold type.
4) Gruel of Fresh Ginger and Glutinous Rice
Ingredients: Fresh ginger 6g, clean polished glutinous rice100g, Chinese green onion 30g, millet vinegar 10ml.
Process: Cook the fresh ginger and the rice until they come to one or two boils, then put in the Chinese green onion which has been washed clean and cut up and go on cooking; finally when the gruel is nearly done, pour in the millet vinegar and cook for a while.
Directions: To be taken got. After taking it, one should lie in bed until he or she perspires a bit. It is applicable to common cold of wind-cold type.
