Everyone knows hot water. Why is hot water omnipotent in China?

Hot water is ubiquitous in our country because it has many uses. For example, if you have a cold, doctors and family members will ask you to drink more hot water to promote metabolism. Another example is the menstrual pain of girls, will you get it? Drink more hot water? Care. Although you have a cold, drinking hot water can't be cured, but when you have a cold, runny nose, sore throat and other symptoms, when you drink hot white water, can you feel a warm current flowing into your body from top to bottom, and you will feel more comfortable. A cold causes the loss of water in the human body, and drinking more hot water can replenish the body's water.

Similarly, women who come to have their period will also have menstrual pain. Drinking some hot water is more psychological comfort. Isn't there a joke on the internet that a girlfriend spoiled her boyfriend because of menstrual pain, and her boyfriend answered directly? Drink more hot water? Because of this operation, it is called a demonstration of straight men's mistakes.

Besides colds, dysmenorrhea and even unexplained stomachache, we also think we should drink more hot water. Hot water has become omnipotent, as if this concept was instilled from our ancestors. There is nothing wrong with it, and nothing can't be solved by hot water. This seems to be a common sense, which goes deep into our bone marrow, but you have to ask why, but you can't answer.

In our country, our ancestors taught us not to drink cold water, but hot water. However, in foreign countries, there is no such statement. But in Chinese medicine, there is still a big gap between drinking hot water and drinking cold water. Especially drinking cold water is not very friendly to human body. When you excrete urine and drink cold water, your body needs to consume more energy to heat it. Drinking hot water can better protect our internal organs and will not irritate our throats like cold water. So in our country, drinking hot water is an established habit.