Ginger, as a very important accessory in each of our families, plays an important role in the deliciousness of our tongue. We more or less may also know that ginger is beneficial to the body, as the saying goes: "eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer", so what is the effect of ginger? Dr. Zhang checked the literature, now give you a report.

First of all, let's first understand what are the ingredients of ginger? There are four main categories: one is volatile oil; one is curcumin; one is diphenylheptane; and there are others, such as amino acids and sugar.

So what are its pharmacological effects? Literature reports that it probably has the following effects: 1. antioxidant effect; 2. anti-microbial effect, such as typhoid fever bacteria, Vibrio cholerae and Trichomonas vaginalis; 3. anti-inflammatory effect; 4. cholesterol-lowering effect; 5. anti-atherosclerosis effect; 6. enhance the immune function of the role of the liver and antiemetic effect; 8. anti-allergic effect. It can be said that the efficacy of ginger is still very much, and some of our own understanding may also be more consistent. It should be noted that the above effects are people's modern pharmacological research, we can not think, eat ginger will be able to achieve the above effects, or even instead of drugs, this is not true.

Here, Dr. Zhang would like to tell you that our motherland medicine has rich experience in the use of ginger, and ginger is included in the composition of many formulas. Therefore, Dr. Zhang believes that if you use ginger as a medicine to treat certain diseases, it would be more reasonable to use it after consulting a reliable Chinese medicine practitioner.

Benefits of eating ginger

Benefit 1, antioxidant, anti-tumor

Ginger is rich in curcumin and diphenylheptane compounds, these substances have a very good resistance to oxidation, can neutralize the body's oxygen free radicals, to avoid oxygen free radicals on the cells, thus reducing the chances of cell cancer.

Benefit 2, appetizer and spleen, good for digestion

When the weather is hot, people's appetite will become worse, and the secretion of gastric acid will also be reduced, so the digestive ability will be further reduced, but if you eat two slices of ginger before meals, you can promote the secretion of gastric juices, gastrointestinal peristalsis will be accelerated, naturally, digestion will be better.

Benefit three, to dispel wind and prevent colds

In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger has a strong effect of eliminating wind, when a person is infected with wind, and thus will have the symptoms of a cold, take ginger, can effectively help the body to remove the wind, coupled with proper rest, then the person will not be very easy to suffer from a cold.

Ginger consumption taboo do you know

Ginger although the benefits of a lot, but we can not effectively use, but harmful to the human body, so for some of the more common taboos of ginger consumption, must be in mind.

Taboo one, don't peel

Ginger because growing in the soil, inevitably with mud, but these for ginger, irrelevant, we eat ginger when it is best not to peel, because the active ingredients of ginger is basically in the skin, peeling undoubtedly let the ginger nutrients lost most of them.

Contraindication 2, should not be consumed by people with Yin deficiency

The reason why Yin deficiency is mainly due to the excessive fire in the body, which leads to the lack of Yin, this kind of people are not able to eat ginger, so as not to aggravate the Yin deficiency. If you also have hot hands and feet, often dry mouth, dry eyes and other mucous membrane dry performance, it means that you are a Yin deficiency body, to eat less or not eat ginger.

As the saying goes, "the secret of Chinese medicine is not passed on in the amount", so for often eat ginger what effect of the problem, the main focus on two, not only to pay attention to what effect of ginger itself, the second is a different amount of its efficacy may not be the same, and then again the same is the same ginger or perhaps fresh ginger and dry ginger efficacy may be a difference, that the How to understand it? Listen to my detailed explanation--

Let's start with a brief introduction to ginger

Ginger, naturally refers to the raw, but ginger and fresh ginger and dry ginger points Oh, the question derived from this with the cannon ginger, ginger juice, dry ginger, ginger ... And so on, these different forms of ginger on the human body effect is the same? Also worth thinking about.

Before figuring out the above, it's better to recognize ginger -

Ginger, also known as ginger, white ginger, even ginger and so on, belongs to the ginger family ginger perennial herbaceous hosta plants, ginger rhizome fat, with a different direction and chic pungent flavor, is our commonly used spices and traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years to Chinese medicine.

Ginger, native to China and Southeast Asia, has 14 varieties in China alone, and is now grown in most parts of the country, except for the northeast and northwest alpine regions.

Ginger, as a commonly used food, is also very rich in nutrients, containing nutrients including proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins, dietary fiber and various minerals. The content of dry matter is about 10% to 20%, the content of protein in dry matter is about 5-14% or so, carbohydrates are about 80%, fiber is 10% or so.

Ginger, as a commonly used spice, its main become for ginger essential oil, gingerol, ginger polysaccharide and diphenylheptane and other efficacy components. Among them, ginger essential oil and ginger oleoresin are the two main deep-processed products of ginger at present, both of which are concentrated substances extracted from ginger and belong to vegetable fats and oils, usually ginger oil.

What is the dosage of ginger in "Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty? What are the effects of ginger?

When it comes to the efficacy of ginger, especially ginger, there is nothing more authoritative than the efficacy of ginger derived from Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases.

When it comes to ginger (including fresh, raw and dried ginger), we have to talk about licorice (including roasted licorice and raw licorice) and jujube, because these three are not only commonly used in clinical practice (even nowadays), but also are often used as medicinal herbs to harmonize all the medicines in the formulas. Moreover, ginger, grass and jujube are often combined with each other to achieve certain therapeutic effects.

Regarding the inter-compatibility of ginger, grass and jujube if we have the opportunity we will explain in detail, since this question is about the efficacy of ginger, today's answer will briefly explain ginger in the eyes of Zhang Zhongjing have those effects.

Because of the loss of the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases in later generations, it was later divided into the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber, and if you analyze the usage of ginger in the two books by counting Zhang Zhongjing's use of ginger (it was stated above that the secret of Chinese medicine is in the amount, so I will focus on the amount of ginger used to determine what the difference in efficacy is), you will find that, except for the use of ginger in the Licorice-Dried Ginger Soup and Ginger-Black Summer Soup with the juice of ginger, respectively, all the rest of the formulas use ginger or dried ginger - there are 68 formulas with ginger in both books, and 52 formulas with ginger in them. The rest of the formulas use either raw or dried ginger - there are 68 formulas using raw ginger and 52 formulas using dried ginger in the two books. The dosage of ginger (the ginger in Zhang Zhongjing's period should be the dried product of ginger) in the above mentioned 68 soup formulas ranged from one tael (at that time, one tael was about 14g, the same hereinafter) to 16 tael (220g), with a common dosage of 3 tael (40g), and the average dosage of ginger was around 50g, and the dosage of 80% of the 68 formulas ranged from one or two tael to three tael. Dried ginger was applied between 3.5g and 40g (approximately) in the soup, with a common dosage of about 40g, an average dosage of about 32g, and 80% of the dosages of dried ginger were around 40g.

From the above formulas using ginger, the most highly correlated functions or symptoms are strong neck, headache, and episodic fever; and the more highly correlated symptoms with dried ginger are lowering of the diarrhea, syncopated internal cold, and lowering of the blood to hemorrhage.

It is noteworthy that Zhang Zhongjing's use of ginger greatly influenced the perception of ginger by subsequent generations of healers - the

Ginger in the Sui and Tang Dynasties dosage range than Zhang Zhongjing's East Han Dynasty to be much larger; in the Song Dynasty, the amount of ginger compared to the Han and Tang Dynasty is a significant decline; the Jin and Yuan Dynasties ginger dosage and appeared to be a more substantial reduction; understand that the amount of ginger has always been at a lower level; the Qing Dynasty a slight increase, but the overall amount of ginger in common use is still less than 10% of the Han and Tang Dynasty. And for the use of ginger to the modern and contemporary Chinese medicine, the dosage is still at a generally lower level.

As for the dosage of dried ginger, there was little difference in the average dosage during the Han and Tang dynasties; the most common dosage of dried ginger was also flat from the Tang to the Song dynasties; the average dosage of dried ginger declined dramatically during the Jin and Yuan dynasties; the dosage of dried ginger in the Qing dynasty increased slightly over the Jin and Yuan dynasties; and the maximum dosage of liver meridian showed a second small peak in the modern and contemporary era (do you know why?). .

When it comes to the efficacy of ginger, we are still divided into ginger and dry ginger to say more convenient, because ancient and modern Chinese medicine are so divided.

Ginger:Ginger in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" has not been recorded, only to say that when the dry ginger only incidentally mentioned "raw especially good, long service to remove the odor, through the gods". To the North and South Dynasties period, Tao Jinghong only in the "Materia Medica Collection Note" in a separate account of the efficacy of ginger: "taste pungent, slightly warm. The main treatment of cold headache, nasal congestion, coughing up gas, stop vomiting. Taken for a long time to remove the stench, through the gods". Tao Jinghong also said in the "other medical directory": "ginger, slightly warm, pungent, to the five Tibet, in addition to the wind evil cold and heat, typhoid headache, nasal congestion, coughing, vomiting, phlegm down the gas".

Tao Jinghong's statement influenced the subsequent generations of medical practitioners on the efficacy of ginger cognition and have further practice after the development and depth.

In short, the role of ginger is summarized as follows - dispersing wind-cold, harmonizing Ying and Wei; regulating the stomach and the middle, lowering the reversal of the drink to stop vomiting; warming yang and dispersing cold, eliminating dampness and diuresis; Xuan Tong Tong Yang; warming the blood; detoxification and medicine.

Benefits and Uses of Dried Ginger--

The first record of dry ginger's efficacy can be found in Shennong Ben Cao Jing (神农本草經), where it is classified as an intermediate product, with its efficacy being described as: "Maintaining fullness in the chest, coughing upward, warming the middle Jiao, stopping bleeding, sweating, driving away wind-dampness paralysis, and making intestinal 澼下利".

Subsequent generations for the original text of dry ginger will not be said, throughout the generations of materia medica on the application of dry ginger records, combined with Zhang Zhongjing on the use of dry ginger, summarize the role of dry ginger is as follows-

Warming the middle and dispersing cold, promoting heart circulation and assisting yang, stopping bleeding, warming the lungs and resolving drinks, warming the meridians, and returning yang to the veins.

Dried ginger and ginger, what is the difference in effectiveness?

While it seems that everyone knows that eating ginger has many benefits for the body, and even knows when it is better for the body, not everyone is necessarily aware of the differences in the effectiveness of ginger and dried ginger, and who uses it and when.

That answer, I believe, is the heart of the matter -

Ginger and dried ginger, despite being the same plant, are very different in terms of their main treatments precisely because of the different methods of concocting them that have been accumulated in traditional Chinese medicine.

1. Use ginger for wind-cold symptoms and dry ginger for internal cold symptoms.

Ginger gas is new, volatile and suitable for dispersal, go and not be subject to, especially good at going to the surface, so Zhang Zhongjing to ginger dispersal of wind-cold.

And dry ginger gas Duk, pungent heat to guard the middle, and go and guard, especially good at warming the inside, so Zhang Zhongjing use dry ginger to sink cold chronic cold.

2. Use ginger for water-air diseases and dry ginger for water-drinking diseases.

Water qi disease, with Yang qi stagnation, water immersion and non-dispersal as the key to its pathology, manifested as palpitation under the heart, pain in the abdomen, thundering and discharging. Ginger is pungent, warm and dispersing, promoting Yang qi, its intention is not to warm Yang, but to promote Yang, promote the spreading of qi, in order to spread the water and fluids. Dried ginger is hot in the heart to help Yang, warming the liver and transforming the drink, its intention is not to diuretic, but to warm Yang to help the fire.

3. Ginger is used in cases of stomach yang insufficiency such as turbid yin upward reversal, and dry ginger is used in cases of spleen yang insufficiency such as cold-dampness and diarrhea.。

For Jian Yang Earth Stomach, use ginger; for Warm Yin Earth Spleen, use dried ginger.

4. Use ginger for light cases of cold sickness and dry ginger for heavy cases of cold sickness.

Zhang Zhongjing's creation of the large and small Jianzhong Tang is an example of this theory, so I won't go into detail.

Also, the difference between raw and dried ginger's cures is that-

Dry ginger can regulate the following diseases: syncopal syndrome of yang deficiency and yin deficiency, cold and heat syndrome, bleeding syndrome.

Ginger can be used to treat the following conditions: blood deficiency conditions, Qi depression and abdominal distension conditions, and opening the meridians to open blood paralysis.

The above views are basically from the cognition in Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever.

In short, through the above analysis of the dosage of ginger and dry ginger, we can see that it is a simple ginger, but never "winter eat radish summer eat ginger" as to simply understand, but according to different people with different diseases to use different ginger different dosage, in order to achieve the purpose of regulating the body.

Hopefully, the above answer will be helpful to the subject and readers in understanding the wonderful uses of ginger.

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Ginger is a common ingredient used in cooking. In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a cold dispersing and warming medicine, which can treat deficiency cold and actual cold. Ginger has the function of dispersing cold, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, so what are the benefits of eating ginger?

For one, it's good for the stomach

Pharmacognosy class Ming": "ginger dampness, just warming the spleen and stomach, spleen and stomach gas temperature and healthy transport, then the dampness since carry on. The elimination of phlegm, the flavor of its spicy, have the power to open and disperse! Can be seen here, ginger can help the spleen and stomach transportation, can be used for heavy dampness, resulting in dampness trapped in the spleen and stomach, can dispel dampness.

Secondly, it is good for Yang Qi

Drugs: "Ginger to run away, medicinal good open phlegm and benefit orifices, to stop cold vomiting, through the gods," it can be seen here, ginger can promote the body's Yang Qi rise, can open phlegm, the treatment of Yang deficiency of water, resulting in phlegm, edema and other problems!

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Ginger is a very common lengthening seasoning, it has a unique smell, and pungent flavor, ginger has an aromatic component, theIt is a volatile oil "ginger oil ketone" has a variety of complex components, such as gingerol, water fennel, eucalyptus oleoresin, etc., so ginger has a very strong flavor, some friends do not like.

But some experiments have found that this particular flavor can have a potential therapeutic effect on liver damage.. The liquid extracted from ginger has a sterilizing effect, theInhibit the golden staphylococcus, white glucose coccus, typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, etc., so ginger can sometimes be seen in the treatment of colds and fluGinger. GingerIt also has some antioxidant effects, inhibiting the oxidation of reactive oxygen species and linoleic acidGinger is also used for wound healing. Ginger is also used for wound healing, inhibits the growth of cancer cells to some extent and is anti-allergenic.

Ginger in addition to the flavor value, health care value has a certain value, Chinese medicine ginger is a medicine, ginger flavor pungent cool, can be used to assist in the treatment of edema, because ginger can line the skin water, relieve swelling；Ginger removes the thick skin of ginger which is pungent and warm in nature and can dissipate cold and warm the stomach, relieve vomiting, promote blood flow and warm the spleen and stomach.So ginger goesThe skin can benefit the spleen and stomach, and also stop coughs and expectoration.Ginger is a good way to increase your appetite in the summer. In summer, people's gastric secretion is reduced, generally affects the appetite, if you eat some ginger before meals can stimulate saliva, gastric secretion, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite. In summer, people also like all kinds of cold drinks, too much intake of these foods may lead to spleen and stomach cold, may have diarrhea and abdominal pain phenomenon, and ginger has the effect of warming, dispersing cold, pain, can avoid the occurrence of the above symptoms. In addition, the volatile oil of ginger can promote blood circulation and restore the spirit of lazy summer. The skin of ginger is cold, if you want to regulate the spleen and stomach cold, it is best to peel Ao soup, if you want neutral ginger can retain the outer skin.

Ginger is a kind of medicinal food without, not only can cook ginger soup to remove wind and dampness, but also can do seasoning to fishy and fresh, in addition, the composition of ginger is also very good, which the ginger chili, ginger enol and ginger ketones and other ingredients have multiple health effects, Wei Wei summarized as follows:

1. Bacteriostatic effect:

Ginger as well as ginger vinegar have been found to inhibit the reproduction of bacteria and fungi, and are especially effective against the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.

2. Anti-inflammatory and relieves fatty liver:

Ginger essential oil has been found to reduce the body's inflammatory response, especially for fatty liver and steatohepatitis caused by fat deposition in the liver. In addition, this anti-inflammatory effect is also effective in cardiovascular protection and stroke prevention.

3. Prevention of obesity:

Ginger extract was found to help control weight gain and reduce fat deposition in experimental rats. Ginger extract has also been found to help control body weight in human trials.

4. Anti-tumor:

Ginger can improve the body's immune function, to assist in the prevention of tumors, in addition, some studies have found that 6-gingerol in ginger can block the cell value-added cycle to induce apoptosis, which can play an anti-tumor effect.

5. Relief of nausea and vomiting:

Whether it's applying ginger to acupuncture points or smelling ginger, it can reduce discomfort such as nausea and wanting to vomit, and can help alleviate early pregnancy reactions as well as digestive side effects in radiotherapy patients.

I hope that my answer is helpful to you! Good luck!

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One of my personal quizzes, ginger has a defense against motion sickness. I was born with motion sickness, especially on buses and public transportation. Crossing traffic lights or walking through potholes is even worse as I get jolted to the point of panic and have no energy. Ginger saved me from three years of car rides. Cut the ginger into slices and put it in your mouth, then go to sleep, and then spit it out after half an hour, so you won't ask about the smell of the car, and you won't have a big reaction to the car, which is a little bit pungent ginger. There are small partners of motion sickness can try oh

Almost everyone eats ginger every day, and of course not always directly, but we Chinese can't cook, especially meat, without ginger.

For the vast majority of people, ginger is a common condiment, can remove fishy and unctuous is a good helper in our cooking; but the vast majority of people will not eat ginger directly, but leave the ginger slices on the plate and throw it away.

Ginger is warm and we dip our crabs in it to neutralize their coldness. This is what most people know about ginger.

But ginger is an authentic Chinese medicine, so let's take a look at what ginger has to offer as a Chinese medicine.

I. Knowledge of ginger in traditional Chinese medicine

Pungent in nature, slightly warm;

Attributed to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians;

Functions and Indications: Relieving the surface and dispersing cold, warming and stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

It can also detoxify hemiptera, asparagus and the flesh of fish, crabs, birds and animals.

That is, the main role is wind-cold cold, cold phlegm cough and other respiratory diseases; or stomach cold vomiting and other digestive diseases. (Of course, Chinese medicine is not categorized according to the respiratory tract and the digestive tract, but according to the lungs and the stomach, and the specifics also involve the corresponding organs of yin and yang, the five elements and the surface and the inner.)

Ginger is used to relieve the surface, mainly for the dispersal of wind and cold, mostly used to treat mild colds, decoction, add brown sugar and take it by heat, often get sweat and solution, can also be used as a preventive medicine for colds. When we were young, winter cold and fever, often boil some ginger soup, add some sugar water, homemade ginger and sugar water to drink, drink sweat, but also can reduce fever, cold can also reduce or get better. Even now we will use this approach.

Therefore, those who reject Chinese medicine wholesale should use their brains, for Chinese medicine is certainly useful; of course, they are not saying that it is omnipotent, and regardless of whether it is Chinese medicine or Western medicine, we must seek truth from facts, rather than denigrating each other or boasting about ourselves.

Of course, more often than not, ginger needs to be paired with other herbs in order to be a formula and have a truly healing effect. A more classic formula, for example:

Ginger laxative heart soup "Typhoid Fever Treatise"; Gui Zhi Tang "Typhoid Fever Treatise"; ginger licorice soup "Preparing for the Emergency Thousand Gold Essentials Formula"; angelica ginger lamb soup "Jin Gui Yao Liao"; ginger half-summer soup "Jin Gui Yao Liao" and so on all have ginger.

Ginger is used in conjunction with ephedra and cinnamon sticks as an adjunct to sweating and relief of the exterior, which enhances the power of sweating.

Ginger can be used alone to treat cold stomach and vomiting. It can also be used to treat vomiting with heat in the stomach, together with hemixia, bamboo rhizome and coptis.

Ginger can detoxify fish and crab, used alone or with perilla. It can solve the poison of half-summer and south star, and can be used for the numbness caused by the poison of half-summer and south star in the mute throat and swollen tongue. Therefore, in the concoction of half-summer, south star, commonly used ginger with the system, in order to reduce their toxicity.

In short, for doctors of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a more commonly used Chinese medicine, especially in the external surface evidence, wind-cold cough, stomach cold nausea and other diseases have their own strengths; and can solve the poison of half-sia and southern star, with these drugs.

But always remember, when treating illnesses, since ginger is not a condiment, not a side dish, but a Chinese medicine, then this time must be taken under the guidance of a doctor, unless of course it is just a common wind-cold cold, we can still cook some ginger soup like when we were children, sweating, not bad!

II. Modern pharmacological research on the knowledge of ginger

With the progress of science, especially modern medicine, like to figure out the specific composition of a drug, we do not discuss the use of this method in traditional Chinese medicine today, whether or not it is scientifically valid, we only talk about the modern pharmacology of ginger's microscopic understanding.

Ginger contains volatile oil 0.25% ~ 3.0%, the main components are gingerol, gingerene, watercressene, camphene, citral , linalool, methyl heptenone, nonenal, d-borneol ..... They are all names that we usually can't read.

its pharmacological action

Effects on the digestive system :Gingerene, which has the effect of protecting the gastric mucous membrane cells, is one of the effective ingredients for stomach health;

Ginger can act on the sympathetic and vagus nervous system, inhibit gastric function and directly stimulate the effect of gastric smooth muscle;

A mixture of ginger oleoresinone and gingerenone isolated from ginger also has an antiemetic effect, and ginger has a terminal antiemetic effect.

Acts on the circulatory system:Alcoholic extracts of ginger also have a direct excitatory effect on the heart and may cause an increase in blood pressure; aqueous extracts of ginger inhibit platelet aggregation.

Effects on the central nervous system :Ginger has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system. Ginger oil can significantly inhibit spontaneous activity in mice, prolong the sleep time of sodium pentobarbital, against pentylenetetrazol convulsions, analgesic, and can reduce the body temperature of yeast fever rats, mice intraperitoneal injection of fresh ginger injection 5g/kg or 10g/kg, there is a significant analgesic effect.

Antipathogenic microbial effects :Ginger extract can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albicans, S. typhi, S. dysenteriae and P. aeruginosa, and can be used to treat schistosomiasis.

Other roles:Ginger juice can inhibit the growth of cancer cells to a certain extent． Adding ginger extract to some antitumor drugs can reduce the side effects of tumor drugs.

Of course these are only in the research stage, and it will take time to see if they will be of any real use directly to humans, or to humans in preventing and treating disease, the evidence is not strong enough at this time.

III. No need to expand the role of any ingredient

We consciously and unconsciously every day may lift to ginger, because fried food will put ginger, but onion, ginger and garlic is just a condiment, just to go to the fishy and unctuous side dishes. Can not play a pharmaceutical value, so there is no need to amplify the benefits or side effects of ginger for stir-frying on weekdays.

For most of us, ginger is nothing more than a common common flavoring side dishes, if you really want to say what are the benefits of eating ginger for a long time, ginger as a cure or health care products to eat, then it is best to find a good Chinese medicine doctor, the pulse, often tongue, after the identification of evidence and treatment, a comprehensive assessment to see if the personal characteristics of the individual is consistent with the long-term consumption of ginger, how much to eat, what changes can be brought to themselves.

In short, ginger if it is flavored, then we simply do not need to approach the role of ginger, it is flavored side dishes, can go to the fishy and unctuous, cold stomach people eat the benefits.

However, if you want to do ginger as a traditional Chinese medicine, then it is best to find a TCM doctor to identify and treat the problem before deciding whether it can be eaten for a long time, and specifically how to eat, how much to eat, and how long to eat.

There is also a variety of so-called active ingredients of ginger, we right as a story to see on the line, from the real can cure the disease and save lives is still far away.

Ginger is a common condiment in our lives, can go to fishy flavor and freshness, but the role of ginger is more than that, ginger is also a pharmacological effects of Chinese medicine, in China has a long history of medication.

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Ginger is the fresh rhizome of Zingiber officinale, a common medicinal plant. According to traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is pungent in flavor, slightly warm in nature, and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It is mainly used for relieving exterior cold, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and vomiting. Ginger is the third most frequently used herb in the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases, often combined with jujube, licorice and cinnamon stick.

The rhizome of ginger is rich in nutrients and contains hundreds of nutrients, the main ones being the following:

1. Carbohydrates: The main carbon hydrate in ginger is starch, which makes up about 40-60% of ginger.

2. Protein: The crude protein content of the protein is about 7%-10% and contains a variety of amino acids.

3. MineralsGinger contains copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, nickel, cobalt and many other trace elements.

4. Biologically active ingredients: The chemical constituents in ginger are complex and varied and can be categorized into the broad groups of curcumin, ketone volatile oils and diphenylheptane.

So what are the pharmacological/health benefits of ginger, again, for the human body?

1. Antioxidant effect: Ginger increases the total antioxidant activity of the body.

2. Anticoagulation: Ginger extract can platelet aggregation and delay blood clotting.

3、Improve the vascular structure: Ginger extract prevents lipoproteins from entering the arterial wall, improves the structure of blood vessels and regulates the conversion of cholesterol.

4. Anti-microbial effect: Perillaldehyde, vanillin and nerolidol, which are among the volatile oils of ginger, have strong antifungal activity.

5. Strengthen the stomach and stop vomiting, promote digestion:Ginger extract can increase the secretion of saliva and enhance amylase activity. In addition, ginger has a protective effect against gastric mucosal irritation and chemical damage.

After talking about the effects of ginger, let's see what ways to eat ginger.

1. Ginger teaTake 3-5 slices of ginger, make it with boiling water and drink it, especially for those who have colds and chills.

2, ginger orange peel water: Ginger and orange peel are boiled in water in a ratio of 1:1, which has a certain effect of warming the stomach and stopping vomiting.

3、Vinegar soaked ginger: Slice fresh ginger, soak it in vinegar, add a little sugar and salt, and eat it after 3 days. It is not only appetizing and appetizing, but also promotes digestion.

4, is to put some ginger when cooking on weekdays, both can be flavored, but also has certain health effects.

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As the saying goes, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, don't need doctor's prescription". Every summer, ginger will be more important to people. We often eat fresh ginger, also known as ginger, ginger, young ginger. Ginger has old and young points, old ginger fiber, spicy heavy, used for seasoning or medicinal, while young ginger meat tender, spicy small, can be used for fried or pickled.

What are the benefits of eating ginger regularly?

In fact, the nutritional value of ginger is not low, ginger is rich in B vitamins and iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc and other minerals. Only, in daily life, ginger is only as a kind of flavor to use, consumption is not large, therefore, ginger on the human body to contribute to the nutrients is also minimal.

In addition to these nutrients needed by the human body, ginger contains some volatile oils, curcumin, diphenylheptane and other biologically active substances, of which curcumin is the main source of ginger's pungent flavor and the main active substance.

In the usual cooking, people use ginger as a seasoning, especially when doing some fish and shrimp meat, like to put some ginger, can play the role of fishy flavor. Ginger in the ginger and other substances can also stimulate the taste nerve and gastric juice secretion, improve the oral cavity and stomach sterilization ability, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, play the function of digestion.

In addition to these effects, there have been many studies on ginger that have concluded that it may be effective in treating pregnancy sickness and menstrual cramps in women. Ginger is, after all, an ingredient and consumed in small quantities, so even if it doesn't have any of these effects, a little bit of it won't be harmful, and again, perhaps a little comforting.

In addition, there are some studies on the use of ginger to treat stomach problems in the study, its efficacy has not been scientifically confirmed or denied, so if you have a stomach problem or to the regular hospital examination and treatment, do not delay the condition.

Most people just take ginger as a kind of spice to flavor, it is generally believed that 1 gram of dried ginger per day, equivalent to 4 grams of fresh ginger, there will be no adverse reactions, if eaten in large quantities may increase the difficulty of coagulation, for some are taking coagulant medications for the crowd to pay attention. Also encountered rotting ginger should not be consumed, easy to produce very toxic safrole, harmful to health.