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What are all the benefits of ginger?

Ginger is a common condiment, is also widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, can also be used as ingredients, such as winter feel the wind cold people will drink some hot ginger soup, stomach cold people usually frying vegetables will be put more ginger, you can usually use ginger jujube soak some water to drink. "Men can not be a hundred days without ginger", "winter eat carrots and summer eat ginger, do not need a doctor to prescribe medicine," all illustrate the important value of ginger in the edible and medicinal use.

Ginger is a medicine for dispersing wind-cold, pungent and slightly warm in nature, belonging to the lungs, spleen and stomach meridians, its main role is to sweat and relieve the surface, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and stopping coughs, and it can be used for external wind-cold and cold temperatures and cold temperatures in the spleen and stomach. Ginger juice or decoction can be used to solve fish and crab poisoning; ginger water can be used for wind-cold cold and lung cold cough and other evidence; ginger brown sugar water can be sweating to dispel cold and warm the stomach, for wind-cold cold and stomach cold pain; ginger pungent dispersal of the power of the stronger, but also phlegm to stop vomiting, with bamboo leachate can be used to treat stroke phlegm and other evidence; ginger skin pungent cold, and the spleen and the effect of running water, the clinic with the Sang Bai Pi, Poria Pi, the belly of the skin, Five plus the skin (five skin scattered) treatment of skin edema; and half-summer with (small half-summer soup) treatment of vomiting without thirst, the heart under the water drink; ginger simmering with poor irritation, can be warmed to get rid of cold, treatment of gastric cold and abdominal pain, long-term stir-frying with ginger as a condiment can also relieve stomach cold.

Ginger is warm in nature, long for dispersing cold and warming the middle, too much consumption of ginger can produce internal heat, so yin deficiency and internal heat, hyperthermia of Yang should be used with caution.

Ginger can be said to be seen every day in our daily lives, we use it as a seasoning, a flavoring for cooking and cooking. Confucius said 'not to withdraw ginger every day', he advocated to eat a little bit of ginger every day, and it is said that Confucius had the habit of chewing a piece of ginger after meals. Folk also have many proverbs about ginger, such as 'three pieces of ginger in the morning, more than drinking ginseng soup', 'October ginger small ginseng', 'winter eat radish summer eat ginger, do not bother the doctor to prescribe', 'often eat ginger, not afraid of the wind and frost', in fact, there are many roles of ginger, the following to learn more about it to see if there is anything you do not know.

Ginger is included in the pungent and warm antidepressants, its nature is warm, flavor is pungent, belongs to the lung, spleen, stomach meridian, can relieve cold, warm and stop vomiting, warm the lungs to stop coughing. It can be used for wind-cold cold, cold spleen and stomach, cold stomach and vomiting, cold lung and cough, and can also detoxify fish and crab. Not only that, ginger can also prevent and control hair loss, with ginger extract or directly with ginger coated hair, which curcumin and so on will accelerate the blood circulation of the scalp, promote scalp metabolism, activate the hair follicles, effective prevention and treatment of hair loss, gray hair, and promote the growth of new hair. Soak your feet in ginger water can also accelerate blood circulation, promote blood flow throughout the body, take away excess body heat, promote sweating, health care cardiovascular, beauty, detoxification and weight loss. Summer heat, easy to vomit, acidity, enteritis and other diseases, ginger can be sterilized, the inflammation of the digestive tract has an auxiliary therapeutic effect. Not only that, some daily minor ailments, such as hand frostbite, with ginger juice repeatedly rubbed, can prevent frostbite, improve the resistance to cold, as well as hand scabies, can also be rubbed with ginger juice, joints because of the pain caused by the cold, swelling, you can use the ginger juice to compress, can effectively relieve the symptoms. Even motion sickness can smell or contain a piece of ginger.

How about it, isn't ginger used for many purposes? Let me know what else you know.

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Ginger has always been a very important food in our life. Ginger is not only a common flavor in cooking, it is also one of the common medicinal herbs in Chinese medicine. Not only that, ginger actually has a lot of benefits and functions that should not be ignored. So, today we will illustrate what kind of effects and functions ginger has.

I. Nourishes the kidney, benefits the essence and strengthens the yang

Since ancient times, ginger has good aphrodisiac function. Men can consume more ginger to nourish the body and have an aphrodisiac effect. In addition to being able to aphrodisiac, ginger is also very effective in replenishing deficiency and producing sperm. People with kidney deficiency and men with poor sperm quality can consume ginger regularly, which is very effective in strengthening the body, improving sperm quality and relieving kidney deficiency.

Second, to drive away cold and warm the stomach

Ginger to a certain extent can promote the circulation of human blood, can be very good to play blood circulation, remove blood stasis, cold and warm stomach effect. Women with menstrual cramps can also use ginger to boil brown sugar water to drink during menstruation, brown sugar and ginger are warm food, have a very good stomach warming and cold effect. Cold body, easy to menstrual pain in women, in the menstrual period to drink more brown sugar ginger water, can play a good role in warming the stomach and cold and relieve menstrual pain. In addition, ginger and brown sugar water can also be very good to help people drive away the cold, on the prevention and treatment of wind-cold cold is very helpful.

III. Sterilization and detoxification

In reality, ginger also has a very good sterilization and detoxification effect, ginger on the oral cavity as well as intestinal bacterial growth has a very good inhibition, can effectively prevent and control oral diseases as well as intestinal inflammation. In addition to sterilization and detoxification, ginger is also very helpful in the prevention and treatment of heat stroke. In the summer heatstroke, with ginger and Chen Pi boiled together to take can effectively alleviate the heatstroke.

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What are the benefits of ginger. Ginger belongs to the ginger family. There are young ginger and old ginger, do sauces with young ginger, medicinal use of old ginger is good.
Health benefits. According to medical books: ginger is pungent and slightly warm in nature. It contains pungent and aromatic components. The pungent component is an aromatic volatile oil in the 'ginger oil ketone'.

Among them are mainly ginger oleoresin terpenes, water anise, camphor terpenes, gingerols, eucalyptus oleoresin, starch, mucilage and so on. Ginger is an aromatic and pungent stomachic herb with warming, stimulating, sweating, antiemetic and detoxifying effects.
Especially for fish and crab poison, half-summer, tiannanxing and other drugs poisoning has detoxification effect. Suitable for external wind-cold, headache, phlegm, cough, stomach cold and vomiting; after suffering from ice, snow, water dampness, cold invasion, urgent ginger soup drink, can enhance blood flow, dispel cold.
When the external wind-cold, head disease fever, or rain, cold abdomen away from the time, with 30 grams of ginger cut fine, add brown sugar, to boiling water, or boil a boil, drink while hot, covered with bed, sweating good healing (such as adding green onion white effect is better).
For bronchial asthma, 30 grams of ginger can be used to cut fine, mashed and twisted juice, with 9 grams of white mustard, plus wine and research and paste, gauze wrapped in cotton balls dipped in the paste, rubbing the lungs, large vertebrae, danzhong 3 points.
Rub each point for 10 minutes, to the extent of local burning sensation. Or use two layers of gauze, cut like the size of a chess piece, dipped in the liquid and pasted on these three points for about 1 hour, then removed, to the extent that it does not blister.
If it is food poisoning, such as eating fish and turtle poisoning caused by abdominal pain, vomiting, dysentery, etc., you can use ginger, perilla leaves 30 grams each, decocted with brown sugar, 2 times a day to serve.

And chronic gastritis, stomach pain, vomiting mucus or vomiting water, can be used ginger, orange peel 12 grams each, water decoction, 2-3 times a day sub-service, have the effect of pain and vomiting.
There are also bruises, sprains, lumbar muscle strain, lumbago, limb joint topography, chronic pleurisy, intercostal neuralgia, restrictive peritonitis, chronic appendicitis, and abdominal pain.
Available ginger, taro, etc., taro peeled and chopped, mashed as mud, ginger mashed juice, with the mixing, and then add an appropriate amount of flour, stirred as a paste, according to the affected part of the big and small spread on the cloth sticking the affected part (such as in the winter is appropriate to add warmth to the sticker), a day to replace the 2 times.
This medicine is very effective and has been used repeatedly. Note that this medicine must be prepared temporarily and used on the same day. We call it ginger taro paste', some call it 'blind paste intestines'. It is said that paste on the affected part of acute appendicitis, but also can reduce fever, on the blood also has a change. It is worth promoting and further research.
Bone tuberculosis is not ulcerated, with a lot of ginger (or dry ginger) chopped, add water to boil, with a towel immersed in which, twisted to half dry, while hot ironing the affected area, cold that is, you can exchange two towels hot ironing, to the degree of local hair red, 1 time a day.
Ginger, scallion white amount of finely chopped, total mashed, fried hot, wrapped in cloth hot compresses the affected area, cold is replaced, 3 times a day. It can relieve wind-cold bone separation, joint pain and cold feeling in the affected area.
[Accidentally eat raw half-sia or raw male star, raw wild taro, konjac and other poisoning occurs, mouth and tongue numbness, quickly chewing ginger, can be relieved.
Pound ½ tsp of ginger juice, 1 tsp of sugar, take with boiling water, 2-3 times a day. It can relieve chronic cough in the elderly.


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[Prescription Name] Ginger, Ginger Slices, Ginger Juice

Functions and Indications] Sweating and relieving symptoms, warming the lungs to stop vomiting, and warming the lungs to stop coughing. It is often used in: (1) external wind-cold syndrome; (2) stomach cold vomiting; (3) wind-cold lung cough; (4) treatment of half-summer, southern star, fish and crab poisoning.

Usage and dosage] For internal use: decoction, 3-10g; for external use: pounding, rubbing the affected area or fried hot iron.

[New use]

I. Internal medicine

1. Acute bacillary dysentery: 45g of ginger and 30g of brown sugar, pounded into a paste. Day 3 times divided into doses.

2. Diarrhea: 30g of ginger pounded mud: 6g of Ganoderma Lucidum, 12g of Bone-setting Resin, together with the end of the powder as a paste. Fill in the umbilicus and fix it with sterilized gauze.

3. Rheumatic pain, lumbar and leg pain: Fresh ginger is made into 5-10% injection solution and injected into the pain point or reaction nodes, also can be injected with distal and proximal acupoints. Inject 0.5~2ml into each point, once a day or every other day, 3~5 times for a course of treatment.

4. Gastric pain: 250g of fresh ginger (chopped and pounded into paste), 500g of brown sugar and vegetable oil. method of preparation: heat an iron pot, put brown sugar and vegetable oil into the pot, wait until the oil boils and the sugar is dissolved, then add ginger, mix well and store for later. Before taking the medicine, mix well with a spoon and take 1 spoon in the morning and 1 spoon in the evening on an empty stomach. Symptoms basically disappear after 2-3 doses.

5. Malaria: Wash and dry fresh ginger, chop and mash it, spread it on a piece of gauze, then fold it into a small square and apply it to the acupoints and fix it. Acupuncture points: the first group for bilateral knee eye, ginger with 60g compressed 2 points; the second group for the large vertebrae plus the intermediary make (bilateral), ginger with 30g compressed 3 points; the third group of the large vertebrae points, ginger with 15g compressed. In the third group, choose Da Shi point and apply 15g of ginger to it. In the treatment, you can choose any one group and apply the paste 4-6 hours before the attack, and take it off after 8-12 hours, and apply it 2 times.

6. Anti-motion sickness: 20g of ginger, mashed as mud, external compresses on the internal customs, Shen Que (navel), to the wound-dampness pain relief cream can be fixed.

7. Migraine: Fresh ginger sliced to the thickness and size of a five-cent coin. Ask the patient to lie on his side, and after the skin is routinely sterilized, place the ginger slice over the ear and solo points of the Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian of the hand, rub and pinch the moxa cones as if they were half the size of an olive, and place them on top of the ginger slice for moxibustion. The first cones of moxibustion are 1 stanza, and then 2 stanzas of moxibustion are added to the ginger slices, and 3 stanzas of moxibustion are performed continuously. If small blisters appear locally after moxibustion, do not break them and let them be absorbed naturally.

II. Surgery

1. Roundworm intestinal obstruction: squeeze juice from 60g of ginger, add honey to 60ml. 30-40ml for 1-4 years old, 50ml for 5-6 years old, 50-60ml for 7-13 years old, take orally in 2-3 times. The pain and vomiting can be relieved after meals, and the lumps disappear after 1-3 days. Followed by roundworm expulsion treatment.

2. biliary roundworm abdominal pain: ginger 150 ~ 200 g peeled juice, add honey 60 ~ 100 g. Take at once, 2 ~ 3 times a day, pediatric discretion.

3. Acute epididymitis: Fat old ginger, cleaned and cut into uniform thin slices about 0.2cm thick, each time with 6-10 slices, external compresses on the affected side of the scrotum, covered with gauze, pocketed up the scrotum, and replaced 1 or 2 times a day until cured.

4. Frozen shoulder: old ginger 300g fine Xin 80g 60 degrees sorghum wine 100g. Fine Xin research not and ginger (cleaned) mixed into mud velvet, iron pan fried, into the white wine mixing, and then slightly fried will be spread on gauze, hot compresses peri-shoulder pain parts, 1 times a night, generally 5 ~ 14 days to heal.

III. Dermatology

1. Vitiligo: 1 piece of ginger, cut off 1 piece, wipe in the affected area, ginger juice dry, and then cut off 1 piece, continuous rubbing to the degree that the local skin know heat, day 3 ~ 4 times, to the skin color normal.

2. Goose paws and ringworm of the nails: ginger soaked in wine and rubbed, has a certain degree of efficacy.

IV. Pentacenter

1. Ménière's syndrome: 1 piece of ginger (about 10g), chewed and swallowed, after taking the vomiting stop, vertigo is reduced.

2. Hoarseness: 200g of fresh ginger, both young and old, chopped like rice grains, placed in a covered container, add honey in the right amount to submerge the ginger to the extent of mixing, cover and put in a cool, ventilated place for spare. Each time with half a spoon, mouth slowly swallowed, the beginning of the honey sweet, gradually to ginger spicy, to be honey flavor will be exhausted, ginger spicy slow reduction, then chewed and swallowed. 3-5 times a day, until the throat is clear and the pronunciation is normal.

[Adverse Reactions and Precautions

This product is pungent and warm, and is contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency and internal heat and heatiness.

Ginger, in the cold can be used to sweat, in addition, ginger has a lot of other benefits, specifically what are the benefits of ginger, this article to recognize, of course, to understand the benefits of ginger also need to recognize the dietary taboos of ginger.

Six Benefits of Ginger It's a Shame Not to Know

1、Withdrawing sweat to cool down

Ginger contains curcumin, and this substance has a certain stimulating effect on the heart and blood vessels, so it can help speed up the body's blood circulation, to help open the pores, so it will increase the body's perspiration, with the sweat can help the body's residual heat out of the body, you can achieve a certain effect to prevent heatstroke.

2. Increase appetite

In summer, people's appetite is easily affected, after being attacked by the summer heat, it is easy to sweat and affect the appetite, because the secretion of digestive juices will be affected by the reduction, but ginger in the ginger can stimulate the human tongue and stomach, can stimulate the gustatory nerve and the gastric mucosa on the receptor nerves, and after a nerve reflex will make the gastrointestinal tract congested to further promote the secretion of digestive juices, and can therefore Achieve the effect of appetizer spleen, in the hot summer can help improve appetite.

3、Detoxification and sterilization

Summer gazpacho exposure is relatively high, but these foods are very susceptible to bacterial contamination, a little careless, then there may be gastrointestinal disorders, such as nausea and vomiting, etc., and the volatile oils in the ginger can play a bactericidal detoxification effect.

4、Expelling wind and dispersing cold

Summer people generally like to eat cold drinks eat cold food, long-term, the spleen and stomach are easily affected by cold, symptoms for abdominal pain and diarrhea, etc., and ginger can achieve the effect of cold pain, can effectively avoid the above situation.

And ginger also contains volatile oils can help promote blood circulation, whether for the cerebral cortex or the heart of the respiratory center has an exciting effect, so eating ginger can achieve the effect of cold.

5. Strengthening the spleen and stomach

Summer often eat cold food, the spleen and stomach is also very easy to be cold, there will be palpitations and nausea symptoms, and eat ginger can achieve the effect of warming the spleen and stomach, to prevent the disease serious.

6、Combating gastroenteritis

Bacterial growth is very active in summer and it is easy to contaminate food leading to acute gastroenteritis, while choosing boiling water for ginger can cure gastroenteritis.

Ginger dietary taboos should also be clear

1、Don't peel

The skin of ginger also has great properties, and if you eat ginger with the skin removed it will affect the overall effectiveness, so it's best to leave the skin on when you eat ginger.

2, Yin deficiency fire do not eat long-term

Some people's physique belongs to the type of yin deficiency fire, shadow long feel eyes blazing body heat, this situation is not suitable to eat ginger, such as pneumonia, cholecystitis, diabetes, as well as hemorrhoids patients are not suitable to eat.

3、Don't eat rotten ginger

Rotting ginger produces toxic substances that can damage liver cells and cause liver and esophageal cancer, so don't eat rotting ginger.

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Simply put, ginger is used medicinally as an antioxidant, stomachic and antiemetic, antithrombotic, antibacterial and antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and choleretic and hepatoprotective. Ginger can also play a good health role.


Ginger contains proteins, multivitamins, carotenoids, calcium, iron, and phosphorus, which can give the human bodysupplementationGinger can also be used as a flavoring agent, as a snack food, and can be used in a variety of ways such as beauty and health care.

There is also something in ginger that can play agood healthThe effect of substances, mainly for flavonoids, gingerols and proteases. Such as gingerol substances can stimulate the gastric mucosa, promote blood circulation, invigorate gastric function.To strengthen the stomach, relieve pain, sweat and relieve fever.AndAntioxidant and free radical scavenging properties, as well as heart and cardiovascular stimulating effectsIt can speed up blood flow, promote sweating, suppress itchy scalp and strengthen hair roots.

Ginger has some antioxidant properties.Ginger can be used to increase the total antioxidant activity of the body, and it has a high scavenging capacity for many types of oxygen radicals in the body, which means that ginger can be used toProtecting the liver from damageIt's okay.Prevention of cerebral ischemiaThere are now studies investigating the anti-aging ability of ginger as well as its efficacy in combating tuberculosis, and there have been positive results. There are studies on the antioxidant effect of ginger in the composition of the systematic analysis and identification, they believe that ginger may play a role in antioxidant effect of the main reason, may be ginger contains phenolic, β-diketones and other substances, but also may contribute to the antioxidant effect of the factor is the essential oil of ginger does not contain oxygen atoms terpene substances. The antioxidant activity of isolated curcumin-like substances from ginger is very good.

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Ginger has some stomachic and antiemetic propertiesThe principle isGinger stimulates the gastric mucosaThis causes the gastric mucosa to synthesize and release endogenous pepsinogen with cytoprotective effects, which in turn protects the gastric mucosa from damage, which is, of course, mainly due to the action of gingerene in ginger.Therefore, ginger's stomachic and antiemetic properties can also be developed as an anti-motion sickness drug.

Ginger also has anti-thrombotic properties.Extracts from ginger can inhibit thrombosis through a variety of pathways, long-term use as a medicinal food can be used to prevent hypertension, coronary heart disease, theInhibits thrombosis.

A variety of active ingredients in ginger can inhibit spontaneous locomotion in experimented animals and alsoEnhanced sedative-hypnotic effectanticentral stimulantThis is the effect of ginger on the nervous system.

Ginger also has some antibacterial and antiseptic properties.Ginger contains some antimicrobial components, which have a certain inhibitory effect on many bacteria, such as effective gram-negative bacteria, yeast, molds and so on. Ginger extract taken out by water maceration has different degrees of inhibitory effect on different bacteria, such as typhoid fever bacteria, Vibrio cholerae, and fresh ginger juice on E. coli, brewer's yeast, Penicillium has a more obvious antibacterial effect;The ginger essential oil and ginger oleoresin in ginger have obvious antibacterial and antiseptic effects, and are more commonly used in daily life to prevent spoilage of meat products such as ham and sausage, as well as aquatic products.

Ginger also has some anti-inflammatory and analgesic effectsIn the course of doing experiments, ginger oil can significantly inhibit the swelling of rat paws and joints, with potential anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic effects. AndGinger provides significant relief for migraine headachesThis is especially true for migraine headaches with increased cerebral blood flow during the pre-ictal or remission phase.

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Whenever the word ginger is mentioned, I think everyone is more familiar with it. Especially some proverbs about ginger, it makes people think that ginger is a heavyweight food and medicine good. So, what are some of the uses of ginger? How should it be used? Let's take a look.

In the Chinese kitchen, ginger is known as one of the "three main spices" along with green onions and garlic. Ginger is native to China, and can be harvested in two ways: young ginger in early fall and old ginger in late fall. Ginger is an extremely important seasoning, but also an important Chinese medicine. When fresh, it is called ginger, which can be used directly in medicine or pressed out to use ginger juice; after concoction, it is called dried ginger. Ginger is also an important raw material in the science of concoctions, and many Chinese medicines need to be prepared with ginger to alleviate the toxic side effects of the original medicine.

Ginger is the "holy medicine of vomiting", pungent and warm in nature, good at dispersing wind-cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, warming and stopping vomiting, detoxification, and is commonly used in the treatment of external wind-cold and cold stomach and vomiting, etc. In Gui Zhi Tang, there are 5 herbs, including Gui Zhi, Pao Yao, Ginger and Zao Zao. Gui Zhi Tang, a total of five medicines, gui zhi, peony and ginger, jujube two major pairs of medicines, can be reconciled with the Ying and Wei, licorice and all medicines. Except for ginger, all other medicines are available in hospital pharmacies, but only ginger is not available.

In fact, ginger is a very important medicine for treating external wind-cold infections. For wind-cold external infections, simple ginger soup can be used to promote sweating and relieve the symptoms. Nowadays, there is a kind of East-meets-West drink Ginger Cola, which is the most popular, is the combination of Chinese medicine ginger and Western cola together, instead of the traditional ginger water.


The Golden Pocket Essentials has ginger and half-summer soup, half-summer, ginger juice are good at stopping vomiting, the combination of good, and has the effect of appetizing and neutralization. There was a patient's mother-in-law, then nearly ninety years old, hospitalized for a long time because of the disease, eating and vomiting. She sought treatment from me and used this formula. Sure enough, a little into the diet, although a month later, the old man can not help but still driving away, but also to make the children's generation for the peace of mind.

From the point of view of modern medicine, ginger can stimulate the gastric mucosa, cause vasomotor center and sympathetic reflex excitation, promote blood circulation, invigorate gastric function, to achieve the stomach, pain, sweating, antipyretic effect. Ginger can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and peristalsis of the intestinal wall, thus helping digestion; ginger in the ginger ginger alkene, ginger ketone and obvious anti-vomiting effect. Therefore, clinically, many stomach and vomit more than the patient, with ginger, the effect is better. There are some people who suffer from motion sickness, go out by car, boat and airplane before the ginger mashed in the umbilicus, can also play a role in vomiting.

Ginger can be detoxified fish and crab, I was in the hospital emergency internship encountered a case of patients, he was cheap to buy not fresh crab, diarrhea and abdominal pain after eating. With two teachers, one to give infusion, antibacterial antidiarrhea; one is opposed to give the patient perilla, ginger decoction to take. As a result, the patient adopted the latter. During the observation period, I saw him take the soup soon after the pain and diarrhea stop. Thus strengthened my belief in learning Chinese medicine.


Since then, every time you eat crabs, you must cut ginger into thin strips and eat it together with vinegar to prevent poisoning. Xue Baochai's poem "Crab Wing" in Dream of Red Mansions best describes the Chinese people's eating of crabs with ginger, "The road in front of me has no warp and woof, and the skin is empty of black and yellow in spring and fall. Wine does not cleanse the fishy still use chrysanthemum, sex to prevent cold accumulation must be ginger." From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, crab for the cold products, the need for ginger to neutralize the warmth of the nature of the food is not easy to cause disease.

In Chinese medicine concocting science, ginger baking method is to take these characteristics of ginger, ginger juice as an auxiliary material to the drug concoction, to enhance the role of the drug to dispel phlegm and relieve cough, reduce the reversal of vomiting, and reduce its toxic side effects. For example, the raw bamboo long for the clearing of heat and phlegm, ginger can enhance the efficacy of its anti-vomiting; half-summer flavor spicy, irritating to the throat, through the ginger can be eliminated by stimulating the side effects of the throat, and can enhance the effect of broadening the middle and the stomach; Huanglian after ginger can be too bitter and cold nature, and a good cure for gastric fever and vomiting.

In addition to this, ginger has a very special effect that many people may not be too aware of, that is, ginger has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungi and killing vaginal trichomonas, and can be used to treat a variety of carbuncles, sores and poisons. External use has a stimulating effect on local hair loss, can treat baldness and other alopecia diseases.


There is a folk saying: "eat ginger in the afternoon, such as eating arsenic!" Therefore, there are claims that ginger should not be eaten at night, its gingerol stimulate intestinal peristalsis during the day can enhance the role of the spleen and stomach, the night may become a major problem affecting sleep injury to the intestinal tract. This claim by some programs and other popular science channels spread, a time of dust, some viewers do not dare to put ginger at night to cook flavor. Personally, this statement is too absolute. On the one hand, ordinary dishes, to ginger for seasoning, is not the same as eating ginger; Secondly, for those who are sick, when to eat ginger is okay.

I once treated a veteran who was in his sixties and was tall and thin. Because he had suffered from stomach problems for many years, he often had stomach pains in the middle of the night and needed to chew ginger to get relief. This was due to the stagnation of cold stomach and water-drinking, so he was treated with Li-Zhong Pills as the main medicine, or he was asked to buy ginger candies and take them from time to time. A few months later, his stomach pain in the middle of the night, need to eat ginger to relieve the problem was solved. Therefore, for people who do have deficiency cold, eating ginger at night is not a problem.

However, people with internal heat or yin deficiency should not eat ginger at any time. I have met two patients, one is dizziness, western medicine diagnosis for cervical spondylosis; one is the mouth and eyes skewed, western medicine diagnosis for facial nerve palsy. However, upon closer examination, both patients were suffering from yin deficiency with internal heat, and both had a history of eating ginger candies. After carefully examining them, I believed that it was actually the consumption of ginger that triggered the disturbance of deficiency wind in the body. Therefore, when treating them, I discarded the traditional treatment methods and did not treat cervical spondylosis or facial paralysis, but emphasized on nourishing water, containing wood and extinguishing wind, which quickly restored the patients' health.

Since ancient times, China has a "ginger cure for all diseases," said the Chinese medicine, ginger is to help Yang products, there is a "man can not be a hundred days without ginger," said. Ginger has to speed up the body's metabolism, through the meridians and other effects, the treatment of cold stomach diarrhea effect is excellent. Can treat cold stomach pain, stomach distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea, acidity and less food, vomiting water and other diseases, the effect is very good. In addition, ginger can be boiled to soak feet, ginger foot bath, can promote peripheral vascular microcirculation, cold pain, especially for diabetes early foot skin numbness, cold has a preventive effect on the common heel pain in the elderly has also improved.

"Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer" in this hot three-volt day, it is again the annual health enthusiasts eat ginger season. So what are the functions and effects of ginger? Why eat ginger in the summer?

Ginger is highly nutritious:

Although ginger is not as high in vitamins and minerals as other vegetables, it contains a variety of compounds with antioxidant and anti-infective properties, including gingerenol, curcumin, and dehydrogingerodiol. These substances have anticancer and cardiovascular disease prevention properties. Ginger also contains the biologically active ingredient "curcumin" which is an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory that can be used to inhibit tumors. Ginger also contains dehydrogingeranedione, a substance that is also known to inhibit tumors.

Ginger also has the effect of increasing the body's metabolism and promoting sweating. Ginger also promotes the secretion of gastric juices in the body and facilitates digestion and absorption.

Why eat ginger in the summer?

That's because Chinese medicine believes that ginger is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. Thus, eating ginger in hot weather can cure many diseases by sweating and relieving symptoms, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting.

Can't have more than one:

Don't eat too much ginger at one time. If you consume too much, your body will absorb a large amount of curcumin, which will stimulate the kidneys and put an unnecessary burden on them.

There is also the fact that rotten and frozen ginger can produce harmful ingredients, so do not consume spoiled ginger.

Author: Shanshan Chong

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