The use of ginger ~

Ginger is pungent and warm, good at dispelling cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can stop vomiting and detoxify. Clinically, it is often used to treat exogenous wind-cold and stomach-cold vomiting, and it is called "the holy medicine for vomiting at home" by predecessors. Ginger frying method is to make use of these characteristics of ginger, with ginger juice as auxiliary material to process drugs, in order to enhance expectorant and cough, reduce adverse reactions and vomiting, and reduce its toxic and side effects. If bamboo shavings are good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, ginger roasting can enhance the effect of reducing adverse reactions and stopping vomiting; Magnolia officinalis is spicy and irritating to the throat. Its side effects on throat irritation can be eliminated by baking ginger, and the effect of soothing the stomach can be enhanced. Rhizoma Coptidis and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens can relieve their bitterness and coldness and treat vomiting caused by stomach heat.

Although dried ginger is the same as ginger, its properties are different because of the different qualities of fresh dried ginger. Dried ginger is hot, pungent, strong, good at warming the middle and returning to yang, and can warm the lungs and dissolve the drink. Clinically, it is often used to treat symptoms such as deficiency and cold of middle energizer, impotence and dyspnea caused by cold drinks. Therefore, the performance of ginger juice prepared with dried ginger is different from that of raw ginger juice. If ginger juice made from dried ginger is used to process drugs, it will affect the processing effect of drugs. If the purpose of drug processing cannot be achieved, the efficacy of drugs with antiemetic effect will not be enhanced.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a product that helps yang. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has always said that "people can't live without ginger for a hundred days." Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, described an 80-year-old monk in Jingci Temple, Qiantang, Hangzhou, with a childish face. "He persuaded Jiang for forty years, so he is not old." Legend has it that White Snake stole Xiancao to save Xu Xian. This fairy grass is ginger bud. Ginger is also called "rejuvenation grass" and ginger soup is also called "rejuvenation soup".

Exogenous cold, stuffy nose and runny nose, headache and fever, chills after rain, stomachache, etc. , can be taken with 25 grams of chopped fresh ginger and brown sugar, brewed with boiling water.

For chronic gastritis, frequent stomachache, nausea and vomiting can be taken by decocting fresh ginger 15g and dried tangerine peel 15g in water three times a day. For children with cough, fresh ginger can be used to pound juice, and half a spoonful of ginger juice and 1 spoonful of brown sugar can be taken 1 time in the morning and evening.

Wind-cold osteopathy, joint pain, and cold sensation in the affected area, you can chop and fry half a slice of ginger and half a root of onion, wrap it in cloth and stick it on the affected area.

But it is worth noting that ginger should not be eaten at night. Its gingerol can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and enhance the function of the spleen and stomach during the day, and it becomes a big problem that affects sleep and hurts the intestines at night, so it is not suitable for eating at night. There is a folk saying that eating ginger in the morning is not as good as eating ginseng chicken soup; Eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic, which makes sense. )

Putting ginger on the pillow helps to improve sleep.

If you often suffer from insomnia, ginger, a condiment that can be found everywhere in the kitchen, is of great help in treating insomnia. Because the special smell of ginger has the effect of calming the nerves, the specific method is: chop up about 15 grams of ginger, wrap it in gauze and put it on the pillow, smell its aromatic smell, and you can sleep peacefully. Continuous use of 10 days to 1 month will obviously improve sleep.

The general population can eat it. 1, suitable for people with colds, cold dysmenorrhea and carsickness. 2. Those with internal heat due to yin deficiency and excessive pathogenic heat should not be eaten.