Ginger skin is cool in nature, while ginger meat is hot in nature. Ginger is not only a commonly used condiment, but also a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effect of relieving vomiting, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough in the stomach. People with yin deficiency, internal heat and carbuncle, swollen and toxic should avoid eating it. However, ginger skin has a pungent and cool taste, which is exactly the opposite of the medicinal properties of ginger meat.

When eating ginger or medicinal ginger, there is a saying that "keeping the ginger skin will make it cool, and removing the ginger skin will make it hot." In order to maintain the balance of coolness and heat in the pharmacological effects of ginger, it is generally not necessary to remove the ginger skin when eating ginger. When used medicinally, the choice should be based on the symptoms.

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Taboos for consumption:

1. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature. It is not suitable to eat too much at one time. It may cause pain, swelling, boils, red eyes, internal heat, Patients with constipation and hemorrhoids should not consume it. Rotten ginger contains safrole, which can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer, etc., and should not be eaten. Hemorrhoid patients should not consume it.

2. People with yin deficiency constitution have a dry and hot constitution, which is manifested by hot hands and feet, sweaty palms and a tendency to drink water, often dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, and irritability. , poor sleep, and ginger is pungent and warm, so eating ginger for people with yin deficiency will aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency.

3. Those with severe internal heat. People suffering from lung heat, dry cough, stomach heat, vomiting, bad breath, bleeding hemorrhoids, sore ulcers and other diseases should not eat ginger. If it is a heat disease, when eating ginger, you must use cold and cooling medicine to neutralize the heat of ginger.

4. Hepatitis patients. Because regular consumption of ginger can cause liver disease. Liver fire is strong. If you want to restrain the liver-fire caused by eating ginger, you can also choose some foods that can soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as drinking hawthorn and chrysanthemum tea, which can eliminate the heat caused by ginger without harming the body.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ginger