1. Different definitions. Dried ginger is the dried rhizome of the ginger plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Excavate in winter, remove fibrous roots and sediment, sun-dry or low-temperature drying, slice fresh and dry or low-temperature drying, called "dried ginger slices". Ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family.

2. The effects are different. Dried ginger warms the body and dispels cold, restores yang and unblocks the meridians, warms the lungs and transforms into fluids. Ginger has the effects of relieving external symptoms and dispersing cold, warming the lungs and relieving vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, and detoxifying.

3. The nature, flavor and meridian tropism are different. Dried ginger is pungent in taste and hot in nature, and returns to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians. Ginger is pungent in taste, slightly warm in nature, and returns to the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians.