Taste: pungent, slightly warm

Effects:

(1) Ginger is used to solve the table, mainly for the dispersal of wind and cold, mostly used to treat colds and mild, decoction, add brown sugar and take it with heat, often can be sweated out, can also be used as a preventive medicine for the common cold. Ginger sweating effect is weak, often with ephedra, cinnamon sticks, etc., as a sweating auxiliary drugs, can enhance the sweating power. Ginger can be used alone to treat cold stomach and vomiting. It can also be used alone to treat cold stomach and vomiting. It can also be used to treat hot stomach and vomiting, together with half-sia, bamboo and rhizome, Huanglian. Ginger can detoxify fish and crab, used alone or with perilla. In addition, ginger can solve the poison of raw half-summer, raw nanxing, decoction soup, can be used for half-summer, nanxing poison caused by throat mute tongue swelling numbness and other symptoms. Therefore, in the concoction of half-summer, south star, commonly used ginger with the system, in order to reduce their toxicity.

(2) ginger juice: the ginger is washed and broken, and its juice is extracted into medicine. The flavor is pungent and slightly warm. It has the effect of resolving phlegm and stopping vomiting, and is mainly used for nausea and vomiting and coughing with excessive phlegm. The general dosage is three drops to ten drops, rinse and take.

(3) Ginger peel: the outer skin of ginger. It is pungent and cool in nature. It has the effect of diuretic and edema, applicable to urinary incontinence, edema and other diseases, can be used with the winter melon skin, mulberry white skin and so on. The general dosage is five minutes to one penny five minutes, decoction.

(4) simmering ginger: the original only fresh ginger washed, wrapped in straw paper, soaked in water, directly in the fire simmering, to be the straw paper burnt black, ginger cooked to the degree; or directly in the fire baked. It is pungent and warm in nature, and has the function of harmonizing and stopping vomiting. It is suitable for spleen and stomach disharmony, nausea and vomiting. The usual dosage is two or three slices, decocted.

(5) Ginger and ginger slices are used in cooking to remove fishy and increase the fresh flavor of food.

Contraindications: Not to be taken by people with Yin deficiency and internal heat.

- Old ginger is commonly known as ginger mother, ginger left behind for seeding, thick skin and firm flesh, pungent flavor, can be said to be old ginger.

1, the old ginger is generally used in fireworks dishes (such as stewing, simmering, simmering, burning, boiling, steak and other cooking methods), mainly to take its flavor, and cooked to discard the ginger.

So ginger needs to be processed into pieces or slices, and should be patted loose with the face of the knife to make it crack, so that it is easy for the ginger flavor to spill out and soak into the dish.

2, the old ginger (with ginger buds), can be used as a side dish or sauce marinade, delicious flavor;

3, as an ingredient into the dishes of ginger, generally to be cut into julienne.

- Dried ginger is ginger to remove impurities, slightly soaked, washed, moistened, cut into thick slices or blocks, dried in the sun or a slight fire drying.

Taste, attribution of pungent, hot. Attributes to the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians.

Effects Warming the middle Jiao, dispersing cold, restoring Yang and promoting circulation, warming the lungs and resolving beverages.

Applications and combinations

1. For cold pain in the epigastric region, cold vomiting and cold diarrhea. This product is pungent, hot, dry and strong, and mainly enters the spleen and stomach and is good at warming the middle and dispersing cold, and strengthening spleen yang. The treatment of cold stomach and vomiting, cold pain in the epigastric region, each with galangal, such as two ginger pill. For the treatment of cold spleen and stomach, cold pain in the epigastric region, vomiting and diarrhea, it is used together with Codonopsis and Atractylodes, such as Lizhong Pill.

2. Used in the death of Yang evidence. This product is hot and pungent in nature, and can return to the yang to pass the vein. Therefore, it can be used to treat heart and kidney yang deficiency, Yin cold caused by the death of yang syncope, pulse micro-absorption, each with the annexed zi must be used, such as the four reverse soup.

3. It is used for coughing and wheezing with cold drink, cold form and cold back, and sputum is much clear and thin. This product is hot and pungent, good at warming the lungs and transforming drinks, often used with fine Xin, Schizandra, ephedra, such as Xiaoqinglong Tang.

Use Note Yin deficiency and internal heat, blood heat is prohibited.

There are unscrupulous traders in the wholesale market with sulfur water treatment of ginger, so that its color is more bright yellow, conducive to the sale of the skin looks very smooth, like waxed. The skin looks very smooth, like waxed.