Its efficacy
(1) Help Yang
Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a product that helps yang, so since ancient times, Chinese medicine has said that "people without ginger will not be born for a hundred days." Ginger has the function of accelerating human metabolism and dredging meridians. Therefore, ginger is often used for male health care, which can help yang and has a certain therapeutic effect on impotence due to kidney deficiency. If men often feel cold stomach and loss of appetite, they can often take fresh ginger slices to stimulate gastric juice secretion and promote digestion. Dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, strengthens the stomach and promotes blood circulation, and medlar nourishes liver and kidney, which is beneficial to eyesight. Combined with food, it can treat impotence, chills, lumbago, soreness of waist and knees, burnout and so on caused by kidney-yang deficiency. [ 19]
⑵ postpartum
When postpartum women are confined to the moon, the food is accompanied by ginger vinegar, which is conducive to physical recovery and feeding the baby. In addition, ginger water bath can also prevent rheumatic headache. In particular, it is unscientific for lying-in women not to wash their hair for a month in hot summer, which is not only unsanitary, but also may cause skin inflammation and prickly heat. Maternal women can try to wash their hair and bathe with ginger boiling water, or even wash their faces and hands, because ginger can drive away cold, and bathing with ginger boiling water can prevent rheumatism and migraine. [ 19]
(3) Prevention of gastropathy
When eating is not fragrant or appetite declines, eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little ginger in the dish can improve appetite and increase appetite. Gastric ulcer, deficiency-cold gastritis, enteritis, and wind-cold cold can also be treated with ginger to dispel cold and sweat, warm the stomach and stop vomiting, and sterilize and relieve pain. Ginger is also a traditional Chinese medicine for treating nausea and vomiting, and it has the reputation of "the holy medicine for vomiting". In summer, especially in dog days, bacteria are extremely active in growth and reproduction, which is easy to pollute food and cause acute gastroenteritis. But eating ginger properly can play a preventive role, and ginger can also kill oral pathogens and intestinal pathogens.
In summer, people are greedy for cool, and like to blow each other with electric fans and air conditioners, so they are easily affected by cold and cause colds. At this time, drinking ginger syrup in time will help to discharge the cold in the body. Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "clear the heart", that is, refresh the mind, so people who often feel dizzy, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea, it is of great benefit to drink ginger soup properly at this time. In addition, ginger is pungent and warm, which can promote blood circulation. Women who eat ginger can also resist aging and reduce the occurrence of gallstones.
Drinking ginger juice and ginger soup can drive away the cold. The ancients said, "It is better to eat ginseng chicken soup than ginger in the morning;" Eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic. " So it's best not to eat at night.