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1, ginger (scientific name: Zingiber officinale Rosc.), a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae. Rootstock with yellow-green flowers and pungent fragrance. Plant height 0.5- 1 m; The rhizome is thick, multi-branched, fragrant and spicy. Leaf blade lanceolate or linear lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; Ligule membranous. The total pedicel is 25 cm long; Spike cone-shaped; Bracts ovate, pale green or yellowish at the edge, with a small tip. Calyx tube length is about 1 cm; Corolla yellow-green, lobes lanceolate; Central lobe of lip oblong obovate.
Rhizomes are used for medicine, and fresh or dried products can be used as cooking ingredients or made into pickles and sugar ginger. Aromatic oil can be extracted from stems, leaves and rhizomes, which can be used in food, beverage and cosmetics.
Pungent and slightly warm in nature.
Meridian entering spleen, stomach and lung.
Function has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming and stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough, and detoxifying.
Indications: exogenous wind-cold, stomach cold, vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Chinese fish and crab poison and other diseases. It also has the functions of waking the stomach, opening the spleen and stimulating appetite.
2. Honey is honey brewed in the hive by nectar collected by insects and bees from flowers of flowering plants.
Bees take nectar or secretion with water content of about 80% from plant flowers, store it in their second stomach, ferment it for 30 minutes under the action of invertase in vivo, and then return to the hive to spit it out. The temperature in the hive is often kept at about 35℃. After a period of time, the water evaporates into honey with water content less than 20%, which is stored in the nest hole and sealed with beeswax.
Various expositions
1. Ben Jing: it is responsible for the evil spirits in the heart, the convulsions and epilepsy, the deficiency of the five internal organs, the tonifying of qi, the relieving of pain and detoxification, and all kinds of medicines.
2. "From" A Famous Doctor's Bielu ":Nourish temper, except upset, unable to eat or drink, muscle pain, aphtha, bright eyes and ears.
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Scabies on the main teeth, red eyes and skin, killing insects.
4. "Materia Medica Yanyi": The pain of soup and fire is still mixed.
5. "Compendium": Harmony with camp and health, moistening viscera, dredging triple energizer and regulating spleen and stomach.
General efficacy
1, honey can improve the composition of blood and promote the function of heart, brain and blood vessels, so it is very beneficial for cardiovascular patients to take it often.
2. Honey has a protective effect on the liver, which can promote the regeneration of hepatocytes and inhibit the formation of fatty liver.
Eating honey can quickly replenish physical strength, eliminate fatigue and enhance resistance to diseases.
4. Honey also has the function of sterilization. If you eat honey regularly, it will not only do no harm to your teeth, but also play the role of sterilization and disinfection in your mouth.
5. Honey can treat moderate skin injuries, especially burns. When honey is used as a skin wound dressing, bacteria cannot grow.
6. Insomnia patients take 1 tablespoon of honey (added to 1 cup of warm water) before going to bed every day, which can help them fall asleep as soon as possible.
7. Honey can also moisten the intestines and relieve constipation (as long as it is natural and mature real honey, it has the effect of moistening the intestines and relieving constipation).
8, anti-oxidation, honey contains an amazing number of antioxidants, which can remove the garbage in the body-oxygen free radicals, and achieve anti-cancer and anti-aging effects.
9. Drinking honey regularly can reduce phlegm and relieve cough. 1-6-year-old children (it is best not to drink honey before1year-old) can feed half a teaspoon of honey 30 minutes before going to bed. Children and adults over 6 years old can drink two teaspoons of honey before going to bed.