Ginger, which is usually bought from the supermarket in the kitchen. We will use ginger slices, shredded ginger, ginger paste and ginger juice when cooking, all of which are made of ginger. Ginger, a drug for relieving exterior syndrome, is mild in nature and pungent in taste. It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming the lungs and relieving cough, and relieving fish, shrimp and crab poison, Pinellia ternata and Arisaema.

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When you feel the cold and have cold symptoms such as stuffy nose, runny nose and sore limbs, you will come to a cup of brown sugar ginger water to disperse the cold; Ginger is known as the "holy medicine for vomiting". When coughing due to cold, nausea and vomiting, a piece of ginger in the mouth can relieve cough and stop vomiting. When making seafood dinner, adding ginger products can relieve fishy smell and shrimp and crab poison. In the prescription of Chinese medicine, if ginger is needed, the doctor will ask the patient to go home and cut a few slices of ginger to add to the boiled Chinese medicine. Among ginger, there are also "old ginger" with dark color, firm texture, much fiber, little water and strong spicy taste, and "sub ginger" with yellow color, soft texture, little fiber, much water and weak spicy taste. If it is medicinal, the effect of "old ginger" is better and more appropriate, and the effect of "sub ginger" is relatively poor.

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Dried ginger is made by drying or drying ginger (usually old ginger), which belongs to the medicine for warming the interior.

It is classified as a "Chinese product" in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica. It is hot in nature and pungent in taste, and it is good at warming the middle and dispelling cold, strengthening the spleen and yang, restoring yang and dredging veins, warming the lungs and transforming drinks. Dried ginger is mostly used for asthma and cough caused by cold drink and lung depression, and for patients with excessive cold such as epigastric pain, cold diarrhea and cold limbs due to deficiency of spleen and stomach. The warm nature of dried ginger is second only to that of aconite, but it is more commonly used than aconite. Dry ginger is warm and dry, so it should be used with caution for those with yin deficiency and excessive fire, and it is also not suitable for those with sore throat, dry throat and constipation.

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Processed ginger is made from dried ginger by frying it until the surface is slightly black and the inside is brownish yellow.

After processing, the nature, taste and efficacy of processed ginger are the same as that of dried ginger, but its pungent dryness is weakened, and the effect of warming the interior becomes mild and lasting, and it can warm the meridians to stop bleeding and relieve pain, and is also used in obstetrics and gynecology. In addition to processed ginger, dried ginger is also made into another processed product, namely, ginger charcoal. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, parching dried ginger can enhance the hemostatic effect. After parching dried ginger, it becomes ginger charcoal, which has the function of warming meridians and stopping bleeding, and is often used for bleeding due to deficiency-cold syndrome.