Promote digestion
Ginger contains ginger oil ketone, curcumin can effectively treat the symptoms of colds. And curcumin can stimulate the oral cavity and gastrointestinal mucosa, enhance the secretion of digestive juices, promote the decomposition of food, enhance the efficiency of nutrient absorption, to ensure that the body's needs. So many people tend to feel empty stomach and appetite after eating ginger. However, it is important to understand that ginger is cold in nature, and if consumed excessively, it can easily lead to gastrointestinal discomfort, so we should control the dose of consumption.
Delaying aging
Ginger contains diphenylheptane compounds, has a very good oxidizing effect, can remove the body's scavenging free radicals, so as to achieve anti-cancer, delaying the effect of aging, if the elderly often eat ginger, help to prevent age spots, to achieve the role of beauty and health. If you want to lose weight, you can also use ginger to make black tea, which helps to reduce excess body fat, enhance the function of excretion, and promote weight loss.
Expelling cold and warming the body
The gentle nature of ginger can expel cold and warm the body, which is very suitable for pregnant women with a cold constitution. Many pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy often have symptoms of abdominal pain, this time can be appropriate supplement ginger syrup, help reduce gastrointestinal stimulation, thereby relieving the symptoms of pain. People who are cold tend to have cold hands and feet, you can eat ginger or ginger soup, can warm the cold. Ginger is not everyone can eat, should vary from person to person, who can not eat ginger? In fact, many people have such a misunderstanding, the body where uncomfortable, they take ginger, resulting in ginger abuse, misuse, so people should know whether they can eat ginger.
Ginger is warm, so if the individual physique is hot, it is not suitable to eat too much ginger, specifically the following kinds of contraindications:
Heart and foot easily sweaty and hot. These people belong to the Yin deficiency constitution, which is caused by the lack of body fluid. The fumigation of ginger accelerates the loss of fluid, leading to the aggravation of yin deficiency, and even dryness of the mouth, eyes and other parts of the body, emotional irritability, insomnia and other symptoms.
People who often feel dizzy. Usually this situation is caused by liver fire, these people were already hyperthermia, and then eat ginger, undoubtedly adding oil to the fire.
Patients with liver inflammation. In general, such patients are prohibited from eating ginger, so as not to aggravate the symptoms of hepatitis by the warming effect of ginger.
People with bad breath. In the motherland medicine, bad breath is due to stomach heat, ginger is warm, stomach heat people eat will aggravate the existing stomach heat, resulting in toothache, stomach pain and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
Hepatitis patients can not eat. If people with liver function damage often eat ginger, it is easy to cause liver fire, aggravate liver dysfunction. Therefore, hepatitis patients should try to avoid eating ginger in normal times, and can properly supplement the food that soothes the liver and regulates qi, such as hawthorn tea or chrysanthemum tea and so on, which can help reduce the body's dryness and heat.
Rotten ginger can not eat. Rotting ginger often produces toxic substances, easily infected with bacteria, leading to degeneration of liver cells, symptoms of hepatitis or liver cancer, sometimes affecting the body's detoxification function, so we should try to avoid eating rotting ginger.