Name: Shan Nai

Category: Wen Li Medicine

Pinyin: SHAN NAI

Latin: Rhizoma Kaempferiae

Alias: San Nai Zi, San Lai, Shan Spicy, Sand Ginger

Medicinal Part: Rhizoma

Medicinal Properties: This product is mostly rounded The root is mostly rounded or suborbicular transverse slices, 1~2cm in diameter, 0.3~0.5cm in thickness; the outer skin is light brown or yellowish brown, wrinkled, some with root scars or remnants of fibrous roots; the cut surface is whitish, powdery, and often bulging. The texture is brittle, easy to break. Aroma special, taste pungent.

Cultivation points:

Origin: Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Taiwan

Harvesting and processing: winter harvest. Wash, remove the roots, slice, and dry in the sun.

Digested History:

Taste and Attributes: Warm; Pungent; Attributed to the Stomach Meridian

Functions and Indications: Promoting circulation of qi and warmth in the middle of the body, subduing food, and relieving pain. It is used for chest and diaphragm distension, cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, and dietary intolerance.

Use and dosage: Internal: decoction, 6-10g; or into pills, bulk. Externally: appropriate amount, powdered and applied; or pounded; or convulsive nose.

Contraindications: Yin deficiency, blood deficiency, and stomach fire are prohibited. [edit paragraph] therapeutic effect of sand ginger flavor pungent, warm, into the stomach meridian;

warming dispersal of cold, appetizer digestion, qi and pain;

suitable for cold stomach and abdominal cold pain, intestinal tinnitus diarrhea people, grain is not fragrant, do not think of eating, or stop eating not to eat the food of the person to eat.

The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Warming the middle, expelling miasma and malaria, curing cold pain in the heart and abdomen, and cholera of cold and dampness." [Editor's note] China's sand ginger hometown - Nansheng, China Sand ginger is an annual herbaceous plant, the nature of the drought-resistant barren fear of dipping. Nansheng arable land is mostly black mud field, containing carbonaceous, soft hydrophobic, suitable for the growth of sand ginger.

Nansheng is located in the south of China, belonging to the city of Huazhou, Guangdong Province, the natural and climatic weather is just suitable for planting sand ginger, Nansheng produced the best quality of sand ginger, its sand ginger was brown, slightly glossy, not deflated by the sun, thin skin and thick flesh, crisp and tender meat, pungent and sweet taste, containing ginger chili, with phlegm, digestion and appetizing, spleen and eliminate dampness and prevention of epidemics and other efficacy. According to the father and mother legend, the Qing Guangxu years, Huazhou and neighboring counties plague epidemic, Nansheng villagers around the area to eat sand ginger to prevent, get immune to disease, the four realms rely on peace and quiet. In addition, Nansheng water ginger and local dishes "white cut chicken" accompanied by food, fragrant but not greasy, flavorful. Restaurants and restaurants and residents of the family to estimate the white cut chicken are sand ginger as the main condiment, and has become a habit. And the local chef seasoning spice powder, more south of Sheng sand ginger as ingredients, the dishes are particularly delicious.

Nansheng sand ginger has a history of more than 200 years, the beginning of the planting of Pushan, then only dozens of acres. Later, the application of sand ginger is widely used. Not only can be used as a condiment, but also as a medicine for Han disease, the planting area is constantly expanding, the end of the Qing Dynasty to more than 500 acres. During the Republic of China. Nansheng sand ginger planting area by Pushan extended to Xie Village, Shanwei and Le Tang area, the annual planting of ginger more than 1,000 acres. Whenever sand ginger (dry ginger) season, Nansheng Wei many merchants a scale acquisition, transported to Guangxi, Yunnan and Central China, North China and other places for sale. After the founding of new China, the people's government attaches importance to the production of sand ginger, summarize the exchange of experience in planting ginger, and promote the good seed of sand ginger. At the same time, the commercial sector set up a point to buy, promote the development of sand ginger, the late 50s to early 60s, the entire commune planted about 3000 acres of sand ginger per year, the mu yield of up to 2 tons. Later, with the South Sheng cited the construction of water conservancy projects and supporting the perfect, summer waterlogged fields, unfavorable to the production of sand ginger, coupled with the emergence of "heavy food light money" tendency, so that the sand ginger planting area decline. 1988 the whole district (town) planting ginger in 200 acres of land, the total output of more than 300 tons.

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