Chinese medicine believes that although ginger has the effect of dispelling cold and warming the body, it is hot because it is spicy and irritating food, so it is easy to get angry if you eat too much. In addition, the autumn is mainly dry, and the wind is strong and the things are dry. If you eat too much ginger, the evil of pungent dryness will easily invade the human body, hurting and consuming body fluids, leading to diseases. So it makes sense not to eat ginger in autumn. However, this does not mean that you can't eat ginger at all in autumn. As long as the amount of ginger is well controlled, it will not have much impact on the body. If you catch a cold and catch a cold in autumn, you can take ginger soup, or warm your stomach to stop vomiting, dispel cold and relieve cough. Eating ginger in autumn depends on physical fitness. "Don't eat ginger in autumn for a year." Ginger is a good thing, but it is better to eat less ginger in autumn. Of course, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't eat it at all in autumn. The key is to look at your physique. People with weak constitution are still suitable for eating ginger.

When is the right time to eat ginger? "Don't eat ginger at night for one day". Generally speaking, eating a little ginger in the morning is good for your health; The nights in Yin Qi are very rich. After a busy day, you need a rest at night. Yin Qi is introverted, while ginger is the product of being scattered. Eating ginger at night is easy to consume gas. Ginger bark also has the effect of reducing swelling with water. Chinese medicine believes that ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior symptoms, stopping vomiting and detoxifying; Among them, ginger bark also has the effect of diuresis and detumescence. The classic prescription containing ginger bark is "Wupiyin", which consists of ginger bark, dried tangerine peel, poria peel, mulberry bark and areca nut bark. This prescription has a strong effect of eliminating dampness, diuresis and detumescence. Don't eat rotten ginger. Some people say that "rotten ginger doesn't taste bad", but it's actually wrong. Ginger will undergo chemical changes in the process of decay, producing a toxic substance called safrole, which is a highly toxic organic substance. It can induce liver cancer and esophageal cancer, so you can't eat rotten ginger.

Three kinds of people had better eat less ginger. Wind-heat cold: Ginger can cure cold, but it is not suitable for wind-heat cold. The manifestations of wind-heat cold are mostly high fever, slight aversion to wind, head swelling and pain, sweating, sore throat, cough, sticky or yellow phlegm, stuffy nose and yellow nose, thirst, red tongue tip and thin white fur. People with yin deficiency and internal heat: people with yin deficiency and internal heat should also use ginger with caution. Internal heat due to yin deficiency is caused by yin deficiency in the body and water not controlling fire. The main symptoms are hand and foot fever, restless mood, cold drink addiction, dry mouth and throat, restless sleep, hot flashes, night sweats, body heat, mouth and nose, tooth bleeding, dry stool, Huang Chi in urine and rapid pulse.

Heat accumulation in the body: ginger is pungent and hot, so it is not advisable to eat too much for a long time. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "If you eat ginger for a long time, you will accumulate heat. People with hemorrhoids eat more and drink more, and their hair becomes faster. People with carbuncle will go bad if they eat too much meat. " It means that eating ginger for a long time will cause hot eyes and eye diseases; If patients with hemorrhoids eat more ginger and drink at the same time, hemorrhoids will attack immediately. If people with carbuncle often eat ginger, their skin will fester even more. This is mainly because hemorrhoids and carbuncle are caused by accumulated heat in the body in Chinese medicine, while ginger is warm, and heating it on heat will aggravate the condition.