Effects and functions of old ginger:

1, appetizer and spleen, promote appetite.

Eating a few slices of ginger before meals can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, and improve appetite.

2, anti-summer, cooling, refreshing.

It can play the role of excitement, sweating, cooling and refreshing. Dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness, etc., appropriate drink ginger soup is very beneficial. Chinese traditional Chinese medicine to prevent heatstroke, Ren Dan contains ginger ingredients, its role is to strengthen the stomach, refreshing, wake up the brain.

3, sterilization and detoxification, swelling and pain.

Ginger can play the role of certain antibiotics, especially for salmonella effect is better, eat some sick in moderation can prevent and control acute enteritis.

4, anti-motion sickness, stop nausea and vomiting.

Folk with eating ginger or sticking inside the Guan points to prevent motion sickness, seasickness, have obvious effect.

Dry ginger is also called old ginger, Chinese medicine. For the ginger plant Zingiber oj-jicinale Rosc. dry rhizome. Digging in winter, remove the fibrous roots and sediment, sun-dried or low-temperature drying. It is called "dried ginger" when it is freshly sliced and dried in the sun or dried at low temperature.

Dried ginger: flat block, with finger-like branches, 3 ~ 175px long, 1 ~ 50px thick. gray-yellow or light gray-brown surface, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and obvious links. Branches often have scale leaves remaining, branching apical stem scars or buds. The texture is solid, the section is yellowish white or grayish white, powdery or granular, the endothelial layer has obvious rings, vascular bundles and yellow oil spots scattered. Aromatic, idiosyncratic, pungent flavor.