I, ginger is the traditional treatment of nausea, vomiting Chinese medicine, vomiting family reputation as the holy medicine. Due to gastrointestinal discomfort, oral odor and other causes of nausea, vomiting and other discomforts, can be contained in the morning 1 slice of ginger to solve. Folk with eating ginger to prevent motion sickness, seasickness, or paste the inner gate point, there are obvious effects,
Two, appetizer spleen to promote appetite. In the hot summer, or the cause of certain diseases, the human body saliva, gastric juice secretion will be reduced, thus affecting the appetite, if you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, can stimulate saliva, gastric juice and digestive secretion, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance appetite. This is what people often say winter eat radish, summer eat ginger, rice is not fragrant, eat ginger reason.
Three, cooling and refreshing, in the heat when there is excitement, sweating cooling, refreshing effect. For general summer heat manifested as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness and nausea, etc. patients, appropriate drink ginger soup is very beneficial. China's traditional Chinese medicine to prevent heatstroke - the human Dan contains ginger ingredients, its role is to strengthen the stomach, refreshing, wake up the brain.
Four, in addition to cooling and refreshing effect, ginger also has the role of dispersal of cold, due to cold, cold and other cold caused by cold, headache, abdominal pain, etc., drink some ginger water, can increase blood circulation, so that the whole body heat, to help expel the wind and cold in the body.
Fifth, ginger can play the role of antibacterial. When eaten contaminated food, caused by acute gastroenteritis, and eat some ginger in moderation can play a preventive role. Ginger extract has significant inhibition of skin fungi and kill trichomonas efficacy, can treat a variety of carbuncle sores. In addition, available ginger water gargling treatment of bad breath and periodontitis.
Sixth, feet is our second heart, the body's organs can be found on the feet of the corresponding points, appropriate foot soak not only to improve peripheral circulation, if the foot soak in the water to add an appropriate amount of ginger, ginger hot, both quickly drive away the cold, but also to prevent influenza.
Seven, often eat ginger can be anti-aging. Because ginger in the curcumin into the body, can produce a kind of antioxidant enzyme, it has a very strong ability to deal with oxygen free radicals, than vitamin E is much stronger.
Of course ginger, in addition to these uses, but also can treat diarrhea, pregnancy vomiting, pediatric vomiting, menstrual cramps, treatment of joint pain and so on; in addition to eating, foot soak, but also external compress acupuncture points, such as external compress Shen Que point, Nei Guan point, and so on.
Because of the warm nature of ginger, there is internal heat with caution, even if the normal people usually should be appropriate to eat, so as not to lead to liver fire. If you do as a health method for long-term consumption, it is recommended that one is to recognize their own constitution, and the second is appropriate with other nourishing yin to reduce the fire of food, such as honey, chrysanthemum, hawthorn and so on.
Some people ask whether the consumption of ginger must be peeled? In fact, ginger meat and ginger skin are different in flavor and efficacy. Ginger this warm. To be hot is to remove the skin. To cool to stay skin, from this sentence can be seen ginger skin flavor pungent, sex cool, in order to maintain the balance of the pharmacological effect of ginger cool heat, general consumption of ginger can not be removed from the ginger skin. Of course, this is not absolute, as the medicinal use of the symptoms and choose whether to stay with the ginger skin.
Life often hear a sentence rotten ginger does not taste rotten, some people even think that the taste of rotten ginger is better, is this so? This idea is not based on science, but also dangerous, because rotting ginger will produce toxins, which can lead to liver cancer and esophageal cancer in serious cases.