1, peeled ginger
For those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, ginger is best peeled;
Eating cold foods such as bitter gourd, celery and crabs, it is best to peel and eat ginger to balance the coldness of crabs;
When you have a cold, drinking ginger and brown sugar water can alleviate it. At this time, ginger is best peeled;
Use ginger to prevent vomiting and stomachache caused by deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach, and remove ginger skin.
2. Ginger is not peeled.
Generally, ginger used for cooking should be eaten with skin, because this can not only keep the balance of ginger's medicinal properties, but also prevent it from getting angry;
When edema, eat ginger without peeling, because ginger skin is good for water;
If you have constipation and bad breath, it is best to use ginger skin alone.
3. Precautions for eating ginger
1. Eating more ginger is not the better: it is hot in summer, and people are prone to dry mouth, sore throat, polydipsia and sweating. Ginger is spicy and warm, and belongs to hot food. According to the principle of "heat is cold", it is not advisable to eat more. Just put a few slices of ginger when cooking or making soup.
2. Anyone suffering from excessive fire due to yin deficiency, red eyes and internal heat, or carbuncle, furuncle, pneumonia, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, lung abscess, tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, diabetes and hemorrhoids should not eat ginger for a long time.
3. From the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with cold or fever after rain, not for patients with summer heat or wind-heat cold, nor for treating heatstroke. Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is ineffective for other types of vomiting.
4. Don't eat rotten ginger: rotten ginger will produce a highly toxic substance, which can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells and induce liver cancer and esophageal cancer. That "rotten ginger doesn't taste bad" is unscientific. 、
4. Who can't eat ginger?
Bad breath: Chinese medicine believes that bad breath is caused by stomach heat. People with warm ginger and stomach heat will aggravate the original stomach heat, and even cause toothache, headache, hemorrhoid bleeding and other symptoms.
Constipation crowd: constipation mostly belongs to intestinal heat. At this time, if you eat too much ginger, it will also aggravate the symptoms.
People with yin deficiency constitution: Yin deficiency is a kind of dry and hot constitution, which is characterized by fever of hands and feet, sweating of palms, drinking more water, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritability and poor sleep, while ginger is pungent and warm, and eating ginger by people with yin deficiency will aggravate the symptoms of Yin deficiency.
Severe internal heat: people with lung heat, dry cough, stomach heat, vomiting, bad breath, hemorrhoid bleeding, sores and other diseases should not eat ginger. If it is a fever, when eating ginger, you must cooperate with cold medicine to neutralize the heat of ginger.
Hair loss: Many people use ginger to treat hair loss. Indeed, ginger is warm and pungent, which can really increase local blood circulation, stimulate hair follicle opening and promote hair regeneration. However, it should be noted that hair loss is a heat-induced disease. Ginger will get hot if used for a long time. Using hot drugs to treat fever conflicts with the principle of "using cold drugs for fever" emphasized by traditional Chinese medicine, and should be used as little as possible.
Hepatitis patients: Under normal circumstances, hepatitis patients should avoid eating ginger, because eating ginger often will cause liver fire. If you want to control the liver fire caused by eating ginger, you can also choose some foods that can soothe the liver and regulate qi. For example, use hawthorn chrysanthemum bubble tea to drink, which can eliminate the heat brought by ginger without hurting the body.
5, the effect of ginger soup.
1, cure appetite: drinking ginger soup before meals can increase appetite and promote nutrient absorption.
2, treatment of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea: high temperature in midsummer, all kinds of bacteria are active, a little careless, it will be sick from the mouth, easy to cause acute gastrointestinal inflammation such as abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Drinking some ginger soup properly can play a preventive role. Ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially against salmonella.
3, cure colds: In summer, in order to escape the heat, people are used to blowing fans, turning on air conditioners, and even sleeping outdoors, which is easy to cause exogenous colds. If you can drink 1 bowl of brown sugar ginger soup in time, it will help to dispel cold and relieve exterior syndrome, or you can get the same effect by soaking your feet with ginger soup (adding some salt and vinegar).
4, summer heat: Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "pass the spirit" (that is, refreshing). When fainting due to heatstroke in summer, drinking 1 cup of ginger juice can make patients wake up quickly. For patients with fever, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea, it is also beneficial to eat ginger properly every day.
5, treatment of waist and shoulder pain: summer heat is unbearable, some people like to take a bath or sleep outdoors, shoulder and back will suffer from cold and dampness and other diseases, especially the elderly are prone to scapulohumeral periarthritis. In this case, you can burn some hot ginger soup. First add a little salt and vinegar to the hot ginger soup, then dip the towel in water and wring it out. Hot compress the affected area several times. This method can relax muscles, promote blood circulation and greatly relieve pain.
6. Anti-oral inflammation: replacing tea with ginger soup every day can be used to prevent periodontitis, sore throat and dental caries.
7, anti-arteriosclerosis: insist on gargling with hot ginger soup every morning and evening, and drink 1 bowl of hot ginger soup every night before going to bed, which can promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis.