I have met many long-lived elderly people, and most of them have a special liking for ginger. When I was young, my first knowledge of ginger came from a riddle told by my mother, "Weird fathers and odd mothers, odd children in odd beds, oddities born from oddities, and oddities born from oddities." This is all about ginger.

It was because of my father that I began to understand the many benefits of ginger. He suffers from chronic bronchitis, which often breaks out in winter, causing constant coughing, sputum production, and wheezing. Later, my father heard from the barefoot doctor that eating ginger was very good for bronchitis, so he often broke off a piece of ginger and chewed it slowly with pancakes during meals. When I was in elementary school, I took a bite of ginger. Its spiciness left a deep impression on me and I rarely ate raw ginger since then. After studying traditional Chinese medicine and gaining a deeper understanding of ginger, I began to pickle it and eat it raw. A bowl of noodles, 1 or 2 eggs, and a few pieces of pickled fresh ginger in the morning were my standard breakfast for a long time.

If you feel the wind and cold on the outside, have a bowl of ginger soup with a spoonful of brown sugar to dispel wind and cold; if you have a cold in the stomach, have a cup of dried ginger and jujube tea, which can warm the spleen and stomach; if you have a cold in the lower abdomen For sexual pain, try some ginger, brown sugar, and pepper noodles, which can relieve pain and relieve pain. In fact, ginger can be used as medicine, including fresh ginger, dried ginger, and fried ginger. These three have similar effects, but there are also slight differences. Although they are all warm in nature, their degree of efficacy and location of action are different. Below, the author will introduce the differences between fresh ginger, dried ginger and fried ginger.

Raw

Ginger

Ginger is pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature. Returns to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It is known as the "holy medicine of the vomiting family". It has the effects of relieving the surface and dispersing cold, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, and detoxifying. It is often used for wind-cold colds, spleen and stomach cold, stomach cold vomiting, lung cold cough, and can also detoxify fish and crab poisons.

Dried ginger

Ginger

Dried ginger is pungent in taste, hot in nature, and returns to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart, and lung meridians. It has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold, restoring yang and unblocking the pulse, and warming the lungs and transforming fluids into fluids. It is often used for cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and weak pulse, and asthma and cough due to cold fluids. As the saying goes, "Ginger is spicier when it's old," and it's absolutely true.

Pao Ginger

Ginger

Pao Ginger is pungent and hot in nature. Returns to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. It has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, warming the middle and relieving pain. It is often used for blood loss due to yang deficiency, vomiting and metrorrhagia, cold spleen and stomach, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, etc. Paojiang is often used to treat dysmenorrhea.

Here are some ways to use ginger

01 Cold: Soak your feet in ginger water and salt

Soak your feet in hot ginger water until the The ankle is suitable. When soaking, you can add some salt to the hot ginger water, and continue to heat the water until the feet turn red.

This method is effective in treating exogenous wind-cold and is suitable for patients with colds or those who have aversion to cold or fever after being exposed to rain. Not suitable for heat-summer colds and wind-heat colds.

Note: People with high blood pressure, heart disease, tinea pedis, diabetes, and skin infections should use with caution. When soaking your feet, it is enough for your skin to sweat slightly, but not to sweat profusely.

02 Cough: Rub ginger juice on the back

Typical symptoms of wind-cold cough: runny nose and runny nose after catching a cold, expectoration of thin and white phlegm, and white tongue coating.

Method: Use ginger juice, mix it with half of warm water, the ratio of ginger to warm water is 1:1, and rub the ginger juice onto the skin of your back.

This method can stimulate acupuncture points such as Feishu, Dazhui and Fengmen on the back, which can warm the lungs and disperse wind and cold. This method can also be used for children after one year old.

03 To dispel cold: Hold ginger in your mouth to warm your chest

When you go out in the morning, put a piece of ginger in your mouth, let your saliva slowly mix with the ginger juice, and then swallow it. Wait until the ginger taste fades in your mouth, then slowly chew the ginger slices, spit them out or swallow them, which can keep the chest warm and not affected by the wind and cold outside.

04 Arthritis: boil ginger in salt water for external application

Cut the ginger into one centimeter thick slices, cook them in concentrated salt water, and then use the hot ginger slices for external application on the waist and Knee joint, repeat several times.

This can make muscles relax from tension, relax tendons and activate blood circulation, and can relieve cold and painful joints.

The content is comprehensively compiled from China Traditional Chinese Medicine News and CCTV Life Circle