As the saying goes, "Eat carrots in winter and ginger in summer, and don't need a doctor's prescription", from which it is clear that the Chinese people are fond of ginger.

In fact, ginger also occupies an important position in Chinese medicine, legend has it that from the Tang Dynasty period, ginger is known as "vomiting family holy medicine", visible its status is high.

From the point of view of Chinese medicine, ginger is pungent and warm, mainly into the human lungs, spleen, stomach and other meridians, long-term consumption of people's health is also quite a lot of benefits.

1, long-term consumption of ginger, can remove dampness, cold evil.

For people who have heavy dampness in the body and cold invasion, consuming ginger is a good way to relieve the effect.

For example, in the life experience we can know, when the occasional external wind cold, drink some ginger soup can be relieved; when some ladies cold body and menstrual pain time, is also can use ginger soup to relieve.

So in the life of long-term consumption of ginger, then, can effectively help people remove the body of the evil of cold and dampness, can prevent some of the external infection, menstrual pain and other diseases.

2, long-term consumption of ginger, can warm the middle Jiao, strengthen the spleen and stomach.

The hot and pungent nature of ginger enters the spleen and stomach meridians, and it has a good effect of warming up the middle, which is good for relieving the coldness in the middle of the body.

Like some people because of the spleen and stomach cold caused by poor appetite, diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastric region, cold hands and feet, etc., consumption of ginger can play a significant role in improving.

In addition, like some of the stomach gas, indigestion and other causes of vomiting difficult to bear the disease, consuming ginger is also can be significantly relieved. For example, some people in the stomach want to vomit time, will chew some ginger, vomiting effect is quite obvious.

3, long-term consumption of ginger, can warm the lung qi, eliminate phlegm drink.

The ginger flavor and good at dispersal, have to disperse lung qi, eliminating phlegm and drink, and its warmth is warming the lungs of the effect of the drink, so for the lung qi does not propagate, phlegm and drink blocking people, long-term consumption of ginger can be significantly improved.

For example, when the lungs are attacked by cold, phlegm and drink and cough, asthma and other conditions of time, adhere to the consumption of ginger is also a certain effect of relief.

4, long-term consumption of ginger, can line the meridian, stop pain.

Ginger is warm and dispersive, into the meridians can play the effect of smooth meridians, walk qi and blood can also play a role in the work of qi and blood.

So like some of the meridian blockage, stagnation of qi and blood, as well as cold and damp stagnation caused by the pain of the disease, eating ginger can also be effective. However, in such cases, ginger is often used as an ingredient in all medicines, so that it can play a good role.