Shanna is a perennial herb, not hardy, rhizome medicinal. Shannai flavor and efficacy as if ginger, so commonly known as sand ginger. Perennial herb. Rhizome tuberous, often connected, green and white, fragrant. Leaves two to four or five, adnate growth, nearly sessile, leaf blade broadly ovate, leaf surface green, leaf margin and apex purple. Spikes from the leaf sheaths, with flowers 5 to 12 chopped, white, toward the end of the day. Capsule columnar.
Flowering period August to September. Native to Africa and tropical Asia. China's southern to southwestern provinces and regions such as Guangdong, Taiwan, Fujian and Yunnan are distributed, mostly cultivated. Like to be born on mountain slopes, forests, grass.
Late fall and early winter, when the ground stems and leaves withered and yellowed, digging 1 ~ 3 years old rhizome, wash off the soil, remove the fibrous roots, cut into slices horizontally, smoked with sulfur for a day, then dried in the sun. The used part is the rhizome of sand ginger, family Zingiberaceae.
Nutritional Analysis: The rhizome of Kaempferia galanga contains volatile oils, the main components of which are borneol, ethyl cinnamate and camphene. The rhizome also contains Kaempferol and Kaempferide. It has the effect of dispersing cold, removing dampness and eliminating filth.
Related people: the general population can be eaten, yin deficiency and blood deficiency, the stomach has a depressed fire should not be taken.
Cooking use: mainly as a seasoning, such as for the preparation of marinade, or as a "five spices" of the ingredients.
Remarks:
1. placed in clothing, can prevent insects stupid;
2. eat ginger once should not be too much, so as not to absorb a large number of ginger chili, in the process of excretion through the kidneys will stimulate the kidneys, and produce dry mouth, sore throat, constipation and other symptoms of "fire";
3. rotten ginger, frozen ginger, do not eat, because the ginger deterioration after the deterioration of the ginger, do not eat. Don't eat, because ginger will produce carcinogens after deterioration, due to the nature of ginger warm, have the effect of relief, so only in the case of cold as a therapeutic application.
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Ginger raw materials
Ginger is a member of the family of Zingiberaceae, the dried rhizome of ginger or fresh rhizome of the plant ginger, perennial herbs.
Native to India, Malaysia, China since ancient times cultivated, Zhou Dynasty edible.
The part of ginger for consumption is an irregular tuber, gray or yellow, with a pungent flavor.
Ginger according to the different uses and harvesting season and there are young ginger and old ginger. Young ginger in August digging, generally more water, less fiber, pungent flavor is thin, in addition to do condiments, but also can be fried, ginger candy; ginger in November digging, less water, pungent flavor is strong, mainly used for seasoning.
Ginger is an extremely important condiment, but also can be eaten alone as a vegetable, but also an important Chinese medicine. It can infuse its own pungent flavor and special aroma into dishes, making them tasty and refreshing.
Nutritional Analysis
Ginger also has a detoxifying and sterilizing effect, everyday we eat loose eggs or fish and crabs and other aquatic products, usually put some ginger, ginger juice. The human body in the normal metabolic physiological functions, will produce a harmful substance oxygen free radicals, prompting the body to cancer and aging.
The ginger in the curcumin into the body, can produce a kind of antioxidant enzyme, it has a very strong against oxygen free radicals, than vitamin E is much stronger. Therefore, eat ginger can anti-aging, the elderly often eat ginger can remove "age spots".
The extract of ginger can stimulate the gastric mucosa, cause vasomotor center and sympathetic reflex excitation, promote blood circulation, invigorate gastric function, stomach, pain, sweating, antipyretic effect. The volatile oil of ginger can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and peristalsis of the intestinal wall, thus helping digestion; the mixture of gingerene and gingerone isolated from ginger has obvious anti-vomiting effect.
Ginger extract has significant inhibition of skin fungi and kill the efficacy of the head vaginal trichomonas, can treat a variety of carbuncle sores. Ginger has the effect of inhibiting the activity of cancer cells and reducing the toxic effects of cancer.
Related People
General population can eat.
1. It is suitable for people with cold and flu, cold menstrual cramps, motion sickness and sea sickness.
2. It is not recommended for those with Yin deficiency and internal heat and those with excessive evil heat.
Preparation guide
1. Eat a few slices of ginger or put a little tender ginger in the vegetables and fruits when you don't feel good to eat or when your meal is reduced, it can improve your appetite and increase the amount of meal, so as the saying goes: "If you don't feel good to eat, eat ginger".
2. Ginger can be decocted soup for internal use, condiments, fried food into the dish, or sliced sizzling acupuncture points. Old ginger can do seasoning or ingredients; young ginger can be used for frying, mixing, popping and so on, such as "young ginger fried beef wire", "young ginger popping duck wire" and so on.
3. Eating ginger should not be too much at a time, so as not to absorb a lot of curcumin, in the process of excretion through the kidneys will stimulate the kidneys, and produce dry mouth, sore throat, constipation and other "fire" symptoms.
4. rotten ginger, frozen ginger do not eat, because ginger deterioration will produce carcinogens, because the nature of ginger warm, there is a relief effect, so only in the case of cold as a therapeutic application.
Cooking use: ginger important seasoning products, because of its taste spicy, only the food odor dissipation, but not the food mixed with spicy flavor, suitable for meat and fish dishes as a corrective product, but also used in the production of cakes and sweets, such as gingerbread, ginger candies and so on.
Therapeutic effect
Ginger taste pungent, slightly warm, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian;
has sweating to relieve the symptoms, warm to stop vomiting, warm lung cough, detoxification effect;
The main treatment of external wind-cold, stomach cold vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fish and crab poison and other diseases.