In addition, putting ginger in cooking can remove the smell and smell, and neutralize the coldness in the dish. Wipe the bottom of the pot with ginger slices when frying fish to prevent the fish from sticking to the pot.
There are many benefits, such as detoxification and sterilization: in summer, people like to eat cold products such as cold drinks, popsicles, ice cream and cold dishes. These foods are easily contaminated by external germs, which can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms when eaten improperly, and the volatile oil contained in ginger has the function of sterilization and detoxification. Dispelling wind and cold: Because people are prone to be greedy and cold in summer, they often suffer from spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Ginger has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain, which can avoid the above phenomenon. The volatile oil in ginger can promote blood circulation and has an exciting effect on cerebral cortex, heart and vascular movement center. Adding some ginger to the diet can refresh the mind, dispel wind and cold, and prevent the spleen and stomach from catching cold and catching a cold.
Concentrated extract of ginger or direct application of ginger to hair can normalize blood circulation of head skin, promote scalp metabolism, activate hair follicle tissue, effectively prevent hair loss and gray hair, stimulate new hair growth, inhibit scalp itching and strengthen hair roots. Some people directly apply ginger to the affected area of alopecia areata, and for several days, new hair can be produced at the bald area.
Shampoo containing ginger has the effects of cleaning scalp, removing dandruff and preventing alopecia. Especially in winter, it is used to wash your hair and massage your scalp, which makes you feel relaxed and warm. Soak your feet with ginger or dried ginger, and your whole body will be smooth, warm and comfortable.
Ginger has other wonderful uses:
Ginger is an indispensable condiment in people's daily life. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius advocated: "Don't withdraw ginger from every meal." It is said that Confucius has the habit of chewing several slices of ginger after meals every day. There is a folk saying that "three slices of ginger in the morning are better than drinking ginseng soup" and "ginger and ginseng in October". There is also a proverb that "three slices of ginger a day keep the doctor from prescribing".
Ginger is hot and spicy. Enter spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians. Efficacy: Warming the middle warmer, restoring yang, warming the lungs and resolving drinks.
After drying, the dispersing power of ginger is weakened, but the effect of warming the interior is enhanced, so it is partial to treat the interior cold, and its performance can be kept, warming the lungs and dispelling cold and resolving phlegm. It is commonly used to treat cough and asthma, cold in the back, and excessive phlegm in the lung caused by cold drink. Dried ginger first enters the spleen and stomach, and with its pungent heat energy, it drives away the cold evil of the spleen and stomach and helps the yang of the spleen and stomach. Commonly used to treat spleen and stomach cold syndrome, the symptoms are epigastric pain, vomiting and diarrhea. However, it can be applied to spleen and stomach cold, whether it is external cold invading or yang deficiency. Drink ginger and brown sugar water to treat colds; Ginger is known as the "holy medicine for vomiting"; Ginger can also be used to treat enteritis and dysentery. External application of ginger also has a certain therapeutic effect on vitiligo, alopecia areata and tinea manus. Old people often eat ginger to delay aging.
Ginger can be soaked in water. When you have nothing to do, you can wash a few pieces of ginger, cut it into thin slices, put it in a pot, and simmer the soup with slow fire, which will not only dispel the cold, but also nourish the body.
Using ginger skillfully in daily life can often solve some practical problems for you conveniently and quickly.
1, chewing ginger frequently, or taking ginger juice can treat vomiting.
2. Drink some ginger juice before taking the bus, or cut a piece of ginger and stick it on the back of the wrist 2 inches, and wrap it with gauze to prevent motion sickness. Having a few slices of ginger during the ride helps to suppress carsickness and vomiting.
3. Mash ginger and mix it with brown sugar, and drink it with ginger syrup, which can cure vomiting or dysmenorrhea during pregnancy.
4, use half a cup of fresh ginger juice, 2 spoons of honey, add water and mix well to drink, which can cure spleen and stomach weakness and can't eat.
5, with ginger 15 grams of decoction, add appropriate amount of sugar to warm clothes, can cure phlegm and cough.
6, with 30 grams of ginger decoction, give children a bath, can cure children's cough.
7, with ginger juice, transferred to rice porridge with food, can cure nausea.
8. Squeeze the juice with ginger, rinse your mouth frequently and spit it out, or grind and rub the sores, which can cure aphtha.
9. Squeeze the juice with ginger, adjust the amount of honey, and decoct it slightly. Take a few tablespoons each time, several times a day, which can cure sore throat.
10, swallowing ginger juice can cure food poisoning.
1 1, rubbing the armpit or the affected area frequently with ginger juice can cure body odor and vitiligo.
Ginger also shows its unique charm in beauty and health care:
Beauty and anti-aging
Ginger contains a compound similar to salicylic acid, which is equivalent to blood thinner and anticoagulant, and has a special effect on lowering blood lipid, lowering blood pressure and preventing myocardial infarction. Therefore, ginger can prevent aging.
The prescription in the Ming Dynasty's Miraculous Prescription says: "A catty of ginger and a half catty of dates, two or two white salts and three or two grasses (licorice), two and a half cloves and eight or two fennel are pounded, steamed or boiled, and this medicine is better than a treasure. If you drink one cup every morning, you will never grow old." Ginger capsaicin has a strong anti-lipofuscin effect. Slicing or shredding ginger, soaking in boiling water for 10 minutes, adding honey and mixing well, one cup a day, can obviously reduce senile plaque. Ginger can also be chopped and mixed with a small amount of salt for long-term consumption, and the effect of spotting is also good.
Ginger capsaicin can stimulate the heart and cardiovascular system, accelerate blood flow, promote perspiration, take away excess heat in the body, and have the functions of detoxification, beauty care and weight loss. Health vinegar made of fragrant vinegar soaked in ginger, with ginger fragrance in the acid, can stimulate appetite, help digestion and soften blood vessels before meals, so it is loved by many people.
Ginger for toothache: When toothache occurs, take a piece of ginger and bite it at the toothache, which can relieve it. If necessary, it is better to reuse it.
Ginger frostbite prevention: For the skin prone to frostbite, if it is rubbed repeatedly with ginger juice, it can increase the cold resistance and avoid frostbite.
Ginger for joint pain: taking proper amount of ginger orally or rubbing the affected area with ginger juice can improve joint activity, obviously reduce pain and reduce swelling and stiffness symptoms.
Ginger can cure colds: you can shred ginger, add brown sugar to decoct soup, and after taking it while it is hot, cover it with a quilt and sweat, and you can recover quickly.
Ginger treatment of traumatic bleeding: after burning ginger and grinding it into powder, after disinfecting the wound, sprinkle it on the affected area, which can quickly stop bleeding and reduce pain.
Other functions of ginger:
Stomach cold hurts, ginger is washed and sliced, soaked in vinegar for one night, and when used, appropriate amount of ginger slices are brewed with brown sugar and boiled water for tea.
Cold limbs, aversion to cold, appropriate amount of ginger, boiling water washed away, on behalf of tea; Regular consumption of ginger sugar tablets can also alleviate the symptoms of poor peripheral circulation and cold limbs.
Motion sickness, seasickness, dizziness during illness, a piece of ginger in the mouth, chewing slowly, swallowing its juice, and sticking the ginger piece to the hole in the human body or beside the eyes can warm the stomach, promote blood circulation and stop dizziness and vomiting.
For senile plaque, take a proper amount of fresh ginger slices and put them in a water cup, soak them in 200——300ml boiling water for 5-10 minutes, then add a little honey and mix well to drink.
Why is it suitable to eat ginger in summer?
First, increase appetite.
In hot summer, the human body is attacked by summer heat, sweating too much, digestive juice secretion is reduced, and appetite is often lost.
Gingerol in ginger can stimulate the taste nerve on the tongue, stimulate the receptors on the gastric mucosa, promote gastrointestinal congestion through nerve reflex, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote the secretion of digestive juice, enhance digestive function, and play the role of appetizing, strengthening the spleen, promoting digestion and stimulating appetite.
Second, detoxification and sterilization.
In summer, people like to eat cold drinks and cold dishes, which are easily infected by germs, causing nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc. The volatile oil contained in ginger has the function of sterilization and detoxification. In summer, the freshness of food is low. If you put some ginger when cooking, it can be seasoned and detoxified.
Third, dispel wind and cold.
People like to eat cold products in summer, but if gluttony is too much, it will easily lead to deficiency of the spleen and stomach, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Ginger has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain, which can avoid the above phenomena and has an exciting effect on the respiratory center and vascular movement center of the cerebral cortex, heart and medulla oblongata.
What should I pay attention to when eating ginger?
Ginger is pungent and warm, so it is not suitable to eat too much at one time, and it is not suitable for patients with pain, swelling, sores, red eyes, constipation and hemorrhoids. Rotten ginger contains safrole, which can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer, etc., and is not suitable for eating.
Ginger encyclopedia:
Medicinal Material Name: Ginger.
Pinyin: SHENG JIANG.
Latin name: Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens.
Alias: Jiang Gen, Bai La Yun, Gou Zhuang Zhi, Indicin, Yan Liang Xiao Zi.
Category: Xin Wen Jie Biao drugs.
Source: fresh rhizome of Zingiber officinale.
Medicinal parts: rhizome.
Harvest: Mining in autumn and winter.
Processing: remove fibrous roots and sediment.
Tropism of nature and taste: pungent, slightly warm. Enter lung, spleen and stomach meridians.
Functions: relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Indications: It is used for colds, vomiting due to stomach cold and cough due to cold phlegm.
Administration and dosage: oral administration: decoction, 5-10g; Or pound juice; External use: appropriate amount, tamping; Or stir-fry and iron, or stir-fry and rub.
Storage: Store in a cool and humid place, or bury in wet sand to prevent freezing.
Contraindications: Yin deficiency with internal heat and excess heat are forbidden.
Ginger can relieve Pinellia ternata, Arisaema, fish, crab, animal meat and snake venom.
Indications:
(1) Anyone who is poisoned by eating raw Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis, raw Aconitum, Flos Rhododendri, and cassava: wild taro and Stemona can be cured by first aid with ginger. Usage: In mild cases, the tongue feels numb, nausea, vomiting, munching ginger, or gargling with ginger juice, and taking 5 ml (about half a tablespoon) orally, and then taking 1 time every 4 hours until the symptoms disappear; Those who are seriously poisoned and unconscious can be decocted in 2 bowls of ginger 1 5g and water to half a bowl, and taken by nasal feeding for three times, every 1 hour 1 time, and then poured with ginger juice 1 spoon every three hours, and then taken1day after waking up.
(2) People who eat fish, crabs, animals and other meat poisoning are mostly caused by food containing a large number of pathogenic microorganisms (mostly Salmonella) and their toxins, or food allergies. Ginger juice can be dissolved, or ginger and perilla, 30g each, are decocted in water with appropriate amount of brown sugar, and the effect is more satisfactory. If you add a proper amount of ginger when cooking meat, it will not only prevent poisoning, but also play a role in seasoning and removing fishy smell. (3) Treating snake wound, insect wound and Agkistrodon bite with Jiang Mo for external application; When a hundred insects are heard, ginger juice drops.
Cooling, refreshing and stimulating appetite
Because ginger contains volatile oils such as gingerol, gingerol, phellandrene, citral and aroma, as well as gingerol, resin, starch and fiber. Therefore, ginger has the functions of excitement, sweating, cooling and refreshing in hot season, which can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other symptoms. Ginger also has the functions of strengthening the stomach and stimulating appetite. In hot summer, the secretion of saliva and gastric juice will be reduced, thus affecting people's appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger at meals, it will increase your appetite. Ginger also has the effect of relieving or relieving stomach diseases, gastritis and gastritis.
Antibacterial and disease-preventing treatment of enteritis
Scientists in the United States and Denmark have confirmed through experiments that ginger dry powder can relieve the symptoms of dizziness, headache, nausea and vomiting, and the effective rate is about 90%, and the drug effect can last for more than 4 hours. People use ginger to prevent motion sickness and seasickness, and some use ginger slices to paste Neiguan point, which has obvious anti-motion sickness effect.
In the midsummer season, bacteria are extremely active in growth and reproduction, and it is easy to pollute food and cause acute gastroenteritis. At this time, eating some ginger properly or drinking it with dried ginger and tea in boiling water can play a preventive role. Scientists have found through research that ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially for salmonella. Ginger also has the function of killing oral pathogenic bacteria and intestinal pathogenic bacteria. Washing with ginger water is effective in treating halitosis and periodontitis.
Appetizing appetite, invigorating spleen, heatstroke prevention and emergency treatment
In summer, people are greedy for the cold, and they like electric fans and air conditioners blowing at each other, so it is easy to catch cold and cause colds. At this time, drinking some ginger syrup in time will help
Expel cold from the body. Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "connect the gods", that is, refresh the mind. In summer, when you faint from heatstroke, drink a cup of ginger juice.
, can make the patient wake up soon. For patients with general summer heat, which are manifested as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea, it is of great benefit to eat ginger soup properly.
. Rendan, a traditional Chinese patent medicine for heatstroke prevention in China, contains ginger, the purpose of which is to dispel wind, strengthen stomach and refresh the mind. There are many ways to eat ginger. For example, drink ginger soup, eat ginger porridge, put some shredded ginger when cooking, add ginger slices to stewed meat and fried fish, and make stuffed buns and dumplings.
Adding some Jiang Mo can not only make the taste delicious, but also help to stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, promote appetite, help digestion, and help the stomach absorb nutrients.
Some people like to peel ginger, which can't give full play to the overall effect of ginger. Because ginger peel has the function of accelerating perspiration and preventing heatstroke; It also has the effects of stimulating gastrointestinal mucosa, increasing digestive juice of gastrointestinal tract, harmonizing spleen, promoting water circulation and diuresis.
In the hot summer, eating some ginger foods, such as ginger paste, tender ginger acid and ginger sugar, is of great benefit to physical and mental health and heatstroke prevention.