At Christmas, people in many places have the habit of eating gingerbread and drinking ginger tea. One of the important reasons is that it is cold at this time, so eating a little gingerbread is helpful to radiate the cold in the body and improve the physical fitness of the human body. It is usually made into brown sugar gingerbread.
Eating ginger has four advantages:
1, sweating and cooling.
Gingerol in ginger has a certain stimulating effect on the heart and blood vessels, which can accelerate blood circulation, open pores and increase perspiration. With sweat, it can take away the residual heat in the body and has a certain heatstroke prevention effect.
2, prevention and treatment of gastroenteritis.
Bacteria grow actively in summer, which easily pollutes food and causes acute gastroenteritis. Eating some ginger properly or drinking it with dried ginger and boiling water can prevent and treat gastroenteritis.
3, get rid of the cold.
Air conditioning is often blown in summer, which is vulnerable to cold and causes colds. Drinking some ginger syrup will help to drive away the cold in the body. Colds caused by summer heat and wind heat are not suitable for drinking.
4, spleen and stomach.
Eating cold food often in summer will lead to excessive cold qi in the spleen and stomach, palpitations, nausea and other symptoms. Eating ginger will help warm the spleen and stomach to prevent serious diseases.
Many people eat ginger, but they don't know if they need to peel it. Chinese medicine believes that ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effect of invigorating the stomach. However, the skin of ginger is pungent and cool, which has the function of promoting water circulation and reducing swelling, so "it is cool to keep the skin of ginger, but hot to remove it". Usually, it is best not to remove the skin of ginger, which can keep the balance of medicinal properties of ginger and give full play to the overall efficacy of ginger.