When was ginger introduced into China
Ginger is the third century A.D. introduced to China, the thirteenth century, the Italian traveler Marco Polo came to our country, the Europeans only know ginger for the first time. Marco Polo in his work "Oriental insights", praised China's ginger. After ginger was introduced to Europe, it was used as a very valuable spice. In England, a pound of ginger could be exchanged for a sheep, which shows how valuable ginger is.
Ginger is a perennial herb in the ginger family. The rhizomes have yellow-green flowers and a pungent scent. Plant height 0.5-1 meters; rhizome thick, multi-branched, aromatic and spicy flavor. Leaf blade lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; ligule membranous. Pedicel up to 25 cm; spikes globose; bracts ovate, light green or margins yellowish, apically spinulose. Calyx tube ca. 1 cm; corolla yellowish green, lobes lanceolate; central lobe of labellum oblong-obovate.
Ginger is distributed in east-central, southeast to southwest China, Laifeng, Tongshan, Yangxin, Echeng, Xianning, Tongling. It is widely cultivated in Changyi and Anqiu in Shandong Province, and is also commonly cultivated in tropical Asia.
Ginger's growing environment
Ginger is native to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia, like warm, humid climate, cold and drought tolerance is weak, the plant can only frost-free growth, the optimal temperature is 25-28 ℃, the temperature is lower than 20 ℃, the germination is slow, the plant will wither in the event of frost, the frost rhizome will completely lose the ability to germinate.
Guangxi main producing areas in most counties of the average annual temperature of 18-19 ℃, the average temperature in July is 25.3 ℃, the extreme high temperature of 39 ℃; January average temperature of 10.2 ℃, the extreme low temperature of -4 ℃; frost-free period of 330 days or more. The annual rainfall is 900-1300 millimeters and the relative humidity of the air is about 80%.
Ginger is native to the tropical evergreen rainforest forest fringe, formed to adapt to a slightly shaded environment habit, spring and summer in a slightly budding Wei's environment in order to grow well.
Prefer warm and humid climate, not cold, afraid of humidity, afraid of strong direct light. Avoid continuous cropping. It is advisable to choose slopes and slightly shady plots of cultivation. The upper layer of deep, loose, fertile, well-drained sandy loam to heavy soil is preferred.
How to wash your hair with ginger water
1, burn ginger water
Before washing your hair with ginger water, cut the ginger into slices of the same size, and then add water to boil and cook a pot of thick ginger water. If you want to enhance the effectiveness, you can use a juicer, directly juice the ginger and add it to your shampoo.
2, soak ginger water
Hair washing process, first soak your head in ginger water, because the massage of the scalp and ginger water on the scalp soak play a role. If it is just rushed, the hair growth effect of ginger water has not penetrated into your scalp and lose the effect of ginger water.
3, massage head
Soak your hair and scalp more in ginger water, while using your fingers to massage the scalp, soothe the mind and body, generally wash until you feel the scalp heat up, it can be.
4, wash the head
Ginger water poured on the hair, slowly scratch, let it penetrate into the hair inside, and then use your hands to massage, 5 minutes after washing with water can be.
Ginger is warm in nature, and when used externally on the scalp, it can congest the scalp and stimulate blood circulation, thus improving the hair texture. Therefore, this congestion of blood to stimulate blood circulation can improve hair growth to a certain extent, especially for people with mental hair loss and kidney deficiency hair loss, the effect is very obvious.
At the same time, if you wash your hair with ginger water, you can effectively clean up the excess oil and garbage accumulated on the scalp, which is also very good for the protection of the scalp. And you will feel very fresh after washing your hair, but pay attention to rinse it off with water.