Everything in nature where the rhizome has the nature of hair growth, and ginger is the fresh rhizome of the perennial herb ginger, flavor pungent, warm, pungent can be dispersed, warm can drive away the cold. Its shape is irregular block, slightly flat, with finger-like branches, epidermis with links, branches at the top of the stem mark or buds, with the nature of the hair, plus its flavor of pungent, warm, so it can disperse cold and relieve the surface.

Chinese medicine has the viewpoint of "treating color with color", the surface of ginger is yellowish-brown or grayish-brown, and the inner core is light yellow, and the yellow color corresponds to the spleen among the five organs, so it can enter into the spleen, and is the medicine for the spleen. The spleen is the main transportation, like dry and evil dampness, ginger yellow sex warm, so it can be warm to stop vomiting.

In addition, ginger has the effect of dispersing and promoting qi, for example, air circulation in the natural world helps to dissipate the haze, and helps to eliminate viruses and pathogenic bacteria, so ginger disperses and promotes qi and has the effect of detoxification, which can detoxify medicines such as hemixia, tiannansing, and houpuo, as well as detoxify food such as fish, crabs, and mushrooms.

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Eating ginger should also pay attention to the taboos:

1, eat ginger is not more good

The weather is hot, people are prone to dry mouth, sore throat, thirst, sweat, ginger is warm and pungent, is a hot food, according to the principle of "hot and cold", should not be eaten more, moderate amount can be. In cooking or making soup when put a few slices of ginger can be.

2, do not eat rotten ginger

Rotten ginger will produce a very toxic substances, can make the liver cell degeneration and necrosis, induced liver cancer, esophageal cancer. That kind of "rotten ginger is not rotten flavor" is not scientific.

3, yin deficiency body can not eat more ginger

Yin deficiency is hot body, manifested as hot hands and feet, sweaty palms love to drink water, often dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, upset and irritable, sleep is not good, and the ginger nature of the pungent temperature, yin deficiency of people eating ginger will aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency.

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