Ginger is not only a flavor, but also an important medicinal herb in Chinese medicine. The earliest medication for ginger was recorded in Shennong Ben Cao Jing (神农本草经), which says that dried ginger is "the master of the chest full of coughing and coughing, warming up the middle, stopping the bleeding, sweating, and driving away the wind and dampness paralysis, and the intestine 澼and diarrhea. It is especially good in raw form". In later times, many Chinese medicines made from ginger have been developed, with different effects. In this article, let's take a look at how ginger is used in Chinese medicine. Let's follow the order of the use of ginger in medicine.

The first, is dry ginger , first recorded in the "Shennong Materia Medica", the effects of dry ginger have warmed the cold, warming the sun through the veins, warming the lungs to drink, is a flavor of warming medicine, often used in the treatment of epigastric and abdominal cold pain, cold drinks, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, pulse micro-limbs cold, and so on. It is often used in conjunction with Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori (Radix et Rhizoma Polygoni Multiflori) to treat cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, coughing with cold drinks, vomiting and diarrhea, and coldness of the pulse. Among them, Lizhong Pill is from the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, with ginseng, atractylodes macrocephala, roasted licorice, and dried ginger in the formula. It is effective in warming the middle and dispersing cold, tonifying Qi and strengthening the spleen. It is used for abdominal pain and diarrhea, vomiting and indigestion caused by coldness in the spleen and stomach.

Radix Rehmanniae Pill is from "Taiping Huimin Hejie Baofang", which is more than Radix Rehmanniae Pill with one more flavour of Radix Rehmanniae Pill, which has a stronger effect of warming the liver, and it is written in the original text, "It treats coldness of the spleen and stomach, abdominal and heart strangurous pains, vomiting and discharging of fluid, cholera and turning of the tendons, cold and slight sweating of the body, coldness of the hands and feet, fullness of the heart underneath, thundering of the abdomen, retching, inadmissibility of food and drink and all the coldness of the cold and chronic cold and all of them are cured. " Zhang Jingyue in the Ming Dynasty on this basis has increased into the room abdominal pain, cold hands and feet, cold food cold cold and other evidence.

The four reverse soup is also from the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", the formula only appendicitis, dry ginger, hot licorice, is back to the yang to save the reverse side of the representative party, dealing with yang deficiency wanting to take off the limbs of the death of the yang syndrome, the condition of the critical situation, four reverse soup than the wild mountain ginseng better to use.

Lizhongwan, the attached zi lizhongwan, four against the Tang is to take its role in warming the cold, and Xiaoqinglongtang also from the "theory of typhoid fever", the use of dry ginger to warm the lungs to the effect of drinking, Xiaoqinglongtang is used for the treatment of the external wind-cold, internal water and phlegm coughing and wheezing evidence.

Plus ginger , ginger in the "theory of typhoid fever" in the use of a lot of ginger, ginger and jujube combination of a high rate of appearances, the later generations of medical doctors Tao Hongjing in his "famous doctors," recorded: "Ginger, taste pungent and slightly warm, the main headache of cold and cold nasal congestion, coughing on the air, to stop vomiting." Compared with dry ginger, ginger is more effective in relieving cold, applicable to wind-cold surface evidence, while dry ginger is more effective in warming the interior, applicable to the middle Jiao spleen and stomach cold evidence.

Not only that, ginger can also solve the fish and crab poison, but also can solve the poison of raw half-summer, ginger and half-summer is also a more classic match, "Jin Gui Yao Jie" records: "half-summer, ginger juice are good to stop vomiting, combined with good; and have the stomach and in the work. Used for gastric qi disharmony, vomiting and retching."

The first formula in the opening of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, Gui Zhi Tang, is used for headache, fever, sweating, and malignant wind caused by external wind-cold and wind-evil. The ginger, jujube combination is used.

Ginger is dried ginger and hot sand with fried, fried until the surface of the bulging, brownish-brown product, the earliest is also from the "theory of typhoid fever", the nature of the hot, pungent flavor. It belongs to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. Effects: Warming the menstruation, stopping bleeding, warming the middle and relieving pain. It is mainly used for blood loss in Yang deficiency, disintegration, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Licorice and Dried Ginger Soup, which is actually made of dried ginger, is recorded in "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" as a treatment for lung impotence caused by deficiency and coldness in the lungs, which is characterized by spitting and foaming and urination, with the absence of coughing as the main evidence; the main point of differential diagnosis is the absence of coughing. The original quote is as follows: "licorice four two, roasted dry ginger two two, cannon, on the chewing, with three liters of water, boiled to get a liter of five, remove the dregs, divided into warm and then served." Cannon dry ginger than dry ginger to warm the sun to keep the effect of the center is stronger, weaker dispersal power.

Ginger charcoal was first recorded in the Song Dynasty, is ginger fried charcoal formation of artillery products, in fact, is also a classification of the cannon ginger, but fried charcoal ginger, more inclined to stop bleeding, because charcoal itself a major effect is to stop bleeding. On the ginger charcoal to stop bleeding, many generations of medical doctors have discussed, I agree more with the "Materia Medica Jingzhu" method, "its words stop bleeding, cover the blood deficiency is fever, heat is delusional, dry ginger fried black can lead to all the blood tonic into the yin part, blood to make up for the yin and heat, blood is not delusional carry on."

"National standard for the preparation of traditional Chinese medicine" also requires that ginger charcoal from the shell ginger to distinguish: "Ginger charcoal warm menstruation to stop bleeding. The main treatment of epistaxis and leakage, Yin deficiency blood loss."

Kaoliangjiang is not strictly speaking a dried ginger product, because it is from the Gaoliangjiang plant, which is hot and pungent in nature. It is used to warm the stomach and disperse cold, relieve pain and vomiting. It was first recorded in Tao Hongjing's Bei Lu (名醫别錄)>, a book of famous doctors, as a good medicine for warming the stomach. It was first recorded in Tao Hongjing's "Records of Famous Doctors" as a good medicine for warming the stomach. "Bie Lu" records that it is "warm in nature, and the main cold, cold stomach, cholera and abdominal pain."