Dioscorea zingiberensis, also known as Dioscorea zingiberensis, is a common Chinese herbal medicine. Fresh products are often used as seasoning in cooking, which can increase appetite, remove fishy smell and promote digestion. At the same time, it also has extremely high medicinal value. Its original plant is Dioscorea zingiberensis, which contains the highest diosgenin in the world, so it has high chemical value. Dioscorea zingiberensis can extract medical and chemical products such as saponin, which is an essential ingredient in hormone drugs we use.

Although Bai Jiang Ye is a kind of ginger that can be used for both medicine and food, generally, dry products are used as medicine and fresh products are cooked, and the effect is better. Can make a lot of medicated diet, and it tastes delicious. But relatively speaking, turmeric is more valuable than white ginger.

What is the difference between Dioscorea zingiberensis and white ginger? The appearance of Dioscorea zingiberensis is cylindrical, and it often has irregular branches with different lengths, dark yellow rough surface, obvious longitudinal wrinkles and white dot root marks.

The leaves of Zingiber officinale are cylindrical rhizomes with irregular branches of different lengths, but the branches are longer than those of Dioscorea zingiberensis, with a white and smooth surface and some with pink buds.

Turmeric tastes pink and a little bitter.

White ginger tastes crisp and tender, with more juice and less residue, and a fragrant smell.

3 Ginger, Curcuma Curcuma Curcuma Efficacy: Chinese medicine believes that Curcuma Curcuma is sweet, bitter and cool, belonging to spleen and liver meridian. Has the effects of clearing away lung-heat, relieving cough, inducing diuresis, relieving stranguria, dredging collaterals, relieving pain, removing toxic substances and relieving swelling. It has a certain therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, damp-heat stranguria, traumatic sprain and bee sting.

White ginger: Chinese medicine believes that white ginger is pungent and hot. Enter spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It has the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, restoring yang and dredging the pulse, and has certain treatment and relief effects on people with symptoms such as cold heart pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and cold pulse.

Can turmeric be eaten as ginger? Not recommended.

If people have symptoms of turmeric, it is ok to eat turmeric as ginger occasionally. The amount of turmeric to be eaten needs to be controlled, so as not to have too strong efficacy and cause adverse reactions to the body, but it is not recommended for ordinary people to eat turmeric as ginger for a long time. Although there is little difference in shape and appearance between turmeric and ginger, their values are different. We usually use turmeric as medicine, which has a strong effect, while ginger is mainly used as a deodorizing material in life and is mostly used for cooking.