Ginger, the fresh ginger that is harvested after one year of planting. Dried ginger is ginger that has usually been sprouted twice and grown for three years.

Ginger, when used as an herbal medicine, is generally categorized into only two types: raw ginger and dried ginger. Ginger and dried ginger are very specific in herbal formulas; certain formulas can only use dried ginger, while certain formulas can only use raw ginger, and the two should not be mixed.

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Effects of Ginger and Dried Ginger:

Ginger has the properties of pungent warmth and symptomatic relief, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and resolving drinks. Ginger has the properties of removing heat, stopping vomiting, warming the lungs, dissolving drinks and detoxifying fish and crab poisons, etc. It has unique efficacy in removing heat, stopping vomiting and detoxifying toxins, so it is mainly used for treating wind-cold-induced cold and flu, headache and nasal congestion, coughing and fever, and treating stomach cold and vomiting and detoxifying fish and crab poisons.

Ginger can be consumed directly. For example, with 30 grams of fresh ginger sliced and brown sugar boiled water, drink while hot can cure cold and flu, headache and nasal congestion; and will be fresh ginger juice to drink can cure stomach cold vomiting, coughing phlegm, etc., eat fish and crabs, add some ginger and vinegar, fish and crab poison can be prevented.

Dry ginger has the properties of heat, warming the middle and dispersing cold, restoring yang, warming the lungs, warming the drink, etc. It has unique effect in warming the stomach and opening the veins, so it is mainly used for treating the coldness of the spleen and stomach, the death of yang, the coldness of the hands and feet, and the coughing and wheezing in the clinic.

Dry ginger can not be eaten directly, often with other Chinese medicine and other prescription decoction soup to take. For example, for the spleen and stomach deficiency cold of the Li-Zhong Tang, cold drink cough Ling Gui Wu Wei Jiang Xin Tang, etc., which is one of the main medicines with dry ginger, in addition, when the yin cold caused by the death of yang deficiency, can be used to dry ginger plus epiphyllum to enhance the role of the cold, with the return of yang to save the therapeutic effect of the backward.

Through the above comparison, the medicinal effect of ginger and dry ginger is very big, so in the medicinal use must follow the doctor's advice.

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