Hello, everyone, we are the popular science of Red Sun Health. Try to answer this question. There are many benefits of eating ginger, which can be used as a dish or as a seasoning for cooking dishes. In meat cooking, adding ginger or its products has the effects of enhancing flavor, tenderizing, removing fishy smell, removing smell, enhancing freshness, adding fragrance, protecting color and clearing mouth. Therefore, ginger is widely used as a spicy seasoning vegetable. Ginger is also a good Chinese herbal medicine, which has the functions of invigorating stomach, dispelling cold, sweating, detoxicating, heatstroke prevention and relieving vomiting.

Give an example close to life. The folk use ginger to treat diseases or treat diseases as medicine has a long history, enduring for a long time, and there are many prescriptions. Let's give you an example close to life: eating ginger can relieve nausea. If you are carsick and seasick, or if the expectant mother has serious morning sickness, you might as well give it a try. The specific mechanism of action may be related to its regulation of gastrointestinal function, which can be summarized as follows:

① Studies show that ginger can stimulate gastric mucosa to synthesize and release endogenous pepsinogen with cytoprotective effect, thus protecting gastric mucosa from injury.

The main chemical components of ginger, gingerol and gingerol, not only have obvious effects of invigorating stomach and protecting gastric mucosa, but also have obvious effects of promoting gastrointestinal movement; The mixture of gingerol and gingerol separated from ginger can relax the intestine and weaken peristalsis.

(3) Gingerone and Gingerone, the effective components of ginger, have strong peripheral antiemetic effects; In addition, gingerol and ketene have sedative and analgesic effects.

④ Ginger is a kind of expelling wind agent, which can slightly stimulate the digestive tract, increase intestinal tension, rhythm and gastrointestinal peristalsis, adsorb and neutralize some toxins and gastric acid, so it can effectively block gastrointestinal reaction and nausea feedback, thus preventing and treating nausea and vomiting without side effects.

Finally, to sum up for everyone, it is precisely because of its special nutrition, medical and health care functions that ginger is included in the list of the first batch of articles which are both food and medicine determined by the Ministry of Health of China. The analysis of modern scientific experiments shows that ginger contains protein1.8%, sugar 8%, crude fat 4% ~ 7%, rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and B vitamins and mineral elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, sodium and magnesium, as well as functional components such as gingerol, gingerol and gingerol, which are helpful to human health.