Chinese herbal medicine turmeric is also called? Huangshan medicine? In some areas, it is also called: Tiger Ginger, Anemarrhena Yam, Turmeric, Curcuma zingiberensis, and Huangshan Medicine, a traditional Chinese medicine, are used as medicine for the rhizome of Huangshan Medicine, a plant of Dioscorea in Dioscoreaceae. Collect in autumn, wash and dry. Efficacy and function of turmeric: detoxification, detumescence and pain relief. Indications are stomachache and traumatic injury.
The difference between turmeric and ginger.
Dioscorea zingiberensis and Zingiber officinale are both plants of zingiberaceae, and their tastes are also spicy, and their properties are also warm medicines. The difference is the meridian tropism. For turmeric, it enters the heart meridian and spleen and stomach meridian. For ginger, it mainly enters the spleen and stomach meridian, so its function is different with different meridian tropism.
The role of turmeric.
Dioscorea zingiberensis has hemolytic effect: Diosgenin belongs to steroidal saponins, and the aqueous solution of steroidal saponins will destroy red blood cells to varying degrees and cause hemolysis, so saponins and crude drugs containing saponins cannot be used for intravenous injection.
Dioscorea zingiberensis has anti-aging effect: appropriate doses of Dioscorea opposita diluted alcohol extract and Dioscorea zingiberensis saponin can significantly reduce the contents of plasma LPO and liver LF in aged mice. Because at present, the research on the relationship between free radicals and aging often takes the metabolites of aging, LPO in plasma and LF in tissue as the indicators of aging, the experimental results show that yam and Dioscorea zingiberensis have certain anti-aging effects.
Dioscorea zingiberensis has anti-tumor effect: HuKe et al reported that the pro-sapogenin A, dioscin and slender saponin of dioscin had cytotoxic effect on tumor cell line K562 in vitro.
Summarize.
Generally speaking, the turmeric in Chinese herbal medicine is essentially different from the ginger we usually eat. Their shapes are different, their functions are different, and their prices are naturally different. However, both of them have the functions of breaking blood and activating qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, expelling wind and removing dampness. It's just that turmeric can't be eaten as our daily food like ginger. Because Dioscorea zingiberensis is defined as Chinese medicine, which is a three-point poison. Eating too much is not good for your health.