1. Ginger is spicy, which can penetrate its own spicy and special aroma into dishes to make them delicious and fragrant. Because of its clear and spicy taste, it only disperses the peculiar smell of food without mixing the spicy taste. It is suitable as a flavoring agent for meat and poultry dishes, and also used to make cakes and sweets, such as gingerbread and ginger candy.
2. Alpinia officinarum also has spicy taste, but it is lighter than ginger. Alpinia officinarum can not only remove fishy smell, but also enhance freshness and fragrance.
This is a characteristic that ginger does not have. Ginger is especially suitable for cooking all kinds of meat ingredients, and can also be used to prepare marinade or as an ingredient of "five spices".
Different efficacy
4. Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and lungs. It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung, stopping vomiting, warming lung, relieving cough and detoxicating, and is mainly used for treating exogenous wind-cold, stomach-cold vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and Chinese fish and crab poison.
5. Jiang Sha is pungent, warm and enters the stomach; Has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, regulating qi and relieving pain; Suitable for people with stomach cold, heartburn, diarrhea, no fragrance, no appetite, or stop eating.
Extended data Alpinia officinarum is millet, which is drought-tolerant, barren-resistant and afraid of soaking. Most cultivated land in Nansheng belongs to black mud field, which is rich in carbon, soft and hydrophobic and suitable for the growth of Alpinia officinarum. Most of them are round or nearly round in cross section, with a diameter of 1 ~ 2 cm and a thickness of 0.3 ~ 0.5 cm. The outer skin is light brown or yellowish brown, shriveled, and some have root marks or residual fibrous roots.
The cut surface is white and powdery, and it is often raised. Fragile and easily broken. The smell is unique and the taste is spicy. Function: Mainly used for regulating temperature, promoting digestion and relieving pain. It is used for fullness of chest and diaphragm, cold pain in abdominal cavity, and does not need to be eaten.
Perennial herbs. Huge rhizomes, solitary or several connected, light green or greenish white, fragrant; The roots are thick. There are no aboveground stems. 2 leaves, almost sessile, lying on the ground; Round or broadly ovoid, 8 ~15cm long and 5 ~12cm wide, with a sharp or obtuse apex, a wide wedge-shaped or round base, thin and green, and sometimes the leaf margin and tip are purple.
Vena10 ~12; The petiole extends into a sheath, which is 1 ~ 5 cm long. Spikes are born from leaf sheaths, with 4 ~ 12 flowers, which are fragrant; Bracts lanceolate, green, about 2.5 cm long, calyx as long as bracts; Corolla tube is slender, 2.5 ~ 3 cm long.
Corolla lobes narrowly lanceolate, white, long 1.2 ~ 1.5 cm; The lip is wide and big, about 2.5 cm in diameter, and the middle part is deeply split. The top of the cleft lip is slightly concave and white, and the throat is purple. Lateral staminodes are petal-shaped, obovate, white, and about 65438 0.2 cm long; The interface is very wide and the top is connected with a square crown tube.
The ovary is inferior, 3-loculed, with a slender style and two slender rod-shaped appendages at the base. The stigma is discoid and ciliate. This kind of fruit is a capsule. The flowering period is from August to September.
Main value
Name: Alpinia officinarum
Also known as kaempferol
Category: medicine for warming the interior.
Pinyin: shānàI
Latin: kaempferia kaempferia
Alias names: Sannaizi (seaside), Sanlai (main catalogue of products), Sanpei, Shanla (outline), Sanbi (note of Nanyue) and Jiang Sha (record of herbs collected in Lingnan).
The rhizome of Rhizoma Kaempferiae of Zingiberaceae. From February 65438 to March of the following year, when the stems on the ground withered, the two-year roots were dug up, washed away and cut into pieces. Smoked with sulfur 1 day, and then spread on a bamboo mat to dry. Avoid baking with fire, otherwise it will turn black and lack fragrance.
ginger
The dried rhizome is round or nearly round, with a diameter of 65438±0.5 ~ 2cm and a thickness of 2 ~ 6 mm.. The outer skin is reddish brown, shriveled, and sometimes root marks, scales and rings can be seen. The cross section is gray-white, rich in powder, smooth and delicate, slightly convex, and the skin shrinks, commonly known as shrinking skin and protruding meat. Fragile and easily broken. Aromatic, slightly similar to camphor; It tastes spicy (but not the same as ginger). It is best to be white, pink, full, thick and spicy.
Prepare herbs by frying.
Winter excavation. Cleaning, removing fibrous roots, slicing, and drying.
Sexual taste orientation
Sexual taste and orientation: warm; Xin; Meridian of spleen
① Pinhuijing: pungent, warm and nontoxic.
2 "Materia Medica": pungent and sweet, warm in nature and non-toxic.
③ Herbal Yan Hui: Entering Yangming, Taiyin and Jueyin meridians.
4 "Herbal rejuvenation": into the heart, spleen and kidney.
Functional indication
Warming the middle warmer, promoting digestion and relieving pain. Treat chills and pains, dyspepsia, traumatic injury and toothache. Used for chest septum fullness and abdominal cold pain. Diet is not necessary.
(1) Pinhui essentials: removing filth; It can be used for cleaning teeth, expelling wind and relieving pain, and promoting halitosis.
2 "Outline": If you are warm, evil spirits will be eliminated. Treat heart cold pain, cold-damp cholera, wind worm toothache.
(3) Herbal Yan Hui: Treating all syndromes caused by cold.
④ Collection of Lingnan Materia Medica: Treating traumatic injuries can also reduce swelling. For bone arthralgia, it is divided equally with Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Radix Clematidis and decocted in water.
dosage
Oral administration: decoction, 6 ~10g; I still took the pills and dispersed them.
External use: appropriate amount, ground and applied; Or tamping; Or twitch your nose.
Matters needing attention
Yin deficiency and blood deficiency and stagnation of stomach fire are prohibited.
food therapy
Jiang Sha Xin Wen, entering the stomach meridian;
Has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, regulating qi and relieving pain;
Suitable for people with stomach cold, heartburn, diarrhea, no fragrance, no appetite, or stop eating.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Warming the middle energizer to eliminate pathogenic factors, treating cold pain and cold-damp cholera." , "Materia Medica Yan Hui": "Treating food stagnation and various cold syndromes."
Additional prescription
① Treatment of chilling pain: Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Flos Caryophylli, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Glycyrrhizae, etc. For the end, vinegar paste pills, five big. Take 30 tablets each time, and then drink. ("lakeside collection simplified formula")
(2) To cure all toothache: two dollars for hawthorn (wrapped in flour) and half a dollar for musk. For fine powder, put it in your mouth with warm water every time you use three words, twitch in your nose with toothache, and spit it out with mouthwash. (The word "musk" in "Beyond the Sea" is scattered)
③ Treatment of toothache caused by wind worm: soap 1 piece, deodorized, three to three parts of Gan Song, and no matter how much pepper and salt are used, the soap should be filled, red with bread, and the teeth should be rubbed daily. ("learning from the classics")
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Jiang Sha