Turmeric (Latin name: Curcuma longa L.) is also known as: tulip, Baoding Xiang, miller, yellow ginger and so on.

Turmeric plantain order, ginger family, turmeric perennial herb, plant height 1 ~ 1.5m, rhizome is very developed, root stout, the end of the expansion of the tuberous root; leaf blade oblong or elliptic, leaf apical short acuminate; bracts ovate or oblong, light green, obtuse tip, corolla yellowish; flowering period in August.

Turmeric can move qi and break blood stasis, and relieve menstruation and pain. The main treatment for chest and abdominal distension and pain, shoulder and arm paralysis, heartache, postpartum blood pain, sores and ringworm, menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, bruises. It can also be used to extract yellow food dye; the curcumin contained in it can be used as analytical chemical reagent.

Ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe), a perennial herb of the ginger family, also known as ginger root, a hundred spicy clouds, hooked finger, due to the Xin, inflammation of the cool kid, fresh ginger, honey-roasted ginger. The rhizome (dried ginger), corky skin (ginger bark), and leaves (ginger leaves) are used in medicine. Ginger in Chinese medicine has the effect of dispersing, vomiting, cough and so on.