Author: Huang Xiaoyi, Shenzhen Bao'an Pure Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment Hospital
Ancient people cloud: "October ginger small ginseng"; "eat three slices of ginger early, race to drink ginseng soup" folk proverbs, there are also "winter eat radish summer eat ginger, do not work doctor prescription" folk circulation, Confucius in his "Analects • Township Party" also recorded "do not withdraw ginger food, do not eat more" means that Confucius often eat ginger, but eat in moderation, do not eat more. It can be seen that ginger was used as a health food in ancient times, preventive health care, and physical fitness.
Ginger is also the most common in our daily life, in the south, a year to be eaten hundreds of millions of tons of ginger, in the north, ginger is also the main ingredient of pickled products, small ginger it is not only a condiment, but also a single edible vegetable, but few people know that ginger is also an important Chinese herbal medicine. Ginger can not only remove the fishy smell of food with its own fragrant smell, increase the flavor of dishes, as a Chinese herbal medicine, ginger is also a good medicine with a healthy spleen and stomach, warm and pain-relieving.
Efficacy indications
Ginger has the effect of relieving cold, warm vomiting, phlegm and cough, and detoxification of fish and crabs, and is used to treat cold and cold, stomach cold vomiting, cold phlegm cough and other effects.
In addition, ginger can also solve the poison of half summer, Tiannanxing, aconitum and fish and crabs.
Clinical compatibility is mostly used for medicinal introduction, often used with guizhi, ephedra, windproof and other uses to enhance the efficacy of sweating and anti-table. It is used with half summer, galangal, pepper, etc. to enhance the medicinal effect of warm stopping vomiting, cold and pain relief.
It is worth noting that the other two medicinal herbs of the same variety, "dried ginger" and "cannon ginger", are very different in their medicinal properties and ginger.
features
Dried ginger is obtained by removing impurities from fresh ginger, soaking slightly, washing, moistening, cutting thick slices or chunks and drying again.
Cannon ginger is made by sautéing dried ginger and sautéed with sand until it bulges until the surface is tanned.
Ginger is more powerful, dried ginger is more lukewarm, and cannon ginger is good at stopping bleeding and relieving pain.
efficacy
The efficacy of dried ginger is to disperse cold in warm, return to the Yang pulse, warm lung drink, clinically used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, cold pulse of limbs, cold drink and wheezing cough, which is the main medicine of warm and medium coke.
The efficacy of cannon ginger is to warm menstrual pain relief, hemostasis, clinically mostly used for the treatment of yang deficiency and blood loss, vomiting and leakage, stomach deficiency and cold.
Therefore, in the daily application of ginger, dried ginger and cannon ginger to learn to distinguish, otherwise it will affect the efficacy.
Dried ginger
Cannon ginger
Modern research
Ginger contains volatile oils, mainly gingerol, a-gingerene, β-water cressene, citral, aromatic alcohol, methylheptenone, nonaldehyde, α a dragon brain, etc., and the spicy ingredient is gingerol.
Ginger can promote the secretion of digestive juices, protect the gastric mucosa, and have anti-ulcer, hepatoprotective, choleretic, antipyretic, antibacterial, analgesic, antiemetic effect. Its alcohol extract can stimulate the vascular motor center, respiratory center, and heart.
Clinical application
1. True martial arts soup
Ginger three two, poria three two, peony three two, bai shu two two, attached tablets. Serve fried in water.
Indications for the treatment of spleen and kidney yang deficiency, water wet overflow, cold limbs cold.
2. Guizhi soup
Ginger three two, guizhi three two, peony three two, hot licorice two two, jujube twelve. Decoct the water, drink it while it is hot, and then take hot porridge water to help the medicinal power, and it is better to sweat slightly.
Indications for external cold and wet evidence, bad wind fever, sweating headache, moss white and not thirsty, slow or weak pulse.
3. Small chai hu soup
Ginger 32, chai hu 1 jin, skullcap 32, ginseng 32, licorice 32, half a summer half liter, 12 jujubes. Serve warmly fried in water.
Indications for the treatment of typhoid fever and lack of yang, cold and heat, upset and vomiting, loss of appetite, bitter mouth, dry throat, dizziness, thin white tongue.
Healthy dietary remedies
1. Ginger milk
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon of ginger juice, 200 ml of fresh milk, brown sugar to taste.
Preparation method: Mix the three well, stew in water and drink.
Effect: Summer for a long time in the air-conditioned place, easy to get cold and cause gastrointestinal function disorders, you can drink ginger milk to regulate the stomach and intestines.
2. Ginger brown sugar tea
Ingredients: 10 g ginger, 15 g brown sugar
Preparation: Wash and shred the ginger, soak in boiling water for 5 minutes, simmer for 2 to 3 minutes, add brown sugar and drink.
Effect: Cold caused by wind chills and colds, you can drink a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup while hot, which helps to disperse the cold and solve the table. Women with menstrual abdominal pain can also drink in moderation, which can drive away the cold and relieve the pain.
3: Lamb ginger casserole
Ingredients: lamb shank meat to taste, peeled ginger 300 g.
Effect: Mutton is hot, warm and sunny, is a good tonic, ginger to drive cold and keep warm, the same food can treat abdominal pain, stomach cold.
4. Ginger tea
Ingredients: 10 slices of ginger, 7 grams of tea leaves.
Preparation: Fry water while hot.
Effect: Can sweat and dissolve the table, dispel wind and cold, warm the lungs and relieve cough.
5. Ginger honey water
Ingredients: 100 g ginger, 2 tablespoons of honey.
Preparation: Ginger is juiced in warm water and mixed with honey, and morning clothes are taken after meals.
Effect: Can enhance physical fitness, beauty and beauty, laxative, relieve drunkenness (pregnant women and infants should not take).
Precautions
1. Ginger can ferment and rot under the action of bacteria, produce safrole substances, which can induce esophageal cancer and liver cancer, which is seriously harmful to human health, so rotten ginger cannot be eaten.
2, ginger is warm and warm, is a hot food, do not eat more at a time, 3 to 5 tablets is appropriate; people with yin deficiency (manifested as fever in hands and feet, often dry mouth, dry eyes, dry skin) should not eat ginger; diabetics should not drink brown sugar ginger soup.
Review experts: Zhang Chengguang, Guangdong Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hu Song, Wuhan Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
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