As the saying goes: eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer, do not bother the doctor to prescribe medicine. Chinese medicine believes that ginger tastes spicy and has a slightly warm sex. Into the spleen, stomach, lungs meridians. It has the effects of sweating and detoxification, appetizing and strengthening the spleen, dehumidifying and detoxifying, warming the lungs and relieving cough, dispersing cold and relieving pain, and warming and stopping vomiting.
So, what are the benefits of eating ginger in the summer?
01 Increase appetite, promote digestion
Summer weather is hot, it is easy to have a loss of appetite, and ginger has the ginger capsaicin, which can stimulate gastric juice secretion, stimulate the intestine, improve appetite and promote digestion.
In particular, vinegar-soaked ginger is especially useful for increasing appetite and promoting digestion.
02 Prevention and treatment of air conditioning disease
Long-term blowing air conditioning, easy to make the human body cold, causing air conditioning disease, there may be dry throat, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough and other discomfort.
Ginger has the effect of relieving the cold and raising the yang qi, and has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on the air conditioning disease caused by the cold.
03 Prevent heat and cool down, help wick away sweat
Ginger, is a warm spice, can make the blood vessels in various parts of the body dilate, improve the body's heat dissipation efficiency, promote sweating and cooling, and prevent the human body from getting sick due to heat.
There are contraindications to eating ginger
01 Do not overdose
In the summer, people are prone to dry mouth, polydipsia, sore throat, sweating and other fevers. Ginger taste spicy and warm, is a hot food, overeating ginger is easy to get on fire, so "summer eat ginger" should not eat more.
Because the ginger skin is slightly cool and beneficial to water, it is generally necessary to eat ginger without peeling.
02 Rotten ginger cannot be eaten
Ginger that has rotted cannot be eaten, nor should it be eaten if it is cut open and browned in color.
Because, the already decayed ginger will produce a highly toxic organic matter safrin, which can denature the liver cells, especially people with a history of hepatitis do not eat rotten ginger.
03 Eat ginger in the morning
Pay attention to the time of eating ginger. It is generally advisable to eat ginger in the morning, which can raise the yang qi. Because ginger has a divergent nature, eating at night can easily lead to inconsistencies in the mind, which is not good for health.
04 Physique needs to be discerned
People with yin deficiency and fire, internal heat, or people with carbuncles, pneumonia, lung abscesses, tuberculosis, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes, and hemorrhoids should not consume ginger for a long time.
Especially if it is manifested as a fever in the hands and feet, sweat in the palms of the hands, love to drink water, often dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritable and irritable, poor sleep, often eat ginger will aggravate the symptoms of yin deficiency and dry fever.
Ginger recipes
01 Vinegar soaked ginger
After ginger is soaked in vinegar, with the help of vinegar astringent effect, the divergence and warmth of ginger can be exerted to the extreme, suitable for those with heavy cold in the body.
In addition, vinegar-soaked ginger also has a certain auxiliary effect on the regulation of blood lipids.
Directions: Slice the ginger and place in a jar. Pour aged vinegar or rice vinegar into the jar, making sure not to cross the ginger. Close the lid, seal and place in the refrigerator or other cool place. It will take about a week or so to eat.
Vinegar soaked ginger is best eaten after breakfast, do not eat on an empty stomach, do not eat too much, two or three tablets can be, eating too much will lead to stomach heat.
02 Fairy Porridge
This formula can solve the surface of the cold, and stomach tonic, the wind chill caused by the external wind chill cold, headache nasal congestion, body heat without sweat, etc., can play a "porridge to the disease" effect.
Directions: Take 7 white green onions, 7 slices of ginger, 50 grams of glutinous rice, 50 ml of rice vinegar.
Wash the glutinous rice, add an appropriate amount of water to cook into a thin porridge, then add the white onion and ginger to continue to cook for 5 to 7 minutes, then add the rice vinegar and stir well, while hot.
Editor: Ye Fangfang