When it comes to ginger, most people's first reaction is - how to eat.
In fact, in addition to eating, ginger has many health benefits!
Ginger is used this way
Drive away constipation and feel comfortable in your stomach!
1. Apply to the navel: relieve constipation
This method comes from the "Qiqi Dispersion" of the "Zhu's Collection of Medical Prescriptions" (Volume 6), which is suitable for cold constipation.
People with hypothermia constipation usually manifest as: difficulty in passing stool, clear and long urine; Afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, love warmth; Easy fatigue, pale face, etc.
Tips for relieving constipation - ingredients: 1/2 taels of ginger, 1 stem of green onion (root leaves and puree), 1 twist of salt, 30 tempeh. Usage: After mashing these four flavors, apply them to the navel; Each application should not exceed half an hour; If there is significant remission, three courses can be used. Reminder: Those with broken periumbilical skin are banned; If you feel uncomfortable, discontinue the application. 2. Apply four acupuncture points to the abdomen: To relieve abdominal distension and friends who often have abdominal distention symptoms, you can try to apply ginger to the four acupuncture points of the abdomen.
Usage: take fresh ginger and wash it, cut into thin slices 3~5 mm thick about 10 pieces for later use; Use a cotton swab dipped in detoxic alcohol to wipe the four acupuncture points of Zhongxuan, Shenque, Qi Hai and Guan Yuan; Put 1~2 drops of white vinegar on the side of the ginger patch on the skin, and then apply the ginger slices to the above four points; Each acupuncture point can be superimposed on two or three pieces of ginger slices, each time for 20 minutes, once a day in the morning and evening, for 7 consecutive days.
Drilling method:
Midumbilical point: in the epigastrics, anterior midline, 4 inches above the umbilicus;
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Shenque Point: in the middle of the abdomen, in the center of the navel; Qi Sea Cave: the middle point between Guan Yuan Cave and Shenque Cave;
Guan Yuan Point: In the lower abdomen, anterior midline, 3 inches below the umbilicus (the width of the transverse fingers of the four fingers except the thumb is 3 inches).
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Reminder: Wipe clean with a paper towel after applying the application, pay attention to keep warm; Do not apply to damaged skin; People with sensitive skin should try it in one place, and do not apply it if they have allergic symptoms.
3. Apply to the spring point: relieve cold hands and feet
Many people have cold hands and feet, even if it is a hot day, the forehead is sweating, but the hands and feet are still cold.
Give everyone a trick, especially in winter——
Usage: If you want to improve small problems such as cold intolerance and cold hands and feet, you can choose spring points to apply acupuncture points; The application method is the same as above.
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After talking about the magic of ginger, let's go back to the "eating" that everyone is interested in. Many people have such a problem: there are quite a lot of ginger types on the market, how to choose?
3 common types of ginger, what to choose? 1. Characteristics of small yellow ginger: ginger is spicy, use it to drive away cold. Small yellow ginger is also called small ginger, "ginger is old spicy" refers to it, and it is generally used in medicine. However, yellow ginger is very fishy, and it is recommended that you do not use too much each time to prevent its domineering ginger spicy flavor from dominating. Tip: If you want to take the warmth of ginger, match it with cold ingredients, or boil ginger tea to drive away the cold and warm up, it is best to use it.
2. Characteristics of large meat ginger: soft spicy, tender and crunchy. Big meat ginger is also called big ginger, as the name suggests, big man! Compared to other ginger, the spicy taste of large meat ginger is relatively "gentle". Therefore, friends who don't like ginger flavor so much, but want to go fishy, can choose it.
3. Characteristics of sand ginger: ginger aroma is the strongest, first-class fragrance. Sand ginger has a unique taste and is irreplaceable: Sand ginger Pork Hand, Sand Ginger Pork Belly, Sand Ginger Chicken... Without Sha Jiang, these classic Cantonese dishes have less soul. Therefore, if you want to be praised for your "ginger aroma", choose sand ginger.