Ginger is found almost every home and is also a recognized health ingredient, but do you really use it? Today Xiaobian recommends these uses of ginger, so that you can easily become a "ginger master".
1 Cold: Soak your feet with ginger water and salt
Immerse your feet in hot ginger water, preferably to the neck. When soaking, add some salt to the hot ginger water and continue to heat the water until the feet are red.
This method has a curative effect on external wind chills, and is suitable for patients with colds and colds or colds and fevers after rain. Not suitable for hot and cold and wind fever.
Caution: Use with caution in patients with high blood pressure, heart disease, tinea pedis, diabetes, and skin infections.
When soaking your feet, the skin is slightly sweaty, not sweaty.
2 Cough: Ginger juice rubs the back
Typical symptoms of cold cough: clear water nasal discharge after a cold, clear cough, thin sputum, white tongue.
Method: Squeeze the juice with ginger, mix with half of the warm boiling water, the ratio of ginger to warm water is 1:1, rub the ginger juice on the back skin.
This move can stimulate the back of the lung Yu acupoints, large vertebral acupoints, wind gate acupoints and other acupuncture points, has the effect of warming the lungs, evacuating the wind and cold.
This method can also be used by children after one year of age.
3 Cold Repellent: Warm in the mouth with ginger chest
When you go out in the morning, take a slice of ginger in your mouth, let the saliva slowly mix with the ginger juice, and then swallow.
Wait until the taste of ginger in your mouth fades, and then slowly chew the ginger slices, spit them out or swallow them, so that the front chest can maintain a heat and not be affected by the wind and cold outside.
4 Arthritis: boiled ginger in saline for external application
Cut the ginger into one-centimeter thick ginger slices, cook them in thick salted water, and then apply the hot ginger slices to the waist and knee joints, repeated several times.
This can make the muscles from tension to relaxation, relax the muscles and activate the blood, which can greatly alleviate the cold pain of the joints.
5 Various kinds of pain: use ginger to apply external pain points
For stomach pain, dysmenorrhea, frozen shoulder and other pains, ginger can also be used to apply pain points (Chinese medicine calls it "A is a hole") to deal with.
6 Cold hands and feet: vinegar soaked ginger
Buy half a pound of ginger, slice it, put it in a bottle, use rice vinegar without ginger, soak it for three days and eat it. You can also put some brown sugar, brown sugar is also warm. Sweet and sour ginger not only tastes sweet and sour, but also replenishes the yang qi to the human body.
Note: Vinegar-soaked ginger is usually refrigerated in the refrigerator, preferably eaten at breakfast.
7 Age Spots: Ginger juice pills
Chinese medicine believes that ginger has a spicy and warm taste, and regular consumption can effectively help eliminate age spots.
Mash the ginger into a juice, place it in the container, remove the clear yellow liquid on the top, and take the white part deposited at the bottom of the container to dry it as ginger milk.
Mix ginger milk with steamed cakes or rice to make small balls of mung bean size, and take a few pills a day with rice soup.
8 Foot odor: soak your feet with salt and vinegar
Ginger has a therapeutic effect on foot odor caused by bacterial fungi. Therefore, soaking your feet with hot ginger water can quickly eliminate the odor.
9 Facial acne: Wash your face with warm ginger water
Wash your face with warm ginger water, once a day in the morning and once in the evening, for about 60 days, and the acne will lighten or disappear.
Ginger has the effect of sterilization, anti-inflammatory and detoxification, and at the same time can pass through the blood veins. Therefore, ginger water is effective for acne with medium cold and wet blockage.
note
Ginger rot will produce a very toxic substance (safrole), this ingredient may cause cancerous cells, try not to eat rotten ginger, cut off the rotten parts of the rotten parts.
Ginger can be sliced or beaten for preservation, placed in a container and frozen in a freezer, which can be stored for a long time.
Source: CCTV Life Circle, Health Care China
Editor: Wu Xingting