The efficacy and function of ginger[picture]

Ginger [picture] is very familiar to everyone. Ginger [picture] has a long history and has good effects on regulating the body and treating diseases. It is a good choice for health preservation. Let’s take a look together.

【English name】 RHIZOMA ZINGIBERIS RECENS

【Other name】 Ginger

[Source] This product is the fresh rhizome of ginger, Zingiber officinale Rosc., a plant of the ginger family. Dig it up in autumn and winter, and remove the fibrous roots and mud.

[Properties] This product is irregular in shape, slightly flat, with finger-like branches, 4 to 18 cm long and 1 to 3 cm thick. The surface is yellowish brown or grayish brown, with links, and there are stem scars or buds at the branch tips. It is brittle and easy to break. The cross section is light yellow, with obvious annular patterns in the endodermis and scattered vascular bundles. It has a unique aroma and a spicy taste.

[Preparation] Ginger: remove impurities, wash and cut into thick slices before use.

【Nature and flavor】 Spicy, slightly warm.

[entry into meridians] Enter the lung, spleen and stomach meridians.

【Functions and indications】 Relieve exterior symptoms and dispel cold, warm the middle and stop vomiting, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Used for colds, vomiting due to cold stomach, and cough due to cold phlegm.

【Usage and Dosage】 3～9g.

[Storage] Store in a cool and humid place, or bury in wet sand to prevent freezing.

[Remarks] (1) Ginger is used to relieve exterior symptoms, mainly to dispel wind and cold. It is often used to treat mild colds. It can be boiled into a soup, added with brown sugar and taken while hot. It often causes sweating and the symptoms are relieved. It can also be used as a medicine to prevent colds. Ginger has a weak diaphoretic effect and is often used together with ephedra, cinnamon twig, etc. as an auxiliary medicine for diaphoresis and antipyretic, which can enhance the diaphoretic effect. Ginger is an important antiemetic and can be used alone to treat vomiting due to stomach cold. It can also treat stomach heat vomiting when used together with Pinellia, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, and Coptis chinensis. Ginger can detoxify fish and crabs, either used alone or with perilla. In addition, ginger can detoxify raw pinellia and raw arisaema. Drinking the decoction can be used to treat symptoms such as hoarseness, swollen tongue and numbness caused by the poison of pinellia and arisaema. Therefore, when preparing Pinellia and Arisaema, ginger is often used together to reduce their toxicity.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Pharmacopoeia

[Source] Annotations to the Classic of Materia Medica

Above we introduced what ginger [picture] is. We know that ginger [picture] has very comprehensive effects and functions, so we can use ginger [picture] as a means of regulating the body in daily life.