Alpinia officinarum is a very common food in our life and has a wide range of uses. Alpinia officinarum also has many functions, but it will be harmful to our health if we use it wrongly, which is different from other ginger. Let's take a look at the difference between Alpinia officinarum and Alpinia officinarum, which will be helpful to everyone.

Basic characteristic difference

Alpinia officinarum, another name of Alpinia officinarum, is a perennial herb. The rhizome is cylindrical.

Its nature is warm and spicy; Aromatic, jointed, with annular membranous scales on the nodes, and rooting on the nodes. Indications: epigastric pain, stomach cold, vomiting, belching and acid swallowing. Distributed in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Taiwan Province provinces. Like to grow in hillside grass or bushes. Its nature likes high temperature and high humidity environment and bright light. But it is also resistant to semi-yin. The optimum growth temperature is 15-30℃, and the overwintering temperature is about 5℃. It grows well in loose and well-drained fertile soil.

Alpinia officinarum: Tasting, bitter, sweet and warm. Spleen and stomach meridian. Strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis, stopping sweating and preventing miscarriage. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, abdominal distension and diarrhea, excessive phlegm, dizziness and edema, spontaneous sweating and fetal movement. Atractylodes macrocephala strengthens spleen, regulates stomach and prevents miscarriage. For spleen deficiency, anorexia, diarrhea, loose stool, fetal movement.

The difference between efficacy and function

1, the curative effect of Alpinia officinarum

Liangjiang Nengxin is a commonly used medicine for treating stomach cold, epigastric pain and abdominal pain, and should be used together with processed ginger.

Nature and taste: pungent, hot, spleen and stomach meridians.

Indications: dispelling cold and relieving pain, warming and stopping vomiting.

Harvesting and processing: Dig out the rhizomes that have grown for 4-6 years in late summer and early autumn, remove the stems, leaves, fibrous roots and scales, wash them, cut them into small pieces and dry them in the sun. What is ground into powder is called "good ginger powder".

Uses: It is the rhizome of Alpinia officinarum of Zingiberaceae.

2, the curative effect of galangal.

Warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold: Alpinia officinarum is especially suitable for treating wind-cold cold, runny nose and sneezing caused by exogenous wind-cold. We can also use galangal to treat epigastric pain, and patients with rheumatic rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic joint pain and gout in life can also try galangal to relieve it.

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: treating traumatic injury, hematemesis due to strain, traumatic blood stasis, irregular menstruation and other diseases.

Anti-inflammatory and detoxicating: treating nameless swelling, swelling, pain and heat.

These are some knowledge about the difference between Alpinia officinarum and Alpinia officinarum. We can also rest assured when choosing Alpinia officinarum, because there is almost no harm to our health, but we should pay attention to using the right method and combining our physical condition, which is the key to help our health.