Eat some ginger every meal, not too much ginger.

This sentence is easy to translate, but not easy to explain. It is more accurate and easier to understand from the perspective of health preservation.

Confucius attached great importance to the health care function of ginger, and Chinese medicine also attached great importance to ginger. In Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases, nearly half of the prescriptions used ginger.

There is an old saying that people can't live without ginger for a day.

There are many folk proverbs about ginger:

I have Xiao Jiang at home, so I don't panic when I'm sick.

Eat ginger often in summer, so that you can live longer and be healthy.

Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription.

Eating ginger in four seasons will sweep away all diseases.

It's better to eat three slices of ginger than soup.

Most Chinese medicine prescriptions have ginger, and the number of folk remedies for treating diseases with ginger is not clear.

Ginger is the legendary rejuvenation grass. There is a legend about the origin of the name of ginger: Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and ate poisonous mushrooms by mistake. When he woke up, he found a clump of grass lying. Shennong pulled it out and put it in his mouth to chew its roots. After a period of time, my stomach was rumbling, and after having loose bowels, I was in good health. Shennong surnamed Jiang, so he named this grass? Ginger? . It means it works magically and can bring itself back to life.

Su Dongpo also has a deep research on health preservation, which is also recorded in ginger. When Su Shi was a satrap in Hangzhou, one day, he went to Jingci Temple to play and saw that his master was over eighty years old, with ruddy face and bright eyes.

Su Shi was very surprised and asked the host what secret recipe he used to live so long. The host said with a smile: I have eaten tender ginger slices and warm water every day for more than 40 years. ?

After Su Shi returned, he recorded it and wrote a poem:? One catty of ginger, half a catty of dates, two ounces of white salt, three ounces of grass, two ounces of clove and agarwood, and four ounces of fennel. Fried or soaked, this medicine is better than Bao. Have a drink every morning, and you will never get old. ? This poem was collected and arranged by later generations in Liang Fang, Su Shen.

In the folk story "The Legend of the White Snake", there is a story about a white snake stealing fairy grass to save Xu Xian. Did the white snake steal it? Cao Xian? It's ginger buds. Ginger soup is called? Resurrection soup , visible? Ginger? It looks ordinary, but it's actually extraordinary.

Confucius especially likes to eat ginger, and Jiang Ye is the only vegetable mentioned by Confucius in The Analects.

It has been scientifically proved that ginger has six health-care functions: first, it can resist oxidation and inhibit tumor. Second, stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and promote appetite. Third, sterilization and detoxification. Fourth, prevent carsickness and stop nausea and vomiting. Fifth, promote blood circulation and drive away cold pathogens. Reduce the occurrence of arteriosclerosis.

In Buddhism, fishy meat is prohibited, including onion, garlic, coriander, leek and onion, and fishy meat refers to all meat. People generally classify ginger as spicy food. Spicy food is forbidden in Buddhist precepts, but ginger is not forbidden.

Not eating too much ginger is Confucius' way of keeping in good health. Eat some ginger every day. Although ginger is good, you can't eat too much. Eating too much food is harmful to your health.