In China, the edible and medicinal history of ginger is very long, and the development and utilization of ginger is also relatively early. The main products are ginger slices, sweet ginger, ginger juice, ginger juice and so on. The product grade is low and the sales volume is limited. In order to make full and reasonable use of the precious fresh ginger resources, we can not only make full use of its various parts, but also obtain high value-added products and high value-added effects through development and utilization. At the same time, the following four products were extracted from ginger: concentrated ginger milk, transparent ginger juice health drink and ginger starch. Finally, the residue is comprehensively utilized to make ginger paste. The first two of the above four products are high-grade and high value-added products.
1. Seasoned ginger milk
Seasoned ginger milk is made by extracting seasoning essence from ginger and concentrating it. It looks like egg yolk cream and is mushy. It is very convenient to use and has a strong seasoning effect, and can be used in high-end restaurants. As a seasoning, you only need to add a little to the seasoning soup, which is especially suitable for dipping in seafood banquets.
Ginger juice health drink.
The beverage does not contain any chemical synthetic substances, and its flavor is slightly burnt. It is very comfortable after eating, especially suitable for drinking in high temperature areas and field workers, and has a broad market in the north. In the south, spring, summer and autumn rains are constant, and the moisture in the human body is too heavy, which makes it easy to get sick. Although drinking this kind of beverage is not necessary to drive away the cold, it has the function of dehumidification. In medicine, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer" is the truth. In particular, many Chinese medicine experts believe that drinking this beverage can relax muscles and promote blood circulation, fully open pores, quickly relieve fatigue, and have a relaxed feeling after drinking, keeping a clear head. Ginger drink can be used as a special drink for car drivers. Therefore, the future prospect of ginger juice beverage will be extremely broad. There were also ginger juice drinks on the market before, mainly synthetic drinks with ginger flavor and ginger essence. At present, the real transparent ginger juice beverage without chemical components on the market is still blank.
3. Ginger starch and ginger paste.
The products obtained by comprehensive utilization of by-products ginger starch and ginger paste are not high value-added products, but are only developed to reduce the cost and eliminate the pollution of three wastes. If conditions permit, the internationally popular plant edible fiber can be developed, and the prospect is better. 1. efficacy
(1) Help Yang
Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a product that helps yang, so since ancient times, Chinese medicine has said that "people without ginger will not be born for a hundred days." Ginger has the function of accelerating human metabolism and dredging meridians. Therefore, ginger is often used for male health care, which can help yang and has a certain therapeutic effect on impotence due to kidney deficiency. If men often feel cold stomach and loss of appetite, they can often take fresh ginger slices to stimulate gastric juice secretion and promote digestion. Dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, strengthens the stomach and promotes blood circulation, and medlar nourishes liver and kidney, which is beneficial to eyesight. Combined with food, it can treat impotence, chills, lumbago, soreness of waist and knees, burnout and so on caused by kidney-yang deficiency.
⑵ postpartum
When postpartum women are confined to the moon, the food is accompanied by ginger vinegar, which is conducive to physical recovery and feeding the baby. In addition, ginger water bath can also prevent rheumatic headache. In particular, it is unscientific for lying-in women not to wash their hair for a month in hot summer, which is not only unsanitary, but also may cause skin inflammation and prickly heat. Maternal women can try to wash their hair and bathe with ginger boiling water, or even wash their faces and hands, because ginger can drive away cold, and bathing with ginger boiling water can prevent rheumatism and migraine.
(3) Prevention of gastropathy
Whether it's steaming fish for cooking or seasoning, ginger is absolutely necessary for serving. Its spicy taste can remove fishy smell and stink. Adding ginger to vegetable soup can also dispel cold and be mild, and its taste is fragrant. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "the rice is not fragrant and eats ginger", that is to say, when the rice is not fragrant or the appetite drops, eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little ginger in the dish can improve the appetite and increase the appetite. Gastric ulcer, deficiency-cold gastritis, enteritis, and wind-cold cold can also be treated with ginger to dispel cold and sweat, warm the stomach and stop vomiting, and sterilize and relieve pain. Ginger is also a traditional Chinese medicine for treating nausea and vomiting, and it has the reputation of "the holy medicine for vomiting". In summer, especially in dog days, bacteria are extremely active in growth and reproduction, which is easy to pollute food and cause acute gastroenteritis. But eating ginger properly can play a preventive role, and ginger can also kill oral pathogens and intestinal pathogens. In summer, people are greedy for cool, and like to blow each other with electric fans and air conditioners, so they are easily affected by cold and cause colds. At this time, drinking ginger syrup in time will help to discharge the cold in the body. Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "clear the heart", that is, refresh the mind, so people who often feel dizzy, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea, it is of great benefit to drink ginger soup properly at this time. In addition, ginger is pungent and warm, which can promote blood circulation. Women who eat ginger can also resist aging and reduce the occurrence of gallstones.
2. Dietary taboos.
(1) Precautions
The ancients said, "It is better to eat ginseng chicken soup than ginger in the morning;" Eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic. " Ginger can enhance and accelerate blood circulation, stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, excite the stomach, promote digestion, and have antibacterial effect. Eating some ginger in the morning is good for your health. But at night, because ginger is hot, it will make people get angry and hurt their health, so it is not suitable for eating.
Ginger also contains gingerol, which can reduce the occurrence of gallstones. However, there are advantages and disadvantages, so the folk left a saying that "go to bed to eat radish, get out of bed to eat ginger", indicating that ginger can be eaten, but not much. Especially in autumn, it is best not to eat it, because the climate in autumn is dry and dry, which hurts the lungs. In addition, eating spicy ginger is more likely to hurt the lungs and aggravate the dehydration and dryness of the human body. Such a "warning" also appeared in ancient medical books: "Don't eat ginger in autumn within one year; Don't eat ginger one night. " It seems that it is reasonable not to eat or eat less spicy food such as ginger in autumn, which has long attracted the attention of the ancients. Many folk proverbs, such as "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription", "prepare ginger at home, and don't panic about minor ailments", "eat ginger in four seasons, and sweep away all diseases", and "it is better to eat three slices of ginger in the morning than to take soup", all reflect the health care effect of ginger. Chinese medicine has also said that ginger can cure all diseases since ancient times. Chinese medicine pays attention to eating radish in winter and ginger in summer. Ginger has the functions of excitement, sweating, cooling and refreshing in hot season, and can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other symptoms. Ginger also has the function of strengthening the stomach and appetizing.
(2) Carcinogenesis
Rotten ginger can produce carcinogenic toxins. Some people think that "rotten ginger is not bad." This idea has no scientific basis and is very dangerous, because rotten ginger can produce toxins, which can lead to liver cancer and esophageal cancer in severe cases. Although eating ginger in summer is beneficial to human body, it should be moderate, because the weather is hot, people are prone to dry mouth, polydipsia, sore throat and sweating, and ginger is pungent and warm, which is a hot food. According to the principle of "heat is cold", it is not advisable to eat more. Just put a few slices of ginger when cooking or making soup.
(3) Suitable crowd
The general population can eat it.
① Suitable for people with colds, cold dysmenorrhea, carsickness and seasickness.
② Those with internal heat due to yin deficiency and excessive pathogenic heat can eat less.
People with cold constitution can eat a lot.
(4) Eating taboos
Ginger is pungent and warm, so it is not suitable for eating too much at one time, nor for patients with pain, swelling and pain, sores, red eyes, constipation and hemorrhoids. Rotten ginger contains safrole, which can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells and induce liver cancer and esophageal cancer. And it is not suitable for eating. Patients with hemorrhoids should not eat.
People with yin deficiency constitution. Yin deficiency is a hot and dry constitution, which is characterized by fever of hands and feet, sweaty palms, thirst, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, upset and irritable, and poor sleep. Ginger is pungent and warm, and eating ginger for people with Yin deficiency will aggravate the symptoms of Yin deficiency.
② Severe internal heat. People suffering from lung heat, dry cough, stomach heat, vomiting, bad breath, hemorrhoid bleeding, sores and other diseases should not eat ginger. If it is a fever, when eating ginger, you must cooperate with cold medicine to neutralize the heat of ginger.
③ Patients with hepatitis. Because eating ginger often can lead to liver disease. Angry liver. If you want to control the liver fire caused by eating ginger, you can also choose some foods that can soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as drinking tea soaked in hawthorn and chrysanthemum, which can eliminate the dryness and heat caused by ginger without hurting your body.
3. Therapeutic effect.
Red dates and ginger soup:
Jujube is sweet and warm in nature, and has the functions of tonifying the middle warmer, nourishing blood, calming the nerves, promoting qi and blood circulation, and improving the symptoms of cold hands and feet. In addition, ginger and jujube are very effective in nourishing the stomach of patients with gastric diseases.
Practice: jujube 10, ginger 5, appropriate amount of brown sugar, decoction instead of tea, once a day 1 time, and insist on taking it.
Brown sugar ginger soup
Brown sugar has the function of nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation, and drinking brown sugar ginger soup often has the function of beauty. Ginger brown sugar water is also suitable for adjuvant treatment of cold or stomach cold after rain.
Practice: 5 slices of ginger, appropriate amount of brown sugar, add brown sugar to taste after frying ginger slices, drink tea every day 1 time, and insist on taking it.
Green tea and ginger soup:
Green tea ginger soup has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, benefiting qi and calming the nerves, and preventing heatstroke.
Practice: Take 5g of green tea and 5g of shredded ginger, brew with boiling water for about 10 minutes before drinking. It is especially suitable for drinking in summer and has the effect of clearing away heat and relaxing.
Salt vinegar ginger soup:
In midsummer, many people are prone to "air conditioning disease", and their shoulders and backs will suffer from diseases such as wind, cold and dampness, especially the elderly are prone to recurrent scapulohumeral periarthritis.
In this case, you can cook some hot ginger soup. Add a little salt and vinegar to the hot ginger soup first, then wring it out with a towel and apply it to the affected area several times, which can relax muscles, relax muscles and promote blood circulation, and greatly relieve pain. You can also dip a towel in boiling hot ginger soup and apply it to sore limbs.
Ginger cola:
It has the effects of preventing cold, resolving phlegm, increasing calories and warming stomach, and has a good effect on preventing and treating colds, and can dispel wind and dispel cold.
Practice: Boil 3 slices of ginger in 300ml cola, and cease fire immediately when it boils or is close to boiling, so that it can be eaten.
1. Dietary nutrition
Nutrition: protein, multivitamins, carotene, calcium, iron and phosphorus.
Every 100g edible part contains: calories (kcal): 19 B 1 thiamine (mg): 0 Ca (mg): 9 protein (g): .7b2 riboflavin (mg): .01m mg:. 0.3fe iron (mg): 0.8 carbohydrate (g): 2.8 VC vitamin c (mg): 2 Mn manganese (mg): 3.38 dietary fiber (g): 0.9ve vitamin e (mg): 0 Zn zinc (mg):. 17 vitamin a (mg): 0 cholesterol. 0 Cu (mg): .03 carotene (mg): .5k potassium (mg): 160 P phosphorus (mg):1retinol equivalent (mg): 94.5 Na sodium (mg):1.
Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, relieving vomiting, warming lung, relieving cough, and detoxicating. Indications: exogenous wind-cold, stomach cold, vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Chinese fish and crab poison, etc. It also has the functions of waking stomach, opening spleen and appetizing.
Ginger contains spicy and aromatic components, including gingerol, gingerol, starch and fiber. Can be used for treating common cold due to wind-cold, and can relieve exterior cold pathogen by sweating. Gingerol can stimulate oral cavity and gastric mucosa, promote the secretion of digestive juice, stimulate appetite, and increase intestinal tension, rhythm and peristalsis. Gingeron has an exciting effect on respiratory and vascular movement centers, and can promote blood circulation.
Improve sleep.
Ginger, a condiment that can be seen everywhere in the kitchen, is of great help in treating insomnia. Because the special smell of ginger has a calming effect.
The specific method is: chop the ginger about 15g, wrap it in gauze and put it on the pillow, smell its fragrance, and then you can sleep peacefully. Continuous use of 10 days to 1 month will obviously improve sleep.
Reasons for eating in summer
(1) Anti-oxidation and tumor inhibition
The structures of gingerol and diphenylheptane compounds contained in ginger have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects. Inhibitory effect on tumor; Eating ginger can resist aging, and the elderly often eat ginger to get rid of "age spots".
⑵ Appetize and strengthen the spleen to promote appetite.
In hot summer, because the secretion of saliva and gastric juice will be reduced, it will affect appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase appetite. This is what people often say: "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer" and "eat ginger if the rice is not fragrant".
(3) heatstroke prevention and refreshing.
Hot weather has the functions of excitement, perspiration, coolness and refreshing. For patients with dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness and nausea in general summer heat, it is of great benefit to drink ginger soup properly. Ren Dan, a Chinese patent medicine for heatstroke prevention, contains ginger, which has the functions of invigorating the stomach and refreshing the brain.
(4) sterilization and detoxification
Scientific research has found that ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially for salmonella. In hot summer, food is easily contaminated by bacteria, and it grows and reproduces quickly, which is easy to cause acute gastroenteritis. Eating ginger in moderation can play a preventive role. Ginger extract has obvious effects of inhibiting skin fungi and killing trichomonas vaginalis, and can be used to treat various carbuncle, swelling and sores. In addition, Jiang Shui gargle can be used to treat halitosis and periodontitis.
5] Prevent carsickness and stop nausea and vomiting.
Refers to the "dyskinesia syndrome" caused by some sports. Studies have proved that the effective rate of ginger dry powder on motion sickness symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting is 90%, and the drug effect can last for more than 4 hours. People eat ginger to prevent motion sickness and seasickness, or paste Neiguan point, which has obvious effect, so it is known as "the holy medicine of vomiting family"
⒏ Cooking guide
(1) Eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little tender ginger on vegetables and fruits can increase appetite, so as the saying goes, "Ginger is not fragrant when you eat rice".
⑵ Ginger can be decocted, seasoned, stir-fried, sliced and baked at acupoints. Ginger can be used as seasoning or ingredient; Tender ginger can be used to stir-fry, stir-fry and stir-fry, such as "Fried shredded beef with tender ginger" and "Fried shredded duck with tender ginger".
⑶ Eating ginger at one time should not be too much, so as not to absorb a large amount of gingerol, which will stimulate the kidney in the process of excretion through the kidney, resulting in symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat and constipation.
(4) Don't eat rotten ginger and frozen ginger, because it will produce carcinogens after deterioration. Because ginger is warm and has the effect of relieving exterior syndrome, it can only be used as a diet therapy in the case of a cold.
Cooking purposes: Ginger is an important condiment. Because of its clear and spicy taste, it only dispels the peculiar smell of food, and does not mix the food with spicy taste. It is suitable as a flavoring agent for meat and poultry dishes, and also used to make cakes and sweets, such as gingerbread and ginger candy.
The trick of life
(1) Tips for peeling ginger
Ginger is uneven in shape and small in size, so it is very troublesome to remove the ginger skin. It is quick and convenient to peel the ginger skin around the beer bottle cap with your teeth.
⑵ Quality requirements of ginger
Prune clean, no dirt, roots, rot, blight, pests, high temperature and freezing. Ginger produces white hair when heated, and its skin turns red, which is easy to rot; When it's cold, the skin is soft, the skin falls off, and ginger juice runs through your hands.
Ginger can make people less sick. In summer, bacteria are killed because of the hot weather. Ginger is a natural heat source, which can improve physical fitness and make people less sick. If you feel uncomfortable, use ginger. When your body is hot, your resistance will be strong.
⒑ Health care and wonderful use.
(1) shredded ginger makes people go to bed early.
The method is: take a large piece of fresh ginger before going to bed every day, wash it, cut it into filaments, put it in a small box without a cover, and then put it on the pillow. After lying down, the smell of ginger on the pillow will gradually transform into the comfort of the brain, and the nervous mood will soon relax, and then you will sleep peacefully. The next day, you can dry the used shredded ginger and save it. At that time, you can brew with hot water and add some honey to drink, which is a healthy drink.
⑵ Ginger tablets treat constipation.
The method is: wash and dry a complete new brick, put it on a gas stove, heat it slowly with a small fire, then put ginger slices on the surface of the brick until it is covered, and then cover it with a clean gauze. Put on gloves after turning off the fire and move to the toilet seat. Of course, there must be a cushion at the bottom. Then sit on it 15-20 minutes twice a day.
⑶ Ginger blocks are used to treat pharyngitis.
Compared with garlic, fresh ginger has a stronger bactericidal effect, which can not only kill many viruses, but also kill some bacteria that have been resistant to antibiotics for a long time, which is of great benefit to pharynx anti-inflammation.
⒒ Ginger lowers blood sugar.
The results of animal experiments by Japanese researchers show that gingerol, a spicy component of ginger, can alleviate the increase of blood sugar. Researchers believe that this substance may have the same effect on people. According to Japanese media reports, researchers from Shikoku Agricultural Research Center in Feng Jingen, China, Japan fed experimental rats gingerol 19 days at a dose of 50 mg gingerol per 1 kg body weight. The researchers then continued to feed these experimental mice with glucose at a dose of 2 grams per 1 kg body weight. The measurement results after 1 hour showed that the blood sugar of these experimental mice increased by 147.3 mg/dl on average. The study also found that the blood sugar of the control group rats fed with glucose instead of gingerol increased by an average of 228.4 mg/dl. The researchers' analysis shows that gingerol can promote the increase of fat cells, which can inhale glucose in the blood, thus reducing the blood sugar value. Guan Gu Jingsan, an expert in the research center, said that if further research proves that gingerol can also exert the same effect on people, it may open up a new way for preventing and treating diabetes. 1. energy
Modern pharmacological research shows that ginger has antibacterial, anticancer, antioxidant and anti-aging effects, and its unique "gingerol" can effectively treat abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by overeating cold food. In addition, ginger can increase appetite and promote the secretion of digestive juice; Gingerol in ginger also has a strong cholagogic effect.
source
Source: Fresh rhizome of ginger.
Sexual taste
Pungent; Sexual temperature.
Meridian tropism
Enter lung, stomach and spleen meridians.
Functional indication
Relieve exterior syndrome, dispel cold, stop vomiting, warm lung and relieve cough. Commonly used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, or expectoration, stomach-qi disharmony and vomiting, cold and phlegm cold or cough, cold, bad wind and fever, stuffy nose and headache. It can also relieve drug poisoning such as Pinellia ternata and Nanxing, and food poisoning such as fish and crab.
use
Ginger can be decocted or mashed for oral administration, or applied externally, mashed, rubbed or fried and ironed.
pay attention to
Yin deficiency with internal heat syndrome and excess heat syndrome are prohibited.
The modern pharmacological research of dried ginger shows that the methanol or ether extract of dried ginger has sedative, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiemetic and short-term hypertension effects; Water extract or volatile oil can obviously prolong the time of thrombosis; The alcohol extract and its gingerol and gingerol ketone have obvious snail control and anti-schistosomiasis effects.
source
Dried ginger is the rhizome of dried ginger. Digging in winter, removing fibrous roots and sediments, and drying or sun-drying ginger to obtain dried ginger.
Sexual taste
Pungent in taste and hot in nature.
Meridian tropism
Enter spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians.
Functional indication
Warming meridians to dispel cold, returning yang to dredge collaterals, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. Used for epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs, weak pulse, excessive phlegm and cough. Dried ginger can draw blood medicine into the blood, gas medicine into the gas, and dispel evil and nourish the new, that is, yang generates yin, so it can be used for people with blood deficiency, as well as vomiting blood, epistaxis and bleeding.
use
Decoct with water, with the usual dosage of1.5-4.5g, or grind into powder for external use.
pay attention to
People with yin deficiency and internal heat and blood heat should avoid taking it; Pregnant women should take it carefully.