The hotter it is, the more I want to eat something hot. In summer, the yang is on the body surface, but the spleen and stomach feel cool. Spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Only by keeping the spleen and stomach warm can the body withstand the four tests of humidity, heat, gas consumption and air-conditioning cold drinks in summer. If the spleen and stomach are trapped by cold and dampness, it can be mild, such as loss of appetite, nausea and retching, cold limbs, dull complexion and heavy limbs, and severe abdominal obesity, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and kidney deficiency.
Therefore, the ancient health training "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription", eating ginger nourishes the yang of the spleen and stomach and protects the spleen and stomach from cold and dampness.
What role does ginger play as the "chosen son" of tonifying yang? How did the ancients eat ginger? Is it as boring as ginger slices used by modern people? Do they drink ginger jujube tea?
Sun Zhenren: The medicine for vomiting is ginger.
Shennong's Herbal Classic: pungent and warm, the main chest is full of cough against the upper qi, warming the middle to stop bleeding, sweating, expelling wind, damp arthralgia, abdominal distension and diarrhea. People who are alive are particularly good. After a long time, the stench will be removed, and the immortals will be enlightened.
The function of ginger can be summarized as follows:
1, warm, expectorant and antiemetic.
Stomach governs descending. If you are trapped in cold and dampness and stagnate, the stomach qi will rise instead of falling, which will become an upward trend. Common burps, nausea and vomiting, and white and thin sputum in the mouth.
Ginger is pungent and warm, which can dispel cold and dampness, strengthen spleen and stomach, reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting. Sun Zhenren said that ginger is an "antiemetic medicine". People who are prone to motion sickness and seasickness, if the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold, can chew ginger or stick ginger slices on the navel, which can warm the spleen and stomach, reduce qi and stop vomiting.
The warmth of ginger can also relieve cold toxins such as fish and shrimp, and eating crabs is often accompanied by shredded ginger; Ginger can also detoxify Pinellia ternata, so Jiang Banxia cooked it with ginger juice.
2, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold
Ginger Xin San can warm the lungs, warm the exterior, open pores and sweat, and drive away cold and dampness on the body surface. After getting wet in the rain, I made a bowl of ginger soup and sent away the plague cold.
In modern times when air conditioning and air conditioning are prevalent, it is of special significance to eat ginger in summer, that is, to let the yang enter the sun collaterals (a small part of collaterals) and muscles smoothly.
The four-hour theory in Huangdi Neijing: "Spring qi is in the meridians, summer qi is in the sun collaterals, and long summer qi is in the muscles". Everyone stays in the air-conditioned room, sweating less, and the rise of yang is actually incomplete.
Eating some ginger, leading the yang to the body surface and sweating (or not sweating) will help the yang to reach all corners of the body surface, so that it will not accumulate pathogenic factors such as cold and dampness, and avoid local cold, numbness or meridian blockage in the future.
Don't underestimate these small parts. These small places are precisely the key to the normal return of qi and blood, which is related to the normal operation of the internal organs.
What did the ancients gain from eating ginger?
Nowadays, people get a lot of feedback from eating ginger, such as no longer getting acne on their chin, not getting cold hands and feet, looking better and losing weight. What kind of feedback did the ancients have when they ate ginger?
Dongpo Miscellanies records a story of Su Dongpo, a great writer:
I visited Qiantang, yesterday I was in prison, and I visited Jingci Temple. One of them is a monk in his 80s named Cong Wang Yao. His face is like Dan's and his eyes are very different. He persuaded Jiang for 40 years, so he is not old. Jiang Yun can strengthen the spleen, warm the kidney, promote blood circulation and replenish qi.
Its method takes ginger without tendons, without ginger. If it is wrong, it will peel and crack, take the juice and put it in a container. After a long time, Huang Chengcheng's milk will be removed, and it will be white and thick, and it will be dried in the shade, which is called ginger milk.
Search for steamed cakes or rice, pills such as tung nuts, wine or salty rice soup, swallow dozens of pills, or take the last wine, vegetables and tea to eat.
Cong Yun: Monks in the mountains are lonely and hopeless. He chewed his skin and swallowed his ears with warm water. It was spicy at first, but it didn't last long. Now it's just sweet.
The wise medicine king said it was too much trouble to make ginger milk. Even if I chew the skin together and send it with warm water, it will also help.
Ancient people ate and used ginger.
1, ginger milk
The ginger milk mentioned above is a way of eating, also called ginger starch and ginger element. In fact, it is white powder like lotus root starch, which is also used to make cakes, snacks and porridge.
Ginger milk powder is actually trace mineral elements such as protein and gingerol in ginger. Refined ginger milk is not as spicy as ginger and can be given to children with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Ginger milk is soluble in water, and can also be used as a mask or mixed with cream to wipe the face, a little at a time, so that the face is warm and not easy to grow spots (if you are allergic to blushing, don't try it easily).
The method is to grind ginger, wring out the juice and let it stand for two days until it is clear into powder. DIY needs a lot of ginger, so it's better to find it on a treasure. Search keywords: ginger, ginger starch, ginger milk.
2. Tongshen cake
From the Song Dynasty's "Shanjia Qing Palace", it can be seen that ginger can connect the gods, and the cake that connects the gods is actually gingerbread.
Exercise:
Slice ginger, shred onion and blanch in hot water with salt. Add sugar and white flour to reduce the spicy taste. Add sesame oil and stir fry. Eating can dispel the cold.
This is still relatively simple. Mom who has time to cook can do it. After all, it's boring for their family to eat ginger slices every day. Making changes is good for their health.
3. Ginger porridge
There are two ways to do this. One way is to directly cook porridge and turn it to low heat, and directly add shredded ginger until the porridge can be cooked. One is to twist ginger juice and cook porridge with ginger juice.
Step 4 wear ginger
Many people have heard the story that the famous doctor Wang Mengying saved his boss's life with dried ginger. Wang Mengying didn't play with it. Wearing ginger is a tradition of the ancients.
The ancients also took an "emergency medicine box" when they traveled, but it was not our cold medicine, but ginger, dried ginger, garlic, wormwood, rhubarb, atractylodes macrocephala and so on.
Qian Jin Fang in Tang Dynasty: "When a mortal travels, he always takes a liter of cooked wormwood ... rhubarb, mirabilite, licorice, dried ginger and pepper".
The ancients also wore ginger on the day they fell asleep. "Fun Life Diet Spectrum": On the first day of sleep, they put ginger on for women to wear. The older you get, the better you can treat Yang deficiency syndrome. The famous woman is dressed in ginger.
The woman wearing ginger is actually very similar to the three-volt sticker. There are usually ginger in the dog days stickers. When there are no dog days, consider wearing a piece of ginger as a healthy walking model, hahaha.
5. Ginger milk tea
There is a famous specialty in Guangdong, ginger milk, and there is a ginger milk tea in Dan Xi Xin Fa written by Zhu Zhenheng in Yuan Dynasty.
Take 200ml of fresh milk, 50ml of leek juice, ginger juice 15ml, and appropriate amount of sugar. Pour ginger juice and leek juice into milk and boil together. Season with sugar, 2 doses a day, and take it on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.
Generally speaking, people with yin deficiency are not suitable for eating ginger, but this kind of tea can moisten the lungs and nourish the stomach, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, tonify deficiency and reduce fever, and people with yin deficiency and cold body are suitable for drinking. You can try this tea after illness, postpartum constipation or senile constipation.
The method of taking ginger jujube tea is suitable for medical saints.
At present, the most popular ginger jujube tea and ginger jujube pills are taken from doctor Zhang Zhongjing. In Treatise on Febrile Diseases 1 13, 35 prescriptions use ginger and jujube to strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach, and eliminate cold and dampness.
Ginger helps to defend qi and stop sweating, and jujube helps to nourish blood and stop sweating. When you are observing, you can adjust and camp, and you can't delay.
Ingredients: 3 pieces of ginger and 6 pieces of jujube.
Practice: break the jujube and cook it, put it in a pot with ginger, boil it over high fire, cook it over low fire for 30-40 minutes or stew it in a stew pot for 30 minutes;
Matters needing attention when reading the text:
1, jujube must be opened, and the soup or porridge that is not boiled has no jujube flavor, but the sweet essence of jujube is not cooked;
2. If possible, it is best to use Dioscorea zingiberensis, which is an authentic medicinal material of ginger, and its effect is better than that of ordinary ingredients ginger;
3, cooking Chinese medicine pays attention to the soup to live, the soup should be cooked. If caught in the rain and frozen by the air conditioner, you can boil it for 2-3 minutes, then pour it out and take it away. If the spleen and stomach are warmed and cooked for a long time, the soup will be mellow and stay in the middle;
4, it is best to drink in the morning, don't drink in the afternoon and evening (main convergence)
5. If the grains don't melt (that is, what the food looks like when you eat it, you can see the original shape when you pull it out), if it is diarrhea, you can change the ginger into dried ginger;
6. If it is cold and wet (thick and greasy tongue coating, cold hands and feet, cold stomach), you can add a few peppers or a small piece of Atractylodes macrocephala;
7, the right person:
Pale tongue, cold hands and feet, fear of cold, frequent diarrhea, stool deformation, edema, stomach cold, spleen and stomach yang deficiency, cold and dampness, qi stagnation and blood stasis;
8. Unsuitable people:
People with yin deficiency (red tongue with little fur, map tongue, cleft tongue, five upset eyes, dry mouth and eyes, dry skin) eat less or not.
People with internal heat (red tongue and yellow greasy fur, stomach heat vomiting, bad breath, hemorrhoid bleeding, sores, wind-heat cold) eat less or not.
People with hepatitis generally avoid eating ginger. Children are pure yang and generally don't need to eat ginger.
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