However, do you know that there are many members of the "family" of ginger, and different varieties have different effects. Many people actually eat and use it wrong!
0 1 ginger
Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting and resolving phlegm, relieving cough, and relieving fish and crab poison. When people have a cold and cough due to cold phlegm, they are often used as adjuvant therapy.
Characteristics of wind-cold cold: low fever, chills, stuffy nose, runny nose, cough with thin white sputum, etc.
dispel cold
Practice: Take a proper amount of ginger, shred, wash mint leaves and brew with water to help dispel the cold.
At the same time, ginger can also be used to relieve nausea and vomiting. People who are not disgusted with the taste of ginger can cut it into thin slices, stick two pieces on the inside of the mouth, and slowly swallow the body fluid in the mouth, which can play a better role in stopping vomiting.
02 Xiao Jiang
Young ginger, also known as tender ginger, is a kind of ginger with white color and smooth skin, which has the functions of regulating spleen and stomach, warming stomach and dispelling cold. Compared with ginger, its texture is crisp and tender, with less fiber, more water and less spicy taste. Can be pickled and fried, often eaten as a side dish.
One of the magic weapons of Lu, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, is to soak ginger in vinegar made of young ginger. Lu Lao used to have a bad spleen and stomach, bloating and burping. Later, I ate 2~3 tablets a day to regulate my spleen and stomach, and persisted for twenty or thirty years.
Vinegar ginger
Practice: Wash ginger, dry it, slice it, and add a little salt to pickle it 12 hours. Put the pickled ginger slices in a sealed bottle, pour vinegar into the ginger slices, add appropriate amount of white sugar (not suitable for diabetics), and finally seal the plastic wrap, cover the bottle cap and leave it for more than 4 days to eat.
Note: it is best to eat at 7~ 1 1 spleen and stomach in the morning, and the effect is better; It is not recommended for people with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
03 dried ginger
Clean fresh ginger, and dry it in the sun or with low fire to make dried ginger.
Ginger is mostly used to dispel external cold; Dried ginger is hot, which has a strong effect of warming the middle and dispelling cold, and is good at dispelling internal cold, so it is more suitable for people with frequent diarrhea, abdominal pain and loose stool.
Gancao ginger decoction
Practice: Take 6 grams of dried ginger and 9 grams of licorice and add water to decoction, which is helpful to relieve cough, excessive phlegm and other related symptoms caused by spleen yang deficiency.
In addition, dried ginger also has a good effect of restoring yang and dredging veins, and has a good conditioning effect on diseases such as joint obstruction and meridian obstruction.
04 pickled ginger
Add river sand into the wok, heat with strong fire, add dried ginger slices, stir-fry until the surface of ginger is brown, remove the sand from the wok, and the homemade fried ginger is finished.
Compared with dried ginger, the spicy taste of processed ginger is reduced, which is stronger than that of removing palace cold and viscera cold, and it also increases the hemostatic effect. People with deficiency cold, people with stomach cold and bleeding, and people with postpartum bleeding can all be nursed back to health with processed ginger under the guidance of doctors.
05 ginger charcoal
After the wok is preheated, add dried ginger slices and stir-fry over high fire until the surface is brown and the inside is brown, which is ginger charcoal.
After such processing, the pungent taste of ginger charcoal dissipated and the astringent taste increased. Therefore, the charcoal of ginger is longer than that of processed ginger, and its astringency is stronger than that of processed ginger, but its warming effect is not as good as that of processed ginger. Under the guidance of a doctor, it can be used for the adjuvant treatment of deficiency-cold bleeding, hematemesis, metrorrhagia and excessive stool.
In daily life, we can grind ginger charcoal into fine powder and sprinkle it directly on the surface of oral ulcer, which can play a better role in relieving pain and assisting in repairing ulcer.
06 ginger skin
Ginger and dried ginger are warm, but their skins are different. It's cool.
In terms of efficacy, ginger bark is good at promoting blood circulation to reduce swelling and diuresis, and can also be used for adjuvant treatment of some skin diseases with redness, swelling and heat pain.
Usually, everyone washes and dries fresh ginger, and then scrapes off the skin. You can use dried ginger skin. [ 1]
Note: when using ginger, you should actually pay attention. In some cases, it is best to remove the ginger skin so as not to affect its pungent and warm function. For example, when soaking feet, you can remove the ginger skin and boil the ginger before using it; It is best to remove the ginger skin when eating crabs, so as to better balance the coldness.
It can be seen that ginger, young ginger, dried ginger, processed ginger, ginger charcoal and ginger skin are all "ginger", but their effects are different, and they have their own wonderful uses in health care. Everyone must distinguish when using it!