The rhizome of dried ginger is irregular, flat and massive, with finger-like branches, 3 to 7 cm long and 1 to 2 cm thick. The surface is grayish brown or yellowish brown, rough and with obvious lines. Scales often remain on the branches, and there are stem marks or buds on the top of the branches. Solid mass, yellow-white or grayish-white cross section, powdery and granular. The inner cortex is obviously ringed, and veins and yellow oil spots are scattered. The smell is unique and the taste is spicy.
Dry ginger "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" is listed as a product of China, and ginger "Famous Doctors Bielu" is listed as a product of China. Tao Hongjing said: "Any method of making dried ginger: soaking in water for three days, peeling in running water for six days, peeling in disorder, drying in the sun, and brewing in porcelain jars for three days." Li Shizhen said that dried ginger is made of mother ginger, and it is good to be white and strong, so it should be used as medicine and soaked.
Ginger is divided into ginger and dried ginger.
Ginger is warm, mainly warming the stomach, and has a good anti-vomiting effect. Known as the "vomiting medicine", it has the effect of warming the lungs. Although ginger is warm but not dry, it will not cause sore throat and is quite safe.
However, dried ginger is pungent and hot, and belongs to spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians, especially dried ginger with solid texture, yellow-white cross section, full powder and strong smell. Its hot air can work the five internal organs and should not be used for many purposes or abused.
Nutritional value of dried ginger
The main components of rhizome are gingerol, gingerol and myrrh. The pungent smell of ginger is mainly formed by gingerol and gingerol. It has the effects of dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and stopping vomiting.
Dry ginger action
Dried ginger is spicy and hot; Spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians; Spicy, falling, staying; It has the effects of dispelling cold, restoring yang, dredging pulse, and gradually transforming lung into body fluid. Indications: epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, chest pain, stagnation of yang, cold-dampness pain, cold drink asthma and cough.
Common formula of dried ginger
1, cure the heartache of death: dried ginger powder, warm wine, square dagger, a moment, six or seven clothes, cups. ("Fill the back of the elbow")
2. For those who have less yin, lower energizer, clear grain, internal cold and external heat, limb syncope, faint pulse, aversion to cold, red complexion, abdominal pain, retching, or sore throat, or can't stop pulse, licorice 100g (fried) and aconite 1 piece (raw, peeled and broken into eight pieces), and dried in the sun. Take three flavors, take three liters of water, boil one liter and two, except me, take them at different temperatures, and the pulse will heal itself. (Tongmai Sini Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)
3, treatment of moderate cold diarrhea: dried ginger (cannon) crushed, drink 10 grams. (Qian Jinfang)
4. Treatment of dizziness and vomiting: Sichuan dried ginger100g (processed), 50g of licorice (fried red). The latter two flavors are coarse powder. Take 20-25g each time, use two glasses of water, fry for 8 minutes, and eat while it is hot. ("Communication Fang" Zhini Decoction)
5, treatment of vomiting during pregnancy: 50 grams of dried ginger ginseng, Pinellia ternata 100 grams. At the end of the three flavors, ginger paste was used as a pill, which was as big as a quintuple. Take ten tablets three times a day. ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" Dried Ginger Ginseng Pinellia Pills)
6. After treating typhoid fever, sweating recurs, restless day and night, quiet night, no vomiting, no thirst, no exterior syndrome, weak pulse and no body heat: one or two dried ginger and one aconite (raw, peeled and cut into eight pieces). The second taste is three liters of water, and one liter is boiled. I took it. ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases" Ganjiang Fuzi Decoction)
7, treatment of spleen deficiency cold malaria: dried ginger, galangal and other parts. To end it. Take 5g and a glass of water each time, and fry until medium-cooked. Second, fry the dried ginger until it is black, and then take San Qian with warm wine. ("Outside Taiwan Province")
8, cure cold dysentery cyan: dried ginger cuts beans, dried rice drinks six or seven tablets, three nights a day. ("Fill the back of the elbow")
9, treatment of vomiting blood: dried ginger, 5 grams of urine. (Qian Jinfang)
10, used for hematemesis: 4g of Angelica Sinensis and Colla Corii Asini, 2.5g of Chuanxiong, 5g of Pollen Typhae, 7.5g of Platycladus orientalis leaves, and stir-fried ginger charcoal for 7 minutes. Take it with water, and take it at the end. ("Guan Fang Ju Yao Bu" breaks the red drink)
1 1, cured, reduced diet, easy injury, weakness, muscle loss: dried ginger (frequently researched) 42, cut into pieces with white candied fruit, soaked in water, melted with iron, as big as meatballs. Drink 30 capsules per hollow rice. ("Top Ten Convenient Prescriptions")
12, if kidney is treated, its weight is colder than waist, if sitting in water, it looks like water, but it is not thirsty, urinating for self-interest, eating the same, the body is burnt, the waist is cold and painful, and the abdominal weight is as high as 5,000: licorice, Atractylodes macrocephala100g, dried ginger, Poria 200g. Four flavors, five liters of water, three liters of boiled water, and three different temperatures. ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" Ganjiang Lingshu Decoction)
13, treatment of pinkeye: white Jiang Mo, water adjustment, foot sticking. (Puji Fang)
14, initially treated carbuncle: 50g dried ginger. Stir-fry purple, grind into powder, rub vinegar around, and keep your head. ("Syndrome Differentiation")
15. To treat cough and upper gas, mash dried ginger (processed), Gleditsia sinensis (processed, peeled, peeled and moth-eaten) and Cinnamomum cassia (purple and peeled), sieve, take equal parts, add refined honey and mix well to make pills, the size of which is like five pills. Take three pills with water each time. Take it as soon as you cough, three to five times a day. No onions and oily noodles. There are special effects. (《》)
As far as each individual is concerned, there is a difference between cold and heat in constitution. If there is little deviation between cold and heat, press the above. However, some people who have a great deviation between cold and heat should pay attention. People who are full of heat often feel that their bodies have various manifestations of heat. Such people should not eat ginger during the day or at night, but should eat more cold food; People who have a cold often feel cold all over or are afraid of cold. If drinking ginger soup at night can drive away the cold, they will be warm, sleep well and eat more warm food at ordinary times.
Dried ginger,