Since ancient times, "it is better to eat ginseng chicken soup than ginger in the morning." Eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic, so many people only eat ginger during the day and never touch ginger at night. According to experts, this is because ginger contains gingerol, which can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, enhance the function of the spleen and stomach during the day, and become the main problem affecting sleep and intestines, so it is not suitable for eating at night.

There is also much discussion about how to eat ginger. The proverbs "Don't eat ginger in autumn" and "Eat ginger and ginseng chicken soup in the morning and arsenic in the evening" have also been circulated for a long time. At night, the human body should nourish yin and suppress yang. Eating ginger at this time has several main hazards: it will make people excited and can't sleep. Stimulate nerves and affect heart function; Internal heat accumulation, lung yin and kidney water consumption. As for drinking ginger at night, it is very harmful to your health. In this regard, Sun Zhuo, director of Chinese Medicine Department of Dalian Fifth People's Hospital, answered a question, referring only to normal people.

Chinese medicine emphasizes that "if you are in the skin, you will sweat". So eating ginger in summer is good for your health. "Sweating will hurt the yang, eating cold food is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and taking a bath is also easy to catch a cold. Therefore, eating ginger or drinking brown sugar, ginger tea and ginger cola at this time can be used to treat colds caused by exogenous cold, internal injury and dampness or summer injury and dampness, and has the effect of sweating and dispelling cold. "

In addition, ginger also has detoxification effect. For example, a common Chinese medicine is used to boil a decoction, and sometimes patients are instructed to add a few slices of ginger to the decoction to adjust the taste of the Chinese medicine and detoxify it. Sun Zhuo said that adding ginger to raw Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis and other highly toxic drugs can reduce the toxicity.