Onion, ginger and garlic are not only the best seasonings for cooking dishes, but also their medicinal value has been recorded in China's famous medical book Compendium of Materia Medica. For thousands of years, people often collect them for treating diseases, which is cheap and effective, showing the profoundness of traditional medical culture in China.

Onions:

Onion, a Liliaceae plant, is pungent and warm, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, activating yang and inhibiting bacteria. Tao Hongjing's Records of Famous Doctors in the Liang Dynasty recorded: "Onion can remove liver evil, stabilize the middle energizer, benefit the five internal organs and kill various medicines." Li Shizhen in Ming Dynasty said: "Onion is one of the five kinds of poultry meat in Buddhism. Xin San, cooked sweet, external deficiency, lung food. Suitable for lung diseases. " Onions can be used as medicine all over the body. Onion with beard can be used externally to dispel cold and sweat, and taken orally to promote yang and relieve pain. Onion leaves are diuretic, onion seeds are strong, and onion juice is detoxified. Chinese medicine can be used to treat wind-cold, fever and headache by decocting three onions and three pieces of Jiang Shui in clinic. Mash the scallion into juice, and when sweating, mash it into paste with raw scallion 15g and ginger 15g and a little salt, wrap it with cloth, and rub it on the palm, chest, back and armpit of elbow fossa to sweat and reduce fever. When a baby vomits milk due to a cold, you can add 2 ~ 3 chopped scallions to a small cup of human milk, steam it thoroughly, and take the milk several times, which has excellent curative effect. Children's numbness can't be diagnosed completely. You can pound the navel with scallion, and the rash will come out soon. In addition, mashed raw onions can treat bee bites.

Ginger:

Ginger is a ginger plant. Its rhizome is spicy and lukewarm, and its aroma is specific. This product enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming and stopping vomiting. Medicinal use can be divided into fresh ginger, dried ginger and soaked ginger. As the saying goes: "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe." It can be seen that ginger has great medicinal value and a wide range. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is often used for exogenous wind-cold, phlegm-dampness invading the lungs or spleen-deficiency stomach-cold, and water-dampness stopping internally. Poisoning of fish-eating crabs can be alleviated by taking ginger juice or decoction orally. Because of Jiang Xin's strong dispersion, it has the function of resolving phlegm and stopping vomiting, and it is used with fresh bamboo to treat apoplexy, phlegm confusion and dumb mouth. Ginger is less irritating after cooking, can warm the middle warmer and dispel cold, and can treat stomach cold and abdominal pain. Ginger skin is pungent and cool, and has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Clinically, many kinds of Chinese medicines such as Poria cocos skin, Mulberry bark, Acanthopanax bark, Pericarpium Arecae and so on can be used to treat skin surface edema. Pharmacological research shows that the volatile oil contained in ginger can accelerate blood circulation, warm the whole body and excite nerves. Gingerol can stimulate gastric juice secretion and promote digestion. Taking a large amount can cure dry mouth and sore throat, and it will be excreted by the kidney after absorption, which will stimulate the onset of nephritis, so it is very useful for patients with kidney disease. Dried ginger can warm the middle warmer to dispel cold, return yang to dredge collaterals, eliminate dampness and eliminate phlegm, and can treat cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastrium, cold limbs, slight pulse, expectoration, asthma and cough. Soaking ginger to warm the middle warmer and dispel cold, warming meridians to stop bleeding, can be used for spleen and stomach deficiency cold, abdominal pain and vomiting, metrorrhagia, yang deficiency and blood loss.

Garlic:

Garlic, also known as gourd, is the rhizome of Liliaceae. It is warm and spicy, and the allicin contained in it has a strong bactericidal effect, which has obvious treatment and prevention value for bacterial, fungal and protozoan infections. Li Mingzhizhen wrote "Compendium of Materia Medica", saying: Garlic is "strong in qi, which can dredge the five internal organs, achieve enlightenment, dispel cold and dampness, eliminate pathogenic factors, relieve pain and swelling, eliminate symptoms and accumulate meat." Ancient Greek athletes used garlic as health food, while ancient Romans used garlic to treat colds, asthma, measles, convulsions and other diseases, with excellent curative effect. In the 5th century, Indians found that eating garlic can enhance their intelligence and have a loud voice. Chinese medicine has found that 3-5 cloves of garlic can be mashed with boiling water or cooked with charcoal fire, 3 grams each time, which can cure dysentery and acute enteritis; Eat a few cloves of vinegar and garlic every day to treat cold pain in the heart, and it will be fine in 3 days. Oral garlic juice and cream can cure hyperlipidemia. 4 pieces of garlic, decocted in water and smoked while hot, can cure vulvar itching; Eating garlic raw and gargling with warm salt water is a good way to prevent Japanese encephalitis.