Alias are ginger root, Bailayun, Lycium barbarum, wild lily, Yan Liang Xiaozi, fresh ginger and honey-baked ginger. The rhizome of ginger (dried ginger), cortex Phellodendri (ginger bark) and leaves (Jiang Ye) can all be used as medicine. Ginger has the functions of dispersing, stopping vomiting and relieving cough in traditional Chinese medicine.
Perennial herbs. The rhizome is fleshy, thick, flat, fragrant and spicy. Leaves are in rows, thorium-shaped to strip-lanceolate, 15-30 cm long and about 2 cm wide, tapering at the top and tapering at the bottom, smooth and hairless, with leaf sheaths supporting the stems; No handle.
Flowering stems erect and separated by imbricate scales; Spikes are ovoid to oval, about 5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide; Bracts ovate, pale green; Flowers dense, about 2.5 cm long, with acute apex; Calyx short tubular; Corolla 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate, yellow, short lips, oblong obovate, lavender, with yellow-white spots, lobules on both sides of the lower half; Stamens 1, prominent, ovary inferior; Style filiform, lavender, stigma radial. Capsule oblong, expanding about 2.5 cm, flowering from June to August.
You can't eat with leeks. Leek is a warm food, which helps to promote qi and regulate blood, and ginger is also a warm food. Eating together tends to warm the body. In addition, ginger may be sour when cooking leeks, which may affect the taste.
Can't eat with celery, celery itself can help reduce blood pressure and soothe the nerves, enrich blood and strengthen the spleen, relieve cough and diuresis, but if you eat ginger while eating celery, it is easy to produce salty bitterness. It is best not to put ginger in celery dishes, which will affect the taste of green vegetables.
Can't eat with rabbit meat, rabbit meat is cold food, and ginger is warm. If eaten together, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, it is not advisable to put ginger when cooking rabbit meat. You can't eat with horse meat, and ginger can't eat with horse meat. Horse meat is pungent and cold food, which can warm menstruation and strengthen yang, while ginger is pungent and warm food, which can sweat and relieve exterior syndrome. Eating them together not only can't play a corresponding role, but also may cause physical discomfort.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is warm and has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, relieving asthma and nourishing stomach. As far as medicinal properties are concerned, there is no food that should not be eaten with ginger. There is a saying in China that cows have no leeks and sheep have no ginger. The first half of the sentence makes sense, and the second half is pure nonsense. Nowadays, mutton has never been without ginger. Nowadays, many porridge recipes for nourishing the stomach or nourishing yin and strengthening yang are made of mutton and ginger.
Herbal Drama: Talking about clouds: Ginger and jujube are sweet and sweet. Solid energy can be divergent, but it is not used exclusively for divergent purposes. Taking the spleen as the main body fluid of the stomach, ginger and jujube are used, which are specially used for the body fluid of the spleen.
Jieguyun: Ginger is warm, sweet and spicy, strong, floating and sunny. There are four purposes: making Magnolia Officinalis and Pinellia ternata, dispelling colds, warming the middle warmer and eliminating dampness, and benefiting the spleen and stomach. Dongyuanyun: Ginger is the holy medicine for vomiting. Xin is scattered, but vomiting is not scattered. This thing can strengthen yang and dissipate qi. There is another cloud: ginger can reduce phlegm and qi, benefit the spleen and stomach, and dispel cold. Main typhoid headache, nasal congestion, dredge limbs and joints, and open internal organs. Another cloud: ginger and jujube are used together to harmonize the spleen and stomach; Pungent warming is compatible with Radix Paeoniae Alba, warming channels and dispelling cold.