Ginger and dried ginger are the same thing. Ginger is a fresh rhizome of that year, with a light yellow-brown surface and strong fibers when broken. Dried ginger is a dry rhizome in previous years, with irregular lumps, grayish brown or fawn surface and yellowish white or grayish white cross section; Alpinia officinarum is the dried rhizome of Alpinia officinarum. The medicinal materials are cylindrical, with brownish red to dark brown surface and grayish brown or reddish brown cross section.

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Ginger, dried ginger and galangal can warm the middle energizer and dispel cold, and treat all kinds of middle energizer cold syndrome. The difference is that ginger can not only walk on the exterior, but also perspire to relieve exterior and dispel cold, which is used for mild symptoms of cold, such as fear of cold, fever, headache and stuffy nose. It can also stop vomiting, stimulate appetite, warm lung and relieve cough, and treat vomiting due to stomach cold, dyspepsia and cough due to lung cold.

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Dried ginger has strong medicinal properties, and it is good at warming the middle energizer to dispel cold, restoring yang and dredging veins, warming the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is often used to treat spleen and stomach cold pain, stomach cold vomiting, yang failure, cough and asthma, back cold, excessive phlegm and so on.

Alpinia officinarum can dispel cold and relieve pain, warm and stop vomiting, warm and disperse spleen and stomach cold evil, and stop pain and vomiting. Commonly used for stomach cold pain, stomach cold vomiting and other diseases. Alpinia officinarum can be used alone or in combination with herbs for warming the middle warmer and promoting qi circulation. For example, it is often used with ginger to treat stomach cold pain, nausea and vomiting.

galangal

There is a folk proverb in China: "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and keep healthy all year round", which means that eating ginger properly in hot summer can strengthen the stomach, stimulate appetite, sweat and cool down, refresh the mind, and relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, abdominal distension and abdominal pain. It is a good medicine for treating nausea, stomach cold and vomiting, and has the reputation of "the holy medicine for vomiting at home". In addition, ginger can detoxify Pinellia ternata, South Star, fish and crab. In daily life, if you have a cold, vomiting, cold cough or food poisoning, you can eat ginger dialectically to relieve the symptoms.

The three drugs are not suitable for all people and have certain contraindications. If the heat is abundant and the yin deficiency is internal heat, people can't eat ginger; People with yin deficiency and excessive fire syndrome, such as sore throat, dry throat, dry stool, or hemorrhoids, should avoid using ginger; Patients with hypertension should not eat more; Long-term use of ginger is easy to accumulate heat, help fire and hurt yin, and it is not suitable for long-term consumption of ginger; Rotten ginger contains toxic substances and is harmful to the liver. Don't eat rotten ginger. Dry ginger should be used with caution in pregnant women, and it is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and internal heat and blood heat. Alpinia officinarum is not suitable for people who are weak.

This article is selected from the tenth issue of Journal of Health and Well-being of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2020, recommended and published by the editor and proofreader of Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the copyright belongs to the original author.

Editor of Feicheng Health Bureau and Municipal Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine