So, does eating ginger often really help our health? Today, I will share the medicinal value of ginger with my friends.
The efficacy of ginger and its benefits to people: Chinese medicine believes that ginger is pungent in taste and warm in nature, which can dredge the lungs, spleen and stomach when used as medicine, and has a good effect of "dispelling cold, warming the lungs to stop vomiting and relieving cough".
1, ginger can dispel cold evil in the body.
Ginger is pungent and good at dispelling cold evil in the body. Eating ginger in peacetime can effectively prevent the occurrence of wind-cold exterior syndrome. Like a cold caused by careless cold in life, you can make tea with ginger.
In addition, for people with cold evil in the body, eating ginger can also play the role of dispelling cold and eliminating evil. In particular, some women who are physically weak and often afraid of cold often eat ginger in their lives, which is of great help to their health.
2. Ginger can help people stop vomiting
Ginger is warm and effective in stopping vomiting. In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is also regarded by doctors as an "antiemetic medicine".
Moreover, the antiemetic effect of ginger can be applied to many aspects. For example, in the case of vomiting caused by cold, nausea and vomiting caused by motion sickness and seasickness, vomiting caused by food poisoning, vomiting caused by women during pregnancy, eating ginger can play a very good role in stopping vomiting.
3. Ginger can relieve abdominal cold pain.
When our spleen and stomach are attacked by cold pathogens, we often feel cold pain in our stomach. There are also a large number of ladies and friends who are prone to abdominal pain and other symptoms after catching a cold. Especially when the woman is in the physiological period, this symptom will be more obvious.
For the above situation, we can also boil water with ginger and add some brown sugar to cook together, which will have a better effect of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain.
4. Ginger can relieve lung cold and relieve cough and asthma.
Ginger is pungent and warm, which can spread lung qi, eliminate phlegm and block collaterals. Eating ginger can effectively relieve cough and asthma caused by phlegm and blood stasis and lung qi failure.
However, the pungent and warm nature of ginger is more suitable for cough and asthma caused by cold pathogen invading the lung, and it is seldom used if it is caused by lung heat.
People who are not suitable for eating ginger: Although ginger belongs to the homology of medicine and food, it will not have obvious side effects on people if it is eaten frequently. However, from the perspective of drug safety, some people should not eat ginger.
1, people with toxic heat and pathogenic fire in their bodies.
Ginger is pungent and warm, which contributes to the formation of toxic heat and evil fire, but people who are toxic heat and evil fire in their bodies are not suitable for eating ginger in life. In order to prevent it from contributing to fire, it will be harmful.
2. People with high blood pressure in their bodies
Some modern medical experiments have found that ginger has certain influence on human blood pressure. After people eat too much ginger, their blood pressure will rise.
Therefore, for patients with hypertension, it is not appropriate to eat a lot of ginger in life.
3. People who are allergic to ginger
In fact, there are still some people in life who are allergic to ginger. After eating ginger, they will have obvious adverse reactions such as dry mouth, sore throat and palpitation.
Therefore, when we are prone to such symptoms after eating ginger, it is not suitable for eating ginger.