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Can I eat ginger when I am chanting Buddha?
Of course.

At that time, the meat in Buddhism did not refer to chickens, ducks, fish, etc., but to garlic, garlic and other irritating vegetables. According to the Shurangama Sutra, five kinds of Buddhist poultry meat are garlic, small garlic, apricot koji, planted onion and wild onion. Five kinds of meat make people angry; Cooked food is obscene and makes people want to eat more. In Southern Buddhism today, even some people who believe in Hinayana Buddhism can still eat some meat.

According to Er Ya Yi, the meat of five Taoist birds is leek, garlic, radish, coriander and coriander. Brassica is now a kind of rape.

Ginger: relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough. Commonly used for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, or expectoration, stomach-qi disharmony and vomiting, cold and phlegm cold or cough, cold, bad wind and fever, stuffy nose and headache. It can also relieve drug poisoning such as Pinellia ternata and Nanxing, and food poisoning such as fish and crab.

Dried ginger: Warming meridians to dispel cold, restoring yang to dredge veins, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. Used for epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs, weak pulse, excessive phlegm and cough. Dried ginger can draw blood medicine into the blood, gas medicine into the gas, and it can dispel evil and nourish the new, that is, yang generates yin, so it can be used for people with blood deficiency, and it is also suitable for vomiting blood, epistaxis and bleeding.