Can beginning of autumn eat ginger?
Ginger is pungent and enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Eating ginger in summer can sweat and cool down, which has a certain heatstroke prevention effect. Second, it can dispel the cold, and it is easy to catch cold by blowing air conditioners frequently. Drinking a cup of ginger juice helps to dispel the cold in the body; Three can strengthen the spleen and stomach, gluttony and cold food will lead to spleen and stomach deficiency, and eating ginger will help warm the spleen and stomach, so Chinese medicine has the health concept of "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer".
But after the early autumn, it is different. The most important thing in autumn health preservation is to protect lung yin. You should stop eating spicy food or spices, such as pepper, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, onion and wine, especially ginger. There is a warning in ancient medical books: "Don't eat ginger in autumn within one year", and beginning of autumn should eat less or no ginger before and after. Because the vitality of nature begins to converge in autumn, the yang of human body also gradually converges, and the nature of ginger is to encourage the outflow of qi and blood, which is just the opposite of the trend of nature. Eating ginger at this time runs counter to our purpose of health preservation.
Beginning of autumn is particular about eating ginger.
Eat ginger in autumn, because ginger is a warm food, the following patients should not eat too much ginger:
1. Patients with stomach fever, eye diseases, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, diabetes, Sjogren's syndrome should not eat it.
2. Patients with internal heat such as halitosis, lung fever and dry cough.
3. People with yin deficiency constitution have fever in hands and feet, sweaty palms, dry mouth, dry eyes and dry skin.
4, easy to get angry.
Excessive consumption of ginger by these people will lead to aggravation of the disease.
Who can't eat ginger?
For eating ginger for health, the experience summarized by predecessors is "don't eat ginger at night within one day; Don't eat ginger in autumn for a year. "This sentence should be understood as follows:
1. It is a bit exaggerated but not unreasonable to say that you don't eat ginger at night and eat ginger arsenic at night.
Chinese medicine believes that at night, the yang begins to converge and the yin rises, so you should rest and recuperate at night. However, ginger is pungent and warm, contains volatile oil, and has the function of dispersing upward. Eating ginger at night will affect sleep, which is not conducive to the recovery of the body and harmful to the body.
2, don't eat ginger in autumn, because the autumn climate is dry, it is easy to hurt the lungs and become "autumn dryness". Ginger is a spicy food, which will aggravate the damage to the lungs, and at the same time will aggravate the dehydration and dryness of the body and aggravate the harm of autumn dryness to the body.
Therefore, it is not impossible to eat ginger in autumn, but it is not advisable to eat more. When eaten properly, ginger is also a good health product in autumn.