Zhang Xichun said: "Fresh ginger is planted in the ground, cut after autumn, peeled and dried into dried ginger; The buds born on ginger are planted in the ground, and the ginger born that year is the ginger after autumn. It uses dried ginger as mother ginger and ginger as ginger. Dried ginger is old and tender. "

First, the efficacy application

Ginger is pungent and slightly warm. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian.

Efficacy: sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming and stopping vomiting, warming lung and relieving cough. Its characteristic is that it can be used as medicine, and it can also remove fishy smell, odor and cold, and is often used for cooking ingredients. Its efficacy is especially good at warming and nourishing to stop vomiting, and it is also good at relieving exterior cold, which is a good product for health care. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a proverb "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription". Sun Simiao called ginger the holy medicine for vomiting.

It is often used to treat wind-cold common cold, spleen-stomach deficiency cold, aversion to cold, vomiting, cough due to lung cold, food poisoning and other syndromes.

Summary of famous works:

"Bielu": "Ginger cures typhoid fever, headache and stuffy nose, stops cough and goes against qi, and stops vomiting."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Fruit juice detoxifies, breaks blood and neutralizes, eliminates cold and phlegm, and stimulates appetite."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Divergent use, moderate use."

Changsha Drug Solution: "Reducing adverse reactions, stopping vomiting, purging stomach and expelling turbidity, soothing the liver and regulating stomach stagnation, sweeping blood stasis in the chest, expelling stomach stagnation, smoothing nasal congestion, stopping abdominal pain, harmonizing viscera, and promoting health preservation are essential products for menstruation and publishing good medicine."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Dispelling yang and cold, dispersing lung qi, relieving depression, regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, resolving phlegm and opening food. Treat typhoid headache, cold, stuffy nose, cough, vomiting, chest obstruction, phlegm and diaphragm, cold pain and wet diarrhea. Eliminating dampness, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, enlightening the gods, eliminating filth and evil, saving sudden death, killing Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis, mushrooms, wild bird poison, eliminating fog and exposing miasma in Shan Lan. Squeeze the yellow glue and paste the rheumatism. "

"Treating Western Medicine Hot": "Be good at opening phlegm and regulating qi, stopping vomiting, and removing all exogenous pathogens. If you use its skin, its warmth retention will be slightly reduced, which is good for urination. Can relieve Pinellia ternata poison and mushroom poison. If you add less food, it can be a product for strengthening the stomach. "

Second, compatibility and application.

1. Used for exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache and nasal congestion. The spicy taste of ginger is announced, and the effect of sweating can be enhanced by adding spicy reliever. Guizhi decoction is known as the "crown of ten thousand square meters", and it is often combined with Guizhi, Paeonia lactiflora, Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Jujube to treat solar apoplexy and exogenous diseases. If the cold is mild, it can also be decocted alone or taken with a little brown sugar and perilla leaves, which has the effect of dispelling cold.

In the compatibility of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger and jujube are classics. Ginger and jujube are both medicinal and edible, but ginger is warm and loose, and it is loose when used alone, while jujube is warm and sticky. After the combination of the two drugs, ginger can be detained by jujube, which can control the disadvantages of ginger's loose knot, be sweet and sweet, and also warm up deficiency. It can be said that mutual development is strong and mutual preparation is short, which shows the wonderful compatibility of traditional Chinese medicine.

Ginger and jujube used together, warming and nourishing, have the function of nourishing the acquired spleen and stomach. So in a broad sense, all people with physical weakness can apply. If you can take it regularly and recuperate your body, it is really a good fitness method.

If the stomach is cold and weak, you can use a few slices of ginger, a few pieces of jujube (broken) and a piece of rock sugar, and often replace it with tea, which has the effect of warming the stomach and dispelling cold and strengthening the body. If the elderly, or people with dry eyes, can add some medlar and chrysanthemum, * * * drinks, it can nourish the liver and kidney, nourish the liver and improve eyesight.

Ginger and jujube have many uses in Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Ginger and jujube are often used in Zhongjing for three purposes: First, they are used for strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil spirits, such as Guizhi Decoction, Chaihu Decoction and singa Decoction. In addition to consolidating the roots with ginger and jujube, it also increases the power of eliminating evil spirits; Second, simply use it to strengthen the body, such as Jianzhong decoction, ginger and jujube compatibility, pungent and sweet, use it to strengthen the body; Third, detoxification with it is actually to control "toxic" drugs, such as Ten Jujube Decoction, Pinellia Decoction, Ginger Xiexin Decoction and so on. Ginger and jujube taste sweet, tonify deficiency, and can control fierce prescriptions. When attacking drugs are used, these two drugs are often added to various places.

Zhang Xichun said: "When it is used with jujube, it is good for camping and guarding. Using the sweetness of jujube, the surface does not sweat, but rotates between camp and guard, and the camp and guard are reconciled accordingly. "

2. Used for a variety of vomiting. Ginger can warm the stomach and moderate coke, reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting. It is really an important drug to warm the stomach and stop vomiting. Stomach cold, vomiting, spitting and spitting, dry mouth, retching and hiccup, and inedible in the valley. Pinellia is most often used with Xiaobanxia Decoction, a holy prescription for stopping vomiting. Among them, the compatibility of ginger and Pinellia ternata not only enhances the anti-vomiting effect, but also has the fear of killing each other. Ginger can control the poison of Pinellia ternata, killing two birds with one stone.

For vomiting due to heat syndrome, it is often combined with stomach-heat-clearing herbs such as Zhu Ru and Huang Lian to treat both cold and heat and attack and supplement.

For stomach disharmony, heart swelling and hardness, or water vapor under hypochondriac ribs and thunder in the abdomen, it is often combined with Ginseng, Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, Pinellia ternata and Jujube. , namely ginger diarrhea soup.

Huang Yuanyu said: "Ginseng, licorice, ginger and jujube are warm with qi deficiency and cold, while Coptidis Rhizoma and Scutellariae Radix are clear with scorching heat, while Pinellia ternata and ginger are clear with turbid qi, which can reduce swelling and stop cough."

Wang Angyan said: "There is vomiting when there is sound, no boxing when there is sound, and no vomiting when there is no sound. Its symptoms may be caused by cold, heat, eating, phlegm and qi rushing up. Ginger can promote qi and spit holy medicine. "

3. Used for cough due to lung cold. Ginger has the effect of warming lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and is often used in combination with other cold-dispelling and cough-relieving drugs.

If the runny nose and sneezing persist, ginger and cassia twig can be combined to help relieve itching. This is Zheng Qinan's famous prescription Gui Jiang Decoction.

Tang Buqi understood Zheng's wishes and treated cough and asthma due to lung-yang deficiency, with symptoms of foaming at the mouth and clearing phlegm, inability to lie down at night, puffy face and cold back. Commonly used high-dose ginger is combined with dried ginger and cassia twig, and then combined with Mahuang Fuzi Asarum Decoction, which has the functions of warming lung and dispelling cold, resolving phlegm and drinking both exterior and interior. He is a great doctor Vulcan.

4. Used for detoxification of Pinellia ternata, Rhizoma Arisaematis and fish and crab. Ginger can relieve the above poisons, especially when Pinellia ternata and Nanxing are used, it is often compatible with ginger in the same amount to kill each other, which can not only control the poisons, but also increase the antiemetic effect. It is a good method.

Such as fish, crabs, seafood, wild birds and so on. If you have vomiting and other discomfort, you can take it with ginger alone or add a little perilla leaf to relieve it.

Three. dosage

Ginger is often taken by decocting soup or mashing juice, but now it can be taken directly or made into pill powder without frying granules. Take traditional decoction as an example. If it is used for health preservation, a few tablets will do. If it is used for dispelling cold or warming the interior to replenish deficiency, it generally ranges from ten grams to dozens of grams; If it is used to alleviate adverse reactions, stop vomiting or detoxify producers, it is often used to more than tens of grams.

The compatibility of ginger and Pinellia ternata is toxic to Pinellia ternata, and its dosage is often the same as Pinellia ternata. Banxia Houpu Decoction for Zhongjing 125g or more.

Fourth, the application of attention.

Ginger is pungent and warm, and it is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and internal heat and excess heat.

Li Dongyuan said, "If you don't eat ginger at night, you will close the door at night and ginger will return to its original state. Don't eat ginger in autumn, harvest it in autumn and disperse it in autumn. Pregnant women eat more ginger, which makes their children ambiguous. "

Zhu Danxi said: "People who cough due to yin deficiency are mostly due to yin deficiency. It is also irritating to use Fritillaria instead of ginger. "

Wang Angyan said: "People all know that dried tangerine peel and ginger can stop vomiting, but they don't know when they vomited. Because of its ascending nature, it is not suitable for people with stomach heat. So is patchouli. " He also said: "If you eat and drink for a long time, you will get hemorrhoids, and those who eat sores will have rotten meat."

Zhang Xichun said, "If pregnant women eat it, their children will be confused. If you eat at home, it will cause meat to go bad. "

Auxiliary materials: the efficacy and application of ginger peel

Ginger skin is the skin cut by ginger. The taste is pungent and cool. Function and splenic circulation. It is usually used for edema syndrome, which means skin to skin. To treat edema, it is often combined with diuretic and detumescence drugs such as Poria cocos skin, Mulberry bark and Areca nut skin, that is, Wupi Yin. The usual dosage is more than ten grams.

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Ginger skin is pungent and cool, and the spleen circulates water to cure edema."

-Notes on actual combat of TCM: 21.1.1/revised at night.

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