Ginger is a fresh rhizome and perennial herb. The rhizome is fleshy, thick, flat, fragrant and spicy. Excavate in autumn and winter to remove fibrous roots and sediment. There are tender ginger and old ginger, tender ginger is used for pickles, and old ginger is better as medicine.
Ginger contains volatile gingerol and gingerol, which has the functions of promoting blood circulation, dispelling cold, removing dampness and sweating. In addition, it also has the effects of invigorating stomach, stopping vomiting, removing fishy smell and eliminating edema. So doctors and folks say? Xiao Jiang at home, don't panic if you are sick? , what else? Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer doesn't bother the doctor to prescribe medicine? Statement.
The efficacy and function of ginger are pungent, slightly warm, and enter the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. Sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung, stopping vomiting, relieving cough, detoxifying fish and crab poison, especially poisoning fish and crab poison, Pinellia ternata, Arisaema tuber and other drugs. Suitable for exogenous wind-cold, headache, excessive phlegm, cough, stomach cold and vomiting; After suffering from ice, snow, dampness and cold, drinking with ginger soup can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and dispel cold evil.
1. Stimulate appetite and digestion
Chewing ginger can lead to high blood pressure. Gingerol can stimulate the oral cavity and gastric mucosa, promote the secretion of digestive juice and stimulate appetite. Can increase intestinal tension, rhythm and peristalsis.
Stop vomiting
It has peripheral antiemetic effect, and the effective component is a mixture of zinone and zinone. When traveling abroad, taking ginger before departure, or sticking a piece on your navel or smelling it on your nose can prevent motion sickness. So people own it? Go out to eat a piece of ginger for health? Statement.
Ginger is an important drug for treating vomiting, which can be used alone to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold. It can also be used for vomiting due to stomach heat. Combined with Pinellia ternata, Zhu Ru and Huang. Ginger can detoxify fish and crabs, and can be used alone or together with perilla.
3. Promoting blood circulation and dispelling cold
It can stimulate the respiratory and vascular movement centers and promote blood circulation. Ginger soup boiled with ginger and brown sugar can promote blood circulation to drive away cold and prevent colds. It has been a good medicine for colds since ancient times.
Ginger is used to relieve exterior syndrome, mainly for dispelling cold. It is often used to treat mild colds, decoct soup, and heat it with brown sugar, which can often cause sweating, and can also be used as a drug to prevent colds. Ginger has a weak sweating effect, and is often used with Ephedra and Cinnamomum cassia. Ginger, as an auxiliary drug for sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, can enhance sweating power.
disinfect
In vitro experiments show that ginger has obvious inhibitory effect on typhoid Bacillus and Vibrio cholerae.
Help yang
According to the theory of Chinese medicine, ginger is a product that helps yang, and Chinese medicine has existed since ancient times? Men can't live without ginger for a hundred days? The language. Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, described an 80-year-old monk in Jingci Temple, Qiantang, Hangzhou, in Dongpo Miscellanies. I have always believed in Jiang for 40 years, so I am not old? . Legend has it that White Snake stole Xiancao to save Xu Xian. This fairy grass is ginger bud. Ginger has another name? Fuxing grass? And ginger soup is also called? Resurrection soup .
expel toxin
Ginger can also relieve the poison of Pinellia ternata and Rhizoma Arisaematis, and be used for symptoms such as hoarseness, tongue swelling and numbness caused by Pinellia ternata and Rhizoma Arisaematis. Therefore, ginger is often used together to reduce their toxicity when processing Pinellia ternata and Rhizoma Arisaematis.
The nutritional value of ginger The nutritional components of ginger are similar to those of onion and garlic, and it also contains protein, sugar, vitamins and other substances, as well as plant antibiotics, which have no less bactericidal effect than onion and garlic.
Ginger also contains more volatile oil, which can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and prevent cholesterol from accumulating in liver and serum.
The main components of volatile oil are gingerol, gingerol, phellandrene, citral, linalool and so on. It also contains gingerol, a pungent ingredient, which is decomposed into gingerol and gingerol. In addition, it also contains aspartic acid, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, serine, glycine, threonine, alanine and so on.
Ginger should be pruned clean, without dirt, roots, rot, wilting, insect damage, high temperature and freezing. The appearance is yellowish and looks very white and tender. Peeled ginger is smoked and baked with sulfur.
Storage of ginger 1. Wash, dry and bury in a salt pot.
2. Put fresh ginger in a pot, jar or jar, cover it with 3 cm thick wet fine sand, and then cover it, which can keep fresh for 1 ~ 2 months.
3. Wash fresh ginger, dry it, slice it, put it into a clean and dry jar prepared in advance, then pour in white wine, and finally seal it, so that it can keep fresh for a long time.
4. Wash it, put some salt in a small plastic bag, don't seal it, take it with you, and it will last about 10 days.
5. Soak ginger in salt water 1 hour, then take it out and dry it, and put it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh and tender for a long time.
How to eat ginger 1? ginger juice
Ginger is washed, mashed and twisted into medicine. The taste is spicy and slightly warm. It has the effect of resolving phlegm and stopping vomiting, and is mainly used for nausea, vomiting and cough with excessive phlegm. Generally, the dosage is three to ten drops, taken orally.
2. Ginger skin
Ginger skin. It tastes spicy and cold. It has diuretic and repercussive effects, and is suitable for dysuria and edema. Can be paired with winter melon skin and mulberry skin. Generally, the dosage is 50 cents to 1 yuan and 50 cents, and it is decocted.
Stewed ginger
Clean the original fresh ginger, wrap it in papyrus, soak it in clear water, and simmer it directly with fire until the papyrus is brown and the ginger is cooked; Or just set fire to it. It is pungent and warm, and has the effect of stopping vomiting. Suitable for spleen and stomach disharmony, nausea and vomiting. Generally, the dosage is two or three tablets, which are decocted.
4. Ginger and ginger slices are used for cooking, which can remove the fishy smell and increase the flavor of food.
Don't peel it
Some people like to peel ginger, which can't give full play to the overall effect of ginger. Fresh ginger can be shredded and sliced after washing.
6. From the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with stomach cold, cold or fever after rain, not for patients with summer heat or wind-heat cold, nor for treating heatstroke. Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is ineffective for other types of vomiting.
7. Don't eat rotten ginger
Rotten ginger contains safrole, which is highly toxic to the liver, can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, and induce liver cancer and esophageal cancer. So once you find that ginger is rotten, you must not eat it.
8. Eating ginger is not as much as possible. It is hot in summer, and people are prone to dry mouth, polydipsia, sore throat and sweating, while ginger is pungent and warm, which is a hot food. Hot people are cold? In principle, it is not advisable to eat more.