The difference between ginger and dried ginger lies in the preparation method, medicinal properties, efficacy and main treatment. Ginger has the efficacy of dispersing cold, stopping vomiting and relieving cough, while dried ginger has the efficacy of dispersing cold, returning yang to the veins and warming the lungs.
1. Preparation method: Ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger of the ginger family, and dried ginger is the dried rhizome of ginger of the ginger family.
2. Medicinal properties: Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and belongs to lung, spleen and stomach meridians; dried ginger is pungent and hot, and belongs to spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians.
3. Effects: Ginger has the effects of dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the body), warming the spleen and stomach to stop vomiting (warming the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by cold in the stomach), resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving the toxicity of fish and crab, while dried ginger has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold (warming the spleen and stomach to disperse cold), restoring yang to open up the veins, and warming the lungs to dissolve fluid (promoting the movement of stagnant fluids by warming the lungs).
4. Indications: Ginger can be used to treat wind-cold flu, stomach cold and vomiting, cold phlegm and cough, fish and crab poisoning. Dried ginger can be used to treat cold pain in the stomach and abdomen (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and pulse, cold drink and cough.
Ginger and dry ginger are easy to help fire and hurt yin, and should not be used by people with heatiness or yin deficiency and internal heat.
If you feel unwell, please consult a doctor and use the medicine under the doctor’s guidance, do not use the medicine on your own, so as not to cause damage to the organism.