Dried ginger powder, i.e. dried ginger polished into powder, is suitable for people with cold drinks and wheezing and coughing, and should be used in accordance with medical advice.
Dried ginger is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with pungent taste and hot nature, which has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold (dispelling the cold by warming the spleen and stomach), returning Yang and clearing the veins, warming the lungs and resolving the fluid in the lungs (facilitating the flow of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs), and is suitable for people who suffer from asthma and cough with cold drinks, vomiting, cold pain in the epigastric region (cold pain in the stomach and stomach), diarrhea and cold limbs with weak veins.
For cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, it can be combined with galangal to enhance the effect of warming the middle Jiao and dispersing cold. For dry vomiting, it can be combined with Bianxia to warm the middle Jiao and harmonize the stomach, lowering the rebelliousness and stopping vomiting (stopping the upward rush of stomach qi and stopping vomiting). For cold spleen and stomach, combining with Radix Codonopsis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae and Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae strengthens the spleen and strengthens the qi, warms the middle and disperses cold.
Dried ginger is forbidden to be taken by people with blood-heat paranoia (heat evil causing blood to go out abnormally), yin deficiency and internal heat, and should be used with caution by pregnant women, and it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis.