Patients with Yin deficiency and internal heat, blood heat and bleeding should not drink dried ginger powder; pregnant women should be cautious of using dried ginger powder.
Dried ginger is a warming herb, which is the dried rhizome of ginger, pungent in taste and hot in nature, with the effects of warming the middle and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold by warming the spleen and stomach with medicines), returning yang and opening the veins, and warming the lungs and resolving the drinks (promoting the operation of the water and liquid that stops gathering by warming the lungs). It is mainly used to treat abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by cold deficiency in the spleen and stomach; it can also treat coughing and wheezing with cold in the lungs and evidence of deceased yang.
Patients with yin deficiency and internal heat and blood-heat hemorrhagic syndrome may experience dry throat, sore throat, fever, night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, sweating stops after waking up), bleeding and other symptoms aggravated by drinking dry ginger powder, and in severe cases, dead yin syndrome may occur. Dry ginger is pungent and stimulating, and it is best to abstain from taking pungent and stimulating medicines during pregnancy.
Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis, and should not be used privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.