Dried ginger has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold (dispersing cold with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), returning yang to the veins and warming the lungs and resolving drinks (facilitating the movement of stagnant fluids by warming the lungs), and is useful in the treatment of vomiting and diarrhea, wheezing and coughing with cold drinks and cold pain in the epigastric region (the stomach and epigastric region feel cold and painful).
Dried ginger is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which is the dried rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae, dried in the sun or at low temperature. This medicine mainly has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold, returning yang to the veins and warming the lungs to dissolve beverages, and is clinically useful in treating vomiting and diarrhea, wheezing and coughing from cold beverages, fear of coldness in the limbs, a weak pulse, and cold and painful pain in the epigastrium and abdomen.
Dried ginger is pungent in taste and hot in nature, and is attributed to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians. Its adverse effects are not clear, for the Yin deficiency internal heat, blood heat paranoia (heat evil cause blood abnormal out) and other people prohibited from taking, so as not to aggravate the symptoms of the patient’s condition.
When patients need to take dry ginger to cure their diseases, they should be under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the symptoms, and should not use the medicine on their own.