Ginger Encyclopedia.
Functions: Dispersing cold from the surface, warming and suspending vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Indications: For cold and wind, cold stomach and vomiting, cough with cold phlegm.
Usage and dosage: for internal use: decoction, 5-10g; or pounding juice; for external use: appropriate amount, pounding; or fried hot ironing, or stirring juice to apply.
Storage: Place in a cool and humid place, or bury in wet sand to prevent freezing.
Contraindications: Yin deficiency and internal heat and real heat is prohibited.
Ginger uses(1)
Ginger is hot in nature and pungent in taste. It belongs to the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians. Effects: Warming the middle, returning Yang, warming the lungs and dissolving drinks.
The dry ginger, dry dispersing power is weakened, and warming the total enhancement, so the treatment of cold, its performance can go to keep, warming the lung to disperse cold and phlegm. Every commonly used in the treatment of cough and asthma, cold form and back cold, sputum and thin.
Dried ginger enters the spleen and stomach first, and its pungent heat can expel the cold evil in the spleen and stomach and help the yang energy of the spleen and stomach. It is often used to treat cold symptoms of the spleen and stomach, such as pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea. It can be used for all cold diseases of the spleen and stomach, whether it is external cold or internal invasion or Yang deficiency.
Ginger can be made into soup and drunk. When there is nothing to do, you can wash a few pieces of ginger, cut into thin slices, put into a pot, simmering soup, both to dispel the cold, and nourish the body.
The wonders of ginger (2)
Ginger is an indispensable condiment in people’s daily life. In the Spring and Autumn period, Confucius advocated: “Every food does not withdraw ginger.” It means that people should eat ginger every day of the year. It is said that Confucius had the habit of chewing several slices of ginger after meals every day.
Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has various effects such as dispersing cold and sweat, resolving phlegm and cough, harmonizing the stomach, and stopping vomiting.
Drinking ginger brown sugar water to cure colds; ginger has the name of “vomit home holy medicine”; ginger can also be used to treat enteritis, dysentery, etc.; ginger external rubbing on vitiligo, baldness, ringworm also has a certain therapeutic effect.
The folk have “three slices of ginger in the morning, than drinking ginseng soup” and “October ginger small ginseng” said. There are also “three slices of ginger every day, without the doctor’s prescription” proverb.
The wonderful use of ginger (3)
As the saying goes: “eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer, without a doctor’s prescription.” “Eat ginger often, not afraid of wind and frost.” Life in addition to the use of ginger as a flavoring agent, small food, in beauty, health care also shows its unique flavor and charm.
Hair growth and anti-hair loss with ginger concentrated extract or directly apply ginger to the hair, which can normalize the blood circulation of the head skin, promote scalp metabolism, activate hair follicle tissue, effectively prevent hair loss and gray hair, stimulate new hair growth, and inhibit scalp itch and strengthen hair roots. Some people use ginger to apply directly to the affected area of baldness on the head, and new hair can be produced on the bald spot for several days.
Shampoos containing ginger have the effect of cleaning the scalp, removing dandruff and preventing hair loss. Especially in winter, it is used to wash hair and with scalp massage, feel relaxed and warm. And with ginger or dried ginger boiled water foot bath, the whole body qi and blood flow, warm and relaxed.
Beauty anti-aging ginger contains a compound similar to salicylic acid, which is equivalent to a blood thinner and anticoagulant, and has a special effect on lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure and preventing myocardial infarction. Therefore, ginger can prevent aging.
Ming dynasty “miracle formula” contains a prescription that says: “a catty of ginger half catty dates, two white salt three grass (licorice), clove sink half a tael, eight fennel a pound, steamed or boiled or, repair and this medicine save like treasure, drink a cup every morning, a long life face.” Ginger has a strong anti-lipofuscin effect, ginger sliced or shredded, soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes, add honey to mix, a cup a day, can significantly reduce age spots. Ginger can also be chopped and mixed with a small amount of salt for long-term consumption, spot effect is also good.
Spicy ginger has a stimulating effect on the heart and cardiovascular, can accelerate blood flow, promote sweating, take away the excess heat in the body, with detoxification, skin care, weight loss effect. The health care vinegar made of balsamic vinegar dipped in ginger is sour with ginger fragrance, and it can be used before meal to appetite, help digestion and soften blood vessels, so it is loved by many people.
Wonderful use of ginger(4)
Ginger for toothache: when toothache occurs, take a piece of ginger, bite in the toothache, that can be relieved. If necessary, repeated use is better.
Ginger to prevent frostbite: the skin prone to frostbite, if repeatedly rubbed with ginger juice, can increase the ability to resist cold, thus avoiding frostbite.
Ginger for joint pain: oral intake of appropriate amounts of ginger, or ginger juice rubbed on the affected area, can make joint activity improved, pain significantly reduced, swelling and stiffness symptoms reduced.
Ginger for colds and flu: shred ginger, add brown sugar to the soup, take it while it is hot, cover with a quilt and sweat, it will heal quickly.
Ginger for traumatic bleeding: charred and grated ginger, after sterilization of the wound, sprinkled on the affected area, can quickly stop bleeding, and can reduce pain.
Ginger uses(5)
Pungent and warm in nature. Mainly belongs to the lung, stomach and spleen meridian. It has the efficacy of antidote to the toxicity of half summer tiannanxing, fish, crab, animal meat and snake. Treatment: (1) accidental ingestion of raw half asia, raw nancy, raw aconite, haunted sheep flower, cassava: wild taro, hundred, poisonous Qin poisoning, with ginger first aid, can be cured. Usage: For lighter cases, see tongue numbness, nausea, vomiting, chew ginger urgently, or gargle with ginger juice, and take 5 ml (about half a tablespoon) orally, and then take it again every 4 hours until the symptoms disappear; for severe poisoning and coma, use 15 grams of ginger, 2 bowls of water decoction to half a bowl, nasal feeding in 3 times, 1 time every 1 hour, and then 1 tablespoon of ginger juice every 3 hours, and then take it again for 1 day after waking up. (2) For those who are poisoned by eating fish, crab, poultry and other meat, the cause of poisoning is mostly due to the presence of a large number of pathogenic microorganisms (mostly Salmonella) and their toxins in the food, or food allergies. Ginger juice can be solved, or ginger, perilla, 30 grams each, water decoction with brown sugar in the right amount, the effect is more satisfactory. If you cook meat, add the right amount of ginger, not only to prevent poisoning, but also the role of seasoning deodorant. (3) treatment of snake wounds and insect injuries. Viper bite, ginger powder applied externally; hundred worms into the ear, ginger juice drops.
In addition to detoxification, this product also has the effect of dispersing cold, stopping vomiting and expectorant, and is used to treat cold caused by wind and cold, vomiting and cough.
Dosage: 9-15 grams (3-5 money) for internal use, or 3-5 tablets, or 5 ml of pounded juice for each dose; for detoxification, the dose can be increased. External use: Pounded and applied externally or rubbed on the affected area, or can be fried and ironed on the affected area.
Precautions: Avoid using it if you have a dry cough with lung heat, vomiting with stomach heat, bleeding hemorrhoids, or ulcerated painful sores.
The wonderful use of ginger (6)
”Eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer, without a doctor’s prescription”. Ginger, spicy taste, slightly warm nature. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine and folklore have “ginger cure all diseases” said.
Cool and refreshing, increase appetite because ginger contains gingerol, gingerene, watercressene, citral and aromatic and other oily volatile oils; there are curcumin, resin, starch and fiber, etc.. Therefore, ginger in the hot season has excitement, sweating and cooling, refreshing and other effects; can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, bloating, abdominal pain and other symptoms; ginger and stomach, appetite, the role of hot summer climate, saliva, gastric juice secretion will be reduced, thus affecting the appetite, if a few slices of ginger at mealtime, will enhance appetite; ginger also has a stomach disease relief or pain relief, gastritis and gastric Duodenal ulcers caused by pain, vomiting, acidity, hunger and so on with 50 grams of ginger decoction to drink, can make the symptoms quickly eliminated.
Antibacterial disease treatment of enteritis U.S. and Danish scientists confirmed through experiments, dried ginger powder can relieve the headache, vertigo, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms of motion sickness, the efficiency of about 90%, and the effect can last more than 4 hours. Folk use ginger to prevent seasickness, seasickness, some use ginger slices to paste the inner Guan point, there is a significant effect of anti-nausea.
In the summer season, bacterial growth and reproduction is unusually active, easy to contaminate food and cause acute gastroenteritis, when appropriate to eat some ginger or dry ginger with tea with boiling water, can play a preventive role. Scientists have found through research that ginger can play the role of certain antimicrobial agents, especially for salmonella effect is obvious. Ginger also has the effect of killing oral pathogenic bacteria and intestinal pathogenic bacteria, ginger water gargle treatment of bad breath and periodontitis, the efficacy.
The stomach and spleen to prevent summer heat to save the summer, people greedy cool, love fans and air conditioners blowing against each other, it is easy to get cold, causing colds. This is the time to drink ginger sugar water, will help expel the wind and cold in the body. Chinese medicine believes that ginger can “pass through the mind”, that is, refresh the mind. Summer heatstroke fainting unconsciousness, with a cup of ginger juice to pour down, can make the patient quickly wake up. For general heatstroke, manifested as dizziness, palpitations and chest tightness and nausea of the patient, appropriate to eat some ginger soup is very beneficial. China’s traditional Chinese medicine against heatstroke – Ren Dan, which contains the ingredients of ginger, the purpose is to drive the wind and stomach and refresh the brain.
There are many ways to eat ginger. For example, drink ginger soup, eat ginger porridge, put some ginger in stir-fry, stewed meat, fried fish with ginger, do buns, dumplings filling with a little ginger, not only can make the taste delicious, but also help to appetite and spleen, promote appetite, help digestion, and facilitate the absorption of nutrients in the stomach and intestines.
Some people like to eat ginger peel, this does not play the overall effectiveness of ginger. Because ginger skin has accelerated sweating, prevent heat stroke; and stimulate the gastrointestinal tract mucosa, increase the gastrointestinal tract digestive juices, and the spleen and water, diuretic effect.
In addition, in the hot summer, appropriate to eat some ginger food, such as soy ginger, young ginger acid, ginger candy, etc., for physical and mental health and heatstroke, greatly beneficial.
The wonderful use of ginger (7)
1, ginger juice spare, a friendly tip: best not to use the IKEA garlic press ginger juice (although there are also experts so recommended), press a few times after the garlic press will definitely be bad – 29 yuan ocean a, so heartbroken.
You can use a vegetable polisher to shred the ginger and then wrap it in clean gauze to squeeze out the juice (but again, this becomes a laborious job). Do not go ginger skin, because ginger skin is cool, after peeling is hot.
2, whole milk with sugar boil, then stir cool to about 70 degrees milk too hot not, will just boil the milk poured directly on the ginger juice, only to get a bowl of ginger flavored milk.
The milk is cooled to about 70 degrees by stirring or other means, but do not leave it to cool, otherwise the surface will have a “skin”. Use whole milk. To use fresh milk, use milk powder = failure.
3, milk quick hands pour ginger juice, immediately cover the bowl. The ratio of ginger juice to milk is crucial, too little ginger juice can not be solidified, the more ginger juice the more sticky, but will be too spicy. Recommended ratio: 1 liter of milk, use 3 – 4 tablespoons of ginger juice. The milk should be poured into the ginger juice quickly, so that the two are mixed quickly and evenly, if poured slowly, the milk will end up layered like a cocktail. Quickly rushed into it can be, without stirring.
4, dry 5 minutes other (whatever, just do not stir it).
5, open the lid
The wonderful use of ginger (8)
Mouth ulcers: gargle with hot ginger water instead of tea, 2 to 3 times a day, generally 6 to 9 times the ulcer surface can be converged.
Periodontitis: first clean tartar with hot ginger water, then drink hot ginger water as tea, 1 to 2 times a day, usually about 6 times to eliminate inflammation.
Sore throat: gargle with hot ginger water as tea, once in the morning and once in the evening every day. If the throat is sore and itchy, drink hot ginger water with a little salt as tea, 2 to 3 times a day, usually about 9 times to resolve the inflammation and eliminate the pain and itch. Tooth decay: insist on gargling with hot ginger water once a day in the morning and evening, and drink it for tea several times a day. This method is very effective in protecting teeth and preventing and treating dental caries.
Migraine: When migraine attacks, use hot ginger water to soak your hands for about 15 minutes, the pain will be reduced or even disappear.
Neurasthenia: Drink 1 to 2 cups of hot ginger water in the morning and evening on an empty stomach every day to receive the effect of tonic and refreshment. Continuously, it has good effect on neurasthenia, dizziness and irritability.
Drunkenness: Drinking hot ginger water as tea can accelerate blood flow and digest alcohol in the body. You can also add an appropriate amount of honey to hot ginger water to allow the body to absorb it directly to relieve or eliminate drunkenness.
Facial acne: Wash your face with hot ginger water once a day in the morning and once in the evening for about 60 days, and the acne will be reduced or disappear. This method also has a certain therapeutic effect on freckles and dry skin, etc.
Dandruff: first gently scrub your hair with ginger, then wash your hair with hot ginger water, which can effectively prevent dandruff from falling off. In addition, often wash your hair with hot ginger water, it also has a certain therapeutic effect on baldness.
Back and shoulder pain: first add a little salt and vinegar to the hot ginger water, then soak a towel and wring it out, apply it to the affected area, and repeat several times. This method can make the muscles change from tension to relaxation, relax the tendons and activate the blood, which can greatly relieve pain.
Pinworm disease: every day before going to sleep, wash around the anus with hot ginger water, and then drink hot ginger water 1 to 2 cups, for about 10 days to cure.
Foot odor: Soak your feet in hot ginger water, add some salt and vinegar when soaking, soak for about 15 minutes, wipe dry, add some talcum powder, and the odor will be eliminated.
Esophageal cancer: usually, insist on drinking hot ginger water twice a day as tea, which can play a role in relieving pain, prolonging life or alleviating the disease.
Hypertension: when blood pressure rises, you can soak your feet in hot ginger water for about 15 minutes. Hot ginger water soaked feet, can reflexively cause vasodilatation, so that the blood pressure then drop.
Arteriosclerosis: insist on gargling with hot ginger water every morning and evening, and drink 1 cup of hot ginger water every day before going to bed, which can promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis.
Cold and headache: immerse both feet in hot ginger water, water to be able to dip to the ankle bone is appropriate. Soak in hot ginger water with some salt, vinegar, and keep adding hot water, soak until the feet are red. This method is effective in the treatment of wind-cold colds, headaches and coughs.
Wheat swelling: take a cup of hot ginger water, with the help of its heat smoked eyes, smoked with the affected eye open, generally smoked for 10 to 15 minutes each time, smoked 2 to 3 times a day, pain relief and swelling effect is good.
Ginger use (9)
1, on the boat before the mouth containing a piece of fresh ginger, or drink some ginger juice, the phenomenon of seasickness can be significantly reduced or disappear.
2, clean up dirt often feel nausea and vomiting, before working with a piece of ginger can be avoided.
3, the early stage of frostbite, local redness, swelling and itching, ginger cut into thin slices and put on the affected area, several times a day to replace, a few days to heal.
4, the sudden loss of hair in pieces, commonly known as “ghost shaving”, medically known as “baldness”, ginger can be used several times a day to rub the affected area, about 2-3 weeks to grow new hair.
5, such as hypoglycemia or heat stroke and suddenly fainted, can be used ginger or ginger juice with sugar to drink, can play a rescue role.
6, if an accidental fall, ginger juice can be mashed and applied externally; if the skin is scratched, ginger juice coated with gauze can prevent infection and can accelerate skin healing.
The wonders of ginger (10)
Ginger is a kind of condiment for burning vegetables, but there are many uses!
1, cure some skin ringworm. Cut the ginger into slices and force rub the affected area, 2 to 3 times a day.
2, the treatment of unbroken skin frostbite. Cut a few slices of ginger, put in the right amount of white wine boiled, the dregs removed, with a cotton ball dipped in wine to wash the affected area.
3, stomach cold pain: a little ginger, add water and boil for a few moments, serve while hot. For patients with poor appetite and indigestion, this formula is also effective.
4, chronic cough in the elderly: half a spoon of ginger pounded juice and a spoon of sugar, add boiling water and serve when slightly cooled. 2 to 3 times a day.
5, abdominal pain: 10 grams of sliced ginger, 10 grams of garlic, 20 grams of sugar, a total of finely ground boiling, eat ginger and garlic, drink the juice.
6, cough and phlegm, vomiting: the appropriate amount of ginger pounded, add a little honey (or brown sugar) decoction to take.
7, gastroenteritis: 2 to 5 grams of ginger, 2 tbsp of honey, mash the ginger, take 1 tbsp of juice, mix with honey, then take with hot water. 4 to 5 times a day.
8, such as sudden fainting due to hypoglycemia or heatstroke, available ginger or ginger juice with sugar to drink, can play a rescue role.
9, ginger peel dried and powdered, bottled and stored in a spare. Patients with rheumatism, each time you take half a spoonful of ginger peel and drink wine, can relieve symptoms.
10, if an accidental fall, ginger juice can be mashed and applied externally; if the skin is scraped, ginger juice coated with gauze can prevent infection and can accelerate skin healing.
11, on the boat before the mouth containing a piece of fresh ginger, or drink some ginger juice, the phenomenon of seasickness can be significantly reduced or disappear.
12, clean up dirt often feel nausea and vomiting, before work with a piece of ginger can be avoided.
13, the sudden loss of hair in pieces, commonly known as “ghost shaving”, medically known as “baldness”, ginger can be used several times a day to rub the affected area, about 2-3 weeks to grow new hair.
In addition, ginger has a role in replenishing blood. Ginger boiled brown sugar is very good for women.
The moldy ginger will produce a kind of strong toxin organic matter – safrole, which will induce cancer, so it is not suitable for consumption.
Ginger sixteen effects
(1) ginger three money, brown sugar one or two or one white radish, add the right amount of water decoction, drink while hot, can cure external wind and cold and dysmenorrhea.
(2) three slices of ginger, a pinch of tea, chew in the mouth and send down with warm water, can cure cold.
(3) stomach pain, indigestion, bloating, ginger, orange peel, each four money decoction, can stop the pain and vomiting.
(4) usually eat a little ginger when eating, can promote the secretion of digestive juices, stomach and appetite.
(5) Take three slices of ginger, one white radish, five grains of white pepper and two coins of peel in water to treat cough.
(6) bruises, back pain, joint pain, ginger juice, taro pounded into a paste, the two mixed with a small amount of flour on the affected area, can stop the pain.
(7) suffer from roundworm intestinal obstruction, available six money ginger pounding juice and 60 ml of honey mix, after serving can make the intestinal obstruction hard mass relief, and then eat roundworm fight roundworm spirit.
(8) mouth ulcers, gargle with ginger juice or coated with the affected area, several times can be healed.
(9) roast hot fresh ginger on the fire, sliced and rubbed frostbite, can reduce swelling and relieve itching.
(10) will chew ginger, put on the wound, can heal knife and axe wounds.
(11) fresh ginger slices applied to the armpits, can remove armpit odor.
(12) ginger juice, boiled paste, can be applied to cure frostbite in both ears.
(13) 30 grams of fresh ginger, pounded juice with honey, boiled water, can be removed from the erratic.
(14) Two to three drops of ginger juice swallowed, or a piece of ginger rubbed tongue several times, can stop nausea in pregnancy or vomiting when taking medicine.
(15) Ginger pounded on the wound can cure bee and scorpion stings.
(16) ginger, tea leaves decoction of 9 grams each, can cure diarrhea containing ginger is.
Scrape the skin of ginger (ginger skin is cool), cut four or five slices of ginger every day (cut as thin as thick paper, cut too thick, very spicy) and put it in a bowl. Every morning up, drink a cup of boiling water, and then boiling water to the bowl with ginger sterilization treatment, and then put the ginger in the mouth slowly chew, containing 10 to 30 minutes, the ginger bite rotten, so that the smell of ginger, emanating from the mouth, spread to the intestines and nostrils outside.
It should be noted that rotten ginger contains the toxic substance safrole, which is harmful to the liver, so once you find rotten ginger, you must not eat it.
The elderly often eat ginger can slow down the aging of daily life, the clever use of ginger, often convenient and fast for you to solve some practical problems.
1, frequent chewing ginger, or ginger juice, can treat vomiting.
2, drink some ginger juice water before the car, or cut a piece of ginger paste in the inner wrist wrist 2 inches after the transverse line, wrapped in gauze, can prevent motion sickness. A few slices of ginger during the ride can help inhibit motion sickness and vomiting.
3, crushed ginger mixed with brown sugar, ginger sugar water hot drink, can cure pregnancy vomiting or dysmenorrhea.
4, half a cup of fresh ginger juice, honey 2 tbsp, add water to mix and drink, can cure the spleen and stomach weakness can not eat.
5.Decoction with 15 grams of ginger, add sugar and take warm, can cure cough with phlegm.
6.Decoction of 30 grams of ginger in soup and bath for children can cure children’s cough.
7.Pounding juice with ginger and mixing it into rice porridge to cure regurgitation.
8, pounded juice with ginger, gargle frequently spit out, or research and rub sores, can cure mouth sores.
9, with ginger pounding juice, mix the appropriate amount of honey, slightly decoction, each time to take a few tablespoons, several times a day, can cure sore throat.
10, swallowing ginger juice, can cure food poisoning.
11, with ginger juice frequent rubbing underarm or disease, can cure fox odor, vitiligo.
12, take ginger roasted and dried, mixed with alum powder in equal amounts, with the affected teeth, can stop toothache.
The role of beauty ginger is an indispensable condiment in people’s daily lives. In China, ginger has a history of 3,000 years. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, people already started to cultivate ginger artificially. In the Spring and Autumn period, Confucius advocated, “Every food does not withdraw ginger.” It means that people should eat ginger every day of the year. It is said that Confucius had the habit of chewing several slices of ginger after meals every day. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has a variety of effects such as dispersing cold and sweat, resolving phlegm and cough, and stopping vomiting in the stomach. Many of these effects have been known, such as drinking ginger brown sugar water to cure colds, is a proven method of folk; ginger to stop vomiting has a good effect, so ginger has “vomiting home holy medicine” called. The actual ginger is used for treating vomiting and cold, but also for treating enteritis, dysentery, acute testicular pain and first aid. External rubbing of ginger is also effective in treating vitiligo, baldness and ringworm.
As ginger is an excellent health food, so the folk have “3 slices of ginger in the morning, compared to drinking ginseng soup” and “October ginger small ginseng” said. In the famous ginger producing area of Zhejiang, there is still a proverb that “3 slices of ginger a day, no need for a doctor’s prescription”. The Australian University “white doctor” beauty experts suggest that regular consumption of ginger can slow down the aging process. Nutritionists have found that the pungent ingredients contained in ginger are absorbed by the body to inhibit the generation of lipid peroxide in the body, and its antioxidant effect is more obvious than the current application of antioxidants – the role of vitamin E, and thus has a very good anti-aging effect.
Ginger also contains a chemical structure and aspirin in the salicylic acid similar to the special substances, this substance can lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, prevent blood clotting, inhibit thrombosis. In addition, the ginger phenol contained in ginger has a strong cholestatic effect, and thus can be used to prevent and treat cholecystitis and cholelithiasis.