There is a difference between turmeric and dried ginger powder in terms of flavor, meridian, efficacy, and main treatment of diseases.
Turmeric and dried ginger powder are both ginger plants, turmeric flavor pungent, bitter, warm, into the liver, spleen meridian. Dried ginger powder is pungent in flavor, slightly warm in nature, and goes to the spleen, stomach, heart, kidney and lung meridians.
Turmeric has the effect of activating blood circulation, promoting circulation of Qi, and relieving menstruation and pain. Dried ginger powder has the efficacy of warming the middle and dispersing cold (dispersing cold evils with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), warming the lungs and resolving drinks (facilitating the flow of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs), and restoring yang and promoting the circulation of the veins.
Turmeric is mostly used in the treatment of dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum stagnant abdominal pain, rheumatic paralysis, bruises, carbuncles and swellings. Dried ginger powder is mostly used in the treatment of cold pain in the epigastric region (stomach and abdomen feel cold pain), vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and pulse, cold drinking and coughing and other conditions.
It is recommended that the patient according to the condition and constitution, under the guidance of the doctor to identify the evidence after the use of medication to regulate. Do not use medicine privately to avoid causing damage to the organism.