Turmeric and ginger species, flavor and attribution, efficacy and main treatment, there are differences. 1. Genus: turmeric is the dried rhizome of Curcuma longa, family Zingiberaceae; ginger is the fresh rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae. 2. Sexual flavor and attribution: turmeric taste pungent, bitter, warm. Attributed to the spleen, liver meridian; ginger flavor pungent, slightly warm. It belongs to lung, spleen and stomach meridians. 3. Efficacy and Indications: Turmeric has the effect of breaking the blood and promoting circulation of Qi, and relieving menstruation and pain. It is used for chest pain, chest paralysis, heart pain, dysmenorrhea, obstruction of menstruation, obstruction in the abdomen, rheumatism, shoulder and arm pain, swelling and pain. Ginger has the effect of relieving surface cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and relieving the toxicity of fishes and crabs. It is used in treating wind-cold cold, cold stomach and vomiting, cold phlegm and cough, and fish and crab poisoning. It is recommended that patients use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor, do not take it on your own, so as not to delay the condition.