Ginger is a common dual-use herbal medicine, for generations of herbal medicine, and there are ginger, dry ginger, ginger and other points. Dried ginger was first published in the “Shennong Ben Cao Jing”, was classified as the middle class, said “the main chest full, cough rebellious upper gas, warm, stop bleeding, sweating, expel wind-damp paralysis, intestinal dysentery. Raw is especially good.” Ginger was first published in “The Essentials of the Golden Horoscope”, which recorded many prescriptions with the name of ginger, such as “Angelica Ginger and Mutton Soup”. Gun ginger was also first recorded in the “Jin Kui Essentials”, said: “licorice dry ginger soup formula, licorice four, sizzling, dry ginger two, gun.” It is generally accepted in modern times that ginger is the fresh rhizome of the perennial herb ginger of the ginger family, while dried ginger is the dried rhizome of the ginger family, and cannon ginger is the cannonized processed product of dried ginger. Ginger has the efficacy of dispersing cold, warming vomiting, relieving cough and phlegm, and relieving fish and crab poison, while dry ginger can warm the middle and disperse cold, return Yang and open the veins, and warm the lungs and dissolve drinks, while canned ginger has the effect of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding, and warming the middle and relieving pain. Summer eating ginger, without peeling “winter eating radish summer eating ginger” is a folk proverb. The “summer eating ginger” of ginger, mostly refers to ginger. Chinese medicine believes that spring and summer nourish Yang. Zhang Zhongjing in the “typhoid – identify the pulse method first” said: “May time, Yang Qi in the table, stomach deficiency cold, to Yang Qi within the micro, small can win the cold, so want to be re-clothed.” Summer heat, people want to cool, like to eat ice and drink cold, and long-term stay in the air-conditioned room, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, damage Yang Qi, stomach cold, so eat ginger to warm the spleen and stomach, to help Yang Qi generation. Eating ginger can also get rid of cold, and less stomach distension, diarrhea disease. In addition, ginger has the effect of strengthening the stomach and improving appetite. But for those who have dry mouth, constipation and other Yin deficiency fire, the body is hot, eating too much ginger in summer will move the fire and blood, causing discomfort. Because ginger has a blood circulation to dispel blood stasis, moving Qi to break stagnation, so pregnant women should not eat more. In fact, the warmth of ginger is reflected in the meat, ginger skin is cool. Therefore, in order to prevent summer eating ginger fire, remember to eat ginger meat and ginger skin together. Some people believe that rotten ginger does not taste bad. This statement is wrong. As ginger rotting will produce a very toxic safrole, which can lead to liver cancer and esophageal cancer, so do not eat rotten ginger. Learn how to make two ginger medicine 1, ginger duck stew Materials: half of the duck, ginger 150 grams, appropriate amount of soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar, etc.. How to do: Half a duck washed and chopped, blanched with boiling water, drained; 150 grams of ginger washed and sliced. Add a little oil, stir fry the ginger and garlic, stir fry with the duck for a few minutes, add the right amount of soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar, water and a little rice wine; cover and simmer over medium heat until the duck is soft and cooked, finally add salt to taste, thicken and serve. Duck stewed with ginger is a perfect seasonal dish for summer. Ginger is a young ginger containing ginger buds, fresh and crisp taste, pungent but not spicy, can stop vomiting and eliminate belching, sweating and relieving the table. The duck meat nourishes the yin and tones the deficiency, diuresis and swelling, strengthens the spleen and clears the summer heat, and there is a folk saying that “old duck is better than tonic medicine in summer heat”. The combination of ginger and duck is a classic, both in terms of nutrition and taste, and has the effect of nourishing the yang of the five organs, clearing the heat of deficiency, nourishing blood and water, nourishing the yin and nourishing the stomach. 2, brown sugar ginger tea Ingredients: 30 grams of brown sugar, 10 grams of thorny mustard, 10 grams of sage, 3 slices of ginger. Practice: first put the thorny mustard, leaves, ginger into a casserole, add 500 ml of water, boil with a military fire and then change to a civilian fire for 20 minutes, then add brown sugar, wait for the sugar to dissolve. Take twice a day. Drink it while it is still hot and cover it with sweat to cure. According to Chinese medicine, pungent and warm things have the property of dispersing, when the external evil is still in the muscle surface, pungent and dispersing sweat can easily make the surface evil come out with sweat, and the disease will be solved. Therefore, if you have a wind-cold cold after menstruation, this formula is more effective.