It is not recommended to consume sour ginger, which is pickled ginger, during the taking of proprietary Chinese medicines. The consumption of spicy and stimulating foods is prohibited when taking Chinese medicines, but it depends on the disease being treated. Ginger is pungent in flavor and slightly warm in nature. It belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), warming the lungs, relieving cough, and detoxifying, and is often used in wind-cold cold, cold spleen and stomach, cold stomach and vomiting, coughing with cold lungs, and poisoning by fishes and crabs. Therefore, ginger can be taken in the treatment of some cold diseases, and it is not recommended for those who are hot and have internal heat deficiency. Ginger belongs to a kind of stimulating food, drink Chinese medicine period if it is eating spicy stimulating food, may be on the treatment of the efficacy of certain effects. But one of the treatment of gastric diseases when taking Chinese medicine is to take ginger to protect the stomach. Therefore, when taking Chinese medicine must listen to the doctor’s advice, for avoid eating some things must be strictly enforced, otherwise it is possible to reduce the efficacy of the drug, thus delaying the condition.