Turmeric and ginger are different in terms of drug source, flavor and attribution, efficacy and contraindications. 1. Different sources of drugs: turmeric is the dried rhizome of the ginger plant turmeric; ginger is the fresh rhizome of the ginger plant ginger. 2. different flavor attributed to the meridian: turmeric flavor pungent, bitter, warm, to the liver, spleen meridian; ginger flavor pungent, warm, to the lungs, spleen, stomach meridian. 3. Different efficacy: turmeric’s efficacy is to break the blood to move qi, menstruation pain, used for thoracic and hypochondriac (chest and ribs part of the collectively referred to as) stabbing pain, thoracic paralysis (chest pain) heart pain, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, rheumatism and paralysis pain, bruises. The effect of ginger is to relieve the surface of cold (to remove the surface of the cold), warm and stop vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach to treat the cold stomach caused by vomiting), warm the lungs to stop coughing (warm the lungs to stop coughing), to solve the fish and crab toxicity, used for the wind-cold cold, the spleen and stomach cold, cold stomach, vomiting, cold phlegm and coughing, but also can solve the fish and crab toxicity. 4. Contraindications are different: turmeric activates blood, so blood deficiency without qi stagnation and blood stasis (because of qi not smooth leading to blood stagnation) and pregnant women should be used with caution; ginger can help the fire to hurt the yin, so heat and yin deficiency of internal heaters should not be served. Turmeric and ginger should be used in professional Chinese medicine practitioners after identification, not blindly self-medication to avoid adverse reactions.