Ginger is a Chinese medicine. It is the fresh rhizome of ginger in the ginger family. It is pungent in flavor, warm in nature and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscles), warming the spleen and stomach to stop vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), warming the lungs to stop coughing (stopping coughing by warming the lungs), and detoxifying the toxin.
Clinically, ginger is used to treat wind-cold cold, cold spleen and stomach, cold stomach and vomiting, cold lung and cough, etc. Ginger can also detoxify fish and crab.
It should be noted that ginger can help fire and hurt yin, so it is not recommended for people with heat and yin deficiency.
Single ginger does not have anti-cancer effect, so ginger cure cancer is not true, do not blindly believe the rumors.
If you need to use medication, it is recommended to use under the guidance of a doctor, do not self-medication, to avoid delaying the condition.