Eating ginger in moderation has certain benefits of relieving exterior cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), relieving cough and vomiting, but if consumed in excess, it may easily lead to accumulation of heat in the body, which is detrimental to health.
Ginger is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, with the effect of dispersing cold from the surface of the body, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach in order to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold), detoxification, can be used to treat wind-cold cold, vomiting caused by stomach cold, cough caused by lung cold, etc., and also detoxify fish and crabs.
Although there are many benefits of eating ginger, but should not be eaten in excess, otherwise it is easy to help the fire hurt yin, damage to health. In addition, it should not be consumed by those who have heat in the body as well as Yin deficiency and internal heat, or it may aggravate the heat evidence in the body.
If ginger is used as a traditional Chinese medicine, it needs to be taken together with other medicines under the guidance of a doctor, and should not be used on its own.