Yellow ginger is turmeric, turmeric is generally not a substitute for ginger. Turmeric has the efficacy of breaking the blood and moving qi, and relieving menstruation and pain. It is used for chest stabbing pain chest paralysis (chest pain) paralysis heart pain, dysmenorrhea and menstrual closure, rheumatism, shoulder and arm pain, bruises and swelling. Turmeric adverse reactions, contraindications are not clear. Blood deficiency without qi stagnation and blood stasis (blood stasis due to lack of qi flow) and pregnant women should be cautious. Ginger has the efficacy of relieving surface 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 and stopping cough (stopping cough by warming the lungs), and detoxifying. It is used for treating wind-cold cold, stomach-cold vomiting, lung-cold cough, etc. It can also detoxify fish and crab. Adverse effects of ginger are not clear. It is not recommended for people with heatiness and internal heat deficiency. From the above, it can be seen that the efficacy of turmeric and ginger are different, so turmeric can not replace ginger. If there is a need for medication, need to be used under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence, do not blindly use their own medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.