Decoction of dry ginger is made into dry ginger water, which can be combined with ginseng, galangal, aconite, spices, schizandra, and schizandra, etc., to bring out the effects of warming the middle Jiao and dispersing the cold (dispersing the cold by warming the spleen and stomach), restoring yang to open up the veins, and warming the lungs and resolving the drinks (promoting the flow of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs).
1. For cold spleen and stomach: dry ginger is the main medicine for warming the middle Jiao, for treating cold spleen and stomach, cold pain in the epigastrium (cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), dry ginger water can be combined with ginseng and atractylodes, such as Li-Zhong Pills; for treating cold stomach and vomiting, it is often combined with galangal, such as Er-Zhong Pills; for treating upper and lower heat and cold, rejecting heat and cold, vomiting when eating, it can be combined with scutellariae japonica, huanglian, ginseng, etc, such as Scutellariae japonica, Huanglian, and ginseng soup with dry ginger.
2. Applied to dead yang syndrome: dry ginger is hot and pungent, entering heart, spleen and kidney meridians, with the effect of warming yang and guarding the middle, returning yang to open the veins, it can be used together with Radix et Rhizoma Pinelliae to treat dead yang syndrome caused by deficiency of yang of heart and kidney and coldness within the yin, syncope of the extremities (unconsciousness, accompanied by cold limbs, even cold to the elbows and knees and above), and pulse is weak and wanting to die.
3. Apply to cold drink and cough: dry ginger is hot and pungent, entering the lung meridian, good at warming the lung, dispersing cold and resolving drinks. It can be used together with Xin Xin, Wu Wei Zi and Ma Huang to treat cold drinking and coughing, cold form (cold body), cold back and sputum, such as Xiao Qing Long Tang.
Dry ginger is pungent, hot and dry, yin deficiency, internal heat, blood heat, avoid, Chinese medicine treatment pay attention to the combination of drugs, dosage plus or minus, etc., if you need to use the drug, it is recommended to follow the doctor’s instructions for application.