It is not recommended to eat ginger when the liver is on fire, it may aggravate the condition.
Liver fire is a symptom of heat caused by the hyperactivity of the liver, which manifests as red face, dizziness, red eyes, bitter mouth, irritability, constipation, yellow urine and other symptoms, and the treatment needs to clear and diarrhea the liver fire.
Ginger is a pungent, mildly warming Chinese herb that disperses cold and relieves symptoms, warms the stomach and stops vomiting (to warm the spleen and stomach to treat vomiting caused by gastric cold), relieves cough and resolves phlegm, etc. It is also used to treat the symptoms of hyperactivity of the liver. This product tends to help fire and hurt yin, and should not be taken by people with heatiness and yin deficiency. Therefore, people with heat illnesses in which liver fire is present should not take ginger, as it may aggravate the condition of liver fire.
Ginger is generally used for cold phlegm cough, wind-cold flu, cold stomach and vomiting, etc. It should be used reasonably under the doctor’s diagnosis.