The efficacy and effect of ginger in rice vinegar is not clear yet. Clinically, ginger is often decocted and taken in soup or mashed juice, etc. Ginger has the effects of relieving cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), warming the lungs, relieving cough and detoxifying the toxin; rice vinegar has the effects of dispersing blood stasis and eliminating accumulation of stagnant blood, and stopping bleeding.
Ginger is mainly used for treating wind-cold cold, stomach-cold vomiting, lung-cold cough, and also can detoxify fish and crab poison. Rice vinegar has the effects of dispersing blood stasis and eliminating stagnation of blood, stopping bleeding, restraining roundworms and detoxifying. It can be used for toothache, dryness, itching, peeling skin, acne and so on.
Note that ginger should not be taken by people with heatiness and internal heat of yin deficiency.
If you need to use ginger in rice vinegar, it is recommended to use it under professional doctor’s guidance.