Recently read Mr. Liu Jiahua’s “medicine to” (People’s Health Publishing House) a book, the book talked about “dry wet general – ginger medicine each other”, explained as “ginger, ginger, dry ginger points! “, cited the ginger medicine each other, all ginger and dry ginger medicine each other, obviously Mr. Liu is the ginger, ginger and dry ginger mixed up. Mountain ginger, ginger and dry ginger is not the same thing? Chinese Materia Medica” “Chinese medicine” (Gao Xuemin edited by Chinese Medicine Press) as a blueprint for discussion. 1, mountain ginger mountain ginger’s name is contained in the “herbs by the collection of notes”, the cloud: “mountain ginger root and seedling, and such as ginger and large, for camphor wood odor.” The herbs classic “outside the grass class said:” mountain ginger, raw Weizhou …… open purple flowers, do not bear children, August, September picking roots.” Compendium of Materia Medica” cloud: “mountain ginger, born in the south. Leaves like ginger, flowers red, very Xin; seeds like grass nutmeg, roots like Du Ruo and galangal.” Plant Names and Facts, “mountain ginger, Jiangxi, Hunan mountains, and Yang Huo, Common Gromwell ginger is no different. But the root is like young ginger, and the flavor is not very pungent, rather like yellow essence, Hengshan sold yellow essence, more than this pseudo for the.” These ancient descriptions of the actual mountain ginger and ginger and other distinction has long been. Ginger comes from the rhizome of perennial herbaceous plant Ginger of the ginger family, mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan and other places. Ginger also has different aliases in different regions and literature, such as and mountain ginger (“Hunan Drugs”), nine ginger even (“Moth Eye Medicinal Plants”), ginger leaf epimedium, nine dragon disk (“Guiyang Folk Herbs”), ginger seven, galangal, chicken claw lotus (“Jiangxi Herbal Handbook”). Ginger rhizome contains 9(10)-phorben-11-ol, 1,9-hydroxygingerolide, dihydrosedanofuran, 10-epi-gamma- Eucalyptol, 3β,4β-epoxy-sedumuran and other components. Large doses of G. officinalis exerted an inhibitory and anti-ulcerative effect on isolated small intestine of guinea pigs. In vitro antimicrobial test, ginger decoction has inhibitory effect on colitis Yersinia pestis and Morgellons. Ginger is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. It has the effect of warming the middle, dispersing cold, dispelling wind and activating blood circulation. Indications: Cold churning in the epigastrium and abdomen, coughing and wheezing in the lungs, rheumatism and paralysis, injuries, irregular menstruation and vomiting of blood due to labor injuries. Usage and dosage: for internal use, decoction, 3~6g or soaked in wine; for external use, appropriate amount, pounded, or pounded to mix the wine to apply; or decoction of water to wash. 2, ginger Ginger was first published in the “famous doctors,” now included in the 2010 edition of the “Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”. Ginger, “Shuowen Jiezi” as “frontier”, the cloud of wet dishes. The Herbal Atlas: “Ginger was born in the valleys of Gandhara (now Gandhara, Sichuan) and Jingzhou, Yangzhou (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu). Now everywhere, to Han, Wen, Chizhou (now Sichuan, Zhejiang, Anhui territory) is good. Seedlings two or three feet high, leaves like arrow bamboo leaves and long, two and two opposite, seedling green, root yellow, no flowers and fruits.” The origin and shape of ginger are described. Ginger comes from the fresh rhizome of ginger, a perennial herb of the ginger family. It is widely cultivated in the central, southeastern to southwestern provinces of China. Ginger contains volatile oil components 0.25%~3%, mainly gingerol, α-gingerene, β-sandalene terpene alcohol, β-watercressene, citral, aromatic alcohols and so on. Ginger has promote the secretion of digestive juice, protect the gastric mucosa, anti-ulcer, hepatoprotective, choleretic, sedative, anticonvulsant, antiemetic and anti-motor disease, antipyretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory effects, excitation of vasomotor center, excitation of the heart, elevated blood pressure, anti-platelet aggregation, anti-5-hydroxytryptophan, antioxidant, anti-microbial effects, and there are also central excitation, to promote the release of the body’s active substance, promote absorption, cough, reduce blood pressure, and so on. Promote absorption, cough, hypolipidemic, anti-allergic effects, mutagenic and anti-mutagenic, inhibit nitrosamine synthesis and so on. Ginger is pungent in flavor and warm in nature. Attributed to the lung, stomach, spleen meridian. It disperses cold and relieves the symptoms, reduces the blood flow and stops vomiting, dissolves phlegm and relieves cough. It is used for treating wind-cold flu, fever, headache, nasal congestion, vomiting, phlegm, cough, flatulence, and diarrhea. Usage and dosage: For internal use, decoction, 3~10g; or pounded juice; for external use, appropriate amount of pounded compress, or fried hot comfort, or twisted juice to apply. Yin deficiency and internal heat and solid heat is prohibited. 3.Dry Ginger Dried ginger was first published in “Shennong Ben Cao Jing”, now included in the 2010 edition of “Pharmacopoeia of the People’s Republic of China”. Dried ginger is derived from the dried rhizome of ginger, a perennial herb of the ginger family. It is also known as White Ginger (San Yin Fang) and Even Ginger (Ben Cao Gang Mu). Dried ginger contains volatile oil about 2%, the main components are gingerenone, gingerene, watercressene, camphene, curcumin, and resin, starch, a variety of amino acids and so on. Ginger has sedative, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-vomiting, transient elevation of blood pressure, anticoagulant effect, enhance the adrenal cortex function, inhibit gastric secretion, inhibit gastric ulcers, promote intestinal peristalsis, anti-hypoxia effect, there are also significant snail and schistosome effect. Dried ginger is pungent in flavor and hot in nature. Attributed to the spleen, stomach, heart, lung meridian. It is effective in warming the middle and dispersing the cold, restoring the yang, warming the lung and resolving the effect of drinking. It is used for treating cold pain in the epigastric region, vomiting, diarrhea, death of yang, cold drinks, cough, cold-dampness paralysis and pain. Usage and dosage: For internal use, decoction, 3~10g; or into pills, bulk. Externally, appropriate amount, decoction of soup, or powdered compresses. Yin deficiency and internal heat, blood heat is prohibited. It can be seen from the above, ginger, ginger and dry ginger are ginger plants, but the drug source, chemical composition, pharmacological effects, medicinal properties, efficacy, application, treatment are not the same. Ginger and dry ginger although the same source of drugs, but due to different processing methods, its chemical composition, pharmacological effects, efficacy and application of changes. Therefore, ginger, ginger and dry ginger should not be confused.