Dried ginger slices is a Chinese herbal medicine with the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), relieving surface and dispersing cold (removing cold from the surface of the muscle), and relieving fish and crab toxicity, which is effective for improving wind-cold and cold flu, fish and crab toxicity, cold phlegm and coughing, and vomiting caused by stomach cold.
Dried ginger slices are pungent and mildly warm in nature, which can dispel the cold in the body, and is effective in treating cold pain in the stomach and epigastrium, loss of appetite, vomiting and other diseases caused by cold evils invading the middle jiao or spleen and stomach. Dried ginger can also enter the lung meridian, warming the lung to disperse cold, phlegm and cough, can improve the lung cold cough. In addition, dried ginger has a certain detoxification effect, fish and crab poisoning has a certain effect.
Clinically, it can be combined with Gui Zhi and Qiang Wu to improve the efficacy of sweating to relieve cold and wind-cold. It can also be combined with galangal and cardamom to relieve cold stomach and vomiting. It can also be used with ephedra and almonds to improve coughs and headaches caused by cold lungs.
Dried ginger slices should not be consumed in large quantities as they may help fire and damage yin, and should be avoided by those with heatiness and yin deficiency. If you want to use this medicine, you must be instructed by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.