Since ancient times, ginger is a common medicine, but also a common health food treatment. As the saying goes, “If your meal doesn’t smell good, eat ginger”, which means that eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little ginger in your dishes when your appetite is poor can improve your appetite and increase your meal. According to Chinese medicine, ginger is warm and pungent, it can dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and stop vomiting, warm the lungs and stop coughing, as well as open blood vessels, lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, and reduce the incidence of heart disease and stroke. There is a popular saying that “ginger cures all diseases”. The composition of ginger contains various volatile oils, as well as various vitamins and elements such as iron and magnesium, which are commonly lacking in modern people. The volatile oil can stimulate gastric juice secretion, promote digestion, but also on the vascular center and respiratory center stimulating effect. Practice has proved that ginger is indeed beneficial to human health. There is a folk saying “winter ginger, not afraid of frost”, and in Taizhou, especially in Linhai, the habit of eating ginger juice is also prevalent in the cold winter. The “Dongpo Miscellany” has described the monk Qiantang Jingci, more than 80 years old, face like a child, said he served ginger for 40 years, so not old clouds. There are different ways to eat ginger in the prevention and treatment of different diseases, such as slicing ginger, adding brown sugar decoction, after taking while hot, covered with a quilt to sweat, the effect of wind and cold is very obvious. In the usual health care, can be used with a few slices of tender ginger skin, served with warm water at breakfast every day, the ancient proverb has “eat three slices of ginger in the morning, more than ginseng soup”. However, ginger should not be eaten in the evening, because of its warm nature, after eating emanation, night Qi and blood convergence, obviously against the physiological functions of people, so ginger should be eaten in the morning, Chinese food. Although ginger has the health effects of health care to dispel diseases, but not more is better. Because it is a hot food, ginger is not suitable for people who have Yin deficiency and internal heat or hyperthermia. The ginger should not be consumed for a long time by those who suffer from skin canker sores, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes, etc. The rotten ginger can not be eaten, rotten ginger will produce a very toxic substance, which can induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer and other cancers.