“Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, no need for doctor’s prescription”. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine doctors and folk “ginger cure all diseases” said. Chinese medicine, ginger, pungent, slightly warm, to the lungs, spleen and stomach meridian. It has the effect of sweating and relieving symptoms, warming and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, and relieving the poison of fish and crabs. Because ginger contains gingerol, gingerene, watercressene, citral and aromatic and other oily volatile oils; and gingerol, resin, starch and fiber. Therefore, ginger in the hot season has excited, sweating cooling, refreshing, etc.; can relieve fatigue, fatigue, anorexia, insomnia, bloating, abdominal pain and other symptoms; ginger also has the role of stomach to promote appetite, hot summer climate, saliva, gastric juice secretion will be reduced, thus affecting the person’s appetite, if a few slices of ginger at mealtime, it will enhance the appetite; ginger on the stomach pain is also to relieve or relieve the pain effect of gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcers occurring in the gastric and duodenal ulcers, the role of ginger in the gastric and duodenal ulcers. Gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcer pain, vomiting, acidity, hunger, etc. with ginger 50 grams of decoction water to drink, can make the symptoms quickly eliminated. Summer, bacterial growth and reproduction is exceptionally active, easy to contaminate food and cause acute gastroenteritis, but appropriate to eat some ginger or dry ginger with tea after boiling water, can play a preventive role. Scientists through research found that ginger can play the role of certain antimicrobial agents, especially for salmonella effect is obvious. Ginger also kills oral pathogenic bacteria and intestinal pathogenic bacteria, with ginger water gargling treatment of bad breath and periodontitis, the effect is remarkable. In summer, people are greedy for cold, favorite fan air conditioning with, it is easy to feel the wind cold, causing cold and flu. At this time, drink some ginger water in time, will help expel the body wind cold. Chinese medicine believes that ginger can be “through the gods,” that is, to refresh the mind. Summer heatstroke fainting unconscious, with a cup of ginger irrigation, can make the patient quickly wake up. On the general summer heat, manifested as dizziness, palpitations and chest tightness and nausea of the patient, appropriate to eat some ginger soup is very beneficial. Ginger eat a lot of ways, such as, drink ginger soup, eat ginger porridge, cooking vegetables hot oil, put some ginger, stewed meat, fried fish with ginger, flatbread, dumplings filled with ginger, both to make the flavor delicious, but also helps to wake up the stomach and open the spleen, refreshing, promote appetite, to help digestion and help the stomach and intestines on the absorption of nutrients. However, since ginger has pharmacological effects, it should pay attention to some of its uses and contraindications, the following issues should be noted: 1, do not peel. Some people eat ginger like to peel, this can not play the overall effectiveness of ginger. The general fresh ginger can be cut into slices after washing. 2, all of the yin deficiency fire, red eyes and internal heat, or suffering from carbuncle sores, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcers, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes mellitus, hemorrhoids, should not be consumed for a long time ginger. 3, from the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for wind-cold cold or rain with stomach cold, fever patients, can not be used for summer heat cold or wind-heat cold patients, but can not be used to treat heat stroke. Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is not suitable for other types of vomiting. 4, do not eat rotten ginger. Rotting ginger will produce a very toxic substances, it can make the liver cell degeneration, necrosis, thus inducing liver cancer, esophageal cancer. The saying “rotten ginger does not taste rotten” is wrong. Eating ginger is not a good thing. Summer weather is hot, people are prone to dry mouth, thirst, sore throat, sweat, ginger is pungent and warm, is a hot food, according to the “hot cold” principle, should not eat more. You can put a few slices of ginger when cooking or making soup.