Yellow ginger powder and turmeric powder are two kinds of herbal medicines with big difference in efficacy. Turmeric powder is cool in nature and has the effect of detoxifying and reducing swelling. Turmeric powder is warm and has the effect of breaking the blood and moving qi and relieving pain.
The name of turmeric powder and turmeric powder is positive and negative relationship, but the efficacy and main treatment is very different. The yellow ginger powder is the rhizome of the plant Dioscorea peltata, which is sweet in flavor and cool in nature, and has the effect of detoxifying and reducing swelling. It is mainly used in the treatment of carbuncle (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative diseases occurring on the body surface, limbs, internal organs) early unbroken, acute suppurative skin infections.
Turmeric powder is the rhizome of the plant turmeric ground into powder, taste pungent, bitter, warm. It has the efficacy of breaking blood and moving qi, and relieving menstruation and pain. It is used for treating blood stasis and stagnation of qi, chest and abdominal dystocia (pain in the area of coercion and ribs), and dysmenorrhea in women. It is used externally for treating bruises and injuries.
Both herbs should be used with the cooperation of a doctor. Do not use the medicine privately as this may cause damage to the organism.