The benefits of eating ginger in summer

In the summer, many people will be alternately hot and cold changes, and produce a lot of body “cool”, such as diarrhea, heat stroke, weakness, nausea and so on. In fact, these symptoms, with a common ingredient in the kitchen, can be very relief treatment. That is ginger! This is why the saying “eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer – do not ask the doctor to prescribe!” You may not think that there is such an ingredient in the kitchen, right? It can specialize in overcoming the many summer “cool”! Help dispel dampness in summer many people like to eat ice cream, ice cream and other cold drinks, and many people like to stay in air-conditioned rooms for a long time without going out. This will lead to the dampness in the body can not be discharged properly, resulting in obesity. Eat ginger is also a good way to dissolve dampness in the body. Ginger has the effect of relieving dampness. The best effect of eating ginger in the morning in summer is to maintain health and wellness. The reason is that ginger is the best at promoting the Yang energy of the Yang Ming meridian. Summer morning is the time when the blood and qi flow into the Yang Ming stomach meridian, at this time to eat ginger, just to generate stomach gas, to promote digestion. And ginger pungent warm, can speed up the blood flow, has the effect of refreshing. Song Dynasty poet Su Shi in the “Dongpo Miscellaneous Records” in the account of Hangzhou Qiantang Jing Ci Temple, more than 80-year-old monk, the face of a child, “said that serving ginger 40 years, so not old cloud. Prevent heatstroke Summer, especially the hot days, sweating a lot, in the current situation, people tend to use air conditioning, iced drinks, etc. to relieve the heat. In fact, the effect and counterproductive. The consequences of excessive consumption of iced drinks, cold and excessive is not only hurt the spleen and stomach, stomach pain and diarrhea, but also cause sticky mouth, dry mouth, no sweat, the consequences of summer heat is not resolved. This is because the heat is even outside, the spleen and stomach are empty, the cold defeats the stomach, and the yang is not allowed to collect inside. This is if you drink pungent hot ginger herbal tea (room temperature) to warm the stomach to protect Yang, Yang Qi within the guard, the heat will not float outside, the body will naturally feel refreshed and relaxed. Now scientific research found that ginger contains gingerol, gingerene, watercressene, citral and aromatic and other oily volatile oils; there are ginger spice, resin, starch and fiber ginger in the heat of the season have excitement, sweating and cooling, refreshing and other effects. Detoxification antiseptic summer people like to eat cold drinks, popsicles, ice cream and cold products such as cold dishes, these foods are vulnerable to contamination by external germs, improper ingestion will cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, and the volatile oil contained in ginger has a bactericidal detoxification effect. Against air conditioning disease air conditioning room for a long time, easy to lead to limb pain, you can cook some thick hot ginger soup, with a towel dipped in water hot compresses on the affected area, there is a wind wind Shu tendon blood effect.