The efficacy of Ginger Duck is to promote water retention and reduce swelling, tonify qi and yin, warm the lungs and dissolve drinks (promote the operation of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs), and warm the middle and disperse cold (dispel cold evils by warming the spleen and stomach with medicines), and it is used for the evidence of cold in the spleen and stomach, loose stools (loose and unshaped feces) with low food intake, oedema, and dysuria (unruly urine), and so on.
1. Duck meat, for the duck family duck animal meat, Chinese medicine nutritional point of view that the duck meat taste sweet, sex flat, belonging to the lungs, spleen, kidney meridian. Its efficacy flavor tonifying qi and yin, diuresis and swelling. It is used for the treatment of yin deficiency and labor heat, coughing and hemoptysis, weakness of the spleen and stomach, edema, and urinary incontinence. However, it is not suitable for patients who have loose stools at the beginning of external infection.
2. Dried ginger, the dried rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae, its effects are warming the middle and dispersing cold, warming the lungs and resolving drinks, used to treat cold spleen and stomach, cold pain in the epigastric region (stomach and abdomen feel cold and painful) and other conditions. It is not suitable for patients with yin deficiency and internal heat, or blood heat (heat evil causing blood to go out abnormally).
Compared with medicines, food has a slow onset and weak effect, and needs to be consumed by patients for a long period of time in order to achieve the effect; moreover, food is generally not used in the treatment of diseases, so please follow the doctor’s instructions for details.