The functions and effects of dried ginger include warming the middle and dispersing cold (dispersing cold evils with medicine that warms the spleen and stomach), returning yang to the veins, warming the lungs and resolving drinks (facilitating the flow of stagnant fluids by warming the lungs), and is useful for cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen (the stomach and abdomen feel cold and painful), vomiting and diarrhea.
Dried ginger is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the rhizome of ginger, family Zingiberaceae, by removing the fibrous roots and sediment and then dried in the sun or at low temperature. It is pungent in flavor and hot in nature, and can be applied to the spleen, heart, lungs, stomach and kidney meridians.
The medicinal effects of dry ginger are mainly warming the middle and dispersing cold, restoring yang, warming the lungs and resolving drinks, suitable for vomiting and diarrhea, cold pain in the stomach and abdomen, cold limbs and weak pulse, cold drinks and wheezing cough and such conditions of treatment.
It should be noted that dry ginger is forbidden to be taken by people with Yin deficiency and internal heat, or those with blood-heat paranoia (heat causing blood to go out abnormally). Specific medication should be carried out under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of medication.