Ginger is a common seasoning in our kitchen, can be made into pickles, can be processed into small snacks, but also ginger is often used in Chinese medicine clinical medicine. In clinical applications, ginger is divided into ginger and dried ginger, ginger is freshly sliced and used, dried ginger is sliced and dried, there are certain differences in the efficacy of the two, expressed in separate heads. First, ginger ginger taste pungent, slightly warm, belonging to the slightly warm, here distinguished from dried ginger. It belongs to the spleen and lung meridian. When it comes to the efficacy of ginger, the first thing that comes to mind is to get cold from a rain shower, come home and drink a bowl of ginger soup, sweat a little, the next day will not catch a cold, this is one of the efficacy of ginger: sweating and relieving symptoms, mainly for wind-cold symptoms. What is wind-cold superficial evidence? For example, in the cool autumn, when you go out without an umbrella and get wet, you feel the wind and cold; when you run home and shiver, you sneeze incessantly, this is the superficial evidence, which means that the evil has just attacked the surface of the body and has not yet transmitted to the body. In this case, a bowl of ginger soup or add some white onion and brown sugar, drink it while it is hot and sweat slightly to force the cold out, the wind-cold symptoms will disappear. Here we need to pay attention to one point, ginger soup is only applicable to superficial evidence, that is to say, when you just feel the wind and cold with ginger soup can prevent the cold, once the cold attack, Yu Li into heat, the body appears high fever, dizziness, nasal congestion and runny symptoms, ginger soup alone can hardly play a therapeutic role, you need other formulas. So can I use ginger for cough? The answer is yes, for cough with cold lung, ginger has the function of warming the lung and dispersing cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Ginger is also a good remedy to stop vomiting, especially for stomach cold vomiting. For example, this: eat an ice cream, stomach pain immediately up, constantly want to vomit, then cut a piece of ginger in the mouth, the immediate effect. Ginger also has an important role to play, we know eat crab eating shrimp when you want to eat some ginger? But not just warm stomach Oh, ginger also has the role of fish and crab poison, some people have a weak spleen and stomach, after eating seafood stomach pain and vomiting, this time to eat two pieces of ginger, can well relieve the symptoms, and ginger also has the role of stomach and appetite. Second, dry ginger dry ginger taste pungent, hot (difference: dry ginger slightly warm), to the heart, stomach, spleen, lung meridian. The heat of dry ginger is much stronger than that of ginger, so the primary effect is to return to Yang to save the reverse: Yin and cold, Yang Qi deficiency, cold hands and feet, cold sweat, hurry on the four reverse soup (with seeds, dry ginger, cinnamon), there are “with seeds without dry ginger not hot” said. At the same time, dry ginger has a good effect on the spleen and stomach cold, for gastritis, gastric ulcer caused by the stomach cold stomach pain; In addition, it can also warm the lungs to resolve phlegm, for the cold and cough appear cold, cold limbs, back chills, asthma, white phlegm and other symptoms, such as Xiao Qing Long Tang (dry ginger, horseradish, half summer, licorice, Wu Wei Zi, jujube). Summary: Ginger relieves symptoms and vomiting to detoxify fish and crabs, while dry ginger warms heat and disperses cold to soothe Yang Qi.