How to eat and use ginger in "Friendship Science Popularization" in winter?
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On November 24, 2021, official website, the Beijing Municipal Health and Wellness Committee, released health knowledge: "How to eat and use ginger in winter [Friendship Science Popularization]? 》
In order to give full play to the social responsibility of 3A general hospitals, promote the spread of health science knowledge, tap friendship science talents, and build a stage for the medical staff, the Propaganda Center of Beijing Friendship Hospital, the Department of Disease Control and Infection Management, and the trade union jointly held the first "Friendship Science Popularization is Good for Health" science popularization contest of Beijing Friendship Hospital. The contest was positively responded by all departments of the hospital, and a large number of excellent articles, cartoons and short video works were collected. Excerpt some popular science articles for display.
As the saying goes, "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and don’t ask a doctor for a prescription." Ginger plays an important role in China’s food culture and knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Ginger is suitable for summer, but it is also suitable for winter.
Types of ginger
We often use ginger, dried ginger and processed ginger. Ginger is pungent and warm, and enters the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. "Guide to Drug Differentiation" says: "Ginger is pungent, and it is good to use it alone to clear phlegm and help orifices, stop cold and vomiting, and connect the gods." However, this product helps heat to injure yin, so it should not be taken by those with excessive heat and internal heat due to yin deficiency. Dried ginger is mainly produced in Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other places, and harvested in winter. Li Shizhen said that dried ginger is made of mother ginger, and it is good to be white and firm, so it should be used as medicine and soaked. Because of its pungent and hot dryness, yin deficiency with internal heat and blood heat, it is forbidden for practitioners. Processed ginger is the processed product of dried ginger. Take pieces of dried ginger, stir-fry them in a pot with strong fire until they foam and swell, and the skin is brown and the inside is yellow. Spray a little water, take them out and dry them in the sun. It is warm in nature and bitter in taste, and enters the spleen and liver meridians. "Introduction to Medicine" contains: "Canning ginger, spleen and stomach, treating internal cold and watery discharge, diarrhea and intestinal addiction."
Ginger, dried ginger and processed ginger are the same thing, all of which can warm the middle warmer and dispel cold, and are suitable for spleen and stomach cold syndrome. However, due to the different processing, its performance is also different. Ginger is good at dispersing cold, and it is also the "holy medicine for vomiting"; Dried ginger is pungent and hot, good at keeping the middle, and biased towards dispelling the cold inside; Processed ginger is good at removing blood, and is good at warming meridians to stop bleeding. The ancients simply summarized these ginger as "ginger can walk but not keep, dried ginger can walk and keep, and canned ginger can keep but not walk".
But in daily health, we use ginger the most.
The benefits of eating ginger
People with cold constitution are usually afraid of cold, and their hands and feet are cold. After eating cold food, they are prone to diarrhea. Eating ginger can warm the middle warmer to drive away cold, prevent cold and harm the spleen and stomach, and avoid indigestion. Ginger can stop vomiting. People suffering from carsickness and seasickness can improve their symptoms by taking a few slices of ginger or drinking Jiang Shui on the way. When eating is not fragrant or the appetite is reduced, eating ginger can improve appetite and increase appetite. If you have a cold, drink a bowl of hot ginger soup, porridge, etc., and your symptoms will be improved. If fish, shrimp and poultry are poisoned, or if you eat cassava, wild mushrooms or raw pinellia tuber and raw Nanxing by mistake, you can use ginger to detoxify.
How to use ginger in winter?
Ginger has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome. Soaking ginger and jujube in water has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, and harmonizing camp and health, which is very effective for the first feeling of external cold in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine and tea can not be taken together, and ginger black tea has the function of regulating the stomach. The practice of ginger black tea: take 1~3 grams of black tea and 3 slices of fresh ginger, put them in a teacup and brew with boiling water, cover them for 3~5 minutes, and drink them once or twice a day; You can also use 15 grams of fresh ginger, juice and transfer it to black tea water.
For people with gastric ulcer, ginger juice hitting milk can protect the stomach. Two to three spoonfuls of ginger juice, pour it into half a catty of boiled milk, let it warm and drink it on an empty stomach in the morning. Milk and ginger juice can form a protective film on the ulcer surface of gastric mucosa to prevent the erosion of gastric acid. For people with spleen deficiency in loose stool, ginger porridge is also recommended. Practice: Take 50 grams of rice, wash it and add water to cook porridge, add 10 grams of ginger slices when it is almost cooked, and cook until the rice is cooked. Take it while it is hot.
Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup is a famous medicated diet, which comes from Article 135 of Synopsis of the Golden Chamber: "Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup is the main one for those with cold hernia, abdominal pain and hypochondriac pain." The modern dosage of this recipe is 10 grams of angelica, 15 grams of ginger and 250 grams of mutton. This medicated diet has a good effect of nourishing blood and warming yang, and is suitable for women with less sweating, delayed menstruation, dysmenorrhea, infertility due to cold uterus and edema. And is powerful in enriching blood, and can be taken by both men and women. Tonifying in winter, too much will easily lead to internal heat or food accumulation, so white radish can be added to the soup appropriately. White radish is cool, which has the functions of eliminating food stagnation, relaxing the stomach, resolving phlegm and clearing heat. It can properly integrate the warming and nourishing effects of mutton and is easier for human body to digest and absorb.
Soaking ginger in vinegar promotes digestion. Ginger has a unique spicy taste, which can stimulate taste buds, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, while vinegar has the function of stimulating appetite and promoting blood circulation. Soaking ginger with vinegar can better regulate the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion. Mr. Lu Zhizheng, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, said when asked about health cheats: "My health comes from ginger." It turned out that he had eaten vinegar soaked ginger for more than forty years. Ginger dominates divergence and vinegar converges. After vinegar is added to ginger, their functions are mutually enhanced, which not only increases yang qi, but also disperses liver qi. Ginger soaked in vinegar has the effect of soothing the liver and nourishing the stomach. First, cut fresh ginger into thin slices. Second, put the sliced ginger into an empty bottle (clean and free of oil), pour rice vinegar (rice vinegar must not pass the ginger slices), add a little sugar and salt, tighten the bottle cap and store it in the cold room of the refrigerator. It can be eaten after 3 days. Take out 2~4 slices of ginger every morning, which can be eaten with millet porridge.
Ginger soaks feet to warm yang and dredge collaterals. People with insufficient yang are generally cold-footed, easily afraid of cold, often suffering from diarrhea, indigestion and listlessness. At this time, ginger can be sliced, and after the fire is boiled, add water to soak your feet. Note that the temperature must be appropriate, the water temperature should be 40℃~45℃, and the foot soaking time should not exceed half an hour.
Precautions in using ginger
Rotten ginger will produce a very toxic substance-safrole, which can denature and necrosis liver cells, and even induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer and so on. Ginger must be carefully observed before eating.
Eating ginger is not the more the better. Incidents of epistaxis caused by taking too much ginger frequently occur. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is analyzed that due to the large dose of ginger taken in a short period of time, the body suddenly suffers from dryness and evil, which accumulates heat and turns into fire, consumes body fluid, disturbs blood, forces blood to rush, and leads to epistaxis. Modern research puts forward that eating ginger once should not be too much, so as not to absorb a lot of gingerol, which will stimulate the kidney in the process of excretion through the kidney, and produce symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat and constipation.
Ginger is suitable for people with cold stomach, that is, patients with frequent diarrhea, tepid limbs, fear of cold and prefer warmth. Anyone with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should not eat more ginger, for those with dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, upset and irritable, and poor sleep. Or those with severe internal heat, suffering from stomach heat vomiting, hemorrhoid bleeding, carbuncle, swelling, sores, etc., should not eat ginger.
Eat ginger and tell the time. In the morning, the qi in people’s stomach needs to rise, so eating some ginger can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach. At night, the human body should have a convergence of yang and an excess of yin, so you should eat more food that clears away heat and helps digestion. Modern research also shows that gingerol stimulates gastrointestinal peristalsis, which can enhance the function of spleen and stomach during the day and affect sleep and hurt the intestine at night.
Ginger and jujube water is only suitable for patients with wind-cold cold or stomach cold, and ginger is not suitable for wind-heat cold. When you have chills and fever after catching a cold or getting caught in the rain and snow, eating ginger helps the cold to spread out and warm the stomach. Wind-heat cold is not caused by cold pathogen, so ginger should not be used alone. In addition, taking fresh ginger juice can deal with vomiting caused by cold, but other types of vomiting are not suitable.
To sum up, ginger has a wide range of health care applications, but it is not suitable for people with different constitutions in every region. We need to keep our eyes open and distinguish the specific situation.
































