The efficacy and effects of ginger

Ginger is a condiment we often eat in our daily lives, in fact, ginger is also a good medicine for the treatment of a variety of diseases, many people only know the seasoning effect of ginger, little is known about its effectiveness in the treatment of disease, then the efficacy and role of ginger and what else?

Sweating and cooling

Ginger in the ginger spice on the heart and blood vessels have a certain stimulating effect, eating ginger can accelerate blood circulation, so that the pores open, sweating increased, with sweat can take away the body's residual heat, there is a certain role in the prevention of heat. Can do dishes of condiments, eat a small piece of meal, or ginger juice, punch 3 ~ 10 drops, effectively promote blood circulation.

Get rid of wind and cold

Ginger is a traditional remedy for cold weather in winter. If your body is infected with cold, drink some ginger syrup to get rid of the wind chill in your body and warm your body to prevent winter colds. It is not suitable for colds caused by summer heat and wind-heat.

Strengthen the spleen and stomach

Eating cold food in summer has the effect of dispersing heat and relieving summer heat, but at the same time, it can also lead to excessive coldness in the spleen and stomach, resulting in palpitations and nausea, etc. Eating ginger can help warm the spleen and stomach to prevent the disease from worsening. Ginger is a rising yang food, suitable for consumption in the morning, and should not be consumed in the afternoon and evening.

Prevent and cure gastroenteritis

Bacterial growth is active in summer and can easily contaminate food and cause acute gastroenteritis. Eating ginger or using dried ginger with boiling water as a tea substitute can help prevent gastroenteritis. The main reason is that the ingredients in ginger, such as pheromone and gingerene, have the effect of sterilization. Fresh ginger 50g, washed and chopped, add 300ml of water and decoct for 30 minutes. Take it 3 times a day for 2 days; that is, it has the effect of treating gastroenteritis.

Prevent and cure motion sickness

Ginger has a pungent taste and contains mainly volatile and stimulating ingredients gingerene, which has a relieving effect on "motion maladjustment" caused by exercise, and it is common to eat ginger to prevent motion sickness and seasickness. The usual amount of ginger juice is 3 drops to 10 drops, punch, or you can take a small piece to eat when dizzy or smell its pungent smell to treat motion sickness.

First aid for poisoning

Ginger has significant therapeutic effects on toxins such as heliotrope, aconite, horsetail, cassava, and bupleurum, and can even detoxify fish and crabs. Detoxification methods: the lighter the emergency ginger juice with gargle, and oral 5 ml, and then every 4 hours to renew 5 ml. If the poisoning is serious and comatose, immediately nasal feed 25% dry ginger soup 60 ml, after every 3 hours to instill 5 ml of fresh ginger juice.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Ginger is a certain antibacterial effect, especially on Salmonella has a good resistance effect, often eat some ginger can be good to prevent bacterial infections caused by acute gastroenteritis and so on. At the same time, ginger also has an inactivating effect on skin fungi and vaginal trichomonas, gargling with ginger water can also treat bad breath and periodontitis, with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Usage: Ginger can be used directly on external wounds by crushing ginger, and can also be used to wash wounds by boiling ginger water, both can prevent infection.

Anti-alcohol

Ginger is pungent and can accelerate blood flow and promote the digestion of alcohol in the blood, so a small sip of ginger and honey water after drinking can ease or eliminate drunkenness. And honey also has a good preventive effect on post-drinking headache.

Nourish the scalp to prevent dandruff

Washing the scalp with hot ginger water often can effectively slow down the metabolism of the scalp, which can prevent and control scalp fall and reduce scalp troubles. In addition, washing the hair with ginger water often has a certain therapeutic effect on baldness. Gingerene can directly penetrate the skin epidermis and penetrate deep into the root of hair follicles, which has a good nourishing effect on hair and also prevents dandruff.

Delays aging

Ginger contains curcumin, vitamin C and other antioxidant ingredients, of which curcumin can produce an antioxidant enzyme after entering the body, which can identify and remove the free radicals inside the body and delay aging, and its effect is even several times that of vitamin E.

Beauty and Sore Removal

Many women are still worried about freckles and acne marks, but do not know that every morning and evening with ginger in the spot marks gently, for about 2 months to remove freckles, acne marks, etc. In addition, this method also has a little effect on the dryness of the skin. It is recommended that you do not use water to clean the area immediately after applying ginger, and let the juice of the ginger dry slowly on the skin and acne marks, so as not to affect the effect.

Eliminate foot odor

Life, foot odor has been confused by many friends, and even willing to spend a lot of money to treat foot odor, but the effect is very little, in fact, adhere to the foot soak with ginger water can be a good treatment for foot odor. In the burning foot wash water is to be boiled when adding such as a few pieces of ginger, and then let the water boil 10 minutes role, add a little salt, a little white vinegar, with this ginger water soak feet, adhere to a week, foot odor can be removed.

Seasoning to enhance the aroma

Ginger has an aromatic and spicy taste, can refresh the mind, stimulate the taste buds, as a vegetable seasoning use, mainly used to get rid of the fishy taste of meat dishes, to enhance the fresh taste of dishes, thereby increasing appetite. It is often used as a condiment for meat, fish, fungus and other dishes.

How to eat ginger

Stir-fried meat with ginger

Ingredients: ginger, pork, red pepper, oil, salt, garlic, cooking wine, green onion. Method. 1. peel and shred ginger, wash and shred the meat, chop the green onion, shred the red pepper and set aside. 2. pot of hot oil, add shredded meat with wine stir-fry, 7 minutes cooked when served, change the oil put such as ginger, garlic, red pepper, stir-fried meat together, add salt to taste, sprinkle onion before serving. Effect: To increase the freshness, enhance the aroma, so that the taste and flavor of meat better.

Ginger and honey drink

Ingredients: ginger, honey, boiling water. Method. 1. Wash the ginger, slice it, put it into a pounding bowl and mash it fully, take a clean gauze, put the mash into the gauze and wrap it well. 2. Take a clean tea cup, press the ginger in the gauze, squeeze out the juice of ginger, punch into boiling water, leave for a few minutes, wait for the water temperature is not hot and add the right amount of honey, you can drink. Efficacy: sweating and cooling, cough and phlegm, treatment of sore throat.

Ginger in vinegar

Ingredients: ginger, rice vinegar or aged vinegar. Method. 1. Wash the ginger, slice it, put it in a small clean jar after cutting, pour in rice vinegar or aged vinegar and soak the ginger slices. 2. Take plastic wrap and apply a layer of warm boiling water on the outer layer of the jar and the edge of the mouth of the jar, put the plastic wrap on, cover the lid of the jar for sealing, and put it in the refrigerator for a week. Efficacy: stomach, weight loss, anti-hair loss, prevent chronic diseases, enhance the effectiveness of the body's yang energy.

Ginger brown sugar water

Ingredients: 3~5 slices of ginger, brown sugar, water. Practice: wash the ginger, sliced with skin, add two bowls of water to the pot, put the ginger and boil over high heat, boil over low heat until the water is about a bowl of brown sugar, with brown sugar fully dissolved after you can serve. Cool to about 40~50 degrees to drink. Efficacy: ginger brown sugar water has the effect of preventing colds, regulating the stomach, anti-inflammatory, dampness and blood, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting.

Contraindications to the consumption of ginger

1. Do not peel. Some people like to eat ginger peel, so do not play the overall effectiveness of ginger. Fresh ginger can be shredded and sliced after washing. 2. Anyone with Yin deficiency and fire, red eyes and internal heat, or suffering from carbuncles and boils, pneumonia, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, lung abscess, tuberculosis, pyelonephritis, diabetes, hemorrhoids, are not suitable for long-term consumption of ginger. 3. From the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with wind-cold colds or stomach cold or fever after getting wet, and cannot be used for patients with summer-heat colds or wind-heat colds, nor for the treatment of heat stroke. 4. Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is not suitable for other types of vomiting. 5. Do not eat rotten ginger. Rotting ginger can produce a very toxic substance that can cause liver cell degeneration and necrosis, inducing liver cancer, esophageal cancer, etc. That "rotten ginger does not taste bad" is not scientific.