Ginger has been known as a yang-enhancing food in Traditional Chinese Medicine since ancient times. Modern clinical pharmacology research has found that ginger can accelerate the body's metabolism, have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, stimulate the functions of multiple systems in the body, and regulate the function of the male prostate, treating male prostate diseases and sexual dysfunction. Therefore, ginger is often used for male health.
Who benefits most from consuming ginger:
1. People with a cold constitution:
People with a cold constitution often experience symptoms such as feeling cold, cold hands and feet, and easily getting diarrhea after consuming cold food. These people are suitable for consuming more ginger because ginger has a warming nature and can be used to warm the body and dispel coldness.
Ginger, with its warm and hot nature, can also balance the coldness of certain foods. For example, when people eat crabs, they often add ginger as a condiment. This is because crabs have a cold nature and a fishy taste, while ginger can neutralize the coldness and eliminate the fishy smell, preventing cold damage to the spleen and stomach and avoiding indigestion. Similarly, people with cold conditions should regularly consume ginger to balance the coldness in their bodies.
In addition, ginger can enhance male sexual function. Many male friends like to consume ginger, and its effectiveness can only be known by trying it. The saying "A man should not go a hundred days without ginger" has been passed down through the ages.
2. People with a cold stomach:
People with a cold stomach, who have symptoms like a preference for hot drinks and dry heaving of clear water, are suitable for consuming raw ginger. Especially in the summer, people often consume cold drinks and cooling fruits, causing coldness to invade the stomach. At this time, drinking some ginger syrup can help expel the coldness from the body.
From the perspective of the five colors, ginger belongs to the yellow category. Yellow is associated with the earth element, and according to the theory of the five elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine, it enters the spleen and stomach, promoting digestion and nourishing the stomach and spleen. If someone has poor digestion, they can drink a glass of ginger water with an empty stomach in the morning, which can dispel the coldness in the stomach and provide gentle nourishment to the intestines and stomach.
Ginger can also relieve nausea. In fact, we often use ginger to relieve nausea in our daily lives. For example, fishermen in coastal areas often chew sugar or pickled ginger to prevent seasickness. People who experience motion sickness often drink ginger water before the journey and chew on ginger slices during the trip to suppress vomiting caused by motion sickness.
3. People with poor appetite:
There is a saying, "When the food is not fragrant, eat ginger." When you lose your appetite or have a reduced food intake, consuming a few slices of ginger or adding some young ginger to dishes can improve your appetite and increase your food intake.
Ginger can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, aid digestion, eliminate toxins accumulated in the body, and detoxify. For example, if someone experiences poisoning from fish, shrimp, or poultry, or mistakenly consumes toxins from cassava, wild yam, wild mushrooms, or raw pinellia and raw rhizoma arisaematis, ginger can be used to detoxify. It can be said that ginger is like a sweeper in the human body, sweeping away impurities.
Ginger can also invigorate the mind and awaken the brain. Spicy foods can clear the senses, allowing the flow of qi and blood, making one feel refreshed. For example, if someone faints from heatstroke in the summer, giving them a cup of ginger juice can quickly revive them. Ginger juice can also be tried for fainting or coma caused by stroke.
4. People with cold-type colds:
Ginger can be used as a dietary treatment for colds caused by exposure to cold. If you get caught in the rain or catch a cold, drinking a bowl of warm ginger soup after returning home can improve your condition. Why can ginger soup resist wind and cold and treat colds caused by wind and cold? Ginger has an outward dispersing nature. Its warm and pungent taste can dispel coldness and induce sweating, unblocking the stagnated qi caused by the invasion of wind and cold. Therefore, fresh ginger can be used for wind-cold type colds. Adding some brown sugar to the ginger soup and consuming it while it's hot will soon generate a warm sensation throughout the body, effectively dispelling wind and coldness by inducing sweating.
However, ginger beverages should only be used to treat wind-cold type colds. If the cold is caused by wind-heat in the body, consuming ginger or other warm and hot herbs would be like adding fuel to the fire.
Ginger is generally not used to treat influenza because in Traditional Chinese Medicine, bitter and cold herbs are used to clear heat and eliminate toxins, while ginger does not possess these properties.
The benefits of consuming fresh ginger: improved appetite and anti-aging effects.
Middle-aged and elderly men often experience physical weakness due to cold stomach and poor appetite. Consuming fresh ginger slices regularly can stimulate gastric juice secretion and promote digestion.
Fresh ginger is not as drying as dried ginger and does not damage the yin. Chewing four to five slices of fresh ginger every day, drinking a glass of warm water in the morning, and then slowly chewing the ginger slices in the mouth, allows the aroma of ginger to spread in the oral cavity, intestines, stomach, and nasal passages.
Ginger is a yang-enhancing food and has long been known in Traditional Chinese Medicine as "A man should not go a hundred days without ginger." Modern clinical pharmacology research has found that ginger can accelerate the body's metabolism, have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, stimulate the functions of multiple systems in the body, regulate the function of the male prostate, and treat male prostate diseases and sexual dysfunction. Therefore, ginger is often used for male health.
