Elderly men often experience weakness due to cold stomach and poor appetite. They can regularly consume fresh ginger slices to stimulate gastric secretion and promote digestion. Fresh ginger does not have the strong drying properties of dried ginger, and it moisturizes without damaging the yin. Cut four or five thin slices of fresh ginger every day, drink a glass of warm water in the morning, and then chew the ginger slices slowly in the mouth, allowing the aroma of ginger to spread in the oral cavity, intestines, and nasal passages.
Dried ginger: treating kidney deficiency and impotence
Take one male carp (about 500 grams), 10 grams of dried ginger, and 10 grams of wolfberries. Take the white gel-like substance from the belly of the carp (the male carp's seminal vesicle), and add it to the pot together with dried ginger and wolfberries. Bring to a boil, add cooking wine, salt, and monosodium glutamate to taste. Take it on an empty stomach, once every other day, for a total of 5 days.
Dried ginger warms the middle, dispels cold, invigorates the stomach, and promotes blood circulation. Wolfberries nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish essence, and improve eyesight. This medicinal diet can treat impotence, aversion to cold with cold limbs, back pain, weak and sore waist and knees, and fatigue caused by kidney yang deficiency.
However, ginger is warm and spicy, and should only be used in cases of cold. Using it in large amounts may damage the blood and yin. If you have symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire, such as sore throat, dry throat, and dry stools, ginger is not suitable.
