Ginger stimulates gastric secretion, promotes digestion, and disperses cold. It can prevent and treat colds. The specific methods of eating ginger are as follows:
Eating Methods of Ginger
1. Chew Ginger Slices in the Morning
After getting up in the morning, drink a glass of water first. Then peel the ginger, cut it into thin slices, put 4-5 slices in a bowl of boiling water, and then put the ginger slices in your mouth and chew slowly for 10-30 minutes. Do not swallow it all at once.
Eating ginger regularly is beneficial for preventing colds.
2. Drink Ginger Jujube Soup
For friends who often work in air-conditioned rooms in summer, you can take 10 jujubes, 5 slices of ginger, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar in the morning. Boil them into a soup and drink it instead of tea once a day. It is especially suitable for female friends.
Precautions for Eating Ginger
1. Do not peel the ginger
Some people like to peel ginger when eating it, but this cannot fully exert the overall effects of ginger. Generally, after cleaning fresh ginger, cut it into slices or shreds.
It is better to leave the peel when eating ginger to avoid getting too "hot". This is because ginger has a spicy and warm taste and has the effects of warming the stomach, stopping vomiting, and detoxifying.
On the other hand, ginger peel has a spicy and cool taste and can help with diuresis and reducing swelling. Therefore, there is a saying that "keeping the ginger peel makes it cool, removing the ginger peel makes it hot."
2. Do not eat spoiled ginger
Rotten ginger can produce a highly toxic substance that can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells.
3. Avoid eating ginger at night
Gingerol stimulates intestinal peristalsis during the day, which can enhance the functions of the spleen and stomach. However, at night, it becomes a big problem that affects sleep and harms the intestines.
Who Should Avoid Eating Ginger
1. People with Yin deficiency constitution
Yin deficiency refers to a hot and dry constitution, characterized by hot palms and soles, sweaty palms, frequent thirst, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritability, poor sleep, etc. Ginger has a spicy and warm nature, so eating ginger can worsen the symptoms of yin deficiency.
2. People with severe internal heat
People with diseases such as lung heat, dry cough, vomiting due to stomach heat, halitosis, bleeding hemorrhoids, and painful and ulcerated sores should not eat ginger. If it is a hot disease, when eating ginger, it is necessary to combine it with cold medicines to neutralize the heat of ginger according to the principle of "using cold medicines for hot diseases" in traditional Chinese medicine.
3. Attention for hair loss patients
Many people use ginger externally to treat hair loss. Indeed, ginger has a warm and spicy nature, which can increase local blood circulation, stimulate the opening of hair follicles, and promote hair regrowth.
However, it should be noted that hair loss belongs to a hot disease, and using ginger for a long time can generate heat. Using hot medicines to treat hot diseases conflicts with the principle of "using cold medicines for hot diseases" in traditional Chinese medicine, so it is best to use ginger sparingly.
4. Patients with hepatitis
Generally, patients with hepatitis should avoid eating ginger because eating ginger often can cause excessive liver fire.
To restrain the liver fire caused by eating ginger, you can choose some liver-soothing and qi-regulating foods at the same time. For example, drink hawthorn and chrysanthemum tea. This can eliminate the dry heat caused by ginger without harming the body.
5. People with yellow phlegm
People with yellow phlegm have lung heat and dryness. Ginger has a warm nature, so eating ginger can aggravate the symptoms.
6. People with bad breath
According to traditional Chinese medicine, bad breath is caused by stomach heat. Ginger has a warm nature, so eating ginger can worsen the existing stomach heat and even cause symptoms such as toothache, headache, and bleeding hemorrhoids.
7. People with constipation
Constipation is mostly caused by intestinal heat. If you eat ginger excessively at this time, it will aggravate the symptoms.
