Ginger stimulates gastric juice secretion, promotes digestion, and dispels cold. It can prevent and treat colds. The specific methods of using ginger are as follows:
Methods of Using Ginger
1. Chew Ginger Slices in the Morning
Every morning after waking up, drink a glass of water first, then scrape the skin off fresh 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 them all at once.
Persist in using ginger, it is very beneficial for preventing colds.
2. Drink Ginger and 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, 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 effectiveness of ginger. Generally, after washing fresh ginger, cut it into slices or shreds.
It is best to keep the skin when eating ginger frequently to avoid excessive internal heat. This is because ginger has a spicy taste and warm nature, and has the effect of stimulating the stomach, stopping vomiting, and detoxifying;
while ginger skin has a spicy taste and cool nature, and has the functions of promoting water circulation and reducing swelling. Therefore, there is a saying that "keeping the ginger skin is cool, removing the ginger skin is hot".
2. Do Not Eat Spoiled Ginger
Decayed ginger can produce a highly toxic substance that can cause liver cell degeneration and necrosis.
3. Do Not Eat Ginger at Night
Ginger phenol stimulates intestinal peristalsis, which can enhance the functions of the spleen and stomach during the day, but at night, it becomes a major problem that affects sleep and harms the intestines.
Who Should Not Eat Ginger
1. People with Yin Deficiency Constitution
Yin deficiency refers to a dry and hot constitution, manifested as hot palms and soles, sweating in the palms, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritability, poor sleep, etc. Ginger has a warm and spicy nature, and eating ginger can aggravate the symptoms of Yin deficiency.
2. People with Severe Internal Heat
People with diseases such as lung heat and dry cough, gastric heat and vomiting, bad breath, bleeding hemorrhoids, and painful and ulcerated sores should not eat ginger. If it is a hot disease, when eating ginger, it must be matched with cold medicines to neutralize the heat of ginger.
3. Attention for Hair Loss Patients Using Ginger
Many people use ginger externally to treat hair loss. Indeed, ginger, with its warm and spicy nature, can increase local blood circulation, stimulate the opening of hair follicles, and promote hair regrowth.
But it should be noted that hair loss belongs to a hot disease. If ginger is used for a long time, it will generate heat. Using hot medicines to treat hot diseases conflicts with the principle of traditional Chinese medicine of "using cold medicines for hot diseases". Therefore, it is best to use ginger sparingly.
4. Patients with Hepatitis
In general, patients with hepatitis should avoid eating ginger because eating ginger often will cause excessive liver fire.
To restrain the excessive liver fire caused by eating ginger, you can choose to drink tea made from hawthorn and chrysanthemum at the same time. This can eliminate the dry heat caused by ginger without harming the body.
5. People with Yellow Phlegm in the Mouth
People with yellow phlegm have lung heat and lung dryness. Ginger is warm in nature. Eating ginger can easily aggravate the symptoms.
6. People with Bad Breath
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bad breath is caused by gastric heat. Ginger is warm in nature. Eating ginger can aggravate the existing gastric heat and even cause symptoms such as toothache, headache, and bleeding hemorrhoids.
7. People with Constipation
Constipation is mostly due to intestinal heat. If you eat too much ginger at this time, it will worsen the symptoms.
