Ginger also has the effect of improving appetite and promoting digestion. In hot weather, the secretion of saliva and gastric juice decreases, which affects people's appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger during meals, it can increase your appetite.
Ginger has the functions of stimulating the mind, promoting sweating, and cooling down in hot weather, and it can relieve fatigue, loss of appetite, insomnia, abdominal distension, and abdominal pain.
There are many ways to eat ginger, such as drinking ginger soup, eating ginger porridge, adding ginger slices when frying vegetables in hot oil, adding ginger slices when stewing meat or frying fish, adding ginger powder when making dumplings or dumpling fillings. It can not only make the taste delicious, but also help to stimulate the stomach and spleen, refresh the mind, promote appetite, aid digestion, and assist the stomach and intestines in absorbing nutrients. However, since ginger has pharmacological effects, attention should be paid to its usage and contraindications. The following are some issues that should be noted:
1. From the perspective of treating illnesses, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with wind-cold type cold or stomach cold and fever after getting wet in the rain. It should not be used for patients with summer cold or wind-heat type cold, nor for treating heatstroke. Fresh ginger juice can treat vomiting caused by coldness, but it is not suitable for other types of vomiting.
2. Do not eat rotten ginger. Rotten ginger can produce a highly toxic substance that can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, and induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer, and other diseases. The saying "rotten ginger does not have a rotten taste" is unscientific.
3. Eating ginger is not always beneficial. In hot summer weather, people are prone to dry mouth, thirst, sore throat, and excessive sweating. Ginger is warm and belongs to hot food. According to the principle of "heat is counteracted by cold," it is not advisable to eat too much ginger. Just put a few slices of ginger when cooking or making soup.
4. Do not peel the ginger. Some people like to peel ginger when eating, but this cannot fully utilize the overall effect of ginger. After washing the fresh ginger, you can cut it into shreds or slices.
5. Those who have yin deficiency and excessive internal heat, red eyes, or suffer from furuncles, abscesses, pneumonia, lung abscess, pulmonary tuberculosis, gastric ulcers, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes, or hemorrhoids should not consume ginger for a long time.
