Ginger's effects and side effects

Ginger

[Medicinal part] It is the fresh rhizome of ginger, a plant of the ginger family.

Benefits of Ginger

【Function】It can release wind and cold, stop vomiting, and relieve phlegm. It can treat colds, vomiting, phlegm, cough, bloating, diarrhea, and relieve the toxicity of Pinellia tuber, Arisaema, fish, crab, bird and animal.

① "Ben Jing": "Removes bad smells and connects with the spirit."

② "Bie Lu": "It is used to treat headache, nasal congestion, cough and shortness of breath caused by typhoid fever."

③ Tao Hongjing: "It nourishes the five internal organs, removes phlegm and relieves qi, stops vomiting, and eliminates rheumatism, cold and heat."

④ "Materia Medica": "It is used to treat phlegm, water and qi, and to relieve qi. It can be used raw or dried to treat cough, treat seasonal diseases, and stop vomiting and indigestion. Raw and dried Pinellia tuber can treat acute pain in the lower part of the heart. If you have a fever and cannot eat, mash the juice and mix it with honey to take. The juice can also be fried with almonds to relieve all qi stagnation, chest congestion, cold and hot qi."

⑤ "Qianjin·Food Therapy": "It can promote sweating and remove the bad smell on the diaphragm."

⑥ "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "It can eliminate high fever, treat cramps and heart fullness." "It can stop nausea, relieve depression, and stimulate appetite."

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The juice is a detoxifying medicine, it can break blood and regulate the stomach, remove cold and phlegm, and stimulate appetite."

⑧ "Pearl Capsule": "Benefits the spleen and stomach, dispels wind and cold."

⑨ "Medical Origin": "Warms the middle and removes dampness. Controls the toxicity of Magnolia officinalis and Pinellia ternata."

⑩ "Daily Materia Medica": "It can treat colds, colds, headaches, and nine orifices dysfunction. It can enter the lungs and stimulate the appetite, remove cold air from the abdomen, and eliminate odors. It can also eliminate the toxicity of fungi and mushrooms."

⑾ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Use it raw to disperse the qi, and use it cooked to harmonize the stomach. It can cure throat numbness caused by eating wild birds; soak it in juice and apply it to red eyes; mash it and boil it with yellow gelatin to apply it to rheumatism."

⑿ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Ginger juice can relieve phlegm, treat choking and nausea, save people from sudden death, treat body odor, and be applied to frozen ears. Stewed ginger can soothe the stomach and stop vomiting."

⒀ "Hui Yue Yi Jing": "Simmering ginger can treat stomach cold, diarrhea, and acid regurgitation."

⒁ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Effective in treating intestinal hernia pain."

Side Effects of Ginger

Yin deficiency, red eyes and throat problems, blood diseases, painful sores, vomiting and diarrhea with fire, summer heat syndrome, hot asthma and severe wheezing, pregnancy and childbirth swelling, and after illness and sha pox. "