Why can't you eat ginger at night? What are the harms of eating ginger at night?

Ginger is a recognized health-preserving food. There has always been a saying among the people that "eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer, and you don't need a doctor to prescribe medicine." However, there is also a saying in life that "eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic." From this sentence, we can see that it is not suitable to eat ginger at night, but many people don’t know why, nor do they know the dangers of eating ginger at night. Today, the editor will give you a detailed introduction.

Why can't you eat ginger at night?

There is a division between yin and yang in the twenty-four hours of a day. It is said that the yang energy in nature will slowly rise from midnight every night until it reaches its peak at noon, and then it will slowly weaken until it reaches its weakest point at midnight. Ginger is a hot food. If it is consumed at night when the yang energy is insufficient, it will not be conducive to the rise of yang energy, and it will affect people's metabolism and sleep.

What are the dangers of eating ginger at night?

1. Harm to the stomach and intestines

Ginger tastes spicy and contains a large amount of volatile oil. People eat ginger during the day to enhance the spleen and stomach function and promote food digestion. However, after night, the body's organs should be in a state of rest. Eating ginger at this time will cause excessive exercise of the spleen and stomach, which will induce gastrointestinal phenomena and is not good for health.

2. Easy to get angry

Ginger is very hot in nature. Eating ginger at night will absorb too much calories, but this calories cannot be quickly excreted from the body and will accumulate in the human body, easily causing internal heat. Over time, people will experience various symptoms of getting angry, such as mouth ulcers and sore throat.

3. Induce constipation

Eating ginger at night is indeed bad for your health. Although it does not reach the level of eating arsenic, the heat contained in ginger cannot be dissipated in time after entering the human body, which will cause intestinal dryness and a high incidence of constipation. In addition, ginger that has been rotten and spoiled should not be eaten at night, because ginger will produce a lot of toxicity after rotting and spoiling. Especially when people eat it at night, the toxicity will accumulate in the body and increase the incidence of liver cancer.