Master of Chinese Medicine: How to eat ginger for health?

Lao Lu often tells us that Confucius not only created China culture, but also attached great importance to health preservation. Confucius put forward the viewpoint of "don't eat ginger, don't eat more" in The Analects of Confucius, which means that Confucius can't eat ginger all year round. In that era of war and displacement, Confucius lived to 73 years old, which has a lot to do with Confucius' emphasis on eating ginger. Lu Lao advocated Confucius' view that ginger is an essential product for nourishing the spleen and stomach, preserving health and preventing diseases, so he developed the habit of eating ginger at ordinary times and persisted for more than forty years. Looking through ancient and modern medical books, it is recorded that Jiang has many opinions. Ginger can refresh the brain, promote blood circulation, prevent arteriosclerosis and resist aging. Ginger is a product that helps yang. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "people can't live without ginger for a hundred days", which can also speed up human metabolism and dredge meridians. Therefore, it can help yang when used for male health care, and also has a certain therapeutic effect on impotence due to kidney deficiency. Ginger has so many functions, no wonder Lao Lu has been healthy for forty years and ninety years. Here's how Lu always eats ginger. When the weather changes and the climate gets cold, eating a few slices of ginger can warm the yang, warm the spleen and stomach, stimulate the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach, and radiate the cold to the body surface, thus playing a role in preventing colds. When eating is not fragrant or appetite is reduced, eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little ginger in the dish can improve appetite and increase appetite. Especially for patients with gastric ulcer, deficiency-cold gastritis and enteritis, eating a little ginger often is very beneficial to improve the symptoms of nausea and vomiting. In summer, the weather is hot and there are many cold foods, which leads to yang deficiency and spleen deficiency in the body. Eating more ginger this season can effectively protect the function of the spleen and stomach. Therefore, the ancients said that "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor to prescribe a prescription". It is very special for Lu Lao to eat ginger. He is used to eating two slices of ginger soaked in vinegar every morning. The specific method is: slice a proper amount of ginger, soak it in vinegar for a week, and then eat two or three slices every morning. Has the effects of warming stomach, dispelling cold, refreshing, promoting blood circulation and preventing arteriosclerosis. Last year, I gave Lu Lao a general examination, and the results showed that his cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases were equivalent to a 40-year-old middle-aged man. No wonder Lu Lao is 90 years old, and his vascular elasticity is still so good. It seems that sticking to eating ginger has played a great role. Ginger has a health care function, but the more you eat, the better, and you can eat it at any time. Lu Lao emphasized that eating ginger should follow the advice of the ancients: "Within one year, don't eat ginger in autumn; Don't eat ginger at night for a day, because with the end of summer, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the autumn climate is dry, which hurts the lungs. Eating spicy ginger is easy to hurt the lungs and aggravate the dehydration and dryness of the human body, so autumn is not suitable for eating ginger. If you eat too much ginger, gingerol will stimulate the kidneys during excretion, causing symptoms such as dry mouth, sore throat and constipation. In a day, yin is most abundant at night. After a busy day, you need a rest at night. Yin is restrained. Ginger is a divergent product. Eating ginger at night is easy to consume gas, so it is not advisable to eat ginger at night. In addition, people with excessive heat due to yin deficiency, or those suffering from carbuncle, swelling, furuncle, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes and hemorrhoids, should not eat ginger for a long time, especially those with yin deficiency and heat-dryness constitution, which are characterized by fever in hands and feet, sweating in palms, drinking water, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, etc. By the way, other ways to eat ginger: 30-60g ginger, cut into filaments, mixed with vinegar and salt; You can also add appropriate amount of white sugar and sesame oil. It has appetizing, neutralizing and antiemetic effects. Ginger caramel soup: 30-60g ginger, 30g caramel. Add water and fry it into thick soup, and drink it slowly while it is hot. It has the effects of warming lung, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and can be used for cough due to deficiency cold and expectoration. Perilla ginger soup: perilla leaf 30g, ginger 9g. Make soup to drink. It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, and can be used for treating wind-cold common cold. Ginger syrup: 9g ginger, appropriate amount of brown sugar, decocted. After catching a cold or wading in the rain. Ginger sugar tea: 9g ginger, proper amount of brown sugar, a little black tea, brewed with boiling water. It can be used as tea to keep out the cold in winter, especially for people with cold limbs.