Ginger has the effect of curing many diseases - Illustration photo
70% of oriental medicine contains ginger
Senior pharmacist Tran Xuan Thuyet, former officer of Central Pharmaceutical Company 1, said ginger is a spice grown in many countries in the tropical and subtropical regions from East Asia to Southeast Asia and South Asia. India, China and Japan are the countries that grow the most ginger in the world.
About 70% of the medicinal herbs in Oriental medicine have ginger flavor. The part used is the rhizome, commonly called the tuber, harvested in autumn and winter. Depending on the usage, the name is different: used fresh is called sinh khuong; dried is called can khuong.
Grilled fresh ginger is called guava ginger. Dried ginger, sliced thickly and fried until black and brown (when broken, the inside is golden brown) is called than khương. Dried ginger, sliced thickly and fried until golden brown, sprinkled with a little cold boiled water while hot, covered and left to cool is called tieu khương. Ginger skin is khương bì.
Chemical composition of fresh ginger root: essential oil 2 - 3%, oleoresin 5%, spicy substances are zingeron, shogaol and zingiberol (in which zingiberol has the highest proportion). Carbohydrate 17.7%, fat 0.75%, protein 1.82%, vitamins: B1: 0.025mg, B2: 0.034mg, B3: 0.075mg, B5: 0.203mg, B6: 0.16mg, B9: 11mg, C: 5mg.
Minerals: Ca 16mg, Mg 43mg, Phosphorus 34mg, K 415mg, iron 0.6mg, zinc 0.34mg. Also contains alpha - camphene, beta phelandren, eucaliptol, protid-degrading nen...
Ginger has good effects in medicine: antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, pain reliever, anti-emetic, antispasmodic. According to pharmacist Thuyet, ginger very necessary in daily life to prevent and treat diseases:
- Anti-nausea + cold: 1g fresh ginger for people 16 years of age and older to chew or drink ginger juice, has the following effects: anti-seasickness when traveling by boat, anti-nausea when traveling by car or train, anti-nausea due to side effects of chemotherapy drugs for cancer treatment.
Prevents cold when going out in cold weather. Prevents cold when having to soak in water for a long time (maximum 4 times/day).
- Prevent dry mouth + gallstones: Slice ginger into thin slices (put in a clean PE bag) each time you hold 1 slice of ginger in your mouth, it will stimulate the oral mucosa to secrete saliva. Prevent gallstone accumulation for people with a history of gallstones (regularly use 1-2 times a day).
- Increase the body's resistance, fight against viruses: Adults chew 1 piece of ginger in the morning after waking up; children over 5 years old practice chewing 0.25g of ginger. If you are afraid of chewing, you can make ginger juice as follows: peel and wash 10g of fresh ginger, crush, add 500ml of boiling water, put in a clean jar with a good stopper. When using, pour out 50ml of ginger juice to drink (children 12ml).
- Treat migraine : drink 50ml of ginger water, then rub the ginger water on your hands and rub it on your head several times until your hair is wet. After 20 minutes, it will get better.
- Treat shoulder and back pain: Soak ginger juice in gauze and apply to the painful area.
- Reduce pain caused by rheumatism: Drink 5 times a day x 50ml of ginger water. The disease will clearly improve after 3 days of taking the medicine.
- Cure sudden high blood pressure, cold feet (due to poor yang energy): Take 200ml of ginger water mixed with 800ml of hot water, put in 2 plastic bags to soak feet, after 15 minutes blood pressure will gradually lower.
- Detoxification from crab and fish: Drink 50ml of ginger water mixed with 20ml of boiling water at 80 degrees Celsius.
- Treat nausea due to pregnancy: Drink 20ml of ginger juice mixed with 30ml of hot water x 4 times/day.
- Preventing blood vessel blockage : Drink 5 times a day x 50ml of ginger water (better than using aspirin).
- Cough treatment: Take 5ml of honey (1 teaspoon) and add it to 50ml of ginger water, then sip little by little until finished, use 4 times a day.
- Cure common cold: 10g each of mint, Vietnamese balm, and perilla; 6g each of angelica, Chinese clematis, and tangerine peel; 3g of thinly sliced fresh ginger. Boil and drink 1 dose per day for 3 days.
- Treating upper and lower diarrhea due to cold : Ginger: wash about 20g of fresh ginger, wrap in 3 layers of paper and bury in charcoal or heat over fire until cooked, remove all paper then crush and squeeze out ginger juice, add 50ml of hot water for the patient to drink. Rub ginger residue on the soles of the feet and hands of the patient.
- Cure headache, cold stomach, vomiting : 10g dried ginger, 4g licorice, boil water down to 100ml, divide into many doses to drink during the day.
- Cure stomachache, bloating, loose stools: Dry and grind ginger, use rice water to treat, drink 2-4g each time.
- Cure heart pain : Grind 4g of dried ginger into powder and drink with rice water.
- Cure bloody dysentery: Burn dried ginger to a powder, drink many times a day, 2-4g each time with rice porridge water.
Ginger processing to cure many diseases - Illustration photo
Use ginger to cure hangover, be careful of dangerous complications
Many people are now using ginger to cure hangovers , but according to Oriental medicine doctors, this is not good for health.
Accordingly, drunkenness is a state of acute poisoning due to drinking too much alcohol. Under the influence of alcohol, the cerebral cortex is inhibited, leading to behavioral disorders, uncontrolled laughter and speech, heavy head, dizziness, staggering, vomiting, cold skin, rapid breathing, and can even lead to critical conditions due to cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction and dangerous traffic accidents.
When falling into this annoying state, according to traditional medicine, drunk people should eat foods that have the effect of clearing heat and generating body fluids, quenching thirst and eliminating phlegm in order to sober up and prevent unwanted complications.
"There is no way to eat ginger to cure or prevent red face when drinking alcohol. Because ginger contains active ingredients that stimulate excitement in the body, dilate blood vessels and clear blood vessels.
Therefore, Oriental medicine often uses ginger to treat colds. When going out in the cold, suck on fresh ginger to increase body warmth and enhance body functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, etc. In particular, ginger dilates blood vessels, strengthens the sympathetic system, and stimulates the body to sweat to relieve colds.
Drinking alcohol causes the body to become very hot, dilate blood vessels, and redden the face... if you add ginger, it will only cause the blood vessels to dilate more and become redder. There is no folk experience using ginger to sober up. Therefore, if you have drunk alcohol, you should absolutely not drink ginger water or eat ginger.
Using ginger at this time: both alcohol and ginger dilate blood vessels, which can increase dangerous complications such as high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, stroke..." - Master Hoang Khanh Toan, former head of the Oriental Medicine Department, 108 Central Military Hospital, emphasized.
- Do not use ginger for people with internal heat, heatstroke, high fever, liver disease, hemorrhoids, external deficiency (excessive sweating), heavy blood loss, before and after surgery.
- Ginger is incompatible with anticoagulants, calcium channel blockers for treating high blood pressure (amlodipine...).
- Do not use crushed or discolored ginger because it produces toxins that will harm the liver.
- When you see white sprouts growing on ginger, you must cut off the sprouts immediately to avoid losing the active ingredients.
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