Using ginger properly can cure many diseases unexpectedly

70% of Oriental medicine contains ginger

Senior pharmacist Tran Xuan Thuyet, former employee of Central Pharmaceutical Company 1, said ginger is a spice grown in many countries in the tropics and subtropics 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 medicines in Oriental medicine have ginger flavor. The part used is the rhizome, often called the tuber, collected in the fall and winter. Depending on how it is used, the name is different: fresh use is called Sinh Khuong; Drying it is called Can Jiang.

Grilled fresh ginger is called guava khuong. When dried ginger is sliced ​​thickly, it burns black and lasts (it breaks into a yellow-brown color) called than khuong. Dried ginger, sliced ​​thickly until golden brown, when hot, sprinkle in a little cool boiling water, cover and let cool is called pepper jiang. Ginger peel is the ginger peel.

Chemical composition of fresh ginger root: essential oil 2 – 3%, oleoresin 5%, spicy substances are zingeron, shogaol and zingiberol (in which zingiberol accounts for the highest proportion). Carbohydrates 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 – camphen, beta phelandrene, eucaliptol, protid degrading nen…

Ginger has good effects in medicine: antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-emetic, anti-smooth muscle spasm. According to pharmacist Thuyet, ginger Very necessary in daily life to prevent and treat diseases:

– Anti-vomiting + cold infection: 1g of fresh ginger for people 16 years and older to chew or drink ginger juice, has the following effects: preventing seasickness when traveling by boat, preventing vomiting when traveling by car, and preventing vomiting caused by side effects of cancer chemotherapy.

Prevents colds when going out in cold weather. Prevents colds when soaking in water for a long time (maximum 4 times/day).

– Prevent dry mouth + gallstones: Cut ginger into thin slices (put in a clean PE bag). Each time you suck on a slice of ginger, it will stimulate the oral mucosa to secrete saliva. Prevents gallstone accumulation for people with a history of gallstones (regularly use 1-2 times a day).

– Increase the body’s resistance, fight virus infections: Adults chew 1 piece of ginger in the morning after waking up; Children over 5 years old learn to chew 0.25g of ginger. If you’re afraid of chewing, you can prepare ginger juice in the following way: peel off the skin, wash 10g of fresh ginger, crush it, add 500ml of boiling water, put it in a clean jar with a good stopper. When using, pour out 50ml of ginger juice to drink (12ml for children).

– Tri migraine: Drink 50ml of ginger water, then rub the ginger water into your hands and rub it on your head several times until your hair is wet. After 20 minutes, it will help.

– Treat shoulder pain and back pain: Soak ginger juice in gauze and apply it to the painful area.

– Reduce pain due to rheumatism: Drink 5 times a day x 50ml of ginger water and the disease will clear up after 3 days of taking the medicine.

– Treat sudden high blood pressure and cold feet (due to poor yang energy): Take 200ml of ginger juice mixed with 800ml of hot water and put it in 2 plastic bags to soak your feet. After 15 minutes, it will gradually lower blood pressure.

– Detoxification due to crab and fish: Drink 50ml of ginger juice mixed with 20ml of boiling water at 80 degrees Celsius.

– Treatment of vomiting due to pregnancy: Each time drink 20ml of ginger juice mixed with 30ml of hot water x 4 times/day.

– Preventing blood clots: Drink 5 times a day x 50ml of ginger juice (better than aspirin).

– Cough treatment: Take 5ml of honey (1 teaspoon) and add it to 50ml of ginger water, then sip little by little, use 4 times a day.

– Cure colds, wind and cold: Mint, marjoram, perilla 10g each; 6g each of angelica, astragalus, tangerine peel, 3g thin slices of fresh ginger. Drink 1 dose per day for 3 days.

– Treat upper and lower soil due to cold: Ginger root: wash fresh ginger root about 20g, wrap in 3 layers of paper and bury it in charcoal or heat over fire until cooked, remove all the paper, crush it and squeeze out the ginger juice, add 50ml of hot water for the patient to drink. Ginger residue is rubbed on the soles of the patient’s feet and hands.

– Cure headaches, colds, and vomiting: 10g dried ginger, 4g licorice injection, decoct to 100ml, divided into several times a day.

– Treat abdominal pain, bloating, and loose stools: Crush dried ginger, use rice water to make medicine, take 2-4g each time.

– Treat pain in the heart: Powdered dried ginger 4g and drink with rice water.

– Treat bloody dysentery: Dried ginger retains its powdering properties. Drink it several times a day, 2-4g each time with porridge water.

Use ginger to cure hangovers, be careful of dangerous complications

Many people now use ginger to treat it drunkbut according to Oriental medicine doctors, this is not good for health.

Accordingly, drunkenness is an acute poisoning caused by drinking too much alcohol. Under the influence of alcohol, the cerebral cortex is inhibited, leading to behavioral disorders, involuntary laughing, heavy head and dizzy eyes, unsteady walking, indiscriminate vomiting, cold skin, rapid breathing, and even possible leading to critical conditions due to brain hemorrhage, myocardial infarction and dangerous traffic accidents.

When falling into this troublesome state, according to the concept of traditional medicine, drunk people should eat foods that have the effect of clearing heat and revitalizing the body, and quenching thirst and phlegm to relieve hangovers and prevent unwanted complications. want.

“There is no way eating ginger can cure or prevent blushing when drinking alcohol. Because ginger contains active ingredients that stimulate excitement in the body, causing vasodilation and clearing blood vessels.

Therefore, Oriental medicine often uses ginger to treat colds. When going outside in the cold, take fresh ginger to increase body warmth, enhance body functions such as heart rate, blood pressure… Especially Ginger dilates blood vessels, strengthens the sympathetic system, and stimulates the body to sweat to relieve colds.

Drinking alcohol causes the body to overheat, dilate the blood vessels, and make the face red… if you add ginger, it will only make the blood vessels more dilated and redder. There is no folk experience of using ginger to relieve hangovers. Therefore, if you drink alcohol, you should absolutely not drink ginger juice 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…” – MSc. Hoang Khanh Toan, former head of the department Oriental medicine, Central Military Hospital 108, emphasized.