Eat this thing in summer, cook these 3 soups with it, warm the stomach to nourish yang!

Author:Guangdong Provincial Hospital Time:2022.07.11

There is a familiar saying: "Eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer, no need to prescribe prescriptions."

Many people are curious that ginger is hot and eat ginger in hot summer. Why?

Why eat ginger in summer?

In summer, the temperature is high, the human skin is leaked, the human yang is floating outside, the yin qi is inside, the body surface is hot, the internal organs inside the body are cold, so the yang in the body is not very strong.

"The Yellow Emperor's Canon": "Summer March, this is Fanxiu, the heavens and the earth are intertwined, and all things are gloated ...

"Treatment of Febrile Diseases": "In May, yang is on the surface, and the stomach is cold."

In addition, people often eat cold drinks and cool fruits in summer. Blowing the air conditioner for too long, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach yang, manifested as evil wind, fatigue, fatigue, diarrhea, loss of appetite, sticky mouth, etc. Drinking a little ginger soup at this time can play a role in dispersing cold, appetizing and stopping diarrhea, and avoid indigestion.

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger belongs to yellow food, yellow belongs to the soil, enters the spleen and stomach, and can strengthen the spleen and stomach and help digestion. As the saying goes: "The rice is not fragrant, eat ginger", when eating is not fragrant or the amount of rice is reduced, you can eat a few slices of ginger or put a little tender ginger in the vegetables, which can improve appetite and increase the amount of rice.

It is said that eating ginger in summer, can I eat that winter?

Ginger is a watch, with a warm and warm flavor, which can disperse cold and sweat, and dredge the gas machine blocked by the invasion of the wind and cold. The brown sugar ginger soup feels that a heat flow is flowing throughout the body, and the wind and cold in the body can often be sweated. Therefore, the cold winter is also suitable for ginger.

Eat ginger, remember these things!

1. Do not eat more ginger when you get angry often

Those with cold constitution usually have symptoms such as cold, cold hands and feet, and prone to diarrhea after eating cold food. These people are suitable for eating more ginger, because ginger is warm, which can be used to drive cold in the warmth. And those who are physically hot and yin deficiency, like people who are often easy to "get angry", are manifested as dry mouth, dry eyes, bad breath, constipation, hemorrhoids, wolf sores, irritability, upset and irritability, emotional fluctuations, and emotional fluctuations. "Fire", such people should not eat more ginger.

2. Eat ginger soup in the morning, and eat ginger like cream at night

Why not eat ginger at night? This is because the yang of nature reached its peak at noon. In the afternoon, the yang qi began to converge, and the yin began to rise. Eating ginger at night would be counterproductive.

3. Do not peel when eating ginger

Ginger skin is slightly cold. Some people like ginger to peel. As long as the spleen and stomach are not very cold, there is no need to peel it. Instead, it cannot exert the overall effect of ginger. The general fresh ginger can be eaten after washing.

4. Don't eat rotten ginger

Rotten ginger can produce a very toxic substance -ebaccoin, which can degenerate and necrosis of liver cells, thereby inducing liver cancer and esophageal cancer.

5. Don't eat ginger too much

Eating too much ginger is easy to get angry. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine talks about "soil does not fire fire". The incidents of excessive ginger (nasal hemorrhage) have occurred repeatedly. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, because the parties take ginger in large doses in a short period of time, the body can be damaged by the body, which is caused by the heat, the heat of the heat, the damage to the fluid, the disturbance of the blood, forced the blood, and follow the clearance Essence

Ginger food therapy

01 Sweet Sweet Poing Ginger

Method: Cut half a pound of ginger into slices, put it in a bottle, and then use rice vinegar to add brown sugar without ginger. You can eat it for three days.

Efficacy: Ginger is hot, has a unique spicy taste, can stimulate taste buds, strengthen the spleen and appetite, is a good ingredient for nourishing yang, so there is a saying that "men cannot have ginger without ginger", and vinegar has the effect of appetizing blood circulation. Brown sugar It is warm and can supplement the body.

Some people usually don't like to eat ginger and are afraid of fear, so they are suitable for eating this sweet and sour ginger. The soaked ginger is sour and sweet, very delicious, and can better play the role of regulating the spleen and stomach. People with poor digestion.

02 Ginger orange peel water

Method: 10 grams each of ginger and orange peel, decoction, divide it 2 to 3 times a day.

Efficacy: Orange peel contains a large amount of vitamin C and aromatherapy oil, which has the effects of regulating qi and phlegm, healthy stomach dehumidification, abolition of vomiting, and lowering blood pressure. Ginger has the functions of dispersing cold sweating, warm stomach vomiting, sterilization and analgesics, and anti -inflammatory. It is often used to treat evidence such as exogenous wind cold and stomach cold vomiting.

In the summer, people have eaten too much cold drinks and cold fruits, which can easily cause spleen and stomach deficiency. Due to symptoms such as vomiting in the stomach discomfort, the symptoms of ginger and orange peel water can be used to relieve symptoms.

03 brown sugar ginger water

Method: Take 3 ~ 5 slices of ginger, cut shred, cook until the color of the water becomes yellow, the ginger flavor penetrates into the water, and then add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to cook.

Efficacy: When the cold and cold in the summer, when the cold or heat occurs, drinking the ginger brown sugar water will help the cold and the exterior, which can warm the stomach in warmth. In addition, drinking brown sugar ginger water during menstruation can warm the body, increase energy, and effectively relieve dysmenorrhea. But remember that if it is a cold cold and windy cold, it is not suitable for ginger.

Ginger has other wonderful uses!

1. Ginger soak feet

Slice a piece of ginger with a large thumb and boil it with water and dry it to the appropriate temperature (suitable for 40 degrees Celsius). You can soak your feet.

Ginger soaking feet has the effects of warming up and cold, preventing wind and cold, warm tendons, improvement of blood circulation, and improving sleep quality and other effects.

Do not soak your feet for more than half an hour, because human blood circulation and heart rate will accelerate when soaking your feet. Time will increase the burden on the heart.

2. Ginger to stop vomiting

Ginger can stop vomiting. People with motion sickness and motion sickness contain a few slices of ginger on the way, or drink some ginger water to improve the symptoms.