Benefits of pickled young ginger

Ginger is a very common ingredient in life and a must-have condiment in many households. People usually add a few slices of ginger when cooking to enhance the flavor. Ginger also has a good therapeutic effect. Eating ginger regularly can stimulate the appetite, stop vomiting, reduce phlegm and relieve cough, and induce sweating. In addition to using ginger as a seasoning in dishes, you can also slice it and pickle it before eating it. Eating it in winter is especially helpful in improving the body's ability to resist the cold.

Improve sleep

If you often suffer from insomnia, ginger, a condiment that is available everywhere in the kitchen, can be very helpful in treating it. Because the special smell of ginger has a calming effect. The specific method is: chop about 15 grams of ginger, wrap it with gauze and place it next to the pillow, smell its aromatic smell, and you can fall asleep peacefully. After continuous use for 10 days to 1 month, sleep will be significantly improved.

Prevent and treat stomach problems

Whether it is steaming fish or cooking, ginger is definitely a must-have on the table. Its spicy taste can remove fishy and muttony smells. Adding ginger to the soup can also dispel cold and harmonize the stomach, making it taste fragrant. There is a folk saying that goes, "If you don't enjoy your meal, eat ginger." This means that when you don't enjoy your meal or your appetite decreases, eating a few slices of ginger or putting a little ginger in the dish can improve your appetite and increase your appetite. Ginger can also be taken to treat gastric ulcer, cold gastritis, enteritis and colds to dispel cold and induce sweating, warm the stomach and stop vomiting, and kill bacteria and relieve pain. Ginger is also a traditional Chinese medicine for treating nausea and vomiting, and is known as the "holy medicine for vomiting." In summer, especially during the dog days, bacteria grow and reproduce abnormally actively, which can easily contaminate food and cause acute gastroenteritis. However, eating some ginger properly can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Ginger can also kill oral and intestinal pathogens. In addition, ginger is pungent and warm, and can promote blood circulation. Women who eat ginger can also resist aging and reduce the occurrence of gallstones.

Ginger can boost yang

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a yang-enhancing product, so since ancient times, there has been a saying in Chinese medicine that "a man cannot go a hundred days without ginger." Ginger has the functions of accelerating human metabolism and unblocking meridians. Therefore, ginger is often used in men's health care. It can play a role in boosting yang and has a certain therapeutic effect on kidney deficiency and impotence. If men often feel stomach cold and loss of appetite, they can often take fresh ginger slices to stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and promote digestion. Dried ginger warms the middle and dispels cold, strengthens the stomach and promotes blood circulation. Lycium barbarum nourishes the liver and kidneys, improves essence and improves eyesight. Eating them together can treat impotence, chills and cold limbs, back pain, soreness of the waist and knees, fatigue, etc. caused by kidney yang deficiency.

Tumor suppression

The structures of gingerol and diphenylheptane compounds contained in ginger have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects; they also have tumor inhibition effects; eating ginger can resist aging, and the elderly can remove "age spots" by eating ginger regularly.

Appetite and spleen

In the hot summer, the body's saliva and gastric juice secretion will decrease, thus affecting appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal motility and increase appetite. This is the reason why people often say "eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer" and "if the rice is not tasty, eat ginger".

In hot weather, it can stimulate the body, induce sweating and cool down the body, and can refresh the mind. For patients with general summer heat symptoms such as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness and nausea, drinking some ginger soup can be very beneficial. Ren Dan, a traditional Chinese medicine for heatstroke prevention, contains ginger, which has the functions of strengthening the stomach, refreshing the mind and invigorating the brain.

Sterilization and detoxification

Scientific research has found that ginger can play the role of certain antibiotics, especially against Salmonella. In the hot summer, food is easily contaminated by bacteria, which grow and multiply quickly, easily causing acute gastroenteritis. Eating a moderate amount of ginger can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Ginger extract has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungi and killing Trichomonas vaginalis, and can treat various carbuncles and sores. In addition, ginger water can be used to gargle to treat bad breath and periodontitis.

Prevent motion sickness

It refers to the "sports maladaptation syndrome" caused by certain sports. Studies have shown that dried ginger powder is 90% effective in treating motion sickness symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting, and the efficacy can last for more than 4 hours. People use eating ginger to prevent motion sickness and seasickness, or applying it to the Neiguan acupoint, which has obvious effects.