Can ginger cure skin diseases?

Ginger is a condiment that everyone eats every day. Many dishes will become more monotonous without ginger. However, ginger can not only be used as a condiment, but also as a Chinese medicinal material. This use is now more common. After use, it can treat many diseases, the most common of which is the treatment of some skin diseases, and it can achieve the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Ginger tastes spicy and slightly warm. When taken internally, it can dispel cold, warm the middle and detoxify; when used externally, it can stimulate the skin, enhance blood circulation, kill vaginal Trichomonas and inhibit Trichophyton, and can treat a variety of skin diseases.

1. Alopecia areata

Repeatedly rub fresh ginger slices on the affected areas of hair loss until the local skin turns red and hot. Do this several times a day. This can cause congestion in the skin of the hair loss area, dilate capillaries, increase skin blood flow, improve microcirculation, and thus promote new hair growth.

2. Frostbite

Gingerol, camphorene and other ingredients contained in ginger can stimulate the skin, cause capillaries to dilate and become congested, and increase blood flow to the skin. For early frostbite skin that is red and itchy but not broken, you can use ginger water for external washing, which has a good therapeutic effect.

3. Pruritus

Boil ginger in water and scrub the skin with it to relieve itching and treat pruritus.

4. Tinea pedis

Slice 100 grams of fresh ginger, add 50 grams of salt and 1000 grams of water, put them in an iron pot and boil them for 10 minutes. When it is slightly warm, pour it into a basin of water and soak your feet. Do it once a day for 30 minutes each time. Generally, most patients can be cured after soaking for 5 to 7 times.

5. Excessive foot sweating

You can take 15 grams of ginger and 15 grams of alum, boil them in water and soak your feet in it 1 to 2 times a day. You will see results after using it for 5 to 7 days.

6. Armpit odor

Ginger has a deodorizing effect. After shaving your armpit hair, cut fresh ginger into slices and apply it to the affected area several times a day. It has a certain therapeutic effect on armpit odor.

Ginger tastes spicy and slightly warm. When taken internally, it can dispel cold, warm the middle and detoxify; when used externally, it can stimulate the skin, enhance blood circulation, kill vaginal Trichomonas and inhibit Trichophyton, and can treat a variety of skin diseases. For alopecia areata, slice fresh ginger and repeatedly rub the affected areas of hair loss until the local skin turns red and hot. Do this several times a day. This can cause congestion in the skin of the hair loss area, dilate capillaries, increase skin blood flow, improve microcirculation, and thus promote new hair growth.

Ginger is an effective medicine for treating hydrochloric acid-ethanol ulcers. Its active ingredient is zingiberene, which has the function of protecting gastric mucosal cells. Among aromatic stomachic herbs, especially those of the ginger family, zingiberene and other terpene essential oil components are abundant, which are one of the effective ingredients of stomachic herbs. Ginger decoction has a dual effect of both inhibition and stimulation on the secretion of gastric acid and gastric juice in dogs. The inhibition occurs within the first few hours, followed by a longer period of stimulation. Ginger decoction (10%) 1.2 mg/rat gavage can significantly inhibit hydrochloric acid and stress-induced gastric mucosal damage. After blocking PG synthesis with indomethacin, the protective effect of ginger disappeared, indicating that its protective mechanism may be related to promoting gastric mucosal synthesis and reducing the release of endogenous PG.

Ginger can weaken the action of pepsin and enhance the action of lipolytic enzyme. Ginger can seriously damage the amylase in pancreatic enzymes, significantly reducing the pancreatic enzymes' digestive effect on starch. It can also inhibit β-amylase in amylase and hinder starch saccharification.

Ginger can act on the sympathetic and vagus nervous systems, inhibiting gastric function and directly stimulating gastric smooth muscles. The absorption promoting effect of sulfaguanidine was studied using the rat small intestinal reflux method. The results showed that the water extract of ginger has a significant absorption promoting effect, enhances its bioavailability, and fully exerts its therapeutic effect.