Is ginger peel hot or cool?

Ginger is a common food ingredient. We know that ginger has a warming property. Ginger itself has certain medicinal value, and ginger skin also has certain medicinal effects. From the nature point of view, ginger skin is cool in nature. It has a certain diuretic and swelling-reducing effect. So there is a folk saying: keeping the ginger skin will make it cool, and removing the ginger skin will make it hot. Ginger peel also has certain effects in health care.

Is ginger peel cooling or hot?

Cool nature. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is spicy and warm in nature, and has the effects of inducing sweat, relieving exterior symptoms, stopping vomiting and detoxifying. Ginger peel is spicy and cool in nature, and has the effect of promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Therefore, there is a saying that "leaving the ginger peel is cooling, removing the ginger peel is warming."

Should the ginger skin be removed?

1. When using ginger to treat diseases

When using ginger to treat diseases, whether to remove the ginger skin depends on the specific situation. For example, vomiting and stomach pain caused by colds and spleen and stomach deficiency can be relieved by drinking ginger and brown sugar water. At this time, it is best to remove the skin of the ginger, because the ginger skin prevents the ginger from fully exerting its pungent, warm and diaphoretic effects. On the contrary, if you are treating some febrile diseases or edema, such as constipation, bad breath, etc., it is best to use ginger peel alone instead of the whole ginger.

2. When cooking with ginger

When using ginger in cooking, it is recommended to keep the skin to avoid getting a sore throat. Normally, it is best not to remove the ginger skin when adding it to dishes, so as to maintain the balance of the medicinal properties of ginger and give full play to the overall effectiveness of ginger. It is only recommended to remove the ginger skin in some special circumstances, such as for people with weak spleen and stomach, or when eating cold dishes such as bitter melon, crab, and mung bean sprouts.

The efficacy and function of ginger peel

Ginger peel is used to treat puffiness of the head and face, swollen limbs, distended heart and abdomen, shortness of breath, drum-like abdomen and flanks, fullness and stuffiness around the navel, interference with appetite, attacks on the upper and lower parts of the body, erratic coming and going, and breathlessness when moving: equal parts of Acanthopanax acanthopanax peel, Rehmanniae glutinosae peel, ginger peel, Cibotium bark peel, and Poria bark. The top is coarse. Take three grams of it for each swelling, add one and a half cups of water, boil it until eight parts are left, remove the residue and drink it while it is still slightly warm, at any time. Avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, hard and other foods. (Wupi San from Bureau Prescriptions)

Ginger peel treats hemiplegia : Grind the ginger peel into powder and take it with wine. (Dietary Therapy Materia Medica)

1. Ginger peel is used for colds, fever, chills and other symptoms : Ginger is used to relieve exterior symptoms, mainly to dispel wind and cold. It is mostly used to treat mild colds. Boil it into a soup, add brown sugar and take it while hot. It often causes sweating and the symptoms are relieved. It can also be used as a medicine to prevent colds. Ginger has a weak diaphoretic effect and is often used together with ephedra, cinnamon twig, etc. as an auxiliary medicine for diaphoresis and antipyretic, which can enhance the diaphoretic effect.

2. Ginger peel is used for stomach cold and vomiting : Ginger is an important medicine for stopping vomiting and can be used alone to treat stomach cold and vomiting. It can also treat stomach heat vomiting when used together with Pinellia, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, and Coptis chinensis.

3. Ginger peel detoxifies : Ginger can detoxify fish and crabs, used alone or with perilla. Ginger can also detoxify raw pinellia and raw arisaema. It can be decocted into a soup and drunk, and can be used to treat symptoms such as hoarseness, swollen tongue and numbness caused by the toxicity of pinellia and arisaema. Therefore, when preparing Pinellia and Arisaema, ginger is often used together to reduce their toxicity.