How much do you know about the difference between fresh ginger and dried ginger?

Ginger plays a huge role in our daily life, from being used as a seasoning to being used as medicine to treat diseases. Ginger is divided into dried ginger and fresh ginger. The main difference between them is that fresh ginger is warm in nature while dried ginger is more spicy. Because of this, they do have different effects.

1. Ginger (spicy and warm antipyretic medicine) - spicy, slightly warm

Meridians: Lung, spleen, stomach meridians

Effects: sweating and relieving exterior symptoms, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and stopping coughing, detoxification

Indications: Wind-cold symptoms, stomach cold vomiting, wind-cold cough, detoxification of fish and crab poison, Pinellia and Arisaema poison

Summary: If you have a cold, you can use ginger, which can treat cough caused by cold lungs. Normally, ginger is added when frying fish to remove the fishy smell. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger can actually detoxify fish and crabs because fish is a cold food.

2. Dried ginger (warming medicine) - spicy, hot

Meridians: spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians.

Effect: warming the middle, restoring yang, warming the lungs and eliminating phlegm

Indications: vomiting due to cold in the spleen and stomach, loss of yang, cough and asthma caused by cold phlegm

Summary: It can be seen that fresh ginger is only slightly warm, while dried ginger is spicy and hot, and dried ginger is more overbearing. Dried ginger can enter the heart meridian, so dried ginger and aconite are used together to treat yang loss and collapse. Ginger is used to warm the lungs and relieve coughs, but dried ginger can warm the lungs and eliminate phlegm. What is drink? In traditional Chinese medicine, water with abnormal metabolism is called phlegm and drink. The turbid one is phlegm, and the clear and thin one is drink. Accumulated water becomes drink, and drink condenses into phlegm.