Eating ginger like this is most likely to cause liver cancer

As the saying goes, "Eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer, and you won't need a doctor to prescribe medicine" and "Eat ginger in all seasons, and all diseases will be gone", which shows that eating ginger is very good for the human body. But a study found that eating too much ginger may increase the risk of liver cancer.

Excessive consumption of ginger is harmful to health

Research by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shows that safrole can cause liver cancer. Adding 0.04% to 1% safrole to mouse feed for 150 days to 2 years can induce liver cancer in mice. Ginger contains safrole. Eating too much ginger can increase the risk of liver cancer. In addition, the toxins produced by rotten ginger can also cause cancer. Some people believe that "rotten ginger does not taste rotten", but this idea has no scientific basis and is also very dangerous. Because rotten ginger can produce toxins, which can cause liver cancer and esophageal cancer in severe cases. Therefore, everything should be taken in moderation, just like ginger: eating less can strengthen the body, but eating more can easily lead to liver cancer.

Don't buy this kind of ginger.

Young ginger generally refers to fresh ginger with young sprouts. The ginger pieces are tender, high in water content and low in fiber, white in color, and have a light spicy taste. Young ginger has a crisp texture and can generally be used for cooking, pickling into candied ginger and other foods.

The appearance of old ginger is earthy yellow, and its skin is rougher and has lines than that of young ginger. It tastes spicy and is generally used as a condiment. Old ginger is perfect for making soup or stewing meat.

If the ginger has been smoked with sulfur, it is usually too clean, as if it had been waxed, smooth and tender. Rub the ginger skin with your hands. The skin of sulfur ginger is easy to peel off, and the color of the ginger flesh is very different from that of the ginger skin. You can also smell it. If there is a faint smell of sulfur, don't buy it.

If you find that the core of the ginger has turned black or brown, or that new sprouts have grown on the ginger, it means that the ginger has gone bad. In addition, ginger will grow white hair when heated and deteriorate, and will produce toxins when frozen, and will leak juice if gently squeezed. Do not buy such "abnormal ginger".

Three types of people should not eat too much ginger

1. People with Yin deficiency

Yin deficiency is a dry and hot constitution, which is manifested by hot palms and feet, sweaty palms, a love of drinking water, frequent dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritability, and poor sleep. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, so people with Yin deficiency will aggravate the symptoms of Yin deficiency by eating ginger.

2. Those with severe internal heat

People who suffer from lung heat and dry cough, stomach heat and vomiting, bad breath, hemorrhoid bleeding, painful sores and ulcers should not eat ginger. If the disease is caused by heat, you must use cold medicine to neutralize the heat of ginger when eating it.

3. Hepatitis patients

Because eating ginger frequently can cause liver fire. If you want to control the liver fire caused by eating ginger, you can also choose some foods that can soothe the liver and regulate qi, such as drinking tea made with hawthorn and chrysanthemum. This can eliminate the heat caused by ginger without hurting the body.

Many people use ginger externally to treat hair loss. Indeed, ginger is warm and spicy in nature, and it can indeed increase local blood circulation, stimulate the opening of hair follicles, and promote hair regeneration. However, it should be noted that hair loss is a febrile disease. Ginger will generate heat if used for a long time. Using hot medicines to treat febrile diseases conflicts with the principle of "using cool medicines for febrile diseases" in traditional Chinese medicine, so try to use it as little as possible.