This product is the rhizome of ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Produced everywhere. Excavate in autumn and winter, remove fibrous roots, slice into pieces and use raw.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. act on lung, spleen and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

Inducing sweating to releasing exterior, warming middle and arresting vomiting, warming the lung to stop cough.

[Indications]

1. For wind-cold common cold. This product can induce sweating to release exterior and dispelling wind, but the effect is weak, so it is suitable for wind-cold, common cold and mild syndrome. It can be taken alone with brown sugar, or with Fistular Onion Stalk Take it as a decoction, or add it to other releasing exterior with pungent-warm agents and use it as an auxiliary medicine to increase the ability to induce sweating to releasing exterior. This product is found in formulas such as Cinnamon Twig Decoction.
2. For stomach cold vomiting. This product warms the stomach and dissipating cold, harmonizes the middle and lowers the adverse effects, and is good at stopping vomiting, so it is known as the "holy medicine of the vomiting family". For those with fear of cold vomiting, use Pineilia, that is, Minor Pinellia Decoction; if there is stomach heat vomiting, it can be used with Coptis Rhizome, Bamboo Shavings, etc. Some anti-nausea medicines made with ginger juice can enhance the anti-nausea effect, such as ginger Pineilia, ginger Bamboo Shavings, etc.
3. For wind-cold cough. Pungent and warm, it can warm the lung and dissipating cold resolving phlegm and stop vomiting, so it can be used to treat wind-cold lung, cough with excessive phlegm, and aversion to cold headache. It can be used with Bitter Apricot Seed, Perilla Leaf, Dried Tangerine Peel, Pineilia and other medicines can be used together, such as XingsuTwo Old Ingredients Decoction .
4. In addition, Fresh Ginger Rhizome can detoxify Pineilia, Arisaema and fish and crab poisons.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "It mainly treats diseases caused by cold headache, nasal congestion, cough with dyspnea, and stops vomiting."
2. " materia medica 译典": "Juice removing toxin medicine,... "Breaking blood stasis regulates the heart, removes cold and phlegm, and appetizers."

   [Usage and Dosage]

   Take it as a decoction, 3 to 10g, or as a juice.

   [Precaution]

   This product damages yin and aids fire, so people with yin deficiency with internal heat should not take it.

   [Modern Pharmacology]

   This product contains volatile oil, which mainly contains gingerol, zingiberene, phelandrene, citral, aromatic alcohol, methylheptenone, nonanal, α-borneol, etc. It also contains the spicy ingredient gingerol.

   • Fresh Ginger Rhizome can promote the secretion of digestive juices and improve diet;
   • It has anti-emetic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory and swelling effects;
   • The alcohol extract can stimulate the vasomotor center and respiratory center , heart;
   • Normal people chewing Fresh Ginger Rhizome can increase blood pressure;
   • It has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on diseases caused by cold bacilli, vibrio cholera, Trichophyton violaris, and trichomonas vaginalis.

   [Supplementary Medication]

   ginger peel: The outer skin cut off from the Fresh Ginger Rhizome rhizome. The nature and flavor are pungent and cool. Function and spleen to move water to reduce swelling, mainly used for edema, difficulty in urination. Decoct and take, 3~10g.

   ginger juice: Use Fresh Ginger Rhizome to make juice for medicinal purposes. It has the same function as Fresh Ginger Rhizome, but it is more effective in relieving phlegm and relieving vomiting, making it easier to take in clinical emergencies. If you encounter swelling and pain in the tongue due to Nanxing or Pineilia poisoning, or if you have persistent vomiting and difficulty in eating, you can take infused juice, which is easy to enter the throat; you can also mix Bomboo Juice and give it by feeding or nasogastric feeding to treat apoplexy phlegm. Thermal unconsciousness. Dosage: 3 to 10 drops, take infused.