What does dried ginger do?

Dried ginger is the dried rhizome of ginger, which belongs to the food with homology of medicine and food. It tastes spicy and belongs to spicy food. Nicknames: dried ginger, dried ginger slices, light dried ginger, soaked ginger, homogenized ginger and Sichuan dried ginger. Its pungent and hot taste belongs to spleen, stomach, heart and kidney meridians. It has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, restoring yang, dredging collaterals, gradually dissolving body fluid in lung, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. Indications: epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, chest pain, stagnation of yang, cold-dampness pain, cold drink cough, cold limbs, slight pulse and phlegm cough. Dried ginger also contains gingerol and vitamin C, both of which are strong antioxidants, which can scavenge free radicals in the body and help to alleviate aging. However, because dried ginger is a hot food, it is not suitable for people who are hot or get angry. Although it can treat wind-cold cold, the therapeutic effect on wind-heat cold is opposite, but it will promote wind-heat cold, so determine the type of cold before use.