Brief introduction of dried ginger in ancient books

Dried ginger is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, which comes from Shennong Herbal Classic. Dried ginger is the dried rhizome of ginger. Dried ginger is flat and massive, with finger branches, 3 ~ 7 cm long and 1 ~ 2 cm thick. The surface is grayish yellow or grayish brown, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and obvious links. Scales often remain on the branches, and there are stem marks or buds on the top of the branches. Solid, yellow-white or gray-white, powdery or granular in cross section, with obvious ring lines in the inner cortex, scattered in vascular bundles and yellow oil spots. It is very fragrant, unique and spicy. The dried ginger slices are irregular longitudinal slices or oblique slices with finger branches, with a length of 1 ~ 6 cm, a width of 1 ~ 2 cm and a thickness of 0.2 ~ 0.4 cm. The skin is grayish yellow or yellowish brown, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and obvious connections. The section is grayish yellow or grayish white, slightly powdery, with more longitudinal fibers and some hairs. Solid mass and fiber cross section. It is very fragrant, unique and spicy. Canned ginger is irregular thick slices or blocks, with bulging surface, brown and dark yellow inside, loose texture, fragrant air and spicy taste. Ginger charcoal is an irregular thick piece or block with a dark surface and a brown interior, which is light and brittle. Bitter and slightly spicy.

Dried ginger is spicy. Enter spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung meridians. Dried ginger has the functions of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, restoring yang, dredging collaterals, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, and reducing qi. Treat epigastric cold pain, fullness, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency-cold, cold limbs, rapid pulse, cold drink, asthma and cough, and arthralgia due to wind-cold and dampness. Dried ginger can keep and walk, which is suitable for those with excessive cold and dampness in the middle energizer and those with asthma and cough caused by cold drinks and lung diving. Because of its high speed and strong effect, this product is very effective in restoring yang and saving inverse. Commonly used for epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs, weak pulse, excessive phlegm and cough.

Canned ginger tastes bitter, pungent and warm. It has the functions of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, warming channels and stopping bleeding. Its pungent dryness is weaker than that of dried ginger, and its effect of warming the interior is not as rapid as that of dried ginger, but its effect is mild and lasting, which is better than that of warming the middle warmer to relieve pain, stop diarrhea and warm meridians to stop bleeding. It can be used for abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, diarrhea, hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and postpartum blood stasis.

Ginger charcoal tastes bitter, astringent and warm. Enter spleen and liver meridian. Its pungent taste disappears, and it is longer than stopping bleeding and warming meridians. Its meridian warming effect is weaker than that of processed ginger, and its astringent and hemostatic effect is stronger than that of processed ginger. Can be used for all kinds of deficiency-cold bleeding, which is urgent and has a large amount of bleeding.

Pharmacopoeia of People's Republic of China (PRC) (20 10 edition) records the pharmacopoeia standard of this Chinese medicine.

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