As the saying goes, "ginger in winter is not afraid of wind and frost" and "eating radish in winter and ginger in summer is not too much for doctors to prescribe medicine". Ginger has always been favored by people because of its effect of eliminating diseases and strengthening the body.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius had the habit of never leaving ginger all the year round. In the Analects of Confucius, there is a saying that "ginger food will not be withdrawn, and it will not be eaten much". According to the records in medical books, ginger does have many magical things. Ginger plays a very important role in condiments. Since ancient times, there has been a folk saying that "rice is not fragrant, ginger doesn't eat".
Because it tastes spicy and fragrant, if it is dissolved in vegetables, it can make the raw materials more delicious. In Compendium of Materia Medica, there is a description of ginger: "pungent but not fleshy, eliminating evil spirits, saying cooked food, vinegar, sauce, bad food, salt and honey are not suitable."
It can be reconciled, and the fruit can be used as medicine, which is profitable. "So, when cooking chicken, duck and fish, if you put some ginger, you can make the food taste more mellow and fragrant.
For example, when cooking sweet and sour fish, you can get a special sweet and sour taste by mixing juice with Jiang Mo. Not only that, ginger can also remove the coldness and fishy smell of crabs, which is convenient for people to taste.
As a typical medicinal and edible plant, another wonderful use of ginger is that it can be used as medicine. Regarding the medicinal use of ginger, there are many ancient medicines.
All the books are recorded. Medicinal ginger can be divided into fresh ginger, dried ginger and soaked ginger. In the fifty-two prescriptions, you can see the records of ginger, dried ginger and dried ginger.
"Shennong Baicao Jing" says that dried ginger is pungent, warm and nontoxic, warm and hemostatic, and "deodorizes for a long time, and is conscious when it is clear". The processing method of Guang 'an ginger is described in detail in Compendium of Materia Medica, that is, "taking roots, washing them with running water, and drying them in the sun to make dried ginger".
There were many pharmacologists who used ginger in ancient times, but Zhang Zhongjing was the first person to obtain the pharmacology of ginger. In his Treatise on Febrile Diseases, there are many prescriptions using ginger. For those with exogenous pathogens and disharmony between camp and health, he used ginger and jujube to reconcile camp and health, and Guizhi decoction was taken.