First, the treatment of insomnia
If you often suffer from insomnia, there are some spices in the kitchen that are very helpful to treat insomnia, especially the smell of onions and ginger, which has a calming effect. Chop up about 15g of ginger, wrap it in gauze, put it on a pillow, smell its fragrance, and you can sleep peacefully.
Second, relieve summer heat and refresh yourself
Ginger has a refreshing effect. When suffering from heatstroke in summer, drinking a cup of ginger juice to patients can make them wake up quickly and have a good effect of relieving summer heat.
Third, beriberi and foot odor.
Beriberi is a common problem in summer, and ginger can be used to treat beriberi. Ginger is boiled in water to make ginger soup. When the temperature is right, it can be used to soak feet. You can also add some salt and vinegar. It can be soaked for 15 minutes, and the foot odor can be eliminated after a period of time.
Fourth, prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases in summer
Summer is the high incidence season of various gastrointestinal diseases, most of which are acute gastroenteritis. Ginger has the effects of detoxifying, warming the stomach and stopping vomiting. Therefore, drinking ginger soup and eating ginger in summer can prevent gastrointestinal diseases.
Five, the treatment of waist and shoulder pain
Applying a towel soaked in ginger soup to the waist and shoulders can relieve the pain. This method can relax the muscles of our waist and shoulders and play the role of relaxing meridians and promoting blood circulation. The specific method is to boil ginger into ginger soup with water, then add a little vinegar and salt, take a clean towel, soak it in ginger soup, wring it out and apply it to the painful place, and repeat it several times.
Sixth, appetizing and invigorating the spleen.
As the saying goes, "rice is not fragrant, eat ginger." Ginger contains a substance called gingerol, which can stimulate gastric juice secretion, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and promote digestive function. If you have no appetite in summer, eating a few slices of ginger before meals can play a good appetizing role.
Seven, anti-aging, anti-tumor
In summer, diphenyl heptane compounds and gingerol in ginger have strong antioxidant effect, and at the same time, they can scavenge free radicals, which has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on tumor diseases and can also play an anti-aging role. If the elderly often eat ginger, they can remove senile plaques.
Eight, to prevent carsickness
People who get carsick are afraid at the thought of taking a bus. The symptoms of carsickness made them afraid to refuse to travel. In fact, a few slices of ginger are enough to solve the problem of carsickness. Eating ginger before taking the bus can prevent dizziness and vomiting.
Nine, cure halitosis, periodontitis
Many people's bad breath is caused by stomach cold. Eating some food that warms the stomach at this time can relieve bad breath. Ginger is food that warms the stomach. Therefore, eating ginger or drinking ginger soup when the stomach is cold can achieve the effect of treating bad breath. In addition, gargling with Jiang Shui can treat periodontitis.
X. Matters needing attention
1, no peeling. Some people like to peel ginger, which can't give full play to the overall effect of ginger. Fresh ginger can be shredded and sliced after washing.
2. People with excessive fire due to yin deficiency, red eyes and internal heat, or patients with nephritis, diabetes, constipation and hemorrhoids should not eat ginger for a long time.
3. From the point of view of treatment, ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with stomach cold, cold or fever after rain, not for patients with summer heat or wind-heat cold, nor for treating heatstroke.
Taking fresh ginger juice can cure vomiting caused by cold, but it is ineffective for other types of vomiting.
4. Don't eat rotten ginger. Rotten ginger can produce a highly toxic substance, which can denature and necrosis liver cells and induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer and so on. That "rotten ginger doesn't taste bad" is unscientific.
5. Eating ginger is not as much as possible. Ginger is a spicy food. According to the principle of "hot is cool", it is not advisable to eat more. Just put a few slices of ginger when cooking or making soup.