Increased Appetite

Ginger can increase appetite, stimulate the oral and gastric mucosa, accelerate the secretion of digestive juices, and have a protective effect on gastric mucosal damage.

Prevention and Treatment of Cholecystitis and Gallstones

Gingerol in ginger also has a strong choleretic effect, which can prevent and treat cholecystitis and gallstones. Disease: ginger extract has preventive and therapeutic effects on liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride. Ginger is effective in preventing and treating motion sickness and treating vomiting during pregnancy.

The latest medical research proves

The latest medical and scientific research results show that regular consumption of ginger can remove “body rust.” The body surface of older people, especially the face, is covered with dots of “brown spots,” commonly known as “age spots.” This results from the action of free radicals in the body. If free radicals in the body are overactive, it can cause premature aging. Therefore, if you want to delay aging and prolong life, you must promptly remove free radicals in the body, that is, “body rust,” and ginger is the “rust remover.” It has a much stronger anti-aging effect than vitamin E, the well-known anti-aging expert.

A collection of ancient Ginger prescriptions

To treat colds and wind-cold in winter

Five slices of ginger, one or two perilla leaves. Decoction in water. (“Compendium of Materia Medica”)

To treat vomiting, there is no shortage of medicines: one or two pieces of ginger, cut into pieces as big as a mung bean, mix seven pieces with vinegar paste, decoct four pieces in silverware, and drink it with water on an empty stomach. (“Food and Medicine Mind Mirror”)

To treat the patient’s chest symptoms of wheezing but not wheezing, vomiting but not vomiting, gurgling but not vomiting, and feeling angry and helpless in the chest, half a liter of Pinellia ternata and one liter of ginger juice. For the first two flavors, use three liters of water, boil two liters of Pinellia ternata, and boil one and a half liters of ginger juice, then let it cool for a while. Divide into four doses, one for three days and nights, stop, and take after stopping. (“The Gift of the Golden Chamber” Ginger Banxia Soup)

Ginger for Phlegm and cough

To treat cold Phlegm and cough: two ounces of ginger and one ounce of sugar. Three bowls of water, simmer until half of the bowl is reached, and drink gently and slowly. (“Compendium of Materia Medica”)

Ginger and Old cough

One pound of white honey and two pounds of ginger (take juice) to treat a cough of thirty years. First, weigh the copper to know the weight of the two flavors, then weigh the honey again to see the number. Next, fry the ginger juice over low heat until all the ginger juice is gone and only the honey is left. Take it once as big as a jujube, containing one pill, three times a day. All omnivores are prohibited. (“A Thousand Gold Prescriptions”)

Treatment of Labored cough with ginger

Four tablespoons of honey and ginger juice and one bowl of white radish juice, pear juice, and human (cow) milk are used to treat a problematic cough. Boil it into a paste, boil it in soup, and take a few spoonfuls in the morning and evening. (“Extensive Collection of Experience” Five Juice Cream)

Typhoid and Ginger treatment

To treat typhoid and sweating. After being relieved, there is disharmony in the stomach, pimples in the heart, dryness and bad food, water vapor in the side, and thunder in the abdomen: 4 Liang of ginger (cut), three liang of licorice (broiled), Three Liang of ginseng, one liang of dried ginger, three liang of skullcap, half a liter of panela (washed), one liang of coptis, and twelve jujubes (broken). For the eight flavors, boil six liters with a bucket of water, drain, and decoct three liters. Take one liter warm three times a day. (“Treatise on Febrile Diseases” Ginger Xiexin Decoction)

To treat those with solid, painful, and distended heart, chest, and ribs due to evil qi: pound one pound of ginger, leave the juice, stir-fry slowly until moistened; wrap it in silk, iron it over the affected area, cool it, stir-fry it with the juice, and iron it for a long time. , suddenly relaxed. (“Six Books on Febrile Diseases”)

Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia by using ginger

To treat rheumatic arthralgia, boil ginger juice and yellow gelatin into a paste. (“A New Materia Medica”)

To treat fainting due to mid-qi and phlegm obstruction: five qian for ginger, one and five qian for each Spinelli, tangerine peel, and woody fungus, and eight qian for licorice. Decoction in water; add a cup of the child’s urine before taking it. (“Compendium of Materia Medica”)

When treating cold malaria :

• 4 Liang of ginger
• Two liang of Atractylodes macrocephala
• One Liang of grass kernel

Five bowls of water, boil until two bowls are cooked, and drink early when wet. (“Compendium of Materia Medica”)

To treat stomach qi deficiency, wind-heat, and inability to eat:

• Half a chicken shell with ginger juice
• A little juice of raw rehmannia glutinosa
• A spoonful of honey

Combine it with water and take it immediately. (“Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica”)

Abdominal fullness treatment

To treat abdominal fullness and inability to take medicine, simmer ginger, wrap it in cotton wool, and put it in the lower part, and it will be easy to cool down. (“Master Mei’s Collection of Prescriptions”)

Hemorrhoids treatment

To treat hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids without scabs forming for a long time, cut the ginger into large pieces with the skin on, apply alum powder on it, burn it and grind it finely, and stick it on without moving. (“Puji Fang”)

The initial onset of hair and back treatment

To treat the initial onset of hair on the back, roast a piece of ginger over a charcoal fire and scrape it layer by layer to make a powder, then mix it with pig bile.

To treat injuries caused by falls,

Mix ginger juice and wine and apply it on the face. (“Easy and Simple Recipes”)

Toothache treatment

Toothache, moaning day and night:

• Slice old ginger.
• Place it on a tile.
• Use charcoal fire.
• Mix alum into the ginger.
• Please wait until it is charred.
• Rub the sore area.

Anti-aging beauty:

Take 30 grams of fresh ginger, 15 grams of jujube, 4 grams of refined salt, 6 grams of licorice, 1 gram of cloves, 1 gram of agarwood, and 12 grams of cumin every morning after getting up, pound them into the mud, and pour into boiling water. Drink it on an empty stomach when it is warm. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen, nourishing blood, strengthening the stomach, calming the mind, relieving depression, anti-aging, and beautifying. Long-term consumption will make the face white and tender, smooth skin, and reduce wrinkles.

Modern prescription

Prevent seasickness and motion sickness:

• Add one piece of fresh ginger to Shenmue Point (navel).
• Cover it with Shanghai ointment.
• Stick Shanghai analgesic ointment on Neiguan point.
• Rub the acupuncture point gently with your fingers.
• Could you put it in your mouth? Adding a piece of fresh ginger also has a specific preventive effect.

Soak your feet in hot ginger water to treat colds and headaches, preferably up to your ankle bones. When soaking, add salt and vinegar to the hot ginger water and soak your feet until the tops of your feet turn red.

Treatment of facial acne:

Wash your face with warm ginger water, once in the morning and once in the evening; for about 60 days, the acne will be reduced or disappear. This method also has a specific effect on freckles and dry skin.

Treatment of rheumatic pain

Low back and leg pain:

Use fresh ginger to make a 5-10% injection, and inject into painful points or reaction nodules. It can also be used with distal or proximal acupoint injections, such as joints, around the joint capsule. Inject 0.5 to 2 ml at each point, once a day or every other day, and 3 to 5 times constitute a course of treatment. Generally, 20 to 30 continuous injections can be performed. After injection, there is often local swelling, numbness, and burning sensations, and the pain may even worsen, which will lessen or disappear in about 1 to 2 days.

Treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers

Sixty grams of fresh ginger, washed and chopped, add 300 ml of water, and fry for 30 minutes. Take it three times a day and finish it in 2 days. After taking the medicine, the pain can be reduced or disappear, acid reflux and hunger can also be improved, constipation and melena can become normal, and appetite can increase.

Treatment of acute bacillary dysentery

Use 45 grams of fresh ginger and 30 grams of brown sugar, pound into a paste, and take divided doses three times a day, seven days, as a course of treatment. After taking the medicine, the abdominal pain and tenesmus disappeared, the appearance and frequency of stool returned to normal, stool microscopy and culture turned negative, and no apparent side effects were seen during the treatment.

Treatment of acute orchitic:

Take large old ginger, wash it with water, cut it into uniform slices about 0.2 cm thick, and apply 6 to 10 slices each time on the affected side of the vagina.