Ginger is pungent and slightly warm. Enter lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, warming lung, relieving cough and detoxicating, and is often used to treat common cold, spleen and stomach deficiency cold, stomach cold vomiting, lung cold cough and fish and crab poisoning.
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. It means that when the weather is cold, you should eat more radishes, and after entering the hot summer, you can eat more ginger properly, which can play a health care role. In daily life, many people will eat some ginger in their diet after entering summer.
What are the benefits of eating ginger in summer?
1, dispel the cold chill. In summer, the climate is very hot, the skin pores are open, and it is vulnerable to some wind and cold. In summer, many people like to take a bath, wash their faces and hands with cold water, or get caught in the rain, so it is easy to get too cold in the body. Protein, vitamins, gingerol and other ingredients in ginger can play the role of anti-oxidation, dispelling cold and promoting blood circulation, and can expel some cold, cold and moisture from the body to avoid a series of discomfort caused by excessive cold and chill in the body.
2, sterilization and anti-inflammatory. In summer, due to the hot temperature, all kinds of bacteria are very active, and it is easy to get infected with some bacteria and suffer from various diseases, such as gastroenteritis. Eating some ginger properly, such as making tea with ginger, can prevent bacterial infection, as well as sterilize and diminish inflammation.
3, anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Ginger contains a special substance which is similar to salicylic acid in chemical structure. It can not only resist inflammation and relieve pain, but also has special effects on lowering blood fat and blood pressure and preventing thrombosis and myocardial infarction. Clinically, ginger injection has obvious curative effect on rheumatic pain and lumbago and leg pain.
4. Anti-oxidation and anti-aging. In recent years, according to medical research in the United States and Japan, gingerol in ginger can produce an anti-aging substance after being absorbed by human body, which can inhibit the production of lipofuscin in the body and prevent oxygen free radicals from harming human body. In short, it is antioxidant.
5, eliminate edema. Ginger skin is often overlooked. Ginger skin is cool, it can neutralize water and has the effect of detumescence. Ginger bark is often used to treat edema, decreased urine volume and dysuria. You can eat it without peeling it, and you can eat it with the skin after washing.
6, increase appetite. Ginger contains a lot of gingerol and volatile oil, which can promote the secretion of digestive juices such as saliva and gastric juice and stimulate appetite. Especially after entering the summer, many people will have loss of appetite and indigestion. You can eat a small amount of ginger appropriately, which can improve a series of gastrointestinal symptoms. If you have some nausea in summer, you can also eat some ginger properly, or eat some ginger slices in your mouth, which can improve these discomfort symptoms.
Can nephritis patients eat ginger?
In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is a good substance, which can be used as medicine and edible, and is beneficial to the body. In Dongpo Miscellanies in Song Dynasty, there was an 80-year-old monk in Jingci Temple of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, who looked like a child. "I have always believed in ginger for forty years, so I am not old."
There is a record in the annals of famous doctors: "Ginger tastes pungent and slightly warm. Entering the spleen, lung and stomach meridians can eliminate wind evil, cold and heat, typhoid fever, headache and stuffy nose, cough against the upper qi, stop vomiting, resolve phlegm and reduce qi. Ginger has the functions of sweating, stopping vomiting, relieving cough and detoxifying. Because ginger enters the spleen and stomach, the regulating effect of ginger on the spleen and stomach is very prominent.
Nephritis generally refers to glomerulonephritis, and mild nephropathy can eat ginger. Patients with nephritis can eat ginger if their clinical manifestations are mild and there are no serious gastrointestinal complications.
If nephritis patients have severe edema, severe gastrointestinal dysfunction or indigestion after eating, nausea and vomiting will occur. Not only can you not eat ginger, but other foods are not easy to ingest or digest. Because the potassium content in ginger is relatively high, and the detoxification function of kidney in patients with mild nephropathy is relatively normal, eating ginger has little effect on the body. Severe nephropathy will lead to a serious decline in the detoxification function of the kidney. If you eat more ginger, it may cause hyperkalemia. Therefore, the diet of kidney disease is mainly light food.
What are the taboos for eating ginger in summer?
1. Don't eat ginger if you get angry or catch a cold due to wind and heat, otherwise it will aggravate your symptoms. For people with digestive tract ulcers, don't eat ginger either, otherwise it will aggravate the ulcer surface.
2, people with yin deficiency and fire should not eat ginger. Ginger is warm, which will aggravate the degree of yin deficiency, while ginger is hot and easy to get angry, which will aggravate the loss of body fluid and even cause symptoms such as dry mouth, insomnia and irritability. Except for people with yin deficiency, people with carbuncle, furuncle, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes and hemorrhoids should not eat ginger for a long time.
2. control consumption. Even healthy people should control the consumption of ginger in summer. If you eat a lot of ginger at one time, or eat ginger for a long time, it is easy to cause some digestive tract symptoms. In addition, it will also cause coagulation dysfunction, which will cause some abnormal bleeding.