Can sticking ginger on your belly button help you lose weight?

You cannot lose weight.

1. Applying ginger slices on the belly button can help fight cancer. Ginger contains many elements, but one of them has a strong anti-cancer effect. This element is curcumin. Curcumin has a strong inhibitory effect on skin cancer and colorectal cancer induced by azomethane.

2. Applying ginger slices on the belly button has a good effect on regulating irregular menstruation and warming the uterus. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is warm in nature and has a good effect in repelling cold and warming the body. Cutting into slices can make the warm ingredients in ginger better emit, which is very helpful in promoting the discharge of cold air in the body. For women suffering from dysmenorrhea, you can also try applying ginger slices to your belly button, which can also have a good pain relief effect.

3. Treat diarrhea. Different groups of people have different resistance to the outside world. For children and middle-aged and elderly people, their physical resistance is relatively weak, especially children. When diarrhea is caused by catching a cold or indigestion, you can apply a piece of ginger on the belly button and fix it with medical adhesive plaster or Shangshi analgesic ointment. Take it off after two days and apply another piece. Generally, it can be cured.

Extended information

Ginger, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the fresh rhizome of ginger, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family. Its aliases include ginger root, Bai La Yun, Gou Zhuozhi, Yin De Xin, Yanliang Boy, and fresh ginger. The rhizome (dry ginger), cork (ginger peel), and leaves (ginger leaves) of ginger can be used as medicine. Ginger is pungent in taste and slightly warm in nature. Returns to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of relieving the surface and dispersing cold, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and relieving cough, and detoxifying. It is often used for wind-cold colds, spleen and stomach cold syndrome, stomach cold vomiting, lung cold cough, and detoxification of fish and crab poisons.

Ginger is native to the tropical areas of Southeast Asia. It likes a warm and humid climate. It has weak cold tolerance and drought resistance. The plant can only grow in the frost-free period. The optimal temperature for growth is 25-28°C, and the temperature is lower than 20°C. Germination will be slow, plants will wither when exposed to frost, and rhizomes will completely lose their ability to germinate when exposed to frost. The annual average temperature in most counties in the main production areas of Guangxi is 18-19°C, with the average temperature in July being 25.3°C and the extreme high temperature being 39°C; the average temperature in January being 10.2°C and the extreme low temperature being -4°C; the annual frost-free period is 330 Above the sky. The annual rainfall is 900-1300 mm, and the relative air humidity is about 80%.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ginger