What are the characteristics of dried ginger?

Hot and spicy. Enter the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians.

Efficacy indication

1. Warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold is used for spleen and stomach deficiency cold, epigastric cold pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and is often combined with Ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala and Glycyrrhiza uralensis, such as Lizhong Pill; If the stomach is cold and painful, it can be combined with Alpinia officinarum, such as Erjiang Pill; If vomiting is serious, it can be combined with Pinellia ternata, such as Pinellia ternata and dried ginger powder.

2. Huiyang Tongmai is used for yang deficiency and yin excess, limb syncope and slightly heartbroken pulse. It is often used with aconite, such as Sini Decoction.

3. Warm the lungs and drink it when cold pathogens invade the lungs, including abstinence, asthma and cough, and thin vomiting. It is often combined with Herba Ephedrae, Asari and Schisandra chinensis, such as Xiaoqinglong Decoction.

Dosage and usage: 3 ~ 10g, decocted in water or taken orally.

It is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and fever, and pregnant women should use it with caution.

According to the statement, dried ginger is pungent and hot, and it is good at dispersing yin cold. It enters the lung meridian to warm the lung and dissolve the drink, and enters the spleen and stomach to warm the cold until the yang dies, and suddenly falls off. Every time aconite is used to disperse yin cold, the yang is restored to save the inverse. There is a saying that "aconite is not spicy and there is no dried ginger."

Drug identification of ginger as a kind of food can be divided into: ① ginger is pungent and warm, dispelling cold, and stopping vomiting by warming; (2) ginger skin is beneficial to water; (3) Ginger juice can stop vomiting and resolve phlegm; 4 simmer ginger to warm the stomach; ⑤ Dried ginger warms yang and dispels cold, warms lung and resolves phlegm; ⑥ Warming the channels of canned ginger to stop bleeding; ⑦ Ginger charcoal warms blood to stop bleeding and diarrhea.

Both dried ginger and aconite are important drugs for pungent heat, dispelling cold and warming the interior, so they should be used together frequently. However, aconite has a strong effect of restoring yang and warming the middle energizer, and is mainly used to treat cold syndrome of middle energizer. Dry ginger warms the stomach, warms the lungs and resolves phlegm, and treats the syndrome of middle-jiao cold. Therefore, aconite is commonly used for kidney yang deficiency, and dried ginger is commonly used for lung cold cough and asthma; For those with deficiency of cold and yang deficiency in middle energizer, ginger should be used together.