🌿 Ginger’s Spicy Power Fights Illness
Ginger’s spicy power fights illness
Ginger is one of Guangdong’s famous “Three Treasures”: tangerine peel, old ginger, and stalk grass. Guangdong people use ginger in almost every meal. Indeed, ginger’s ability to dispel wind, move qi, and invigorate blood stands unmatched among culinary herbs.
Postpartum tonification: Famous dish “eggs with pig’s trotters and ginger” uses ginger’s qi-moving effect to deliver nutrients into the body, greatly replenishing vital energy.
Cooking: Adding a few slices of ginger wards off cold, stimulates gastric juice secretion. Winter warms the stomach; summer aids sweating, eliminating phlegm-damp accumulation caused by excessive cold drinks.
Antioxidant: Its anti-aging effect surpasses vitamins A, C, and E.
Gallstone prevention: Plant phenols in ginger inhibit the production of bile mucoprotein, helping prevent stone formation. (Note: Only preventive, not curative.)
Travel sickness: For motion sickness or vertigo during illness, simply chew a slice of fresh ginger slowly, swallow the juice, and place the ginger on the central point (renzhong) or acupoints near the eyes (sizhukong). This warms the stomach, moves blood, and immediately relieves nausea and vomiting.