ginger

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[source] fresh rhizome of Zingiberaceae.

[plant morphology] ginger

Perennial herbs, 40-100 cm high. Rhizome fleshy, oblate, transverse, branched, aromatic and pungent. The leaf blade is linear lanceolate, 15-20 cm long, 2 cm wide, apex acuminate, base narrow, smooth and glabrous; ligule 1-3 mm long, membranous. Inflorescence elliptic, dense, 5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide; bracts ovate, 2.5 cm long, apex pointed, greenish white, dorsal margin yellow; calyx tubular, 1 cm long, 3 short teeth; corolla greenish yellow, tube 2 cm long, lobes 3, lanceolate, slightly equal, labellum oblong obovate, more lobed than corolla The ovary is glabrous, 3-locular, and the style is solitary, held by anthers. Capsule 3-valved, seed black. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from December to January next year.

It is cultivated in most parts of the country.

The dried rhizome, cork and leaf of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] collect and dig in summer, remove the stems, leaves and fibrous roots, and clean the soil.

[medicinal material] the fresh rhizome is flat and irregular, with branching branches. There are stem marks or buds at the top of each column. The surface is yellowish white or gray white, glossy, with light brown links. It is crisp, with juice exudation after fracture; the cross section is light yellow, with an obvious ring pattern, and a little veins in the middle. It is fragrant and special, with spicy taste. It is better to be big, plump and tender.

It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong and Shaanxi.

[processing] ginger: remove impurities, clean the soil, and slice. Fresh ginger powder: take fresh ginger, wash, mash, press juice, stand, separate precipitated powder, dry in the sun, or dry at low temperature. Simmer ginger: take ginger, wrap it in six or seven layers of paper, soak it in water, simmer it in fire ash until the paper is brown, then remove the paper.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Bielu: "the taste is pungent and mild. "

② "Qianjin Shizhi": non toxic. "

③ Qiyuan of Medicine: "warm in nature, sweet and pungent in taste. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "it's hard and hot to simmer ginger. "

⑤ "Wenxincao, wenxinwei, Zhiping". "

[meridian tropism] entering lung, stomach and spleen meridians.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung, heart, spleen and stomach four meridians. "

② "Into the spleen, lungs, intestines, stomach and other channels. "

③ "Into the gallbladder, liver, lung meridian. "

[functions and indications] published, dispersing cold, stopping vomiting, opening phlegm. It can cure cold, vomit, phlegm, cough, fullness, diarrhea, and detoxify fish, birds and animals.

① Ben Jing: "remove the odor and pass the gods. "

② "Bielu": "the main typhoid headache, nasal congestion, cough on the gas. "

③ Tao Hongjing: "return to the five zang organs, remove phlegm and Qi, stop vomiting, and eliminate rheumatism, cold and heat. "

④ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it is mainly used to treat phlegm, water and Qi, and lower Qi; it is used to treat cough, treat diseases, stop vomiting and not eat. Raw Pinellia and Pinellia ternata are in charge of acute pain in the heart; if you can't eat it due to moderate heat, take it with mashed juice and honey. And juice and almonds for frying, under all the knot gas solid, heart embrace separated, cold and hot gas. "

⑤ "Qianjin? Shizhi" says: "perspire, remove the odor on the diaphragm. "

⑥ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "in addition to strong heat, the treatment of muscle, heart full. "It can stop the adverse reactions, relieve the boredom and open the stomach qi. "

⑦ In the collection of materia medica: "the juice can detoxify the poison, break the blood circulation, remove the cold and phlegm, and stimulate the stomach. "

⑧ "Capsule": "benefiting spleen and stomach, dispersing wind and cold. "

⑨ Qiyuan of Medicine: "removing dampness in the warm". It can be used to make pinellia tuber and pinellia tuber poison. "

⑩ Daily use materia medica: "it can cure typhoid, cold, headache and nine orifices. Enter the lung to appetizer, remove the cold in the abdomen, and remove the odor. "It can relieve all kinds of toxin. "

(11) the compendium of Medical Sciences: "the raw use is divergent, the ripe use is harmonious, the solution eats the wild bird poisoning to become the throat arthralgia; soaks the juice to spot the naked eye; rammes the juice and boils, pastes the rheumatism pain. "

(12) Materia Medica from the new: "ginger juice, open phlegm, treat choking and nausea, save violent stroke, cure body odor, rub frozen ears. Simmer ginger, and stop vomiting. "

(Huiyue medical mirror): "simmering ginger can cure stomach cold, diarrhea and acid swallowing. "

(14) modern practical Chinese medicine: "it is effective in treating colic. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or mash juice. External use: tamping, rubbing, frying and ironing.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and internal heat should not take it.

① Compendium: "eating ginger for a long time, accumulating heat and suffering from diseases.". People with hemorrhoids often eat and drink too much, and their hair is very fast. Carbuncle sores, people eat more meat. "

② According to the classic of materia medica: "long time taking can damage Yin and hurt eyes, yin deficiency and internal heat, yin deficiency cough and hematemesis, exterior deficiency with heat sweating, self sweating and night sweating, visceral poison with blood, vomiting due to heat, fire and abdominal pain, which should be avoided by Fajiu. "

③ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "internal heat and yin deficiency, red eyes and throat, blood sore pain, vomiting and diarrhea with fire, summer heat syndrome, heat asthma and wheezing, fetal Sha distension should be avoided in time after disease and Sha pox. "

[prescription selection] 1. Cold and wind: five pieces of ginger, one or two leaves. Take it in water. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

② To cure vomiting, one or two pieces of ginger should be cut as large as possible. Seven pieces of ginger should be mixed with paste. Four pieces of ginger should be decocted in silverware. Take it on an empty stomach. (heart mirror of food medicine)

③ The patient's chest seems to be out of breath, vomiting or not, and his heart is angry and helpless: Pinellia ternate and ginger juice. Add three liters of water to the top two flavors, boil Pinellia ternata for two liters, add ginger juice, boil for one liter and a half, and cool. It is divided into four parts, one for three days and one for three nights. (ginger and Pinellia Decoction in the Golden Chamber)

④ Treatment of cold phlegm cough: ginger two liang, sugar one or two. Three bowls of water, fry until half bowl, drink gently. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑤ Cure cough for 30 years: white honey 1 jin, ginger 2 jin (take juice). For the first two flavors, weigh the Tongyao first, and then weigh the honey. For the second time, fry the ginger juice in low heat to make the ginger juice exhausted. Only the honey is enough. Once taken as jujube dog, with a pill, three times a day. All kinds of food are forbidden. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑥ Zhilaosou: four liang of ginger juice, one bowl of white radish juice, one bowl of pear juice and one bowl of human milk. A total of boiling into cream, sooner or later take a few spoons of soup. (wuzhigao from experience Collection)

⑦ For the treatment of typhoid fever and sweating, after the solution, disharmony in the stomach, distention in the heart, dry eerie, smelly food, water vapor under the flank, thunder in the abdomen, the following advantages: ginger (cut) four Liang, (fried) three Liang, dry ginger one or two, three Liang, pinellia (wash) half liter, one or two, (break) twelve. On eight flavors, with a bucket of water, boil six liters, remove dross, and then fry three liters. Warm clothes one liter, three times a day. (ginger Xiexin Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

⑧ For the treatment of heart, chest and hypochondriac evil, firm, hard pain and fullness: a kilo of ginger, mash the residue, leave juice, stir fry slowly and wait for moistening; wrap it with silk, iron it at the affected area, cool it, stir fry it with juice, and then iron it for a long time, suddenly wide and fast. (six books on Febrile Diseases)

⑨ Treatment of cholera, abdominal pain, full of shortness of breath, did not vomit: ginger a Jin. Cut into pieces, take seven liters of water, boil two liters, divide into three servings. (behind the elbow)

⑩ Rheumatic arthralgia: ginger juice and gelatin boil paste. (Materia Medica from the beginning)

(11) for the treatment of syncope due to middle Qi, there are also cases of phlegm stagnation: five cents for ginger, five cents for Pinellia, five cents for Pinellia and eight cents for licorice. Decoct in water, add a child's stool when taking. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

(12) treatment of cold malaria: ginger four Liang, two liang, Ren one or two. Five large bowls of water, fried to two bowls, early drink before hair. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⒀ treatment of stomach qi deficiency, wind heat, can not eat: ginger juice half chicken shell, a little yellow juice, a spoonful of honey. He Shui Sanhe, Dunfu. (dietotherapy materia medica)

(14) you can't take medicine to cure abdominal fullness: simmer ginger, wrap it in the lower part, and it's easy to be cold. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

Treatment of hand peeling: fresh ginger or two. Slice, soak in wine for 24 hours, then apply on local area twice a day. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

(16) treatment of baldness: mash ginger, heat, apply on the head, about two or three times. (prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in Guizhou)

To cure hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids without scab for a long time: cut large pieces of ginger and skin, apply powder, scorch and grind fine, stick it. (Puji Fang)

(18) for the treatment of hair and back, a piece of ginger, a layer of charcoal, a layer of scraping, for the end, to juice transfer coating. (maritime side)

(19) treatment of vitiligo: ginger is good for frequent rubbing. (Yi Jian Fang)

When a dog bites a person, it's time to drink ginger root juice. (behind the elbow)

(21) treatment of Agkistrodon halys venom: the end of ginger is thin, and the dry is easy to recover. (Qian Jin Fang)

(22) treatment of falling and flapping injuries: ginger juice and wine mixed with noodles paste. (Yi Jian Fang)

(23) toothache, groaning day and night: old ginger slices, tile, with charcoal fire, but the alum mixed ginger, waiting for coke for the end, rub pain. (shanghaifang, also known as jinfansan)

(24) treatment of 100 insects in the ear: a small drop of ginger juice. (Yi Jian Fang)

[clinical application] ① treating rheumatic pain and lumbocrural pain

5-10% injection made from fresh ginger can be injected into pain points or reaction nodules, or combined with distal or proximal acupoint injection, such as in the joint area

Chinese PinYin : Sheng Jiang