Eating ginger in cold weather should absolutely avoid these things

Ginger has great health benefits, but using ginger properly is not easy. Many people have made mistakes when using ginger in food as well as medicine.

Here are some necessary notes when you use ginger for your health:

Do not eat ginger at night

According to Chinese medicine, ginger has a spicy taste, warm properties, enters the lungs, spleen, and stomach, has the effect of eliminating phlegm, detoxifying, and dispelling cold air... Therefore, at the beginning of a new day, there is still a lot of gas in the stomach, eating ginger at this time will cause the yang energy to rise, expel toxic gas, good for the stomach and has the effect of strengthening the spleen.

On the contrary, in the evening, the yang energy is reduced, the yin energy in the body is more, eating ginger is a bad idea. The hot nature of this root will exert harmful effects, causing bloating, difficulty sleeping, and over time causing internal heat.

Do not use when having high fever

Ginger is hot in nature so it is suitable for people with colds, wind-cold, cold-heat after being in the rain... Ginger is contraindicated for people with colds and heatstroke or wind-heat. In case of sunstroke or heatstroke, absolutely do not use ginger.

People with high fever should absolutely not eat ginger, because ginger has a hot property that will increase the patient's body temperature, causing damage to blood vessels and even bleeding.

Do not eat when you have a stomach ache.

For people with stomach pain, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers will be advised by doctors not to eat ginger, because in the composition of ginger there are substances that mainly act on the stomach lining. From there, the lining is stimulated, eroded and causes ulcers.

Do not eat when suffering from liver disease

Ginger stimulates the secretion of liver cells, causing these cells to become necrotic in a stimulated state. Therefore, people with acute and chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis should not eat ginger.

In addition, people with gallstones, hemorrhoids or bleeding will make their condition worse if they eat ginger.

Note:When eating ginger, you should not peel the skin because the skin has many medicinal uses. Observe, if the ginger is bruised, you should absolutely not eat it because bruised ginger will produce toxins.

According to experts, if you love ginger, you should not eat more than 4g of ginger per day to limit the side effects of ginger on your health.

How to distinguish Vietnamese ginger from Chinese ginger

In terms of size, it is easy to see that Chinese ginger is larger, rounder, and looks much more succulent than Vietnamese ginger. A Chinese ginger root weighs an average of 3 - 5 grams. Meanwhile, Vietnamese ginger only weighs 0.5 - 1 grams.

Regarding the skin color and appearance, Chinese ginger has a smooth, shiny skin with few veins and is easy to peel. Vietnamese ginger has a rough skin, divided into many branches, with many veins, and a darker color than Chinese ginger.

Regarding the ginger core, when breaking the ginger root in half, consumers will easily recognize the difference in the ginger core. The core of Vietnamese ginger has many fibers, clear circular veins and a bright yellow color. Meanwhile, the core of Chinese ginger has very few fibers and veins, no circular veins and a lighter yellow color than Vietnamese ginger.

According to Family & Society