Saying goes
Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, no need for a doctor to prescribe medicine
Doctor reminds
There are many benefits to eating ginger in summer
But not for everyone
Zhang Yun, deputy chief physician of the Department of Endocrinology of Bozhou People's Hospital, said that there are many benefits to eating ginger in summer.
1. Increases appetite. The gingerol in ginger activates the taste nerve on the tongue, stimulates receptors on the gastric mucosa, promotes the secretion of digestive juices through nerve reflexes, and improves digestion and appetite.
2. Relieves vomiting. Fresh ginger is rich in gingerone, gingerene and other ingredients, which can effectively relieve vomiting, reduce dizziness, nausea and strong discomfort caused by motion sickness and seasickness.
3. Warm up the body. Ginger is warm, and people who eat too much cold food or have a cold body in summer can appropriately use ginger to regulate the symptoms of cold hands and feet.
4. Disinfection and sterilization. Ginger is a natural antibacterial agent, eating an appropriate amount of ginger can prevent acute gastroenteritis, reduce intestinal inflammation, put some ginger when mixing cold dishes, disinfection and sterilization and appetizing.
Zhang Yun reminded that the three categories of people are not recommended to consume ginger.
1. People with yin deficiency constitution. It is manifested as hot palms of hands and feet, sweaty palms, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry nose, dry skin, irritable and irritable, poor sleep, ginger is pungent and warm, and people with yin deficiency will aggravate the symptoms by eating ginger.
2. Those with heavy internal heat. Because the role of ginger is mostly to relieve the surface and dissipate cold, warm and stop vomiting, such as people suffering from lung heat and dry cough, bad breath, hemorrhoids and bleeding, etc., should not eat ginger.
3. People who have a summer heat cold or a wind-heat cold. These are not caused by cold evils, and the consumption of ginger will undoubtedly add fuel to the fire.
It should be noted that ginger is easy to mildew if left for too long, increasing the risk of cancer, and the safrole in rotten ginger is a carcinogen, which has been listed as a class 2B carcinogen by the World Health Organization, and it is not recommended to eat even if the rotten parts are cut off.
Source: Bozhou Audiovisual Network