Where is the main producing area of dried ginger? What's the difference between ginger and dried ginger?

Dried ginger is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of reducing swelling and antiperspiration. So, where is the main producing area of dried ginger? What's the difference between ginger and dried ginger?

Where is the main producing area of dried ginger?

Mainly produced in Sichuan, Guizhou Changshun, Xingren, Hubei Laifeng, Guangdong Xinhui and Zhejiang, Shandong, Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, sold all over the country.

What's the difference between ginger and dried ginger?

1. Ginger tends to be on the outside and dried ginger on the inside.

Zheng Zhimin, a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy of the first people's Hospital of Guangzhou, said that ginger is partial to the surface, focusing on relieving the surface, dispelling cold, stopping vomiting, and is mostly used in the relieving agent; dried ginger is partial to the inside, focusing on warming the lungs, warming the lungs, and returning to yang, and is mostly used in mediating agents; therefore, there is often a clinical saying that "ginger is used for new sensation, but dried ginger has been used for a long time."

In addition, the two are not only the difference in water content, but also the same in chemical composition. The chemical components of ginger and dried ginger are mainly volatile oil and pungent components, and the pungent components are mainly phenols such as gingerol, gingerol, gingerone and so on. It has been reported that the total volatile oil content of dried ginger is lower than that of ginger, but the pungent component is more than ginger. In addition to the different proportion of ingredients, each also contains its own unique chemical components, such as trans-farnesal in dried ginger, nerol acetate and iso-nerol acetate in dried ginger, etc.

2. The effects are different in different places of origin.

In addition, the nature and usage of ginger are different in different planting areas. Ginger can be divided into north and south. Ginger from the south (such as Sichuan, Hunan and other places) is generally harvested in the Winter Solstice because of its hot climate, sufficient light and long growing period. Its rhizome is thin and small, strong powdery, spicy, less moisture, suitable for medicinal use, commonly known as "medicinal ginger".

Ginger from the north (such as Shandong, Henan and other places) is generally harvested around the beginning of autumn because of its cold climate, early frost period and short growing period. Its rhizome hypertrophy, weak powder, light spicy taste, more water, mainly to edible or ginger as medicine, commonly known as "vegetable ginger".

In the traditional sense, dried ginger should be produced in Sichuan Jianwei, Sanqu Kaihua and other places of "medicinal ginger" mother ginger, peeled and exposed to the sun.

3. The efficacy of ginger peel is different from that of ginger.

Although ginger peel is a part of ginger, its taste and efficacy are completely different. Ginger peel, pungent, cool, and spleen water, detumescence, antiperspirant effect, commonly used prescription such as Acanthopanax senticosus peel (Poria peel, abdominal peel, ginger peel, Acanthopanax peel, tangerine peel) for edema.