Have you ever seen these Chinese ginger varieties? What are the main effects and functions? How to distinguish? 80% of people don't know!

Ginger generally plays the role of seasoning in daily life, but there are many kinds of ginger in our country. The following is to introduce the main functions and functions of ginger, sand ginger, alpinia officinalis and alpinia officinalis, and how to distinguish them in daily life, as follows:

Ginger

Ginger is the fresh rhizome of perennial herbs of Zingiberaceae and Zingiberaceae, which is best known in our daily life. It can infiltrate its own spicy taste and special aroma into the dishes, making it delicious and fragrant. Because of its clear and spicy taste, it only dissipates the peculiar smell of the food, but does not mix the food into spicy flavor, so it should be used as a corrective for meat dishes, and it is also used for the production of cakes and candies, such as gingerbread, ginger candy and so on.

1. Efficacy and function of ginger

(1.1) cooling and refreshing to increase appetite:

Because ginger contains ginger alcohol, gingerene, alpinene, citral and aromatic and other oily volatile oil. There are also gingerol, resin, starch and fiber. If you eat a few slices of ginger during a meal, it will increase your appetite; ginger can also relieve or relieve pain in stomach disease. The pain, vomiting, pantothenic acid and hunger caused by gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcer can be drunk with 50 grams of ginger fried water, which can quickly eliminate the symptoms.

2. antibacterial and disease prevention in the treatment of enteritis:

Dried ginger powder can relieve the symptoms of motion sickness, such as headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, with an effective rate of about 90%, and the effect can last more than 4 hours. Folk use ginger to prevent carsickness and seasickness, and some use ginger slices to stick to Neiguan points, which has an obvious anti-halo effect.

(1.3) appetizer, spleen, heat prevention and emergency treatment:

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger can "play the divine piano with great skill", that is, refreshing and refreshing. When you faint from heatstroke in summer, a cup of ginger juice can make the patient wake up quickly. For patients with general summer heat, such as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness and nausea, it is of great benefit to eat ginger soup appropriately.

2. Sand ginger

Sand ginger is the rhizome of kaempferia in Zingiberaceae. People are often the most confused about sand ginger and ginger. Both sand ginger and ginger have a spicy taste, but they are lighter than ginger, and sand ginger can not only remove fishiness, but also improve freshness and aroma, which is a feature that ginger does not have. Sand ginger is especially suitable for cooking a variety of meat ingredients, can also be used to prepare gravy, or as a "five spices" ingredients.

1. The efficacy and function of sand ginger

(1.1) Qi is used to relieve pain. Traditional Chinese medicine often says that if there is no pain, the pain will not pass, which tells us that when the airflow in the body is not smooth, the human body will feel pain. And sand ginger, just has the role of regulating qi, so that the airflow in the body is smooth, thus playing a role in relieving pain.

(1.2) invigorating spleen and stomach. The unique aroma and spicy taste of sand ginger can promote saliva secretion, increase appetite, and play a role in invigorating the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with loss of appetite can be eaten frequently.

(1.3) promote digestion. Sand ginger has a certain stimulating effect on the intestines and stomach, can accelerate the movement of the intestines and stomach, and relieve the symptoms of food accumulation and indigestion.

(1.4) treatment of cold stomach and cold pain in heart and abdomen. Sand ginger is mild in nature and can be used to treat cold diseases such as stomach cold and abdominal cold and heat.

(1.5) treat toothache. Grind sand ginger and musk into a mill, mix and rub it in the position of toothache, then rinse with water and stick to it for a period of time can play a role in treating toothache.

Third, foreign ginger

Alpinia officinarum is a perennial herb of the genus Compositae sunflower, commonly known as Zizijiang, native to North America and introduced into China through Europe. Guizi ginger is a highly adaptable plant, and many farmers can harvest it for many years without management at all. Most people pickle the devil ginger into pickles to eat. Guizi ginger can also make inulin and alcohol, and inulin is not only a good medicine for diabetes, but also a valuable industrial raw material.

1. The efficacy and function of alpinia officinarum

(1.1) analgesic effect

Ginger can be eaten as a seasoning with other ingredients, so it seems that ginger is indeed very similar to ginger. The analgesic effect of alpinia officinale is used to make a sedative. It can be directly used in our pain nerves. For friends who are often troubled by headaches and other problems, they must be familiar with it.

(1.2) the effect of lowering blood pressure

Ginger can not only treat neuropathic pain, but also calm and stabilize blood pressure, help us regulate qi and tonify the liver, and activate blood vessels. Smooth arteries can help us stabilize blood pressure, coupled with the analgesic effect of ginger, is very suitable for the treatment of problems such as angina pectoris.

(1.3) the efficacy of eyesight

As mentioned above, ginger can act on nerves, so it can balance and improve our nerves such as eyesight or memory, so it is not difficult to find ginger in some health products.

4. Alpinia officinalis

Alpinia officinalis is a perennial herb of the genus Zingiberaceae, which is a very beautiful plant, so people regard it as an ornamental plant.

1. The efficacy and function of alpinia officinalis.

(1.1) Anti-ulcer effect

Alpinia officinalis decoction could inhibit the experimental gastric ulcer in pylorus ligation type, stress type and reserpine type in varying degrees, but had no obvious effect on lumbricine (indomethacin) gastric ulcer. It can increase the activity of gastric juice and pepsin, reduce the total acidity and free acidity, and excite the contraction of high-body gastric strips, then turn to inhibition, reduce gastric tension and resist gastric contraction caused by acetylcholine.

(1.2) Antibacterial activity

In vitro test, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of alpinia officinalis decoction against Yersinia colitis and Proteus morifolium was 1max 160 (moderate bacteriostasis), and the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) was 1max 80 (low bactericidal concentration). The bacteriostatic effects on Shigella flexneri were 1max 40 and 1max 10, respectively, which were low effective and had no bacteriostatic or bactericidal effect on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.