Fresh Ginger Root

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Fresh ginger root, also known as Sheng Jiang in mandarin, is definitely an important ingredient in cooking no matter it is steaming fish, preparing dishes, or making seasoning. 

The reason is so obvious, Good For Your Health and its characteristic spicy taste can not only help eliminate fishy smell and mutton odor, but also flavor the dishes

So, what is ginger good for?
 Is fresh ginger root good for you? 
As a matter of fact, it is warm in nature and its unique ingredient of gingerol can stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, congest the gastrointestinal tract, enhance digestion, and effectively cure bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused by excessively eating cold food. So, Yes.
Eating ginger can make people feel hot. This is because it is able to dilate the blood vessels, speed up blood circulation, and promote the opening of body’s pores, which takes the extra heat away along with bacteria and cold pathogen inside the body. In addition, cooking with fresh ginger root can promptly eliminate a variety of cold heavy body induced discomforts due to the influence of cold food, rain and even the air conditioner.

Inhibiting oxidation and tumor. It contains gingerols and diarylheptanoids structure, which have strong antioxidant, free radical scavenging, and tumor suppressor activities. As a result, it is anti-aging and can help the elderly get rid of age spots on face. Yes it can!

 In the hot summer people tend to eat less due to the reduced secretion of saliva and gastric juice. And eating a few slices of it before meals can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric and digestive juices, increases gastrointestinal motility, and thereby increase appetite. Sorry, yes when I wrote this I remembered that for most of you Summer is Over! 

Killing bacteria, detoxicating, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. I've found that it can act like some certain antibiotics, especially on Salmonella. It is reported that ginger extract can significantly inhibit skin fungal, kill trichomonas vaginalis, and treat a variety of boils. By gargling with Ginger it'll treat bad breath and periodontitis.

Also, Preventing car sickness and stopping nausea and vomiting and  headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. And the efficacy can last more than 4 hours. 
Traditional Chinese medicine thinks that it is a Yang tonic. It’s just like the old saying goes, “a man cannot afford not to take ginger for 100 days.” And modern clinical pharmacology (big word alert) found that it is capable of speeding up the body’s metabolism, reducing inflammation, relieving pain, simultaneously exciting the function of human multiple systems, regulating the function of the male prostate, treating sexual dysfunction in middle and older men. Therefore, it is often used in male health.

Do not peel. Some people like to peel the ginger before cooking. But it is so wrong since by doing so it fails to make full use of its all health benefits. The right practice is to just shred it right after cleaning. Now be advised that, Long-term consumption is inadvisable in people suffering from fire excess from yin deficiency, red eyes due to internal heat, carbuncles and boils, pneumonia, lung abscess, tuberculosis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis, pyelonephritis, diabetes, and hemorrhoids. Ouch!

 As for medicinal uses, ginger brown sugar soup can only apply to wind-cold cold or the patients with stomach cold and fever after caught in the rain. That’s to say, it cannot be used for summer-heat or wind-heat cold and heat stroke. In addition, fresh ginger juice treats only vomiting caused by exposure to cold but other types of vomiting.
Never Ever Eat Rotten Ginger. 
Rotten ginger can produce a highly toxic substance that can cause degeneration and necrosis to the liver cell and induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer, and so on.
So please think of giving Ginger Root A try next time you have Stomach Problems. Remember,This is a warm Natured Herb.