The difference between roasted ginger and dried ginger

Although both roasted ginger and dried ginger are ginger, the difference between them is not just their uses and effects. Pao ginger is what we often call fresh ginger, while dried ginger is made by drying fresh ginger. In traditional Chinese medicine, roasted ginger and dried ginger have different therapeutic effects. In terms of the heat it can generate, dried ginger is superior.

1. Different applications

Pao Jiang: tastes bitter, warm in nature, and enters the stomach, spleen, and kidney meridians. Stay and don't leave.

1. Warming the middle and dispersing cold, especially good at dispersing the deficiency cold of spleen and kidney, and can warm and nourish spleen and kidney, and has a good effect on the deficiency cold pain in the middle and lower abdomen with tangerine peel and cyperus rotundus;

2. Warming and nourishing the spleen and kidneys, Wushudi can nourish the spleen and kidneys, yin and yang help each other, and can also reduce the side effects of Shushudi.

3. Warming the meridians and stopping bleeding. For all kinds of deficiency and cold bleeding, Wushudi has a very good effect. Compared with dried ginger, the bleeding seen in dried ginger syndrome is mostly purple and black blood stasis, and the blood is mostly the color of blood stasis. Dried ginger is used to warm and disperse and stop bleeding, while Paojiang is relatively safe to use, which is warming and tonic and stops bleeding. When warm-natured drugs are needed to stop bleeding and the syndrome differentiation is not 100% accurate, it is more appropriate to use roasted ginger (often combined with large doses of cooked rehmannia).

Dried ginger: spicy and hot in nature. It runs but does not stay still on the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians.

1. Warming the middle and dispersing cold, it is best for stomach cold but worse for spleen cold;

2. Warming the lungs and eliminating fluid. This medicine is necessary for those with cold lungs and fluid. If the spleen is cold and fluid is retained in the lungs, roasted ginger will have a better effect.

3. To restore yang and dredge meridians, Sini Decoction enhances the efficacy of aconite and reduces its toxicity;

4. Warming the meridians and stopping bleeding. Dried ginger is used to stop bleeding. It is safest to use it only for bleeding accompanied by Sini Tang syndrome. For other cold bleeding, roasted ginger should be the first choice.

Dried ginger is an essential medicine for treating cold in the lungs and stomach and restoring yang, and its effect is strong and rapid.

Dried ginger: It has better warming and dispersing effects than warming and tonifying effects. It has strong dispersing effect but weak warming and tonifying effect. It is good at treating cold above the navel and can disperse the cold to the surface. Pao Jiang: It has more warming and tonifying effects than dispersing effects. Its warming and tonifying effect is stronger and the effect is mild and long-lasting, but its ability to dispel cold and accumulation is relatively weak.

2. Different uses

Roasted Ginger

Paojiang is the fresh rhizome of a perennial herb of the ginger family. After digging, wash away impurities and slice them when needed. It is spicy and slightly warm in nature. It enters the lung, spleen, and stomach meridians, and has the effects of dispelling cold and relieving exterior symptoms, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and promoting diuresis, guiding drugs to the meridians, and detoxifying. Entering the lung meridian can dispel wind and cold, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough; entering the spleen and stomach can warm the middle and eliminate dampness, transform fluid and relieve fullness, disperse adverse qi, and stop vomiting. It is effective regardless of whether it is a cold caused by wind and cold, or water retention in the middle, stomach cold and adverse qi, or abdominal pain and nausea caused by various reasons. Hence, there is a saying that “ginger is the holy medicine for vomiting”.

We can use roasted ginger and brown sugar to make ginger soup, which can promote blood circulation and dispel cold, so it is also a good medicine for preventing and treating colds.

For example, ginger soup made with roasted ginger and brown sugar can invigorate blood circulation and dispel cold, and is a good medicine for preventing and treating colds. In addition, roasted ginger can detoxify fish, crabs, pinellia, and arisaema, so pinellia and arisaema are often processed with ginger. It can be used for any symptoms of internal excess of yin and cold, yang deficiency and impending collapse, or spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, vomiting, diarrhea, cold pain, because it has the effect of warming the spleen yang and transforming cold fluid, and can also treat wheezing, coughing, and clear and thin sputum caused by cold fluid invading the lungs.

Dried ginger

Dried ginger, also known as old ginger slices, is made by digging out the rhizomes of roasted ginger, cleaning them, cleaning them from impurities, slicing them, and drying them in the sun or over a low fire. It is spicy and hot in nature. It enters the heart, lung, spleen, and stomach meridians, is good at removing internal cold to warm the yang of the spleen and stomach, and is an important medicine for warming the middle burner. Because dried ginger can stay and move, is hot and dry in nature, it is very suitable for those with excessive cold evil in the middle burner and dampness, as well as wheezing and coughing caused by cold fluid in the lungs. Because it is fast and has a strong effect, it is used to restore yang and rescue from adverse conditions, and its effect is very good. It is often used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and weak pulse, phlegm, wheezing and coughing.