ginger and colds and flu, roasted&stewed

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> --- erik aponte <thurneisser> wrote:

> > I have a question that I hope someone out there can

> > clarify for me. I was wondering if drinking fresh

> > ginger slices in a tea is good for symptoms of colds

> > and if it would help with phlegm. I thought this

> > might have more of a diuretic function. Would dried

> > ginger ground up and drunk as a tea have a more

> > tonic

> > function?

> >

> > I would be very happy if someone could clear this up

> > for me. Thanks.

> >

> > E.

 

Let me add this:

FRESH

acrid-dispelling power is relative high,

1)by checking/activating the exterior energy functions it dispels cold

2)by warming the middle it stops vomiting

3)antidote to: crabmeat, Rhiz.Pinellia banxia, Rhiz.Arisaematis

nanxing

 

DRIED

acrid-dispelling power is relative low

1)warms the lung to transform yin-fluids (the tan-yin yin, not the

yinyang yin)

2)returns the yang in emergency cases(faint due to lost yang)

3)by warming the middle it dispells cold (coldish-

pains,vomiting,diarrhea)

I found no records of a tonic function, but dispelling and

transforming might release blocked energies

 

STEWED

dispelling-with-acrid-taste power is lost

spleen+lung warming functions increased

 

ROASTED until black

cold-dispelling and contracting actions increased

stops bleedings

arrests diarrhea

 

THE fresh PEEL

acrid and cold/cooling

diuretic

dissipates swellings (edemas)

 

THE JUICE

acrid-slightly warm

transforms phlegm

stops vomiting

 

I am addicted to ginger, fried in a pan (ginger chips), to lower the

cooling action of greentea, first aid when someone is seasick etc

etc...