What harm does ginger do to men?

Sand ginger is a delicious ingredient and is also used in making many delicious dishes. Some friends have heard that sand ginger is harmful to men, but it is not true. Sand ginger is mainly used as a seasoning and is also a common Chinese medicinal material. It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency, blood deficiency or stomach fire. Infants should eat less sand ginger because it can irritate the intestines and stomach of infants.

1. Is eating galangal bad for men?

Eating galangal is not harmful to men. In daily life, galangal is mostly used as a seasoning, and can be used for cooking, hot pot base, spices, etc. With people's continuous exploration, there are many ways to eat galangal. Galangal likes warm places, so it grows mostly in the southern part of my country. It is a plant of the ginger family. The galangal we usually see and buy is the rhizome part of this plant, which is also the edible part of this plant.

At the turn of autumn and winter, take the rhizome of the plant sand ginger, wash it and dry it to make the sand ginger we see. The unique smell and spicy taste give it multiple functions. It is not only a seasoning, but also a common Chinese medicine. People with yin deficiency, blood deficiency and stomach fire are forbidden to take it. The general population can eat sand ginger. Infants should eat less sand ginger, because sand ginger is more spicy and has a certain stimulating effect on the intestines and stomach. It is suitable for people with cold stomach, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, poor appetite, loss of appetite, or people who cannot digest food.

2. The efficacy of sand ginger

It can promote the flow of qi and relieve pain. Sand ginger can regulate qi and make the qi flow smoothly, thus relieving pain. Strengthen the spleen and stomach. The unique aroma and spicy taste of sand ginger can promote saliva secretion, increase appetite, and play a role in strengthening the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with poor appetite can eat it frequently. Promote digestion. Sand ginger has a certain stimulating effect on the intestines and stomach, which can accelerate the movement of the intestines and stomach, and relieve the symptoms of food accumulation and indigestion. Treat stomach coldness and heart and abdomen cold pain. Sand ginger has a mild nature and has a warming effect. It can be used to treat cold symptoms such as stomach coldness and heart and abdomen coldness and heat.

3. How to choose galangal

The dried rhizome is a round or nearly round thick slice, with a reddish brown, wrinkled outer skin, and sometimes root marks, scale leaf remnants and ring lines can be seen. The cross section is grayish white, rich in powder, smooth and delicate, slightly raised, and the outer skin is wrinkled, commonly known as shrinking skin and convex flesh. It is brittle and easy to break. The aroma is fragrant, slightly similar to camphor; the taste is spicy (but different from ginger). The best ones are white, powdery, full, rich and spicy.

How to make sand ginger

1. Sand ginger chicken: 1 chicken, 2 tablespoons salad oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 scallions, 2 teaspoons cooking wine, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, 4 sand gingers. Wash the chicken and chop it into pieces. Marinate with salt and cooking wine for 20 minutes. Peel and chop the sand ginger, cut the scallions into florets, heat the oil in a pan, stir-fry the chicken until it changes color, push the chicken to the side of the pan, stir-fry the sand ginger and scallion whites, stir-fry the chicken and sand ginger, add sugar and stir-fry, cover the pot and simmer until the chicken is cooked through. Finally, sprinkle the remaining florets and stir-fry. Use a stainless steel pot or plate to steam the chicken. Stainless steel conducts heat faster and steamed chicken is easier to cook.

2. Sand ginger chicken feet, chicken feet, sand ginger, lemon, basil, fish sauce, Huadiao wine, rock sugar, water, wash chicken feet, put them in a pressure cooker, add water and lemon slices and press for 10 minutes. After decompression, rinse the chicken feet with clean water, and then soak them in ice water with lemon to cool down. Mix fish sauce, Huadiao wine, and water in a ratio of 1:1:2, then add appropriate amount of basil, sand ginger, lemon juice, and rock sugar to make brine. Drain the chicken feet from the ice water, add brine, and marinate in the refrigerator for half a day before eating.

The difference between galangal and ginger

1. Different functions. Ginger is spicy, and it can infiltrate its own spicy taste and special fragrance into dishes, making them delicious and fragrant. Because it has a light spicy taste, it only disperses the odor of food without mixing food into spicy taste. It is suitable for seasoning fishy vegetables and is also used in making cakes and candies, such as ginger cakes and ginger candies. Sand ginger also has a spicy taste, but it is lighter than ginger. In addition, sand ginger can not only remove fishy smells, but also enhance freshness and fragrance, which is a feature that ginger does not have. Sand ginger is especially suitable for cooking various meat ingredients, and can also be used to prepare brine or as an ingredient in "five spices".

2. Different effects. Ginger tastes spicy and is slightly warm in nature. It enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. It has the effects of sweating and relieving the exterior, warming the middle and stopping vomiting, warming the lungs and stopping coughing, and detoxification. It is mainly used to treat exogenous wind-cold, stomach cold vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fish and crab poisoning, etc. Sand ginger tastes spicy and is warm in nature. It enters the stomach meridian; it has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold, appetizing and digesting food, regulating qi and relieving pain; it is suitable for people with stomach cold, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, poor appetite, loss of appetite, or people who cannot digest food.