Fresh Ginger 生姜
Shēng Jiāng · Zingiber officinale (Rhizoma Recens)
Release Exterior 解表- Nature
- Warm 温
- Flavour
- Pungent 辛
- Channels
- Lung, Spleen, Stomach 肺·脾·胃
- Part used
- Fresh rhizome
- Species
- Zingiber officinale Rosc.
- Origin
- Grown across China (Shandong, Sichuan)
Traditional actions
Releases the exterior and disperses cold, warms the middle and stops vomiting, warms the Lung to stop cough, reduces toxicity of other herbs.
Traditionally used for
Early wind-cold colds, nausea/vomiting, cold-type cough, seafood/crab upset.