【Healthy Food Ingredients】 The Difference Between Dried Ginger and Fresh Ginger

The piece of ginger originally from Jiang is called mother ginger, and mother ginger is particularly pungent. When mother ginger is dried, it becomes dried ginger; the rhizomes produced in the same year when mother ginger is planted in the soil are fresh ginger; dried ginger is mother ginger that has been dried, so dried ginger is more pungent; fresh ginger is newly grown, so its dispersing effect is stronger.

Ginger: It has a pungent and warm nature, primarily used to disperse cold and relieve the exterior, stop vomiting, and transform phlegm. Its main function is to release exterior cold; for example, if you catch a cold from cold exposure, cutting two slices of ginger and drinking ginger soup to sweat it out will help, because ginger releases the exterior, and as sweat is expelled, the cold pathogen is also driven out. Ginger can also harmonize the middle and descend rebellious qi; for instance, people who vomit can drink some ginger juice to stop vomiting.

Dried Ginger: It has a strong spicy and hot flavor, mainly warming the stomach and dispersing cold, restoring yang and unblocking the meridians. The exterior-releasing property of dried ginger is weak; its main effects are warming the middle, restoring yang and unblocking the meridians, warming the middle to disperse cold, and warming the lungs to transform phlegm. It is a good choice for treating excessive consumption of cold drinks, cold pathogens directly entering the body, or exposure to heavy rain causing water dripping, where cold pathogens enter from below. In such cases, appropriately taking some dried ginger is very beneficial.