Fresh Ginger (rhizome)

Category

Warm, Acrid Surface Releasing

English

Fresh Ginger Rhizome

Pharmaceutical

Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens

Taste

Spicy

Temperature

Slightly warm

Meridians

Lungs, Spleen, Stomach

Functions

1. Release the exterior and disperse wind-cold
   
2. Warms the middle and stops vomiting
3. Warms the Lungs and stops coughing
4. Resolves toxicity

Contraindications:

• Spontaneous sweating from exterior-deficiency
• Excess or deficient heat
• No high dosages in people with hypertension.
• Not to be taken with antiplatelet, anticoagulant, and sedatives.

Dosage

3-9g

• Antiplatelet and anticoagulants: increases potential for bleeding
• Sedatives: increases sedation effect