Description

ies: PUNGENT – HOT
Dosage: 3 – 12g.
Meridian: HEART, LUNG, SPLEEN, STOMACH

Indication:restores devastated yang, expel interior cold, Yang Qi deficient cold

Function: Wraming the middle jiao channels stop bleeding, like the fresh Jinger,it is use to expell the excess cold spleen & stomach,and to warms lungs and transforms phlegm

Other Used For: Orally, Sheng Jiang is used for motion sickness, morning sickness, colic, dyspepsia, flatulence, chemotherapy-induced nausea, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, loss of appetite, post-surgical nausea and vomiting, migraine headache, and for discontinuing selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug therapy. It is also used orally for anorexia, upper respiratory tract infections, cough, bronchitis, and as a galactagogue.
Topically, the fresh juice of ginger is used for treating thermal burns. The essential oil of ginger is used topically as an analgesic.
Also in Chinese Medicine, Sheng Jiang is used as a diaphoretic, diuretic, and stimulant. Sheng Jiang is also used in Chinese Medicine for treating stomachache, diarrhea, nausea, cholera, and bleeding. Fresh ginger is used orally for treating acute bacterial dysentery, baldness, malaria, orchitis, poisonous snake bites, rheumatism, and toothaches.