In western culture, ginger is more common food for seasoning . But in Chinese or Asian community, ginger plays a very critical role in cooking. It’s because of both its great culinary and medicinal value. It’s commonly used for seafood cooking especially steaming fish in order to get rid of the fishiness. Its medicinal value is even more important. Chinese use ginger to heal many diseases. Ginger root is the major one we always use, but ginger skin, ginger leaves and even dried ginger all have different medicinal uses.
Chinese consider cold or flu to be an attack of “coldness” inserting our skin and other organs and reach the inside our body. The property of ginger is “warm” (yeah, it’s spicy so you can tell), which helps open up the tiny pores of skin again to release the “coldness” that got us sick. So whoever starts to get a cold or flu, just make some hot tea with ginger boiled and drink it. It’s going to help a lot.
Very few people know that hair loss and alopecia can be healed by ginger as well. It’s also based on the theory of refreshing the pore on the skin. There are few ways of healing alopecia and hair loss with ginger:
1. Ginger skin (dried by baking) and Ginseng 30 grams each. Grind them into powder. Cut some ginger slices to smear the hair losing area with the powder. Do it every other day.
2. Grind a piece of fresh ginger, heat it up and smear it on the head 2-3 times. Make sure you don’t burn your skin though.
3. Probably the easiest way: Cut a few slices of ginger and smear some alcohol (like brandy) on your head. About 2-3 times a day. Or another way is put a few slices of aged ginger into a glass of alcohol for 2-3 days, then smear these ginger slices onto the area of alopecia or hair loss every day, normally 2-3 weeks hair will grow again.
Ginger is commonly available in most grocery stores and is an essential in my home!!!
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