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Fresh Ginger

Name

Fresh Ginger

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Zingiberis Rhizoma Recens

Chinese Name

生姜

Category

Roots and rhizomes

Fresh GingerMore Info

Production Regions

Primarily produced all around China.

Macroscopic Features

Irregular lumps, slightly flat, flesh is fat and thick. Externally yellowish-brown or grayish-brown, brittle texture, easily broken, fractured surface is yellow, inner skin has obvious circular pattern, distinctively aromatic odor, acrid and spicy taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material is large, fat and thick, fresh.

Properties

Acrid, slightly warm

Functions

Spreads sweating, resolves exterior, warms the middle, stops vomiting, warms lung, stops cough, resolves fish and crab toxin, resolves medicinal toxin.

Processed Form

Fresh sheng jiang powder: Clean sheng jiang, pound into pieces, press and collect the juicy, store for a while, collect the precipitate powder, sun-dry or dry in low temperature. Pao jiang: Fry sheng jiang with sands until swollen, externally color becomes brown. Light and bubble-like texture, fractured surface is thin granular, center is brownish-yellow, edge is brownish-black. Slightly acrid, spicy taste. Warms the middle, disperses cold, warms channel, stops bleeding. Apply to deficiency cold of spleen and stomach, abdominal pain with vomit and diarrhea, haematemesis and epistaxis, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, loss of blood due to yang deficiency. Wei jiang: Clean sheng jiang, wrap up with 6-7 layer of paper, soak in water, put into cooked ashes until the paper turned burnt-yellow, and remove the paper.

Origin

The fresh rhizome of Zingiber officinale (Willd.) Rosc.(Zingiberaceae).

Fresh GingerHerbs in the formula

Tangerine Peel and Bamboo Shavings Decoction

Action：Directs counterflow downward, relieves hiccup, boosts qi, and clears heat.

Indication：Ju Pi Zhu Ru Tang is indicated for hiccups due to stomach deficiency with heat. The symptoms are hiccups, belching, restlessness, shortness of breath, and thirst. The tongue is red and tender. The pulse is weak and rapid.

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Gallbladder-Warming Decoction

Action：Rectifies qi and dissolves phlegm, harmonizes the stomach and promotes gallbladder secretion.

Indication：Wen Dan Tang is designed for patterns of gallbladder constraint with phlegm stirring up. This patterns manifest timidity and patients may be easily frightened. Other symptoms include vexation, insomnia or dreaminess, nausea, vomiting and hiccup, vertigo, epilepsy. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Channel-Warming Decoction

Action：Warms the channels and dissipates cold, dispels stasis and nourishes blood.

Indication：Wen Jing Tang is indicated for deficiency-cold of the chong and ren mai, obstructive blood stasis marked by menstrual spotting or purple menses with blood clots. There may be irregular menstruation such as advanced, delayed, or prolonged periods, or having a period twice a month. There may also be inhibited menses, fever at night, vexatious heat in the palms, dry lips and mouth, distention and fullness of the lower abdomen, a dark red tongue, and a thready, choppy pulse. Infertility due to deficient cold of the uterus may also manifest.

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Inula and Hematite Decoction

Action：Directs counterflow downward, dissolves phlegm, boosts qi, and harmonizes the stomach.

Indication：Xuan Fu Dai Zhe Tang is indicated for weak stomach qi with internal obstruction of phlegm-turbidity. The symptoms are pi below the heart, belching, or vomiting with saliva. The tongue is pale with a white, glossy coating. The pulse is wiry and weak.

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True Warrior Decoction

Action：Warms yang and promotes urination.

Indication：Zhen Wu Tang is indicated for edema due to yang deficiency. The symptoms are fear of cold, cold limbs, urination disturbance, palpitations under the heart, dizziness, muscular twitching, unsteady standing, pain and heaviness of four limbs, edema especially below the waist, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, asthma, vomiting and nausea. The tongue is pale and enlarged with teeth-marks with white and glossy coating, and the pulse is deep and thready.

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Cinnamon Twig Decoction

Action：Releases the flesh and the exterior, harmonizes ying and wei levels.

Indication：Gui Zhi Tang is indicated for externally contracted wind-cold affecting those with an exterior deficiency constitution. The symptoms are aversion to wind, fever, perspiration, headache, congested and noisy nose, and dry retching. The tongue has a white coating, there is no thirst, and the pulse is either superficial and moderate or superficial and weak.

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Honey-Fried Licorice Decoction

Action：Boosts qi, enriches yin, unblocks yang, and restores the pulse.

Indication：1. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for patterns of yin-blood and yang-qi deficiency with malnutrition of the heart vessel. The symptoms are intermittent or knotted pulse, palpitations, weakness, emaciation, weak breathing, etc. The tongue is peeled with a scanty or dry and thin coating.

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Apricot Kernel and Perilla Powder

Action：Relieves cool-dryness by light diffusion, regulates lung function, and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Xing Su San is indicated for patterns of externally-contracted cool-dryness. The symptoms are aversion to cold, mild headache, coughing with scanty sputum, stuffy nose, and a dry throat. The tongue coating is white, and the pulse is wiry.

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Evodia Decoction

Action：Warms the center and supplements deficiency, directs counterflow downward and arrests vomiting.

Indication：Wu Zhu Yu Tang is indicated for patterns of liver and stomach deficiency-cold with the upward reversal of turbid yin. The pattern is characterized by nausea after meals, acid regurgitation, belching, drooling of cold frothy saliva, fullness in the chest, stomach pain, vertex headache, aversion to cold, cold limbs with reversal counterflow cold of the four limbs, diarrhea, vexation and agitation, restlessness, a pale white tongue body and a white, slippery tongue coating, and a deep, wiry or slow pulse.

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Bupleurum Correction Beverage

Action：Releases the exterior and disperses cold.

Indication：Zheng Chai Hu Yin is indicated for a mild pattern of externally contracted wind-cold. The symptoms are mild aversion to wind-cold, fever, absence of sweating, headache, general body pain, a thin and white tongue coating and a superficial pulse.

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Four Spirits Pill

Action：Warms the spleen and kidney, consolidates the intestines and arrests diarrhea.

Indication：Si Shen Wan is used to treat kidney diarrhea due to yang deficiency of the spleen and kidney. Chief symptoms include fifth-watch (diarrhea at dawn) diarrhea, reluctance to eat or drink, poor digestion and absorption, chronic unremitting diarrhea, abdominal pain, lumbar pain, cold limbs, mental fatigue, and lack of strength. Usually, the tongue is pale with a white and thin coating. The pulse is deep, slow and weak.

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Pinellia and Officinal Magnolia Bark Decoction

Action：Moves qi and dissipates masses, directs counterflow downward and dissolves phlegm.

Indication：Ban Xia Hou Po Tang is indicated for plum-stone qi (globus hystericus). The symptoms are fullness and tightness in the chest and diaphragm, coughing, and vomiting. The tongue coating is white and moist or white and glossy. The pulse is wiry and slow or wiry and slippery.

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Pinellia, Atractylodes Macrocephala and Gastrodia Decoction

Action：Dries dampness and dissolves phlegm, calms the liver and extinguishes wind.

Indication：Ban Xia Bai Zhu Tian Ma Tang is designed to treat the pattern of wind-phlegm harassing the upper body. Symptoms include dizziness, headache, pi and oppression in the chest and diaphragm, nausea, and vomiting. The tongue coating is greasy and white. The pulse is wiry and slippery.

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Five-Peel Powder

Action：Promotes urination and relieves edema, rectifies qi and fortifies the spleen.

Indication：Wu Pi San is indicated for skin edema resulting from excessive dampness and spleen deficiency causing qi stagnation and water diffusion. The symptoms are general edema, heavy sensation of the body and limbs, fullness and distention of chest and abdomen, dyspnea, dysuria, and gestational edema. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is deep and slow.

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Minor Bupleurum Decoction

Action：Harmonizes the shaoyang.

Indication：1. Cold damage entering the shaoyang. The symptoms are alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, no desire to eat or drink, vexation and frequent vomiting, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, dizzy vision, a thin white tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

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Minor Center-Fortifying Decoction

Action：Warms the center, supplements deficiency, harmonizes the interior, and relaxes spasms.

Indication：Deficiency-cold of the middle jiao, disharmony of the liver and spleen, characterized by abdominal spasms and pain which can be lessened by warmth and pressure, fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath, palpitations, dysphoria, pale complexion, or sore limbs, vexing heat in the palms, dry throat, a pale tongue with white coating, and a thready, wiry pulse.

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Minor Pinellia Decoction

Action：Dissolves phlegm, dissipates rheum, harmonizes the stomach, and directs counterflow downward.

Indication：Xiao Ban Xia Tang is indicated for vomiting due to phlegm-rheum. The symptoms are vomiting phlegm-drool, lack of thirst, retching, hiccup, indigestion, and normal urination. The coating is white and glossy.

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Major Bupleurum Decoction

Action：Harmonizes shaoyang and drains interior heat bind.

Indication：This formula treats a combined shaoyang-yangming pattern characterized by alternating chills and fever, fullness and discomfort in the chest and rib-side, frequent vomiting, constant vexation, epigastric pi and hardness or epigastric fullness and pain, constipation or diarrhea with fever, a yellow tongue coating, and a powerful wiry, rapid pulse.

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