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| Zingiber officinale |
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Common Name:
Ginger
Latin Name:
Zingiber officinale Roscoe; Ginger; Jiang Sheng (fresh
rezone); Gan Jiang
(dried rhizome), Pao Jiang
(prepared rhizome), Jiang Pi (peel)
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Part Used:
Rhizome
Active constituents:
1%-4% essential oil, zingeberene, zingiberole,
sesquiterpene hydrocarbons including zingiberene,
arcurcumene; monoterpene aldehydes and alcohols.
Actions:
Carminative, antispasmodic,
anti-inflammatory, antiplatelet, diaphoretic; activator,
antimicrobial, antipyretic, *circulatory stimulant*,
cardiac
tonic, anticatarrhal,
antiemetic, expectorant, antitussive, antirheumatic,
warming digestive tonic; uterine regulator; mild
tranquilizer and
antidepressant.,
hepatoprotective, hypolipidemic, anticancer;
TCM actions:
1. Promotes sweating, dispel and clear wind/cold and
relieves pain,promotes expectoration,
2. Stimulation digestion warms the middle: treats Spleen
yang Deficiency
3. Stimulates immunity, antidotes poisons, moderate
other herbs,
4. Tonify and move Heart Qi, clear Wind, Cold, and Damp
in the channels,
5. Warm and move Uterus Qi and Blood
6. Assist regulation of Heart Spirit
Fresh ginger (Jiang Sheng)
specifically Actions:
1. Releases the exterior and
induces perspiration treats exterior wine-cold syndrome; early stages of
common cold
2. Warms the middle jiao and
alleviates vomiting
3. Warms the lung and stops coughing
4. Eliminates Toxins: Sheng
Jiang is commonly used to neutralize the toxicity of other herbs
Dried ginger (Gan Jiang)
specifically:
1. Warms the middle jiao; treat spleen and stomach cold
syndrome
2. Restores depleted Yang
3. Warms the Lung, dissolves Phlegm
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Warms the channel and stops bleeding
5. Dispels Cold and Dampness
Indications:
Prophylaxis of nausea and
vomiting with motion sickness, and cancer care, flatulent colic, digestive
weakness with cold sensations, adjunctive dirofliariasis treatment,
osteoarthritis, improving circulation in geriatric or nonambulant
animals, fever.; enhances beneficial actions of other herbs; moderate
potential side effects of other herbs; acute respiratory infections; acute
or chronic bronchitis with white phlegm and internal cold.
Cautions:
Rare report of contact
dermatitis; if gastric irritation; or any interior Heat pattern (dried ginger)
Contraindications:
Patients taking anticoagulant
drugs or have a blood coagulation disorder or gallstones; if spontaneous
sweating form Exterior Deficiency and Interior
Heat patterns, including
bleeding due to heat.; avoid high doses if pregnant or if any heat
condition; safe for lactation.
Herb Drug Interactions:
Large doses may enhance the
hypothromblinemic effects of anticoagulant therapy.; ginger may increase
the absorption of pharmaceutical drugs
Dosage (use animal doses
where available, otherwise human doses can be
included here but specify):
Small animal: dried herb:
15-200 mg/kg divided TID; *Infusion*:5 g per cup of water; ¼-1/2 cup per
10 kg divided TID; *Tncture*:1:2-1:3: 0.25-0.5
ml per 10 kg divided daily
and diluted (for travel, 25-50 mg powder per kg divided TID given at least 30
minutes before travel
Horse dried herb: 8-30 g;*
fresh*: 2 dr—1 oz.;* tincture*- 15-45 ml;
Cattle dried herb: 5-60 g; *Fresh
ginger*: 30-120 g;
Pig dried herb: 1-4 g; *fresh:* 1-2 oz.;*
tincture*:2-5 ml;
Sheep dried herb: 2-8 g, *fresh:* 1-2oz.*tincture *:3.5-14 ml
Native to Southeast Asia and
cultivated in tropical regions worldwide
Notes:
Energetics: *pungent,
sweet, hot and dry*.*
Organs and meridians: *Lung,
Spleen, Stomach, IN, Ht, Ut
Dioscorides: helps
digestion, soothes the stomach and abdomen, and antidote to poison**
Hildegard on ginger: Ginger
is very hot and easily diffuses itself. It is injurious as food for a
healthy or fat person. It makes him ignorant, languid, and lewd. But one,
whose body is dry and almost failing, should pulverize Ginger and consume
the powder in broth, on an empty stomach. One who suffers constipation in
his stomach or intestines should pulverize ginger and mix it with a
little sap of bugloss; make little cakes with this power and flour of the broad
bean and cook them. Eating these cakes will diminish the foulness of the
stomach and strengthen the person. One who has pimply eruptions should
place the above mentioned powder in a cloth
...should smear his skin
where the eruptions are, and he will be cured.
Cook: "Ginger root is one
of the most pleasant of all the stimulating aromatics...When chewed or
taken in powder; it increases the flow of saliva and warms the stomach.
The warm infusion promotes
gentle and warm perspiration, favors an outward arterial flow increases the
mucous flow of the lungs and bowels, relieves flatulence, internal
congestions, and light spasmodic tendencies. Its influence in sudden nervous
fatigue and prostration is excellent and it may be used in small quantities
with cathartics to obviate nausea and griping.
Felter and Lloyd: treats fevers,
acute colds, cold body surface, cold extremities, reduced appetite, atonic
dyspepsia, epigastric or abdominal pain, borborygmus, diarrhea,
dysentery, cholera with cold body; disordered menstruation
Clymer: on ginger, "It is
excellent for children's colics and cramps, and expelling gas. It is of much
value in the beginning of colds by quickly sending the blood to the
surface. Its prompt use will frequently avert pneumonia and other serious
developing maladies.
In onset of pneumonia or
pleurisy use
Tincture of Ginger 10-40
drops
Tincture of Pleurisy root (Asclepias
tuberosa) 10-20 drops
Tincture of Cayenne Pepper
(Capsicum Frutescens (2-3) drops
Dried ginger warms the middle
jiao to restore normal digestive function. It treats interior cold, the
non-volatile shogoals are formed during the drying process.
Fresh ginger is acrid and
warm, it warms the middle jiao to relieve nausea and vomiting, It treats
exterior wind/cold It is much higher is essential
oils which decompose on
drying.
Published research:
anti-inflammatory effect by inhibiting cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes
which belong to the prostaglandin and leukotriene
pathway; inhibits thromboxane
formation; decreases pepsin activity; inhibits gastric contraction
and serotonin-induced diarrhea. |
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