Traditional Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a product that helps yang, so it has been said since ancient times that "a man cannot live without ginger for a hundred days". Modern clinical pharmacology research has found that ginger has the functions of accelerating human metabolism, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, simultaneously stimulating multiple systems in the body, and can also regulate the function of the male prostate, treat prostate diseases and sexual dysfunction in middle-aged and elderly men. Therefore, ginger is often used for male health care.
Fresh ginger: enhances appetite and delays aging
Middle aged and elderly men often experience physical weakness due to stomach cold and loss of appetite. They can often take fresh ginger slices to stimulate gastric juice secretion and promote digestion. Fresh ginger is not as dry as dry ginger in terms of strong dryness, moisturizing without damaging the yin. Cut four or five thin slices of fresh ginger every day, drink a cup of warm water in the morning, and then slowly chew the ginger slices in your mouth, allowing the odor of ginger to spread to the intestines and outside of your nostrils.
Dried ginger: treating kidney deficiency and impotence
Take 1 male carp (approximately 500 grams), 10 grams of dried ginger and 10 grams of goji berries each. Take the fish roe from the carp belly (the white jelly like substance in the male fish belly, which is the male fish seminal vesicle gland), add dried ginger and goji berries and fry together. Boil, add seasoning wine, salt, and monosodium glutamate to taste. Take on an empty stomach once every other day for 5 consecutive days.
Dry ginger can warm the body and dissipate cold, invigorate the stomach and blood circulation, and wolfberry can nourish the liver and kidney, and improve the essence and eyesight. This Tonic Diet can treat impotence, cold phobia, cold limbs, lumbago, soreness and fatigue of the waist and knees caused by kidney yang deficiency.
However, ginger is hot and warm, and can only be used in cold conditions, and a large dosage may break blood and damage yin. If there are symptoms of yin deficiency and excessive fire such as sore throat, dry throat, and dry stool, ginger is not suitable for use.