NATURE:
Warm, pungent, attributive to stomach, spleen, heart, lungs and kidneys.
CHARACTERISTICS:
The dried rhizomes are used as medicine and the fresh ones often used in
cooking for its digestive power and as a home remedy for colds and seafood
poisoning. It is a general drug, good preventive against heart disease and
arteriosclerosis.
THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS:
Dispel cold and warm lung and stomach energy; stimulate yang-energy;
anti-inflammatory and dissolves phlegm; control nausea and vomiting and motion
sickness. Used for pain and cold in abdomen; cold hands and feet; weak pulse;
cough with profuse phlegm; ulcers and high cholesterol.
