Is it okay to eat ginger at night?

　　When choosing food, follow the weather

　　There are yin and yang in a day. Starting from midnight, the yang energy in nature gradually rises. At noon, the yang energy is the strongest and the temperature is the highest. In the afternoon, the yang energy gradually weakens until the middle of the night, when the yang energy is at its weakest, the yin energy is at its highest. After midnight, the yang energy gradually recovers. The activity of life belongs to Yang, and the quiet expression of life belongs to Yin.

　　Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nature and man are in harmony. You should be more active during the day when Yang Qi is strong. Taking warming and tonic medicine can help Yang Qi grow. You can eat appropriate positive (warm) foods, such as ginger. When the Yin Qi gradually becomes stronger at night, the Yang Qi will converge and will no longer be as excited as during the day. If you consume too much warm food or supplements at this time, it will affect your sleep and the body's anabolism, which is not conducive to the body's self-repair after exertion, and is harmful to the body.

　　Therefore, among the tonic medicines, those that are warming (such as velvet antler, red ginseng, etc.) should be taken in the morning and during the day, so that you will be energetic during the day; those that nourish yin should be taken in the afternoon and evening, so that the body can absorb and utilize them more easily, which is beneficial to sleep. Therefore, in a general sense, it is beneficial to eat ginger during the day, but it is not suitable to eat ginger at night.

　　What should be added here is that you should not stay in bed when the yang energy is strong during the day, and you should be busy working outside; at night, when the yin energy is strong, it is easy to damage the yang energy, so humans have invented houses and quilts to avoid the yin energy. At this time, you should return home and guard your home. This is the law of health maintenance that is in line with the way of heaven. Everything is the same, and vice versa is detrimental.

　　Different physiques, treat them differently

　　As far as each individual is concerned, the constitution is different from cold to hot. For people with little deviation between cold and heat, just follow the above. However, some people with a large deviation between cold and heat should pay attention to: People with excessive heat often feel various signs of heat in the body. Such people should not eat ginger during the day or night, but should eat more cold foods;

　　Ginger can be divided into fresh ginger and dried ginger. Ginger is warm in nature, mainly warming the stomach, and has good anti-vomiting effects. It is known as the "holy medicine of the vomiting family" and has the effect of warming the lungs. Although ginger is warm but not drying, it will not cause sore throat and is very safe. Dried ginger is pungent and hot in nature, and returns to the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart, and lung meridians. Its heat can travel to the five internal organs, so it should not be used too much or abused. .

　　From cold and hot nature disease Judging from the treatment methods, traditional Chinese medicine believes that "cold should be treated with heat" and "heat should be treated with cold", that is, hot diseases should be treated with cold and cooling drugs, and cold diseases should be treated with warm and hot drugs. If the patient has a deficient-cold constitution and suffers from a disease of a deficient-cold nature, there is no need to worry about eating ginger at night. This will be helpful and harmless to the condition; on the contrary, if the patient has a hot constitution and suffers from a febrile disease, he cannot eat ginger even during the day, otherwise it will add fuel to the fire.

　　People suffering from cold diseases are aggravated by catching cold at night cough、stomach ache , vomiting, even if it is the middle of the night, you should take hot ginger soup urgently at this time, which can have the good effects of warming the lungs and stomach, dispersing cold and relieving cough, relieving vomiting and relieving pain. At this time, ginger is a good medicine, not arsenic; if the fever of a person suffering from a febrile disease worsens at noon, eating ginger at this time is a "killer" without blood, which is almost the same as arsenic.

　　To sum up, the so-called "eating ginger at night is equivalent to eating arsenic" is not entirely accurate. The use of food and medicine has corresponding indications. If used appropriately, it is a good medicine, but if used improperly, it is like arsenic. This is not only true for ginger, but also for aconite, rhubarb, ginseng, cinnamon twig...all are like this. In other words, it is necessary to "syndrome differentiation and analysis" and not to generalize. This is also the core essence of traditional Chinese medicine.