Ginger and cinnamon are more spicy with age

Ginger and cinnamon by nature, the older the hotter. This saying means that the more experience people have, the more experience they have and the more sophisticated they will be. It is also said that "the nature of ginger and cinnamon, the older the more spicy".

Enlightenment of health preservation

The older the ginger, the hotter, because the gingerol and gingerone content is the highest, the degree of hot than the immature ginger bud -- purple ginger and the ordinary sense of the new ginger. Ginger is also a medicine and food, and it was used very early. In the Analectus, there is a "do not withdraw ginger food"; in the Annals of the Historian, there is a "Qianqi Qianqi Jiang Ye"; Ginger has a long planting history in our country and its position is very important in the eyes of Chinese people. It has the function of eliminating fishy fishy crab, increasing delicious dishes, appetizing and increasing food, sweating and detoxification. In addition to being processed into shredded ginger, ginger peel, ginger, etc., as seasoning in dishes, it can also be processed into sugar ginger, sauce ginger, tea ginger, and can be used to extract essence raw materials. Wang Anshi said in his book Zi Shuo that "ginger can strengthen the protection against 100 evils". Li Shizhen said in his book Bencao Gangmu that ginger "can be used for vegetables, for composition, for fruit, and for medicine".

Cinnamon, is cinnamomum sylvestris cinnamomum tree dry bark and bark. Its taste is sweet and hot, and it is an important medicine for supplementing Yuan Yang, warming spleen and stomach, removing cold accumulation and promoting blood circulation in clinic. Rihua Zi Bencao (, The Book of Materia Medica) summarizes that it has several functions: "treating all tendencies, repairing five, seven and seven injuries, promoting nine orties, promoting joints, nourizing essence, brightening the eyes, warming waist and knee, breaking bubo fever and dysentery, removing blood stagnation, treating contracture of bone joints caused by wind obstruction, renewing muscles and bones, and regenerating muscles". Cinnamon was used in Jin GUI Shen qi pill in Heyao LAN Fang, You GUI pill in Jing Yue Quan Shu, Sanyi Decoction and GUI Lian pill in Puji Fang, GUI Xin SAN and GUI Fu pill in Sheng Hui Fang, GUI Fu Du zhong decoction in Huiye Yi Jing, GUI Xin decoction in Qian jin Yi Fang, GUI Gan Wan in Wan bing Hui Chun, Yang he decoction in Wai Ke Quan sheng Ji, etc. Pharmacological studies have confirmed that cinnamon has a variety of effects such as sedation, analgesia, antipyretic, anticonvulsant, antihypertensive, bactericidal, stomach-strengthening, and wind dispelling.