Sheng Jiang
| Sheng Jiang in TCM:Explore the properties of Sheng Jiang according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: fresh ginger
Pharmacuetical Name: Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens
Properties: acrid, slightly warm
Temperature: warm
Channels: LU, ST, SP
Flavors: pungent
Special Properties:
disperses cold, eliminates toxins, disperses wind
Alternate Forms:
- Sheng Jiang Pi (skin of ginger root)
(acrid, cool): promotes urination, reduces edema to treat urinary
dysfunction and edema.
Actions / Indications:
- Expel exterior wind cold (induce sweat to expel exterior
wind-cold; in combination with da zao to harmonize ying and wei qi for
wind-cold deficient type; very mild function for mild conditions or
as supplemental herb)
- Warms middle jiao; Stops vomiting (for nausea and
vomit due to cold in Stomach; in combination to harmonize middle jiao
or to treat morning sickness; used to prevent seafood poisoning)
- Reduces Toxicity of other herbs (Resolves toxicity:
Ban Xia and Tian Nan Xing should be processed with sheng jiang to reduce
unwanted side effects)
- Warms LU; Disperses cold; stops cough (very mild
function, needs to be in combination; cough due to wind-cold or chronic
cough with phlegm)
Special Notes:
- Combine Sheng Jiang with Da Zao to harmonize
ying and wei - harmonize middle jiao
- 5 herbs often combined together to treat edema are Sheng Jiang Pi,
Da Fu Pi, Sang
Bai Pi, Fu Ling, and Chen
Pi (see formula: Wu Pi Yin)
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