Gan Jiang
| Gan Jiang in TCM:Explore the properties of Gan Jiang according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: dried ginger
Pharmacuetical Name: Rhizoma Zingiberis
Properties: acrid, hot
Temperature: hot
Channels: LU, ST, SP, HT
Flavors: pungent
Tonifies: yang
Special Properties:
disperses cold, resolves phlegm
Actions / Indications:
- Warms middle jiao; expels cold (epigastric and abdominal
pain, vomiting, diarrhea due to excess external cold or cold due to
SP yang deficiency)
- Restores devastated yang; expels cold (yang collapse
with very weak pulse and cold limbs)
- Warms Lung; transforms phlegm (Lung cold with cough,
asthma, thin watery white sputum)
Special Notes:
- "Without gan jiang, Fu Zi is not hot" (refers
to mutual accentuation). "Gan Jiang stays and Fu Zi walks".
- Compare Gan Jiang with Sheng Jiang,
and Pao Jiang have similar yet different
functions.
- Gan Jiang warms SP and LU while Fu Zi warms HT yang, SP yang, and KD yang.
Contraindications:
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: yin deficiency with heat signs)
- (cc: reckless movement of hot blood)
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