Can you be jealous and soak ginger in dog days? The practice of soaking ginger in vinegar

Chinese medicine believes that dog days are a good time for health care. People not only actively accept dog days moxibustion, dog days paste and other Chinese medicine physical therapy, but also attach great importance to dog days diet. So today's almanac will introduce you to whether you can be jealous and soak ginger in dog days, as well as the practice of soaking ginger in vinegar.

Zhu, a philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty, said in Notes on the Analects of Confucius: "Ginger can enlighten the gods, eliminate evil and help them." Although there is suspicion of excessive deification, it also shows that ancient people realized that ginger is a very beneficial food. Jealousy and soaking ginger in dog days are good for human body, and nourishing liver and rising yang does not get angry.

Professional Chinese medicine practitioners point out that human yang deficiency actually belongs to liver yang deficiency, but if liver yang is directly supplemented, it will get angry and can't be supplemented at all. Ginger is the thing that nourishes yang, and vinegar is the thing that converges. The acidity of vinegar is convergent, and the liver will converge when it encounters acid. In this way, the power of ginger to promote yang will become peaceful and effective, and the yang will converge, so that the yang will not dissipate in the spleen and stomach, and it will not be wasted at all.

In other words, eating vinegar and soaking ginger in dog days can complement each other, which can not only supplement the medicine on the liver, but also nourish the yang and soothe the liver and regulate qi. Generally, eating for about two months will greatly improve people's yang, and the body will start to warm up, and the hands and feet will no longer be cold.

The dog days are coming, and the newly dug ginger is chubby, white and tender with a little soil, without the rough state of old ginger. This is a good material for making vinegar and ginger, which is only available at this time of year. To make vinegar soaked in ginger, we must choose the original balsamic vinegar, vinegar essence and blended vinegar, which are all ineffective by traditional Chinese medicine.

Health experts suggest that white vinegar is generally used when making vinegar and soaking ginger, so that the vinegar taste will not be too strong. Good brewing vinegar can also stimulate the fragrance of ginger, so that the prepared vinegar soaked ginger has a strong spicy taste, which makes people's index fingers move.

Brief introduction to the practice of soaking ginger in vinegar

1. Slice ginger first. It is best to use fresh ginger, which has a very good medicinal effect and can also enhance blood circulation and promote digestion. Ginger slices need not be cut too thick or peeled, but they must be cut evenly.

2. Put the cut ginger into the bottle, and then pour the rice vinegar into the bottle. Rice vinegar must not be soaked in ginger slices, so the ginger slices can't be exposed.

Then put this bottle of ginger slices soaked in rice vinegar in the freezer.

4. After a week of storage, you can eat 2-4 slices of fresh ginger soaked in vinegar every morning, which is better with porridge.

Note: the bottle used in the second step must be cleaned, and there must be no oil in the bottle to avoid ginger deterioration.