Gan Jiang - Dried Ginger【Net Wt: 20.75g (0.83g x 25 Sachets)】

NPN 80081162

【Macroscopic Features】
Rhizome are irregular lumps, slightly flat, with finger-like branches, 3~7cm long, 1~2cm thick. Externally grayish-brown or pale yellowish-brown, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles and obvious ring nodes. Often remains remnants of scale leaves on the branches, which has scars of stem or bud at the apex. firm texture; fractured surface is yellowish-white or grayish-white, powdery or granular, with one obvious ring (inner cortex) and vein spots (vascular bundles) and scattered yellow oil spots. Distinctively aromatic odor; acrid and spicy taste.

【Properties】Acrid, hot.

【Channels (meridians) entered】spleen, stomach, kidney, heart and lung

【Functions】
Warms the center, disperses cold, returns yang, frees the vessels, dries dampness, disperses phlegm, warms the lung, eliminates phlegm. Apply to abdominal cold pain, vomiting, diarrhea, yang exhaustion and acute thoracic pain, dyspnea with cough due to cold fluid-retention, Rheumatic arthralgia due to cold hygrosis.