Ginger

Ginger is a perennian root herb. Also known as ginger. Cultivated as an annual vegetable, it is eaten with its root stem. Native to Southeast Asia, the cultivation area is mainly distributed in Asia's tropical to temper zone. Han Dynasty Sima moved to "History" in the "thousands of ginger, " this person and thousands of households waiting for the other" account. After Wei's "Zi Min's Art" called the kind of ginger Yi "June as a house cover", indicating that at that time known to adapt to the magpie characteristics of ginger cultivation.

plant is 60 to 80 cm high, the above-ground stem is a false stem, composed of leaves, from both sides of the underground root stem finger-like branching. Root-like stem meaty, yellow. The leaf is needle-shaped. Generally do not flower, in the tropics when the root stem thin hours to draw flowering stems, the top of the raw yellow flowers.fruit, seeds, endosperm. Sexual warmth, plant growth temperature of 22 to 25 degrees C, 5 degrees C below the growth pause. Suitable for all kinds of soil, but with slightly acidic fertile sand soil growth is best. In the tropics, ginger seedlings can be pulled from ginger fields at any time in spring, or ginger strains can be extracted for breeding, while subtropical and temperate regions are bred with root-like stems. Usually in 25 to 28 degrees C germination, waiting for the buds to grow 1 to 2 cm when seeding. Hi shade is not resistant to strong light, before and after the seedlings need to be shaded, autumn cool when removed. Ginger seedlings chase fertilizer, water and cultivate soil before sealing the line. Ginger is not rotten in the cultivation process, the nutrients contained in the early stage are used to form ginger seedlings; In the middle and late stage, we get nutrients from ginger seedlings to form old ginger. The root stem formed in that year is commonly known as tender ginger. Old ginger resistant to storage, spicy, commodity value and flavoring quality are better than tender ginger. The main disease is ginger rot, commonly known as ginger plague. It can be prevented and controlled by drainage, selection of disease-free ginger blocks, etc.

contain volatile oil and curcumin, i.e. turmeric ketone and turmeric phenol, with a unique spicy flavor, is an important condiment. Can be soy sauce stains, sugar stains, ginger dry and extract ginger oil. In Chinese medicine Ginger also has stomach-churning, chilling and detoxifying effects.