In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), some of the daily food can be considered as herbs as well, and vice versa.

One of a common food which is widely used in our daily cooking is ginger.

Ginger provide “yang” energy to the body.  In an Chinese old saying, “a male cannot afford not to take ginger within 100 days”, says a lot about the importance of ginger.

Ginger can be stirred fried with vegetable to create the nice aroma.

For somebody have flu or cold, it is good to have a bowl of porridge together with slices of ginger and pepper.  It that person perspire after that bowl of hot porridge with ginger, chances are he or she will recover sooner.

Another common remedy for cough or cold is to put two slices of ginger into coke. Heat up the coke for a while.  This serves a good drink for cough and cold.