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Is there a difference between galangal and ginger?
Alpinia officinarum and ginger belong to Zingiberaceae, but their functions in cooking and dietotherapy are quite different.

1, different functions-

Ginger is spicy. It can penetrate its own spicy and special flavor into dishes, making them delicious and fragrant. Because of its clear and spicy taste, it only disperses the peculiar smell of food without mixing the spicy taste. It is suitable as a flavoring agent for meat and poultry dishes, and also used to make cakes and sweets, such as gingerbread and ginger candy.

Jiang Ye is spicy, but lighter than ginger, and it can not only remove the fishy smell, but also enhance the fresh fragrance, which is a characteristic that ginger does not have. Ginger is especially suitable for cooking all kinds of meat ingredients, and can also be used to prepare marinade or as an ingredient of "five spices".

2, the effect is different-

Ginger is pungent, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It has the effects of sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung, stopping vomiting, warming lung, relieving cough and detoxicating, and is mainly used for treating exogenous wind-cold, stomach-cold vomiting, wind-cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and Chinese fish and crab poison.

Jiang Sha Xin Wen, entering the stomach meridian; Has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, regulating qi and relieving pain; Suitable for people with stomach cold, heartburn, diarrhea, no fragrance, no appetite, or stop eating.