The common usage of ginger is spice for dish. There are several ways of cooking method in China. And the ginger is an important spice for dish. But this is just a role for ginger, what about other functions of ginger?

In Chinese herbal medicine, Sheng-jiang, or fresh ginger, is considered to have very different properties than Gan-jiang, or dried ginger. Gan-jiang is useful for “cold” pain of the stomach and abdomen, diarrhea due to “cold” in the abdomen, cough, and rheumatism, among other uses.

Additionally, fresh ginger is considered in Chinese herbal medicine to have a moderating or detoxifying effect on other more harsh herbs.

Ginger has long been reputed as an antiemetic. The lack of consistency found in some studies of ginger is also found with anti-nausea drugs, arising in part from difficulties measuring subjective symptoms like nausea.

A recent study published in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine concluded that ginger protects the gastric mucosa from stress-induced mucosal lesions and inhibits gastric acid secretion, due in part to inhibiting growth of h. pylori as well as offering anti-oxidant protection against gastric damage. This seems to clearly confirm the popular use of ginger in Ayurvedic, eastern, and folk medicine traditions for its medicinal properties.

garlic

Garlic as a kind of spice is widely used in daily food.And the garlic is good for our health in some aspects.Garlic is a powerhouse super food that can wipe out unwanted visitors in the body and prevent disease.It is generally regarded as more beneficial when it is fresh out of the bulb.

Research shows that the antioxidant allicin is anti cancerous. When the garlic is eaten, a chemical reaction occurs which can kill tumors. Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed 18 studies looking at garlic eaters and revealed that high people who ate a high amount of raw or cooked garlic had a decreased risk of colorectal cancer of 10% to nearly 50%.

Garlic contains allicin, which increases blood levels of two powerful antioxidant enzymes.Garlic prevents free radical damage to protect against aging and disease. It fights against the oxidative damage from the environment and cigarette smoke.

A recent study found that the daily intake of garlic reduced the risk of volunteers catching a cold by half. The researchers also discovered that even when those who did catch the cold got over it quicker than the subjects who did not take garlic.

China is the world’s top producer at 66% of world production of garlic. It is an annual crop that is planted in the fall and is harvested next May/June.Chinese garlic has a shelf life up to nine months, hot taste and good price. Just about facts, garlic is a living organism, it cannot easily be shipped around the world; temperatures, humidity and airflow affects its storage life.

The rise was the result of increased acreage for wheat and rapeseed, said the bureau.

Pork output in the first half of the year grew 8.1 percent to 23.63 million tonnes, said the bureau. Beijing’s subsidy programme for breeding sows have encouraged farmers to increase the numbers of the livestock.

At the end of 2006, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, 70.8 percent of the people employed in rural areas were engaged in some type of agriculture, such as farming, forestry and livestock breeding. That was nearly 5 percentage points down from the end of 1996, the NBS said.

The number of migrant rural workers stood at 130 million, nearly 60 million more than a decade earlier, the NBS said, citing China’s second national agriculture census.

There were 530 million people in the labor force in rural regions and about 480 million, 90 percent, were working as of the end of 2006, according to the census results.

The findings, from the second national agriculture census in 2006, reflected conditions among 226 million rural households nationwide.

China’s rural survey is the largest of its kind in the world. It collects data on agricultural production, the labor force and employment, living conditions and the environment of rural communities.