姜黄为较常用药,乃姜科植物姜黄Curcum-alonga L.或郁金C.aromatica Salisb、温郁金C.wenyujinchenet Ling 的干燥根茎。温郁金根茎纵切片又称片姜黄。本品药性属寒属热,历代本草记载不一,或言其寒,或言其温,而1982年版《中药志》、1983年版高等医学院校统编教材《中药学》、1985年版《药典》及近年来的其他中药书籍多认定姜黄性“温”,然溯源姜黄及郁金的本草文献,可证姜黄当为“苦寒”之品。 Turmeric is a more commonly used herb, and it is a dried rhizome of Curcuma aurantia L. or C. aromatica Salisb, and C. wenyujinchenet Ling. The vertical section of the root of turmeric is also called turmeric. The medicinal properties of this product belong to the cold and is a fever. The records of the past are not the same as the ones written in the past, or the cold or the warm, but the 1982 version of the “Chinese medicine”, the 1983 edition of higher medical college textbooks “Chinese medicine”, 1985 version of the “Pharmacopoeia” In recent years, many other traditional Chinese medicine books identified turmeric as “warm,” but traceable sources of turmeric and turmeric have proved that Turmeric is a “bitter” product.