Ginger for Weight Loss and other health benefits
Ginger - Zingiber officinale
Origin: Brazil
Used part: Root Powder
Description:
Ginger not only adds delicious flavor to food — it’s also full of nutrients. People have been using the root for cooking and healing for thousands of years.
Ancient writings from Rome, Greece, China, and Arab countries all describe ginger’s uses as a medicine. It was especially popular in Asian medicine as a treatment for stomach issues, including nausea and diarrhea. Other traditional medical uses for ginger include treating muscle and joint pain, cold and flu symptoms, stomach pain, menstrual cramps, and skin burns.
Today, people still consider ginger a natural way to soothe an upset stomach, and there’s research to back up its health benefits. Ginger is also used in tons of modern recipes.
Health benefits:
Ginger is already a well-known root in alternative medicine as a great natural ingredient to combat various diseases. The latest finding is that it can help treat ovarian and prostate cancer.
The root acts as an excellent anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, digestive and aphrodisiac. Being a great natural way to treat problems such as muscle pain, it helps to relieve rheumatic pain, fights frigidity, relieves nausea and dizziness and helps treat feelings of depression. In addition, ginger also helps reduce headaches, throat and lung congestion, indigestion, menstrual cramps, tired muscles or cramps and treats poor circulation.
Good Herbal Remedy:
- Nausea and vomiting caused by HIV/AIDS treatment
- Painful menstrual periods
- Morning sickness
- Osteoarthritis
- Nausea and vomiting following surgery
- Dizziness (vertigo)
- Muscle pain caused by exercise
- Preventing motion sickness and seasickness
- Sudden respiratory system failure
- Liver injury from drugs used for tuberculosis
- Nausea and vomiting due to cancer therapy
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Diabetes
- Upset stomach (dyspepsia)
- Alcohol hangover
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Insect bites
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Joint pain
- Speeding up labor
- Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia)
- Migraine headache
- Recovery after surgery
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Trouble swallowing
- Weight loss
- Anorexia
- Bacterial infection of the intestine
- Baldness
- Bleeding
- Colds
- Discontinuing use of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
- Flu
- Loss of appetite
- Toothaches
Directions:
Preparing ginger tea is very easy. Simply bring the water to the oven until it boils, then add the ginger, cover the pan and turn off the fire. Let it sit for 15 minutes, strain it and drink it. The ideal is to consume it warm and without adding sugar.
Contraindications:
Ginger is contraindicated for patients who use anticoagulant drugs, such as warfarin, because it can thin the blood, making it easier to bleed. In addition, people with high blood pressure and using medication to control the pressure should only consume ginger according to medical advice, as it can interfere with the effect of the medicine, uncontrolled pressure.
During pregnancy, the maximum dose of ginger should be 1g per kg of body weight, so the root can be used as a shave to relieve motion sickness during pregnancy.