An amazing and useful product has appeared on store shelves for a very long time – ginger, or rather its root. Many in a row used it for food, and someone did not even hear about it.
Ginger root is very beneficial for health. Its decrease in colds, flu and other diseases. Use it in the preparation of various dishes, use in the production of decorative cosmetics. But ginger root can also reveal great harm to health.
This plant can be grown at home. It is easy to propagate with the input. Conditions are required only for normal growth and development, because the birthplace of this plant is India, South Asia. The root is similar in shape to the Jerusalem artichoke tuber, only slightly flattened. It is beige or brown in color. Before use, it is cleaned from the upper part of the skin.
Ginger can be used both fresh and dried. In the store you can find pickled ginger or in sugar. But fresh roots are considered the most useful. They are used in meat, fish dishes, when brewing tea.
The nutritional value
Ginger root contains a huge amount of nutrients. The composition includes:
- substance that helps to reduce weight – gingerol;
- essential oil;
- terpenes are substances that are used in the manufacture of certain drugs;
- vitamins B, E, K, C;
- manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, zinc;
- citral.
Benefits of ginger
This plant uses only the roots. For medicinal purposes, it is better to use fresh, but dried roots are better suited for adding to dishes. Its useful properties are as follows:
- Helps to cope with nausea, so it can be used for toxicosis of pregnant women and motion sickness in transport. For this purpose, you just need to chew a small piece of the root or make tea from it.
- Improves metabolic processes in the body, normalizes digestion.
- Helps relieve colic in the intestines, eliminates excess gas formation.
- Helps relieve minor constipation.
- Helps strengthen gums and teeth. To do this, rinse the mouth with a tincture of the root or apply ginger gruel to the gums.
- It has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the heart, normalizes blood pressure.
- Good for intestinal parasites.
- Strengthens and tones the body.
- Improves memory.
- Combats acne and other breakouts on the surface of the skin.
- Helps to cope with depression and mental disorders.
Ginger root is equally useful for both women and men. But due to the different characteristics of the organism of each sex, its healing effects can be distinguished separately. For example, ginger helps to cope with menstrual pain, helps cure infertility, relieves nausea. Regular intake of this plant has a good effect on the health of all reproductive organs.
Ginger root is most often used to combat excess weight. When it is used, metabolism improves, harmful substances accumulated in the body are removed, fat begins to be actively burned.
It is also useful for men to use ginger, because it enhances sexual desire, stops the development of prostatitis, and in some cases can cure infertility.
Ginger is a powerful antioxidant. It improves immunity, fights infectious diseases, compensates for the lack of vitamins, activates the nervous system.
Contraindications
Do not use the root for people suffering from hypertension. It can be dangerous to life and health. After all, ginger thins the blood, and in combination with the hypotensive property, it can dramatically reduce blood pressure.
Refuse to use the plant is necessary for people with a history of stroke or heart attack, with ischemia and other heart diseases.
You can not use the root for people with gastritis, gastric ulcer, colitis, diverticulitis, because it irritates the mucous membranes. Contraindications are cirrhosis and hepatitis of the liver.
It is strictly forbidden to use for people with diabetes if they use antidiabetic drugs.
Ginger root is a useful product, but before using it, you should consult a specialist so as not to harm yourself.