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Ginger

Tubercle article that has a hand. Its leaves are long like corn when only spring from the ground and wrapped in its sheath the stem.

The flowers are very showy and are arranged in conical spikes and supported by slated scales.

Ginger contains between basic compounds resin on resin, volatile oil, extractive, gum, starch and nitrogenous matter.

Ginger is native to India and China and has been one of the most valued spices such as medicine, from antiquity to today. In that sense, the Romans brought the ginger from the provinces to Britain, along with tea and other spices. While the Arabs used ginger as a good aphrodisiac and pectoral.

At present, it is cultivated in tropical locations, mainly India, China, Cuba and Nigeria, as a seasoning and medicinal plant. The best quality ginger comes from Jamaica.


Healing Properties

  • Ginger is an appetizer, stimulant and tonic. Therefore, support for difficult digestion, fights inappetence, controls diarrhea and facilitates the expulsion of intestinal gas.
  • It also stimulates circulation and is also used to eliminate various types of pain including cramping and nausea.
  • Antirheumatic and is widely used in Chinese medicine (where it is considered extremely yin to remove and expand the blocked energy) because their properties have been observed rid of kidney stones or gall bladder, ovarian cysts, etc..
  • Applied as compresses on the chest, removes mucus and clears the lungs and bronchi.



Folk Remedies with Ginger

  1. Folk remedy # 1: To activate the service in cases of asthenia, hypotension, circulatory disorders and lack of energy, should make ginger compresses a cotton bag and fill it with 5-6 tablespoons grated fresh ginger. Then you should put the Fuego2 liters of water and boil, turn off heat and throw the bag (the ginger must never boil, it would lose its properties), covering the pot well. Allow to infuse for 5 minutes. Squeeze the bag well to come out the juice.
  2. If you notice that the pad has lost its heat, repeat as many times as necessary to develop high heat and flushing the area you want to heal. The whole process will take 15 minutes or less.
  3. Folk remedy # 2: In cases of neuralgic pain or menstrual cramps. result should be reduced to powder and is applied as a poultice mixed with flax flour or cornmeal.
  4. Folk remedy # 3: For diseases of the chest, is prepared by mixing equal parts of ginger root powder black pepper powder and enough egg white until a soft dough, which is then extended on a cloth, tissue or cotton and then applied to the chest.
  5. Folk remedy # 4: If you suffer from digestion problems, you can take ginger tea can consume ose from 250 to 1000 milligrams of ginger daily in the form of soups, purees, milk, vegetables and sweets.


Precautions

Ginger tends to raise body temperature slightly so it may aggravate the discomfort of women suffering from hot flashes due to menopause and should not be used by people who are experiencing a high fever. During pregnancy should be used sparingly


Recipes for healthy eating with ginger

Pinzimonio tofu with ginger:

In this recipe, healthy food should be boiled 300 g of tofu for 5 minutes. He should be cut into cubes about an inch behind. With the help of a gauze, it should extract the juice of 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger. Then you must cut very thin 1 onion, mix it with ginger juice, 1 tablespoon tamari, 1 level teaspoon of thyme and 2 tablespoons of water decoction of tofu.

Ginger Cookies:

In preparing these cookies is preheat the oven to 200 °. Then mixed 75 g of melted butter with 50 grams of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon of ginger. He moves away and gets a very firm peaks whites 4 eggs and is added to the dough before delicately.

With a teaspoon, it should bring down some dumplings on the tray of buttered oven and leave a space between them. They were crushed lightly with your finger and finally is cooked for 3-5 minutes until golden. Cool the cookies. Mount 200 ml of cream and added 2 tablespoons of ginger. Finally biscuits dipped in cream and serve ..


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