Thursday, January 24, 2013

Benefits of Ginger as a Natural Health Therapy


Ginger commonly used as a spice seasoning complement. However ginger is also very trend among the population to be used as a beverage body warmers. Since the spicy taste of ginger is very effective to make the body so warm. Besides the typical spicy flavor makes a delicious taste sensation on the tongue. Usually ginger consumed as cold relievers as well as a potent herbal remedy to address some health nuisance disease. Thus the trend of ginger in the age group of the population, causing some producers of food and beverage products to make a product that taste like ginger well.

The scientific name of ginger is  Zingiber officinale, is a rhizome plant that is very commonly used as a spice and medicinal materials. Rhizomes form a bulging fingers segments being. spicy taste of ginger because of compounds called ketones zingeron. Ginger countless tribes Zingiberaceae (meet-ings). The scientific name of William Roxburgh, ginger obtained from the greek word zingiberi, from Sanskrit Idioms, singaberi.

Ginger is thought to come from india. But some believe that ginger came from southern china people's republic. Of India, taken as ginger spice trade to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, to the east being. So in the days of colonialism, ginger can give a sense of warm and spicy food soon become a popular commodity in Europe.

Because ginger can only survive in a tropical place, planting can be done only at the equator are like Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Africa. Currently Ecuador and Brazil is also the world's largest supplier of ginger.

Morphological features of the stem ginger is ginger pseudo-stem height of 30 to 100 cm. Its roots form rhizomes with root flesh is yellow to reddish with a strong scent. Pinnate leaves with a length of 15 to 23 mm and a length of 8 to 15 mm. Petiole pubescent.

Ginger flower growing out of the ground in ovoid form with a length of 3, 5 to 5 cm and a width of 1, 5 to 1, 75 cm. Scaly peduncle number 5 to 7 pieces. yellowish green flowers. Lip flowers and purple anthers. Pistil stalk numbered two.

Ginger, especially those harvested at a young age still do not last long in storage. Therefore required in order to continue processing immediately suitable for consumption. To obtain a good quality ginger, ginger is harvested at a young age is not too old nor too. Fresh ginger not only marketed in the form of processed ginger, also marketed in the form of fresh ginger, that after harvest, ginger cleaned and sold to the market.

Dr. jaishree Bhattacharjee, ayurvedic consultant in satvikshop. com, said that ginger has many benefits that can be developed more real good. Ginger is a very popular herb used in healing due to have many benefits like digestion problems or respiratory organs.

According to him, ginger can relieve bloating due stimultan have character and expectorant. Ginger also has beneficial minerals like calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, and vitamins

If you have a problem of motion sickness, ginger can also be used as an alternative medicine. Explained, ginger can regulate digestive enzymes as well as increase the assimilation of nutrients to the body tissue which can reduce the effects of nausea.

Besides, ginger also acts as therapy while reducing joint pain and inflammation in patients with arthritis patients because of the character as well as anti-inflammatory analgesics. Dried ginger has analgesic and anti-inflammatory character used as therapy joint pain and inflammation of arthritis.

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