Ginger had always been used as medicines, or herbs and various other purposes. Ginger stimulates the digestive glands, both to arouse appetite and digestion.
Ginger is used as a spice in cooking especially efficacious to increase appetite, strengthen the stomach, and improves digestion. This is possible because terangsangnya mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines are removed by volatile oil of ginger rhizome.
Oil of ginger contains gingerol a typical aromatic ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or in young pregnant women. Also the sharp taste stimulates the appetite, strengthens intestinal muscles, helping to remove intestinal gas and help the heart function. In traditional Asian medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, coughs, diarrhea and bone diseases such as arthritis arthritis. Ginger is also used to enhance the cleansing of the body through sweat.
Modern research has scientifically proven benefits of ginger, among others:
• Lowers blood pressure. This is because ginger stimulates the release of the hormone adrenaline and widens blood vessels, resulting in blood flow more quickly and smoothly and lighten the work of the heart pumps blood.
• Helps digestion, because ginger contains digestive enzymes are protease and lipase, which digests each protein and fat.
• gingerol in ginger are anticoagulants, which prevent blood clotting. So to prevent blockage of blood vessels, leading cause of stroke and heart attack. Gingerol also thought to help lower cholesterol.
• Prevents nausea, because ginger can block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea. Including nausea due to travel drunk.
• Make the stomach to be comfortable, relieve abdominal cramps and helps remove the wind.
• Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.
Ginger as Medicine Practice
Ginger is a natural pain relief and to relieve rheumatic pain, headache, and migraine. How, drink wedang ginger 3 times daily. It could also drink wedang round, suck ginger candy, ginger, or add time to the soup, stew, or rendang.
Dau ginger also efficacious, among others, with crushed and given little water can be used as a compress on headache medicine and can dipercikan to face people who are shivering. While rimpangnya pounded and boiled in boiling water for about ½ hour, then water can be drunk as a remedy to strengthen digestion and expel gas in it, treat a swollen liver, cough and fever.
To treat rheumatoid arthritis prepare 1 or 2 ginger rhizome. Heat the rhizome above the fire or coals and then threshed. Paste the collision of ginger on the bodily pain of arthritis. Another way is to pound With the ever with cloves, and affixed to the body of rheumatism.
Ginger can also be used to treat wounds because of blisters, stabbed a sharp object, hit by thorns, fall, and snake bites. How red ginger rhizome pounded and added a little salt. Put on the injured body part.
Mashed rhizomes can also be used as a liniment on itching disease due to insect stings.
Rhizome is pounded, with a little salt, then placed on the poisonous snake bite wound (only as first aid before the patient was taken to a doctor).
With mixed radish, ginger can be used to treat eczema. Grated radish mixed with ginger juice. Water ginger rhizome can be obtained by grating ginger and squeezed. This herb is applied to the skin of eczema. Usually within 2 weeks, the disease has been reduced.
To prevent motion sickness, it's good to drink wedang ginger before traveling. How: am-pm fresh ginger along one segment of the finger. Put it in a glass of hot water, give honey to taste, then drink. It could also use one-third teaspoon of ginger powder, or if resistant, eat two slices of raw ginger.