I have been a friend of Ginger for a long time now
With my hypertensive condition, I take every wellness advice I get from friends and relatives to heart. For one, my mother told me that ginger could be a powerful health food. This root crop grown in most Asian countries could possibly in the following instances:
- reduce arthritic pain
- has cholesterol reducing properties
- may be good to thin the blood helpful in treating or preventing heart ailments
- could aid in reducing anxiety
- possibly prevent diabetic induced cataract
- could prevent entererotoxigenic Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin induced diarrhea
- could help prevent seamotion sickness, morning sickness in pregnant women and nausea after chemotherapy
- ginger oil could possibly help prevent skin cancer
- possess sialogogue properties which makes swallowing action easier
- could help prevent dyspepsia, constipation, colic, colds, sore throat
- with palm tree juice can possibly prevent flu
- can be prepared with scrambled eggs (thin strips) and could help reduce coughing
- as a paste can possibly prevent headaches when applied to temple
- can help reduce fatigue, rheumatism
- can prevent heat cramps as ginger water
I take ginger as tea in the morning. It is always my first drink and also my last. I use it in green salads; as an additional ingredient in preparing adobo, in fish dishes, whenever I steam fish.. and it has been nothing but healthful eversince.