Ginger is a spice - spice essential. Rhizome is widely used among others:
- As a seasoning
- Giving aroma and fla vor in foods such as bread
- Confectionery
- A variety of beverages
Ginger is also used in the pharmaceutical industry, perfumes and traditional herbal medicine. Ginger is easy to eat as lalaban, processed into pickles and pickle. Disampaing it, because it can give the effect of heartburn, the ginger is also used as an ingredient drinks like bandrek, sekoteng and syrup.
Ginger Benefits
Ginger may stimulate the digestive glands, both to arouse appetite and pensernaan.
Ginger is used as a spice in cooking especially efficacious to increase appetite, strengthen the stomach, and improves digestion. This is possible because the mucous membrane terangsangnya entrails issued by the essential oils of ginger rhizome.
Oil of ginger is gingerol typical fragrant ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, for example:
- Due to motion sickness in women who are pregnant or young
- Stimulates appetite
- Strengthen the intestinal muscles
- Help remove intestinal gas
- Help the heart function
- Treat a cold
- Treating cough
- Diarrheal diseases
- Arthritic bone disease such as arthritis
Ginger is also used to enhance the cleansing of the body through sweat.
Modern research has scientifically proven benefits of ginger, among others:
- Because blood pressure lowering ginger can stimulate the release of the hormone adrenaline and widen blood vessels, resulting in blood flow more quickly and smoothly and lighten the work of the heart to pump blood
- Helps digestion, because ginger contains digestive enzymes are protease and lipase, which respectively - each digest proteins and fats
- Gingerol the ginger is an anticoagulant, which prevents the clotting of blood. So to prevent blockage of blood vessels, the leading cause of stroke and heart attack. Gingerol also thought to help lower cholesterol levels.
- Prevents nausea, because ginger is able to block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea. Including nausea caused by drunken trip
- Make the stomach to be comfortable, meringkankan abdominal cramps and helps remove wind
- Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by the radicals in the body
Ginger plant has long been recognized as an ingredient of traditional medicine and cooking spices. It was a little spicy able to give effect to keep warm. Based on recent research, ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) was efficacious exercise-induced muscle pain relief.
One of the efficacy of ginger is most often discussed is its ability to increase endurance and prevent inflammation. The benefits of ginger to cope with muscle pain has not been widely studied. Scientists from the University of Georgia says, a sense of warm ginger has an effect to relieve pain.
The research team headed by Patric O'Connor made two research to examine the efficacy of ginger for 11 days. Ginger is used is raw ginger and ginger are heated. The respondents in this study were divided into two groups, ie, who were given capsules containing ginger raw or heated and the rest received placebo capsules. Every day they have to drink the supplement.
Every day, the respondents were asked to perform high-impact sports are at risk of suffering from muscle pain in the arm. Apparently, the group taking ginger supplements muscle pain was reduced by 25 percent compared with those not taking ginger.
Ginger supplements may not been widely consumed by the public. Use of ginger is more in the form of hot drinks. This drink can be trusted to keep the body fit wakau deal with stress, colds, and exhausting physical activity. In traditional Chinese recipes, ginger is believed to strengthen the body while healing.







