Broth of ginger
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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It was once an exotic plant, not so long ago, but firmly, entered our life. Someone appreciated his taste qualities, and somebody, in all, uses his medicinal qualities, which have been known since ancient times to people inhabiting his homeland - western India and South-East Asia, using ginger root and in many magical rituals. After all, the inhabitants of this area still believe that the spirits are sending them spirits, as punishment for wrong deeds and impious thoughts. But modern medicine has found an explanation for the magical healings of such patients. In many respects it is a decoction of ginger - root, which in its composition contains almost the entire periodic table in combination with multiple amino acids and vitamin - mineral complex.
Ginger is a whole pharmacy in one root.
Contraindications to the use of ginger broth
Like any medicine that has a great effect on the human body, and has a systemic effect on it, there are also contraindications to the use of the ginger broth.
This "drug" is not recommended if a person's history includes:
- Hypertensive disease.
- Hepatitis.
- Stones in the kidneys, gall bladder and urinary ducts.
- Colitis.
- Ulcerous and erosive lesions of the mucous walls of the organs of the digestive tract.
- The tendency of the body to allergic reactions to these products.
- Pathologies of a dermatological nature.
- The presence of bleeding of any genesis.
- Fever.
- The raised temperature of a body of the patient.
- Late gestation.
- Child age is up to two years.
- Symptoms of diarrhea.
- Diverticulitis is an inflammation of small, convex sacs in the digestive tract.
- Esophageal reflux.
A few words should be said about taking ginger broth at a time when a woman is waiting for a baby or feeding a newborn baby with breast milk. At this time there is no definitive prohibition on ginger root intake, but still before you drink such a decoction, it is better to consult your obstetrician-gynecologist.
It should also be noted that due to the fact that this drink has toning properties, you should not drink it shortly before going to bed, as after taking it you will hardly fall asleep quickly.
Having created a lot of pathogenic flora and diseases, which can bring a lot of harm to the patient's body, nature has taken care of the medicine against these diseases. The main thing is to learn how to use these gifts. One of these "medicines" is a decoction of ginger, which can, perhaps, be used in the treatment of almost any disease (with the exception of those referred to a small list of contraindications). Especially this drink is indispensable in the off-season, when the unstable spring-autumn weather increases the likelihood of colds, as well as the strains of all kinds of viruses start to activate. After all, it is better to prevent the disease than to stop it afterwards. And as a preventive agent, this drink has no equal. If you make a fantasy, then by introducing various medicinal herbs, fruits or berries into it, you can diversify both its taste characteristics and expand or strengthen the direction of the effect. Brew, drink, have fun, and most importantly help your body gain strength to fight external and internal "aggressors"!
Decoction of ginger for weight loss
Ginger (Zingiber) - a perennial, not found in the wild grassy plant. Cultivate it at home, or as a garden product in the open air in the subtropics and tropics. In the role of seasoning or medicine, its root part is used. It has a slightly sweet taste with pepper, and on the cut is a yellowish tint and a coarse fibrous structure.
Using its diverse properties, apply a decoction of ginger for weight loss, while the process of such a diet is not quick, but quite effective. And what is especially important, while maintaining the recommendations, the weight stabilizes, and the return of excess kilograms is not observed. A positive fact of this diet is that when using the ginger broth, there is no change in the functioning of the human filter: the liver and kidneys. While the pharmacological drugs that are used today if you want to quickly lose weight, or those rigid diets that people limit themselves, can lead to irreversible pathological changes in the body.
The essence of the method of weight loss with ginger broth boils down to the fact that this exotic product positively affects the level of metabolic processes, cleans blood vessels and lymph. Taking such a decoction, a person muffles the feeling of hunger, while the volume of the stomach gradually decreases, coming to normal. The positive effect of this treatment is that after losing weight with the ginger root broth, the patient loses the desire to overeat, which is essential for the impossibility of returning to the former weight.
Decoction of ginger root
For a long time, decoctions, infusions and teas from this exotic root are used in disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and digestive system. The root shows excellent antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, carminative and antioxidant characteristics.
It is noticed that the decoction of ginger root perfectly suppresses the symptoms of seasickness, stabilizing the vestibular apparatus, imbalance of which occurs when riding on a carousel, flight on an airplane, voyage on a ship or a boat. By taking a decoction, you can expect that all manifestations of this discomforting state will go away: dizziness, general weakness of the body, trembling in the limbs, podtashnivanie, the appearance of cold sweat on the forehead and temples.
Decoction of ginger root quite qualitatively eliminates nausea and vomitive reflector, which often delivers so many unpleasant moments to a woman who is "in position". It is also effective in such a difficult situation as hyperemesis of pregnant women (diagnosis is an exception, the main symptoms of which are severe nausea and intense vomiting). Such pathology very much pester the woman, but does not do any harm to the embryo.
Modern medicine, and long before that, and alternative healers, used a decoction from the root of ginger in the treatment of the inflammatory process in the joints (with arthritis), accompanied by pain symptoms. In this case, this drink uses its anti-inflammatory and analgesic characteristics.
Today, there is still no complete assurance and documentary evidence, but many healers, including traditional medicine, believe that the ginger broth is effective in treating colorectal cancer. When all the recommendations are maintained, the healers believe, this process can not only be suspended, but also put back. It is worthwhile to warn that it is not necessary to engage in self-medication, as well as to seek help from herbalists. The correct decision will be to make an appointment with an oncologist and undergo an examination and consultation with him. If an expert gives a go-ahead for a diet with ginger decoction, then take it still better under his constant control.
It will not be necessary and large volumes of this unique root. For example, to relieve the attack of nausea, it will be sufficient to brew a piece of rhizome weighing only 60 - 90 g, which corresponds to approximately 2.5 - 5 cm in the size of the slice. The water for this procedure will need only a glass (or 250 g).
How to prepare a decoction of ginger?
To not just drink delicious and aromatic tea, and get the maximum amount of useful for your body, you should know how to prepare a decoction of ginger. Having endured all the recommendations, a person will not only enjoy the meal, but will also significantly support his body.
The recipe for this drink is simple enough and does not need much wisdom to cook it in your kitchen. It is necessary to cut off a piece from the root - about four centimeters. Peel it from the skin, and the core is ground in a convenient way. 1 liter of water put on fire and bring to a boil. Introduce finely chopped ginger into boiling water, set the fire on a minimum and, stirring well, bring the liquid repeatedly to a boil. We endure another minute and clean the fire.
Place the hot liquid in the thermos and let stand for a couple of hours, then strain the cake. The drink is ready for use. It is desirable to drink it is not sweet, but if it is very bitter, then you can, if desired, to introduce into the broth of ginger a small amount of honey. Only get involved in the use of bee products should not be. This can not only reduce, but also completely eliminate the possibility of losing weight (if there is too much honey). Drink a decoction better in a warm form. Store it in a cool place (for example, in a refrigerator), heating only the amount that will be immediately consumed, otherwise the decoction significantly loses its healing properties.
To, on the contrary, increase the effectiveness of weight loss, it is not superfluous to connect a protein-free diet, as well as small physical exertion. Exhaust yourself with hunger and exercise should not - you can get the opposite effect. Enough will be an easy pace in the morning, walking a walk before going to bed or going to work without using public transport, visiting the pool or fitness room. In the diet, fractional, but frequent meals are welcomed in small portions. With the right attitude and the implementation of all the recommendations, for a week a person is able, using a decoction of ginger for weight loss, get rid of one - four kilograms.
But you need to be very careful and attentive to your body. If there are even minor contraindications to the use of this exotic product, use it in your diet, especially for a diet, it does not follow, the state of the body in violation of these recommendations can only worsen.
Another of the recommendations does not recommend eating a decoction of ginger rhizome on an empty stomach (the citric acid present in the composition adversely affects the mucosa of the digestive tract, namely the stomach). Do not take this drink and just before bed, because the root has an invigorating property, which can make it difficult for a person to go to sleep.
Decoction of ginger and lemon
Ginger root is perfectly combined with many products. It can be fruits, berries or herbs. Use it as a seasoning for meat or cereals (for example, good rice with ginger sauce). The duo of the root of ginger and lemon is very effective. This combination has been used for a long time and with an excellent result in alternative medicine for the treatment of many diseases, well this tandem has shown itself and when using it in the technique of losing excess weight.
That is, a decoction of ginger and lemon is just a storehouse of vitamins and trace elements. Their mutual influence only strengthens each other's work.
Ginger shows excellent anti-inflammatory and analgesic characteristics, it perfectly removes puffiness and helps to remove excess cholesterol and toxins from the body. This root normalizes metabolism, increases vitality and helps to digest food more effectively, stimulating digestion.
With a lemon, the population of our region is signified much longer. Therefore, it would seem, we know everything about this citrus fruit, but, nevertheless, he still does not get tired of surprising us. Since childhood, moms first of all give the child tea with a lemon to prevent or stop the cold in the bud. Improves lemon and mental activity. Extracts of this fruit are fruitfully used to relieve pain symptoms (for example, with a headache), with dizziness. Aromatized butter from the lemon lifts the mood. Apply lemon juice in the pathology of the stomach, associated with a reduced level of gastric secretions of gastric acid, taking part in the process of digesting food. Lemon excellently removes slag from the human body, cleansing the body, perfectly utilizes also heavy metal ions.
The combination of these two such unique products only enhances the useful properties of each other. This tandem is widely used both in diets aimed at the loss of excess kilograms, and for the prevention and treatment of quite diverse diseases. These are diseases of colds, malfunctions in metabolic processes and many others. Decoction from the rhizome of ginger and lemon is useful and simple with any discomfort, as it can stimulate the increase of the body's defenses, which is necessary for it to fight the pathology that affects it.
Since ancient times, the population of the area where this exotic plant grows, considers the root of ginger a source of youth and longevity. Maybe this is a little too high estimate, but there is indeed some truth in this statement. Old age is not terrible in itself. A person is more scared of the diseases that accompany her, but in this matter ginger, and even in combination with lemon, is quite capable of fighting with it, allowing the human body to be more mobile, cheerful, full of strength, both physical and mental, for a longer time .
In this case, the patient does not have to swallow the bitter pills. He drinks delicious and aromatic tea, enjoys and heals at the same time.
Dietitians often recommend drinking a decoction in the morning on an empty stomach (go replace them with snacks) - if a person wants to lose weight. This approach will allow the body to replenish vitamins lost in the process of restriction in nutrition, mute hunger and tone up. It should only be stipulated that such a diet should be planted only after consultation with its treating doctor, since, as it would not be useful, the product in question, but it has a serious effect on the organs and systems of the body, and therefore has its limitations in use.
To get ginger tea, it's enough to pour the root with boiling water and let it steep for a while. But in order to get the maximum benefit of useful substances, it is worth ginger before refilling with boiled water. Otherwise, the root is reluctant to part with its supplies.
The technology of obtaining a decoction of ginger with the addition of lemon juice is somewhat more complicated, but it is still not particularly difficult, but it makes it possible to get it more saturated and fragrant. To make this unique drink, ginger root should be cut into small plates or rubbed with large cells on a grater. This will maximally take away his nutrients. Then place the resulting cake in a container and fill it with water. Capacity to put on fire and boil. From the moment of boiling, reduce the fire and keep the composition on it for another ten minutes. After this, remove the decoction from the fire and put it in the infusion and cool. When the liquid becomes room temperature or a little warmer, then it can enter the lemon juice, bringing to taste. If a person does not really like sweets and wants to lose weight, then this kind of composition will be more useful. If he takes a drink not for the purpose of losing weight, but as a medicine or can not live without a sweet, then it is possible to add a small amount of honey. It is also not introduced into a hot drink - this will save the maximum amount of nutrients, because at high temperatures some of them just split, losing their activity.
Decoctions of ginger and lemon can be satiated with other ingredients. It can be ordinary black tea, medicinal herbs and other berries and fruits.
You can drink such a drink if you have a headache, when the body is stressed against a stressful situation or there are problems of digestion and metabolic processes. He will cheer me up, add strength and mood.
Decoction of ginger from cough
Ginger root has long been recognized as a high-energy product with multiple healing properties. These are anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antispasmodic and other properties. Some anticancer activity is also attributed to him. Proceeding from this, for a long time and quite effectively use the decoction of ginger from cough and other catarrhal symptoms. Used for the prevention of colds and infectious diseases, for example, influenza. Especially physicians recommend to enter this product into food in the cold season or in the off-season, when the probability of these diseases is greatest.
Decoction of ginger for coughing up the cough is prepared according to the method described above and is taken on half a cup two to three times throughout the day.
The pharmacological parameters of this drink, in addition to those already mentioned, show antipyretic, disinfecting, expectorant characteristics. The drink not bad normalizes arterial pressure, rendering hypotonic effect, relieves puffiness and reduces puffiness. And if there is added stimulation of the digestive tract and an increase in the immune system, it can be stated unequivocally that the decoction of ginger for cough elimination is really an effective treatment.
The modern pharmacological market represents a variety of drugs, which include a ginger root. However, the instructions for use indicate that this drug is recommended for use in diagnosing laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis and other colds (infectious) diseases affecting the upper respiratory tract and accompanied by coughing.
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