Plain-looking ginger has been an indispensable companion in human life for thousands of years, but do you know? Ginger, which can be found in every household's kitchen, is not only a sacred condiment, but also the most natural and safest health care prescription.

Ginger is not only used as a condiment to enhance the delicacy of food, but also as an herb. As long as it is used correctly, it can achieve the effects of prevention, health care and discomfort relief. The following will introduce some ginger therapies that can be simply implemented at home according to different symptoms, so that you can experience the charm of ginger again.

Improve deficiency-cold edema and improve weight loss effect.

Edema and deficiency cold are common symptoms of many obese people, because too much water in the body will reduce the body's ability to burn sugar, fat and protein, leading to deficiency cold. If excess water can be excreted, it can raise body temperature and increase metabolism. When the body temperature rises by 65438 0℃, the basal metabolism can increase by 65438 02%.

Ginger has the effects of sweating, diuresis and heat preservation, and adding it to black tea can play an ideal role in losing weight.

Tip: Ginger Black Tea

Add 1 ~ 2 teaspoons of ginger juice and proper amount of honey to1cup of hot black tea. Drink 1 cup before breakfast, and drink 3 ~ 5 cups a day.

Improve colds, coughs, sore throats and colds.

Mother always lets us drink a bowl of ginger soup when we get wet in the rain to prevent colds. Because the spicy ingredients of ginger can warm the body and promote sweating, the aromatic ingredients can also relieve cold symptoms such as runny nose and sneezing. When coughing for a long time, try to put ginger juice on your back and massage it fully, which will improve.

Tip: onion and ginger soup

1. Put chopped green onion 10g into a bowl.

2. Add 5cc of ginger juice.

3. Pour 1/3 ~ 1/2 cups of hot water.

Efficacy: Drinking 1 ~ 3 bowls a day can effectively improve cold symptoms.

Improve constipation and food poisoning

The fragrance and spicy taste of ginger can not only stimulate appetite, but also promote the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion and absorption, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and improve constipation. In addition, gingerol has a strong bactericidal ability. When there are trace toxins in the body, gingerol can increase the secretion of digestive juice and hormones, promote blood circulation and strengthen the detoxification function.

Tip: plum sauce tea

1. Mash 1 pickled plums, add 1 tablespoon soy sauce and stir.

2. Add 2 ~ 3 drops of ginger juice, then pour in hot tea and mix well.

Efficacy: drinking 2 ~ 3 cups a day is helpful to improve constipation and food poisoning.

Relieve shoulder pain and rheumatic pain, and improve traumatic injury.

Ginger has anti-inflammatory effect. Applying ginger to the affected area can not only inhibit symptoms, but also promote blood circulation and play an analgesic role. Because the effective ingredients of ginger will be absorbed by the human body, you must use new ginger slices or ginger paste every time.

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A. Roasted ginger slices

Ginger slices are baked in the oven, or in a pot, and then hot pressed on the temples or joints. The essential oil in ginger will penetrate into subcutaneous tissue with heat, which can effectively improve migraine or arthritis.

B. Ginger wet cloth

1. After grinding ginger into mud, apply it evenly on the surface of gauze.

2. Cover with a piece of gauze and apply it to the affected area. Blow with hot air from a hair dryer for 2 ~ 3 minutes at a distance of 10 cm, and pay attention to avoid burns.

3. Apply a wet cloth to the affected area until it is dry.

C. ginger bath

Grind a large piece of ginger into mud, put it in a cloth bag and put it in hot water in the bathtub. Soaking in the "ginger bath" for a long time can promote perspiration, make the body warm from the inside out, and help to improve the discomfort symptoms such as traumatic injury, shoulder pain, low back pain, neuralgia and rheumatic pain.

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The unique aromatic components of ginger can stimulate the sense of smell, soothe excited nerves, relax the spirit and help you fall asleep quickly.

Tip: ginger aromatherapy

Slice ginger, put 7 or 8 slices of ginger into a plate, put them next to the pillow, and take a deep breath for 2 or 3 times.

Note: Sleepless nights are particularly effective and can be stored at room temperature, and the fragrance will last for 2 ~ 3 days.

Increase the flavor of food

Ginger is fragrant when everything is opened, which can be said to be a good helper for cooking and seasoning. Add a few slices of ginger when cooking fish, which is not only fragrant, but also has the function of removing fishy smell and detoxifying.

dispel cold

When climbing a mountain, eating a ginger candy can not only replenish energy, but also use the spicy ingredients of ginger to dispel cold.

Indicates stomach discomfort

Fresh ginger juice can relieve postprandial pain in patients with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer. Adding a spoonful of radish sauce (see TIPS3) to plum sauce tea can quickly expel excess water and alcohol from the body and improve the symptoms of gastrointestinal indigestion.

Natural anticonvulsants

If you are prone to airsickness, carsickness or seasickness, you can try to drink ginger soup about half an hour before departure, which can effectively reduce the feeling of nausea and vomiting. In addition, pregnant women can also use ginger to relieve unhappy discomfort. Because ginger acts on the digestive system, rather than the central nervous system of the brain, it is more ideal than other anti-dizziness drugs, and will not produce side effects such as drowsiness and tinnitus.

Tip: anti-corona agent

1. Boiling dried ginger with brown sugar water is helpful to improve the pain and nausea symptoms of women during physiological period.

2. When carsick, eat 2 ~ 3 slices of ginger to stop dizziness.

☆ Fresh-keeping methods of ginger

Although ginger has many wonderful uses, it often needs to be sliced or ground, which is a bit troublesome. You can grind more ginger paste at a time, wrap it in plastic wrap to isolate the air, and keep it in the freezer for one month. Just put the required amount in the freezer the night before use, which is much more convenient.

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A component contained in ginger can inhibit the growth of human colon cancer cells in experimental mice. The unique smell of ginger mainly comes from this substance called 6- gingerol. Researchers at the University of Minnesota reported at an academic meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research that they divided 40 experimental mice into two groups, all of which were injected with human colon cancer cells, but 20 of them were injected with 6- gingerol before and after injecting cancer cells, with a dose of 0.5 mg, three times a week. The other 20 experimental rats were fed with dilute ethanol solution at the same frequency as the control group.

The experimental results showed that the growth rate of cancer cells in experimental mice fed with 6- gingerol was significantly slower than that in the control group. For example, the first batch of tumors in experimental mice formed about 15 days after injection of cancer cells. At this time, only four experimental mice ingested 6- gingerol had detectable tumors, while the number of experimental mice that formed tumors in the control group was as high as 13. The tumor formation time of 20 experimental mice fed with 6- gingerol was also significantly delayed than that of 20 experimental mice in the control group, the former was 38 days after receiving cancer cell injection, and the latter was 28 days.

The University of Minnesota has filed a patent application for using 6- gingerol as an anticancer agent. Researchers in this university plan to let mice take 6- gingerol only when the tumor grows to a certain size to study the clinical application potential of this substance.

In addition to discovering that ginger may have anti-cancer effect, other researchers also reported the latest research results on the anti-cancer use of Chinese herbal medicines Scutellaria barbata and green tea at the same meeting that day. Experiments by researchers in concord college, Nebraska show that Scutellaria barbata can delay the growth of prostate tumors in mice. Researchers at Arizona Cancer Center conducted experiments on 1 18 smokers, and found that drinking green tea can effectively reduce the content of 8-OHDG in the urine of smokers, which is often released by the human body after DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is damaged. Researchers say this means that green tea may help prevent DNA damage related to cancer.