Benefits of Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a medicinal plant native to Asia from the pseudo-stem clumps. Ginger is also very easily available in Indonesia. The benefits of ginger are very good for health. Body warmers plant is divided into 3 types based on shape, size, and color of rhizome, namely: small white Ginger, Ginger a great white, and red ginger.

 Red Ginger

 White Ginger

Benefits of ginger not only be used as a beverage body warmers, but the rhizome of ginger is also widely used Indonesian society as a cooking spice and flavor breads, and cakes.

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foods that have the main ingredient of ginger

The drug manufacturers are also many who use ginger as raw materials of their products after learning that the health benefits of ginger is very good. In addition, the benefits of ginger can also be processed into sauerkraut, pickles, salad, syrup, and perfumes. In fact, today many farmers who use ginger for chillies natural pesticides for their crops.

 
Based on a variety of modern research conducted by experts, known to some health benefits of ginger to the following:

1. Ginger can lower high blood pressure. These benefits can we derive ginger because ginger has the ability to widen blood vessels and stimulates the release of adrenal hormones. Because of this, the blood can flow more quickly and more smoothly.
2. Ginger can help expedite the process of digestion. This is because ginger has some of the content of protease and lipase enzymes that can digest proteins and fats in the body.
3. Ginger can help rid the body of dirty blood to help remove sweat from the body.
4. Ginger to treat nausea and vomiting, increase appetite, strengthen the intestinal muscles, treating coughs, etc.. These benefits can we derive ginger because ginger contains gingerol which can block oil and serotonin into distinctive aroma of ginger.
5. Ginger can prevent blood clotting. Ginger contains Gingerol the anticoagulant (preventing blood clotting).
6. Ginger can neutralize free radicals that exist in the body because the ginger also has a fairly high antioxidant content. 

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