Effect:
promotes digestion, relieves pain, lowers blood sugar
Areas of application:
Stimulates the digestive enzymes and thus also influences our immune system, motion sickness, insatiable vomiting during pregnancy, asthma, migraines, to combat parasites (which choose humans as an intermediate host), flatulence, cramps, blood circulation, pain in joints and muscles, pain for overexertion, rheumatism, the onset of a cold
Plant parts used:
Rhizome
Collection time:
available in stores, pharmacies, online
To find:
Ginger is a tropical plant and is mostly found there. But you can also grow them at home.
Ingredients:
Essential oils such as cineole, shogaol, borneol, linalool, camphene, phellandrene, gingerol
Other:
☕ Tea: Take a fresh ginger bulb and cut off a piece about the size of a nut and cut it into small slices. Pour 3/4 liter of boiling water over it and let it steep for exactly 8 minutes. Then pour it out and drink it in sips. This tea should be taken in the morning, before breakfast. If you can't drink all at once, divide it up throughout the day. The tea is ideal for losing weight and stimulating blood circulation.
🛑 Anyone who has gallstones should not use ginger!!! If you are not sure, you should talk to your doctor.
Ginger has a pungent taste and warms you from the inside out. It makes the blood thinner and stimulates the blood circulation.
After the wave about Ayurveda and Chinese medicine came here, ginger also conquered a place in our minds. We often use it as a spice and it is hard to imagine our kitchen without it. The ginger should be stored in the refrigerator in a damp cloth.
The plant goes well with vegetables, meat and especially fish.
5 grams of ginger daily increases the likelihood of not suffering from a thrombosis or a stroke, according to a scientific study.
Hildegard von Bingen: Ginger is harmful to healthy, fat people. But if someone is about to die, powder ginger and use the powder moderately in soups and eat it moderately with bread and he will feel better. And if anyone has a lichen rash, put the powder in a cloth and this in vinegar and add a little wine and rub it on the skin and he will be cured.