Saturday, December 8, 2007

GINGER -- MEDICAL USES AND CULINARY USES

There is no option to various vegetables, spices, herbs, and a lot many things the nature has given to us to keep us always in good health.
Ginger is one of these precious things that nature has gifted to us.
We are using in fact the edible part of Ginger plant, which looks like root.
Ginger has enormous types of use both for the medicines and daily use.
The ginger oil and the powder made from ginger are very useful for the patients who experience nausea for sickness, morning sickness, and nausea after chemotherapy.
The oil which almost 3% is used in the food to give the fragrance to the food.
In Asian countries ginger is crushed in boiled along with tea or coffee in winter season.
The juice of old ginger is extremely potent is used to flavor the sea-food and mutton.
Mature ginger roots are dry and fibrous; they are then crushed and used as a powder or can be used as it is.
Young ginger are juicy and with a mild taste, they are used in vinegar or sherry.
In Asian countries ginger boiled and mixed with sugar is daily used by new mothers and expecting mothers.
Ginger is very well used as stomach settlers.
Use of ginger is generally safe and without any side effects.

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