Ginger Health Benefits

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers.

Protective B Factor

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Ayurveda & Traditional Indian

Herb

Minor decreased risk of Arthritis - Osteoarth... Musculoskeletal system	1 study Efficacy and safety of ginger in osteoarthritis patients: a meta-an... Study in 2015 -22% with High evidence in 4 weeks 593 subjects
Minor decreased risk of Inflammation Lymphatic system	2 studies Edible ginger-derived nanoparticles: A novel therapeutic approach f... Study in 2016 -3% with Low evidence Ginger—An Herbal Medicinal Product with Broad Anti-Inflammatory Act... -1% with Moderate evidence
Minor decreased risk of Colorectal Cancer Digestive system	1 study Edible ginger-derived nanoparticles: A novel therapeutic approach f... Study in 2016 -3% with Low evidence
Minor decreased risk of Inflammatory bowel di... Digestive system	1 study Edible ginger-derived nanoparticles: A novel therapeutic approach f... Study in 2016 -3% with Low evidence

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Ancient Medicine

In China, ginger has been used to help digestion and treat stomach upset, diarrhea, and nausea for more than 2,000 years. Chinese pharmacopeias claim long term use of fresh ginger as putting a person in contact with the spiritual advantages.

Writings of the Koran describe ginger as a beverage of the holiest heavenly spirits. Its healing heritage is unmatched in the history of medicine.

Aphrodisiac

The list of references of ginger’s sexual tonic properties is impressive, including endorsements by the Greek Dioscorides; a citation in Arabia’s A Thousand and One Nights, John Gerard’s prescriptive herbal; and Italy’s famed University of Salerno medical school prescribed that a rule for happy life in old age was to “eat ginger, and you will love and be loved as in your youth.”

Digestive Aid

As a digestive aid, Confucius wrote as far back as 500 B.C. of never being without ginger when he ate. In the famous De Materia Medica 77 A.D. Dioscorides recorded that ginger “warms and softens the stomach”.

Virtually every culture has recorded the virtues of ginger as a digestive aid. Bruce Cost, wrote of ginger’s use as the “Alka-Seltzer of the Roman Empire”.