Oct 17
If you have high blood pressure or are concerned about it, you may want to avoid taking in ginger.
Take two healthy adults and who do you think is more likely to have high blood pressure the man who sits at his desk drinking cokes or the man sitting at his desk drinking ginseng tea?
What about if we look at women? Who is more likely to have high blood pressure: the woman sipping a cup of ginger root in water ginger tea – or the woman drinking green tea? What about the woman who is taking the pill versus the man who takes cocaine?
The answer is that all these products can raise blood pressure and so in cases where a person’s pressure is high, ie more than 120/80 mgHg, it may be wise to omit these products from their diet and use.
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Aug 24
Ginger’s health benefits is not well understood by many. This article provides a good overview of what ginger can do for you.
Ginger is the rhizome or root of the Zingiber officinale plant named by Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist. It has a characteristic spicy, slightly hot, citrus-like taste. This herb is commonly grown in India, China, Africa and Jamaica. Ginger has been used for centuries in cooking and in traditional medicine to treat a variety of conditions including nausea, indigestion, colic and diarrhea. Ginger is available as fresh or dried ginger root and in the form of tea, tablets, capsules or liquid extracts. Herbs should be taken with the advice and supervision of your health care provider.
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Jun 22
This Singaporean product is made from top grade ginger and honey, which gives a refreshing and invigorating feeling when consumed. With its warming properties, ginger tea is not only a great way to warm up one’s body on a cold day, but it can also be used to sooth stomach and menstrual cramps. 10 bags, 6.4 oz.
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Jan 31
Hard liquor infused with ginger is shown to be effective in increasing digestion.
While wine is associated with heart health, hard liquor reminds us of headaches and hangovers. But the beauty of hard liquor is in its ability to extract chemicals from ingredients infused in it — think of alternative medicine tonics made from dried herbs. Sure, we’re not making a thousand-year-old Chinese medicine tonic, but we can go for second best: the after-dinner digestif.
Liquors infused with herbs, flowers and spices that aid digestion are known as digestifs. They are usually enhanced with simple syrup, as the pure infusion can be quite bitter, and served after a meal to soothe the stomach and increase digestion.
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