CONTENT substances, USE AND BENEFIT OF GINGER

This kind of herbal plant is one of the important spices. Rhizome of the ginger is very widely used, such as spices, giving aroma and flavor in foods such as bread, cake, biscuit, confectionery and various beverages. Ginger is also used in industrial medicine, perfume and traditional herbal medicine. Young ginger eaten as vegetables, processed into pickles and pickle. In addition, because it can give effect to heartburn, the ginger is also used as an ingredient.

Other characteristic of ginger caused by volatile oil and ginger oleoresin. Fragrant aroma of ginger is caused by essential oils, while oleoresin cause some stinging. On attrition oil contained gingerol, zingiberol, zingiberin, camphor, and cineol. The main components of ginger essential oils that cause the smell is fragrant and zingiberol zingiberin Essential oils can be obtained or isolated by steam distillation of dried ginger rhizome. Extracts of ginger oil as a liquid until thick greenish yellow, fragrant but do not have the fundamental building blocks of spicy flavor. Ginger essential oil content in about 0.5% to 5.6%.

Ginger oleoresin contains a lot of spicy flavor-forming component which does not evaporate. The components in ginger oleoresin consists of gingerol and zingiberen, shagaol, essential oils and resins. Spicy flavoring in ginger is gingerol major. Additionally, ginger contains starch or starch about 20% to 60%, resins, and organic acids.

This herb is used as a spice in cooking especially efficacious to increase appetite, strengthen the stomach, improve and aid digestion, help remove intestinal gas and help the heart function.This is possible because the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines stimulated by essential oils of ginger rhizome issued.Ginger contains digestive enzymes are protease and lipase, which digests each protein and fat.

Oil of ginger contains gingerol a typical aromatic ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or in young pregnant women. This is because this herb is able to block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea

In traditional Asian medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, coughs, diarrhea and bone diseases such as arthritis arthritis. Ginger is also used to enhance the cleansing of the body through sweat.

Ginger may also reduce blood pressure. This is because ginger stimulates the release of the hormone adrenaline and widens blood vessels, resulting in blood flow more quickly and smoothly and ease the work of the heart pumps blood. Gingerol in ginger are anticoagulants, which prevent blood clotting. Gingerol also thought to help lower cholesterol.

Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.

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