Effective folk treatment when you feel unwell - ginger for colds

Cold. This word causes us a lot of unpleasant emotions, because it accompanies the symptoms that spoil our lives, knocking out of the usual rut, forcing to lose efficiency. All of us are different, and someone colds are experiencing easier, someone is seriously ill, without getting out of bed. And than you are treated? Tablets, including antibiotics, syrups, heat remedies, most likely - this is your standard kit in the medicine cabinet at home. And about national treatment you remember, you know that you can eat ginger for colds and get up on your feet quickly and without consequences?

Most likely, you are surprised. We are Russian people who have other folk remedies during the cold - tea with honey, lemon, and, of course, raspberries. But it's time to expand our horizons, we do not cancel tea with berry jam, but ginger is strongly advised to try. It has many useful properties, medicinal composition, which gives our body a storehouse of necessary substances. You know that ginger root is a plant very ancient, with a rich history in different countries, where myths and legends, and even Ayurveda speak of it as a symbol of longevity, health, wisdom.

Such an unusual and endlessly useful ginger

So that you can understand that we are not just talking about root vegetables, read this section before you look at folk recipes with ginger for colds. We should say right away that we modern people live at a rapid pace in order to receive various material benefits, so we are ready to work for wear and tear. When a person falls ill, he begins to worry very much, which, incidentally, only worsens the situation, because the body needs to be restored, rather than experiencing additional stress. Because of what these nerves? Of course, because of the loss of efficiency, because in our time employers do not like when employees suffer. And it is logical that you start to look for any means to quickly get up on your feet, and hurry to the pharmacy for different tablets from commercials.

You just do not take into account the popular treatment, it's all fiction, inefficient, long, much easier to drink a pack of tablets in a couple of days and it's better. But why do not you think that in this way negatively affects your natural immunity, its protection. The body can no longer fight the pathogenic environment without medication, this is bad. Yes, many more side effects you can get, and if the issue of children, and drugs in our country so often leave much to be desired. Well, what about ginger? And he is a very powerful remedy for many ailments.

Just think about what else 2-3 thousand years ago the root was instead of the currency of the Phoenicians and other peoples. So much root was valuable, the teachings of India "Ayurveda" speaks of ginger as an exclusively curative product, which as if universal medicine can lift on its feet during many diseases. From the east, ginger got to the west, and in Ancient Egypt a center of trade and import was established. The root was considered valuable and expensive spice, it was put in food and treated. For example, the Romans used a plant to treat eye diseases, the Greeks saved people from pain in the stomach and intestines. Ginger spread to Africa thanks to the Arabs, where he was most often used for the sore throat, the treatment of the respiratory tract.

Of course, in places of growth in the east - in Japan, India, China, ginger root is used to treat a large number of ailments. It was studied by the scientists of ancient times Confucius, Dioscorides. In China, the root is valued as a powerful aphrodisiac, if you translate the name of the plant into our language, it sounds like "masculinity."Also in the Middle Kingdom, the sailors used the root to defeat the sea sickness, the rest for the beauty of the body, improving memory and brain activity, to give strength. The Japanese used ginger for colds, from food poisoning, including alcohol, from digestive disorders.

For information! Ginger grows in the countries of Asia, Central America, but there are those who grow the root in our country.

Did not pass the knowledge of the miracle-root and old Europe, the Queen of England herself Elizabeth ate bread from the root of ginger, which was made for her as a delicacy. In foggy Albion, in general, they brought root in the directory of medicine eleven hundred years ago. Many kings believed that ginger can save in a plague, only now in our country so little is known about a wonderful plant, that it is time to correct this misunderstanding. After all, our ancestors in Russia ate root crops, they knew it, put it in kvass, made cookies, buns, cakes, alcoholic beverages.

Ginger root. Useful properties and composition of

We will tell you briefly why it is most often used in various countries around the world. These are not just words, as ginger has been studied by many scientists, revealing more and more of its possibilities, and you, perhaps, do not even believe in tea with ginger for the cold. There are a lot of useful components in the root, among them fiber, which cleanses our digestive tract, removing all dirt and toxins. There are also minerals in ginger - calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, sodium. In the composition of many vitamins, which help our immunity and not only, there is nicotinic and ascorbic acid. Of course, the plant is rich in essential oil, which helps with pains in the joints, back, from psychological disorders, increases sexuality.

For information! This ginger essential oil has the property of thickening when it is opened, from contact with air. To create one gram of medicinal product you need 50 times more root. As a result, we get an ether of gold color, with a pleasant, but not as tart, as we used to feel, aroma.

Ginger can help with colds, as well:

• destroys the entire pathogenic environment, germs, bacteria, expels worms;
• serves as a natural antiseptic;
• helps to expel bile;
• is used for various kinds of gastrointestinal disorders;
• relieves spasms, inflammation;
• helps the respiratory system, digestive, cardiovascular;
• helps with liver disease;
• stimulates blood circulation, is used for female and male health;
• and, of course, one of the most common methods of use is ginger for colds, how to use it, read in the next section.

If you get sick, contact ginger

Make spicy and fragrant tea. The first version of

This drink is suitable not only for treatment, but for all occasions, especially warm in cold winter evenings, saturate with vitamins and strengthen immunity. Tea is very easy to make. Take the root, clean it very carefully, taking only a millimeter of skin, so that the useful layer is not cut off. After that, a piece of about 5-7 cm rubbed on the grater, brew with boiling water and drink after eating, not forgetting to insist 10-15 minutes. You can put the root and in regular tea, if you can not drink simple infusion, but in fact it is very tasty, spicy and pleasant.

Tip! You can use dry powder for a drink that is on sale. But you can also make stocks with your own hands, drying the ginger root in slices or rubbed on a grater. Such preparations will always be useful, and you will not have to go anywhere during illness.

The second version of tea - with citrus

You can make tea with lemon and ginger for cold on such a recipe - a spoonful of grated root is filled with boiling water, pressed on low heat for 5-10 minutes. After that they cool down, you can brew tea with this tea in this composition and a spoon. Here put 1-2 slices of lemon or squeeze out the juice. Citrus - contains a rich composition, including vitamins, they will help us to fill the deficit, saturate the body, raise the strength of the immune system and give tone and strength.

We make a powerful vitamin-health mixture

You can make a vitamin composition that will be stored in your fridge, using lemon, honey and ginger for this. Helps and for colds, and from many unpleasant ailments, kills a pathogenic environment. To do this, blend one average root of ginger, previously washed and peeled, and 2-3 lemons. They can be taken with zest, but you need to rinse the fruit well. Components are ground, put honey here, so that the mixture is pleasant to taste. Healing mass is transferred to a clean glass jar, cleaned in a refrigerator. One tablespoon per day of such a remedy, and you will forget about colds, loss of strength and bad mood.

Ginger juice from a painful cough

We all know what a lack of sleep is due to a dry cough that just smothers. In this case, a spoonful of root juice is combined with a spoon of lemon juice, a teaspoon of honey. Components boil with boiling water - 500 grams. Infusion is drunk on a spoon during the day every half hour. How to brew ginger for cold, you now know, but if there is no strength at all, you can make it easier to chew a slice of root that needs to be cleaned beforehand, it will well help to cope with sore throat, kill the pathogenic environment in the mouth and stomach.

Ginger in milk

In a glass of hot milk, a whisper of ginger powder is made. This drink is drunk 3-4 times a day if the cough is not dry, but expectorant. Of course, here you can add a spoonful of honey. It is also an infinitely useful product that our ancestors knew.

That's interesting! During the excavations in ancient cities, pots were found where the seeds of plants in honey were preserved. So, after thousands of years, these seeds did not lose their strength, and honey was also useful, which struck scientists.

This is how you can use ginger for colds and coughs. Everything is quite simple and accessible to each of us, because we can buy a root without problems. Health to you, it is the most important thing in the life of ourselves and our loved ones.