Benefits of eating ginger with skin

Physician Bui Dac Sang, Hanoi Oriental Medicine Association, said that ginger contains 2-3% essential oil, 5% oleoresin, 3.7% grease, starch, and spicy substances (Zingeron, Zingerol, Sogal).

Ginger is a popular spice in every family's meals. It is also a valuable medicine, anti-inflammatory, cold treatment, warming the body from the inside, preventing respiratory and digestive diseases.

Fresh ginger is spicy and slightly warm, has the effect of preventing cold, reducing phlegm, stopping vomiting, and aiding digestion. Burnt ginger treats stomachache and diarrhea. Dried ginger has the effect of dispelling cold, treating colds and diarrhea. Ginger peel can reduce swelling (diuretic).

Ginger is a healthy spice.

Ginger peel has diuretic, gas-increasing, anti-inflammatory, edema-reducing, and bad breath-reducing effects. Users should wash the ginger peel before processing. Ginger peel is bitter, so you can peel it off or keep it intact depending on your needs.

In case of joint pain in cold weather, you should soak your feet, hands or bathe in herbal water containing fresh ginger, or roasted ginger with salt and apply it to the painful area, no need to peel.

People with back pain, neck and shoulder pain due to cold can use ginger as a massage medicine or apply hot compresses to the neck and shoulder with roasted ginger and salt.

If you use ginger in daily cooking, you should not peel it. You just need to wash the ginger and use it, to retain the full value of the ginger root.

Ha An

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