Love, girls, ginger!

Ginger is known to mankind already more than two thousand years, and since then the reasons to love and admire this surprising plant become more and more. Most often, ginger gets on the shelves in the form of powder or a root of a bizzare shape. However, it a root not to call absolutely correct, the rhizome of ginger is not a root literally, and underground escape from which the numerous elevated stalks reaching for the sun and light and the additional roots absorbing nutrients from the soil depart. All that gives ginger magic power - numerous useful amino acids, minerals, sugar, resinous substances and also essential oils (about 3%) is also stored in a rhizome. - to a tsingerol, gingerola also we designate to pitches – ginger is obliged by the burning taste, and to essential oils (their main component tsingiberen) – a spicy smell.

As seasoning to various dishes ginger is very popular, it impacts pleasant relish to fried pork, pastes, home-made sausages, the baked duck and mushrooms. It is added to soups, flavored fish, ground imbiryom flavor dough and various sweet dishes. In many countries pastries from gingerbread dough, in particular painted gingerbreads in the form of little men, asterisks, hearts, animal and other are popular. Which fantastic lodges, walls and a roof are built from the gingerbread dough decorated with snow icing sugar, marzipans, fruit jelly and candies – it is accepted to put under a fir-tree for Christmas in many western countries.

But ginger not only the gastronomic qualities is valuable, its medicinal properties are not less important for us.

Salutary force of ginger
Ginger possesses such extensive range of impact on an organism that it is difficult even to list all its medicinal properties. It possesses anesthetic, the anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, rassasyvayushchy, spazmolitichesky, bile-expelling, exciting, healing, sudorific, toning, bactericidal, antiviral, antibacterial action and many others.

In east medicine ginger is used at treatment of violations of the musculoskeletal device, including rheumatism and osteoarthritis long ago, estimated the anti-inflammatory, anesthetizing and hondroprotektorny properties of ginger and official medicine. On the basis of numerous researches on studying of effect of ginger at arthrosis, medicines on the basis of ginger and an alpiniya, including Zinaksin which is quite successfully applied at treatment of joints were created.

Ginger also enters composition of many medicines of anti-cold and protivokashlevy appointment - syrups, pastils, lollipops.

And still ginger improves brain blood circulation, strengthens vessels, improves memory and ability to training, reduces arterial blood pressure, helps with treatment of atherosclerosis.

To use salutary force for prevention and healing of illnesses it is not obligatory to hurry in drugstore, it is enough to have a fresh rhizome (to buy in supermarket) or at least a bag of ground ginger at the order.

- Tincture for increase in immunity
Such tincture will be good for prevention of catarrhal diseases. It is not difficult to prepare it: clean about 100 grams of a fresh root of ginger from a thin skin, grate and fill in with alcohol (or good vodka) 500 ml, add 50 grams of honey. Let's infuse within two weeks in heat the place, occasionally stirring up. Filter and drink after a meal on a teaspoon. For giving to tincture of refined fresh aroma it is possible to add to it a dried peel of a lemon, grapefruit, a lime.

Well, and if you did not pay due attention to prevention and nevertheless caught cold or flu, ginger tea will help to recover quickly.

- Ginger tea
Small we cut a small piece of ginger (or we grate) in a teapot, we add tea (black or green), we fill in with boiled water and we insist several minutes. Before the use it is possible to add a slice of a lemon and honey to tea.

By the way, ginger also usually enters mulled wine (hot red wine), along with cinnamon, nutmeg, a carnation and cardamom, also.

- A ginger pulverizing for joints
At joint pains the pulverizing from independently prepared ginger oil will help. For its production we fill in a polished root of fresh ginger with a small amount of vegetable oil and we allow to infuse several weeks in the dark place. It is possible to add a little propolis to this mix.

- A compress from ginger
At joint and backbone pains it is possible to use the following compress: to mix 2 teaspoons of ginger and a teaspoon of a turmeric with the warmed-up vegetable oil. Now we spread the received mix on a gauze (4 layers), we place on a sore point, from above we cover with wax paper, it was necessary to warm and record a compress.

Well, I think, nobody doubts any more that ginger the necessary and useful plant for all family, but after all women to it have a particular interest, cosmetology!

Ginger for beautiful skin and a slim figure
The pronounced anti-inflammatory and toning properties of ginger in combination with its ability to influence blood circulation, drew attention to this spice of all cosmetology scientific world.

Ginger extracts, extracts found the place in many cosmetics, especially for oily young skin, skin with an acne, as well as for the withering skin losing elasticity and elasticity. Many cosmetic brands with success use ginger in cosmetics for prevention of aging of skin, it is possible to mention Chanel – the Precision series, or GARNIER – the Ultra-lifting series.

Having carefully investigated properties of ginger in vitro, experts established that it along with the toning action, also actively interferes with skin microreductions, and thus is capable to slow down the main reason for appearance of mimic wrinkles.

In spite of the fact that in the market there were very many creams now, lotions, detergents and other face make-up, a body and hair containing ginger it is easy to make ginger cream, a mask or face toner independently. Combining ginger with other natural means and oils, such as honey, infusions of herbs and flowers, juice of a lemon or pomegranate, lime oil, sesame oil, almonds oil, wheat germ oil, rose attar, extract of apricot stones, etc., we can achieve very good result.

- A mask for improvement of complexion
We mix a tablespoon of grated fresh ginger (or a powder teaspoon) with one tablespoon of white clay and a tablespoon of infusion of a camomile. We apply to face skin, in 10 minutes we wash away and we put favourite nutritious cream on a face.
The amount of ginger in this mask can be varied depending on degree of sensitivity of skin.

- Anti-cellulite srub
For preparation of a srub we mix ginger powder (or fresh grated ginger) with olive oil, we add a handful of small sea salt or a coffee thick and several drops of essential oil of a citrus, or cinnamon. We apply on problem sites of skin and we mass within 10 minutes.

- Ginger massage mix
We mix 2-3 teaspoons of ginger in powder with natural vegetable oil (olive, sesame, almond or peach), about 150 ml. Apply the prepared mix to massage of problem zones of hips, a stomach and buttocks for 7-10 minutes. The burning lung in the pounded sites of skin demonstrates that ginger began to work if burning very strong – wash away massage mix from a body, most likely, concentration for your skin is too big. It is simple to correct it, add oil to ready massage mix. For achievement of curative effect ginger massage is enough to be carried out once a week.

- Ginger honey
We take a piece of fresh ginger (8-10 cm), we clean from a thin skin, we rub on very small grater, we squeeze out juice of the remained fibers in gruel (that nothing was gone). We add gruel from ground ginger to 300 - 500 ml of honey (to taste), we mix, we store in the refrigerator. We use as fragrant medical delicacy and also at colds and for their prevention as massage means, as a component for face packs and a body.

By the way, the ginger tea increasing the immunity warming and banishing cold has very pleasant "side effect", it does not allow to collect to extra kilos for long winter months. Ginger is capable "to disperse" the slowed-down metabolism so it is the checked and effective remedy for weight loss!