Ginger root for health and beauty

To me it seems that any bought ginger, will be happy with it as by means of it it is possible not only to make the warming drink, but also to use ginger as curative and cosmetic.

Ginger was known from time immemorial. Ancient Chinese devoted to ginger the whole treatises. Archeologists found presence of ginger at tombs of the Han dynasty ruling in the 2nd century BC. Ginger was highly appreciated by Confucius, for its medicinal properties.

Besides ginger was considered as aphrodisiac.

Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome also appreciated ginger and bought it from the Arab merchants, even without knowing about the place of its growth.

In the ancient time the ginger pound from Mecca cost as much how many one ram.



Ginger - Zingiber officinale Rosc – a perennial grassy plant from family ginger.

At ginger smooth high stalks up to 1.5 - 2 meters high. The blossoming stalks are shorter than listonosny. Leaves smooth-edged with the pointed top. Orange-yellow, brown or violet-brown flowers are collected in kolosovidny inflorescences. A fruit - a box with small black seeds.

Grow up ginger for the sake of fleshy branched, horizontally creeping roots most of which often use in the form of spice.

The rhizome because of presence at it of essential oil, has pleasant aroma.

Contain in roots of ginger: vitamins - A, B1, B2, C, amino acids, pitches, sugar, fat, starch, essential oil, sodium, potassium, zinc, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium …



Homeland of ginger Southern Asia, India. As medicine it is used by more 2000.

Ginger has antiseptic property, improves work of a stomach and intestines, expels parasites, increases immunity, intensifies exchange processes, calms nervous system, treats mental disorders, like a depression, apathy, aggression, strengthens memory, increases intellectual working capacity.

Traditional medicine appoints it at a sclerosis, a hypertension, stenocardia, for reduction in blood of content of cholesterol, for clarification of an organism from toxins and slags and as diuretic at hypostases of kidney and warm origin and for prevention of oncology.

Ginger helps during the overeating, nausea during the travel with transport, toxicosis, kills premenstrual pains.

Ginger tea raises a potentiality at men, and sexual desire at women.



In cosmetics it is used as means the improving skin blood supply regenerating and cleaning it.

Broths and infusions from a root of ginger remove inflammatory processes, treat rash, do skin more elastic, smooth and young.

Means from ginger strengthen hair.

Also essential oil of ginger which on 1 drop is added to the usual cream is used for these purposes.

For skin aging prevention

½ teaspoons of the crushed root to fill in ½ glasses of boiled water, to insist 20 minutes, to filter. To wipe skin in the morning and in the evening.



For oily skin

To mix 1 tablespoon of infusion of ginger with 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, it is good to mix, put on a face for 10-15 minutes, to wash away at first warm water, then to wash cool.

The mask rejuvenating

To mix 1 tablespoon of the fresh crushed root of ginger with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of granatny juice, it is good to mix, put on a face for 15 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature.

Mask for hair

To wipe a ginger root, to wring out juice and to mix it with olive oil in a proportion 1:1, it is good to stir, rub in roots of hair and to distribute on all length. To put on a polyethylene hat, to wind from above with a towel.

In 20 minutes to wash up the head shampoo.

1-2 drops add ginger oil to a bathtub for increase in a tone and smoothness of skin.