Contents:
- How helicobacter pylori causes digestive problems
- The benefits of kencur to overcome various digestive problems
- How to make your own kencur herbal medicine at home
Many people don't realize that a number of digestive disorders such as stomach ulcers, flatulence, and stomach ulcers can be caused by bacterial infections, especiallyHelicobacter pylori. This bacterium causes the stomach wall to become inflamed and swollen, so that acid reflux easily rises.
To prevent this digestive problem getting worse, you can consume kencur herbal medicine as an alternative treatment. Indeed, what are the benefits of kencur for our digestive health, and how do we make the kencur mushrooms themselves at home? Check out the full info in this article.
How helicobacter pylori causes digestive problems
Before knowing more about the benefits of kencur for digestive health, you should first understand how the bad bacteria Helicobacter pylori can cause problems in our body.
Helicobacter pylori bacteria, abbreviated as H. pylori, is a bacterium that lives on the mucous lining of the intestinal wall and stomach. The human digestive system is very acidic, which is actually not ideal for bacteria to breed. To get around this, H. pylori secretes the enzyme urease which converts urea to ammonia to survive. As a result, the acidity of the stomach decreases.
This bacterial colony also often digs into the walls of the digestive tract to survive. That's why inflammation and gaping wounds appear in your digestive organs. This inflammation is difficult to heal, and causes various digestive problems. Starting from ulcers, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, to GERD.
Inflammation and wounds caused by infection with H. pylori bacteria can cause damage to the cells of your digestive system. Wounds caused by H. pylori due to chronic infection are even reported to be one of the risk factors for noncardial gastric cancer (occurs in the lower stomach).
The benefits of kencur to overcome various digestive problems
Kencur, who has a Latin nameKaempferia Galanga,has a considerable amount of cytotoxic and antibacterial substances. That is why many studies have proven that the benefits of kencur are effective as a natural remedy for various digestive problems.
Thanks to its antibacterial properties, kencur can inhibit or even stop the growth of the bad bacteria Helicobacter pylori that is in your stomach. In fact, this bacterium has the ability to hide from the immune system so that it can escape to be destroyed.
A study also found thatkencur could prevent erosion or injury to the stomach, which occurs due to inflammation resulting from infection. Because in addition to being antibacterial, kencur is also armed with anti-inflammatory ingredients.
How to make your own kencur herbal medicine at home
In Indonesia, kencur is often used as the main ingredient for making herbs combined with rice water, Javanese tamarind, and brown sugar or Javanese sugar. You can also add salt, lime, cloves, sugar, cinnamon, and water. Here's how to make it:
- Make rice water first, by soaking the rice in boiled water for 4 hours. After that, drain the water.
- Peel galing and wash thoroughly.
- Mix the rice until it's crushed, then add cinnamon and cloves.
- Boil all these ingredients with rice soaking water (or plain fresh water), add the brown sugar and tamarind.
- Boil for 20 minutes until boiling, stirring occasionally.
- You can filter the dressing before serving. Add lime juice to make it taste more fresh.
It's good to consume kencur herbal medicine immediately after waking up, when the stomach is still empty, or about 1 hour before eating.
Kencur can also be consumed in other ways to get the benefits, for example by chewing directly and replying to drinking warm water. You can do this method three times a day.
The benefits of kencur for health do not stop at your digestive system. Kencur which is processed into herbs is also beneficial for increasing appetite, overcoming shortness of breath, coughing cold, headache, fever, swelling, rheumatism, relieving stress, and so forth.
