Contents:
- Medical Video: Look what happens if you eat GINGER every day
- Is that red ginger?
- What are the benefits of red ginger for health?
- Prevent digestive problems
- Helps overcome muscle inflammation
- Helps increase male fertility
Medical Video: Look what happens if you eat GINGER every day
Ginger is one of the spices that are widely used as cooking spices. Not only in cooking, ginger is also widely used as the main ingredient in hot drinks, for example ginger, sekoteng, to ginger milk. In addition, ginger is also often used as traditional medicine. Not only ordinary ginger that you often find on the market, red ginger is often used as a medicine.
Is that red ginger?
Red ginger is a family of ginger, but has different characteristics from other ginger. Red or ginger Zingiber officinale var. rubrum has reddish skin with pink to yellow inside, unlike normal ginger. The size of red ginger is also smaller than usual ginger. Not only that, the content and taste are different. This type of ginger has a more bitter and spicy flavor than usual ginger.
Red ginger is found to grow in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. Many people use ginger as a traditional medicine to cure various diseases. The content of very much ginger, such as gingerol, flavonoids, antibacterial agents, anti-inflammatory agents, and others, can have a positive impact on health.
What are the benefits of red ginger for health?
The content of the active ingredients in red ginger makes red ginger can provide health benefits for you. Some of the benefits of red ginger are:
Prevent digestive problems
Red ginger oil extract can protect your digestive system from bacteria, preventing you from digestive problems, such as stomach aches. Antibacterial agents in ginger can fight bad bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella enteriditis, and Staphylococcus aureus.
When added to food, ginger can be used as a natural preservative and can prevent you from food poisoning due to bacteria. Not only that, the warmth provided by ginger can also calm your digestion. The warmth given by ginger is also widely used to treat colds and colds.
Helps overcome muscle inflammation
Various ingredients in ginger can act as anti-inflammatory so that it can help you fight acute and chronic inflammation. The active components in ginger, such as gingerol, gingerdione, and zingeron can inhibit the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase enzymes. So that it can reduce leukotriene and prostaglandin as a trigger for inflammation. Red ginger also contains oleoresin which is higher than other ginger, where oleoresin can also work as an anti-inflammatory.
Several studies have been conducted to prove the effect of ginger on inflammation. A study conducted on sepak takraw athletes proved that giving ginger extract for 10 days can reduce muscle pain in sepak takraw athletes. Other studies published by the American College of Rheumatology also prove that ginger extract can help reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis, such as muscle pain.
Helps increase male fertility
Ginger contains antioxidants and has androgenic activity. So, in some studies it was found that ginger can increase the amount of testosterone so that it can increase male fertility.
In a study conducted in mice showed that administration of ginger extract combined with zinc minerals in male albino mice could increase testosterone hormone, sperm count, and sperm quality in mice. So, this can improve testicular function in mice. Even so, further research is still needed to strengthen these findings.
