Root Ginger

Ginger is my favourite spice of all I especially love using fresh root ginger. I use it in alot of my cooking, to make drinks with and instead of medicine. It has been grown for thousands of years mainly in hotter climates but it will grow in the U.K in pots if kept in the sun (but not direct sunlight). Although it is called a root it is actually a tuber with roots of its own. Ginger can harvest almost all year round. The longer it is kept underground the hotter and spicer it becomes. When choosing root ginger to buy pick one with smooth brown skin as this will indicate the freshness of it. Ginger helps as a stress relief and mood enhancer and is also ...  Read the complete review

Ginger is an excellent treatment for nausea and can also aleviate hayfever symtoms in some people. Ginger is the stem, or underground root of the plant Zingiber officinale. It has been used in medicine in Chinese, Asian, Indian, and Arabic systems for thousands of years.This plant is native to Asia where it has been used in cooking for at least 4,400 years, ginger grows in fertile,tropical soil and likes plenty of moisture. Several medical trials and tests have been carried out in US an UK, in an attempt to prove the benefits of ginger for all kinds of nausea,including post operative, post chemotherapy, motion sickness and morning sickness during ...  Read the complete review

Do you suffer from hayfever? Sick of taking those little pills that turn you into a beached whale, emptying the contents of the office water cooler all by yourself in one morning (Chlorpheniramine maleate/Piriton) or being permanently drowsy and thinking that you don't get enough rest (Tenerfadine/Triludan)? Or are you just so sick of taking those little pills that the very thought of swallowing another one makes you gag? I and others like me, who have taken so many tablets that our pores are oozing hayfever tablet powder, have a choice. That choice is to either stop taking the tablets or to continue, in which case there is this niggling suspicion that it ...  Read the complete review

Ginger Root This plant has been used for centuries and it is the root which has the healing properties. The root can be shredded once dried and made into a tea, it can be used in baking, in cough mixture and as a flavour to some meals. It is so versatile that it’s one of my favourite things to buy for the kitchen I use this all the time and it’s very cheap to buy from around 50p to £1.00 a root depending on where you buy it from, it is a little more expensive from the health shops but cheaper in the supermarkets. It is a native of Asia but is cultivated in the West Indies, Jamaica and Africa. The root contains volatile oil, two resins, ...  Read the complete review

Root ginger can be bougfht easily now at almost all supermarkets. It is a brown knobbly root that looks quite ugly but is very versatile. It is quite hard and needs to be peeled to reveal the fibreous inside root. This can then be grated or chopped for cooking and is great added to curries or chinese dishes. Only use a small amount though to start with as it is very strong. The sliced root can also be used in hot water to make a drink which is very nice if you also add honey. It can be drunk hot or cold and is very good for indigestion or nausia (especially morning sickness). This can be a nice natural alternative to indigestion ...  Read the complete review