Ginger Root Remedies for Holistic Health

I agree with this. I have GERD throughout the day as a result of years of bulimia. Ginger tea has been helping me to digest well, which helps reduce the symptoms that lead me to re-engage in bulimic behavior. It's tough to kill the disorder when you feel burning pain all the time. Simmering fresh ginger root and then diluting it in water and drinking it throughout the day has somehow reduced (often completely preventing) the acid that comes up hours after eating. I think it does have something to do with strengthening the esophageal sphincter.

I digest cooked foods better, and I try to cook them in the ginger tea, which also makes food delicious. I cook my vegetable and meat stews in it, as well as grains and legumes.

I also drink slippery elm tea before eating, which together with the ginger tea, makes a great duo. Slippery elm helps protect the GI tract while ginger helps relax it.

I had a few problems going on when I experienced acid reflux: I had helicobacter pylori (got it from eating a bad hot meatball sandwich). It's a bad bacteria. Can cause serious problems down the line. But it is easy to identify in a blood test. Antibiotics cures it. Once that was gone, I found out I had food sensitivities. It took a while to figure out what those were. Also found my gall bladder was a bit sluggish so I avoid high fat foods and do stomach massage. Now the ginger tea takes care of soothing my once again healthy insides.

You can juice the ginger too.. If worse comes to worse you can cut off and chew.. It's good for cough at night.. When I get sick with sinus I cut with skin on it and juice it.. Also cut into small chunks and eat raw.. It tastes really bad but stops cough and congestion in its tracks! Along with acid reflux..

So how is the dizziness now after taking the Ginger tea? Just curious as I am looking at this too for Dizziness.

Yep that cloudy stuff at the bottom of the ginger beer is fractionated dna.. Im sure that was the ingredient that switched my eyes back from glasses to perfect vision.. Albeit for ten days last summer when I was drinking a lot of the natural brewed stuff... the downside was the sugar was making me go hperglycemic.

Thanks Gavin. Funny I haven't been able to find anything online..... I have just thrown away my first batch as I was not sure that I should have been drinking it. Mine had a good taste (although I have never tasted the real thing but it tasted nice) just not fizzy but I think that it happened because I was so afraid the bottle (plastic) would explode that I didn't screw the lid on. I will make another batch soon now I know that it could have health benefits. I don't drink sugary drinks not only because of health concerns but also because I don't really apreciate sugar but if there are health benefits, especially for the eyes (mine are pretty bad! ), I will give it another try. Do you know how long one can keep it after brewing? Thanks!

Hi Francesca.. I doubt whether you will find anything online about it.. It was reported in the first issue of the magazine called OMNI. A couple of thirty something year old scientists were monitoring themselves after taking various supplements.. Among other things their Cardiovascular state was that of a sixteen year old. When the yeast dies off in a fermentation the dead yeast cells are cracked. This lets you get the dna out, if you eat this "Brewers inch" that collects at the bottom of the fermentation vessel.

I might try and do this again.. Its the only thing left that I havent tried ive repeated all the other stuff I was taking. It was about two small bottles of the naturally fermented stuff a day.. A popular Australian product. But I guess if you just ferment a brown sugar and keep the stuff that collects at the bottom it would do the same thing.. I know that biscuits were made from it once but.. the cooking might stuff up the DNA.

Oh yes Frrancisca! I should mention that my eyes have been improving with vitamin E.. A.. And MSM.. I can operate the computer with my normal glasses where before id have to put the reading ones on.... But It nothing as dramatic as the time when they went from fuzzy to perfect vision whilst watching the TV.. Last year. Ive been on the Vitamins for about four months and the msm for about three. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the information, Gavin! I have taken vitamin E on and off and A in the Cod liver oil. Actually I have just posted a question whether when you take Evening Primrose OIl you should also take Vitamin E, in which case I will buy some again! Another question on Ginger Beer! Yesterday I saw a program on TV where they were making it, what a coincidence... But they used brewers yeast, not bakers fresh yeast (together with cream of tartar) as my other recipe. I think that the only brewers yeast we can get here in France is in pill form but that won't do for the beer, I suppose? Any ideas on the kind of yeast one should use and which one did you use?

Honestly, I hate beer and I never thought I would be brewing my own but after seeing this recipe in a Welsh cookery book I got interested in it. How odd..... And the taste was rather nice too, even if it didn't fizz!

Hi Franceca talk about coincidence.. Whilst at the supermarket yesterday.. I picked up the ingredients for ginger beer.. Prompted by your post! The yeast I got was in a little bottle which said it was ok for brewing beer and making bread.. This type of yeast stops working when the alcohol content is around 7%. Depending of course on how much sugar is in the brew... The yeast for winemaking is different and goes up to 18% before dying off. So Brewers yeast would be ok.

Hi Francisca & Gavin, My Grandmother in her later years used to use store bought ginger beer for digestion problems, although it had some additives it was one that was still brewed naturally. She would have a small glass after her main meal most days. She did not have a history of digestion issues but I suspect it came from a small change in her diet due to living with family and having her meals made for her (more processed food than she would have chosen). Anyway the ginger beer worked for her.

Hi Gavin, maybe we are starting a trend? We don't have brewers yeast here, as I said, other than in pills so I will try again with the normal bread yeast we find in a cube in our supermarkets. Ours just says: baker's yeast, no mention of beer but then I don't think that the French brew beer.

I want to answer this side effect comment. I do juicing also with ginger. Large amount of fresh ginger juice can cause headache! I had the same experience. It depends how much ginger you put in the vegetable juice I use 1/2" pc to a cup of carrots juice that amount never cause any headache.

How do you make ginger juice? Thanks.

EC: Using a juicer would be the easiest way... Anyone have another method for this small amount?

fresh ginger-juice:

peel ginger and put it through the juicer, then add the juice of 1/2 lemon & 3 oranges, and honey. and be aware that this is a concentrated mixture that needs to be deluded with water! adding strawberry-juice along with the water (1:1:1) is delicious.

the amount of ginger depends on how strong you wish your ginger-juice to be.

what kind and where can I find the black salt ?

I have always found that when it comes to the common cold or a cough, wild ginger root is my knight in shinning armor. To help with some of the symptoms use equal parts of ginger juice, black salt, lemon, and either orange or honey.

I recommend the orange if the person can eat citric fruits, otherwise honey will be fine to make the younglings want to take their medicine.

Turmeric is known to heal internal body. It has been a usual practice among Indian to have a glass of milk mix with turmeric.

I have a question. My son just came down with a nasty cold and sore throat. I have no fresh ginger, but I have powdered ginger from the spice rack at the super market. Can I use that?

I completely agree. I make ginger tea whenever I feel a cold or cough coming on and it works every time. I boil ginger root in water and once boiled, I steep tea in it. I had honey and lemon to the ginger tea. Drinking four cups a day for two days will cure any cough or cold you have. It always works. A table spoon of shreaded ginger root in two cups of water (you can make it stronger/spicer by adding more ginger), two tea bags, 1/2 lime or lemon and a couple of table spoons of honey (I like my tea a little sweet). Drink two cups in the morning and two right before bed.

Ask me about turmeric next!