Ginger tea is easy to make at home.
Ginger is a wonderful annual crop plant with a rhizomatous underground stem. the leaves are pear shaped and are green. The shoot can reach up to 60cm in height.
Although it is native to Asia, it is now widely grown in all the tropical and subtropical worlds of Africa, the West Indies, China etc.
The useful part by the way of phytotherapeutic properties is the rhizome
NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF GINGER TEA
It contains the following compounds: essential oil, resins, gigerol, zingiberin, etc plus a host of vitamins including potassium K, phosphorous, copper,and calcium
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
1. Blood Circulation
It is very useful for blood circulation especially when blood does not get to the extremities; the limbs hands and legs leading to muscle cramps
2. Cure for fever
As a result of its ability to provoke sweating, if ginger is consumed to control fever and sweating is provoked, body temperature will be reduced and the fever will abate.
3 Cure for constipation and slow digestion
Consumption of ginger tea promotes and provokes the secretion of gastric juices which contain the digestive enzymes responsible for the acceleration of the rate of digestion in the gastro-intestinal tract
