Ginger for health with benefits.

http://www.celestialhealing.net/healthintro..htm The Heath Benefits of Ginger are many. Ginger is one of the world’s seven most potent disease-fighting ingredients.

Ginger for health has been known for many thousands of years in China, and India, the knowledge was passed on by the Ancient ancestors for more than 5000.  Ginger was first discovered in south east Asia, and it has been highly regarded for it’s healing properties as an universal medicine.

Ginger for health with important minerals and vitamins.

The properties of ginger and the source of micro nutrients are many; magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Copper, Vitamin B6.

Current Ginger for health benefits are; alleviate nausea, arthritis, anti inflammatory agent, stimulate digestion, reduce respiratory problems, motion sickness, anti ovary cancer agent, lowers cholesterol, anti oxidant properties, prevents migraines, prevents blood clots, cold and flu prevention and treatment.

Ginger for health can be enjoyed in tea or as a refreshing ginger beer.

Try adding ginger to your daily diet, there are many ways to enjoy the health benefits of ginger, a simple hot ginger tea can be made with fresh ginger, lemon juice and honey, simply slice the fresh ginger into thin slices and allow to infuse in hot water for  about 20 minutes, you may need a thermos to maintain the constant heat in the water to infuse the health benefits from ginger, without over boiling it of course.

Ginger is an ancient spice that was brought to Europe through the Silk route.

The Silk Route gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade Route, which was about 4,000 miles/6,437 km long.  It began during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD).  Ginger is native to Southern Asia and very much used as a spice in the Asian cuisines.

Ginger became popular in Europe, as a spice in the Ginger bread biscuit dough.

Gingerbread is a sweet dough flavored with ginger spice and honey or molasses.  Gingerbread translated in French is pain d’épices (meaning “spice bread”).

Gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis (Gregory Makar) (Grégoire de Nicopolis). He left Nicopolis Pompeii, to live in Bondaroy(France), near the town of Pithiviers. He stayed there 7 years, and taught the Gingerbread cooking to French priests and Christians.

It was during the 1300 AD that the Ginger spice was brought to Sweden  by German immigrants.

In the Nordic countries, the most popular form of ginger confection is the pepperkaker (Norwegian), pepparkakor (Swedish), brunkager (Danish), piparkakut (Finnish) and in the baltic countries piparkūkas (Latvian) or piparkoogid (Estonian).

Ginger for health has been well known and used for a long time, the spice has a really unique flavor, unlike any other.  It is a classic ingredient, with distinguishable unique flavor like; vanilla, chocolate and coffee.