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Hi Doctor! I want to improve digestion and body resistance, so I regularly drink fresh ginger mixed with warm water. Please ask Doctor, is it good to drink fresh ginger water every day? Will the digestive and immune improvement effects I expect? When is the best time to drink ginger water? Thank you Doctor!
(Ngoc Lan – Ho Chi Minh City)
To the question of whether drinking fresh ginger juice daily is good for readers of Ngoc Lan, Doctor Lai Ngoc Hien, currently working at the Department of Nutrition – Hospital of Traditional Medicine in Ho Chi Minh City, answered specifically as follows:
From time immemorial, ginger is a medicine and also a food, a very good spice for health. Ginger has the scientific name Zingiber officinale Rose , the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).
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According to Traditional Medicine, ginger is spicy, warm, in the three meridians, spleen, and taste, has the effect of speech, soldering, temperate, pepper talk, water, detoxification; planted everywhere. Ginger is used to warm the spleen and stomach to treat colds, indigestion, vomiting and diarrhea. Today, science is still constantly learning and researching about ginger with its health-promoting and supportive effects. Regarding nutritional composition, in 100g of ginger contains:
Potassium: 316 mg
Fe: 2.5 mg
Phosphorus: 8 mg
Calcium: 60 mg
Vitamin C: 5.3 mg
Vitamin PP: 0.7 mg
Vitamin B2: 0.04 mg
Vitamin B1: 0.04 mg
Fiber: 3.3 g
Energy: 25 Kcal
Carbohydrates : 5.8 g
Protein: 0.4 g
Lipids: 0 g
Thus, we see that ginger provides very low energy, and contains many essential vitamins and minerals for the body. In addition, ginger also contains glutamic acid, glycine, serin, aspartic acid, zingiberol, aldehyde, zingeron, shogaol, starch, etc. Therefore, ginger has many effects such as:
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This drug may regulate obesity through various potential mechanisms including increased thermogenesis, increased lipolysis, inhibition of adipogenesis, inhibition of intestinal fat absorption, and appetite control. Several studies have shown that ginger has hypoglycemic effects, enhances insulin synthesis in male rats, and has high antioxidant activity, reducing total and LDL-cholesterol in serum. The feeding of Zingiber extract increases the excretion of cholesterol in the feces. Therefore, ginger has a role in the regulation of absorption.
Some active ingredients in ginger have the ability to dilate blood vessels, enhance blood circulation to all vital organs, so they have a warming effect on the body.
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So is drinking fresh ginger water every day good? Despite its many great health benefits, ginger can also cause some side effects when used incorrectly.
Hopefully the above information helps readers answer questions about drinking fresh ginger water every day and knowing how to use it properly to avoid side effects for health.
