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What you need:

• Ginger (fresh or candied)

Effect of ginger

• ginger you have certainly seen it in the supermarket. The thick, light brown tubers fall quickly into the ground due to their peculiar shape eye. The Asians also use ginger as a spice that is used in many meals.
• Have you ever eaten ginger? It tastes relatively hot, at the same time a bit bitter and soapy.
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• Ginger has long been valued in medicine. For stomach problems, Flatulence, lack of sweat or as an aphrodisiac, Paracelsus has already used this plant.
• Yet why is ginger used in folk medicine cough applied? The root contains numerous essential oils. These have an antispasmodic effect and can make it easier for you to cough up mucus.
• In addition, the essential oils gingerols have anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. So, especially if you suffer from bronchitis, ginger can help complaints alleviate.


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• It is not only the bronchi that benefit from ginger when coughing. Maybe your throat is too or throat Affected and easily inflamed.

Use for coughing

• If you want to use ginger for coughs, get fresh ginger from the supermarket. This always contains more valuable ingredients than dried goods.
• You can recognize good ginger by the fact that the root tuber is hard. Put a soft bulb back on the shelf.
• When you sniff the fresh ginger, you smell the characteristic smell. If the ginger doesn't smell, it may be too old.
• It is relatively easy to make ginger tea. To do this, cut off a centimeter from the ginger root and cut it off skin away. Cut the piece into thin slices. Now boil water and pour it over the thin slices of ginger in a mug. Cover the mug and let the ginger tea steep for ten minutes. With a little honey or lemon you can tea refine the taste.
• You can also use ginger to inhale if you have a cough. Here you approach the same as when preparing tea and cut thin slices from the peeled ginger tuber. Put them in a bowl and pour boiling water over them. Then bend over this infusion and calmly inhale and exhale the rising vapors. You can intensify the effect with a large towel over your head and bowl.
• If you or your children do not like these uses of the taste of ginger, you can get candied ginger in health food stores. This is coated with sugar and is therefore also popular with children with a cough.