Ginger is a perennial herb of the ginger family, with yellowish-green flowers and a pungent fragrance.

Ginger is native to the tropical regions of Southeast Asia. Like warm, humid climates, cold and drought resistance abilities are weak. Plants can only grow in a frost-free period, the most suitable temperature for growth is 25-28℃, temperature below 20℃, and germination is slow. The plants will wither in frost, and the roots will lose their ability to germinate completely when frosted.

Roots of medicinal, fresh, or dry products can be used as cooking ingredients or made into pickles, sugar and ginger. Stems, leaves, and rhizomes can be extracted from aromatic oils, and used in food, beverages, and cosmetic spices.

Ginger is resistant to shade but not strong sunlight, so the length of sunshine requirements are not strict. Therefore, it is necessary to put up shade sheds or use proper shading between crops to avoid strong sunlight.

The ginger root system is not developed, and drought resistance and waterlogging performance are poor, so the water requirements are particularly exquisite. During the growth period, the soil is too dry or too wet for growth and the expansion of ginger blocks is not conducive to disease and decay.

Ginger likes rich, loose loam or sandy loam soil and does not grow well in low depressions where the soil is heavy and wet, or in poor soil with poor water retention. The need for potassium fertilizer for ginger was the highest, followed by nitrogen fertilizer and the least phosphate fertilizer.

Ginger is a valuable cash crop for exploitation and utilization, as it not only contains ginger oil ketone, ginger phenol, and other physiologically active substances, but also protein, polysaccharides, vitamins, and a variety of trace elements, making it a nutritious, flavorful, and healthful food. Ginger products are becoming increasingly popular in the international market, especially in Southeast Asia, Japan, and other countries and regions.

Ginger is very good for you.

1. Antioxidant. Ginger contains gingerol and diphenyl heptane compounds structure, have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effect. Often eat ginger can be anti-aging, and the elderly often eat ginger can remove senile spots.

2. Stimulate your appetite. In hot summer, the secretion of saliva and gastric juices will decrease, thus affecting appetite. If you eat a few pieces of ginger before a meal, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juices, and digestive juices. Increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, and improve appetite.

3. Beat the heat, cool down, and refresh yourself. Eat ginger in hot temperatures to stimulate, sweat, cool down, and refresh yourself. For the general heat performance, such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, nausea, and other conditions of the patient, appropriate to drink ginger soup, which has the effect of strengthening the stomach, refreshing, and waking up.

4. Sterilization, detoxification, swelling, and pain relief. Ginger acts as an antibiotic, especially against salmonella. In hot temperatures, food is susceptible to bacterial contamination, and growth and reproduction are fast and easy to cause acute gastroenteritis, eat some ginger can play a preventive role.

Ginger extract has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungus and killing Trichomonas vaginalis, and can treat various carbuncle, swelling, and sore poison. In addition, ginger gargle can be used to treat halitosis and periodontitis.

Here's how to make ginger tea:

Main material

Black tea

ginger

honey

1. Boil black tea and raw tea with water.

2. Let cool slightly and then add sugar or honey.