Ginger
Ginger Zingiber officinale
Okay, here I go!
Do I eat it? Rub it on? or Inhale it?
Who cares? It is good whichever way you want to go with it.
Ginger is a great food plant.
It gives a wonderful flavour of spice to recipes.
It is fantastic as a travel sickness precaution.
It warms your deep tissue layers of the body when blended with a good massage oil and the fragrance is wonderfully spicy.
Talk about a sexually exciting essential oil and you will be talking about the oil from the rhizome of the Zingiber officinale plant.
Grounding and strengthening for your body and emotions while igniting passions and gently enveloping you entirely in warmth
Spice up your life with this appealing and enlivening scent. It can put the spirit back into your spirit.
It is a valuable aid for numerous ills, it warms and cheers the mind and emotions and helps reduce aches and pains and relieves digestive upsets.
This essential oil smells 'alive', spicy, pleasantly sharp and fresh, with a hint of pepper and lemon - like fresh green ginger root.
It is especially warming to your emotions if you are feeling cold or 'flat'.
It can be very cheering if you are tired, and is said to 'jump start' the brain, reducing drowsiness and irritability.
This great little plant with its stimulating effect has long been hailed as one of natures special aphrodisiacs, and is specifically recommended for male impotence.
Ginger is a highly esteemed spice.
It is said to be native to India, China and Java. But who really knows. Historic records clearly include the rhizome being carried with the earliest of the nomadic tribes. It now grows in most tropical and subtropical locations around the world.
The rhizome of the plant is recognised for its remarkable medicinal properties and its variety of culinary applications, especially as a condiment.
It is included in the ancient Greek and Arab pharmacopoeias.
The Greeks considering it warming to the stomach and an antidote to poison.
Ginger is actually throughout the records of the travelers during the Middle Ages as a stimulant for sexual dysfunction in both men and women also as a tonic and medicine for fevers, and as an ingredient in balms.
It is reputed to have acquired the name Ginger from the Gingi district of India, where ginger tea is enjoyed to relieve stomach upsets.
It may have made its way across Europe with the Spice Traders in the Middle Ages, and then to South America with the Spaniards.
It is said to have arrived into Australia hidden deep within a bag of 'secret recipes' and culinary delights with one of the convict cooks on the First Fleet. It is just another 'introduced species' to arrive into Australia.
I think that 'cook' should have been given a pardon and land to grow paddocks of the plant.
This piquant herb is still one of the major remedies prescribed by Chinese doctors and natural therapists.
According to Chinese medicine, Ginger regulates moisture and raises the body's temperature, so it is prescribed for illnesses caused by cold and dampness. Yet curiously it can also reduce a fever.
Employed widely in pharmacy and medicinal preparations, this spice also has many uses in the food and beverage industry. It is a popular ingredient in Indian curries and for seasoning pastry making in England and Germany. It is also added to social drinks.
Long live the drinks such as Green Ginger Wine and Stones Mac as well as Dry Ginger Ale as a mixer and the good old thirst quenching beer.
Because it stimulates the blood circulation it is being studied to for its ability to aid in the reduction of angina, high cholesterol, varicose veins, bruises, sores and carbuncles.
This essential oil mixes beautifully with many other oils, especially those derived from citrus fruits, woods and resins such as eucalyptus and frankincense, geranium, lemon, lime, myrtle orange and rosemary.
Caution
This essential oil may irritate the skin in high concentration, so always use well-diluted. Generally it is considered to be a very safe oil.
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