As an elderly person, it is important to pay attention to health in daily life, especially in terms of health preservation. Ginger, as a versatile condiment, is essential in terms of health food. Let's take a look at its amazing effects together with the editor!
What are the benefits of elderly people eating ginger?
1. Antioxidant, tumor suppression
The gingerol and diarylheptanoid compounds in ginger have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects; they also have tumor suppression effects;
Eating ginger can fight aging, and elderly people who often eat ginger can reduce age spots.
2. Appetizing and promoting appetite
Because saliva and gastric secretions decrease with age, it affects appetite.
If you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juices, and digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal motility, and improve appetite.
3. Inhibiting age spots
After gingerol in ginger is digested and absorbed, it can produce an anti-aging enzyme.
It inhibits the formation and deposition of age spots in the body, and delays the aging of cells in middle-aged and elderly people.
4. Preventing gallstones
The gingerol in ginger can inhibit the synthesis of prostaglandins and has a strong choleretic effect.
It can prevent the formation of gallstones and prevent the occurrence and development of gallstone disease.
5. Treating oral diseases
Gargling with ginger water can treat bad breath and periodontitis.
6. Strengthening the heart and reducing blood lipids
Ginger has a warm and pungent taste. It enters the lung, heart, spleen, and stomach meridians, and has the effects of promoting circulation, dispersing cold, stopping vomiting, and resolving phlegm.
According to nutritionists, gingerol in ginger is an effective cardiac tonic, which has the effects of strengthening the heart, diuresis, and detoxification.
7. Antimicrobial and detoxifying
Scientific research has found that ginger can act as certain antibiotics, especially against Salmonella.
8. Preventing and treating gastroenteritis
In the hot summer, it is easy to be contaminated by bacteria, which grow and reproduce quickly.
It is easy to cause acute gastroenteritis, and eating some ginger in moderation can prevent and treat it.
9. Inhibiting skin fungi
Ginger extract has significant effects in inhibiting skin fungi and killing vaginal trichomonas, and can treat various abscesses and sores.
Precautions for elderly people eating ginger
1. Ginger brown sugar water is only suitable for patients with wind-cold cold or stomach cold and fever after rain.
It cannot be used for patients with heatstroke or wind-heat cold, nor can it be used to treat heatstroke.
2. Fresh ginger juice can be used to treat vomiting caused by wind-cold hardness, but it is not suitable for other types of vomiting.
3. Rotten ginger should not be used again, because rotten ginger can produce a highly toxic substance.
It can cause degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, and induce liver cancer, esophageal cancer, etc.
The saying "rotten ginger does not have a rotten taste" is unscientific.
4. Some people like to peel ginger when eating it, but this method cannot fully exert the overall effect of ginger.
After washing dried ginger, it can be sliced or cut into shreds.
5. Eating ginger with dog meat can cause abdominal pain, and eating it with rabbit meat can cause diarrhea.
