Ginger

Approximately 40 volunteers in the study consumed 2-gram ginger capsules or a placebo to test the impact. That’s the equivalent of grating about a teaspoon of ginger on a salad.

On the eighth day of the study the participants lifted weights to induce minor muscle injury. According to the study, muscle pain was reduced by 25 percent among participants who were consuming the ginger capsules.

There was no difference in pain reduction between the raw and heat-treated ginger capsules.

Lead researcher from the University of Georgia, Professor Patrick O’Connor said the ginger as something that really can eliminate muscle pain that can be accepted by many people who experience it.

For someone who’s working out regularly, who might be breaking down muscle on a regular basis, incorporating ginger into daily diet might be helpful. Ginger is also known to contain a chemical that works almost the same anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal such as ibuprofen and aspirin.

For people suffering with arthritis pain, it is advisable that crushed root ginger is applied on the skin in and around the knee joint where pain is experienced. It has been discovered that repeated application of root ginger on the skin will considerably reduce or ease the pain caused due to arthritis.

In the past decade, researchers have also discovered that ginger may benefit your cardiovascular health, including:

• Preventing atherosclerosis
• Lowering cholesterol levels
• Preventing oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL)

Ginger is very easy to grow and can be grown indoors or outside in pots filled with potting mix. Your favorite grocer’s produce department is the best place to find ginger root for growing.

Make sure you get ginger roots which already have some new buds cropping out, or else they probably won’t grow. They look like little fresh outcrops.

A fun way to start a ginger plant is to suspend a two-inch piece of ginger root over a glass of water. Hold it in place with toothpicks stuck into the sides of the root. Then, fill the glass, submerging about one-third of the ginger rhizome.

When roots reach about an inch in length, plant the ginger rhizome just below the surface of a rich, moist potting mixture, making sure that your pot allows for good drainage.

Keep the pot in a sunny location until sprouts appear, then move it to an area with bright but indirect light. Given proper growing conditions, the stems will reach two to four feet tall with narrow, glossy green leaves that can get up to a foot long.

Bring the plant indoors before winter and store in a cool, dark place and ignore until spring. The foliage will die back and soil will dry out but should bounce back when returned to the outside the following spring..

Harvest ginger after the rhizome has grown three to four months. Since the best time to plant ginger is in the spring, this usually means a fall harvest.

Whole ginger can be consumed in a variety of ways, including:

• My favorite way of using it is to cut off about a teaspoon worth, dicing it very fine and swallowing it with water. This is far more potent, inexpensive and effective than any other way I know of.
• Cooking with it: Ginger tastes great lightly sautéed with other vegetables, meat, sesame oil, and a pinch of natural, unprocessed salt.
• As a tea: Simply put a couple of thin slices into hot water. A little bit of raw honey can sweeten the otherwise “hot and spicy” flavor of the tea.

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You may be surprised to find out the incredibly lethal plants often hanging around the neighborhood park – or gracing your tabletop in the form of a centerpiece.

We have poisonous plants in our own private gardens, on sale at garden centers, on show in gardens open to the public; including many public parks that are totally unsupervised..

Surprisingly, there is more than one plant that could be in your home that is a potential killer.

*   One, is the Daffodil. The bulbs of a daffodil can be deadly. If consumed they can cause vomiting and diarrhea.

Include with the bulbs of a Daffodil, the bulbs of a Hyacinth and the bulbs of a Narcissus. Both cause the same symptoms as a Daffodil and both can also cause death.

Daffodils are deer- and vermin-resistant, and no wonder — they have a poisonous numbing effect.

*   Oleander : Oleander is a common garden plant, but ingesting any part of it can be deadly. Even the smoke from a burning oleander can kill  you.

It is the most deadly plant in the world. It is also tremendously popular as a decorative shrub. Just one leaf can kill an adult, and fatal poisonings have resulted from minimal exposure to the twigs, blooms and berries.

Once ingested, oleander goes to work simultaneously on the nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and the digestive tract.

*   Apples: The apples on the tree are, as we know, not only good to eat but also good for us. But not the seeds. They, as well as the seeds of apricots and the pits of peaches contain cyanogenic glycosides. If you eat enough of the seeds, you could very well die.

If you cut up apples for your children or prefer to eat whole apples down to the core, make sure you remove those seeds.

*   The rosary pea may sound sweet and downright pious, but it’s actually one of the most toxic plants on earth. Its seeds contain a particular lectin known as abrin.

If chewed and swallowed, death will follow shortly. The seeds are easily identified with their distinctive bright red jacket and single black dot (almost like a reverse Black Widow spider And,

Rosary peas are traditionally used as ornamental beads. Many jewelry makers have died after handling rosary peas, which contain abrin, a fatal toxin.

*   Castor Beans: One castor bean contains enough ricin to kill an adult within a few minutes. Castor oil is made safe (but not palatable) with the removable of the lethal compound known as ricin.

Amazingly, castor bean plants are grown for decorative purpose all over the place, particularly in California.

*   Monkshood: Monkshood was used by ancient warriors to poison the water of their enemies. Monkshood is actually “wolfsbane”. That’s owing to its once common use by farmers as a very effective wolf extermination tool.

It was once used as a popular werewolf-detection tool. The flower was held near the alleged wolf’s chin, and if a yellow-tinged shadow appeared, that was confirmation that the person was a werewolf.

Before you panic and rush off to convert your garden into a Japanese art form of stones and water, keep things in perspective. Research has shown the risk of harm from plant poisons is low – less than one in 10 million.

Why not start a weekly walk with your children to educate them about the beauty and the beasts in your garden?

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