The Benefits of Drinking Ginger in Your Natural Tea Blends

For thousands of years, ginger has been recognized by many cultures as an excellent treatment for various ailments. Almost every culture uses ginger to stimulate immunity, enhance digestion, and reduce inflammation. For instance, in traditional Chinese medicine, ginger root has been used as a tonic for more than 5,000 years and is available as a medicine in fresh or dried forms for a variety of medical uses.

Ginger is a nutritionally dense food with tremendous health benefits. Its active ingredients are gingerols, shogaols, and zingerone which have anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-parasitic, and anti-viral properties. With an ORAC score of 28,811, ginger is listed as one of the most impressive antioxidants. 

In folk medicine, ginger is consumed in various ways, including through ginger tea. By adding ginger to your natural tea blends, you don’t only delight in the slight zing and spice it brings to your tea but also enjoy many of these known health benefits.

Ginger May Help Support a Healthy Heart and Manage Blood Pressure

Studies suggest that consuming 2 to 6 grams of ginger daily can help protect you from heart disease. Its active ingredients help lower blood pressure while preventing blood clots, relieving heartburn, lowering cholesterol levels, and improving blood circulation. The study shows favorable results in the potential to prevent specific chronic diseases such as hypertension and chronic heart disease.

Ginger Helps Minimize Nausea Caused by Chemotherapy and Morning Sickness

Studies suggest ginger might be an inexpensive but effective alternative for chemotherapy patients and pregnant women who can't take conventional anti-nausea drugs. Ginger has also been proven to be effective in preventing postoperative nausea caused by general anesthesia. However, caution and consultation with a health professional is required because of ginger's potential to interfere with blood clotting.

Ginger Fights Pain and Provides Inflammation Relief

Many people have used ginger to relieve inflammation and fight pain for centuries. Studies confirm ginger's properties to achieve these. Its active ingredients, such as gingerol and shogaol, are confirmed to reduce the production of pro-inflammatory markers. Ginger has been proven to provide pain relief from osteoarthritis and menstrual cramps, with drinking ginger tea being more effective than regular pain relief medications.

Ginger Supports Digestion

Ginger is a traditional remedy to treat digestive problems and is proven by studies to have positive gastroprotective effects. Ginger works by stimulating the serotonin receptors in the gut, thereby providing digestive relief. The result is a reduction in gut inflammation, thereby improving nutrient absorption. Ginger also reduces intestinal gas and is an excellent spasmolytic agent which soothes the intestinal tract. This property of ginger results in improving gut mobility. Ginger also stimulates bile production.

Ginger Fights Degenerative Stress

Ginger protects the brain and the nervous system against degenerative stress by defending the body's storage supplies of glutathione. Aside from being an excellent source of antioxidants, having a steady supply of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant that destroys free radicals, is essential in maintaining a healthy nervous system. Animal studies also support ginger's neuroprotective properties through its active ingredients, such as gingerol and shogaol, against the decline of brain functions.

Ginger Provides Relief from Motion Sickness

Although the mechanism of how ginger reduces motion sickness is inconclusive, it was suggested that certain compounds in ginger block brain receptors that induce vomiting. However, folk medicine suggests ginger tea has long been used as a way to relieve symptoms associated with motion sickness. A study in 1988 among naval cadets unaccustomed to sailing reported a reduction in cold sweating and vomiting rates among those who were given 1 gram of powdered ginger.

Ginger May Help Blood Sugar Levels and Weight Control

In studies on people with type 2 diabetes and obesity, ginger was found to improve blood sugar control by reducing fasting insulin levels, triglycerides, and hemoglobin A1C. 

In addition to blood sugar level control,  research has found that ginger may also help manage body weight by inhibiting fat storage and fat absorption while increasing thermogenesis and the breakdown of fats.

Ginger May Have Anti-Cancer Properties

Studies show that through its active components, such as shogaol and gingerol, ginger can help prevent cancer formation. Shogaol and gingerol were found to cause cancer cell death in test-tube studies, thereby preventing cancer cell growth and multiplication. These were confirmed in test-tube studies for different types of cancer cells, including pancreatic, colorectal, prostate, colon, ovarian, and lung cancers.

Smooth September Tea Blends Containing Ginger

Irie Natural Tea Blend Irie is a fine blend of sorrel, lemongrass, elderberry, and ginger. Aside from its calm, cooling, and refreshing taste, it is also an excellent drink to enjoy at any time of the day as a pick-me-up tea. With ginger among its main ingredients, enjoying a cup of Irie tea can unlock many of ginger's powerful health benefits for you as wel

Takeaways: Ginger Provides Our Natural Tea Blends With Delicious Flavor and Powerful Health Benefits

Whether you are looking for a tea for detox or to aid digestion, we have natural ginger-containing tea blends that can provide those benefits and more. Embraced for generations for their natural health benefits and savory taste, our Ease and Irie natural tea blends have everything you are looking for in your tea. Aside from our natural tea blends, you can also enjoy ginger's tremendous health benefits in some of our natural juice blends, such as Classic Remedy, More Life, Virgin Tequila Sunrise, and our energy-boosting Ginger Shot. Visit the links provided throughout the blog to learn more or to order any of the natural tea blends or natural juice featured. Contact us for more information about our natural tea blends and juice blends.