In recent years, ginger has become a popular product among many connoisseurs of traditional medicine due to its medicinal properties. It effectively accelerates metabolic processes in the body, helps to lose weight faster, and reduces appetite while maintaining a strict diet. However, there is a certain group of people who cannot eat ginger due to certain circumstances.
Those who are trying ginger for the first time in their life or are just planning to add this spice to a hot dish, salad or tea with lemon should first study what contraindications this root has. In order not to harm your body, you need to know who should not use ginger, in which cases it will not be beneficial, but significant harm.
Quick facts about the spice
Ginger has long been referred to as a hot spice, since it is able to warm up the body, quickly disperse the blood, and activate the processes of food digestion and metabolism. With its stimulating properties, ginger root also contains many vitamins, essential oils, phytoncides and tannins. All these substances have a strong effect on the body, simultaneously irritating the mucous membranes and receptors. This is the reason why some people should not eat ginger.
The resins and bitter substances that make up the ginger root, which are responsible for the piquancy of the taste, often cause a feeling of bitterness in the mouth, irritation on the stomach, and sometimes even severe pain and cramps. Because of this effect, fresh or dried ginger is not eaten in large quantities; it is added to dishes and hot drinks in small doses. And for some people with individual intolerance, the spice is generally contraindicated.
Who shouldn't eat ginger
There are 2 groups of people for whom ginger powder or fresh root can be either conditionally hazardous to health, or completely banned from consumption. Those who belong to the second category should not drink ginger with lemon, add it to dishes as a spice, or use it for weight loss as part of tinctures, decoctions.
Group 1 includes patients with chronic or acute diseases:
- gastritis;
- stomach ulcer;
- allergy;
- food reflux;
- diverticulitis;
- condition after a recent stroke, heart attack;
- diseases of the liver, gallbladder, kidneys;
- tumors;
- hepatitis, cirrhosis;
- stones in the biliary tract;
- high blood pressure;
- ischemia of the heart.
Category 2, for whom ginger is completely prohibited, includes people with diseases and situations such as:
- hemorrhoids, especially with bleeding;
- problems with blood vessels;
- pregnancy, especially the second and third trimester;
- breastfeeding the baby;
- increased body temperature, fever, fever;
- skin diseases;
- individual intolerance.
Prohibition of combination with drugs
The list of contraindications who should not drink ginger includes those who take certain groups of drugs to treat various diseases. In this case, before tasting the seasoning or adding it to tea, dishes, you must definitely consult with your doctor, study the prohibitions and complications.
So, it is forbidden to use fresh or dried ginger when taking:
- drugs that lower blood pressure;
- medicines prescribed for diabetes mellitus;
- muscle relaxers;
- heart medications and drops;
- sympathomimetics;
- pills that reduce blood clotting;
- antipyretic drugs.
US scientists have scientifically proven that healthy people can consume no more than 2 g of ginger root per day for every 1 kg of body weight. It is this dose that is considered safe for health, if there are no contraindications.
