5. To Promote Circulation & Warmth
A great way to use ginger every day, especially during the cooler months ahead, is to help promote warmth and proper circulation in the body. Ginger is considered a premier circulatory stimulant, making it an ideal herb to use for poor circulation (think cold hands and feet), cramps, and chilblains (Hoffmann, 2003).
Since ginger is a diaphoretic, it carries the unique ability to push heat inside the body outwards to the exterior. This makes it an ideal herb to draw from in chilled and feverish states. One way to use ginger for this purpose is through infusing it into a bath, soaking, then wrapping yourself in a thick blanket for the next hour and “sweating it out.”
Ginger Bath
3 tablespoons of dried ginger rhizome powder (or 4 tablespoons of dried and chopped ginger rhizome)
½ – 1 cup Epsom salts
- Fill your bathtub with hot water.
- Add the ginger powder (or chopped ginger in a muslin bag) and Epsom salts into your bath, stirring to combine.
- Soak in the bath for 15-30 minutes.
- Dry off with a towel, then bundle up under a thick blanket or lay in bed under the covers for an hour or so to sweat.
- Rinse off in the shower.
- Rest and restore.
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