Most Potent Healing Foods

3 of the Most Potent Healing Foods
 “Everything you eat is either fighting disease or fueling it.” We know foods have the potential to be healing. What you eat can either harm your health or make it better. And nowhere is that more true than with medicinal foods like garlic, turmeric, and ginger. All three of these foods have amazing flavor and incredible benefits. They can help prevent disease and even cure certain illnesses and complaints. These three represent the trinity of healing foods.
Healing Foods – Ginger

Ginger has been used for thousands of years as a healer. Its benefits are widely recognized and extremely varied. It is seen as a “warming” food that can increase circulation and reduce general inflammation. While the list is long, here are just a few of the benefits of this remarkable root:

    Cancer prevention (Shown in one study to shrink prostate tumor size by a whopping 56% in mice)
    Morning and motion sickness treatment
    Nausea treatment
    Pain reducer
    Swelling reducer
    Ovarian cancer treatment
    Arthritis treatment
    Alzheimer’s/dementia prevention
    General digestive tonic
    Heartburn treatment

Here is more information on the health benefits of ginger.
Turmeric

Closely related to ginger and among the most powerful of healing foods, turmeric has similarly been used to treat and prevent illness and disease for hundreds if not thousands of years. This orange-hued root vegetable has a more smoky flavor and is found in curries and dishes around the globe. According to GreenMedInfo.com, the root “has been scientifically documented to have over 500 applications in disease prevention and treatment.” Among these are:

    Reduced oxidative stress
    Fat loss promoter
    Liver detoxifier
    Heart disease prevention
    Skin tonic
    Diabetes prevention
    Cancer fighter and treatment
    Anti-inflammatory
    Natural painkiller