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For the past week, I had enough dosage of ginger and chili – thanks to my mom. She made several servings of one of her specialties, the Filipino dish called papaitan. Marlon actually requested this when my mom stayed with us for more than a week since her arrival, but we only got the chance to taste it days before she left for Japan.

I’m not a fan of ginger products but I find it interesting that Asian countries believes in its medicinal benefits. In most cases, ginger is usually includes as an ingredient in some Asian foods. When we went to Hong Kong, there are even sweetened ginger strips wrapped in tiny candy-like plastic ready to be consumed like a candy.

Based on history, ginger has been used by different cultures for hundreds of years as a source of medication. Recent studies confirmed that the plant really has healing abilities. Some drugs such as Phenphedrine actually use ginger as one of their ingredients. In Chinese herbal medicine, it is believed that ginger has detoxifying effect on other more harsh herbs. For this reason, ginger is found as a part of many different Chinese herbal formulas.

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