Saturday, February 16, 2008

Healthy Homemade Orange-Pear-Apple-Ginger Juice



This Orange-Pear-Apple-Ginger Juice is great to start your day with.
For the kids I made it without ginger. Pear gives a sweet taste to it, which children like.

Ingredients for 1 big glass:
1 orange
1 pear
1 apple
a slice of ginger, ½ inch

Juice all ingredients and enjoy.

What can this juice do for you?
In Chinese Medicine ginger is a warming herb. It balances the cold nature of the fruits. Therefore it’s great to add ginger to your diet in winter. Ginger helps against a common cold, vomiting, cough, asthma and diarrhea.
According Chinese medicine orange is good when having thirst, intoxication, urination difficulty and emphysema.
Pear is good when having cough with mucus, constipation, difficulty when swallowing, alcoholism, difficult urination and indigestion.
Apple is good when having indigestion, low blood sugar, morning sickness and chronic enteritis.
By varying the fruits in your diet, you can benefit from the different effects, every fruit has on your body. If you want to correct a specific condition, you can take more of specific fruits, that heal that condition.

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