JawaPos.com–General chairman of the Association of Indonesian Traditional Medicine and Herbal Medicine Developers (PDPOTJI) Dr. (Cand.) Dr. Ingrid Tania, M.Sc. (Herbal) said that ginger is one solution to prevent it stunting in children. Because, nutritious to increase appetite.
Ingrid Tania said that the specific benefit of ginger in children is increasing appetite. With a good appetite, it is hoped that body weight, growth and development and height will develop normally, so it can be prevented stunting as a result of being underweight.
Reporting from BetweenIngrid mentioned, stunting is a growth disorder in children in the first 1,000 days of life due to chronic nutrition and repeated infections in children so that the child fails to grow and occurs weight faltering or underweight.
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One of the risk factors stunting is a lack of appetite in children. Temulawak is considered to be able to overcome these risk factors because it is choleretic, that is, it can accelerate the release of bile which activates digestive enzymes.
Compound curcuminoids in temulawak can also accelerate gastric emptying and facilitate the absorption and digestion of fat in the intestines. So, activate hormones that work and increase the child’s appetite.
By consuming ginger, it is hoped that children’s appetite will increase, so that the body gets balanced nutrition and nutrients to prevent this from happening stunting. In addition to increasing appetite, both in children and adults, another benefit of temulawak is to preserve liver function in performing detox functions.
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Not only that, according to Inggrid Tania, ginger can also be useful for increasing body immunity and maintaining body resistance or immunity, which is the people’s choice during the Covid-19 pandemic.
With advances in science and technology as well as the pharmaceutical industry, ginger extraction can be done in a modern way and can be scientifically justified. So, people can more easily take advantage of the benefits of ginger.
2023-11-11 18:07:00
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