Thai food is good for you?

Tom Yum soup healthy. D.Schmidt

Thai cuisine is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. In fact, many Thai dishes like Tom Yum soup, scientific study for its amazing health benefits are at present (see article Thai soup). Of course we know that most of the fresh herbs and spices used in Thai cuisine - such as turmeric, galangal, coriander, lemon and fresh peppers - can stimulate the immune system and fight disease. Eat more information about these and other ingredients that make Thai food one of the healthiest you can help.

Each of the following Thai ingredients has many health benefits and can stimulate the immune system. In order to maximize these benefits, I recommend to her Thai cuisine cooking from scratch, which means that only uses the freshest ingredients. (To learn how to cook Thai food, see: Thai Easy recipes, step by step (with photos).

CURCUMA

Curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, known as anti-inflammatory agents, whereby the symptoms of allergies, and arthritis (or a condition characterized by excess inflammation) to relieve. It is also a powerful antioxidant that can protect the body from damage caused by toxins and free radicals. Curcumin also protects the platelets in the blood, improving circulation and heart protection.

As such, turmeric is known:

• His digestive a valuable tool
• It helps people with arthritis
• improved (Heart) cardiovascular conditions;
• Protecting the body against bacterial infections (wounds)

• Fight skin cancer and breast cancer in animal studies.

More turmeric to your diet, try eating curry (the kind that contains turmeric, such as yellow curry) at least once a week. Try for example, my simple recipe Thai yellow curry chicken, it's easy to make and tastes delicious! Or, if you are a vegetarian, try me: vegetarian Thai curry recipe.

Galangal

While foreign to most of us in the West, has the father of many of the ginger health benefits, including its ability to aid digestion.

Galangal is now cultivated in most Southeast Asian countries, but is collected for use in the kitchen and medicine in China and Java. Since the Middle Ages was galanga already in common use throughout Europe. As to be "the salt of life" of St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), galangal was in fact, one of their favorite remedies. This famous herbal galangal used to treat everything from deafness and heart disease to digestive disorders.

Today galangal is widely used in traditional Chinese and ayurvedic medicine, often be more beneficial than ginger, in some respects.

Galangal found for:

• Relieve discomfort and abdominal pain
• Digestion
• Cure vomiting, dizziness and evil
• improve blood circulation in the hands and feet
• Treatment of diarrhea
• Fight inflammation, arthritis, and treatment
• Treatment of ulcers and inflammation of the stomach
• even to cure hiccups!

Galangal buy you need to go to an Asian / Chinese supermarket. Although you can find fresh galangal in the produce department, it is often sold frozen, so you can see in the freezer. Galangal is also used in dry form as a powder, commonly sold as powder Laos. But note that, as with most herbs and spices, buying the dry form that you do not enjoy all the health benefits of the fee. In addition, the taste is very different.

For a visual image of what looks fresh galanga my: Galangal sharpness.

Note: If you can not find fresh galangal, ginger is a good substitute, and also offers many of the same health benefits.

CYMBOPOGON

This lemon scented herb has been widely used in Thai cuisine. It's been used since ancient times in Chinese medicine for the following conditions:

• Colds and flu, which may be why Tom Yum soup is so good to relieve the symptoms of colds and flu
• Fever
• Headache
• Abdominal pain and other conditions of the stomach
• Arthritis
• Terms of fungi

Want to learn how to buy, prepare and cook with lemon? Check out my guide all about lemongrass.

CORIANDRE

In Thai cooking coriander is used in two ways: in the form of seeds, and like the grass. In the West, coriander is known as "cilantro" or "Chinese parsley". While fresh coriander coriander seed has nutritional value has been used since ancient times by healers in Greece, Rome, Britain, China and India on the following complaints:

• Gastrointestinal problems (including flatulence)
• Digestive Problems
• Bacterial and fungal infections
• Anorexia

Peppers (fresh or dried, whole, chopped or milled)

Recent studies in humans show that the consumption of peppers can help you sleep better, your heart stay healthy and maintain constant concentrations of insulin and glucose. In all previously studied peppers, seems cayenne pepper is one of the most powerful in terms of health benefits. Moreover, it is one of the few peppers we here in North America (available in flakes or powder in most grocery stores). , To learn more about the benefits of eating cayenne pepper, chili see Health Services to create a healthy sauce / paste Chili with Cayenne make (to heal guaranteed, your stomach does not hurt), see: Health Services cayenne.

COCONUT MILK

In recent years, the coconut milk was somehow given a bad reputation, when in fact it is very healthy. Yes, coconut milk and oil contain fat - but it's good not bad fats. Anders could believe as you, coconut milk:

• lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) while boosting the good cholesterol
• increases immunity
• Modulating the metabolic functions
• It provides valuable fatty acids, most Westerners are missing
• Fight aging

To learn more about the health benefits of coconut oil can be found at: Health benefits of coconut and coconut oil.

To cook with the ingredients above, try my 10 best recipes of Thai curry. Or, if you are a vegetarian, please see my Thai Vegetarian recipes.