Ginger

Latin Name : Zingiber Officinale
Hindi Name : Adarak, Soonth (Dried Ginger)
Parts Used : Rhizomes raw as well as dried

Ginger is a slender perennial herb, with long linear leaves. Flowers grow in oblong, spikes and are ensheathed and are greenish yellow in colour. Fruits are oblong capsules. Rhizomes are white to yellowish brown, irregularly branched somewhat laterally flattened. A few scales cover the growing tips. The surface of the rhizome is smooth.

Traditional Chinese medicine has recommended ginger for over 2,500 years. Ginger is used for abdominal bloating, coughing, vomiting, diarrhea, and rheumatism. Ginger is commonly used in the Ayurvedic and Tibb systems of medicine for the treatment of inflammatory joint diseases, such as arthritis. For over 2,500 years, ginger has been an important herb in Asian medicine. Traditionally it has been used to promote cleansing of the body through perspiration, to calm nausea.

Action: Aromatic, carminative, stimulant to the gastro- intestinal tract, diaphoretic, expectorant, antiemetic, and stomachic, also sialagogue and digestive; Externally, a local stimulant and rubefacient.

Properties And Uses of Ginger:

Raw ginger is thermogenic, anti flatulent, appetiser, digestive and laxative. It is used in anorexia, flatulence, indigestion, cold, cough and inflammations.

Dried ginger is thermogenic, appetiser, laxative, expectorant, stimulant, cures stomach disorders. Dried ginger is used as a remedy to cure cold, cough, cholera, nausea and vomiting, inflammations, diarrhoea, colic, flatulence, anorexia, asthma and headaches. 

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