Efficacy of Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) rhizome is a plant that is very popular as a spice and medicinal materials. Rhizome fingers shaped bulge in the middle sections. Dominant spicy flavor due to compounds called ketones zingeron.

Ginger including interest Zingiberaceae (meet-ings). The scientific name given by William Roxburgh ginger from the Greek word zingiberi, from Sanskrit, singaberi.

Ginger is thought to have originated from India. But there is also a trust ginger comes from South China. Of India, taken as ginger spice trade to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, to the Middle East. Then, in the days of colonialism, ginger can provide a sense of warm and spicy food soon became a popular commodity in Europe.

Because ginger can only survive in the tropics, planting can only be done in the equatorial regions are like Southeast Asia, Brazil and Africa. Currently, Ecuador and Brazil become the world's largest supplier of ginger.

Stem ginger is a pseudo-stem height 30 to 100 cm. Its roots form rhizomes with roots flesh colored yellow to reddish with a strong scent. Pinnate leaves with a length of 15 to 23 mm and lengths of 8 to 15 mm. Petiole pubescent.

Ginger flower growing out of the ground with a long oval 3.5 to 5 cm wide and 1.5 to 1.75 cm. Scaly peduncle much as 5 to 7 pieces. Flowers yellowish green. Lip flowers and purple anthers. Pistil stalk numbered two.

Some properties of ginger are as follows:

   - Treat fever and cough and cold. Way, take 1/2 fingers of ginger, then finely crushed and boiled with 2 cups boiling water for about 1/2 hour. Drink water as much as one drink for 2-3 times a day.
   - Treating gout. How, finely minced 2 fingers of ginger and 5 cloves shallots, and mix with one cup of flour and water. Use to rub the sore twice a day to taste.
   - Treating stiff. Way, take an inch of ginger, then wash and finely minced. Stick it on a part that feels stiff, then wrapped and covered. Do it before bed.

(various sources)