Benefits of Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale), is a very popular plant rhizome as a spice and medicinal materials. Rhizome-shaped fingers are swollen in the middle sections. Dominant spicy flavor due to a ketone compound called zingeron.

Including interest Zingiberaceae ginger (retrieval-finding). 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 trust the ginger comes from South China. Of India, ginger is taken as the spice trade to Southeast Asia, China, Japan, to the Middle East. Then in the days of colonialism, ginger can provide a warm and spicy flavor to foods soon became a popular commodity in Europe.

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

Ginger is the pseudo-stem trunks to a height of 30 to 100 cm. Shaped root root rhizome with flesh-colored to reddish-yellow with a pungent odor. Pinnate leaves with a length of 15 to 23 mm and a length of 8 to 15 mm. 

Ginger flower grows from the ground with a long oval-shaped 3.5 to 5 cm and a width of 1.5 to 1.75 cm. Scaly peduncle as much as 5 to 7 pieces. Green and yellow flowers. Lip and stigma purple flowers. Pistil stalk number two.

Some properties of ginger are as follows:

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

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