WONDER ROOT - GINGER

            

                                                                  

                                              GINGER  (SONTH)

       Ginger in dry form is known as sonth/shunthi. Both fresh and dry ginger differ in qualities.

COMMON NAME-       Ginger, adrak , sonth.

LATIN NAME -              Zingiber officinale.

Parts to be used -       rootstem.

PROPERTIES of ADRAK :-

                                              1.  Pungent(tej).

                                              2.Dry (ruksha).

                                              3. Appetizer(kshudhawardhak).

                                              4.Purgative(bhedak).

PROPERTIES of SONTH:- 

                                              1.Hot potency(garam).

                                               2. Digestive(pachak).

                                               3. Aliphatic(snigdh).

                                               4.Frivolous(halka).

                                               5. Acrid (teekha).

USES :-                             1.APPETIZER:-  

                                                               Take 5g of ginger  with salt before meals.

                                          2. SEASONAL RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS:-   Take 10 ml of ginger                                                                 juice with honey .

                                          3. EAR ACHE:-      PUT 4-5 drops of ginger juice.

                                          4. VOMITING & NAUSEA:-    Add 10ml of ginger juice with 10 ml of                                                                        onion juice and   give it.

                                          5. SWELLING:-       Take 10ml ginger juice with old jagerry.

                                          6   .DIABETES,OBESITY,CAD:-      Take 2-3 spoons of ginger juice

                                                              with 3-4 cloves of garlic daily in the morning.

                                          7. HICCUPS:-              Take ginger juice with sugar rock candy(mishri) 3-4                                                                times a day, also dry ginger’s    powder with jagerry.

                                           8. JOINT PAINS,R.A,BACKACHE:-    Take 20ml dry ginger’s paste with                                                                         5ml of castor oil with it for 2 times a day.

                                           9. HEADACHE:-       Apply lukewarm oil with dry ginger paste over                                                                                       forehead.

                                           10. INDIGESTION,ACIDITY,HAEMORRHOIDS:-   Take dry ginger’s                                                            powder with mixing it in warm water.

                                           11. FEVER:-        Take water, boiled with dry ginger’s powder and                                                                                     coriander .

                                            12. ARTHRITIS,GOUT  ,INFLAMMATORY  DISORDERS:-   Apply                                                                                 paste of dry ginger with over affected area.