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Ginger is a flowering plant widely used as a culinary spice or as a healing herb in folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. A shrub with a soild root and branches spreads on the ground connected with each other.
Latin name:
Zingiber Officinalis
Tibetan name:
Gakya
Используемые части:
Root
The plant is probably native to south-east Asia and is cultivated in the tropical regions in both the eastern and western hemispheres. It is commercially grownin Africa, China, India, and Jamaica. India is the world’s largest producer.
Hot, bitter taste and warming nature.
It calms down distention and pain in stomach, helps in digesting food and increasing digestive heat; relieves diarrhea and vomiting, acts as a blood thinner, regulate menstruation cycle; helps against congestion in lungs, impotency and in activating sweat. Generates body heat and strength. Purifies blood and lowers cholesterol. Improves appetite, digestion and blood circulation.