Plant red ginger, Zingiber officinale

This plant comes from South Asia (India) and China, are now found in tropical and subtropical regions, for example in Indonesia and surrounding areas. Ginger plants are usually grown in hot climates, especially in loose soil, dry and fertile. Ginger is a very well produced in Jamaica. Sri Lanka and China. Ginger plant can be harvested when the leaves have yellowed.

Plant Description:

Zingiber officinale is a chronic herbaceous plants that grow wild in the fields of soil moisture levels and gained a lot of sunshine. Its trunk is straight, with a bulbous fibrous roots and rhizomes horizontally. This quasi-trunked shrub can reach 30 cm - 1 m. Jehe rhizome rather thick-skinned tubers wrap meat and brown fibrous unique aroma. Elliptic leaf shape and width. Single leaf, lancet-shaped with a length between 15-28 mm. The flowers have sex with a 2 1 3 stamens and pistils of flowers. The flowers appear in axillary in a sitting position. Usually ginger planted in the lowlands to the highlands (temperate and tropical regions) at an altitude of 1500 m above sea level. Roots root fibers.

Chemical content :

Ginger rhizome contains essential oils, resins, mineral sineol, fellandren, camphor, borneol, zingiberin, zingiberol, gigerol (for example in parts of red), zingeron, lipidas, aminos acids, niacin, vitamin A, B1, C and protein. Ginger oil is yellow and viscous. This oil contains mostly terpenes, fellandren, dextrokamfen, sesquiterpene material called zingiberen, zingeron resin, starch.

Ingredients & Benefits:

According to the Dutch Pharmacopeia, Zingiber Rhizome (Rhizoma Zingiberis- ginger root) in the form of tubers Zingerber officinale containing 6% ingredients of drugs are often used as formulations of medicines or as an official drug in 23 countries. According to the WHO's list of priorities, ginger is a plant drugs most widely used in the world. In Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have been found therapeutis benefits. Since the first Ginger is used as a medicine, or herbs and a variety of purposes Iainnya. Ginger can stimulate the digestive glands, either to arouse the appetite and digestion. Ginger is useful as a liniment for gout and headaches. Fresh ginger finely ground can be used as an external medicine as a remedy for heartburn. Spicy flavor and aroma can warm the body and sweat. Its essential oil is useful for pain relief, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial. Juice of tubers (root sticks) used for cataract. In general, ginger is used as a mixing several types of drugs namely as cough medicine, treating Iuka outside and inside, against itching (tubers pounded haIus) and to treat snake bites.

Other uses:

1. Headaches / Migraine

2. Cough

3. Sign Wind

4. Rheumatism, back pain, back pain

5. Removing gas from the stomach

6. swelling, swelling (rhizome)

7. Nausea, drunk on the way

8. Eczema

9. phlegm

10. Sprains

11. Vitiligo (white spot karefla lose pigment)

12. Ulcers

13. Bitten by snake

14. itching due to insect bites

15. Disease roundworms