Various Benefits Resulting Ginger Plant

Various Benefits Resulting Ginger Plant

Zingiber officinale is a chronic herbaceous plants that grow wild in the fields yield soil moisture and get lots of sun. Stem erect, fibers and bulbous roots with a horizontal rhizome. Trunked bush plants this artificial high can reach 30 cm - 1 m. Ginger Rhizome rather thick-skinned tubers wrapped fibrous flesh and distinctive brown scented. Rounded leaves form a long and not wide. Single leaf, lancet-shaped with a length between 15 - 28 mm. The flowers have sex with 2 stamens 1 and 3 flower pistils. These flowers appear in the armpit leaves the sitting position. Usually ginger planted in lowland to highland (temperate & tropical areas) at an altitude of 1500 m above sea level. Roots fibrous roots.

Ginger rhizome contains a volatile oil, resin, mineral sineol, fellandren, kamfer, borneol, zingiberin, zingiberol, gigerol (eg in the red parts), zingeron, lipidas, aminos acid, niacin, vitamin A, B1, C, and protein. Oil of ginger yellow and thick. This oil contains mostly terpen, fellandren, dextrokamfen, sesquiterpen material called zingiberen, zingeron resin, starch.

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

According to the Dutch Pharmacopoeia, Zingiber Rhizoma (Rhizoma Zingiberis-root ginger) is a tuber Zingerber officinale contains 6% medicine that is often used as a drug formulation or as an official drug in 23 countries. According to WHO priority list, ginger is the plant medicines of the most widely used in the world. In Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have discovered many benefits therapeutis. Ginger had always been used as medicines, or plants and a variety of purposes.

Ginger may stimulate the digestive gland, both to generate appetite and digestion. Ginger is useful as a liniment for rheumatism illnesses and headaches. Fresh ginger finely ground can be used to treat the heartburn drug. Spicy taste and aroma can warm the body and sweating.

Its essential oil useful for the relief of pain, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial. Juice of the tuber (root sticks) used for cataract disease. Generally ginger is used as the mixing of several types of drugs as a cough medicine, treating the wounded out and in, against itching (tubers pounded until tender) and to treat snake bites