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Title: "Ginger (Adrak)" - The best home medicine for stomach problems
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Ginger is a perennial herb, with underground branching stems, which are swollen
and tough. The leaves and rhizomes of ginger have a characteristic fragrance
when cut or bruised.
Rhizomes are dug out after the leafy parts are dried. Ginger is available in two
forms, fresh and dried. The sun-dried ginger is known as ‘SOUNTH’ in Hindi. Both
the forms are effective. As the taste of ginger is not very palatable, it is
carefully adapted to the plate by putting it in vegetables.
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Role of Garlic (Lahsun) in Health and Beauty:
- Ginger is highly beneficial in the treatment of flatulence, dyspepsia, colic,
vomiting, spasms and other painful affections of the stomach and the bowels, not
accompanied by fever. Chewing a piece of fresh ginger regularly after meals
prevents these ailments. This protective action is due to the excessive
secretion of saliva, diastase enzyme and volatile oil.
- Ginger is an effective home remedy for cough and colds. Extracted juice of
ginger with honey is taken three or four times a day in case of coughs. In case
of colds, ginger cut into small pieces is boiled in a cup of water. After
straining, with half a teaspoon of sugar, it should be taken hot.
- Ginger tea, prepared by adding a few pieces of ginger into boiled water before
adding tea- leaves, is another effective remedy for frequent colds and
associated fevers.
- To get control over dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting due to biliousness,
indigestion caused by intake of heavy non-vegetarian and fried fatty food,
morning sickness, jaundice and piles take half a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice,
mixed with one teaspoon each of fresh lime and mint juices and a tablespoon of
honey. Take this mixture thrice daily to reduce these kinds of problems.
- To proliferate sweating and reduces fever in influenza take a teaspoon of fresh
ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste. It
makes an excellent diaphoretic mixture. It acts as an expectorant in bronchitis,
asthma, whooping cough and tuberculosis of the lungs.
- Ginger is an excellent pain- killer and it has capacity to cure all kinds of
pain like- in headache, ginger ointment made by rubbing dry ginger with a little
water on a grinding stone and applied to the forehead affords relief. It allays
toothache when applied to the gum. In case of earache, a few drops of ginger
juice give relief.
- Ginger juice is natural aphrodisiac. For better results, half a teaspoon of
ginger juice, honey with a half-boiled egg and is taken at night for a month. It
tones up the sex organs and cures impotency, premature ejaculation and
spermatorrhea or involuntary seminal discharge.
- To reduce menstrual disorders crush a piece of fresh ginger and boil in a cup of
water for a few minutes. The infusion, sweetened with sugar, is taken thrice
daily after meals for painful or irregular menstruation caused by exposure to
cold winds or by cold bath.
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