Botanical name : Zingiber officinale Rosc.

Family : Zingiberaceae

SANSKRIT SYNONYMS

Ardraka, Shundi, Shrngavera, Mahoushadhi

AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES

Rasa : Katu

Guna : Guru, Rooksha,

Virya : Ushna

Vipaka : Madhura

PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

English : Ginger

Hindi : Adarak

Malayalam : Inchi

PLANT DESCRIPTION

A slender, perennial, rhizomatous herb. Leaves linear, sessile and glabrous. Flowers are yellowish green seen in cylindric spikes, covered with glabrous scarious bracts. Fruits are oblong capsules. Rhizomes are white to yellowish in color, irregularly branched, growing tips are covered over by few scales. MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, body pain, dropsy, asthma, cough, colic, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and inflammations and abdominal discomforts. Dry ginger is appetizer, laxative, expectorant, and carminative.

Useful part : Rhyzomes.