Ginger (Adrak)" - The best home medicine for stomach problems

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.

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.