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GINGER (Zingiber officianale Roscoe) is a flowering plant in the family Zingiberaceae whose rhizome, ginger
root is widely used as a spice and medicine.
  It grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. Ginger is indigenous to south china and is exported to Europe as a result of the  lucrative spice trade.
  Ginger produces a hot, fragrant kitchen spice and is used as a snack and cooked as an ingredient in many dishes.
Family Name: ZINGIBERACEAE
Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale
English Name: Ginger
Igbo Name: Jinja
Hausa Name: Cithar
Yoruba Name: Atale, ata-ile.
  Description: This is a deciduous perennial plant with thick branching rhizomes, stout upright stems, and pointed lanceolate  leaves, about 15cm long, arranged in two ranks on either side of the stem. Yellow-green flowers, with deep purple, yellow-marked lips, are produced  in dense ovoid spikes 5cm long, consisting of overlapping, pale green to ochre bracts, and followed by three valved, fleshy capsules.
  Parts Used: Rhizomes and oil.
  Chemical Constituents: Aromatic, pungent, flavonoids and stimulants.
  Action: sweet, pungent, aromatic and increases perspiration.
  Medicinal uses:
1. Internally, for motion sickness.
2. internally for nausea and morning sickness.
3. Internally for indigestion colic and abdominal pain.
4. Not given to patients with inflammatory skin complaints, ulcers of the digestive tracts, or high fever.
5. Externally for spasmodic pain and rheumatism, menstrual cramps and sprains.
6. It is used for the treatment  of cold, coughs, diarrhoea, and abdominal  pain associated with cold (fresh rhizome).
7. It is used to control vomiting, uterine bleeding and blood in the urine (fresh  carbonized rhizome).
8. It is also used for abdominal fullness and oedema (rhizome peeled), coldness associated with shock.
9. It is used in digestive disturbances arising from deficient spleen energy, and chronic bronchitis (dried rhizome).