Ginger flowers.

Ginger flowers. 

Ginger (Zingiber officinale). Ginger is a plant root that is used as a human spice and herbal medicine. Ginger is one of the spice crops. Ginger is used in food, beverages, pickles, medicines and perfumes. Ginger was one of the first spices to be exported from Asia to Europe, mainly through the spice trade, and was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Genus: Zingiber
Scientific taxonomy
World: Plantae
(Unclassified): Angiosperms
(Unclassified): Monocots
(Unclassified): Commelinids
Class: Zingiberales
Family: Zingiberaceae
Mass: Zingiber
Species: Z. officinale

 

 

Medicinal use

It is an herbal medicine. Ginger is dried and chewed in the sun to increase appetite and indigestion. In addition, for colds, coughs, diarrhea, jaundice, flatulence, ginger is chewed or eaten with juice.

Expansion
Ginger is more profitable than cash crops. Ginger is widely cultivated in Tangail, Mymensingh, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Panchagarh and hill districts of Bangladesh.

Cultivation
The crop matures about 6-7 months after planting ginger seeds. Ginger is planted from the second week of April to May. Ginger is usually harvested in December-January.

Nutritional quality
Extraction of non-vegetarian 2 আমি 3%, starch 12 · 3%, fiber 2 · 4%, minerals, 1 · 2% water 60 · 7% etc.

Quality
Ginger is useful in fever, chills and pain.
Ginger also helps in shedding excess weight.
Its juice is beneficial in smallpox.
Ginger juice cools the body
Beneficial for the heart.
Ginger juice mixed with honey for cough and asthma is quite relieved.
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall bearing narrow leaf blades.
Family: Zingiberaceae
Species: Z. officinale