Name: Dry ginger,Sonth in Hindi, Sonti in Telugu, Soonth in Gujarati, Suntha
in Marathi, Shunti in Kannada and Sunthi in Odia.
Botanical name: Zingiber officinale
Dry ginger is the drying process of ginger(Spice) in a special way.Dry ginger powder is widely used in the kitchen to add flavor and aroma.Besides spicy nature it has many health benefit like-
1. Loose motion
2. Indigestion and vomiting tendency
3.Common Cold
4. High blood sugar
5. High cholesterol
6. Beauty
Loose motion: Dry ginger is very useful in loose
motion.It soothes the stomach and gives relief from loose motion.One inch of dry
ginger can be taken and burnt it on gas flame up to 40-50%.Then the powder form
of it can be taken with two pinches of salt and a cup of normal water on empty stomach.This process can be repeated two times a day till recover from
loose motion.This works like a miracle.
Indigestion and vomiting tendency: The stomach gets upset when
the food can not be digested properly. An upset stomach
can be annoying, painful and sometimes lets you feel like vomiting. To get instant
relief from this , one tea spoon of dry ginger powder can be taken with two
pinches of salt and two pinches of black pepper powder.
Common Cold : Sometimes due to the change of weather we may suffer from flu which is called common cold. It irritates us because of the running nose and sore throat. In this case dry ginger plays an important role to deal with common cold. One tea spoon of dry ginger powder can be taken with half tea spoon of honey. One tea spoon of dry ginger powder can be mixed with red tea and black pepper is also helpful.
High blood sugar: Dry ginger is an excellent natural home remedy for controlling high blood sugar in our body. To keep your sugar level balance, one tea spoon of dry ginger can be taken with one cup of lukewarm water regularly in morning on empty stomach.
High cholesterol: Dry ginger is also very useful in the lowering of high cholesterol level in our body. To maintain cholesterol level ,2-3 tea spoons of dry ginger powder can be taken with warm water on empty stomach.
Beauty : It can be used in face pack to prevent acne and pimples.Its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties help to kill bacteria and keeps face acne free.
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