Introduction
Dry ginger is a useful item in every household. When ginger ripens and dries, dry ginger is made from it. It is used in spices of greens and pulses. All the properties of ginger are present in dry ginger. Dry ginger and ghee are added to mango juice to prevent gas in the stomach. Due to dry ginger's properties, it is mixed with purgative medicines. Dry ginger is very useful for the digestive system. In old age, digestion often slows down, gas is produced in the stomach, there is phlegm. There is restlessness in the heart and pain in hands and feet. In such a condition, consumption of dry ginger powder or dry ginger decoction mixed with milk is beneficial. Dry ginger is beneficial for all diseases of phlegm and gas and heart patients. `Saubhagya Pak´ is made from dry ginger and it is especially given to pregnant women to avoid any defect. This dish is very effective and a good medicine for pregnant women. There are many qualities in dry ginger. That is why dry ginger is known as Vishwa-Bhaishaj and 'Mahaushadh'. Dry ginger is tasty, digestive, sharp, smooth, anti-rheumatism and hot. It is sweet in cooking, breaks phlegm, gas and constipation and is a semen enhancer and improves the voice. It eliminates vomiting, breathlessness, pain, cough, heart disease, elephantiasis, swelling, piles, flatulence and gas. Dry ginger is not suitable for people with hot nature. Treatment of various diseases 1. Cold: Put dry ginger and jaggery in water and put it on fire to cook. When one-fourth of the water is left after cooking, filter it while it is still hot and drink it in 3 times. It is very beneficial in cold. Mix 10-10 grams dry ginger, chiraita, kateeri root, adoosa root and 6 grams small peepal together and add them to 1 cup water to make a decoction. When half of the decoction is left after cooking, take it off the flame, filter it and drink it to cure cold. Take dry ginger, peepal and black pepper in equal quantity and grind them. Licking 1 pinch of trikuta with honey in it gives relief from cold. Put dry ginger in water and boil it. Then add sugar to it and drink it to cure cold. Take dry ginger, black pepper and peepal in equal quantity and grind them. Then add 4 times jaggery to it and make small pills of the size of plum. Taking 1 pill 3 times a day cures cold and heaviness of head. Drinking boiled water mixed with dry ginger cures old cold. The piece of dry ginger should be changed daily. 2. Jaundice: Jaundice is cured in a few days by eating 10 grams of dry ginger with jaggery. Half a teaspoon of dry ginger powder with hot milk (without cream) or jaggery is very beneficial in jaundice. 3. Cold and Cough: Drinking decoction of dry ginger, taj and rotten sugar is beneficial in cold and cough. 4. Acidity: Take dry ginger, Sanchar salt, roasted asafoetida, pomegranate seeds and amrabel etc. in equal quantity and grind them to make powder. Drinking 2 pinches of this powder with water in the morning and evening is beneficial in acidity. Make fine powder of dry ginger, Indian gooseberry and sugar candy and consume it is beneficial in acidity. 5. Urine disorder: Drinking ginger decoction mixed with turmeric and jaggery stops semen discharge. The semen going in urine also stops. 6. Bladder diseases: Consuming 5 grams of ginger powder with about half a kilo of goat or cow milk stops blood in urine along with pain. 7. All types of pain: Consuming ginger powder, sajjikhar and asafoetida powder with hot water eliminates all types of pain. 8. Piles: Consuming ginger powder mixed with buttermilk is beneficial in piles (warts). Mix ginger powder with Indrajav and make a decoction with water or milk and add honey to it and drink it every morning and evening. This cures bloody piles. Consuming equal amounts of ginger and jaggery every morning and evening cures piles. 9. Weakness: By making a decoction of dry ginger and consuming it, the body glows, the mind remains happy and the body becomes strong. 10. Dysentery: Eating dry ginger with warm water every day or making a decoction of dry ginger and adding 10 ml of castor oil to it and consuming it is beneficial in dysentery. 11. Cholera: By making a decoction of dry ginger and wood apple pulp and consuming it, it is beneficial in stomach pain, diarrhea and vomiting caused in cholera. 12. Headache: By mixing 4 times milk in dry ginger powder and smelling it, any type of headache goes away. Grind dry ginger in warm water and applying it on the temple or forehead or forehead cures headache. Take equal quantity of dry ginger, harad, neem bark, amla, baheda and raw turmeric juice and boil it in 8 times water till one part remains and mix jaggery in this one part and drink it daily in the morning and evening, no matter how old the headache is, it ends. Headache goes away by grinding a small quantity of dry ginger and 2 cloves and applying it on the head. Headache caused due to cold goes away by grinding dry ginger in water and applying it on the forehead.
Headache caused due to insects goes away by grinding dry ginger, kirmala, peepal, chilli root and seeds of sahjana with cow urine and smelling it. Headache caused due to insects goes away by rubbing dry ginger in water or milk and smelling it through the nose and applying it as a paste. It gives relief in half head pain. 13. Typhoid: Grind 3 grams of dry ginger powder in goat milk and give it to a pregnant woman to consume, it is beneficial in typhoid fever. 14. Hiccups: Mix dry ginger powder and jaggery in warm water and put a few drops of it in the nose to stop hiccups. 15. Twitching of eyes: Mix dry ginger powder in Maharasnadi Kwath (decoction) and drink it in the morning and evening, it cures the complaint of shaking of any part of the body, twitching, etc. Whether it is trembling of fingers or twitching of eyelids. 16. Kapha-Pitta fever: Drinking the decoction made by grinding dry ginger powder, Giloy, Choti Peepal and Jatamasi is beneficial in Kapha-fever. 17. Gas formation in the stomach: Take 10 grams dry ginger, 10 grams black pepper, 10 grams rock salt, 10 grams cumin and plain cumin in equal quantity and grind them finely. Mix 5 grams pure asafoetida fried in ghee. Drinking 1 teaspoon of this powder after meals is beneficial in stomach gas. 18. Abortion: Boil 3 grams dry ginger and 15 grams garlic in water and make a decoction. Consuming this decoction for 3 days causes abortion. 19. Stuttering, stuttering: Grind 50-50 grams roasted dry ginger, Brahmi, Gorakhmundi and Peepal and keep it. Mix this 10 grams powder in honey and eat it every morning and evening. This stops the tongue from sticking and stuttering is cured. 20. Stone: Make a decoction by mixing 4 grams dry ginger, 4 grams Varana, 4 grams Geru, 4 grams Pashan Bhed and 4 grams Brahmi. Mixing half a pinch of Jawakhar in this decoction and drinking it every morning and evening dissolves the stone and gets eliminated.
