The Gingerbread Fantasy
November 5, 2008
Ginger is one of the most precious herbs nature has produced. Its properties are common, and known worldwide.
Ginger can be used both fresh as well as dry. It stops the production of mucus in the body. It is useful in curing colds, cough and indigestion. It tones the intestinal walls and helps absorption and assimilation. It makes a wonderful remedy for gas. The dry powder when taken with a pinch of salt and asafoetida in warm water subsides gases and gastric troubles.
Take one teaspoon of dry ginger powder is taken with a cup of milk and water and boiled till the milk alone remains, and add a little mollases or brown sugar. When this is taken continuously for about forty days it can be a boon for ladies – it helps cure backache, burning sensations in the palm and sole, and even leucorrhoea.
Ginger is useful not only as a spice that enhances the taste. Ginger, pepper and black pepper are an acclaimed remedy for the air and water elements – cough, cold, asthma, indigestion, loss of appetite and gastric trouble.
It is believed that most diseases of the stomach are all related, and give rise to one another. They all occur when the gastric fire is weak. If the gastric fire can be preserved, none of these should attack. Lots of cakes, puddings, chocolates, marmalades and jams are high in sugar and fats and weaken the stomach because they are heavy to digest. Ginger is thus taken to help improve digestion and keep the stomach in order.
Ginger when cut into pieces and had with a little salt regularly helps keep the throat clear and fresh, and improves salivation and digestion.
Ginger helps colitis away. Decoctions made with fresh ginger and mixed with a little castor oil help cure amoebic dysentry by expelling unripe mucus.
A spoon of clarified butter warmed with a little ginger powder and a little jaggery can be taken on an empty stomach every morning to cure cold, sinusitis and cough.
Although ginger is hot in action, it does not aggravate the fire element in the body, and is therefore, useful for all temperaments.
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