You or your family member at any time suddenly or accidentally exposed to mild disease, while the drug supply is depleted or not providing medication disease. I suggest to you to keep some ginger rhizome for the stock if at any time you and your family experienced that before.
Apparently, not only used as a food and beverage, herbal plants can also be used as a practical alternative medicine.
Rheumatism
Ginger is a natural pain relief and to relieve rheumatic pain. Moreover, it can also relieve headaches, and migraine.
How to make
Method 1:
Grated ginger first, then mixed with water. The mixture is heated to boiling. After cooking, water is taken in a state still warm with added sugar or palm sugar. Drink 3 times daily.
Method 2:
Take a large ginger rhizome (if small rimpangnya then use two rhizome). Heat with the embers of the fire and then pounded. Paste ginger which has been pounded in a state still warm on the body of rheumatism. Another way is to grind with the cloves.
Blisters or sores
Ginger can also be used to treat wounds because of blisters, stabbed a sharp object, hit by a thorn, and injuries due to falling.
How:
Use the red ginger rhizome, then pounded and mixed with salt. Glue on the injured body part.
This herb can be used in snake bite wounds (as first aid before the patient was taken to a doctor) and can be used as a liniment on itching disease due to insect stings.
Eczema
Ginger herb can also treat eczema
How:
Grated ginger rhizomes are then mixed with water after it is squeezed, so that the water obtained ginger. Mix with the grated horseradish to taste. This concoction smeared on the skin of eczema. Perform routine Seara. Usually within 2 weeks, the eczema had diminished.
Other Benefits
The leaves are also nutritious ginger, among others, with crushed and given little water can be used as a compress on headache medicine and can be sprinkled into the faces of people who are shivering. While the rhizome of the herb is crushed and boiled in boiling water for about ½ hour, then water can be drunk as a remedy to strengthen digestion and expel gas in it, treat a swollen liver, cough and fever.