Latin, Amomum zingiber, Gingiber albus, G. nigher;
English, Ginger, Jamaica ginger ;
French, Gingembre;
German, Ginfer, Ingberzahne ;
Urdu, Soonth, Zanjbeel, Adrak.
A perennial, deciduous shrub, with a large, horizontal, solid, tough
rhizome, roundly-jointed, fleshy, cylindrical and brittle, covered
with a plae, silvery-brown skin, marked with leaf-scars, pale-yellow
within. The stem, 2 to 4 feet high, is erect, oblique, invested by
the smooth sheathe of the leaves. The leaves are alternate in two
rows, sub-sessible on long sheaths, linear lanceolate, smooth, the
sheaths, smooth, each terminated with a bifid ligula, the small,
yellow-speckled or red flowers, appearing from June to August in
elongated spikes, are sessile, each surrounded by a smooth bract
in the axil of the large bracts.
Found in :-
Common in Pakistan and India, cultivated throughout the tropics of Asia and America.
Introduced into homoeopathic practice:-- |
By Dr. Bute, Archiv. XV. 1, 182. in 1835. ( Allen’s Encyc. Mat, Med. X. 225.)
The dried root, as imported ; that from Jamaica to be preferred.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Zingiber officinale, in moderately coarse powder | 100 gm
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Strong alcohol, a sufficient quantity. |
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
(c) Triturations: 1x and higher.
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