Common Name : Ginger
Other Name : Shunthi
Botanical Name : Zingiber Officinalis Roscoe.
Plant Family : Zingiberaceae
Part Used : Root Slices Used.
Overview : Ginger Root Slices Is The Most Widely Used And Available Herbal Remedy On The Planet, With Billions Of People Using It Every Day As Both Food And Medicine. A Tropical Perennial Growing To A Height Of Two Feet, Ginger Has Lance-shaped Leaves And Bears Stalks Of White Or Yellow Flowers.


A slender, perennial, rhizomatous herb; leaves linear, sessile, glabrous flowers yellowish green in oblong, cylinderic spikes, ensheathed in a few scarious, glabrous bracts, fruit oblong capsules. The rhizomes are white to yellow brown in colour, irregularly branched, somewhat annulated and laterally flatened. The growing tips are covered over by a few scales. The surface of the resume is smooth and if broken a few fibrous elements of the vascular bundles project out from the cut ends.