Benefits:-
1. Coughs and cold:- Extracted juice of ginger with honey is taken three or four times a day in case of coughs. In case of colds, take ginger cut into small pieces in a boiled cup of water. After straining, it should be taken hot with half a teaspoon of sugar.
2. Respiratory disorders:- A teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste, makes an excellent diaphoretic mixture to proliferate sweating and reduces fever in influenza. It acts as an expectorant in bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough and tuberculosis of the lungs.
3. Digestive disorders:- Chewing a piece of fresh ginger regularly after meals prevents dyspepsia, flatulence, colic vomiting, spasms and other painful affections of the stomach and the bowels, not accompanied by fever. This protective action is due to the excessive secretion of saliva, diastase enzyme and volatile oil.
Half a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice, mixed with one teaspoon each of fresh lime and mint juices & a tablespoon of honey constitutes an effective medicine for dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting due to biliousness, indigestion caused by intake of heavy non-vegetarian and fried fatty food, morning sickness, jaundice and piles. This mixture should be taken thrice daily in the treatment of these conditions.
4. Impotency:- Ginger juice is aphrodisiac. Take half a teaspoon of ginger juice with honey at night for a month. It tones up the sex organs and cures impotency, premature ejaculation and spermatorrhoea or involuntary seminal discharge.
5. Menstrual disorders:- For this, a piece of fresh ginger is pounded and boiled in a cup of water for a few minutes. The infusion, sweetened with sugar is taken thrice daily after meals for painful or irregular menstruations.
6. Aches and pains:- It is an excellent pain killer. It allays toothache when applied to the gums. In case of earache, a few drops of ginger juice gives relief. Rub paste of dry ginger and a little water on forehead for relief of headache.
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