GENGIBRE (zingiber officinale)

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	GENGIBRE
	*zingiber officinale*

Name
GENGIBRE

Scientific Name
zingiber officinale

GENGIBRE

Other common names

Castilian: Gengibre, Ajengibre, sweet Jengibre

English: Ginger.

French: Gingembre.

Of the family of the Zingiberáceas.

The root divided or in dust is used. It activates the functions of the intestine and glands sudoríparas, maintaining the temperature normal of the body. It avoids the vertigos by accumulation of blood. Aid to heal wounded. It accelerates the enzyme secretion. It has great purifying power, clean the blood.

Exhaustion, slow lack of appetite, digestions, intestinal gases.

One is used like sharp condimento in the elaboration of some culinarios plates.

It does not agree to the ulcerosos.

Description

Grass with underground stems (rizomas) horizontal, very aromatic, of sharp flavor and white color in its interior. False aerial stems of between 60-90 cm. of height, with alternating leaves lineares of up to 20 cm. in length. Flowers in inflorescencias tightened, basal, in the end of short escapos.

Fenología

The flowering pronounces between the months of August and November, by space of 9 weeks. The formation of fruits is not known. The aerial organs (foliage) disappear by 13 weeks between the months of November and April.

Origin

Tropical Asia; under culture in other tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

Location

Of subspontaneous form in mountainous zones of the western and central provinces. Occasionally cultivated by the population.

Useful part

Rizomas.

Form of harvesting

To extract finished the vegetative period in winter (after marchites of the leaves). To wash and to conserve in place ventilated in shade or to dry with artificial heat 50-60 degrees C, after itched in small fragments. To grind to dust consistency.

Recognized medicinal properties

Systems: Digestive

Farmacológica action: Antispasmodic, Carminativo, Respiratory, Antitusígeno, Nervous, Antiemético.

Dye, vegetal Medicine

Via of administration

Oral

Other attributed properties

(not even approved)

The alcoholic maceration of rizomas is used in antirheumatic frictions. Afrodisíaco.

Warnings

Overdoses can cause adverse reactions by the presence of the essential oil: irritation of the tractos gastrointestinal and urinary.

Other uses

Like condimento. For the elaboration (domestic industrialist or) of refrescantes and alcoholic drinks. Saborizante agent.

Components

Rizomas contains an essential oil (0,25-3,0 %) with several tens of components (limoneno, felandreno, zingibereno, cineol and borneol, among others) and a resin (5-8 %) responsible for the sharp flavor, an enzyme (zingibaina), starch, amino acids and fatty acids.

Culture

To propagate by fragments of rizomas, those that must stand between March and April (when beginning spring rains). It prefers loose, rich grounds in organic matter and high capacity of retention of the water. For a better development it requires partial shade (underneath trees or shrubs).

Preparation and Dosage

DECOCCIÓN: To boil by 5 minutes 0,25-1 g of rizomas dry in a liter of water. To ingest 500 distributed mililiter to the day in 2-3 dose.

DYE (50 %): in the middle To mix 0,5-1 mililiter lukewarm liter of water. To ingest during the day distributed in 2-3 dose.

Bibliographical references

CEMAT, Jengibre. Guatemala: Mesoamericano center of studies on appropriate technology. Lists of credits on medicinal plants, Series 3, no. 9, 1ra. Ed. January 1979.

Thomson, W. To R. illustrated practical Guia of the medicinal plants. Barcelona: Ed. Blume, 1981. 220p.

Duraffourd, C., L. D. Hervicourt and J. C. Lapraz. Notebooks of clinical fitoterapia. Barcelona: Ed. Masson, 1986. 86p.

Reynolds, J. And F. (Publisher). Martindale: Extra The Pharmacopoeia. London: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1989, 1896p.

Sources, V. and M. Granda. Fenológicos studies in medicinal plants I. Rev Cub Farm 18(2): 249-263, 1984.

Medicinal, aromatic or poisonous Roig, J. T. Plantas of Cuba. Havana: Technical Scientific Ed., 1988. 1125p.

Robineau, L. Towards a Caribbean farmacopea. Sto. Domingo: enda-caribe/UNAH, 1991, 475p.

MINSAP, NRSP 326:91, Rizomas of jengibre. Specifications.

MINSAP, NRSP 329:91, Dye of jengibre (50 %). Specifications.

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