Wild ginger treats stroke and dizziness.

According to traditional medicine, wild ginger has a bitter, spicy taste, warm properties, with the ability to disperse wind and cold, relieve pain, treat blood stasis, etc., and is used to treat stroke, dizziness, hangover, fainting, etc.

Treewild gingerAlso known as sun wormwood, wild galangal, ginger, wind ginger, green wormwood; liver mai, Tay people call it khinh keng. Scientific name Zingber zerumbe (L) sm, ginger family (Zingiberaceae).

It is a plant about 1 - 1.3m high, with a tuberous rhizome with many branches. When young, the tuber is yellow and fragrant, the older the tuber is, the bigger and firmer it is; the inside is yellow, sweet and fragrant. The leaves grow in layers, without stems, elongated, pointed tip, the upper surface of the leaf is green, the lower surface is slightly pale, the sheath is smooth, except for the upper part which has hairs... Flowers appear in May - June, the flower cluster is covered with scales, the edges have hairs, the egg-shaped flowers grow straight from the rhizome, usually green, when old it is pink-red, the calyx and corolla are white, the lip is light yellow. The fruit capsule is oval, the seeds are black with a soft white seed coat. The plant grows wild everywhere in the forest, in damp, cool soil at the edge of the forest or along the stream where the mountain soil is dense.

According to traditional medicine, wild ginger has a bitter, spicy taste, warm properties, with the ability to disperse wind and cold, relieve pain, treat blood stasis, etc., treat stroke, dizziness, hangover, fainting, postpartum nutrition, stimulate digestion, improve appetite, sleep well, make skin rosy...

Some remedies based on folk experience

Cold treatment:Take 30g of wild ginger root, wash, crush, add a little alcohol and squeeze out the juice to drink, 3 times a day, for 2 consecutive days.

Stimulates digestion and appetite:Take 50g of fresh wild ginger rhizome, thinly slice it, and put it in 650ml of white wine. Soak it for 15-20 days before using. Filter the wine and drink once a day (20ml) before meals. People with chronic liver disease should not use it.

Treatment of cold feet:Use crushed wild ginger, add a little alcohol, heat it up, and rub the residue all over your body.

Cure underarm odor:20g wild ginger, 4g camphor. Dry wild ginger, grind into fine powder with camphor. Mix well, rub powder into armpits twice a day after washing clean.

Support treatment of chronic hepatitis:100g fresh wild ginger, leave the skin on, wash, slice thinly, put in a clay pot, pour in 500ml of water, simmer until 150ml remains, pour in another 400ml of water, simmer until 150ml remains, mix the 2 medicines together, divide into 3 doses to drink during the day. 3 weeks for one course. Note, the patient needs to eat a light diet, limit eating ripe fruits rich in potassium such as bananas because they will cause bloating, abstain from alcohol, beer, do not eat animal fat, eat less vegetable oil.

According to Traditional Medicine Practitioner Huu Duc - Health & Life