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GINGER  
General Description :
Ginger
Ginger is an ancient drug of the Indian and Chinese pharmacopoeia;
It has been introduced to Europe as aromatic tonic, protecting liver, and colagogo (easing the bile-flow), without mentioning its use as drug in several dishes and foods.
Its composition gave evidence to the presence of an essential oil and a resin that are probably the cause of its therapeutic properties.
Ginger is the root of the Zingiber officinalis, a perennial plant native from Asia and today cultivated in all the tropical and sub-tropical countries.
  
History and Curiosities
The drug is constituted by the rhizome of Zingiber officinale Roscoe
(Zingiberaceae family), perennial plant with a cane form, big horizontal rhizomes with a poignant and spicy but very pleasant taste.
Ginger is named in many written texts in Sanskrit, but it was not unknown in the classic Roman and Greek civilities, given the fact that it was introduced to the Mediterranean area by the Arabs.
Ginger    
In tropical countries it's largely cultivated from the altitude of the sea up to 1500 meters, because of the great economical interest due to its use as food, both in the crude and dried state, in some preparations made in order to conserve its rhizome, just as candy and syrupy Ginger, but above all in order to prepare sweetmeats, liquors or refreshing drinks.Ginger is used in modern fito-therapy for the treatment of
dispeptic diseases ( digestive ) including burping, pyrosis
gastric pyrosis, flatulence e nausea. Ginger is also useful in the chinetosi nausea prophylaxis (caused by movement) and as anti-anaemic in the post-surgical period, in case of little surgery operations.
The anti-anaemic action is also due to an improvement of the gastro-intestinal mobility, both
a digiuno che a stomaco pieno.
Traditionally, it has been used to fight dismenorrea, cephalalgia and as anti-inflammatory and anti-piraetic, even if these activities have not been proved by confirmed clinical studies. Among the compounds contained in Ginger are monoterpeni,sesquiterpeni, e gingeroli. One of the principles contained in Ginger, the 6- gingesulfonico acid, seems to have anti-ulcer activities. Among the pharmacological activities that have been showed in laboratory tests but without confirmations from clinical data, are the anti-oxidant, ipocolesterolemizzanti, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and anti-viral activities.
Other characteristics and properties
Ginger
The anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory Ginger's activities seem due to the action of the fenolici compounds contained in the plant.
Ginger has an action on the production and activation of a group of mediator of the biological answer called eicosanoidi, whose action is to mediate the recovery process and take part in the immunitary system activity. The body synthesizes these important compounds and use them to rule the cell functions that don't operate in the right way.
Particularly important are three categories of eicosanoidi: : le prostaglandine, i trombossani ed i leucotrieni, actually object of research. The loss of balance, in the synthesis and release of the eicosanoidi are the base of many common diseases like arthritis, peptic ulcer, up to the improvement of the piastrinica aggregation that may cause strokes and ictus.
Ginger   Ginger reduces the abnormal inflammatory process and the thrombus formation tendency.
It's probably efficacious in the same measure of some anti-inflammatory and no-steroid drugs, very popular today, but with a far lower level of toxicity, because it protects the stomach's walls, instead of damaging them.