{"id":1029,"date":"2012-11-28T03:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2012-11-28T03:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T03:44:25","slug":"ginger-zingiber-officinale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Ginger ~ Zingiber officinale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Ginger<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Zingiber officinale<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Zingiberaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: rhizome<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: native to S.E. Asia; cultivated in the tropics<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: volatile oil (zingiberene, bisabolene, zingiberol); phenolic compounds (gingerols, shogaols); starch, mucilage, resin<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: heating, stimulating, drying<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">carminative<\/span>, antiflatulent, antitussive, antimicrobial, hypolipidemic, antioxidant<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: antiemetic, spasmolytic, antiatherosclerotic, cardiotonic<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: digestive disturbances involving flatulence, burping, and colic; circulatory sluggishness; motion sickness; nausea<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: burns (fresh juice), migraine headaches, lumbago, pyrexia<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: fresh infusion: 2-3 cm of rhizome\/cup water; dried infusion: 1 tsp\/cup water; 1:1 tincture: 10-60 gtt prn<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: pregnancy (large doses) (Concern in pregnancy was possible abortifacient effect, based on animal studies with extreme doses. No longer thought to be contraindicated in pregnancy.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: CNS depression and cardiac arrhythmias (animal studies only)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth<\/span>; Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ginger Latin name: Zingiber officinale Family: Zingiberaceae Part used: rhizome Habitat: native to S.E. Asia; cultivated in the tropics Main constituents: volatile oil (zingiberene, bisabolene, zingiberol); phenolic compounds (gingerols, shogaols); starch, mucilage, resin Energetics: heating, stimulating, drying Main herbal actions: carminative, antiflatulent, antitussive, antimicrobial, hypolipidemic, antioxidant Minor herbal actions: antiemetic, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,93,104,72,38,220,187,1,45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiflatulent","category-antimicrobial","category-antitussive","category-carminative","category-drying","category-heating","category-hypolipidemic","category-module1","category-stimulating","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}