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| Species name | Species name# | Common name | Common Hindi name | Family | Ailment type | Medicinal use description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curcuma zedoaria | Curcuma zedoaria | White turmeric, Zedoary | जंगली हऴदी Jangli Haldi | Zingiberaceae | ||
| Elettaria cardamomum | Elettaria cardamomum | Cardamom, Green cardamom | इलाएची Elaichi | Zingiberaceae | Cardamom is used as an adjuvant to carminative drugs. It is officially recognised in British and US pharmacopoeias and used as an aromatic stimulant, carminative and flavouring agent. It can be used to ease cigarette addiction. Eating a few seeds of cardamom can safely be recommended to initially minimise the number if cigarettes being smoked, and slowly the smoker may give up the chronic addiction to chain smoking | |
| Zingiber officinale | Zingiber officinale | Garden ginger | अदरक Adrak | Zingiberaceae | Pains and Inflammation Organ-specific disorders Mental disorders Cancer | In Unani system of medicine the rhizomes are used in stomachic, aphrodisiac, tonic, expectorant, carminative. It also used in removal of pain due to cold and warms from the brain. Ginger is very useful in piles, rheumatism, headach, lumbago, pains. |
