Dry Ginger(100 g)

Dried ginger is made by first washing and soaking overnight and then drying the fresh ginger out in the sun. Calcium carbonate is added to bleach the dried ginger sometimes to gives it a whitish covering. We mostly used the powdered form of Dried ginger which is easy to store having a long life of more than six months.

Dry Ginger Is Called:

English – Dry Ginger

Tamil – Sukku

Malayalam – Chukku

Telugu – Sonti / Allam

Kannada – Shunti, Ona Soonti

Hindi – Sonth, Sattah, Adrak

Bengali – Sonth, Ada

Gujarati – Adhu

Konkani – Sunt, Soontti

Marathi – Sunt, Suntih

Oriya – Ada

Punjabi – Adarak

Tulu – Shunti, Ona Shunti

Health Benefits:

1. To Reduce Obesity
Mix 50 gm of ginger powder with amla powder. Mix it with water and drink morning and evening to avoid obesity.

2. To Cure Headache
A paste of dried ginger can be used o cure headache when it applied to the forehead. Dired ginger tea makes you relief from muscle pains that are fibromyalgia symptom, headache, vomiting.

3. To Cure Throat Infection
If you have a throat infection or throat pain. Apply a dried ginger paste on the throat so that it will be cured.

4. To Cure Indigestion and Diarrhea
Dried ginger powder boiled in one tumbler of water with milk and sugar or jaggery. Drank as a coffee to cure indigestion and diarrhea.

5. To Cure Stomach Pain
It also cures stomach pain and fever. Sukku powder with lemon juice taken to cure the stomach problems. It also cures the ordinary and severe stomach pain.