Fresh Adraka or dried ginger powder i.e. Sunthi both have their own benefits on health it not only helps in kasa, shwasa (cold and cough) but also helps in various other diseases:
• Fresh adraka juice mixed with jaggery powder helps in Shitapitta disease i.e. Urticaria.
• It has amazing property to provide moisture to the tongue, it also bring taste to the mouth so it can be used in Anorexia (Aruchi) and dryness of the mouth.
• Ginger has great quality to reduce pain in the body.
• Juice of ginger when mixed with milk acts as detox drink and can help in Ascites (peritoneum is fluid with fluid could be result of failure of hepatobiliary tree or result of lung disease).
• Sunthi powder when mixed with Jaggery powder is highly recommended in Jaundice type of disease.
• Sunthi and Gokshura when boiled with water and reduced to half the quantity of water, decoction of this should be consumed in rheumatoid arthritis (it acts as detox drink in R.A.) also helpful in alleviating pain in lumbar regions and in joints of the body.
• Warm decoction of sunthi powder is highly recommended in Indigestion, all kind of joint pains and also in cold cough and allergic bronchitis.
• Juice of adraka with ½ tsp of honey is helpful in sore throat and cold cough.
• Sunthi powder, Jaggery powder with sesame seeds (white): paste prepared out of it helps to increase digestive fire, when this paste is taken with milk relieves rheumatoid arthritis.
• Paste of Sunthi powder with milk of it helps in severe headache, helps in blockage of sinuses.
• Local application of paste of Ginger, cinnamon and sesame oil on knee joints helps in osteoarthritis.
• Menstrual cramps could ease on consumption of Ginger juice with honey.
• Some researches have shown good results on bad cholesterol levels bringing back to normal.
• Regular intakes of small quantities of Sunthi powder could help in type 2 diabetes in regulating blood sugar levels.