ZINGIBER—GINGER
The scraped and dried rhizome of Zingiber officinale.
Habitat.—East and West Indies and India; cultivated in tropical climates.
Properties.—Ginger owes its taste to a pungent resin, its aroma to a volatile oil, and its medicinal and flavoring properties to both constituents, which are chiefly found in the delicate felted layer lying between the starchy, mealy parenchyma and the brown, horny, external covering.
Dose.—Horses, 2 dr. to 1 oz.; cattle, 1 to 4 oz.; sheep and pigs, 1 to 2 dr.; dogs, 5 to 15 gr.