Contribution to the microscopic identification of Zingiber officinale

Abstract

Zingiber officinale Roscoe has a very long history of use throughout the world, both as a spice and as a medicinal plant. During the last two years in the midst of a global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 the use of various herbal products with ginger rhizome as active ingredient increased because of its numerous health beneficial properties. A detailed characteristic of the crude powdered drug is presented by microscopic photographs for the first time. Although the structure of ginger rhizome is relatively simple and well-studied, the presented results in combination with the detailed analysis of the literature provide additional insight to the pharmacopoeial guidelines for the identification of ginger powder.

Morphology and physicochemical properties of starch extracted from Indonesian ginger

“…The morphology of all starches is Ningsih, Dianasari & Hidayat Properties of Indonesian ginger Pharmacy Education 23(2) 47 -52 51 similar to those reported by previous studies i.e. oval, cordate, polyhedral and angular with a diameter of 4-40 µm (Braga et al, 2006;Adebowale et al, 2014;Gavrilova et al, 2022).…”