Ginger is a plant with leafy stems and yellowish green flowers. The ginger spice comes from the roots of the plant. Ginger is native to warmer parts of Asia, such as China, Japan, and India, but now is grown in parts of South American and Africa. It is also now grown in the Middle East to use as medicine and with food.Ayurvedic texts credit ginger as a "universal great medicine". An old Indian proverb says that "everything good is found in ginger."Ginger...