In China, fresh ginger as a medicine used along with the plant to a few thousand years of history.

在中国，用新鲜的姜和别的植物来入药已经有几千年的历史了。

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Turmeric, ground from Curcuma longa, a knobby root that looks similar to fresh ginger, has been used as an anti-inflammatory in India for thousands of years, says Shailinder Sodhi, who teaches ayurvedic, or traditional Indian, medicine, at Bastyr University, in Kenmore, Wash.

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