**1. Introduction**

Medicinal plants are the "backbone" of traditional medicine, which means people in the less developed countries utilize medicinal plants on a regular basis. These medicinal plants are thought to be a rich source of components for medication discovery and synthesis. Furthermore, these plants are important in the evolution of human cultures all around the world. Plants have formed the foundations of conventional traditional medical systems for thousands of years. Plants will continue to provide us with new remedies. Some of the beneficial benefits attributed to plants have been proven to be false, and medical plant therapy is based on hundreds to thousands of years of experimental research [1]. Many cultures around the world rely on traditional medicine since it is conveniently accessible from a local plant. According to a WHO (World Health Organization) estimate, the medicinal plant is used by over 3.5 billion people in underdeveloped nations for health care [2–4]. Traditional

medicine is still prescribed by African doctors, i.e. (70–80%). Traditional medicine is used to treat human and livestock ailments in almost every part of the world [5]. A lot of attention has been paid to various areas of ginger's activities in reviews. For example, Grzanna et al. [6] focused on the use of ginger as an anti-inflammatory agent, whereas Shukla and Singh [7] focused on the cancer prevention properties of the crude drug. Chaiyakunapruk et al. [8] published a review on the effects of ginger as a post-operative anti-emetic drug. As a result, the goal of this chapter was to present an overview of the medicinal and phytopharmacological potential of ginger (*Zingiber officinale*).
