Ginger fruit or ginger is used as spice. This is almost used as a folk medicine.An oral use of this spice is used to treat nausea. This is one of the flowering plants. It is one of the best ingredients in Indian society. It is to be said that young ginger rhizomes are more fleshy Dry Ginger powder is also known as Sonth in Hindi, Sonti in Telugu, Soonth in Gujarati, Suntha in Marathi and Shunti in Kannada. The powder is extracted from the ginger root which is dried. It is a fine off-white or slightly brownish powder that has a strong aroma and a pungent flavour. Weight loss. Dry ginger facilitates weight loss by improving digestion, which helps in burning stored fat and processing glucose in the blood.