I know nothing about ginger other than I use a lot of powdered ginger in almost every thing I cook. I’ll be looking forward to hearing about your experiences.
I’m ordering a book I found today written by a research scientist at MD Anderson, Houston, about spices and what research says they do and how to use them for what.
Other books I’ve seen are just plain people saying this spice does that and this other one does something else. This book I found is scientific but is still written for the general public to know how to use those spices and I think he is including herbs as spices - got that from reading customer comments.
The book is here on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Spices-Everyday-Exotic-Disease/dp/1402776632/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t