Ginger used against lightningSourced
One African ginger has a traditional role as protection from lightning.
Among Zulu people in South Africa, African ginger has been used as protection against lightning and snake bites. That describes a traditional belief, not a scientifically established protective effect. Heavy harvesting has also put the plant at critical risk of extinction.
The plant carries a belief, and now needs protection itself.
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