GINGER - HISTORY AND USE

Ginger is well known in the form of ginger sticks or ginger ale. If th ese are consumed during travel, the traveler imbibes, albeit subconsci ously, a healing plant for motion sickness. The efficacy of ginger rhi zome-for the prevention of nausea, dizziness, and vomiting as symptoms of motion sickness (kinetosis), as well as for postoperative vomiting and vomiting of pregnancy, has been well documented and proved beyond doubt in numerous high-quality clinical studies. The use of this anci ent medicine for gastrointestinal problems (stimulation of digestion) has been given scientific approval. Today, medicinal ginger is used ma inly for prevention of the symptoms of travel sickness.