Ginger- For nausea and vomiting

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Common Name: Ginger (fresh)
Botanical Name: Zingiber officinale, Roscoe
Pharmaceutic Name: Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens

Parts Used: Root

Ginger has large whitish flowers but produce neither fruits nor seeds that grows in many parts of the world. Total worldwide production is large and is thought to exceed 100,000 tons. The plant reproduces through its rhizomes and which. Rhizomes are the parts distilled to an extract to use. Zingeiberene is the main substance containing in the plant and shogaols, the most pungent ginger components are form during the drying process.

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Ginger is used to treat nausea, vomiting, motion sickness, and abdominal air fullness.

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Ginger demonstrates effects on the digestive, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems. It also can be used to reduce joint pain. However, the only action ever to be evaluated in clinical trials is the ability of ginger to control nausea. Clinical trials have shown that ginger can prevent motion sickness, and that ginger also helps decrease the nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy. The are better effects if it is used accompanied with Vitamin B6.

In laboratory animals, large doses can cause low blood sugar but similar effects have not been reported in humans. It may be that humans do not take doses as large as those have been given to the experimental animals.

Ginger has effects on contraction of the muscles in the bowel that provides the expelling effect of gas in the stomach and intestines. But to subjects who are suffering inflammation or ulceration of the bowel, it should be caution or not to take it. Although it also give an effect on nausea or vomiting, but it is wise to consult your physician for it safety and amount to take.

According to the British Pharmacopeia, the dose of Weak Ginger Tincture (1:5, 90 % ethanol) 1.5 to 3 milliliters up to three times a day. For Strong Ginger Tincture (1:2, 90 % ethanol), the dose is 0.25 to .5 milliliters up to three times a day. When used to prevent motion sickness or the morning sickness of pregnancy, the recommended dose is 1 to 2 grams of the powdered rhizome. For other purposes, the dose is .25 to 1.0 grams of powdered rhizome three times a day.

Ginger commonly used as a flavoring agent and seems to be an extremely safe herb. It can prevent or treat motion sickness and relieve the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Still, any pregnant woman contemplating its use should check with her physician first.

Ginger, although is a commonly known as food additives, it was used treat nausea and indigestion by Chinese physicians more than 2000 years ago. In many treating herbal combinations Ginger is one of the complementary herb. Traditional herbalists attributed fresh rhizomes were used to treat nausea and coughs, dried rhizomes were used to treat stomach aches and back pain. It can been used externally to treat arthritis by Chinese healers, particularly used accompanied with moxibustion applications.