Ginger

Species Name: Zingiber officinale.

Also known as: Black ginger, Canton ginger, Cochin ginger, Common ginger, Garden ginger, Gingembre, Imber, Jamaican ginger, Zingiber officinale.

What is Ginger: Ginger is a tropical plant. It grows in most hot, wet areas as a small bush about four feet tall. The actual ginger is taken from the root of the plant.

Ginger is tan to a dark brown color, for cooking it can be used fresh and powdered.

Home remedies using ginger:

Benefits of Ginger:

This is an herb that can be used for many uses from helping with nausea in seasickness and motion sickness. There are other uses from helping with headaches and other uses that have been fully proven but might work for you.

Uses of Ginger:

Ginger is mostly used as a flavoring for food. Ginger may be taken orally in higher amounts as an herbal remedy to prevent or relive nausea resulting from chemotherapy, motion sickness, pregnancy and surgery.

There have been many studies with this herb, as well as studies conducted among sailors that used ginger to help with seasickness. Ginger also has been shown to help people that have motion sickness more then any kind of placebo.

A federally funded, large clinical trial confirmed that people who started taking ginger capsules several days before a chemo infusion had fewer and less severe bouts of nausea afterward than others who were given dummy capsules, the federally funded study found.

If you are using ginger to help with nausea due to pregnancy there have been no ill effect caused by it use. There aren't any effects to the mother or child. It will be up to you if you decide to use ginger during your pregnancy.

Ginger has been used in folk medicine to help with problems such as gas or stomach cramps.

Another traditional use for ginger is the use for the pain of toothaches. Ginger can also be used in combination of herbs to help other problems.

Ginger missed with feverfew can relieve a migraine headache. Most of the other traditional uses can't be full proven by studies.

You can find fresh ginger, dried ginger powder; this will be in capsules, also in liquid extracts and in syrups.

Side Effects of Ginger:

Sometimes there might be a tingle feeling in the mouth and a chance of diarrhea. To lessen any effects make sure that you use a small dose, four grams at the most.

Using small amount in foods will not interact with any other drugs you might be taking. But you should check with your doctor if you are using large amounts of ginger.