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What is it?

The roots of Ginger, a long-lived plant with attractive pink and white flowers on reed-like stems. The roots are usually harvested when the stalk has withered.

How has it been used?

Ginger has many traditional uses for problems involving the digestive system such as irritable bowel, diarrhea, indigestion and colic.

Ginger can be very beneficial in pregnancy nausea, likewise the nausea of travel sickness and even chemotherapy usually responds very well to Ginger.

Ginger acts like a gentler version of Cayenne to genuinely warm the body from the core and a common medicinal use of Ginger in cooler countries has been for poor circulation.

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Personal experiences

I frequently use a small amount of Ginger extract in herbal formulae. The right amount has a potentiating effect, helping the medicine to be better absorbed and to travel to where it needs to go.

Ginger combines perfectly with Gentian to assist even the most weakened of digestive systems back to health. Ginger works with Licorice to help other herbs to be more easily absorbed in the body. Ginger works with Devil's claw in long term arthritic problems and with Wild Yam to help painful periods or colitis.

~ Ginger & Cinnamon Decoction

1 dsp Chopped Fresh Ginger Root
Small piece of cinnamon stick (approx ¼ or less)
½ Squeezed fresh lemon
1 tsp (or more to taste) Honey 
1 ½ cups Water

~ Instructions

Break the small piece of cinnamon into a few pieces, add the chopped ginger and put together into about 1½ cups of water. Bring to the boil then gently simmer for about 5-10 minutes until you have about one cup of the tea remaining. Take off the heat, squeeze in the 1/2 lemon and then strain through a sieve into a cup. Add the honey (feel free to use it plentifully) and drink whilst it is still hot. You should notice a powerful feeling of warmth spreading through your body and you should feel noticeably warmer for many hours afterwards. Repeat as often as desired.

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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898

Ginger has been used in combination for diarrhoea and dysentery and few articles are more valuable when there is coldness of the surface and extremities, and nausea and vomiting accompany. Ginger is much used to disguise other drugs, concealing their nausea, or preventing their tendency to cause colic. It is eminently useful in habitual flatulency, atonic dyspepsia, hysteria, and enfeebled and relaxed habits, especially of old and gouty individuals; and is excellent to relieve nausea, pains and cramps of the stomach and bowels, especially when those conditions are due to colds, or to the ingestion of unripe or otherwise unwholesome fruit. Ginger, in the form of "ginger tea," is popular and efficient as a remedy for breaking up colds, and in relieving the pangs of disordered menstruation.

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