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Article: Ginger may improve digestive complaints and motion sickness
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Argus Business, a Division of Argus Inc. Jan 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Herbs have been used for digestive complaints for centuries untold, and figure prominently into the "folk"-medicine traditions of many cultures.
Of these herbs, ginger certainly stands out. Originating in southern Asia, it is now cultivated in the tropics of India, China, Jamaica and Nigeria. A rhizome (rootlike stem) of the plant Zingiber officinale, there are different varieties, including African, Cochin and Jamaican.
The herb's actions are most often associated with its volatile oil, an oil responsible for its characteristic odor, and with an oleoresin (volatile oil and resin) responsible for its pungency. According to Varro Tyler, Ph.D., Sc.D., in his Herbs of Choice (1994), the ...