Is there a medicinal use for the herb ginger?

Its helps calm an upset stomach

Ginger is a good herb for stomach ailments, which is why gingerale is good when you have the flu.

Used to stop nausea and motion sickness. Is used as a digestive aid and to stop or lessen acid indigestion.

In some people is will lower blood pressure.

Made into a tea, it can be very helpful with sinus infections and colds.

It can be used to lower blood pressure, and to calm an upset stomach.

The chemical, 6-gingerol, found in ginger root is used to CURE cancer in many countries. Great care must be used, though, to keep from overloading kidneys and liver with too many dead cancer cells at once.

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"Ginger has been used in Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years as a remedy for digestive disorders, nausea, fever, coughing, diarrhea, rheumatism and lumbago. Studies of ginger root have shown the plant prevents motion sickness, thins blood, lowers cholesterol, forestalls the flu and prevents cancer in animals.

Practitioners of folk medicine brewed ginger tea to treat indigestion, stomach ache, nausea, whooping cough, malaria and fever. Externally, ginger oil cools inflammations, eases earaches, and treats dandruff. Hong Kong boat dwellers chew it for motion sickness."
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