Botanical Profile

Ginger

zingiber officinale

Medicinal Actions

Analgesic, Antidepressant, Antiedemic activity, Antiprostaglandin, Antipyretic, Antitussive, Antiulcer, Carminative, Hepatoprotective, Hypotensive, Antiviral, Anxiolytic, Arrhythmigenic, Astringent, Candidicide, Cardiotonic, Cholagogue, Choleretic, Circulostimulant, CNS Depressant, COX-2 Inhibitor, Cyclooxygenase Inhibitor, Diaphoretic, Decongestant, Detoxicant, Digestive, Emmenagogue, Expectorant, Fungicide, Gastroirritant, Gastroprotective, Gastrotonic, Hypertensive, Hypocholesterolemic, Hypoglycemic, Immunostimulant, Lactagogue, Lipolytic, Lipoxygenase Inhibitor, Molluscicide, Mutagenic, Myorelaxant, Nematicide, Ovicide, Parasiticide, Peristaltic, Positive Inotropic, Proteolytic, Respirastimulant, Schistosomicide, Secretagogue, Sialagogue, Stimulant, Stomachic, Thermogenic, Thromboxane-Synthetase Inhibitor, Tonic, Vasomotor Stimulant, Colic, Elephantiasis, Antiaggregant, Antialcoholic, Antiallergic, Antibacterial, Anticarcinogenic, Anticathartic, Anticholinergic, Anticonvulsant, Antidote, Antiedemic, Antiemetic, Antiemmenagogue, Antihistaminic, Antiinflammatory, Antileukotriene, Antilipidemic, Antimutagenic, Antinarcotic, Antinauseant, Antioxidant, Antirhinoviral, Antisecretory, Antiseptic, Antiserotoninergic, Antispasmodic, Antithrombic, Antithromboxane

Conditions Treated

Alcohol withdrawal Combat excessive motion Combat improper chewing Combat the effects of overeating Complications of liver damage Impotence Increase gastric motility Kinetosis Neutralize acids and toxins in the digestive tract Postoperative nausea and vomiting Preventing aging penile vascular changes Reduces serum glucose levels Rheumatism Salmonella Schistosomiasis Seasickness Snakebite Sore Throat Splenosis Staphylococcus Stomachache Stomatosis Streptococcus Stroke Stimulate digestion Suppress gastric contractions Swelling Thirst Thrombocytosis Toothache Treating a side effect of alcoholism Trichomoniasis Ulcer Vaginosis Vertigo Virus Vitiligo Vomiting Worm Yeast Aperitif Aphrodisiac Pressor Sternutator Syncope Thrombosis Vermifuge Adenopathy Aging Alcoholism Allergy Alopecia Alzheimer’s Anemia Anorexia Anxiety Arthrosis Ascites Asthma Atherosclerosis Backache Bacteria Bite Bleeding Blister Boil Borborygmus Bronchosis Bruise Burn Cancer Candida Cardiopathy Cataract Catarrh Chemotherapy Chest Cold Childbirth Cholera Cold Congestion Convulsion Corneosis Cough Cramp Dandruff Depression Diabetes Diarrhea Dizziness Dropsy Dysmenorrhea Dyspepsia Dyspnea Earache Edema Enterosis Epigastrosis Epistaxis Escherichia Fever Flu Fungus Gas Gastrosis Headache Head Cold Hemorrhoid Hepatosis High Blood Pressure High Cholesterol Hoarseness Hyperemesis Immunodepression Infection Infertility Inflammation Insomnia Kawasaki Disease Low Blood Pressure Lumbago Malaria Marasmus Migraine Morning Sickness Motion Sickness Myalgia Mycosis Nausea Nephrosis Neuralgia Neurasthenia Obesity Opacity Ophthalmia Osteoarthrosis Pain Palpitation Parasite Pharyngosis Postoperative Nausea Pyrexia Raynaud’s Syndrome araceae mushroom seafood poisoning