[Paddlewise] Ginger and seasickness

Hi All.
One of the local kayaking news letters has come up with a chinese remedy
for seasickness. 
Now last season there were a couple of cases of sea sickness were
skilled paddlers were unable to control their 
boats and had to be towed.This was  caused apparently , by a lack of
vision of the horizon.One case was at 
night.A dark night with 20 to 25  knot winds. The other was early in the
morning ,leaving a very rugged coast 
with a 3 to 4 meter swells rolling in and a horizon hidden by fog..Both
cases were in a group environment so help 
was there. In the latter case, the guy got towed for quite while and
suffered from Hypothermia as the others did not realise that, for those
who were actively paddling ,all was fine .But the poor guy hanging on as
good as he could , trying to keep his stomach under control, started to
cool of rapidly. 
Anyway accoording to this article Ginger relieves stomach upsets.
American reseachers (?)compared 940 mg Ginger root Powder with 100 gm
Dramanine in fairly severe motion sickness simulation tests. And
"Lancet" the British Medical Journal discribes that Ginger was found to
be far superior to the drug Dramamine.Has anybody else experience with
this remedy???? 
Kia Ora , 
Eddie.

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