Re: [Paddlewise] Ginger and seasickness

A.H.J.(Eddie)van den Hurk wrote:
> 
> Hi All.
> One of the local kayaking news letters has come up with a chinese remedy
> for seasickness.

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> 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????

Well, I don't know if it's Chinese, but when I was a kid we took a cruise to 
Bermuda and skirted a hurricane, so lots of folks were seasick.  The stewards on 
the ship were busy bringing everyone dishes of crystallized ginger to settle their 
stomachs.  I didn't eat it - I marched around on the deck and breathed sea air and 
that helped - and apparently (according to my mom) I scolded her and my sister and 
told them to do the same instead of staying in bed.  Marching on deck isn't too 
practical in a kayak, of course.

I always drink ginger ale for upset stomachs (it helps - but then perhaps anything 
sweet and fizzy would?), and sometimes nibble on crystallized ginger too. But I've 
never actually tried it for seasickness.  Of course I also eat crystallized ginger 
like candy, too, it's lovely stuff! 


So I guess I can confirm that this is indeed a well-known folk remedy - but I 
don't really know if it works.


Joy Hecht
Arlington VA
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