Maybe the ginger cure works in the same sort of cruel-to-be-kind way as the famous "bacon cure" we used to describe to queasy tourists when I helped out on charter fishing boats in the Maritimes: "Ah, boyz, you just gets a nice greasy piece of raw bacon, and you ties it to the end of a piece of fishing line. Then you swallows the bacon, keeping hold of the other end of the line, and jingle the bacon up and down in your stomach. Pretty soon, you'll throw up, and that'll make you feel much better." Invariably, the mere description of the technique was enough to make the tourists lose their lunch, after which they did feel better. >My wife and I tried ginger once, _once_. Shortly after taking the pill I felt queasy and we weren't even on the boat yet. Shortly after leaving dock we were both violently ill. Once I had emptied my stomach and gotten that stupid ginger out of my system I was much better and spent the rest of the day OK (halibut fishing out of Homer). > >We never plan to take ginger again and personally file it under a lot of those herbalist things GNC sells as being basically a quack. > >Mel N49°16' W123°08' ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 09 1999 - 11:57:48 PDT
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