Description
The Warming Herb That Can Settle Nausea — or Tell Me Your Stomach NeedsSomething Else
There is a particular question I ask when somebody tells me they feel nauseated:
“Tell me what the nausea feels like.”
Is it pregnancy nausea that appears before they have even properly started the day? Does food feel asthough it just sits in the stomach? Is there bloating and fullness after eating? Does movement bring iton? Is the person cold and clammy, or hot and refluxing? Does eating settle it — or immediately makeeverything worse?
Those details matter enormously.
Because nausea is a symptom. It is not one single physiological state.
And Ginger is one of the best examples I have in my Herbal Remedy Bar of why simply saying, “Gingeris good for nausea,” isn’t enough.
I’m Charmaine D, Naturopathic Herbalist, and I use Ginger when the pattern calls for Ginger — notsimply because somebody has an upset stomach.
Sometimes I want its warming, aromatic stimulation. Sometimes I am interested in gastric motility andnausea signalling. Sometimes its circulatory and inflammatory actions are useful. And sometimes, particularly in my Sensitive Gut clients, Ginger is simply too stimulating and I need to soothe before I stimulate.
That is where this wonderfully familiar kitchen herb becomes surprisingly sophisticated medicine.
