Subject: Re: motion sickness and ginger

From: [email-masked] (Robert Tennent)
Date: 17 Feb 1995 15:11:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>1.  Does anyone know how ginger helps to prevent motion sickness and does 
>it really work?
>
The classic study is Mowrey and Claysion, Lancet I:655-657 (1982)
which showed it does work, and the majority of more recent 
studies have confirmed this.  How it works is more controversial;
see a letter by Lumb in Anaesthesia 48(2) 1118 (1993). 

>2.  Does it have to be fresh ginger?
>
No. Powdered ginger root in capsules is the most usual form. 

Bob T.