Orally, ginger is used for motion sickness, morning sickness, colic,
dyspepsia, flatulence, chemotherapy-induced nausea, rheumatoid
arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis, loss of appetite, post-surgical nausea
and vomiting, migraine headache, and for discontinuing selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug therapy. It is also used
orally for anorexia, upper respiratory tract infections, cough,
bronchitis, as a galactagogue, diaphoretic, diuretic, as a stimulant;
and for treating stomachache, diarrhea, nausea, cholera, and bleeding.
Fresh ginger is used orally for treating acute bacterial dysentery,
baldness, malaria, orchitis, poisonous snake bites, rheumatism, and
toothaches. Dried ginger is used for chest pain, low back pain, and
stomach pain.
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