Zingiberaceae · rhizome

Ginger

Zingiber officinale

Human clinical trialsFood-like / generally well tolerated

Rhizome mapped in this catalog for traditional digestive and nausea-related use. Human trial literature reports modest, heterogeneous results for several nausea settings.

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Safety first

Culinary rhizome is food-like; concentrated extracts raise bleeding and gallbladder questions and are not interchangeable with kitchen ginger.

Tradition vs trials

Traditional record. Western herbalism, TCM (sheng jiang, gan jiang), and Ayurveda record the rhizome as a warming digestive and circulatory spice.

Trial literature. Cochrane and NCCIH summaries of human trials report researched ranges for nausea; effect sizes are modest and do not replace evaluation of vomiting or abdominal pain.

Practical ranges

Educational ranges — not a prescription. Culinary use is not an extract.

dried rhizome
Traditional culinary use up to about 2–4 g/day appears in Commission E / ESCOP nausea monographs
ESCOP / German Commission E — Educational range only — not a prescription. A licensed clinician individualizes product, dose, and duration.

Pregnancy, nursing, children

Pregnancy. Culinary use is longstanding. Concentrated supplements in pregnancy belong to clinician direction; trial literature on nausea of pregnancy is not a prescription.
Nursing. Culinary amounts are generally regarded as compatible; concentrated products lack robust lactation data.
Children. Culinary food use is common; medicinal extract doses in infants lack adequate data.

Contraindications

known allergy to ginger
caution with gallstones at concentrated doses

Key interactions

anticoagulants / antiplatelets · caution
High-dose ginger has bleeding-signal reports. Culinary amounts are generally low concern.

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