Overview Ginger has been known for centuries for its ability to calm the digestion, sushi always includes a dish of ginger, and it is used for dizziness, motion sickness or nausea. Medicinal Ingredients Each Capsule Contains: Ginger 4:1 Extract (Zingiber officinale) (rhizome) 250 mg (Equivalent to 1000 mg dried herb) Ginger Powder (Zingiber officinale) (rhizome) 200 mg Non-Medicinal Ingredients Vegetarian capsule (carbohydrate gum [cellulose], purified water, silica). Suggested Use Clinically shown to help prevent nausea and vomiting due to motion and/or seasickness. Traditionally used in herbal medicine to help relieve digestive upset including lack of appetite, nausea, digestive spasms, indigestion, dyspepsia and flatulent colic. Advanced Info Ginger root (Zingiber officinale) acts as a bitter and carminative herb. It helps stimulate digestion and also improves the tone of intestinal muscles. It also soothes an upset stomach. Ginger may protect the stomach from the damaging effect of alcohol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (such as ibuprofen) and may help prevent ulcers. The gingerols and shogaols in the essential oil counter nausea and vomiting. According to author Daniel Mowrey, "Ginger is the perfect remedy for acute nausea if you take enough to do the job. The biggest mistake people make in trying to use ginger root is not taking enough." Ginger also reduces platelet stickiness in the blood, aiding circulation. It also exerts mild anti-inflammatory actions. In Ayurvedic medicine ginger is used to treat inflammatory joint diseases such as arthritis.