Guest guest Posted February 22, 2000 Report Share Posted February 22, 2000 If you read the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute website, you may have discovered a section on there were Wicke talks about contraindications of herbs and how there is no one size fits all herbal rememdies. One of the examples he gives is ginger for nausea. He gives a profile of 4 women who are all experiencing nausea and asks which would benefit from ginger and which would be harmed by it? The key to answering this question is to know that ginger is a spicy herb and has the typical heating and drying action of spicy herbs. Two of the women have Cold and/or Dampness problems. Ginger is a great herb for them. It will warm them up and help with the Dampness problems at the same time as it relieves their nausea. But two of the women are too Hot and/or Dry. Ginger by itself would not be a good herb for them even though they have nausea because it will increase the Heat and Dryness that they already have too much of. Note that I said " ginger by itself " . It is possible to use ginger with a person who is too Hot and/or Dry if you mix it with other herbs that have Cool or Cold energy and counteract Dryness in the body. You mix enough herbs with Cold or Cool energy into the herbal mixture so that the overall average energy is on the cooling side. You can use ginger this way with a person with nausea who is too Hot, or you can find an anti-nausea herb that has cooling and/or moistening properties. Victoria --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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