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Medicinal Uses and Indications. Today, health care professionals may recommend ginger to help prevent or treat nausea and vomiting from motion sickness, pregnancy, and cancer chemotherapy. It is also used to treat mild stomach upset, to reduce pain of osteoarthritis, and may even be used in heart disease.t has a long history of use in Asian, Indian, and Arabic herbal traditions. In China, for example, ginger has been used to help digestion and treat stomach upset, diarrhea, and nausea for more than 2,000 years.
As a result, ginger can be employed to ease a number of maladies, including a wide range of nausea, vertigo, diarrhea, heartburn and gas. That is also why ginger can be used to prevent motion sickness, as well as vomiting, colic, stomach cramps and stomach troubles associated with the flu.inger has been used as a stomach remedy for over 2000 years. It is especially good for treating and preventing certain types of nausea. There have been many studies that have found that ginger worked better than placebo for preventing nausea in sailors prone to motion sickness.