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Ginger Recipe
The use of ginger for flavouring foods dates
back to the earliest civilization. The Chinese were using ginger as long ago
as the 6th century BC, and Arab traders introduced the spice to the
Mediterranean before the 1st century AD. Transported from the Middle East to
Europe by the Crusaders, ginger was an ingredient in almost every recipe
found in a 1390 cookbook that was complied at the English royal court.
Spanish sttlers brought ginger to the New World in the 1500s. |
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Various forms of ginger, including ginger
ale, pills, and candied ginger sweets, are used today to counter the nausea
and vomiting of motion sickness. This practice is particularly well
established in Germany, where it is a government approved treatment for
motion sickness and heartburn. A recent study found that ginger was as
effective as Dramamine, a well-known drug, in preventing motion sickness,
without causing the drowsiness that the drug sometimes does. |
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Sipping flat ginger ale or
sucking candied ginger sweets may help to quell surges of nausea due to
morning sickness, food poisoning, gastroenteritis, or cancer chemotherapy.
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