**5.2 Other medicinal and toxicological properties**

Muscular aches, indigestion, fever, hypertension, fever, rheumatism, pains, infectious diseases, sore throats, cramps, colds, vomiting, constipation, motion sickness, gastrointestinal diseases, arthritis, sprains, helminthiasis and dementia are just a few of the ailments that ginger has been used to treat in Chinese, Ayurvedic, Tibb-Unani, Sri Lankan, Arabic, and African traditional medicines. Ginger has been traditionally used from time immemorial for varied human ailments in different parts of the world, to aid digestion and treat stomach upset, diarrhea, nausea, and migraine. In a double-blind, randomized research involving 60 ladies who have undergone major gynecological surgery the group that got ginger root had much less reported instances of nausea and was comparable to the placebo group [59]. In a study of 100 persons with common migraine headaches, Maghbooli et al. [48], compared the efficiency of ginger (250 mg of ginger rhizome powder) to sumatriptan (50 mg, a synthetic migraine headache medication) (no aura). Both medicines resulted in a 44% reduction in pain 2 hours after treatment, though it is unclear how much of this was due to natural history and/or a placebo effect. Both medicines resulted in a 44% reduction in pain 2 hours after treatment, though it is unclear how much of this was due to natural history and/or a placebo effect.
