Zingiber officinale
Remedy of GI weakness and urinary debility. Asthma with difficult expectoration. Diarrhea from drinking impure water. Kidney pain with frequent urination. Weak digestion with flatulence. Morning diarrhea.
Source
Prepared from the dried rhizome of Zingiber officinale (Zingiberaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Weakness of digestion — flatulence, nausea, diarrhea from bad water. Asthma with tough expectoration. Kidney complaints — pain and frequent urination. Sexual debility. Diarrhea in the morning. Backache. Extremes of temperature aggravate.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Cheerful or irritable alternately. Memory poor. Dull.
General Symptoms
Digestive and urinary. Worse from eating melons, damp, morning, extremes of temperature. Better from warmth, moderate temperature.
Physical Symptoms
Stomach
Weak digestion. Flatulence. Nausea. Diarrhea from bad water. Colic. Acidity. Hiccough.
Abdomen
Bloating, rumbling. Colic. Diarrhea — morning, from impure water or melons.
Urinary
Kidney pain. Frequent urination. Urine thick, turbid.
Respiratory
Asthma with tough, difficult expectoration. Cough.
Back
Lumbago. Backache. Weakness of back.
Male Genitalia
Sexual debility. Weakness.
Modalities
Better From
Warmth, moderate temperature
Worse From
Eating melons, damp, morning, extremes of temperature, bad water
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Digestive and urinary organ remedy.
Clinical Indications
Traveler's diarrhea, weak digestion, flatulence, asthma, kidney pain, sexual debility, morning diarrhea
Comparative Materia Medica
Arsenicum album has diarrhea from bad food/water but with more burning and restlessness. Podophyllum has morning diarrhea but painless and gushing. Nux vomica has GI weakness but with more irritability.
Safety Information
Nux vomica.
Ginger is one of the safest and most widely used spices and medicinal plants. Non-toxic. Widely used for nausea, digestion, and inflammation. Safe in all potencies and mother tincture.
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