Plants and their European monographs
- Ginger — Zingiber officinale Roscoe, rhizome
European Medicines Agency monograph (EMA/HMPC/885789/2022 Rev. 1): well-established use for the prevention of nausea and vomiting in motion sickness; traditional use for motion sickness, mild spasmodic gastrointestinal complaints, temporary loss of appetite, minor joint pain and symptoms of the common cold — all for the powdered root or tinctures; the monograph has no tea.
From “Before You Begin”
The book’s safety page, quoted as it stands. Read the whole page — it is free.
- Six recipes are for the cold season and for feeling unwell. They are drunk for a few days and then stopped.
- The other two — the standardized dry extract of ginkgo leaf for age-related cognitive impairment (Chapter 19) and powdered ginger root against nausea and vomiting in motion sickness (Chapter 33) — belong to pharmacy preparations, not to a tea, and the chapters say so.
- Pregnancy. Twenty-six of the twenty-eight recipes here are restricted in pregnancy — most because safety has not been established rather than because harm has been shown, but the answer is the same either way. The two that carry no restriction are the rosehip brew of Chapter 26 and the sea buckthorn of Chapter 28, both of them fruits eaten as food across Europe.
The recipe is in the book
Chapter 33 gives the rest:
- the amounts and the steps
- what each plant does in the cup, and on what basis
- who should not drink it, from what age
- how much, and for how long