# From "The Hidden History of Beverages" by Alexander Lukashev

## 33. Warming Ginger Tea

Part Two (recipes), chapter 33 · For the cold season
Page: https://herbalmind.bar/recipes/ginger-tea/

warm drink for the cold season · taste: hot and pungent; the lemon adds sourness, the honey softens it · preparation time: 12 minutes

Plants:
- ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) — 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 (free: https://herbalmind.bar/before-you-begin/):
- 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 itself — amounts and preparation, who should not drink it, how much and for how long — is in chapter 33 of the book: https://books.apple.com/book/id6756108723

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