Anyone Use Ginger Root Pills?

[maryanngup]

We'll be going out of Bayonne on the Zenith June 25th and I hear there are sometimes rough seas in this area. Has anyone ever taken Ginger pills for seasickness? They're a natural remedy and I was thinking of having some on hand, but wonder if they work.

[Druke I]

Never used the ginger pills, but have chewed on candied ginger root, available in Chinatown, and some gourmet food stores.

 

Actually, ginger ale (like Canada Dry or Schweppes) works almost as well, and if you also eat some saltines, you fill that void in the stomach, and keep the contents from sloshing about, reducing that queasy feeling.

[VibeGuy]

I've used ginger capsules, and been very pleased. Some people find them a bit likely to cause heartburn in large doses, so I take a Pepcid or the like with the first of them.

 

I've heard ginger ale works as well, but haven't found that to be so. I've found that I need 6 largeish capsules (I haven't thought about the actual dose in a while) to get relief. If you think about how much powdered ginger that is, it's quite a bit more burn than you'd get out of even the most whompin' ginger ale. Sodas *do* have the advantage of modifying the osmotic state of the gut, though, so may offer some relief just from the sugar in the stomach (just like cola syrup used to be used for nausea).

 

Smart move avoiding the patch or pills - I'm not a huge alternative medicine type, but anti-seasickness medications have side-effects and contraindications that are not conducive to cruises (if I need mal de mer relief when I'm working onboard, and can't drink due to the patch, that's one thing, but it's another if I'm forced to give up a blender drink).

 

Eric

[mari10]

Mari

I take 2 ginger capsules 3x a day and one bonine at night. I start this program one night before cruising. If the waters are calm, I’ll just take ginger and bonine at night. My friend tried Hyland's Motion Sickness Pills. She said they worked extremely well. They are a homeopathic remedy. We did hit a storm leaving Nassau, and saw quite a few green faces and some women being escorted out of the dining room. We were fine. I think I'm going to give the Hyland's a try on my next cruise.

 

Mari

[plumeria]

http://www.enkueros.net/20031.html

 

I found Hyland pills on this site, seems like good price I am going to order them just in case, I have never tried them but other people say they work

 

Plumeria

[LynnVB]

I have a friend who tried the ginger pills and they worked well for her. I used the wrist bands and had great success. Good Luck!

[GLITTER24KT]

Ginger works good for me. I either buy the capsules or a chunk of ginger from China Town. I have not gotten seasick in over 25 years. I start taking the capsules about a week or so before I leave. I take one in the morning, one in the afternoon and two at night and the small when I'm crusing. I can't take the band or the patch makes me feel too drowsy and sleepy.

[cruise pup]

I do the ginger capsules (2 each, 3 x's a day starting a day before the cruise). One important point is to take the ginger capsules at mealtime. NEVER ON AN EMPTY STOMACH That will help with the heartburn problem. And by taking them every day, not just if the seas are rough will make sure you have enough in your system should it get so. I haven't gotten seasick yet.

[FLJudi]

Check out the following URL from the Cleveland Clinic. Not everyone should take ginger - it has the possiblity to have affect on the heart and clotting process. My doctor told me not to use it.

 

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/guide/prevention/alternative/herbals_theheart.htm

 

FLJudi

[barbels]

My first cruise I tried the patch. It sort of worked but not completely. Next time I took bonine also called meclizine and dramamine less drowsy- it worked perfectly. All you need is one pill a day. Third cruise I tried ginger root capsules. About noon on the day after we left I had to admit I was seasick and I was burping up ginger like crazy. I took some bonine and I was feeling fine 20 minutes later. I've only taken bonine ever since. I recommend it highly.

 

I get seasick on the Staten Island Ferry. If your motion sickness isn't as bad as mine ginger capsules might work fine. Take some bonine with you just to be safe.

[AACJ]

If your ship has a sushi bar, go there and have some sushi with ginger, that is what my wife and I did and had no problems with the 20 to 25 foot waves. We even brought some back to the cabin.

 

Also, if you feel like drinking too, have a 7 & 7 but have them replace the 7-up with Ginger Ale.

 

When we were in Bermuda, we bought a few cans of Ginger Beer, which we think helped too. Plus it tasted great.

 

art

[AFT_LOVER]

first thing in the morning & I am set for cruises, car rides, amusement park rides and anything else I forgot. Works great, not a sleepy head pill either like dramamine.

[maryanngup]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and especially to FLJudi for your URL for contraindications. My husband takes a lot of heart medication, so I wanted to know more about ginger. Maybe we'll just stick to ginger ale if we need it and I did buy wristbands when we crossed the Pacific to Hawaii, but it was pretty calm and we didn't need them. On our first cruise we used a patch, which was very fortunate since we hit a bad storm right out of port, but I hated it because it gave me a very dry mouth for the whole week. Since then we've been on twelve other cruises and been very lucky with fairly calm seas, even crossing the Atlantic from Europe in September. This time we'll have some young grandchildren aboard with us and I wanted to make sure no one gets seasick, and didn't want drowsy-causing drugs.