# Zingiber Officinale

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Zing, strongly affects the digestive, genito -urinary and respira tory systems. Like most 
spices, ginger has a specific action on the liver and digestive organs.  
Zing, was proved by Franz and others and their symptoms make a full remedy pathogenesis. Particularly useful 
forstatesof debility in the digestive tract, sexual system and respiratory troubles. 
Diarrhea or constipation and helps with irritation of the colon. Flatulence. Pressure in the stomach as from a 
stone. Worse from eating bread and especially from eating melons. Prolonged retention of urine or complete 
cessation of the function of the kidneys.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better sitting, standing. Bet ter uncovering. Worse by touch, motion. Worse evening and night, 
lying, rising. Worse in cold air, damp air. Worse from bread, melons. Laughing or talking aggravates headache.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Forgetful, weak memory.
- Cheerful, good -humored, a pleasing sensation in her system.
- Increased 
activity of brain.
- Nervous and fidgety.
- Irritable and chilly in evening and during menses.
- Feet very 
 
 
uncomfortable and did not know what to do.
- Forgetful, weak memory.
- Cheerful, good -humored, a pleasing sensation in her system.
- Increased 
activity of brain.
- Nervous and fidgety.
- Irritable and chilly in evening and during menses.
- Feet very 
 
 
uncomfortable and did not know what to do.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, limbs heavy.
- Motion sickness with nausea.
- COMMENTS - Motion sickness and morn ing sickness.
- Deltoid rheumatism, frozen shoulders (Sang., Ferr.).
- Farrington said ginger may aggravate kidney affections or Bright’s disease.
- In asthma, Farrington gave the indication: “Asthma of gastric origin, attacks come in the night towards morning.
- Patient must sit up to breathe, but despite the severity of the paroxysm, th ere is no anxiety.
- The nasal mucus 
membrane is affected as markedly as that of the lungs.
- Ozaena and post-nasal catarrh.”

### Head
- Headache and pressure in stomach after eating bread.
- Feels confused and empty in his head.
- Head 
feels too large.
- Frontal headaches.
- Pain over eyebrows.
- Pain encircling head.
- Hemicrania, sudden glimmering 
before eyes.
- Congestion of blood io head, especially temples.
- Itching on scalp, head and cheeks.
- Headache and pressure in stomach after eating bread.
- Feels confused and empty in his head.
- Head 
feels too large.
- Frontal headaches.
- Pain over eyebrows.
- Pain encircling head.
- Hemicrania, sudden glimmering 
before eyes.
- Congestion of blood io head, especially temples.
- Itching on scalp, head and cheeks.

### Eyes
- Smarting and burning in eyes.
- Feeling as of sand in eyes.
- Sensitive to light with stinging pain in them.
- Pressure on eyes, worse on left.
- Weakness of sight, dimness of cornea.

### Face
- Hot, red face.
- Exhausted look, blue under eyes, before menses.
- Dry lips and mouth.

### Mouth
- Slimy, bad taste in mouth in morn ing.
- Mouth smells foul to herself, as from disordered stomach.
- Painful sensibility of teeth with pressive, drawing pain in their roots.
- Nose - Feels obstructed and dry.
- Insupport able itching, tingling in nostrils.
- Intoler able itching, red pimples.
- Coryza, watery, sneezing, more in open air.
- Dryness and obstruction in posterior sinuses with dis charge of 
thick mucus.
- Ozaena.

### Throat
- Hoarseness.
- Smarting below larynx,  breathing difficult.
- Dryness of throat and difficulty of 
swallowing, as from an obstruction with dryness of posterior sinuses.
- Increased mucus secretion, no fever.

### Chest
- Stitches in chest, pleuritic pains.
- Causations - Food poisoning.
- Bad food or water.
- Complaints from eating melons.
- Worms, parasites.
- Violent stinging, pressing pain in left side of chest in region of heart.
- Kidneys - Dull aching in both kidneys with frequent desire to urinate.
- Increased secre tion of urine.
- Stinging, 
burning in orifice.
- Urine thick, turbid, dark brown of strong smell.
- Yellow discharge from urethra.
- After urinating, 
continues to ooze in drops.
- Retention of urine after typhus.
- Complete suppression after typhoid.
- Painful respiration.
- Asthma without anxiety, worse toward morning.
- Humid asthma.
- Scratching 
sensation in throat, stitches in chest.
- Cough dry and hacking, with copious morning sputa.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Weak digestion.
- Acidity of stomach (Calc., Rob.).
- Stomach feels heavy like from a stone (Nux-v.).
- Heaviness in stomach on waking with gas and rumbling, great thirst and emptiness.
- Pain from pit to under 
sternum, worse after eating.
- Belching and diarrhea.
- Nausea, vomiting of mucus in alcoholics.
- Temperature - Chilliness beginning in lower limbs, going upwards.
- Chilliness and sensibility in open air.
- Chilly 
in evening.
- Hot and chilly at same time.
- Colic, diarrhea, extremely loose bowels.
- Chronic intestinal catarrh.
- Much thirst, dry mouth.
- Taste  of food remains long, especially of bread and toast.
- Food or water 
poisoning.
- Complaints from eating melons.

### Urinary & Genital
- Itching of prepuce.
- Sexual desire excited, painful erections.
- Emissions.
- Painful menses, cramps.
- Menstrua tion too early and too profuse, blood dark, clotted.
- Irritable with 
menses.

### Extremities
- Joints feel weak, stiff, lame.
- Dull, heavy feeling in limbs with numbness.
- Cramps in soles and palms.
- Rheumatic drawing pains.
- Painful swelling of feet.
- Soreness of heels after standing a lo ng time.
- Liver-Hepatitis(Chin.,Phos.).
- Liver pains, with weakness.
- Weak digestion.

### Neck & Back
- Stiffness of back of neck with head ache and nausea.
- Back lame.
- Backache as from weakness, feels 
stiff.

### Sleep
- Sleepy and exhausted, coma.
- Sleepless, wakes at 3 a.m., falls asleep again late in morning.

### Generalities
- As if head too large.
- Confused and empt y in head.
- As if there were an obstacle in throat to 
swallow over.
- Pain  as from over -work in left deltoid.
- As of a stone in stomach.
- Empty feeling in stom ach.
- A 
shock-like moving downward as from a dropping fluid in left loin.
- Pain as from weakness in sac ral region.
- As 
from over-strung muscles in bend of knee.
- As if going to faint.