When I was a child, my mother's cure-all for any ailment was ginger.  Ginger tea, chicken and rice soup with ginger, ginger candy, and ginger flavored dessert.  While I had always considered ginger to be a bit of an old wives' remedy, there is evidence that ginger may contain chemicals that actually can make you feel better.

People have been using ginger for centuries.  Ginger was originally found in Asia. It is a root that is now grown in other parts of the world.  There are reports...