cjh@CCA-UNIX@sri-unix (12/09/82)
It sounds like nobody in NASA has been keeping up with mundane medical journals; I have seen a number of references in the past few months to the efficacy of ginger in blocking motion sickness. The experiment involved a really brutal twisting chair (virtually everyone who didn't get medicine, including some who were known to be less susceptible to motion sickness, either were sick or stopped the test before the set time had run out); ginger (I think they used freshly powdered root, but the abstract I just dug out was unclear) was more effective than Dramamine in preventing sickness. Ref: LANCET, 1 (8273). 1982., p. 655-657.