What can you say about ginger in your ads and on your site?

The library supports 2 wordings for ginger; the strongest is “Helps reduce nausea and vomiting from motion sickness or seasickness” (moderate, 0.5-3 g dried rhizome (or extract equivalent) a day). Avoid wording that names or implies a disease, a drug or a treatment, such as “Relieves bronchitis, coughs and colds”.

Also called: Zingiber officinale

Reviewed 14 October 2026

Not legal advice. This guide shows the wording that published evidence supports at a daily dose, from the sources linked below; it is not a ruling on any claim. Your own product, its form and dose, and your own evidence still need to match the wording you use.

Supported wordings

What you can say.

Moderate evidenceWording 1

Claims Facts

“Helps reduce nausea and vomiting from motion sickness or seasickness.”

Daily dose	0.5-3 g dried rhizome (or extract equivalent) a day
Support	Health Canada lists it as a non-traditional use with travel directions; no other listed source covers it.
Dose details	Children 6-11, adolescents and adults. Take one dose 30 minutes before travel, then every 4 hours as needed. Aqueous extracts: 0.7-3 g.
Form	Dried rhizome, powder or extracts
Source	Health Canada monograph: Ginger

Limited evidenceWording 2

Claims Facts

“Traditionally used in herbal medicine to help relieve occasional digestive upset, such as indigestion, nausea, gas or lack of appetite.”

Daily dose	0.3-3 g dried rhizome (or extract equivalent) a day
Support	Traditional use in Health Canada’s monograph; no other listed source covers it.
Dose details	Children 6-11, adolescents and adults. Aqueous extracts: 0.7-3 g.
Form	Dried rhizome, powder or extracts
Source	Health Canada monograph: Ginger

How strong the evidence is

Strong evidence: At least two listed sources support it independently at a comparable dose and form, and none disagrees.
Moderate evidence: One listed source supports it as an evidence-based use at that dose, and no listed source disagrees.
Limited evidence: The only support is traditional use, the sources disagree, or the source itself calls the evidence weak.

Wordings to avoid

What to leave out.

Claims Facts

Ingredient: Ginger

Wording to avoid	Reason
“Relieves bronchitis, coughs and colds”Names diseases.	Disease
“Relieves arthritis pain or inflammation”Names a disease; no listed source supports it.	Disease
“Reduces nausea from chemotherapy”FDA’s 2000 rule (page 1029) gives ‘reduces nausea associated with chemotherapy’ as a disease claim.	Disease

Disease: names or implies a disease. Drug: names a drug or presents the product as one. Treatment: promises to treat, cure or prevent a condition.

Sources

Where this comes from.

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