I use it for neurovascular headache (migraine and cluster), though for me it is secondary to kudzu and melatonin. In the ayurvedic tradition, ginger is considered sattvic - it is balanced, and balances the body. Other herbs may be dulling or over-exciting, but ginger is harmonizing. >> Aquarium fish do not swim sleekly weighted down with ginger gunk. I don't understand. Why would aquarium fish be weighted down with such gunk? Are we using the message board to pass coded messages? ;)

I am also a ginger lover. In fact I will choose something either gingery or (tart) lemony over chocolate any day. There is a family owned local specialty food store that usually stocks some of The Ginger People products. But I have found them at TJ Maxx and Marshall's for nearly half the cost. It is a hit or miss thing, though. When I'm there I usually scout out the food section to see if there are any, and if so, I stock up. When DS was living in CA he shipped some of the See's choc. covered ginger candies to me for my birthday. They were worth every calorie!

My sister "joint custody" cockapoo got sick every trip between houses for years. Eventually she stopped puking, but still felt bad. they managed it by using paperbags like airsickness bags. Sis just held it to doggy's face when there were signs of trouble. I'm very prone to motion sickness. I've been prescribed all kinds of antivertigo meds. It turns out they are antihistamines with different degrees of sleepiness. Talk to the vet. Maybe she can prescribe something for longer trips. In humans, motion sickness can be decreased by repeated exposure. It will take a while and will feel horrible the whole time. If it were me, I would just leave pup at home except when I was gone for too long.

I also am very sorry I'll tell you something..a bit TMI. I have celiac. But back then nobody knew that much about it. I was a textbook for it since I was born; but since they didn't know they never looked for it; they said "it's probably nerves". I was in daycare/pre-school, from ages 2 to 6, right? Really long hours, to let parents work. So we were fed there, obviously. 4 times a day. The pre-school was considered one of the best in the city (I'm of a low opinion of it, for many many reasons, but hey, maybe others were worse), the food, consequently, was also considered the best. Yet I threw up after almost every meal. And since nobody knew there was a scientific, physiological explanation for it..well they were disgusted a lot. Well they had to clean it and all. And the food was good; so it seemed probably I'm doing it out of spite? Was ungrateful? In short they weren't happy about it. Understandable. I never complained; each morning would go back there hoping for a better day. Things indeed became better when I was around six (it's called a latent celiac period or something..corresponds with this latent age, pre-puberty, for reasons I don't quite know). But before that...I think I got it worse from grown ups than from the kids. Luckily I was considered a very good kid..I was also like ten times smarter than I'm now..it's been intellectual decline for me ever since lol. So I guess it balanced it out for them, the adults in that pre-school of mine. They tolerated me. Better than they tolerated kids that were less compliant for example..these poor kids-I think it was a hellish experience for them, this exemplary pre-school. (I must say teachers themselves were strict but handled it better. The teachers' assistants..yeah, they probably felt their salary didn't warrant all this ordeal. They took it out on kids, big time. Not everyone, but some were pretty..unkind. To put it mildly) But my parents, they were always there for me. Worried about me, not angry. Really, I don't know what I'd do if they would reprimand me for that and act all annoyed. It must be very hard. Someone needs to hold your back, right, who else then? If not your parents? But I think in this country and age, people are generally more sensitive to kids as individuals..especially if it's not something that they need to do on a daily basis..a kid feels sick in somebody's car-well I think it's not that rare, at all. I think the vast majority of people would be very understanding about it. They won't make a big deal. They'll tell their kids not to make a big deal. And I think they will stop to let a kid get some air, or whatever's needed. It doesn't have to become traumatic. And it most probably won't. He and you-you'll figure out the ways to cope. Whether it's looking the certain way(and avoiding moving one's head a lot), singing(can be fun by the way! I always loved when my kids sang together in the car), chewing gum, being prepared with Dramamine, maybe all of that. It will get better. And others will understand. Maybe they were/are the same in that regard too. It's not something rare. It also, as unpleasant as it is, doesn't require some very specific knowledge. Simple understanding and accommodating goes a long way..most people possess it.