I've seen a few mentions of this on here - and also in Eric's article on diving in Florida he mentioned someone taking ginger before a boat trip to avoid motion sickness.
I used to have extremely bad motion sickness - I'd be ill for close to 3 full days after a four hour flight - vomiting mostly just the first day - but headache and queasy for the rest of the time. Even a 1 hour flight was problemtatic. I found that taking ginger before the flight was not particularly helpful - but keeping a piece of raw ginger with me and chewing bits of it throughout the flight completely elminated the problem. Any time I felt any least discomfort I would chew a small piece. For me it was quite revolutionary.
I used to have extremely bad motion sickness - I'd be ill for close to 3 full days after a four hour flight - vomiting mostly just the first day - but headache and queasy for the rest of the time. Even a 1 hour flight was problemtatic. I found that taking ginger before the flight was not particularly helpful - but keeping a piece of raw ginger with me and chewing bits of it throughout the flight completely elminated the problem. Any time I felt any least discomfort I would chew a small piece. For me it was quite revolutionary.