Ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory and is highly effective substances againts nausea and dizziness. For more than 3000 years it has been cultivated in tropical Asia: in fact ginger is perhaps the oldest spice ever known, as well as one of the most common; is also among the first to reached Europe, where it had great success in the Middle Age. From the sixteenth century, the Spaniards began to cultivate it in the New World and now it is present all along the equatorial area. Although China and India are among the major producers, it is said that the most valuable ginger is the Jamaican one. The spice was being used in the East for thousands of years, both as a condiment and as a remedy with thousand virtues.