Preparation
highKing's describes ginger oleoresin as a thick deep-brown extract with the pungency and flavor of ginger root, prepared differently from coated and uncoated Jamaica ginger.
Found in the Hermetikon archive
Ginger
Zingiber officinale
Ginger appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.
- Risk
- moderate
- Books
- 2
- Contexts
- 1
- Mentions
- 5
Archive Profile
Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.
Herb identity
- Common name
- ginger
- Latin name
- Zingiber officinale(candidate)
- Identity note
- Archive hits include spice, warming medicine, and trade materia.
Safety
moderate
Ginger can affect bleeding risk and gastrointestinal symptoms in medicinal doses.
Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.
- NCCIH Herbs at a Glance: Ginger can affect bleeding risk and gastrointestinal symptoms in medicinal doses.
Aliases
gingerginger rootZingiber officinale
Ginger in Historical Sources
Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.
Hermetikon's curated reading of Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are preparations and identity. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.
Identity
mediumKing's expectorant tincture includes wild ginger root, making this a related-name preparation rather than direct Zingiber-only evidence.
Preparation
highHohman's household formula for sham champagne uses ginger root with lemon, tartaric acid, sugar, boiling water, and yeast-like fermentation.
Preparations and ritual uses
Ginger oleoresin
highKing's oleoresin entry describes extracting a pungent deep-brown ginger-root preparation, with Jamaica ginger yielding different qualities by coating state.
Sham champagne
highHohman's beverage preparation combines ginger root with lemon, tartaric acid, sugar, boiling water, and fermentation time.
Ginger Archive Contexts
Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.
Preparation
5 passages across 2 books; strongest source: King's American Dispensatory.
Matched as ginger root; high confidence.
Ginger Cited Excerpts
Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.
King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ha piperoid of ginger oi Beral. It is a clear, thickish, deep-brown liquid, having the sharp pungency and the flavor of ginger root. Less oleoresin is obtained from the uneoated Jamaica ginger, but it has a more pleasant flavor, a lighter color, and greater fluidity when obtained from the latter. Acetone extracts the full amount of it. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage. — Same as for ginger. Dose. 1 minim, well diluted. OLEOSACCHARA (N. F.i— OIL-SUGARS. Synony.m : Elfeosncrharn {Ger. Pharm.). Preparation. — "Any volatile oil, one drop (1 drop); sugar, two grammes (2..."
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Preparationalias: ginger roothigh confidence
Pow-Wows
John George Hohman
1820
"... and a sound cure will speedily be effected, 114 Sham Champagne. ‘ me lemon, sliced, one spoonful tartar acd, ane ounce ginger root, ‘ow pound and a half sugar. Pour ten quarts of boiling water on the see ingredients, Whea blood-warm stir in two gills of home-made vot caver witha thin plee of gauze to keep out the flies and insects, how it to stand all day in the sun, When cold inthe evening botvis, cork and wire i then place it on the floor of the cella. In forty~ \ hours it wil be ready for use and will pay the trouble of making | 6. Valuable Remedy for Heaves ‘o..."
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King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...y.no.vvm: Dr. J. King's eipectonint tincture. Preparation.— Take of lobelia (herb), bloodroot, skunk-cabbage root, wild ginger root, and pleurisy root, each, in moderately fine powder, 1 ounce; water (or vinegar), 1 pint; alcohol, 3 pints, or a suflBcient quantity. Form a tincture by maceration or percolation, as explained under Tincturse, and make 4 pints of tincture. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage. — This tincture forms an excellent emetic for children and infants, and may be safely used in croup, vhooping-cough, bronchitis, a.^thma, convulsions, and in all cas..."
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King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...ha piperoid of ginger oi Beral. It is a clear, thickish, deep-brown liquid, having the sharp pungency and the flavor of ginger root. Less oleoresin is obtained from the uneoated Jamaica ginger, but it has a more pleasant flavor, a lighter color, and greater fluidity when obtained from the latter. Acetone extracts the full amount of it. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage. — Same as for ginger. Dose. 1 minim, well diluted. OLEOSACCHARA (N. F.i— OIL-SUGARS. Synony.m : Elfeosncrharn {Ger. Pharm.). Preparation. — "Any volatile oil, one drop (1 drop); sugar, two grammes (2..."
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King's American Dispensatory
Harvey Wickes Felter
1854
"...y.no.vvm: Dr. J. King's eipectonint tincture. Preparation.— Take of lobelia (herb), bloodroot, skunk-cabbage root, wild ginger root, and pleurisy root, each, in moderately fine powder, 1 ounce; water (or vinegar), 1 pint; alcohol, 3 pints, or a suflBcient quantity. Form a tincture by maceration or percolation, as explained under Tincturse, and make 4 pints of tincture. Action,"
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Books Mentioning Ginger
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