Ginger is widely believed to help nausea, with some evidence that it is better than placebo in morning sickness and sea-sickness though not necessarily in IBS.
The leaked proposals say the DWP is at high risk of continuing to overspend on sickness and disability benefits in future years because the high-profile programme of welfare reform introduced by Duncan Smith in 2010 "has not realised its goals" of saving money.
The most depressing thing is that so much of the extra sickness in winter and increased pressure on the health service would be much less severe, or altogether preventable, if only everyone lived in a home they could afford to heat.
This face of desperation is the face of the 19th century avant garde, risking and even courting sickness with drink and drugs.
The service begins: "Dearly beloved and hated…" and ends with the couple pledging to stay together "in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, until the bike goes off the road".
We know from research that work teams that are more resilient on the four characteristics are more productive and have lower levels of sickness absence and presenteeism.
Now here we are – fresh out of medical school – dealing routinely with sickness and death.
"He lived next door to his parents and latterly his brother in his grandfather's croft house near Fort William and cared for them through sickness and old age," noted Clegg.
Stage five is the mysterious sickness in its deadliest form.
"We are seeing a 75% decrease in sickness especially water-borne disease such as parasite infections," says Geovanny Santamaria, from global health group Map Ecuador.
But if I go straight to sleep, I have a sense of missing out (whether or not this is a wider symptom of the sickness of modern life is a question for another time).
