If you only choose one tincture, make it this one: Ginger

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Ginger is more than a flavour

Today I want to put the spotlight on the quiet powerhouse that is Ginger.

For most people, ginger is first and foremost a flavour.

Something you add to food.

Something warming.

Something for digestion.

But in traditional herbal, naturopathic and anthroposophic systems, ginger was never just treated as a flavour. It was treated as a foundational medicine.

Ginger as a foundational herbal medicine

In my Herbal Allies Handbook, I’ve described Ginger as the hidden ally, the great organiser:

Personality:

Quiet (underground) but fiery. Ginger works behind the scenes like a trusted confidant, offering warmth and support when you need it most.

Role:

A secret healer, stirring up stagnation and coldness in the body, bringing clarity and energy back to circulation.

Traits:

Grounding, dependable, warming and revitalising.

Ginger never pushes the body in one direction.
Instead it restores:

movement where there is stagnation
warmth where there is cold
grounding where there is hectic excess (that can manifest as pain and/or depletion).

They’re all expressions of the same principle within the body: warmth organisation.

How to use Ginger Tincture

One tincture. Many uses.

Internal use of Ginger tincture

Before meals to support digestion
For cold hands and feet
During menstrual discomfort
As a daily tonic for vitality and circulation

External use of Ginger tincture

In foot baths for grounding and warmth during immune challenges
As a warm compress for sore or stagnant areas
Neat or blended into massage oil for aches and tension

Seasonal use of Ginger tincture

Used daily through winter
Reached for during damp or cold weather
Kept close whenever circulation feels sluggish

Why Ginger supports almost every other herbal preparation

Because Ginger works at the level of circulation and movement, it naturally supports almost every other preparations I make.

That’s why I often say:

If you only choose one tincture, make it this one.

For beginners, Ginger is the most intuitive place to begin.
For experienced users, it becomes the constant companion, the base layer everything else builds on.