____________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: hasgarpour23@yahoo.com; European Journal of Medicinal Plants 4(12): 1431-1446, 2014 SCIENCEDOMAIN international www.sciencedomain.org Therapeutic Properties of Zingiber officinale Roscoe: A Review Hossein Asgar Pour 1* , Reza Norouzzade 2 , Mohammad Reza Heidari 2 , Serdal Ogut 3 , Hilmi Yaman 3 and Serap Gokce 4 1 Department of Surgical Nursing, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin School of Health Sciences, Division of Nursing, Aydin, Turkey. 2 Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Shahed University, Midwifery and Nursing Faculty, Division of Nursing,Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Nutrition and Dietetic, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin School of Health Sciences, Aydin, Turkey. 4 Department of Medical Nursing, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin School of Health Sciences, Division of Nursing, Aydın, Turkey. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in author collaboration. Authors HAP, RN and MRH designed the study, wrote the protocol, wrote the first draft of the manuscript and managed the literature searches. Authors SO, HY, and SG managed the literature searches. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Received 28 th April 2014 Accepted 18 th July 2014 Published 3 rd August 2014 ABSTRACT Aims: Ginger, a rhizome of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Fam. Zingiberaceae), has been widely used as a spice to enhance the flavor of food and beverages and for medical purposes in various diseases. Methodology: The review covers the databases and articles published between 2002- 2013 via Medline and published papers on the Internet from Scientific Information Database, MagIran and Irandoc. Literature searches were performed to identify all the researches on ginger for treatment properties. Results: The researchers conducted on ginger in medical field were about nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, contraceptive pills nausea, dysmenorrhea, motion sickness, cough, ventilator associated pneumonia, rheumatic diseases, antibacterial and antiviral effects, nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, spermatogenesis, anti-hyperlipidemia, Review Article