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Ginger PowerGinger (Zingiber officinale) is known to have major therapeutic properties and is an essential part of many systems of traditional medicine all over the world.
It occupies an important place in the traditional medicine of India, China, Thailand, and Malaysia, to name a few countries. Some of the ailments that ginger is reputed to cure are nausea, indigestion, flatulence, common cold, diarrhea, dyspepsia, and vertigo.
Scientific research is presently being carried out in various laboratories around the world to research and document the various medicinal properties of this herb. One of the main areas of this research is in testing the effectiveness of ginger in treating nausea.
This property of ginger has a tremendous scope in treating patients who are undergoing cancer treatment. Cancer drugs induce nausea in patients and at present the allopathic drug metoclopramide is used to treat these symptoms.
However, metoclopramide also has some unwanted side effects. Studies have shown that ginger is ten times as effective as metoclopramide and does not cause any unwanted side effects.
This medicinal property of the plant also has strong implications in post-surgery treatments, and in the treatment of motion sickness and air sickness. Thai researchers are also currently at work to explore the anti-cholesterol effects of ginger. Once the results of this research have been verified it could bring about a revolution in the manufacture of anti-cholesterol medication.
This spate of research on the humble ginger herb brings to the spotlight the need for countries to research and develop alternative drugs based on natural ingredients to supplement and, in some cases, even replace allopathic medication. Drugs synthesized from natural ingredients have fewer side effects and are more inexpensive to produce.
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