Ginger For Cancer Treatment

Ginger can assist in a holistic cancer treatment. Ginger will not cure cancer alone but in combination with other herbs, juices and therapies, ginger will boost cancer treatment effectiveness.
This tuber is consumed as a delicacy, medicine or spice, even though how distinct the odor and the flavor ginger has medicinal and health properties that can cure diseases and has an active ingredient that can cure cancer.

Ginger Historical Medicinal Usage
Ginger root has been cultivated for so long that its exact origin is unclear. However, documents indicate ginger has been cultivated for millennia in both China and India, and it reached the West approximately 2,000 years ago. In China and India, ginger is not only a common kitchen ingredient. Ginger is also one of the most widely consumed herbal medicines. The Chinese found ginger helpful with tooth aches, symptoms of a cold, flu and hangover. On the fifth cnetury Chinese sailors were using ginger’s vitamin C nutritive value for the same purpose on long voyages. Japanese soothed spinal and joint pain with ginger.

Ginger Health Benefits

Ginger’s medicinal properties includes as a digestive aid, increasing the production of digestive fluids and saliva. Ginger helps relieve indigestion, gas pains, diarrhea and stomach cramping. Ginger’s anti-inflammatory properties help relieve pain and reduce inflammation associated with arthritis, rheumatism and muscle spasms. Ginger’s therapeutic properties effectively stimulate circulation of the blood, removing toxins from the body, cleansing the bowels and kidneys, and nourishing the skin.

Other uses for ginger root include the treatment of asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory problems by loosening and expelling phlegm from the lungs. Ginger root may also be used to help break fevers by warming the body and increasing perspiration.Ginger acts as an antihistamine and aids in the treatment of allergies. Due to ginger promotion of mucus secretion, ginger protects against the development of ulcers, unwanted holes in the lining of your stomach.

Gingerol Anti Cancer Agent

A research was done in Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research that took place in Phoenix, AZ, October 2.6-30, 2003 which presented that gingerol, the main active component in ginger and the ones responsible for its distinctive flavor, may also inhibit the growth of human colorectal cancer cells. Gingerol is not just an anti-cancer agent but it has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory activites. Gingerol has been investigated for its effect on cancerous tumors in the bowel, breast tissue, ovaries, pancreas, among other tissues, with positive results.

Ginger For Ovarian Cancer

In research on tumor-bearing mice, scientists discovered that ginger can kill cancerous cells in two different ways. In the first way, apoptosis, the ginger causes the cancer cells to “commit suicide” by destroying themselves while leaving the surrounding healthy cells untouched. The anti-inflammatory properties of ginger prevent precancerous tumors from creating the perfect breeding ground and climate for growth. In the second way, autophagy, ginger tricks the cancerous cells into eating themselves.

Ginger Recommended Dosage

Ginger is used in teas, ginger ale, ginger beer, capsules, broths, and as a spice. The usual daily ginger intake is 2 to 4g per day. For prevention or treatment of motion sickness, take 500 – 1000 mg of dried ginger powder before travel. For the treatment of nausea associated with pregnancy, women can take up to 1 gram daily. To relieve arthritis pain, take fresh ginger juice, extract, or tea, 2 to 4 grams daily. To prevent vomiting, take 0.5 to 2 grams daily.

Ginger Precautions

Side effects associated with ginger are rare, but if taken in excessive doses the herb may cause mild heartburn. Large doses of ginger may cause cardiac effects, depression of the central nervous system and heartburn. Ginger can also interfere with absorption of tetracycline (antibiotics), digoxin ( drug used to treat congestive heart failure and the associated symptoms of shortness of breath), sulfa drugs(sulfa-related antibiotics), and phenothiazines (inodilators in congestive heart failure). Ginger’s components may interfere with normal blood clotting. High doses (6 grams or more) may damage the stomach lining and could eventually lead to ulcers. Patients with gallstones or an allergy to ginger shouldn’t take ginger.

Ginger Tea Recipe

• Ginger
• Lemon juice
• Honey

Fill up your teakettle and get it boiling. Meanwhile, grate a one-inch piece of fresh ginger root.Put the ginger in the thermos. Put a three tablespoons of lemon juice in the thermos. Add a dash of honey as well. Basically, add the honey to taste. When your water is boiled, pour it in the thermos.Cover it up and let it sit for 20 minutes. Strain into a tea cup.

Ginger Products

Ginger products such as tea, powder and supplements can be bought online. Search products in Google.

Ginger Research Links

Anti-tumor-promoting activities of selected pungent phenolic substances present in ginger.
http://www.jivaresearch.org/Ginger.php

Ginger is effective at controlling inflammation, and inflammation contributes to the development of ovarian cancer cells. By halting the inflammatory reaction, the researchers suspect, ginger also stops cancer cells from growing.
http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2006/ginger.htm