Ginger May Relieve Chemotherapy-Associated Nausea in People With Cancer


	Ginger May Relieve Chemotherapy-Associated Nausea in People With Cancer

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b36a5c4-7924-4a90-ad87-3c277fe8d5e6/24FA73CC-C7BD-47A1-A580-A22382DE1B40/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea" href="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea" style="font-size: 11px;">www.webmd.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P>May 14, 2009 -- Moms who give their kids ginger ale to soothe upset tummies may find this as no surprise: Ginger may help relieve the  <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/digestive-diseases-nausea-vomiting" object_type="" keywordsetid="7201" keywordid="27680" href="http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/digestive-diseases-nausea-vomiting" externalid="091e9c5e800079b6" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="5629" chronic_id="">nausea</A> of  <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/cancer/" object_type="" keywordsetid="4593" keywordid="17120" href="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/" externalid="9A13E96B1FF14D08" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31192" chronic_id="">cancer</A> chemotherapy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan">In the largest study to date evaluating the benefits of ginger for patients undergoing chemotherapy, as little as one-quarter of a teaspoon of ginger cut symptoms of nausea by 40%.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P>By the end of the first day, patients who took the two lower doses of ginger -- which Ryan says contains the equivalent of one-quarter and one-half teaspoon of fresh or dry ginger -- rated their nausea as 1 or 2 points, meaning they had no or very slight nausea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P>In contrast, those who took a placebo rated their nausea as 4 to 5 points, meaning they had a lot of nausea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P>So will ginger ale or ginger snaps do the trick? “Theoretically, as long as they contain one-quarter to one-half teaspoon of fresh or dry ginger. But if it’s ginger flavoring, that wouldn’t work,” Ryan tells WebMD.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090514/ginger-may-root-out-nausea"><P>Scientists don’t know why ginger relieves nausea, she says.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24FA73CC-C7BD-47A1-A580-A22382DE1B40/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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