The Sunday Mail
Diabetes prevention: Studies have shown that diabetes may be both prevented and treated, along with the related abilities to lower blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood fats. Diabetes complications: Complications of diabetes may be limited by ginger.
Studies have shown that it may reduce urine protein levels, decrease water intake and urine output, and reverse proteinuria. Ginger can protect nerves in diabetes and lower blood fat levels.
Antiobiotic: Ginger’s antibiotic effects may be exceptional. At least one study that compares the effects of ginger and anti-biotics shows that ginger extract may be superior. Ginger has been shown to have an anti-bacterial effect on respiratory and periodontal infections.
Anti-fungal: Fungal infections are among the most difficult to treat, and drug-resistant fungi have been developing. However, there’s no need to despair, as ginger has been found to have anti-fungal capability, including to drug-resistant forms.
Ulcers: Intestinal ulcers can be prevented with ginger. One study has demonstrated that ginger can also inhibit existing ulcers.
Inflammation: Inflammation is a serious problem with many chronic conditions, both in terms of causing them and causing pain, and ginger can be highly effective in managing it.
The anti-inflammatory ability may be helpful in arthritis, cancer prevention, prostate disease, and general inflammatory processes.
Gastric distress: Ginger’s ability to ease gastric distress is superior, and it does more than simply ease pain.
Toxicity: Ginger helps prevent the toxic effects of a wide array of substances, including the pesticide lindane, a cancer drug, the chemical bromobenzene, and the excitotoxin monosodium glutamate (MSG). Ginger has been shown to alleviate liver damage. Ginger extract has been shown to protect against MSG nerve damage.
Heartworm in dogs: Heartworms are a common canine infection. The standard medical treatments are risky, frequently causing neurological disorders and circulatory collapse. Resistance to them is also developing. It is, therefore, quite fortunate that ginger has been shown to be effective against heartworms.
Menstrual pain: A double blind study of young women suffering from menstrual pain compared with mefenamic acid (a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory marketed as Ponstel), ibuprofen, ginger powder in capsules, and placebo was performed. Ginger was found to be as effective as both mefenamic acid and ibuprofen
Radiation: Ginger has been proven to provide significant benefit against it. One study has demonstrated that it can help prevent vomiting and taste distortion associated with radiation poisoning. Gout, rheumatoid arthritis, knee osteoarthritis: Indomethacin is an anti-inflammatory drug commonly used to treat the pain from inflammation of gout, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoarthritis of the knee. Studies comparing the effect of ginger extract with indomethacin consistently show that ginger is, at a minimum, just as effective
Nausea and motion sickness: Ginger has been well studied for its classic ability to ease nausea in all sorts of situations. Women suffering from morning sickness were given beverages with ginger during the first trimester of pregnancy. Ginger alleviated the nausea in a highly significant percentage of the women.
Bacterial diarrhoea: The primary cause of death in young children in developing countries is bacterial-induced diarrhoea. The bacteria don’t cause it directly. The toxins they release do. Zingerone, a compound found in ginger, binds the toxin so that it cannot interact with the gut, thus preventing diarrhoea and the resultant death. — Online sources
