For centuries, ginger has been used by practitioners of Chinese medicine and by traditional Indian and Japanese healers to treat a host of conditions including vomiting and nausea, chronic coughs, morning sickness, gastrointestinal complaints and migraine headaches. A study shows that daily doses of raw or heat-treated ginger effectively relieve muscle aches and discomfort -- and that includes even severe pain following strenuous exercise. However, Western medicine has only recently started to seriously study the medicinal qualities of ginger.
It has also been used to treat both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. ) for four to 36 weeks successfully reduced knee pain in people suffering from osteoarthritis. In one study, taking a daily dose of ginger (30 to 500 mg. So far, several studies have shown that ginger appears to have anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties similar to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but without the side effects (which can include gastrointestinal bleeding and ulcers).
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