Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.

Walker wrote:
>
> Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.

Useless information without a reference to the original
report. For example, how many said they felt better
on the placebo? 50 percent would not be unusual in the
placebo arm of a trial like this, in which case the
performance of the ginger is not impressive.

Walker wrote:
> Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.


I am glad to hear that something works for that, not that it would be a
problem for me. I was just thinking that back in the 60s they came out
with a new drug that was developed specifically for morning sickness...
Thaliminide. It caused horrendous birth defects. I am glad that
someone in the US FDA had the good sense to reject it and, as a result,
the US experienced only a very small number of Thaliminide related birth
defects.

I have been using ginger to deal with nausea for years. It works.

Dave Smith wrote:


> I was just thinking that back in the 60s they came out
> with a new drug that was developed specifically for morning sickness...
> Thaliminide. It caused horrendous birth defects. I am glad that
> someone in the US FDA had the good sense to reject it and, as a result,
> the US experienced only a very small number of Thaliminide related birth
> defects.
>



Thalidomide.

gloria p

On Feb 21, 2:06*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Walker wrote:
>
> > Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> > ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> > ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> > of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> > Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> > possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> > ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> > ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> > pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> > they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> > on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>
> Useless information without a reference to the original
> report. *For example, how many said they felt better
> on the placebo? *50 percent would not be unusual in the
> placebo arm of a trial like this, in which case the
> performance of the ginger is not impressive.

Read More at http://www.herbal-supplements-guide....nger-root.html

Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Walker wrote:
> > Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> > ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> > ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> > of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> > Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> > possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> > ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> > ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> > pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> > they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> > on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>
> I am glad to hear that something works for that, not that it would be a
> problem for me. I was just thinking that back in the 60s they came out
> with a new drug that was developed specifically for morning sickness...
> Thaliminide. It caused horrendous birth defects. I am glad that
> someone in the US FDA had the good sense to reject it and, as a result,
> the US experienced only a very small number of Thaliminide related birth
> defects.
>
> I have been using ginger to deal with nausea for years. It works.

Wasn't the medication known as "thalidomide"? That's the drug I
remember that caused many birth defects in the late '50s & early '60s.
It's made a bit of a comeback lately because it's very effective at
treating --- danged if I can remember what at this very moment --- with
the severe caveat that it's not to be used by women who might become
pregnant while taking thalidomide for that very reason.

Sky

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On Feb 21, 2:06*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Walker wrote:
>
> > Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> > ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> > ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> > of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> > Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> > possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> > ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> > ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> > pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> > they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> > on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>
> Useless information without a reference to the original
> report. *For example, how many said they felt better
> on the placebo? *50 percent would not be unusual in the
> placebo arm of a trial like this, in which case the
> performance of the ginger is not impressive.

And Read More More at http://www.nutritionalsupplementscen...ingerroot.html

On Feb 21, 3:40*pm, Walker > wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2:06*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Walker wrote:
>
> > > Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> > > ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> > > ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> > > of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> > > Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> > > possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> > > ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> > > ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> > > pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> > > they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> > > on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>
> > Useless information without a reference to the original
> > report. *For example, how many said they felt better
> > on the placebo? *50 percent would not be unusual in the
> > placebo arm of a trial like this, in which case the
> > performance of the ginger is not impressive.
>
> And Read More More athttp://www.nutritionalsupplementscenter.com/info/HerbalSupplement/gin...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Ginger is stimulant, rubefacient,
errhine, and sialagogue. When chewed it occasions an increased flow of
saliva, and when swallowed it acts as a stimulating tonic, stomachic,
and carminative, increasing the secretion of gastric juice, exalting
the excitability of the alimentary muscular system, and dispelling
gases accumulated in the stomach and bowels. It is much used to
disguise other drugs, concealing their nausea, or preventing their
tendency to cause tormina. When taken into the nostrils it causes
severe sneezing. It has been used in combination with astringents or
other agents, in diarrhoea and dysentery; prepared with rhubarb, in
the form of cordial or syrup, few articles are more valuable in
cholera morbus and cholera infantum, when there is coldness of the
surface and extremities, and nausea and vomiting accompany. It is
eminently useful in habitual flatulency, atonic dyspepsia, hysteria,
and enfeebled and relaxed habits, especially of old and gouty
individuals; and is excellent to relieve nausea, pains and cramps of
the stomach and bowels, and to obviate tenesmus, and especially when
those conditions are due to colds, or to the ingestion of unripe or
otherwise unwholesome fruit. Ginger is occasionally of value in
fevers, particularly where the salivary secretions are scanty and
there is pain and movement of gases within the intestines. Here,
though a stimulant, it will assist in producing sedation by re-
establishing secretion and relieving the distressing gastro-intestinal
annoyances. Ginger, in the form of "ginger tea," is popular and
efficient as a remedy for breaking up colds, and in relieving the
pangs of disordered menstruation. Combined with black-willow bark, it
forms an excellent poultice to indolent ulcers; and has been used as a
sialagogue to relieve paralytic affections of the tongue, toothache,
and relaxed uvula. Ginger in powder, formed into a plaster with warm
water, and applied on paper or cloth to the forehead, has relieved
violent headache. Cakes made of ginger and molasses, with flour, etc.,
are very beneficial to the stomach, when eaten in moderation. Dose of
ginger, in powder, from 10 to 30 grains; of the infusion, prepared by
adding 1 ounce of the powdered or bruised root to a pint of boiling
water, 1 or 2 fluid ounces. A large quantity of ginger, taken
internally, might produce serious effects.

On Feb 21, 4:14 pm, Walker > wrote:
> Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.

Yeah. I cook w/ginger all the time. Many of us here do. What are
you saying? What are you selling? Go away.

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:06:34 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>Useless information without a reference to the original
>report.

Run your own trials...then get back to us.

Walker wrote:
> Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
> ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
> ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
> of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
> Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
> possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
> ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
> ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
> pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
> they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
> on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>

When it comes to seasickness, Ginger does not work for me, but I hear it
works for others. A couple of friends and I tried it when we went scuba
diving, and it did not work for us. We fed the fish that day.

Becca

"Mr. Bill" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:06:34 -0800, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
> >Useless information without a reference to the original
> >report.
>
> Run your own trials...then get back to us.

Don't you understand? This is a fraud intended
to sucker you into buying expensive, worthless
nutritional supplements.

Because this is nearly an unregulated industry,
you risk harm from the poor quality products
of the herbal supplement industry.

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:36:56 -0600, Sky wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am glad to hear that something works for that, not that it would be a
>> problem for me. I was just thinking that back in the 60s they came out
>> with a new drug that was developed specifically for morning sickness...
>> Thaliminide. It caused horrendous birth defects. I am glad that
>> someone in the US FDA had the good sense to reject it and, as a result,
>> the US experienced only a very small number of Thaliminide related birth
>> defects.
>>
>> I have been using ginger to deal with nausea for years. It works.
>
> Wasn't the medication known as "thalidomide"? That's the drug I
> remember that caused many birth defects in the late '50s & early '60s.
> It's made a bit of a comeback lately because it's very effective at
> treating --- danged if I can remember what at this very moment --- with
> the severe caveat that it's not to be used by women who might become
> pregnant while taking thalidomide for that very reason.
>
> Sky

used to treat a complication of leprosy (or Hansen's disease) and some
other diseases:

In 1964 Israeli physician Jacob Sheskin was trying to help a critically ill
French patient with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), a painful complication
of leprosy. He searched his small hospital for anything to help his patient
stop aching long enough to sleep. He found a bottle of thalidomide tablets,
and remembered that it had been effective in helping mentally ill patients
sleep, and also that it was banned. Sheskin administered two tablets of
thalidomide, and the patient slept for hours, and was able to get out of
bed without aid upon awakening. The result was followed by more favorable
experiences and then by a clinical trial. Dr. Sheskin's drug of last resort
revolutionized the care of leprosy and led to the closing of most leprosy
hospitals.

He found that patients with erythema nodosum leprosum, a painful skin
condition associated with leprosy, experienced relief of their pain by
taking thalidomide. Further work conducted in 1991 by Dr. Gilla Kaplan at
Rockefeller University in New York City showed that thalidomide worked in
leprosy by inhibiting tumor necrosis factor alpha. Kaplan partnered with
Celgene Corporation to further develop the potential for thalidomide.
Subsequent research has shown that it is effective in multiple myeloma, and
it was approved by the FDA for use in this malignancy. The FDA has also
since approved the drug's use in the treatment of erythema nodosum
leprosum. There are studies underway to determine the drug's effects on
arachnoiditis and several types of cancers. However, physicians and
patients alike must go through a special process to prescribe and receive
thalidomide (S.T.E.P.S and RevAssist) to ensure no more children are born
with birth defects traceable to the medication. Celgene Corporation has
also developed analogues to thalidomide, such as lenalidomide, that are
substantially more powerful and have fewer side effects - except for
greater myelosuppression.

your pal,
blake

"Sky" > wrote in message
...
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Walker wrote:
>> > Ginger Root - Known to herbalists for more than a thousand years,
>> > ginger is particularly valued as a preventive for nausea. Not long
>> > ago, a group of Danish physicians tested ginger as a remedy for a type
>> > of pregnancy nausea so severe that it can require hospitalization.
>> > Clearly, the doctors were reluctant to prescribe drugs because of
>> > possible dangers to the developing baby, so they compared powdered
>> > ginger capsules (4 pills, or 1 gram, per day--about the same amount of
>> > ginger that you would get in a portion of ginger cake) with a dummy
>> > pill. All the women took each treatment for 4 days--not knowing which
>> > they were getting. At the end, some 70 percent said they felt better
>> > on the ginger regimen, and reported no side effects.
>>
>> I am glad to hear that something works for that, not that it would be a
>> problem for me. I was just thinking that back in the 60s they came out
>> with a new drug that was developed specifically for morning sickness...
>> Thaliminide. It caused horrendous birth defects. I am glad that
>> someone in the US FDA had the good sense to reject it and, as a result,
>> the US experienced only a very small number of Thaliminide related birth
>> defects.
>>
>> I have been using ginger to deal with nausea for years. It works.
>
> Wasn't the medication known as "thalidomide"? That's the drug I
> remember that caused many birth defects in the late '50s & early '60s.
> It's made a bit of a comeback lately because it's very effective at
> treating --- danged if I can remember what at this very moment --- with
> the severe caveat that it's not to be used by women who might become
> pregnant while taking thalidomide for that very reason.

Thalidomide is used to treat leprosy and also to treat Multiple Myeloma -
but only newly diagnosed cases of MM.

Lisa Ann