No need to tread gingerly with Ginger

The Hindu : Health / Rx : Ginger can help reduce side-effects of chemotherapy: doctors: "Doctors at AIIMS are now working upon an herbal way to help cancer patients cope with the side-effects of chemotherapy.

Oncologists at the hospital here have been experimenting with ginger root powder in order to reduce the severity of the chemotherapy induced nausea vomiting (CINV).

Nausea and vomiting are the major side effects that a cancer patient encounters after chemotherapy treatment.

“The severity of chemotherapy induced nausea vomiting was reduced by ginger, our experiments showed. After the success of the study, we can say that there is a need to have ginger root powder available as capsules in varied dosages in order to use it as an add-on therapy in patients receiving chemotherapy with high vomiting potential,” said Dr Sameer Bakhshi, additional professor, department of medical oncology, AIIMS."