Marnie
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Ginger (Zingiber officinale) may be among the best-studied of the four.
Research suggests ginger root
inhibits production of prostaglandins and leukotrienes, which are involved in pain and inflammation.
In an uncontrolled 1992 Danish study, 56 patients who had either RA, OA or muscular discomfort took powdered ginger.
All of those with musculoskeletal pain and three-fourths of those with OA or RA reported varying degrees of pain relief and no side effects, even among those who took the ginger for more than two years.http://www.ayurvedivccure.com/products.htm
AliG
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Thanks Marnie!
Maybe that's why I like ginger so much?!
Ali
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And the good news is that you can have your ginger and enjoy it too. I have here 3 tins of ginger "mints":
St. Claire's brand Organic Ginger Snaps and Meltzer's Ginger Puremints are available at Whole Foods. There are also ginger Altoids, which I picked up at the checkout counter at Hobby Lobby.
Of course, all of these contain sugar. Posts: 1307 | From TX | Registered: Sep 2002
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Aniek
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I get high when I eat lots of fresh ginger.
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Ginger is wonderful stuff!
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AliG
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quote:Originally posted by Aniek: I get high when I eat lots of fresh ginger.
Cool
I get baby ginger glace at the Asian Market. I also get the pickled ginger, like for sushi. Yummy! They have all kinds of great ginger stuff!
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in my threelac information they sent me, they said to take a large piece of ginger, cut it up, boil in 2-3 quarters and add to medium hot bath. soak for 15-20 minutes.
i've tried it a couple of times and it does seem to help with muscle pain.
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Beside of medical reasons another use of ginger might be the neutralisation of bitter tastes.
Added to bitter herbs like andrographis, coptis, quinine bark or cat's claw it makes the resulting decoction tasting better - means a bit less terrible.
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It seems that people with arthritis or other inflammatory conditions might get more benefit from the dried/powdered ginger. When the ginger is dried the gingerols convert to the more pungent shogaols.The shogaols having more anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.
I see that the study was done with powdered ginger only.
It might be best to use both forms to get all the wonderful effects of ginger
Geniveve, thanks for the ginger bath idea.
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When I herx really bad I drink ginger tea and it lessens the swelling and some of the pain. I take fresh ginger and grate it and add boiling water. Roughly a tablespoon or two per cup is sufficient. Powdered ginger is much more potent and only about a 1/2 a tablespoon seems to be enough. It also has a much stronger taste. You can add honey or sugar to it, but I stopped doing that after reading various things about how sugar is bad for Lymies.
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lymebytes
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Hi, Ginger root capsules are the best for nausea too, work within 20 minutes.
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I used to give hubby ginger tea for sleep. 1/2 or 1 teaspoon of powdered ginger per cup of hot water with a little stevia. Ginger has melatonin in it.
Ginger also will thin the blood so be careful if on bloodthinners. And it can really burn if a person has gastritis.
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Ginger sometimes will actually keep me up if I drink it too late in the day.
You can soak your feet in a warm foot bath of water and ginger powder. Soak them up to at least past the ankle. This works good when you have a cold.
If you want to make ginger tea and are lazy just cut some ginger up and pour hot water over it and steep it for 15 mintues in a teapot.
I add lemon grass and lemon balm to the teapot but you do not have to.
Ginger has a lot of great properties. It helps with colitis and digestion issues.
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Turmeric (Curcumin) has some of the same properties as Ginger. I take both every day as my home made Crohn's treatment.
My wife takes a little of both every day for general health and to help joint pain due to Lyme. Also for the antibacterial element.
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Vanilla
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A bit of added fresh ginger is good when juicing apples.
Anyone know if a little bit of freshly juiced apple juice would be okay for a LD person to drink?
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re - Anyone know if a little bit of freshly juiced apple juice would be okay for a LD person to drink?
If you are trying to eliminate sugar it might be best to mix it with some filtered water. Otherwise, I don't see how that can be bad.
This bath product has alot of ginger in it & is nice to use - Aubrey Organics Relax-R-Bath
Ingredients: Wild ginger root (nigerian root), peppermint herb (ground), eucalyptus leaf (ground), coconut oil, mineral water, seaweed extract, rosemary and sage extract, balsam, siberian pine needle oil, citrus seed oil, vitamins A,C & E.
Also- my boyfriend uses freshly juiced ginger root to get rid of his bald spot (don't tell him I said this he's very sensitive about that bald spot).
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