The use of ginger in the treatment of osteoarthritis

Ginger not only tastes good, but is also increasingly used in medicine. Studies have shown that oral ginger therapy may reduce pain and improve mobility of osteoarthritis patients.

In Asian medicine, ginger is used for centuries for therapeutic purposes, such as nausea, chronic cough, gastrointestinal problems or arthritis. In this country, traditional medicine has only begun researching of the healing effects of ginger. Now a meta-analysis has shown that ginger is effective in treating of osteoarthritis pain.

Researchers studied using data from five randomized controlled trials with 593 patients the efficacy and safety of oral ginger preparations for the treatment of osteoarthritis in the knee and the hip. The daily dose of ginger ranged from 500 to 1000 mg has the treatment time between three and twelve weeks.

Significant pain reduction with ginger therapy.

It was found that the ginger therapy led to a significant reduction of pain to compared to placebo and also leads to a significant reduction of movement restrictions. Compared to other herbal remedies ginger showed a similar efficacy. And precisely because osteoarthritis it is a lengthy illness to, it is important to balance the benefits and side effects of the drugs, emphasize the study authors. So join a ginger therapy you get possibility to avoid side effects from painkillers, such as nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen.

However, patients who received ginger set for therapy, half as much as those from subjects who were apply placebo. Among the reasons they call especially a bad taste, and various gastrointestinal problems. However, none of these complaints was classified as serious. Your attention is also submitted some interactions. So patients should receiving vitamin K antagonists and consider the anticoagulant effect of ginger.