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Ginger
Aka: Ginger, Zingiber officinale
- Indications
- Uses with good supporting evidence
- Morning Sickness or Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- Postoperative Nausea or Vomiting
- Uses with variable evidence to support
- Motion Sickness
- Osteoartthritis
- Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea
- Precautions: Pregnancy (mixed safety results)
- If used in pregnancy, then use with caution
- Ginger affects testosterone binding
- Ginger affects thromboxane synthetase activity
- Animal studies showed increased Embryo loss
- Larimore (2000) Prim Care 27(1): 35-53 [PubMed]
- Efficacy: Ginger appears effective in Morning Sickness
- Effective, safe and well tolerated
- Smith (2004) Obstet Gynecol 103:639-45 [PubMed]
- Dose of 250 mg qid showed benefit in 70% of cases
- Vutyavanich (2001) Obstet Gynecol 97:577-82 [PubMed]
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Drug Interactions
- Warfarin (Coumadin) - possible interaction
- Adverse Effects
- Mild gastrointestinal upset (e.g. Reflux or Diarrhea)
- Dosing
- General range: 250 to 1000 mg PO daily to qid
- Pregnancy-induced Nausea: 250 mg PO four times daily
- Cost
- Inexpensive (<$20 per month)
- References
- White (2007) Am Fam Physician 75:1689-91 [PubMed]