Posted on 05/19/2010 11:10:52 AM PDT by decimon
Athens, Ga. – For centuries, ginger root has been used as a folk remedy for a variety of ailments such as colds and upset stomachs. But now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that daily ginger consumption also reduces muscle pain caused by exercise.
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Participants in the studies, 34 and 40 volunteers, respectively, consumed capsules containing two grams of either raw or heat-treated ginger or a placebo for 11 consecutive days. On the eighth day they performed 18 extensions of the elbow flexors with a heavy weight to induce moderate muscle injury to the arm. Arm function, inflammation, pain and a biochemical involved in pain were assessed prior to and for three days after exercise.
The studies showed that daily ginger supplementation reduced the exercise-induced pain by 25 percent, and the effect was not enhanced by heat-treating the ginger.
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Ping.
Wonder if more ginger would help with every day aches and pains too?
How about gingerbread with whipped cream. Will that work??
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Well their football players are going to need a lot of ginger after we whup their butts yet again in Jacksonville this year.
How do you tell if your pain is 25% better?
Don’t tell the doctors in the U.K. NHS this otherwise they are liable to withhold the meds and send you home with a bottle of spice.
You answer a series of questions that allow you to rate various pains and types of pain on a scale of 1 to 10.
LOL!
Grab any decent Asian cookbook, and you will read that ginger is the answer to just about anything that ails you.
After a day of Gilligan you need some Ginger to ease the pain.
Oh. I read the article, but didn’t see that mentioned.
I wonder if this would help people with fibro? My sis has fibro.
I never was a fan of red heads. And I always liked Mary Ann better.
But Ginger does pass the “If I was stranded on a desert island” test.
I have found that taking a 1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger daily helps my arthritis...just mix it with water and drink it down.
I like Ginger Snaps. I've got a whole lot of physical work planned for this weekend. Will keep them around for a snack this weekend and report back.
Heck, it settles your stomach. Can't hurt.
I agree. I have chronic pain and my tolerance is extremely high. I always have a real hard time on the 1-10 scale myself.
I was just answering your question generally. That’s the standard method by which doctors and researchers rate pain. After the patients and/or subjects answer all the questions and score their various pain levels, the doctors and/or researchers add up the numbers. If the aggregate score following a ginger regimen is twenty-five percent lower than the pre-ginger number, they conclude it reduced pain by that amount.
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