Ginger rhizome plant species are popular as a spice rather than just cooking. A variety of abortion is also believed to cure various diseases, well one of them is eliminate nausea after chemotherapy.
The conclusion is the fruit of the results of a study published in the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2009 ago. The researchers found that ginger can decrease nausea effects on 644 patients who underwent chemotherapy due to breast cancer.
In the study, all patients received standard anti-vomiting every day when undergoing chemotherapy. But some of them also took capsules containing extracts of ginger, three days before chemotherapy.
According to Julie L. Ryan of the University of Rochester, the study's lead researcher, as quoted by MyHealthNewsDaily in mid-March 2012, the results showed that those taking the ginger has decreased by about 45 percent in the risk of vomiting than those who do not eat ginger.
As quoted from several sites herbs, ginger contains a variety of active compounds such as Gingerol, 1-dehydrogingerodine, 6-gingesulfonic acid, zingerone, shogaol, palmetic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, caprylic acid, caproc acid, lauric acid, myristic acid, pentadecanoic acid, stearic acid, linilenic acid, lecithin, gingerglycolipids (A, B, C), and carbohydrates. Ginger also contains amino acids, protein, resin, diterpene, minerals, vitamin A and niacin. In addition there is the content of essential oils in it like, zingiberene, B-bisabolene, singiberol, zingiborenol, ar-curcumene and some aldehydes.
