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Fresh ginger works !!

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4 years ago•6 Replies

I had asthma attack a few days ago. The mucus was blocking my throat that made me difficult to breath. So I ran into the kitchen and put a slice of ginger into my mouth. After chewing it for about a minute , I started to feel it was working . I continued to have fresh ginger tea on the following days, the asthma things seem to be gone. Its just so refreshing : )

The ginger effect is proved in the journal below

Effects of Ginger and Its Constituents on Airway Smooth Muscle Relaxation and Calcium Regulation

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

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andy1214 years ago

I agree fresh ginger is very good for helping clear mucus, I add it to meals regularly. Glad you managed to find relief from it and so quickly.

HungryHufflepuff4 years ago

That’s a great tip. Thanks! It’s great it worked so well for you. I’ll definitely be trying that.

4 years ago

Fresh root ginger is good stuff. My favourite tipple if I get a cold is a hot ginger and and honey drink (1tspn grated root ginger and 1tspn honey topped with hot water).

LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador4 years ago

The paper you cited does provide some support for ginger being potentially helpful in relaxing airway smooth muscle constriction - certainly seems like it may be worth investigating the compounds in ginger further for potential asthma treatments.

However, it's still a preliminary, lab-based study, not a clinical one, and doesn't at this stage provide support for replacing proven asthma treatments with ginger.

Ginger may well have potential, but salbutamol and other reliever treatments have been shown to work in clinical trials in humans, not just isolated parts of them in a lab.

twinkly29• in reply toLysistrata4 years ago

Yes agree! If people find it reduces mucous (or whatever it helps) then that's great - but that's what it's helping and so that may mean asthma-like symptoms are less or go away (because the root cause of them is being helped); it's not actually treating asthma itself - asthma needs asthma treatments.

LysistrataAdministratorCommunity Ambassador• in reply totwinkly294 years ago

I mean the paper is promising in that some of the components do seem to actually relax the airways directly. However that was in organs in the lab, some of which were not human. We don't know how it acts in actual whole live humans with and without asthma. It's way too early for it to replace current reliever treatments!

And as you say, it may also be helping more indirectly in some cases.

One of my favourite memes is 'x substance kills cancer cells in a Petri dish. A gun also kills cancer cells in a Petri dish'.