User:Shaywoodard/Ginger

- Ginger, when tested on pregnant rats, does not cause maternal nor developmental toxicity when taken daily

- When given ginger tea, pregnant rats experienced early embryo loss with increased growth in surviving fetuses

- When used on lab animals, gingerols increase the motility of the gastrointestinal tract

- Ginger oil prevents skin cancer in mice

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- rhizome used for treatment in TCM (Jing-Nuan Wu, 2005)

- harvested after 5 months for root tenderness (Bode & Dong, 2011)

- symptoms it can help with: vomiting, coughing, sweating, fever, headache, and stuffy nose (Jing-Nuan Wu, 2005)

- used for common cold cause by Wind Cold -> cold in lungs and stomachs (Jing-Nuan Wu, 2005)

- can help treat; skin issues, pregnancy issues, diarrhea, sweating, and strengthen the spleen (Hammer et al., 2012)

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When it comes to testing on and with animals within a research facility or laboratory, scientists have found that ginger does not cause maternal or developmental toxicity but it does however create early embryo loss within pregnant rats (Ali, 2007, #409-420). Besides pregnant rats, mice have proven that ginger oil prevents skin cancer and can also increase the mobility within the gastrointestinal tract (Moghaddasi PDF, 2012).