Study of antioxidative properties and Maillard reaction (MR) products in ginger cakes enriched with rutin was conducted. The cakes were formulated on rye flour substituted by 30% (w/w) of flour from husked buckwheat or flour from roasted buckwheat groats. Enrichment of rye-buckwheat ginger cakes with rutin improved their antioxidative properties, showed protective effect on lysine blockage and ...

Nausea is one of the side effects of oral contraceptive pills, and ginger has advocated as beneficial for nausea and vomiting. We aimed the effect of ginger on the nausea and vomiting resulting from the use of combined contraceptive pills in Ahvaz city, 2010. Methods: It was a randomized clinical trial study. The subjects were 140 women aged 18–44 years who had used contraceptive pills since at...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of two common herbal medicines, ginkgo and ginger, on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of warfarin and the independent effect of these herbs on clotting status. METHODS This was an open label, three-way crossover randomized study in 12 healthy male subjects, who received a single 25 mg dose of warfarin alone or after 7 days pret...

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosco) is widely used in foods as a spice all around the world. It has been reported to have antioxidant and anticarcinogenic properties. We investigated the effect of ginger in ethionine induced rat hepatocarcinogenesis. Male Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups: group 1 and 2 served as controls and they received normal rat chow and olive oil respectively. Group 3...

PURPOSE Low-grade inflammation, a common feature in type 2 diabetes (DM2), causes some chronic complications in these patients. The present study was aimed to evaluate the effects of ginger (Zingiber officinale) on pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF-α) and the acute phase protein hs-CRP in DM2 patients as a randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial. METHODS A total of 64 DM2 pati...

PURPOSE The present randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study aimed to evaluate the effect of Zingiber officinale (ginger) consumption on some metabolic and clinical features of obesity. METHODS Eighty eligible obese women (aged 18-45 years) were randomly assigned to either ginger or placebo groups (receiving 2 g/day of ginger powder or corn starch as two 1 g tablets) for 12 weeks. B...

Ginger has known hypoalgesic and anti-inflammatory properties. The effects of an oral dose of ginger on quadriceps muscle pain, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), and recovery of oxygen consumption were examined during and after moderate-intensity cycling exercise. Twenty-five college-age participants ingested a 2-g dose of ginger or placebo in a double-blind, crossover design and 30 min later...

BACKGROUND Ginger is a natural dietary component with antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic properties. This study was conducted to evaluate the prophylactic effect of ginger extract on ethanol-induced reproductive toxicity in male rats by measuring the total homocysteine (tHcy), trace elements, antioxidant enzymes activity including glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of a ginger extract (EV.EXT35) on the symptoms of morning sickness. DESIGN Double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial. SETTING A tertiary metropolitan teaching hospital, March 1999-November 1999. PARTICIPANTS The participants included 120 women less than 20 weeks pregnant, who had experienced morning sickness daily for at least a week and had had ...

The use of botanical medicine is ancient, and plant chemicals are still the backbone of our pharmacopoeia because more than 50 % of drugs used in Western pharmacopoeia are isolated from herbs or derived from modification of chemicals first found in plants. Zingiber officinale Roscoe. (Ginger) is a spice that has been used from two thousand years ago as a medicine in several Asian countries. Rec...