
The National Cancer Institute has once again, wasted more of your generous donations. They figured out, through an intensely funded study, that ginger helps reduce nausea in chemotherapy patients. I'm as flabbergasted as you are. If only they had realized this decades ago, like the rest of the world.
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP
"People who started taking ginger capsules several days before a chemo infusion had fewer and less severe bouts of nausea afterward than others who were given dummy capsules, the federally funded study found."
"We were slightly beside ourselves" to see how much it helped, said study leader Julie Ryan of the University of Rochester in New York. "It was just a different way of thinking to treat nausea, to try and pre-empt it," Ryan said. (Really, preventative medicine, you've never thought of that before?)
"The study used a specially formulated gelcap containing concentrated, purified ginger root extract made by Aphios Corp. of Woburn, Mass." ( I don't know anything about this company, but I will say, any good ginger product will work...... and real ginger candy and ginger tea will also get the job done.)
The National Cancer Institute paid for the study, and researchers had no ties to the ginger capsules' maker, Aphios. The company already sells a different type of ginger capsule as a dietary supplement, but hopes to seek federal Food and Drug Administration approval to sell its new ginger formulation as a drug to treat nausea, said chief executive officer Trevor Castor.
(good luck Trevor, it's going to cost you millions$$$$$ and you can't patent it. Plus, everybody else already knows it, and any decent ginger supplement will work.)
"It's difficult to watch someone suffer, to watch someone be miserable. So anything we can do to help alleviate chemotherapy symptoms is very welcome," said Dr. Durado Brooks of the Cancer Society. (Durado, if you don't want to see people suffer, tell them to refuse chemo, and use something that actually helps, ....any alternative cancer treatment that's cured people for decades.)
Dear National Cancer Institute, I want my money back. Oh wait, never mind, I didn't give you any, and I never will. .....................Matt