Ginger we are calling you

We have all heard that ginger is the medical cure for many things and that you should have some ginger everyday. Well now Doctors are also telling patients to use ginger in their cooking and also to drink more ginger tea and eat cookies with ginger in them.

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For thousands of years, this spice was used to knock out nausea. But unless you went to an Eastern medicine doctor, you weren't going to hear about it from your MD. Then, along with the 21st century came a string of studies pointing to ginger's potential to combat nausea related to motion sickness, chemotherapy and pregnancy.

"Once the science was there, more doctors were willing to 'prescribe' it," says Patricia Raymond, MD, assistant professor of clinical internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.

Try candied ginger, ginger tea or even ginger cookies the next time that you're feeling queasy.

A friend of mine uses GINGER for her cancer and it helps her she says.

Ginger root has a very high level of antioxidants -- higher than many berries -- making it an excellent defender against cell damage and associated disease caused by free radicals. Ginger continues to be the focus of research investigating its role in cancer prevention and treatment of lymphoma, breast, liver, skin, bladder and colorectal cancers. Ginger’s antioxidant activity is one of several mechanisms thought to explain its possible anticancer effects. Others include its ability to decrease cancer cell proliferation and suppress mechanisms that initiate cancer cell activation.

We put ginger in our smoothies and tea.