Conclusion: While most food, herbs and supplements can be safely taken in moderation, healthcare professionals should be aware of the increased risk of bleeding when taking several food and herbs. These include Chinese wolfberry, chamomile tea, cannabis, cranberry, chitosan, green tea, Ginkgo biloba, ginger, spinach, St. John's Wort, sushi and smoking tobacco. Patients should be counselled to continue to seek advice from their healthcare professionals when starting any new herbs, food or supplement.
PubMed 32478963 ↗Ginger
People mainly take Ginger for pain & inflammation, focus, hormones. Based on 58 first-hand reports and 184 meta-analyses & systematic reviews in the medical literature. Ranked #331 of 1,974 overall.
Of reports that state an outcome, 75% are positive.
What Ginger does, according to users
Of the people who reported each effect, the share who said it got better.
4 more with fewer than 3 reports
What the research says
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses from PubMed, with their published conclusions.
3+ meta-analyses or systematic reviews and 10+ randomized controlled trials in humans. The grade measures how much human research exists — read the conclusions below for what it found.
Conclusion: Conclusions: The results of this meta-analysis suggest that ginger can effectively reduce pain associated with dysmenorrhea. The findings are limited due to risk of bias in the included studies and the unclear risk-benefit ratio.
PubMed 38770631 ↗Conclusion: Our findings revealed that ginger supplementation has favorable effects on BP. Nonetheless, further studies are warranted before definitive conclusions may be reached.
PubMed 30972845 ↗Conclusion: For primary dysmenorrhea, cinnamon/fennel/ginger effectively reduced pain intensity, and cinnamon shortened the duration of pain. Further studies are needed to confirm our results.
PubMed 32603204 ↗Dosage people report
As stated by users — not a recommendation. Follow the label or your doctor.
Reported side effects
How often each side effect came up across all reports.
What users say
Verbatim quotes, shortened only — each links to the original discussion.
“I currently am taking ginger”
“MSM, Ginger, melissa officinalis, Resveratrol, Sulforaphane”
“herbal teas, chewing raw ginger, etc.”
“using ginger helps alleviate some of the nausea.”
“Ginger”
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