Chemotherapy Induced Nausea & Voming (CINV)? Here's How Ginger May Help
Chemotherapy Induced Nausea & Vomiting (CINV) is very common during cancer therapy. It falls into two phases, one that happens right away, and one that is delayed.
Ginger may help by blunting the signals coming out of the gut that tell the brain to cause nausea and vomiting. Clinical trials suggest starting ginger 3 days before chemotherapy to assist.
For reference, many oncology treatment centers recommend the rule of threes: taking ginger roughly equivalent to three tummydrops three times a day starting three days before treatment, continuing until three days after treatment, as the shogaols especially may help block serotonin thought to underly the acute queasiness, and both gingerols and shogaols may help block NK-1 receptors usually triggered by substance P that may contribute to the delayed phase. Also here, gingerols seem to be the hero where they may assist in downregulating Substance P production to further assist with the delayed phase of CINV*
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