Ginger Treats Migraine Headaches As Well As Drugs
By Aqiyl Aniys | June 24th, 2015 | Modified - March 2nd, 2019
Ginger treats migraine headaches as well as pharmaceutical drugs, but the drug industry won’t tell you that. The market for migraine drugs is worth billions of dollars, and by 2023 the market for migraine drugs is projected to reach $3.7 billion.[1] A few cents worth of powder ginger was found to work as well the migraine drug sumatriptan. In this study,[2] subjects took either one capsule containing 250mg of ginger powder, or 50mg of sumatriptan and they both worked equally. Ginger worked as well as the drug without the side effects of the drug that included: dizziness, heartburn, a sedative effect, vertigo, heart attack, and death. Find out more about the health benefits of ginger.
Sources:
[1] G D Solomon. Reducing the cost of headache medication. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2009 Jun;13(3):227-30.
[2] M Maghbooli, F Golipour, A Moghimi Esfandabadi, M Yousefi. Comparison between the efficacy of ginger and sumatriptan in the ablative treatment of the common migraine. Phytother Res. 2014 Mar;28(3):412-5. doi: 10.1002/ptr.4996.
[1] G D Solomon. Reducing the cost of headache medication. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2009 Jun;13(3):227-30.
[2] M Maghbooli, F Golipour, A Moghimi Esfandabadi, M Yousefi. Comparison between the efficacy of ginger and sumatriptan in the ablative treatment of the common migraine. Phytother Res. 2014 Mar;28(3):412-5. doi: 10.1002/ptr.4996.
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