08/30/2021
🌿 ✨ HERBAL HIGHLIGHT ✨ 🌿✨
Zingiber officinale (ginger) is a fabulous antioxidant and warming herb that has many benefits for the healing hormones and optimizing menstrual cycles!!!
This spice has traditionally been used to combat the effects of various inflammatory diseases. And is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to add heat to the body in states where there is a qi or yin deficiency.
There is research looking at the effect of ginger on pain releif in primary dysmenorrhea. They have concluded that 500mg of ginger powder three times a day for as little as 5 days had a statistically significant effect on relieving intensity and duration of period pain.👏
Primary dysmenorrhea is when you have an increased production of uterine prostaglandins derived from cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 enzyme activity. Studies have shown that by inhibiting prostaglandin synthesis through COX-2 activity there is an pain-releieving effect similar to that by nonspecific nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as Advil. These drugs are useful as anti-inflammatories and as pain relievers. But in the conventional treatment for primary dysmenorrhea there is a failure rate of 20% to 25%, and some women do not tolerate these drugs well. Given the side effects of NSAIDs as well as their limited efficacy, it is wonderful to have an alternative option to supporting women with period pain!
Ginger contains several constituents such as gingerol, gingerdiol, and gingerdione, beta-carotene, capsaicin, caffeic acid and curcumin which create the anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect!
One easy way to include ginger into your day is by including 1 cup of ginger tea that has steeped for about 10-15 minutes 🍵
💜For more on period pain tips follow !!! 💜💜
(PMID: 22781186).
