Daejeon University Eastern Hospital East-West Cancer Center Dong-West Cancer Center Professor Yu-Seung’s research team (Soo-Dam Kim, Eun-Bin Kwak) has published a research paper showing the effectiveness of ginger in curing nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy in breast cancer patients International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IF:6.208) was published on the 26th. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States.
Ginger has been used to treat nausea and vomiting for over 2000 years as one of the main herbal remedies used in oriental medicine. This is because strong antioxidants such as gingerol and shogaol, the main components of ginger, inhibit the serotonin (5-HT3) receptor, a neurotransmitter that causes nausea and vomiting in the central and peripheral nervous system.
In addition, gingerol, one of the main components of ginger, has excellent anticancer effects in preventing the proliferation and metastasis of breast cancer cells.
Researchers Soodam Kim and Eunbin Kwak, who participated as first authors, said, “Ginger intake without side effects may be a safe and effective option for the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in breast cancer patients. It is meaningful in the sense that it has laid the foundation that can lead to the development of issues.”
