Experiment 66701
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Zingiber officinale (ZINGIBERACEAE) |
| Citation | ERNST,E: PITTLER,MH:. (2000). EFFICACY OF GINGER FOR NAUSEA AND VOMITING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS.. 84(3) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE SEARCHES WERE PERFORMED. ONLY DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO-CONTROLLED RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS OF GINGER MONOPREPARATIONS FOR NAUSEA AND VOMITING WERE INCLUDED. DATA FROM RCT ON POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA WERE SUITABLE FOR STATISTICAL POOLING. THE POOLED ABSOLUTE RISK REDUCTION FOR THE INCIDENCE OF POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA INDICATED A NONSIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GINGER GROUP TREATED WITH GINGER (1 GM) BEFORE OPERATION AND THE PLACEBO GROUP (ABSOLUTE RISK REDUCTION 0.052 (95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL -0.082 TO 0.186)). THESE VALUES INDICATE A POINT ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER-NEEDED-TO-TREAT OF 19 AND A 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL WHICH ALSO INCLUDES THE POSIBILITY OF NO BENEFIT. |
| Dose amount | VAR |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | RHIZOME |