Ginger for Migraines

An eighth teaspoon of powdered ginger found to work as well as the migraine headache drug sumatriptan (Imitrex) without the side-effects.

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[jase]

I have about 4 or 5 migraine headaches per month. When I moved to Thailand my Thai friend said ginger tea made with fresh ginger would stop me getting them. I was sceptical, but loved the taste of the tea and it was really easy to make and so inexpensive. After drinking this tea every day for a few weeks I have more than halves my migraine attacks, and they are much less painful and last shorter time than before (they could last all day or longer sometimes with severe pain and sickness). I don't know about dry powdered ginger or ginger tablets, but I can say the fresh ginger made into a tea really helped me!

[treazure]

Just personally experience:
This seems to be working for me so far. I usually got 1-2 debilitating migraines a month. Identifying triggers & avoiding helped reduce to 1 or less severe. Started adding ginger powder in my morning shakes most days & haven't had a migraine in almost 3 months.

[whitekaminari]

This is the most legitimate health food claim presentation I have ever found so far. There is no conflict of interest (i.e. not funded by "ginger growers inc"), the argument is objective (opinions not presented as facts), shows good use of educational illustrations (snips of research journals, not women in bikinis) and none of that sensationalized hype that afflicts the digital media ("What the medical industry doesn't want you to know could cost you BILLIONS OF DOLLARS"). Subscribed.

[veganduende]

I literally put this to the test and it worked. Thanks again dr g and love to all the spice loving vegan power rangers out there.!!!

[taliciatemelkovski]

I just tried this. Swallowed 1/2 teaspoon of dried ginger when I started to feel a migraine coming on. It was completely gone within half an hour. Will definitely try this again, this video may have just changed my life

[loricrouch]

I have a ginger at home, but he still gives me migraines :P

[rickwest]

Every migraine sufferer should have powdered ginger at home, half a teaspoon in a small amount of warm water and in 30 mins you will feel much better.

[NutritionFactsOrg]

Did you hear how ginger appears as effective, safer, and 3, 000 times cheaper than migraine medication?

[maryr]

Ginger works for "migraine aura without headache" also. Decades ago I had migraine headaches which went away in time. In very old age I suddenly developed migraine aura with no pain. We had eaten foods with MSG, soy, over holidays and the aura struck hard. I went to my opthalmologist and told the details and learned it was not serious, and that he too had recently experienced the aura after drinking spicy cider. I still avoid the triggers but avoiding soybeans is almost impossible, and now that I know about 1/4 teaspoon of ginger I have had few less episodes, and recently 1 dose stopped the visual disturbance (I never even saw the aura just knew it seemed to be coming). After about an hour in a dark room, I got up, no aftereffects and was pretty much back to normal, whereas in the past it took a few days of not quite right. I am trying a supplement of 2 capsules of ginger daily now on a regular basis, total 1100 mg. Some might want to consider ginger essential oil in a diffuser.

[mimih]

I've tried using ginger and ginger tea when I have a headache - sometimes it works, but not always.. I guess it depends on the cause of the headache too, or maybe just the migraines..

[fightfannerd]

Wil be subbing yes ginger helped me with headaches for years

[el-adcohen]

Dr. Greger, your work is a real service to everyone. could you perhaps start a play list of food as medicine like this one? I use to suffer from frequent chronic migraines and know many who do now, this is great news! Thanks.

[chel-lalasveganmania]

So cool, I chop ginger into my tea pot all the time...

[ibberti]

What the heck! This is awesome! Nature, for the win!

[unclejake]

My wife will be trying this. She has suffered with migraines for many, many years, and takes sumatriptan. I see that this discussion is also in your book on page 360. Excellent. Thanks!

[arose]

I am going to try this. I have severe migraines about twice a month on average. I don't have any prescription meds and usually try to "sleep it off".

[kristophervitale]

wow just wow!! DEFINITELY trying !!! i have migraines 2-3x a week and this is such a simple thank you!!!

[veggiegirl]

This has already worked for me-what a wonder. Thank you.

[anithen]

They better not take this stuff off of YouTube.

[tripleione]

Just had a horrible migraine last night.  Going to pick up some ginger the next chance I get.