How to treat breast cancer with ginger, effective?
Although now there are many varieties of medical therapy, ginger touted can treat breast cancer. But, effective?
Bosom disease is a kind of malignant growth that creates in bosom cells. These cells divide themselves faster than normal cells and form bumps or masses.
To date, there have been various therapies to overcome this condition, such as surgery and chemotherapy. However, also, ginger touted can treat breast cancer. How effective?
Sufferers of high breast cancer
Breast cancer is indeed a frightening scourge. The treatment and healing process will be much harder. That is because, in the stage of the further, cancer can also spread to various organs in the body.
In fact, if the patient comes in an early stage, the life expectancy of breast cancer patients will be better. It is thought to be caused by low awareness of the patient to perform breast examination on their own and recognize the symptoms of breast cancer.
Not only suffer from middle-aged to elderly, but breast cancer can also attack productive people. In fact, it is also found that teenagers already have breast cancer.
If found as early as possible, the chances of success of therapy and the patient's life expectancy will be higher. Therefore, it would be very good to recognize the symptoms of breast cancer.
Such symptoms include a lump in the breast, changes in the shape and size of the breast, changes in the texture of the breast skin to be like orange peel, the nipple is drawn into, as well as discharge or blood from the nipple.
The potency of Ginger as therapy
There are several methods of breast cancer treatment that has been known for so long, such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapy. It all aims to eliminate or kill cancer cells, the therapy is not without side effects.
Methods of chemotherapy, eg. One of the side effects due to chemotherapy that many make patients uncomfortable is excessive nausea. To overcome this, doctors will usually give ginger as a natural remedy that can help relieve nausea.
However, after further investigation, it is possible that the active substances contained in the ginger can also help fight cancer cells in the breast. It was a joyous discovery.
Ginger, or known by the Latin name Zingiber Officinale, is a rhizome plant that has been used as a spice of kitchen and medicine since ancient times. Ginger that has a spicy flavor has been investigated for the effects of antitumor, antiinflammation, antimicrobial, and Antinausea.
Experts find that ginger contains gingerol which can inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells and cause those cells to die programmatically (apoptosis).
That is, ginger can help inhibit metastatic (spread) of breast cancer cells to other organs, both in rats and in humans.
Ginger can be used as adjuvant therapy (additionally) for breast cancer cases. Nevertheless, experts agree that the use of ginger as a breast cancer therapy still needs to be researched further.
Other treatments, such as surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapies are still necessary. Therapy for these patients will be selected by the Doctor by considering the stage and type of breast cancer.