Ginger bad for you?

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:07 pm

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- ... 4/PDFSTART

I didn't understand much in this article, but just reading the first few and last few paragraphs, does this mean ginger is bad for your brain?

Post by **jimmylegs** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:59 pm

so is sneezing ;)

Post by **jimmylegs** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:03 pm

i had a quick squiz at it and it looks like an isolated component of ginger can kill of neurons in vitro. i don't know if we can extrapolate that to ginger=bad.
i haven't read the whole thing because i didn't want to log into my library but for anyone who's interested in just abstract:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/jour ... 4/abstract

patientx · Post by **patientx** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:40 pm

so is sneezing Wink

that's why I stopped