Ginger? What fun is that?
May 14, 2009 | 3:40
pm
Move over, marijuana. A new study finds that adding ginger to food in the days surrounding chemotherapy treatments reduces nausea and vomiting.
My grandmother could have told them that. Ginger ale was her remedy for all abdominal ills. And ginger has been touted by the alternative-health community in recent years as well.
Will this wipe out the whole debate around use of that other herbal remedy for chemotherapy discomfort? It's hard to imagine "medical ginger clinics" having quite the same ring -- or popularity. Besides, ginger can't possibly do as much to stimulate the appetite.
Photograph of cannabis plant by Richard Pedroncelli / AP
Wow! Who would have known that such a serious threat could come so disguised? Even with our current fiscal "rough spot" we MUST stop this attack on the American Way of Life©. If it somehow undercuts the need for Modern American Pharmaceuticals, it must be a Muslim or Mexican Conspiracy (or both, a Mexi-Muslim Conspiracy) and MUST BE WIPED OUT. I propose a Ginger Education & Elimination Korps (GEEK) of SWAT-like Shock Troops who will kick down doors, over-fly suspected "grows" with menacing black helicopters, and root this evil out by the, er, roots. If Grandma or some other "fellow traveler" who is undergoing Patriotic American Radiation or Chemotherapy thinks they need this dangerous "plant," they should be imprisoned until they come to their senses. Maybe that El Monte cop could kick some sense in them. America for Americans and Ginger for America-haters!
Posted by: mike | May 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM