Using ginger as an abortive for low level hits
This from Pink Shark Mark on using ginger as an abortive for low level hits:
I've mentioned this several times on clusterheadaches. Com over the years.
For some reason, very few people have commented on it. I came across it in a
book on migraines years and years ago. Apparently it's a pretty well-known
thing among migraineurs. For some even just drinking ginger ale or eating
gingersnap cookies helps.
I found that eating fresh ginger root isn't as effective (and it's a lot
more of a pain in the butt shredding and dicing it besides) so I stick with
the powdered ginger. Health food stores and bulk food places usually have
tons of the stuff and it's not that expensive. If you just buy those little
spice jars you'll pay through the nose for it.
Dosing is simplicity itself -- mix up half a teaspoon of the powdered ginger
in some water and glom it down. You'll have to rinse out the glass and drink
that as well since the powder doesn't actually dissolve, it just gets
suspended in the water. I guess you could just eat the powder directly when
it comes right down to it, but I find this method the most convenient. If
after ten or fifteen minutes you feel no effect, take another half teaspoon.
In my case I have found that if a full teaspoon doesn't work, taking more
does no good, but you may be different.
I find the effects last between two and four hours, so I usually keep a fair
bit of it on hand. Half a teaspoon isn't much, but it adds up over a week if
you're taking it four or five times a day.
As I say, it does nothing whatsoever once you get to the higher Kip levels,
but it's far and away the best thing I've ever come across for handling
shadows and low Kip level attacks. As good as Imitrex, actually -- within
its limitations. Of course, as with EVERY other medication in our arsenal,
it may not work for everyone. But if it works for you as well as it does for
me you'll find it nothing short of miraculous. The Chinese claim all sorts
of other health benefits from eating ginger on a regular basis but I can't
vouch for those -- I only ever use it during the ramp-up and ramp-down of my
CH cycles.
I have no idea WHY it works. No idea of the pharmacology behind it. I just
know it has worked for me ever since I started taking it.
Pinky
Note:
I myself, have found that when mixing the ginger up, if you use tepid or
slightly warm water the powdered ginger will for the most part dissolve,
making it much easier to down.
Bob
I've mentioned this several times on clusterheadaches. Com over the years.
For some reason, very few people have commented on it. I came across it in a
book on migraines years and years ago. Apparently it's a pretty well-known
thing among migraineurs. For some even just drinking ginger ale or eating
gingersnap cookies helps.
I found that eating fresh ginger root isn't as effective (and it's a lot
more of a pain in the butt shredding and dicing it besides) so I stick with
the powdered ginger. Health food stores and bulk food places usually have
tons of the stuff and it's not that expensive. If you just buy those little
spice jars you'll pay through the nose for it.
Dosing is simplicity itself -- mix up half a teaspoon of the powdered ginger
in some water and glom it down. You'll have to rinse out the glass and drink
that as well since the powder doesn't actually dissolve, it just gets
suspended in the water. I guess you could just eat the powder directly when
it comes right down to it, but I find this method the most convenient. If
after ten or fifteen minutes you feel no effect, take another half teaspoon.
In my case I have found that if a full teaspoon doesn't work, taking more
does no good, but you may be different.
I find the effects last between two and four hours, so I usually keep a fair
bit of it on hand. Half a teaspoon isn't much, but it adds up over a week if
you're taking it four or five times a day.
As I say, it does nothing whatsoever once you get to the higher Kip levels,
but it's far and away the best thing I've ever come across for handling
shadows and low Kip level attacks. As good as Imitrex, actually -- within
its limitations. Of course, as with EVERY other medication in our arsenal,
it may not work for everyone. But if it works for you as well as it does for
me you'll find it nothing short of miraculous. The Chinese claim all sorts
of other health benefits from eating ginger on a regular basis but I can't
vouch for those -- I only ever use it during the ramp-up and ramp-down of my
CH cycles.
I have no idea WHY it works. No idea of the pharmacology behind it. I just
know it has worked for me ever since I started taking it.
Pinky
Note:
I myself, have found that when mixing the ginger up, if you use tepid or
slightly warm water the powdered ginger will for the most part dissolve,
making it much easier to down.
Bob
