Ginger, A Natural Treatment of Post-Stroke Urinary Incontinence

By Kyle J. Norton

Scientists may have found a natural ingredient for the treatment of poststroke urinary incontinence with no side effects, according to study.

Post-stroke is a condition in which a patient continues to recovery from stroke by making changes in the physical, social and, emotional aspects of his/her life.

Urinary incontinence is a condition of leakage of urine involuntarily caused by the loss or weakened of the urinary sphincter.

In other words, a person urinates when he/she does not want to.

According to the statistic, urinary incontinence affects over 30 percent of females aged 30-60 compared to 1.5-5 percent of men.

The exact cause of the loss control of urinary sphincter is not identified. However, epidemiological studies suggested gender, smoking, obesity, and persistent stress are some of the potential risk factors associated with the condition.

Treatment of urinary incontinence is totally depending on the severity of the syndrome. Bladder control such as delaying the event, double voiding and toilet timetable and floor exercise have been found to be effective to many patients urinary incontinence.

Some patients may require the assistance of medication, including anticholinergics and Imipramine accompanied by bladder control and floor exercise.

Some researchers suggested the increase in age may be correlated to the onset of UTI as a large percentage of older adults were found to have UTI compared to the general population.

Dr. George A. Kuchel, the lead scientist wrote, "The prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) increases with age. Moderate to severe UI affects 7% of women 20 to 39 yr of age, 17% 40 to 59 yr of age, 23% 60 to 79 yr of age, and 32% 80 yr of age".

And, "Nursing home residents have especially high rates of UI, ranging from 60 to 78% in women and 45 to 72% in men".

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) or ginger root, the second superfood used for thousands of years by mankind, is the genus Zingiber, belonging to the family Zingiberaceae, native to Tamil.

The root has been used in traditional and Chinese medicine for the treatment of dyspepsia, gastroparesis, constipation, edema, difficult urination, colic, etc.

With an aim to find a natural ingredient for the treatment of urinary incontinence in post-stroke patients researchers evaluated the efficacy and safety of ginger-salt-indirect moxibustion for urge urinary incontinence after stroke.

The study included cases of cerebral apoplexy, including cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, with urination disorders induced by neurogenic bladder at the restoration stage. 

Patients were randomly divided into a treatment group treated with ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion at Shenque (CV 8) and routine acupuncture, and a control group treated with routine acupuncture. 

The treatment was given 5 times each week and the therapeutic effects were observed after treatment of 3 consecutive weeks.

39 cases in the treatment group and 36 cases in the control group completed all treatments. 

The ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion treatment group showed an improvement of urinary times of each day compared to control.

The mean times on awakening of the nursing personnel at night, and mean times of urgent urinary incontinence at day for the patients, were significantly lower in the treatment group.

Furthermore, cases-times of urinary incontinence of the patient at night, and increasing degree of urinary incontinence was better than that of the control group.

In other words, the ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion treatment group was more superior in improving all parameters associated with urination disorders in post-stroke patients

Take all together, ginger used alone or combined with other alternative therapy may be considered a functional alternative for the treatment of urinary incontinence in post-stroke patients, pending to the confirmation of large sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Efficacy and safety of ginger-salt-indirect moxibustion for urge urinary incontinence after stroke: protocol for a pilot multicentre randomised controlled trial by Wang L1, Wang L1, Shi G1, Zeng L2, Yang Y1, Zhang T1, Liu H1. (PubMed)
(2) [Randomized controlled study on ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion at shenque (CV 8) on urination disorders poststroke].[Article in Chinese] by Liu HL1, Wang LP. (PubMed)
(3) Chapter 30: Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly by  George A. Kuchel* and Catherine E. DuBeau. (University of Connecticut Health Center)