It has been widely known that increased consumption of fruits associated with a protective effect as an anticancer. Widely ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is used as a spicy sensation enhancer in food and beverages. However, after further research, ginger is an excellent source for bioactive phenolics, which include nonvolatile compounds such as gingerol, paradols, shogaols, and gingerones.
Ginger is known to have effects antiinfalmasi, antioxidant and antiproliferative so it promises to be a chemopreventive agent or a cancer preventive agent. Proliferation itself is an activity of cells to reproduce themselves, which in the case of cancer, the cells proliferate uncontrollably, while ginger has antiproliferative effects.
Ginger extract studied by research in Switzerland which have been published in international journals suggests possess a significant effect in inhibiting cell death and induces prostate cancer. Comprehensive research also shows that ginger extract interfere with cell cycle progression, reproductive capacity, modulate cell cycle and regulation of apoptosis (cell death automatically) at the mitochondrial level.
By consuming ginger extract 100 mg / kg body weight per day, these effects can be shown in 56% of laboratory rats. Most importantly, unlike chemotherapy drugs that destroy cancer cells or interfere with the proliferation of such high levels of intestinal and bone marrow cells, specifically ginger works on cancer cells in the body alone. Ginger extract does not interfere with other healthy cell proliferation.
Prostate disease itself can be divided into enlargement due to prostate cancer and enlargement due to hypertrophy of the prostate (not malignancies / cancer). So, from this study, shown that ginger extract would be beneficial to the enlarged prostate due to malignancy or cancer, while prostate enlargement due to hypertrophy or enlargement of the volume (instead of malignancy) there has been no evidence of an effect of ginger extract it.
