u/rollingdeepdelphi

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share my experience I've been having with using ginger powder to deal with endometriosis/period pain. Maybe it'll help someone else, too, as I wish I would have known about it sooner.

A while ago I came across this study: Effect of Zingiber officinale R. rhizomes (ginger) on pain relief in primary dysmenorrhea: a placebo randomized trial

I thought I may as well give this a go as I already had a big bag of ginger powder at home anyways. The first time I tried it, I used 500mg of ginger 3x a day on the first day of my period and it worked okay. But then the next month, I made sure I started taking ginger a few days before my period started and the effects were even better - so much better actually that the pain was mild enough for me to still go about my day pretty normally.

I now take ginger pretty much daily - often even up to 3g - 4g per day as I haven't found any clear studies yet on if you can have too much of it but I'm using it to treat migrane headaches, too, as it seems to work well to treat lots of kinds of pain. If anyone knows if there's drawbacks to too much ginger, please let me know! On healthline it says this: "Ginger tea doesn’t seem to have serious side effects. For one thing, it would be difficult to drink enough of the tea to expose yourself to anything irritating or harmful. In general, you don’t want to consume more than 4 grams of ginger a day — that’s quite a few cups!"

Anyways, I'm hoping that sharing my personal positive experience with ginger might help someone else - it is so easy to get hold of! I use the powder and mix it with warm water as that's probably the cheapest way although I try and always source the organic kind.