The effect of ginger and chamomile consumption on the severity and frequency of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting: a Review of Randomized Clinical Trials

Objective:This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ginger and chamomile consumption on the intensity and frequency of nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.Methods:To write this literature review, All published randomized clinical trials between January ۲۰۰۳ and July ۲۰۲۳, were systematically searched using Google Scholar, Scopus, Med-Line, Science Direct, Up To Date, Web Of Science, Magiran, SID, and Pub-Med search databases with “nausea and vomiting, chemotherapy, chamomile, ginger ,herbal plants , herbal medicine Complementary medicine and alternative medicine” as keywords.Result:After reviewing ۲۵۰ articles, ۲۰ articles were selected, in which ۹ studies showed positive effect of ginger consumption and ۹ studies showed no effect of ginger use of nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy About chamomile, two studies indicated its positive effect and one study indicated that it had no effect.Conclusion:In half of the studies, ginger consumption had a positive effect and in half of the studies it had no positive effect on reducing nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, and chamomile consumption in two studies had completely contradictory results and in one study it had a positive effect on nausea.so we can’t certainly say if they are effective or not

Keywords:

nausea and vomiting , chemotherapy , chamomile , ginger , complementary medicine.