You'll see in the Treatment Score Calculator™ above that we were unable to score ginger for the common cold due to a lack of scientific evidence behind the treatment. This does not mean the treatment is not effective, it only means that we were unable to locate significant clinical evidence to support it's use. These trials may have not been done for a myriad of reasons beyond efficacy, such as funding or sponsor interest.
An interesting observation made during our research is that there actually are several controlled trials of ginger for anti-emetic use. While this is too far astray from the common cold to be included in our current analysis, it opens the question to what the Treatment Score™ for ginger in nausea or vomiting would be. Maybe we will assess this in a future analysis.
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