Ginger Compress Research Articles

A Phenomenological Study of Ginger Compress Therapy for People with Osteoarthritis

This paper claims rigour and sensitivity for a methodology used to explore multiple sources of data and expose the essential characteristics of a phenomenon in the human sciences. A descriptive phenomenological methodology was applied in a study of the experience of ten people with osteoarthritis receiving ginger compress therapy. The application of the phenomenological attitude, with reduction, bracketing and imaginative variation, allowed multiple sources of data – written, pictorial and oral – to be explicated. The applied methodology used is described in this paper, with its six clearly defined steps illustrated by examples from the study. The findings demonstrate that phenomenological reduction enabled an indication of the potential benefits of ginger compress treatment as a therapy for people with osteoarthritis.

Patients’ Experience of the External Therapeutic Application of Ginger by Anthroposophically Trained Nurses

There has been considerable public debate on a range of complementary health practices throughout the western world, perhaps especially in Australia, United States and Europe. Most often, the research critique of these practices is restricted to quantitative or non-user qualitative research methodologies. Consequently, there is a significant gap in the research profile of complementary health services that needs to be addressed particularly in view of the rapid and ongoing increase in the use of complementary services, even in the face of sometimes adverse media publicity. This paper demonstrates the contribution that phenomenologicallybased research can make to fill this lacuna by explicating, in detail, the client experience of a complementary health practice. The paper explores patient experience of a ginger compress, as applied by anthroposophically trained nurses, to demonstrate various therapeutic effects. Four key themes emerged including an increase in warmth and internal activity in the major organs of the body, changes in thought-life and sensory perception along with a greater sense of well-being and self-focus with the perception of clearer personal boundaries. These themes, emerging from a patient sample in New Zealand, compared favourably to the Filderklinik Study completed in 1992 in a large German state hospital.

PEMBERIAN KOMPRES JAHE DALAM MENGURANGI NYERI SENDI PADA LANSIA DI UPT PSTW KHUSNUL KHOTIMAH PEKANBARU

Gout and rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that is often encountered in the community, one of them on the elderly (the elderly) are characterized by pain that occurs repeatedly in the joints. Ginger compress can be used as a nonpharmacological measures to deal with the pain. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of ginger compress in reducing joint pain in the elderly in UPT PSTW Khusnul Khotimah Pekanbaru. This design of research is a quasi experiment with sampling total sampling with 16 respondents. Data collection tool using pain scale test pre and post administration of ginger compress. The research result shows that the average intensity of joint pain before and after the ginger compress is 2.500. The test results obtained statistical p value = 0.000 where p <α 0:05. this means that there are differences in average significant difference between the intensity of joint pain in the elderly before and after the ginger compress. Is expected to more elderly for routine use as a ginger compress nonpharmacological measures pain in the joints.