While anti-inflammatory effects of ginger are often attributed to its gingerols, each of its secondary metabolites, the essential oils and the gingerols, are joint protective in an experimental arthritis model.
Both of ginger’s secondary metabolites (essential oils and gingerols) have anti-arthritic effects in an experimental model.
Anti-arthritic effects of ginger essential oils (GEO) mirrored those of 17-β estradiol.
However, GEO had no effect on classic estrogen-responsive organs.
GEO were well tolerated.
GEO and gingerols may have additive joint protective effects in arthritis.