Table 3.

Bacterial load and inflammation induced by Helicobacter pyrlori infection in Mongolian gerbils fed a normal diet or a diet supplemented with standardized ginger extract: treatment study.

			CI			AI
Expt.	Food	Colonies	M	S	Lymph	M	S	C	ED	E
2	Control	70.40	2.25	3.00	1.50	3.00	2.00	1.00	2.00	2.00
2	Ginger	75.00	2.66	2.50	1.00	2.66	2.16	0.83	1.66	1.83

Eight per arm; gerbils were fed a normal diet throughout (Purina 5001 chow; control) or a normal diet supplemented with 100 mg ginger extract /kg body weight in daily rations for 4 weeks (6 weeks after inoculation) and then returned to normal chow for another 4 weeks; inflammation was graded using the criteria of Table 1. Colonies = bacterial load in log cfu per stomach; CI = chronic inflammation; Lymph = Lymphocyte infiltration; AI = acute inflammation; M = mucosal; S = submucosal; C = cryptitis; ED = epithelial cell degeneration; E = erosion.