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Re: Must read: Aloe vera and natural cures/healing
This article is about the inhibitory properties of the particular mushroom in question:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16865287
As for growing conditions, red reishi is grown two different ways. The methods explained to me were these:
The old way of growing red reishi is on logs that are 30-40 years old. Holes are drilled into the log and the fungus is put in and allowed to grow. This takes quite awhile but the product has much more potency than the other way of growing red reishi. The faster cheaper way is to put the fungus into glass jars and culture it that way. However, when the fungus is pulverized it has no medicial value. To be of value, the fungus must be grown in a log and then the medicial qualities are boiled and then extracted for maximum potency. Real red reishi is a down regulator for estrogen (which is a good thing) if one is ER+. There is black reishi as well but it is thought to be not as useful.
A quality bottle of red reishi will have the extraction ratio and mg's printed on the bottle - it will be standardized.
There are a lot of alternatives to chemical drugs, but the drug companies control the doctors. Until that changes, cancer won't be cured....
Dianne
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Three years and 5 months NED
Dx: Aug 2008 right breast IDC with 50% of tumor DCIS, Stage II or IIA, tumor size: 2.1 cm
Grade 3
8/9 Richardson/Bloom test
ER+ weakly positive
Alred Score: 4 (suggesting I would strongly benefit from hormone therapy)
PR-,
HER2 positive +++
No vascular invasion
No lymph nodes involved
Surgery: Sept. 9, 2008 -Modified radical mastectomy, right breast. I chose to have a simple mastectomy on the left. Began Taxotere/Carboplatin/Herceptin November, 2008. Finished T/C March 2009. Finished #16 Herceptin Sept. 09. AI's and Tamoxifen made me sick. Began natural Tamoxifen which is Quercetin, I3C and a combo of other supplements. I am also a DES Daughter. There is now a link between DES exposure in utero and breast cancer!
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