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Foreword
by Dr. Phil Chan M.D. Former Training Director in Health Education
at Federal Health Canada, Think Tank Advisor to Aboriginal
First Nations Tribal Council. |
The
brochure on the immune system is very easy to read and understand
by any age group. It has endorsements, opinions and research
data to backup the success rate by world-renowned medical
experts. I enjoyed reading the whole brochure, knowing that
it can and will help anyone to understand and remember its
key concepts. An informed patient serves as the best source
of intelligenceto any health practitioner. To a health practitioner,
each patient should be the best reference book as a continued
education learning experience during his/her conventional
medical practice. After all, real education begins in society
when formal schooling ends. Since the doctor cannot find enough
time during clinical consultation visits with each patient,
it is the responsibility of the patient to do research about
his/her bodily symptoms/signs from internet or printed materials
and relate this information as clearly as possible to the
doctor, hopefully to arrive at a good diagnosis and the best
choice of medications. Self-help is prevention of any uncomfortable
illness before seeing a doctor so as to prevent "disease"
of the body. Question everything. Beware of half-truths, my
friend; you might get a hold of the wrong half. That's why
an intelligent person only believes half of what you tell
him/her, but only a wise patient knows exactly which half.
Any patient should not have to wait until disease strikes,
as unfortunately most do.
Seek a second opinion - that's what it is - an opinion - or
try another alternative. After all, God created man with a
brain. Remember, an optimist shakes hands, but only a scrutinizing
pessimist shakes his head. In order to keep a sound mind in
a sound body, we need an improved immune system to
run it, especially people affected by a severe illness including
cancer. Taking supplements obviously sounds like the best
solution even in the traditional healing circle, not just
for the patients but also for the practitioners as well. Let's
face it, conventional treatment is like a double- edged sword
- killing germs while weakening the body's systems. Whereas,
alternative medicine can truly rebuild and sustain stronger
immune defenses that fight any opportunistic infections, thus
helping to maintain, regain and prolong life in return. Don't
serve a system; rather the system should serve you wisely!
To be or not to be, that's your biggest decision, my friend!
Foreword by Dr. Frank Palmer Sweet N.M.D.
We are individually responsible for our health and
that means we must learn how to be healthy by preventing illness
and taking care of this most wonderful machine we call the
human body. The immune system is the ultimate protector of
our health. We live in a fragile balance with germs, viruses,
fungi and a host of man made chemicals and synthetic foods
that threaten our health daily. Our immune system is the guard
and the sentinel against the onslaught of potential disease
we are exposed to.
Just as the informative brochure you are about to read states,
Coriolus Versicolor has been used for centuries as a powerful
stimulant to elevate, build, and strengthen your immune system
and thus prevent you from getting both acute and chronic disease.
Remember the old saying: An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Your health and life, as well as those you
love, are at stake. It's much easier to prevent illness than
to treat disease especially those chronic diseases such as
cardiovascular disease (heart and blood vessels), cancer,
autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome,
arthritis and prostate disease. A healthy body with a strong
immune system virtually never gets sick. It is resistant to
disease and is quick to heal itself. It's really that simple.
We are using Coriolus Versicolor in our clinic to protect
and elevate the immune system. We generally recommend one
capsule of 500mg three times per day. For treating a chronic
disease such as cancer, we use 1000mg-9000mg per day. It is
non-toxic and virtually without side effects, except for a
few reported cases of temporary diarrhea if taken in high
doses. I see cancer patients and associate with many cancer
clinics around the world that use Coriolus Versicolor to help
their patients. The object of medicine is to heal the patient
in the most gentle and effective way or, as the first law
of medicine states: "Do no harm." If the immune system is
deficient, many people will tragically die because of infection
and organ damage. Toxic drug treatments also injure and kill
many patients because drugs endlessly chase symptoms without
truly healing the disease.. Idealistically, the mission of
every doctor should be to teach people how to be well and
leave the majority of medicine to the field of trauma care.
My father had a wonderful saying that I never forgot: "Knowledge
is power and knowledge used wisely is intelligence." The more
intelligence you have, the happier your life will be, and
the good you do for yourself, your family and others will
increase. To be truly happy you must have emotional and physical
health. That often begins with a strong immune system.
Foreword by Dr. Chakib Hammoud, M.H, PhD.
A positive energy was felt by reading the information in the
brochure about the much- neglected immune system. I am sure
it will help thousands of men and women to understand how
important it is. A weak immune system leaves us vulnerable
to illness from environmental contacts of carcinogenic agents,
pollutants, radiation, and diets resulting in more faulty
cells than a weak system is able to destroy. Stress also plays
a major role in weakening the immune system, thus decreasing
the body's capacity to destroy malignant cells. Individuals
exposed to both factors simultaneously are at increased risk
of developing malignant diseases. You are doing people a great
service to make them aware of the dangers of a weak immune
system and how to overcome it.
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| Introduction |
The
purpose of this brochure is to make you aware of information
on Coriolus Versicolor mushroom extract that has been publicly
available for years on the internet in medical studies and
published in books written by health professionals about the
immune system and preventing an illness. Coriolus Versicolor
is a generic name of the mushroom type and not a trade name.
All the information available today can only be a blessing
if we make use of it.
A) In case of ILLNESS, this brochure
is not intended to replace the advice of a physician or other
health care providers. B) For PREVENTION be guided by literature
that is available.
Respect the humble professional who knows that there are thousands
of health discoveries that are not being observed, and be
weary of those who say they know everything. Opinions by health
professionals vary greatly. This is why it is generally recommended
to get second or third opinions when important health decisions
are made. This brochure is recommending natural health products
when they are the best approach alone or in combination with
and in support of conventional treatment. Both are important
for our health. You have to make your own responsible decisions.
For those of us who feel we are at
the pinnacle of knowledge in nutrition, healthcare and medicine,
we should remind ourselves that in a mere 25 years people
will laugh at how backwards and antiquated we were in 2007.
I read excerpts of a book that was printed in 1803, in which
the author actually believed they were at the highest level
of what can be achieved in medicine.
Through the experience I gained in the past ten years by overcoming
my own health problems, I have been able to help hundreds
of thousands of men and women to improve their quality
of life. I suffered for years with arthritis pain, an enlarged
prostate and I was overweight. I realized that many millions
of people have the same health problems and I could help many
of them if I make them aware of the help that is available.
My sixties and my seventies have been the most rewarding years
of my life because I have been able to help so many hundreds
of thousands of men and women with natural health products.
To get the best advice, so you can make informed decisions
on your health, it is important to consult a health professional.
However, ultimately you alone are responsible for your own
health. If you don't take good health for granted and get
all available information, only then you can expect to be
healthy in the long run. Where it is wanted, share your own
wisdom with others to help them. Most people want to talk
about their health concerns and are especially delighted to
relay how they were successful in overcoming their suffering.
After all, if we are not healthy, it's difficult to be happy
and be active in society. There is nothing nobler in our lives
than helping others.
Researched by Nick A. Jerch
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Preventing
an illness |
Dr.
Roby Mitchell, Ph.D. and M.D. made this wise statement:
"I want to congratulate you for taking the time to educate
yourself on being an active participant in
improving your health. You are, potentially, the best doctor
you could ever have."
Coriolus Versicolor Mushroom Extract helps by boosting
your immune system and preventing many health problems before
they get started. Go on the internet and inform yourself.
Type in Coriolus Versicolor to get information. Also try the
North American name Turkey Tail, Trametes, Kawarateke or Krestin.
It grows almost everywhere in the world. Different countries
have different names for the same thing.
Dr. Cornelius Moerman M.D. (on public internet)
states that virtually all diseases stem from a weak immune
system. In our daily food, water and air we take in many thousands
of pollutants, germs, viruses and carcinogens every day and
our immune system has to eliminate them all or we get sick
due to cell damage.
Dr. Chakib Hammoud, M.H., PhD., states: A strong
immune system will help to....
• Prevent a breakdown of white blood cells, T and B cells,
killer cells that eliminate in our body bacteria/viruses/pollutants/mutations/
carcinogens/pre-cancerous cells
• Prevent loss of oxygen in our blood supply
• Prevent loss of muscular strength, bone loss, deterioration
of organs and brain cells
• Prevent liver and kidney health problems
• Prevent stress & exhaustion
• Prevent breakdown of lymphatic system, thyroid system
• Prevent heart problems
We generally take our immune system for granted and wait until
we get sick. Then we seek help. Fortunately, many men and
especially women are now more health conscious and are interested
in a preventive health care.
You are probably wondering, if this natural mushroom product
has been used effectively for a long time in other countries,
why is it used so little in North America? The answer is:
we have to blame ourselves for not telling our health care
providers what we want. Natural health products have only
started to be of major interest to the public in North America
in the last 10 years. Hopefully, they will get the recognition
they deserve and prevent suffering with virtually no side
effects. The Canadian government should be given credit for
starting the new Natural Health Products Directorate. In an
article by Associated Press, Washington, the FDA told Dr.
David Graham, who works in the FDA's office, he can now publish
his research showing that up to 139,000 people had heart attacks
and strokes that could be linked to a single arthritis drug.
30% to 40% of them were fatal! People take notice, and look
for alternatives. This newspaper article tells us there were
over 40,000 deaths in USA and proportionately over 10,000
deaths in Canada due to this one drug alone. Dr. Julian Whitaker
M.D. writes in his medical newsletter that over 100,000 people
in U.S.A. have to be hospitalized every year because of internal
bleeding, liver and kidney failures due to various arthritis
drugs. There were no heart attacks or strokes ever reported
caused by a natural arthritis health product.
When I was in my early sixties, I started to have health problems.
I suffered for years with severe arthritis pain and enlarged
prostate problems and, in both cases, drugs did not help much.
Only when I started selfhelp with natural products did I find
complete relief. Ten years later, I'm still pain free and
have no more prostate problems. I realized then that there
are millions of people with the same health problems. Helping
other people to improve their quality of life has become the
most rewarding part of my life. You can be part of this chain
by helping yourself or others you know that suffer.I'm now
promoting over 50 natural health products and I believe that
Coriolus (short form for Coriolus Versicolor) could be the
greatest help for many men and women. Your immune system should
be your most important health consideration. Coriolus is sold
by different companies in North America. Ours has over 40%
polysaccharides. This is the effective ingredient. Others
we know of have a lot less of this active ingredient in it. |
Immune
System
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This information comes
from the internet and books such as “Disease Prevention and Treatment”,
which has an advisory board of 48 medical doctors, natural doctors
and Ph.D’s.
Our immunity is like a miracle natural healing system that does
amazing things for us. Without this protection working for us
on a daily basis we would quickly become sick and die. We take
our immune system for granted. Most people do nothing to keep
it at its peak performance. We outright neglect it. Yet, it
is our most important defense against illness. If people read
this brochure and give it some thought and actually do something
about it, they will do a great service to themselves and others.
Dr. John Bailar, M.D., PhD., former editorin-
chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute states:
"For diseases, including cancer, to start and continue growing,
they must out-maneuver the many long arms of our immune defenses.
The immune system is both your first and last defense against
cancer."
Dr. Ron Kennedy, M.D., Immune
Therapies, Santa Rosa, California, writes: "The human immune system
is designed to defeat all diseases and restore
order to the body. This includes the ability to combat foreign
intruders into our body including cancer cells. It is now known
that cells become cancerous routinely on a daily basis mainly due to our environmental pollution in food, water and air.
We all have cancer many times in our lives and are unaware of
it, because the immune system destroys the cancer cells before
they can grow and multiply out of control. A combination of two
methods exists for destroying cancer cells: antibodies and natural
killer (NK) cells, specialized cells which track down and destroy
cancer cells. NK cells are our first line of defense. If cancer
cells escape the NKs, Tlymphocites detect the antigens given off
by cancer cells and make antibodies to destroy these cells. From
this point of view, cancer is not an invasion of outside forces
as much as it is a failure of internal immune system forces to
execute normal functions. Therapy, therefore, is designed to bolster
the immune system so that it can do its job." (Coriolus is a therapy
that helped many thousands of people during the past years.)
The immune system is our protection against damage from bacteria,
viruses, pollutants, carcinogens and cancers. It is like the special
police forces you see frequently on TV which are sent out when
there is violence or hold-ups. Your immune system will quickly
go into action if foreign invaders enter your body and need to
be eliminated before they make you sick. Contrary to what most
people would expect, we have daily pre-cancerous or cancer cells
that need to be eliminated by our immune system. The older we
get the more our immune system losesits effectiveness and the
more we are exposed to various diseases including high cholesterol,
diabetes, cardiac disorders, cancer, and viral infections such
as colds and the flu. Medicinal mushrooms have been used effectively
virtually without side effects to treat and significantly improve
our immune system and quality of life. We know that as we get
older our diet may not be the best and we are more likely to get
infections, immune dysfunctions and tumors. To support the immune
system we should eat, whenever possible, organic fruit
and vegetables, whole grains, cold-water fish and lean meats. We should become more selective in what we eat. We consider grilled
meat one of the luxuries in life. The John Hopkins University
in Baltimore reminds us that when meat is charred in grilling
it may promote the growth of prostate cancer. We do know that
it is impossible to avoid those thousands of pollutants in our
food, water and air. Of 80 people that were tested for known carcinogens,
even those living far away from smokestacks had 45 pollutants
in their blood. Especially for older people, a Coriolus supplement
will help to keep the immune system in the best possible fighting
condition. Not all older people get sick. It's more likely that
those with a weak immune system will succumb to an illness.
The immune system in our body consists of more than 130 subsets
of white blood cells/macrophage, T and B cells. Natural Killers
(NK) cells are a part of our white blood cells. These specialized
cells are produced in the bone marrow. They are stationed everywhere
in our body and are a quick response team that work automatically
without us being aware of their actions. Persons with low NK activity
are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases, viral infections,
chronic fatigue syndrome and cancerous tumors.
Your health care professional can test NK cell activity. One of
the places that does the test is Specialty Labs, Santa Monica,
CA (tel. 1-800-421-7110) or others your health care provider may
know.
The tremendous immune enhancing effects of Coriolus is likely
of great benefit to men and women with high stress levels,
exposed to toxins, poor nutritional habits, smokers, heavy drinkers,
chronic fatigue syndrome, peptic ulcers, diabetics, heart disease,
autoimmune deficiencies, multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid
arthritis, colds, flus, yeast, parasites, cancer and slow healing
wounds.
A daily supplement of Coriolus is an insignificant expense compared to the money,
heartache and suffering and costly loss of work time that an illness
would cause. Our local daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, wrote
in July 2006 that one treatment of a new cancer drug costs $35,000
to $60,000 with no guarantee of success or extension of life gained.
Dr. Phil Chan, M.D.,
is using the Supreme Immune Booster, Coriolus Versicolor, in his
practice and he observed within 30 days his patients with a depressed
immune system would increase their macrophage white blood cells,
natural killer cells, T and B cells count by as much as 300%.
He also recommends to take this immune booster on an ongoing basis
to be effective as a preventive of illness year-round.
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| When self-help should be considered |
| Self-help
is suggested to strengthen your immune system. If you have an
illness, consult a health professional.
Dr.
Julian Whitaker M.D. issues a monthly medical newsletter
and tells his subscribers they should be more skeptical and
question everything before they get into any kind of treatment.
He is very blunt by indicating that most people use proper scrutiny
when dealing with car salesman, real state agents, lawyers and
others that make suggestions to us. However, when we deal with
doctors we are worse than sheep. We assume that every doctor
keeps up-to-date with all the thousands of changes that have
occurred in the last years and knows everything. He assures
his readers that the toxic nature of most drugs they prescribe
make our common diseases look like sniffles. It is we, the patients,
who are finally responsible. If we take what another person
says at face value, simply because he or she is wearing a white
coat, we are neither responsible or reasonable and we must share
the responsibility when things go wrong. Older people especially,
don't dare to raise questions or get second opinions, which
they should.
Ideally you and your health care provider should work together
to come up with the very best approach to alleviating a health
problem or preventing a health problem. You should be well informed
about all the benefits and drawbacks of all treatments to the
extent that you can make your own decisions. Like Dr. Mitchell
said, "You are the best doctor you could ever have." Years ago,
I had a family doctor who said we should not think ourselves,
but leave our health care matters to him. We don't have him
anymore. It was at that time I started to have arthritis pain.
If I had followed his advice, I would still have arthritis pain
like those people that write to me saying they suffered with
arthritis pain for 20 or 30 years.
Destiny
lead me to self-help when my conventional treatment
options were exhausted. First, like most people, I went to my
family doctor for my arthritis pain. The drugs he prescribed
did not help. Nor did the chiropractor. Physiotherapy made it
a lot worse. Magnets and creams didn't help either.
I endured the worst pain of my life for three years. It was
so bad that I had tears in my eyes. I could get in and out of
the car only by grabbing the roof of the car and lower myself
into the car seat. In desperation, I tried everything. I was
on five Tylenol 3s at a time to be able to function. I read
later on that there are a high number of liver and kidney failures
from doing what I did. I read books. One book suggested shark
cartilage. I took it for a few days and put it away again, telling
myself that if the drugs did not help, how could shark cartilage
help. When the pain got still worse, I took those shark cartilage
bottles out of the cupboard again and, although I was skeptical,
I persisted for two weeks. Suddenly I realized that I had no
more pain. That was ten years ago. I'm taking a few capsules
of our shark cartilage for maintenance every day to remain pain
free. Following this eye-opening experience, I saw an opportunity
to help all those millions of people that suffer daily with
the most painful and longest lasting illness on earth. I received
many letters saying that they suffered for decades with arthritis
pain and drugs did not help much. Only after they tried our
shark cartilage did they finally have pain relief Self-help
with a natural product also alleviated my prostate problem.
If a man has to run urgently to the bathroom every 30 minutes
and cannot fully relieve himself because the prostate is strangling
urine flow, it is a very frustrating health problem day and
night.
I had many prescription drugs. Some worked better than others.
However, things were getting worse. Finally the urologist gave
me a new prescription and said, if these pills didn't help,
I should consider surgery. Many surgeries do not go well. Some
men may have to wear diapers, lose their virility, repeat the
operation and suffer other side effects. So I was hesitant about
getting an operation. I was fortunate because, just at that
time, I found out about the recipe for our prostate tea. Within
3 days I had relief from this health problem that I suffered
with for over ten years. In the meantime,
I have helped tens of thousands of men all over North America
to have relief and lead a normal life again. This tea is now
also exported to countries overseas. Men write us from India,
Nigeria, Japan, and Korea about how pleased they are to be rid
of this frustrating health problem. After the prostate releases
the strangle hold on the urethra and lets urine flow naturally,
spontaneous blood flow is possible again for good erections.
Many men wrote they are so happy they have their virility back.
Health food stores and pharmacies are stocking our prostate
tea now. My own experience shows that it is best to alleviate
a health problem - using the advice of a health professional
if possible - with a natural medicine and use drugs only where
it is the better choice. Here is another good example in the
next paragraph.
Self-help saved my son's life. My son was treated for 15 years
by medical specialists with drugs for intestinal pain and bleeding
and he gradually became sicker. Although he tried to force himself
to eat more, he steadily lost weight. It was hurting us to see
him getting worse. He started to look very thin. This is criminal
ignorance by most medical doctors. They get a lot of instructions
about drugs. Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D., writes that his medical
school training included a mere half an hour of nutritional
training. Other medical doctors have made the same comments.
We finally had to turn to self-help. From the book DANGEROUS
GRAINS by Dr. James Braly M.D. and from the book BREAKING THE
VICIOUS CYCLE by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.S.c., we learned
that our son was ill from eating wheat products that carry a
vicious fungus that causes intestinal inflammation. We took
him off all wheat and other grain products and the drugs he
took for 15 years. Within days, all the discomfort and all the
symptoms disappeared and he started to put on weight. After
a few months, he was in perfect health and put on all the weight
he lost over the years. Nobody can appreciate what he suffered
in the past 20 years and nobody can rectify the damage that
was caused to him. The public everywhere should be informed
about this. Also, all government health agencies should know
about this as well as all medical doctors. One quarter of all
the patients of all doctors have this severe health problem
and doctors, in most cases, are unaware of this fungus and prescribe drugs that may make it worse. Grain allergies can also cause
a few dozen other illnesses, which then are usually treated
with drugs instead of removing the grains that cause it from
the diet.
9 Million Canadians and 75 million
Americans are very sick right now from eating wheat
and other grain products including corn that may contain fungi.
Unfortunately, very little is done to help these people or warn
doctors to change their approach of healing. Dr. Braly was not
the first doctor to become aware of this health calamity. In
his book , he lists references from many other doctors that
wrote about this huge health problem. However, they were ignored
then and are still being ignored today. Why? Because our drug
oriented healing approach insists on using drugs for every symptom
instead of looking for the underlying cause. Is this political
motivation to protect the grain farming industry that the government
does not warn one third of the population not to eat wheat?
In regards to my son's suffering, I can only say, I wish we
had turned to selfhelp many years earlier. It was a heart-breaking
experience. Here is proof: 58,000 tonnes
of Canadian wheat were confiscated in Italy in October 2006,
because it had three times the allowable limit of ochratoxin
(toxic mould), says a Hamilton Spectator newspaper article.
In North America wheat like that is fed to people. No wonder
9 million Canadians and 75 Americans are sick from eating wheat
with toxic mould and nothing is done about it. Often enough,
grains with toxic mould are fed to animals; the toxins stay
in the animal and are passed on to people when they eat meat.
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Natural Medicine Products
In a feature article TIME magazine wrote: "Call it alternative,
complimentary, integrative or holistic medicine. Whatever name
you choose, such nontraditional therapies such as acupuncture,
homeopathy and yoga have become increasingly prominent - and
provocative - part of the worldwide medical landscape. Even
in the US, long medically conservative, an estimated 50% of
all Americans turn to some type of alternative therapy and US
health insurers are starting to pay for visits to herbalists
or naturopaths. This shift reflects a growing public yearning
for gentler, less invasive forms of healing."
Dr.
Abram Hoffer, M.D., PhD., FRCP. (C), says: "For the past 50 years I have been demonstrating that
the use of natural nutritional treatment is and must be the
most effective form of medicine and that when it is not used
and the profession depends solely on the use of toxic drugs
the results are abysmal."
Conventional medicine labels all natural medicine as unsafe
and quackery. It is the general population that decides what
is right and what is wrong. You cannot fool all the people all
the time. Natural medicine has virtually no casualties like
the conventional medicine where every year hundreds of thousands
die says by Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D. and N.D. in her book, Death
by Modern Medicine. This is also stated by Dr. John Abramson,
M.D. in Overdosed America. Both conventional medicine and natural
medicine are needed; they are important for the health of the
people. We should not have this ongoing conflict. The patient
should be more important than financial interests.
Alternative medicine, as defined by Harvard physician
David M. Eisenberg, M.D., refers to medicinal therapies
that are not taught in medical school and not used in hospitals.
Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. adds that alternative medicine encompasses
some very effective treatments. Natural substances cannot be
patented, so they are outside the business model of conventional
medicine. And since the pharmaceutical companies virtually own
the medical schools, unpatented natural therapies are not taught.
In short, the low score of alternative approaches to disease
has nothing to do with science - it's economics. In the chapter
about self-help you found my own experience and proof that natural
medicines can work a lot better than drugs. Hundreds of men
and women wrote us about their experience that natural medicines
worked when drugs didn't.
There are times when drugs are preferable and there are times
when natural medicines are far superior to drugs as you can
read in the chapter of self-help. Or go on our web site and
read dozens of true statements with full names and towns from
men and women that suffered for many years until they tried
natural medicines and had relief. The proof is all there. Most
medical doctors don't dare recommend natural products because
they were not taught anything about them. Some medical doctors
have the courage to check out natural medicines and are not
afraid of reprimands by their licensing commission that demands
to use only drugs. One such doctor is Joseph C. Maroon
M.D., Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurological
Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
For years, he prescribed Vioxx, Celebrex, Motrin and other drugs.
He knew about the dark side of these drugs. More than 100,000
men and women are hospitalized with internal bleeding and an
astounding 16,500 die from complications of drugs every year.
So what prompted Dr. Maroon to use an alternative medicine such
as fish oil? Ignoring the raised eyebrows of his colleagues,
he decided to do a study of his own on the alternative of fish
oil. He enrolled 250 patients with back pain. After using fish
oils only, 59 percent discontinued their drugs, 60 percent reported
a decrease in overall pain, and a whopping 88 percent said they
were so satisfied with the improvement that they planned to
keep taking fish oil after the study. Dr. Maroon has not prescribed
drugs for more than two years. That's alternative medicine.
There is an ongoing effort by the pharmaceutical industry to
get all natural health products off the market by lobbying governments
and by engaging drug activists who go to any length to harass
sellers of natural health products. We are being harassed frequently
by these drug activists. We have a letter from one of the drug
activists full of foul words like "take this crap off the market"
and "This quackery has to stop" and other gutter words. He was
referring to our shark cartilage, which has helped tens of thousands
to have less arthritis pain or no pain at all with virtually
no side effects. Success rate is 98% and we refunded the money
to those 2% that said it did not help them. All these people
have been taking drugs for may years and had unsatisfactory
relief and severe side effects. However, the drug activists
don't care about the fact that it is helping people better than
the drugs they took. Ask these people which is quackery. Is
it the drugs they took for many years, often with dangerous
side effects, or our shark cartilage that finally brought them
relief with virtually no side effects?
The argument is frequently made by drug activists that natural
medicines are not standardized like drugs. An article by Gary
Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean, MD., ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora
Rasio, MD; Dorothy Smith, PhD, shows a long list of quality
standard infractions by a pharmaceutical giant of 125 or 90%
of all the drugs made by that one company, and the company was
fined $500 million by the FDA. They also had to halt the manufacture
of 73 drugs or suffer another $175 million fine. Another drug
manufacturer was fined $100 million for failing to meet quality
standards. Still another one paid a fine of $30 million to settle
accusations of poor manufacturing practices. The indictments
came after the Public Citizen Health Research Group called for
criminal investigations. These are just a few cases that were
prosecuted. How many other cases there are can only be estimated.
I can only speak for our natural products. When we say it is
100% pure shark cartilage, that's exactly what it is. This applies
also to all our other 50 products.
I have a lot of respect for a doctor like Dr. Alvin Pettle,
M.D., F.R.C.S. (C). He wrote: "The education of the physician
shouldn't end at medical school, it should just begin. I thank
my patients for helping me to be more educated about the wisdom
of menopause." Dr. Pettle is one of the pioneers in using natural
bioidentical hormones instead of HRT drugs, which we now know
may cause cancer and heart problems. One more reason to use
a natural approach to healing whenever possible.
Charles
Simone, M.D., Oncologist, cites numerous references in his book
CANCER AND NUTRITION blowing away the misconception that vitamins
and minerals interfere with chemotherapy and radiation. On the
contrary, some vitamins and minerals used in conjunction have
been shown to protect normal tissue and assist in the destruction
of cancer cells.
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emphasize again that if a person has any illness,
including cancer, the person should seek the advice of his
or her physician or other health care provider. This information
is only supplied to tell people where they can find more information
about the immune system and Coriolus and to discuss the best
options a person has with their health care provider.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote an article and calls
Coriolus, "the Miracle Mushroom." A subtitle says: A Texas
man shrank his liver tumor by 90% - after his doctor gave
up on him. Dr. Walker wrote about a man (His full name is
on internet) in Texas that obtained and read all the studies
he could find, which was part of his self-help.
Only a few excerpts are given of the vast amount of information
of hundreds of pages that is available on Coriolus Versicolor.
Fulllength medical studies are also available; see Information
for Health Professionals where these clinical studies can
be obtained. Here are some excerpts of a CBC-TV Documentary,
Market Place, April 23, 2006, by Wendy Mesley, who recently
went through cancer treatment herself. In this documentary
she repeated that the root of the problem is that not enough
efforts are made in cancer prevention. More lives could be
saved in preventing the disease than in treating people after
they get sick. Damage control is hopeless. Dr. Julian Whitaker
M.D. writes in his medical newsletter that no progress has
been made in treating cancer in the last 30 years. Ms. Mesley
showed interviews on TV of drug manufacturers at a convention
and asked them, "How is business?" They all replied business
is excellent. Some say 80% of their business is cancer drugs.
Preventing this disease as well as other diseases can cost
as little as a few hundred dollars a year. As mentioned before,
about a dozen years ago the Toronto Star newspaper reported
at a medical doctor convention in Toronto, a keynote speaker
said "We are not in the prevention business." There is not
enough money in prevention for the drug manufacturers. They
are only interested in big money by treating the disease which
costs an average of $60,000.00 per person (without guarantee
of survival) and may run into hundreds of thousands of dollars
per person in repeated treatments. It costs Canadian taxpayers
$14,000,000,000.00 (14 billion dollars) a year, Mesley says.
As supported by hundreds of clinical trials and medical studies,
Coriolus can be that "tailwind" as stated by Dr. Napier and
be of great help to support your doctor in conventional cancer
treatment. It helps to strengthen the immune system; the stronger
immune system helps to prevent the cancer cells spreading
especially when going through surgery. Once you have studied
the information that is publicly available, you may want to
talk things over with your doctor. Most medical doctors are
not familiar with natural medicines and are afraid to get
involved with them to avoid being ostracized by their peers
or their medical college. You would have to make him/her aware
of the benefits of this natural product. Regardless of how
dedicated your doctor is, he cannot replace your feeling of
urgency to live. It is your life at stake! You
have to make the decisions. Be prepared for negative
comments saying natural products are quackery. Ask those tens
of thousands of people we helped with natural products, like
our shark cartilage for arthritis, what is quackery The drugs
they took for with unsatisfactory relief or our shark cartilage
that helped them within a few weeks to have less pain or be
completely pain free. I personally took drugs for 10 years
for my enlarged prostate and had complete relief within 3
days with our prostate tea and so did tens of thousands of
other men.
Dr. Julian Whitaker, M.D., wrote in his medical newsletter:
“In 1971 President Richard Nixon made a bold avowal to conquer
cancer. Unfortunately, the same percentage of Americans are
dying today from this diseases as they were over 30 years
ago. In fact cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the
number one cause of death for people under 85.”
Dr. Albert Braverman, M.D., Oncologist, states: “No disseminated neoplasm (cancer) incurable
in 1975 is curable today. Many medical oncologists recommend
chemotherapy for virtually any tumor, with a hopefulness undiscouraged
by almost invariable failure.”This would indicate that new
ways to tackle this disease are needed. Considering
the hundreds of clinical studies saying that Coriolus has
helped people significantly while going through conventional
cancer treatment, this could be the “new way” Dr. Braverman
talks about.
German doctors are world leaders in clinical
use of medicinal mushrooms. Dr. Walker visited Dr. Helmut
Keller M.D. before he wrote the article in his book about
Coriolus. He also visited Dr. Friedrich Douwes, who uses this
natural product in his clinic as a main component of his anticancer
therapies. He uses Coriolus either alone or with conventional
chemotherapy for cancer. He says 3 or more grams ( 6 capsules
of 500 mg. each) per day result in anti-tumor activity.
In Japan, the healing potential of this mushroom
has been known for many years and physicians there have done
over 400 clinical studies as they discovered that they could
help men and women by prescribing Coriolus before surgery
to avoid depleting the immune system or boosting it to the
highest possible level for a given person. Health professionals
say this is critical to have a strong defense against spreading
the cancer and early recovery from surgery. They also established
beyond any doubt that Coriolus increases the effectiveness
of chemotherapy and radiation without destroying the immune
system. The Japanese Health Ministry recognized this mushroom
as a lifesaver and money saver for the national health care
system. They are paying over one billion dollars for treatments
with Coriolus and all physicians are using it in their treatment
either alone or with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
There are many medicinal mushrooms available and Coriolus
tested out as by far the best of the bunch.
Dr. Walker writes about a Japanese medical study of 46 medical
institutions, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, involving
262 gastric cancer patients taking Coriolus before and after
cancer surgery. In the following 5- 7 years, those that took
the mushroom extract survived at a substantially higher rate.
Another Japanese study of breast cancer patients concludes
those that took Coriolus along with chemotherapy had better
outcomes. A further clinical study of 28 patients with acute
leukemia on chemotherapy and Coriolus had a survival time
of 21 months; there was only 12 months survival for the other
group.
In USA and Canada many physicians are using
Coriolus. Dr. Walker mentions Kenneth Bock M.D. who uses this
mushroom extract because it increases natural killer (NK)
cell activity. As shown by a number of clinical studies, he
found a few patients with advanced metastatic cancer see their
NK counts jump from 2 to 3 to a normal 20 to 50. If used in
combination with conventional treatment, it makes these toxic
treatments much more effective. Following patients with Stage
I lung cancer over a 10 year period, the tumor shrinkage as
well as survival rate was 39 percent with Coriolus and only
16 percent when receiving only the toxic treatment. More then
twice as many survived with Coriolus. With Stage II lung cancer
the rate was 22 percent tumor shrinkage and survival while
taking Coriolus and a mere 5 percent without it. This study
of 185 lung cancer patients shows the mushroom extract can
make the toxic therapies anywhere from 2 - 4 times more effective.
A high safety record: Dr. Steven Bailey,
a Naturopathic Doctor in Portland Oregon says Coriolus is
one of the safest and most effective medicines against chronic
diseases. It does not interfere with your liver or kidneys.
He is using it for cancer patients as well as hepatitis B
and C, AIDS, herpes and general immune system problems.
Why does it take so long for life saving
medicines to get recognition? Coriolus and many other medicinal
mushrooms have been used in Japan for many years, supported
with hundreds of medical studies showing beyond any doubt
how effective they are in saving lives. Why does our government
not encourage measures to save lives? Why did it take from
1928, when Dr. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin to
1946 for the general population to gain access to penicillin?
In those 18 years, many people died that could have been saved.
This applies also to Coriolus. This is a very sad story for
those people that lost family members that could have been
saved. Although new discoveries in the health field or technology
move quickly, the human mind changes slowly.
Dr. Hans Napier, M.D., a prominent metabolic doctor, from Hanover, Germany, writes:
"One thing is certain, chemotherapy can produce positive results
of lasting value only when it is encouraged by a strong "tailwind"
from the body's own immune defense system." (The main purpose
of Coriolus is to strengthen the immune system.)
Dr. Lance Liotta, Chief of NCI's Laboratory
of Pathology, states: "Cancer invasion and metastasis (spreading)
is the main cause of treatment failure. That is really what
kills the patient in most cases. Only 1.2 percent of persons
with metastasized (spreading) cancers survive for 5 years."
(By boosting the immune defense system when going through
surgery, Coriolus will help to reduce or prevent the spreading
of cancer.)
No less than 11 oncology researchers, representing
6 medical schools in Japan, conducted a randomized double-blind
trial on 111 patients who had colorectal cancer. After they
had undergone surgical operations for cancers, 56 patients
were given Coriolus alone or as an active treatment substance,
and 55 other post surgical patients merely received a placebo.
Comparing the two groups, these eleven medical researchers
advised that there is significant prolongation of disease-free
periods for patients with colorectal cancer who took Coriolus.
Additionally, polymorphonuclear leukocytes from patients treated
with Coriolus showed remarkable enhancement in their activities,
such as random and/or chemotactic locomotion, and phagocytosis.
In conclusion, Coriolus was useful as a maintenance therapy
for patients after their curative surgical operations for
colorectal cancer. The beneficial effects were probably due
to the activation of leukocyte functions as one of the many
biological-response-modifying activities induced by Coriolus.
Dr. Kenneth A. Bock, M.D., Medical Director
of two holistic medical clinics, one located in Rhinebeck,
New York, and the other in Albany, New York, gives a typical
case history: My patient M.E., 60 years old, wanted no conventional
therapy for the prostate cancer. So I started him on alternative
medical therapies for prostate cancer and to improve his deficient
NK activity. Coriolus was a definite part of M.E.'s treatment
regimen. Within two months, the patient's NK activity elevated
to 18m/u and two months after that, his NK cell activity increased
to a normal 31 m/u. Now M.E. is doing well physically, and
he tells me he feels great. I would say that this type ofresponse
to Coriolus therapy is usual. The patient's quality of life
does improve dramatically and he or she feels a sense of wellbeing.
Coriolus was selected as the best adjunctive
treatment for cancer. It provides strong benefits for the
immune system when given alone, and it works even more supportively
against cancer after it's applied with chemotherapy and/or
radiotherapy. In fact, out of 200 adjunctive phytochemicals
screened for antitumor activity by Japanese researchers in
1971, Coriolus was the best adjunctive treatment.
At University Hospital of Gunma Medical
School of Medicine in Maebashi, Japan, the researchers suggested
that this medicinal mushroom seemed to protect the immune
system's activity from being suppressed by chemotherapy drugs
and by the toxic process of the cancer itself. Added to that
finding, a ten year study of 185 patients with lung cancer,
showed that combining Coriolus with radiation therapy produced
satisfactory tumor shrinkage and better survival rates for
39% of patients with stage I cancer and 22% with stage II
cancer compared against those patients with did not receive
this combination of therapies whose survival rate was 16%
and 5% respectively.
Dr. Tori Hudson, a professor at the National
College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, writes: " I have just begun using Coriolus for a man who is facing
the recurrence of gastric cancer. He's had a full gamut of
therapies and still shows elevated cancer markers, which his
oncologist finds untreatable. The patient was referred to
me for some alternative cancer therapy because conventional
oncology has nothing more to use on him." My impression is
that patients taking Coriolus experience fewer side effects
from chemotherapy such as fatigue ,nausea, and low white blood
cell counts, but not less hair loss. I have not measured the
natural killer cell counts.
Some of the above copy you
will find on the web site of Pure Health Systems.
Dr. Morton Walker wrote in his book about
A.G., a 64 year old Texas man, who was in treatment for liver
cancer. The doctor treated Mr. G. for liver cancer for six
years and then gave him up as untreatable. Mr. G. wrote: "After
the chemo failed, the doctor threw up his hands, shrugged
his shoulders, wished me good luck, and said there was nothing
else he could do. And surgery couldn't be performed either,
because the consulting surgeon saw that the tumor was wrapped
around my vena cava blood vessel. I told him: 'I totally reject
what you are telling me. I do not accept that nothing can
be done to affect the outcome of this disease.' The doctor
replied: Well, I know what I'm talking about when it comes
to cancer. I'm a scientist." Four years later the patient
was healthy again after using the type of therapies known
as CAIM (Complementary/alternative/integrative medicine) especially
including capsules containing the powdered extract of Coriolus.
Mr. G. learned about this remedy on the internet, having downloaded
nearly 400 medical studies, and he can tell you all about
it. Amazingly, his liver cancer was reduced to less than 10%
of its original size. His CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) cancer
marker fell more than twothirds from 296 to 97.9.
Through a personal friend I was involved in this: In St. Catherines, Ontario, a daughter asked her mother's
doctor about supplementing her mother's cancer treatment with
a mushroom extract which she heard would improve the conventional
treatment of surgery, chemo and radiation. When the cancer
was in its early stages, the mother's doctor refused to let
her give her mother the mushroom extract. Much later, the
mother's cancer progressed and the doctor finally said the
frightful words: "There is nothing more that can be done."
The daughter now reproaches herself for not being more decisive
and using another possibility to save her mother's life.
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, has 14 pages of information on the internet. Most of it is
very technical. The protein-bound polysaccharopeptides by
Coriolus are effective immunopotentiators, which are used
to supplement the chemotherapy and radiotherapy of cancers
and various infectious diseases. After extensive clinical
trials, Coriolos was approved for use in Japan in 1977, and
by 1985 it ranked 19th on the list of the world's most commercially
successful cancer medicines.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reviewed more than 2 dozen human studies of Coriolus. Almost
all of these studies were done in Japan and focused on cancers
of the esophagus, stomach, colon or breast. Most of them found
that people with cancer were helped by Coriolus. People who
received Coriolus along with other treatments, such as surgery,
chemotherapy or radiation therapy generally had longer disease-free
periods and increased survival rates compared with patients
who got only standard treatment. Side effects from Coriolus
in these studies were very mild.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center web
site is extensive and very technical. Excerpts: Coriolus is
a mushroom of the Basidiomycetes class. It was used initially
in traditional Chinese medicine as a tonic, but recent studies
suggest that is has immunostimulant and anti-tumor properties.
Polysaccharide-K (PSK), a proprietary product derived from
Coriolus, was developed for cancer treatment in Japan. When
used as an adjuvant, PSK appears to improve survival rates
in patients with gastric and colorectal cancers. Other Coriolus
extracts, such as polysaccharide-pepptide (PSP) and (VSP)
are available as dietary supplements. When used in conjunction
with chemotherapy, PSP may benefit patients with advanced
non-small cell lung cancer. Other clinical studies using Coriolus
extract alone or in combination with other botanicals also
suggest positive immunomodulatory effects. However, studies
on breast cancer hepatocellular carcinoma and leukemia produced
mixed results. Coriolus extracts are generally well tolerated
but minor adverse effects have been reported when taken in
large amounts.
Coriolus is very inexpensive at about $40.00
per bottle, compared to cancer drugs that run from $40,000.00
to $100,000.00 for one complete treatment. It is well tolerated
with virtually no side effects. This information is repeated
many times on the internet. A Toronto Star article says you
have to distinguish between life-extending rather than life-saving
drugs. Life-extension drugs may still be wanted by people,
because they're at a point in their life where a few months
may be very important.
Like Dr. Julian Whitaker M.D. says, “in the
end the decision should not be denied to you, whether you
want to supplement your treatment by your doctor.”
This natural health product , Coriolus, has virtually no side
effects. By boosting your immune system, it increases the
effectiveness of surgery and/or chemotherapy as well as radiation.
For many people Coriolus may be the extra help that is needed
or the "tailwind" as Dr. Napier puts it. Dr. Mitchell says:
"You are, potentially, the best doctor you could ever have.:
Opinions by your loved ones will help you to make the right
responsible decisions. Our Coriolus comes with a written guarantee, Must Help or Money Refunded.
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For professional use
Clinical Evidence by Dr. Heinz J. Biedermann, PhD. Executive summary of clinical studies for Health Professionals.
1: Summary
A PubMed/Medline search was carried out December 11, 2006 to identify comprehensive review studies and clinical trials addressing the beneficial supplementation of Coriolus versicolor to the immune system. A total of 7 studies were found and reviewed.
These 7 articles were published in well-known, peer reviewed medical journals and included:
• Biotechnology Advances (Oxford/New York:
Pergamon Press)
• Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (Stamford,
Conn. : Hall Associates)
• Anticancer Research (Athens, Greece : J.G.
Delinassios)
• Current Medicinal Chemistry (Schiphol, The
Netherlands : Bentham Science Publishers)
• General Pharmacology (Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press)
• Cancer Epidemiology, biomarkers & preven
tion (Philadelphia, PA : American Association
for Cancer Research)
• Cancer treatment reviews (London : Academic
Press)
The consensus in these articles is that polysaccharides of Coriolus versicolor have desirable immunomodulating properties. Supplements are typically given as an adjuvant therapy to patients undergoing radiotherapy and
chemotherapy to reduce common side effects of these interventions. In addition, adjuvant supplementation appears to improve the survival rate in patients suffering from certain types of cancer, such as gastric cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer. Finally, there is some evidence
that such adjuvant intervention may also slow down the rate of metastasis and cancer
recurrence.
No adverse effects were found to be associated with long term supplementation.
The therapeutic dose of polysaccharides of Coriolus versicolor for adjuvant supplementation is 3g/day.
2. Review of Evidence
2.1 Background Information
Coriolus versicolor is the dried fruiting body
or mycelia of Coriolus versicolor (alternative
names are: Polyporus versicolor, Polysticutus
versicolor., Trametes Versicolor.) and belongs
to the Basidiomycetes class and
Polyporaceae family.
In China, Coriolus versicolor is named Yun
Zhi (i.e., cloud-like mushroom), probably due
to the fact that its wavy surface is covered
with fluff. In some European countries,
Coriolus versicolor is called "turkeytail" because it is fan shaped and with shades of
brown, white, and graying colour on the
upper surface.
In Japan, Coriolus versicolor is known as kawaratake, which
means "mushroom by the river bank."
2.2 Traditional Use
According to the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Coriolus
versicolor has a slightly sweetish taste and possesses “cold”
proper ties, and exerts its effects via the liver and spleen
into the body. It is considered useful for dispelling heat,
removing toxins, strength ening physique, increasing energy
and spirit, and enhancing the host’s immune function.
In the clinical practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine,
Coriolus versicolor is considered to be beneficial to health
and able to bring longevity if consumed regularly, or is indicat
ed for various types of cancers, chronic hep atitis, and infections
of the upper respiratory, urinary, and digestive tracts (1;2;3).
2.3 Commercial Preparations and Therapeutic Applications
Although the administration of medicinal mushrooms has an
established history of use in traditional oriental therapies,
commer cially prepared aqueous extracts which focuses on polysaccharopeptides
obtained from Coriolus versicolor have been found to be of
the highest therapeutic value (1).
The best know commercial polysaccharopep tide preparations
of Coriolus versicolor are poly saccharopeptide Krestin (PSK)
and poly saccharopeptide PSP. Both products are obtained from
Coriolus versicolor mycelia, with PSK (Krestin) being the
Japanese prod uct, and PSP the Chinese product. Both products
are obtained by batch fermentation with PSK being produced
from CM-101 and PSP from Cov-1 strains of Coriolus versicol
or. PSK is recovered via a hot water extracts of the biomass
by salting it out with ammonium sulfate, whereas PSP is recovered
via alcoholic precipitation from the hot water extract. Both
aqueous extracts, although structurally different, exhibit
similar physio logical activities (1;4;5;6;7).
PSK was approved for medicinal use in Japan in 1977, and PSP
appeared on the market about 10 years later(1) . These prod
ucts are typically prescribed as an adjunct therapy to fight
side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, or to assist
immunologi cal depressed individuals, because of its immunopotentiating
effects (2;3;5;7). Other treat ment options aimed at inhibiting
cancer metastasis.
In addition to the clinically tested PSK and PSP preparations,
numerous Coriolus versicolor formulations and extracts are
on the market and sold in various forms (capsules, tablets,
syrups, teas, etc) and under many brand names (1;2).
2.3.1 Immunomodulation Properties of Coriolus versicolor extracts
and its Action on the Side Effects of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy
In three comprehensive review studies, the evidence concerning
the immunomodulating properties of the Coriolus versicolor
polysaccharides were investigated(2;3;4). Their research showed
that in numerous animal studies it had been documented that
PSP or PSK administration was related to increased (-interferon
produc tion, interleukin-2 production and T-cell proliferation
and that the polysaccharopep tides from Coriolus versicolor
counteract the depressive effect of cyclophosphamide on white
blood cell count.
In these reviews, the study of randomized, controlled clinical
investigations, using PSK as an adjunctive therapy to conven
tional anticancer interventions, lead the authors to conclude
that for some type of cancers, such as non-small-cell lung
can cer and gastric cancer, patients receiving PSK showed
improved survival rates and overall subjective impressions
of improve ment, with a tendency to fewer side effects to
their chemotherapy or radiationtherapy.
The dosage schedules in these investiga tions typically called
for 3g/day of PSK for periods of 1 months to up to 5 years
(the latter reflecting the duration of the follow-up time
fram e of the study).
2.3.2 Antimetastatic Effects of Coriolus versicolor
In a comprehensive review of the litera ture the available
evidence of the effects of PSK in the prevention of metastasis
or recurrence was reviewed(7) . The initial investigations
on animals suggested that the antimetastatic effect of PSK
was not only due to immunomodulatory proper ties, but also
associated with such effects such as inhibition of motility
and malig nant progression (e.g. detachment processes form
primary lesion, intravasa tion, migration and re-attachment).
Although several studies were carried out to examine the effects
of PSK as an adjunct to conventional forms of cancer intervention,
none of them had focused specifically on the prevention of
metastasis and recurrence in relation to PSK treatment. However,
in one study, the data set was reanalyzed to investigate the
influence of PSK on tumor recurrence, using the previously
collected objective outcome measures (computer tomogra phy,
X-rays, laboratory results). Tumor recurrence was noted in
143 of the 448 patients previously evaluated. Patients were
monitored over a 5-year period. The analysis revealed a recurrence
rate of 58% in the patient group which had not been treated
with PSK, versus 42% among patients who had received PSK as
an adjunct therapy (6).
The PSK treatment group had received oral doses of 3g/day
for a period of greater than 3 years, with no adverse effects
attributed to PSK consumption.
2.4 Recommended Use, Dosage and Directions
Recommended Use:
•Used as an adjunct therapy in patients undergoing radiotherapy
or chemotherapy or who are otherwise immunochallenged
• Helps to alleviate symptoms of radio therapy and chemotherapy
and resists decline in health status following can cer treatment
Dosage and Directions: Our review of the clinical studies indicates that, as an adjunct
therapy to radiotherapy or chemotherapy, the typical dosage
for adults is 3g/day taken three times daily
in equal measures.
In light of the observation that long term supplementation
studies (up to 5 years) failed to find evidence that the administra
tion of Coriolus versicolor was associated with undue adverse
effects, and that coadministration had been associated with
a potential increase in the survival rate in certin types
of cancer patients, some investigators suggest ongoing supplemen
tation.
References and Links:
1: Cui,
J. & Chisti, Y. 2003, "Polysaccharopeptides of Coriolus versicolor: physiological
activity",
Biotechnol.Adv., vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 109-122.
2: Chu,
K. K., Ho, S. S., & Chow, A. H. 2002,"Coriolus versicolor: a medicinal mushroom with promising",
J.Clin.Pharmacol., vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 976-984.
3: Fisher,
M. & Yang, L. X. 2002, "Anticancer effects and mechanisms of polysaccharide-K (PSK):",
Anticancer Res., vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1737-1754.
4: Ooi,
V. E. & Liu, F. 2000, "Immunomodulation and anti-cancer activity of polysaccharide-protein
complexes",
Curr.Med.Chem., vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 715-729.
5: Ng,
T. B. 1998, "A review of research on the protein-bound polysaccharide
(polysaccharopeptide, PSP)
from the mushroom Coriolus versicolor (Basidiomycetes: Polyporaceae)",
Gen.Pharmacol.,
vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1-4.
6: Kobayashi,
H., Matsunaga, K., & Oguchi, Y. 1995, "Antimetastatic effects of PSK (Krestin), a protein- bound
polysaccharide
obtained from basidiomycetes: an overview", Cancer Epidemiol.Biomarkers
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vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 275-281.
7: Tsukagoshi,
S., Hashimoto, Y., Fujii, G., Kobayashi, H., Nomoto, K., &
Orita, K. 1984,"Krestin (PSK)", Cancer Treat.Rev., vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 131-155.
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Excerpts from full length clinical
reports
listed under “References and Links” on this page by Dr. Heinz
J. Biedermann, PhD. |
Effects
on Immune System
The immunological activities of aqueous CV extracts have been
extensively investigated both in vitro and in vivo over the
past three decades. 5-10 In the in vitro situation, these
extracts were found effective for activating T lymphocytes,
7,8,11- 15 B lymphocytes, 7-12 monocytes/macrophages, 7,10-12,15
bone marrow cells, 7 natural killer cells, and lymphocyte-activated
killer cells11,12 as well as promoting the proliferation and/or
production of antibodies and various cytokines such as interleukin
(IL)-2 and IL-6, interferons, and tumor necrotic factor.12
Summary
PSK is currently used as an immunotherapeutic agent for gastric,
colorectal, and lung cancers in Japan. It has virtually no
adverse effects, and it can be administered p.o. over a longterm.
Consequently, its use need not be limited to the treatment
of cancer, and, as our previous paper suggested, it should
in the future prove valuable as a general chemo-preventive
agent and, as this review shows, as an antimetastatic agent.
The principal mechanisms of PSK may act as an inhibitor of
the motility, invasion, and progression of tumor cells, in
addition to its role as an immunomodulator.
PSK influences the steps of cancer metastasis in a number
of ways: (a) by supression of intravasation through the inhibition
of tumor invasion, adhesion and production of cell matrix-degrading
enzyme; (b) by suppression of tumor cell attachment to endothelial
cells through the inhibition of tumor cell-induced platelet
aggregation; (c) by suppression of tumor cell migration after
extravasation through the inhibition of tumor cell motility;
and (d) by suppression of tumor growth after extravasation
through the inhibition of angiogenesis, the modulation of
cytokine production, and the augmentation of effector cell
functions. In addition, PSK has suppressed the malignant progression
of mouse tumor cells through superoxide trapping.
It therefore seems that PSK suppresses cancer metastasis at
any number of different steps rather than at one particular
step, and that its primary action mechanism can be ascribed
to direct action on the tumor cell as well as to immunomodulation.
Since PSK has few side effects and can be administered p.o.
over long periods of time, it appears to be a useful agent
for controlling or preventing cancer metastasis.
Clinical studies
PSK has been used principally in combination with
other treatment modalities for management of malignant tumors.
However, single agent therapy with PSK has
also been found to be of benefit in some cases. One such example
was reported by Saito et al.; a patient with advanced esophageal
cancer who was refractory to chemotherapy was treated with PSK alone, resulting in a complete remission
(92). Extensive clinical studies of PSK treatment
in combination with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery
have been carried out. Evaluation of PSK in randomized.
CONCLUSION
A substantial number of reports based on preclinical and clinical
studies have clearly attested to the therapeutic values of
aqueous CV extracts in the treatment of cancer. The clinical
efficacy of the extracts after oral administration has been
demonstrated in more than 30 clinical trials in which significant
improvement in both survival rate and general health status
was generally observed in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy
and/or radiotherapy. Polysaccharopeptide (peptide-linked polysaccharide)
with an average molecular weight in excess of 100 kDa is generally
believed to be the pricipal component responsible for the
immunomodulatory actions of CV. In Conclusion, being an effective
immunomodulant or immunostimulant with virtually no side effects,
CV extract offers tremendous potential for development into
an evidence-based oral immunotherapeutic agent,
CLINICAL STUDIES The therapeutic use of CV
as an adjunct therapy in cancer treatment has been substantiated
by numerous clinical trials employing PSK or PSK (Krestin),
two of the most popular proprietary products manufactured
from aqueous extract of Coriolus versicolor. Table II summarizes
the methological parammeters and the results of some of these
trials. The methodological quality of these trials has been
evaluated using the approach developed by Jadad et al with
modification. 35 It is widely accepted that conventional cancer
treatment provides palliative rather than curative therapy
for many forms of cancers, which results in temporary clearing
of the signs of cancer with the possibility of relapse right
after stopping the cancer therapy. 36 Since a cure for cancer
with conventional cancer therapies is normally not possible,
these trials mainly focused on assessing.
In addition, immunocompromised patients are more exposed to
the risk of opportunistic infections. 44 Based on the clinical
data accrued to date, CV extracts appear highly effective
for restoring depressed blood levels of lymphocytes and IL-2
and weakened antitumor activity of natural killer cells. 45-50
It is worth noting that patients with better immunocompetence
and less severe forms of cancer show a better response to
the administered CV extract. This suggests that the efficacy
of the CV extract in the body is closely linked to the host’s
immune status.
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