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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Mysteries and wonders
By Zosimo T. Literatus, R.M.T.
Breakthroughs
Because of your dynamic responses to Breakthroughs, I feel it is high-time to let your views and inputs find light through this column so that other readers may find a chance to learn from you too.
Every second Wednesday, we will discuss your specific concerns in this column. Your overall inputs are more than the sum of each. And that’s for the benefit of all of us, me included. So that, after reading Breakthroughs, you would leave the page more knowledgeable about things new in the wonderful world of health science and life. Here’s our first email from MT.
Good morning Zosimo: I have read your article Ganoderma Inhibits Colorectal Cancer and it is indeed a mystery and wonder how a mushroom can effect changes and improvement on colon cancer: a dreaded disease.
Please find below, a link of the compilation of journal abstracts from the US National Library of Medicine:
http://www.ganotherapyusa.com/DXN/docs/research.htm.
Dear MT: The benefits of research in health matters are two-fold: First, it informs us what we know so far; second, at the same time, it warns us on what we still do not know.
The catchword is prudence: knowing what can go wrong once the food is in your body. One may assume the benefits of food supplements.
We simply read more of them first than the worst of it. By doing that, the worst that could happen would be paying more than what we get. But with adverse reactions, you cannot afford to take risks. And they are the ones you hear of late, often much, much too late.
Experts on herbology and natural medicine agree that what is good for James may prove dangerous to John. The wonders and mysteries of nature is a double-edged sword--it can enhance life or end it.
Thanks for the link that you shared, rest assured that I will take a look at these abstracts closely.
Our readers who consider using Ganoderma lucidum products, may find the abstracts very helpful in making intelligent decisions. But once you learn what is good about it, make sure you know all that is not good about it. The more you know, the lesser risk there will be.
“A particular herb in itself,” wrote Linda Woolven, author of Herbal Guide (2000), “does not mean it will, by itself, heal you. In the absence of dietary and lifestyle changes and without being combined with other herbs or nutrients, many herbs will prove ineffective . . . Herbalism is a living tradition and with new experiences and new research, things will change.”
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