The Mushroom (Agaricus blazei) May Aid Hep B Sufferers

Harry Hirsute · � #1 � 04-13-2008, 01:28 PM

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Background: Hepatitis B is a global health problem. Use of complementary and alternative medicine has been popular among patients with hepatitis B. This 1-year open-label pilot study aims to observe whether Agaricus blazei Murill extract improves liver function in patients with hepatitis B.

Methods: This study involved 12 months of clinical observation. Four (4) patients with hepatitis B who met the criteria (1) aged between 20 and 65 years; (2) being Chinese; (3) having been a hepatic B carrier (HBAg(+)) for more than 3 years; (4) alanine aminotransferase > 100 IU/L; and (5) not taking lamivudine, α-interferon, or other drugs for hepatitis participated in the study with informed consent. The enrolled patients were given Agaricus blazei Murill (ABM) extract of 1500 mg daily for 12 months. The level of alanine aminotransferase was taken as the major outcome measurement.

Results: At the end of the study, the mean level of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase decreased from 246.0 (� standard deviation [SD] 138.9) to 61.3 (� SD 32.6) IU/L and 151.0 (� SD 86.9) to 46.1 (� SD 22.5) IU/L, respectively.

Conclusions: Our initial observation seems to indicate the potential benefit of ABM extract in normalizing liver function of patients with hepatitis B. Controlled studies with larger samples should be conducted in the future.

https://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs.../acm.2006.6344

rick · � #2 � 04-13-2008, 05:35 PM

I have a friend Sam. Sam told me about a friend of his who I do not know. This friend was turned onto MMS by Sam. He had colon cancer and hep B. He started using MMS and his doctor was surprised to see that his hep B was gone. So his doctor asked him what he was doing different and he told his doctor he had been using MMS. So the doctor who had hep B as well ask him to get her some. She used it and her hep B was gone. She has since put 10 of her patients on MMS and all are now clear of Hep B.

I was amazed by the report. I am going to ask my friend Sam to introduce me to this friend of his so I can ask him some question.

I have no reason to not believe Sam since he has never told me an untruth yet.

Just something to consider.

Harry Hirsute · � #3 � 04-13-2008, 07:14 PM

Rick,

Can you please post your comment in the MMS forum as well? I'm afraid that it may get lost here (in this thread).

Here's a link to the MMS forum:

https://www.natmedtalk.com/mms-miracle-mineral-supplement/

Arrowwind09 · � #4 � 04-14-2008, 07:52 AM

Rick this is a remarkable story and of course it is important to get he word out. Hep B is one of the most deadly forms of hepatitis. I will send you a private message.

And by the way, this is your first post here even though you joined a few months ago. Want to welcome you aboard!

And please do as Harry suggests. We are trying to keep all this MMS info in one handy place.

Harry Hirsute · � #5 � 04-26-2008, 01:23 PM

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Green tea extract and its major component epigallocatechin gallate inhibits hepatitis B virus in vitro.

Xu J, Wang J, Deng F, Hu Z, Wang H.

State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China; Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is endemic in Asia and causes major public health problems worldwide. Present treatment strategies for HBV infections are not satisfactory and the clinical limitation of current antiviral drugs for HBV, such as lamivudine, is causing rapid emergence of drug-resistant viral strains during the prolonged therapeutic treatment.

In this research, the efficacy of a natural green tea extract (GTE) against HBV in a stably expressed HBV cell line HepG2-N10 is examined. The expression of viral antigens, HBsAg and HBeAg, were determined by using enzyme linked immuno-absorbent assay (ELISA). Quantitative real-time-PCR (Q-PCR) was used for the determination of extracellular HBV DNA and intracellular replicative intermediates and nuclear covalent closed circular DNA (cccDNA). HBV mRNAs were also analyzed by reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR).

Results showed that the 50% effective concentration (EC(50)) of GTE on HBsAg, HBeAg, extracellular HBV DNA and intracellular HBV DNA were 5.02, 5.681, 19.81, and 10.76mug/ml, respectively. While the concentration of GTE with the inhibition percentage of 50% on proliferating cells (CC(50)) was 171.8mug/ml. Similar analysis of the principal component of GTE, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), revealed it has relative weaker efficacy compared to GTE.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum

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