Guest guest Posted May 3, 2006 Report Share Posted May 3, 2006 Just recently found a site about reishi. As I was telling you, its a bit controversial for women with hyper-active immune like me to take herbs even if we are willing to try chinese medicine because almost all herbs says it boost immune system specifically Natural Killer cells and TNFalpha (part of immune system) and we dont want that because they caused our miscarriage. I asked several of my friends and they say their TCM doctor usually recommends Reishi, cordyceps and astralagus but when i did a research on reishi, this is what i found -- " Reishi is generally considered an extremely safe supplement - but because of its reported ability to stimulate immune function, individuals with autoimmune syndromes, allergies, and other conditions where a stimulation of the immune system would be counterproductive, should use reishi with caution. " I think the best way to explain our case is when we are pregnant, its like we have a organ transplant. And as you know, when a person have a organ transplant, he takes medicines to suppress the immune system so it wont attack the " new " organ or in our case, our baby. Its very complicated. We want to have our immune suppressed so it wont attack the baby but still should be healthy enough not to contract any infection/sickness since our immune defense is low. Have you or any fellow TCM doctor or herbalist comes across treating a organ-transplant patient? what do you think is the best way to handle this case? thank you so much for your time, marilyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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