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I ordered this wild lingzhi from Hong Kong. I have been taking it faithfully. I am still on my diet of organic fruits and veggies with some protein at every meal.

I am still aching!!

Oh Gena,

I'm sure you are still aching. That stuff is ka-ka.

Phats

Phatgirl239215.450150463Gena, I applaud your courage in trying wild linghzi. I've done quite a bit of searching on the internet re: Linghzi. NIH, center for alternative medicine has done several studies. Harvard has done studies. Lots of claims for positive results on other sites but so far no positive results from the U.S. studies. I'm sure KoKo will read this and refute everything that I've written but I have to have some proof, not just heresay. And who knows it may work for you as it's worked for KoKo. Maybe NIH and Harvard are wrong. It's hard to know with any of the alternative/complimentary meds. I think its an individual thing. Works for some but not for others. Sort of like our allopathic meds. I may even try it at some point in time. Have tried lots of other things, including accupuncture that I totally believe is beneficial. Didn't help me but accupressure does. Good luck and don't give up on it. Out of curiousity would you share with us how much you paid for it and is it pure Linghzi or a mixture?Koka has gout, not RA.I know KoKo has gout. I don't respond to his posts but I've followed along on some of the threads. On other forums he's stated that he has RA. Who knows?

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GenaRogers, if you are not aching and joint pain you probably do not have arthritis.

Questions:

You're aching because you take wild lingzhi from Hong Kong, organic fruits & veggies with some protein every meal. So in comparison with medication you are not, is that what you are saying? If that is the case, why bother? Go back to your past rountine, you have a choice

Looking into microscope, is your wild lingzhi from Hong Kong, really 'wild' from the forest? All I know wild lingzhi is so scarce only few will sprout out in 10,000 dead tree trunks! Most commercial lingzhi are cultivated.

Are you eating the correct fruits & veggies and protien, it does not matter whether they are organic or not? I do not go for organic but I eat selectively.

You know best the condition of your body and you need to identify, examine the herbs and foods you take. To reflect rather than generalize because the nutritional level differs in wild and cultivated so as correct and allergy foods.

LinB, you can make studies and even become a researcher on lingzhi but the result can be different in "wild" and "cultivated". If not, semi-wild shiitake mushrooms are so pricy, marketed by Ajunomoto(sp) and are being used by hospitals in Japan to treat nose, mouth, throat and lung cancers. In any supermarkets one can buy them cheaply. So do not generalize

Koko,

It IS important whether you have Gout or RA if you claiming to be cured by something that may only cure Gout as it is known to be caused in part at least by diet related issues and therefore can have some possible diet related cures. I personally find it misleading for you to not be upfront about WHAT it is you have have been curing yourself of when these ARE different diseases. I am happy for you and your ability to cure your potentially diet related disease by this mushroom diet of yours...I just see any reason for you to not be totaly upfront IF your desire is to help others in the way that you say you have helped yourself.

Regards,

Melly

KOKO.

If I didn't ache...I wouldn't be on this board. I do not have gout. My disease is different from yours....gout.

KOKO..you eat selectively and this works for you. I am happy for you. I do NOT put you down. I do not call you names.

I choose a different path for my disease. Please do not put me down and make vulgar comments.

melly if you think gout can be cured partially or wholly by diet I think you are best person to advise as posted.

Diamond is not just a stone but a precious pricy stone, a gem. Lingzhi is not just a mushroom but has been a 'fairy' & 'spiritual' mushroom and classified as #1 superb herb since 2,000 years ago. In early days only wild lingzhi was referred. Today cultivated one is often mentioned.

Wild lingzhi can treat numerous diseases like Aids, Cancers, Neurasthenia, Dizziness, Insomnia, Chronic Bronchitis, Asthma, Sillicosis, Hepatitis, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Gastritis, Rheumatic Arthritis etc..

Gena, I made a truthful not vulgar comments. You posted to run down on your own treatment path. There is no mention of lingzhi can treat gout but rheumatic arthritis.Well, I agree with Koka on one thing, that the drugs we use for our disease can be dangerous. It's a choice between evils. So true, Gimpy, but I haven't found the scientific research proving the claims for Lingzhi. It seems to be a mushroom that can't be purchased by most of us in it's pure form. If I remember correctly from other posts about Lingzhi, that you need to use the pure form and not a mixture. I may be wrong but I don't think so. There are studies on wild lingzhi on PubMed, but you have to search by it's latin name "ganoderma lucidum". I haven't read any of them because I'm focussed on AP therapy right now, and while they may be useful, it's not much help unless you have a source of them. Gimpy, just went to the PubMed site and am reading the results of the studies. I looked everywhere for studies and only found two - Harvard and NIH and neither abstract was available. Thanks for the site. Several heads and hand working together always find answers. Will condense study once I wade through it. I tried AP therapy right after I was diagnosed in 1999 and was on it for nearly a year, and unfortunately for me I didn't have any relief. I gave it good try.

Gimpy-a-gogo has done some homework. If you look into Ganoderma Lucidum website there are many studies and commercial sales as well.

If you need to source or more information provide your email. I only help those who believe.

LinB, I'd be curious to hear about your AP experience, because I really want
to have as much info as possible as to how I can make mine work. If you
don't mind telling, were you on a daily dose or a pulsed dose, and what was
that dose, what ABX were you using, and were you on any other meds, and
did you have an experienced AP doctor (I don't, although my GP and RD are
on board), did you make dietary changes and what probiotics did you use?
What was your experience like?Herbs can take care of the disease, correct foods improve one's healthy level. So work hard to achieve the result.Friends have pestered & requested me to supply wild lingzhi to them that I did a decade ago. Some the wild lingzhi I have preserved in rich wine for over a decade and always have limited stock for my family usage.
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