THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Volume 14, Number 3, 2008, pp. 299–301
The Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill Extract Normalizes
Liver Function in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
CHUNG-HUA HSU, M.D., Ph.D.,1,2 KUNG-CHANG HWANG, M.D.,3 YI-HSIUNG
CHIANG, M.D.,4
and PESUS CHOU, Dr.P.H.2,4
ABSTRACT
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, -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.
© Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.6344

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ABM Mushroom

In the seventies, two researchers from Penn State visited the Sao
Paulo, Brazil area and discovered the local natives to be extremely
healthy with a very low rate of disease. The longevity rate was
disproportionately high with people living well over 100. Their
secret? It was a simple mushroom, they told the researchers, the ABM
mushroom (Agaricus Blazei Murill).

Subsequent studies over the next 25 years have shown the ABM to
stimulate the immune system and promote natural mechanisms to battle
infectious disease and cancers. ABM stimulates lymphocyte T-cell and
Helper T-cell production. The polysaccharide contained in ABM
stimulates production of interferon and interleukin that indirectly
function to destroy and prevent the proliferation of cancer cells.
Additionally, ABM turned out to be a very powerful antiviral agent
preventing viruses from entering tissues.

Normally, the polysaccharides found in fungus only affect solid
cancers, however the polysaccharide in ABM is effective against
Ehrich's ascites carcinoma, sigmoid colonic cancer, ovarian cancer,
breast cancer, lung cancer, and liver cancer as well as against solid
cancers.

In Japan, ABM, in an injectable form, was found to eliminate all
cancerous tumors in 90% of the experimental mice. Additionally, when
the mice were fed ABM as a preventative and then injected with a very
powerful cancer causing agent (Sarcoma 180), 99.4% of them showed no
tumor growth. Conventional medicine has no preventive this powerful.

The studies in Japan showed ABM to be 80% more effective than the
world's number one cancer drug, PSK. It contains much higher levels of
beta glucans than the other medicinal mushrooms (Maitake, Shiitake,
and Reishi) and stimulates NK (Natural Killer) cell activity.

It should be noted that the beta-glucans in these mushrooms work best
when taken with vitamin C.

The studies in Japan were so successful that today Japan is now buying
over 90% of the available ABM from Brazil.

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