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| In another clinical trial a group of 54 miners received the extract before the beginning of their shift daily in June and July of 1976. The number of people reporting sick dropped by 33.3 percent and the number of days lost through illness by 45.6 percent. Reduction of the incidence of influenza and acute respiratory diseases was particularly impressive. In a strict medical sense, Siberian ginseng is an adrenal stimulant and not an antiviral remedy. However, the Russians have accumulated much data on the anti-influenzal effect of the herb as well. Such findings imply that either it possesses an invigorating and tonic action on natural immunity or it has direct antivirus activity. |
| Conditions shown to improve with Siberian ginseng. There is an ever-lengthening list of pathologies that have been demonstrated to improve with the use of this adaptogen. Here is a short list based on published results: |
| Neurasthenia |
| Hypertension |
| Chronic gastritis |
| Diabetes |
| Atherosclerosis |
| Tuberculosis |
| Brain injuries |
| Infectious disease |
| Cancer. Siberian ginseng is also being used in Russia for the post-operative treatment of cancer patients. Not only does it speed post-operative recovery, but it ameliorates the stress response that can aggravate metastasis, the spreading of cancer cells around the body. The ability of Siberian ginseng to potentiate antitumor immunity has also been discovered recently. It increases antineoplastic white blood cells (natural "killer cells") and induces the synthesis of g-interferon by leukocytes. It is well known that stress decreases the activity of the immune system and |
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