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The Ashwin
The Ashwin is a monthly webzine for ΑΩ Labs' customers -- Feb., 2002 Edition
Formatted to 600 pixel width for ease of reading and hardcopy reproduction from the browser.
Related Links: Ashwin Archives Letters to the Editor - (Submissions)

Old Amish Dewormer

This month sees the introduction of 'Old Amish' Dewormer, a traditional herbal formula.
As our main Dewormer page points out, traditional vermifuges were considered common knowledge as recently in North America as the time of the early colonists.
Apricot Seeds (Prunus armeniaca 'blenheim')
Apricot!
Well ... it had to happen sooner or later.
It wouldn't be right for altcancer.com (our original domain) to not weigh in on the apricot seed / laetrile controversy.
The short version is this: although we are now offering apricot seeds under our own label, we do not enthusiastically endorse the claims found with such gusto elsewhere on the internet - and it isn't just the legalities. There are empirical, clinical reasons for taking a more conservative position and refraining from raising people's hopes with strong curative overtures.
You'll read all about it in our introduction to our Blenheim Apricot Seeds.

"ET, Write Home!"
In addition to our general email page, our testimonial submissions page, our Ashwin Letter to the Editor page, we now have a Chat Room and a Bulletin Board. We know it will take time, particularly for our older customers and practitioners (who have so little time with their busy practices now), to actually use these new communication tools, but we encourage you to do so. It will help everyone in our end of the alternative health care market do a better job of networking.
So be sure to check out these online facilities when you get a chance.

Note to our Readers: This is the fifth edition of the The Ashwin (pronounced "Ah-sh' win"), covering February, 2002. Previous editions are archived. If you have questions, email us.

Agaricus
"Hail, 'Shroom
of the Gods!"


Mushroom Biology Within the last few years there has been enormous interest in medicinal mushrooms - especially those containing long-chain polysaccharides.
Among those that have received the most scientific, clinical, and journalistic interest are reishi, shiitake, maitake, and cordyceps. However, as it pertains to research, one particular mushroom stands out: Agaricus Blazei Murill, or "ABM" - a fungi so revered in its native Brazil, that the indigenous people who use it refer to it as "the mushroom of the Gods."
As is typical of this field, hosts of web sites have sprung up - each with an extract supposedly more highly refined, with higher "standardized triterpenes" or other isolated chemical group - most attempting to justify pharmaceutical level prices for what are ostensibly simple extracts.
For certain cases, based on a review of the latest scientific literature, we would actually refer a patient to another vendor that offered good mushroom extracts - until we discovered the variances in quality and price. (One popular supplier offers a 250 Cap bottle for [price omitted]). Mushroom extracts aren't cheap, but some of the prices out there are outrageous.
For that reason we are introducing our own product this month. Please note that some abstracts from the literature have been put on our agaricus page. Be advised that these are for general information only. We are not claiming that there is anything conclusive in what we currently know about ABM, or any of its cousins in the Basidiomycota class.




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