RE: Re: Honso's Sho-Saiko-To

[Guest guest]

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Has anyone heard about a

supplement from a Japanese company called Honso that manufacturers a healthy

liver function supplement?

Whenever I do a goggle

search on a herb – if the first page lists only

companies selling it or “natural groups” promoting it, I become

very suspect.  Someone else might not,

but I do.  Then I go to Pub Med (a site I

do trust) and see what they have to say about it.  In this case what I found is this, the main

ingredient in Sho-Saiko-To “seems” to be licorice.  Below are 3 different studies and one

opinion.  I did find a few good things

said about it, but mainly they weren’t very flattering at all.

 HTH Barb in Texas  

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=AbstractPlus & list_uids=17016026 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_docsum

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb2002/1014220611.Me.r.html

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=AbstractPlus & list_uids=16972616 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_docsum

This case report states

a woman developed hepatitis after only 1½ months of taking this herb……

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed & cmd=Retrieve & dopt=AbstractPlus & list_uids=16570576 & query_hl=1 & itool=pubmed_docsum