For a patient who is undergoing chemotherapy, what is the benefits of taking reishi extract?
Chemotherapy is one of the treatment options for cancer patients. It uses different combination of high doses medications, some of them are quite hepato-toxic, to kill or to suppress the cancer growth. As the benefit of killing cancer cell override the shortcoming of having many side effects such as loss of appetite, hair loss, toxic to liver and kidney, etc., chemotherapy is still popularly used as the cancer treatment. For a chemo cancer patient, reishi extract, acts as a protective agents, can minimize the harmful side effects that derived from chemotherapy. Reishi extract can strengthen and improve the detoxifying function or liver and kidney, activating the immune system.
