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Ginseng
vs. HRT
Researchers at Harvard University Medical School have been testing
American, Chinese and Korean ginseng as alternatives to Hormone
Replacement Therapy, which is helpful to post-menopausal women but
increases cancer risk.
They have found that American and Chinese ginseng both exhibited
estrogenic qualities, presumably reducing age-related symptoms like heart
disease effects, osteoporosis and anti-female characteristics. However,
Korean ginseng increased the growth of tumor cells.
Drs. Duda, Taback, Alvarez, et al. Harvard Medical is in Boston, MA 02215.
Reported at the Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Cancer Research, San
Diego, CA, 3-97.
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