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Ginseng vs. Hormone Replacement Therapy

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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.

Ginseng vs. Hormone Replacement Therapy Bibliography

Annual Meeting of the Assn. for Cancer Research, San Diego, CA, 3-97. Drs. Duda, Taback, Alvarez, et al. Harvard Medical is in Boston, MA 02215

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