Do mushrooms make you high?
The Liberty Cap mushroom (Psilocybe semilanceata) is the mushroom usually gathered as a psychotropic in both Europe and the US. It is certainly capable of inducing a sense of disorientation and euphoria. There are other mushrooms with even more powerful effects, but these have a high level of toxicity, and are inadvisable for leisure use.
Has anyone ever tried backing soda to treat cancer with suuccsess or ahcc mushroom extract?
The idea that baking soda could be useful as treatment of cancer can be traced back to an Italian ex-doctor called Tullio Simoncini, who invented the demonstrably wrong idea that cancer is just a fungus. The details of why we know this false is explained in easily understandable terms here: http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/cancer_is_no... And tragic examples of what happened to people who decided to give it a try are presented here: http://www.123hjemmeside.dk/cancer_is_no... The body is by nature slightly alkaline with a pH around 7,4. Various regulatory mechanisms in your body work to maintain a stable slightly alkaline pH. This is necessary for the body to function properly. So one really can't (and shouldn't wish one could) make the body more alkaline/acidic. The rumours that claim that altering the body pH will prevent/cure cancer, and that this can be achieved through certain diets or supplements (including baking soda) are false. The changes in urinary pH is simply a result of the body's regulatory mechanisms, where excess acid/base is eliminated through the kidneys. If you want to read further details on this myth, these sites are recommended: http://anaximperator.wordpress.com/2010/... http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2.html http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_ancer_31/080202532008_Busting_Cancer_Myths_Acidic_Foods_and_Cancer_Risks.shtml I have nothing to add to April link on the deceitful idea of AHCC. Cancer is a collective term for approximately 200 different diseases. Every cell type in your body can (in principle) develop into its own type of cancer. On top of that individual cancer cells in every cancer are also different from one another. On top of that, the cancer cells interact in very complex ways with the surrounding cells. So it is not all that surprising that we don't have, and most likely won’t find a single cure for all cancers. A few studies have been done to see what happens to patients who chose alternative therapy instead of conventional treatment. These studies show that the risk of progression/death significantly increases - most notably in those who refuse surgery, but also in those who refuse additional radio-chemotherapy. You can read the summaries of those studies here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16978951 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225354