Many lung cancer patients or family members are very concerned about what drugs or foods can improve the immune function of patients, help delay the progression of the disease, and win more time. Many of these are things we can often hear, such as Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, Dendrobium officinale, Cordyceps sinensis, saffron and so on.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, Ganoderma lucidum has a certain role in nourishing the heart and calming the mind for heart deficiency and insomnia; it also has the effect of cough and asthma, especially for cough caused by lung deficiency, Ganoderma lucidum has a certain role; in addition, for people with low immunity, it also has the health care effect of improving immune function.
However, the quality of the Ganoderma lucidum products on the market is uneven, the vast majority of them are artificially cultivated, this artificially cultivated Ganoderma lucidum, although it looks very large, but its medicinal effect is very limited, similar to the radish, whether it is beaten into powder to take, or directly soaked in boiled water to drink, the effect is not ideal. The real wild Ganoderma lucidum is very rare and difficult for ordinary people to see.
Can patients with advanced lung cancer eat Ganoderma lucidum spore powder? Can eating Ganoderma lucidum spore powder improve immune function?
Ganoderma lucidum spore powder is the most essential part of Ganoderma lucidum and is the seed of Ganoderma lucidum. Each Ganoderma lucidum spores are only 4 to 6 microns, have a double-walled structure, and are surrounded by hard chitin cellulose on the outside, which is difficult for the human body to fully absorb. The spore powder after the broken wall is easier to absorb, and the active ingredient is precipitated, and the price will be much more expensive than the unbroken wall.
Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides contained in Ganoderma lucidum, some animal experiments have shown that Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides can improve both cellular immunity and humoral immunity, promote the increase of white blood cells, increase the content of immunoglobulins and complement, induce the production of interferon, and activate the activity of natural killer cells and macrophages.
Theoretically, Ganoderma lucidum spore powder can enhance the immune function of cancer patients, but this anti-cancer effect has basically not undergone a large number of reliable clinical trials, but is only the result of animal experiments. That is to say, there is currently no clear medical data to support that Ganoderma lucidum spore powder can be anti-tumor. Moreover, the traditional Chinese medicine ingredients of spore powder may aggravate the risk of liver and kidney damage. We have encountered lung cancer patients eating Ganoderma lucidum spore powder for drug-induced liver damage, and the transaminases have reached more than 300. Lung fungal disease has also occurred in lung cancer patients after taking bulk spore powder for several months. Not only did it not achieve the effect of improving immunity, but it damaged health.
In short, doctors generally do not recommend ganoderma lucidum spore powder and other health care products for cancer patients, especially during the period of formal radiotherapy and chemotherapy or targeted therapy, eating too many health care products may increase the burden on the liver and kidneys, and there is no particularly accurate effect, more importantly, such health care products are expensive, boasting of more ingredients. There is no need to spend limited money on such health supplements that have no definite efficacy.
Lung cancer patients, if you want to improve immunity, it is more important to abandon all bad living habits, balanced nutrition every day, supplement high-quality protein food, proper exercise, do not stay up late, ensure adequate sleep, maintain a good attitude, rather than thinking about what health food or medicine to eat to achieve the effect of improving immunity. If you really want to use some drugs to enhance immunity, you can consider regular drugs, such as oral ubenmethas, ginseng capsules, thymus peptide enteric-coated tablets, etc., or the use of Ridaxian, shiitake polysaccharides and so on.