HQT+™ Herbal Capsules – Chemo Sickness / GI Repair

Description

Huang Qin Tang (HQT) has been used in China for over 1800 years to reduce diarrhea, nausea and vomiting by reducing gastrointestinal toxicity.

HQT Is also available in tincture version here.

Huang Qin Tang traditionally consisted of 4 different ingredients:
1)  Chinese Skullcap root ( Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi)
2)  Chinese Licorice ( Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch)
3)  Chinese Date tree fruit (Ziziphus jujuba Mill)
4)  Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora Pall)

Our version is HQT+™ and has been enhanced by including Berberine,  Pectin, Quercetin, Vitamin B3 and Probiotics.

Recently, preclinical studies demonstrated that HQT (aka PHY906) also combats Chemotherapy sickness, potentiates the anti-tumor effect of some Chemotherapy drugs and reduces the three major inflammatory pathways in the body showing better results than any other anti-inflammatory drug on the market today.  HQT can combat the severe diarrhoea caused by many chemotherapy drugs, which destroy fast-dividing gut cells in addition to tumour cells. ~ Dr. Yung-Chi Cheng (Yale School of Medicine)

Indications: HQT, may reduce gastrointestinal toxicity and enhances the anti-tumor effect of some anti-cancer drugs.  HQT aims to unblock an enzyme called topoisomerase, which alters the supercoiled form of a DNA molecule and is important to DNA replication, it is blocked by some chemotherapy drugs and if blocked the gut cells begin to die off.

The Five Main Active Ingredients:

Scutellaria        Liquorice         Jujube              Peony             Berberine

Huang Qin Tang may be used in the following conditions:

• Nausea and vomiting
• Diarrhea and abdominal cramps
• IBS and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Fever
• Colitis
• Crohns Disease
• Headaches
• Reduced chemotherapy side effects in colorectal cancer, liver carcinoma, and pancreatic cancer
• has some anticancer and antiviral activity
• used for liver protection

Safety: Generally considered safe.  In mice given cancer treatment, 100% of the mice survived when given Huang Qin Tang vs 60% when given the cancer treatment alone. (3)
In chemotherapy patients, intestinal cells die off faster than they can be replaced, resulting in severe gastrointestinal symptoms. When mice were given chemotherapy and Huang Qin Tang, intestinal cells began dividing faster than they were dying off. This was due to an increase in intestinal stem cell activity.  (1)

PHY906 (HQT) as a potential adjunct to radiation therapy(7)

Huang Qin Tang may work by:

1. increasing cell replication in the gut due to increased stem cell activity
2. upregulating the wnt pathway (wnt proteins act as stem cell regulators)
3. reducing inflammation by reducing iNOS levels (see nitric oxide article)
4. Reducing the inflammatory activities of NF-KB and COX2 which are 2 genes involved in the immune response (2)
5. decreasing neutrophils and macrophages (high levels of macrophages are found in some gastroparesis patients)
6. reducing inflammatory cytokines
7. reducing chemotherapy induced diarrhea (6)

In studies, Berberine has been shown to attenuates disruption of tight junctions in intestinal epithelium in a mice model of endotoxinemia. This may possibly have been mediated through down-regulation of the nuclear
factor-jB and myosin light chain kinase pathway. (8)  Berberine has also been found to exert a protective effect on gut-vascular barrier function in sepsis, which was strictly related to the modulation of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway.

“The molecular mechanisms that appear to contribute to PHY906’s pharmacological activity include inhibition of MMP-2, MDR, NFkB, ß-glucuronidase, the NK-1 receptor, and the delta-opioid receptor.” (5)

Suggested Usage:

Take 2-3 capsules twice per day prior to food or as directed by your healthcare professional.
Best combined with Heal Ur Gut drink, Omega 369 and MEGA Greens.

Clinical Studies:

1) Chinese Medicine Goes Under the Microscope

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304177104577313821796467932.html

2) How an 1800 year old herbal mix heals the gut
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100818/full/news.2010.417.html

3) The Four-Herb Chinese Medicine PHY906 Reduces Chemotherapy-Induced Gastrointestinal Toxicity
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/2/45/45ra59.abstract

4) Old formula, new Rx: The journey of PHY906 as cancer adjuvant therapy
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874112000608
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22326673

5) East Meets West in Cancer Treatment: Ancient herbal remedies prove their worth in modern clinical trials
http://www.yalescientific.org/2015/11/east-meets-west-in-cancer-treatment-ancient-herbal-remedies-prove-their-worth-in-modern-clinical-trials/

6) Effect of PHY906 on capecitabine (CAP)-induced diarrhea in patients with GI malignancies
http://meeting.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/15S/e20595

7) Chinese Herbal Medicine formulation PHY906 (KD018) as a potential adjunct to radiation therapy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22856538

8) Berberine Ameliorates Intestinal Epithelial Tight-Junction Damage (Animal Study)
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article-pdf/203/11/1602/18064046/jir147.pdf

Quality Assurance Declaration Werone.co endeavors to use the most potent source materials within our formulas. Our herbal extracts are sourced and tested by the only Government-certified large scale producer of crude herb (powder-free) TCM concentrates in Asia who manufacture to GMP / ISO 9001/2000 pharmaceutical grade and also operate an ISO17025/TAF-certified laboratory where they subject all plant extracts to strict quality inspections free from heavy metals, pesticides or microbes before release to the clinics all over the world. The formulas and tinctures are assembled without fillers in small batches by a BHMA member herbal dispensary.