( I )

Hello Dr. Shi and Cathy,

Writing to you from Cali. We make it home safely. Thank you for agreeing to see me at such short notice. I am feeling a notch better today (about a 7 1/2) and I'm feeling hopeful and positive. I will continue acupuncture and the IC herbs and cross my fingers! I will send the IC pain chart when I complete it and I will call to set up three more dates in the very near future.

            Thank you for working so hard to research and treat this miserable disease.

            As an IC sufferer, I will not know how to thank your program. I would be forever indebted to you. Let's hope it works!

 Sincerely,

Claudia Autran

( II )

Dear Dr. Shi,

 My name is Andrea Laurence and I have been an IC sufferer since 1998. I first heard about the Green Healing Center, Inc. and herbal supplement that you developed specifically for IC while surfing the internet during a particularly bad flare-up. I was looking for something, anything that would help to relieve my symptoms. At the time, I was going to the bathroom almost every hour, sometimes multiple times per hour and was waking up 6-8 times a night. I was also in excruciating pain. Essentially, I was completely miserable.

 There were two things that convinced me that the herbs were something I wanted to try: 

1.      I was particularly impressed with the successful study that you did in conjunction with Dr. Kristene Whitmone, Chair of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Hospital. I'd read her book, "Overcoming Bladder Disorders" and felt that she was real pioneer with this disease. Her endorsement lent credibility to the study and the treatment and motivated my consideration to try it. 

2.      I also really liked the idea of a non-narcotic, natural treatment -- something that would have very few or no side effects.

 Initially, I experienced some minor stomach upset with the herbs. However, that quickly subsided as my body adjusted to them. I found that the herbs immediately helped with my frequency symptoms and gradually, over the four-month period that I took them, my pain also lessened significantly. 

I now go to the bathroom once every 3-4 hours and I am completely pain free a good percentage of the time. Although I still experience infrequent flares, I feel that my IC is very under control. I am able to sleep through the night and generally only have to get up once or twice, which is a real success for me. Even when I do flare, the pain is minimal compared to what I'd experienced in the past. 

I would highly recommend this treatment to anyone with IC.

 Sincerely,

Andrea Laurence