Selected Vegetables and Sun's Soup

Developed by Alexander Sun, the product exists in several formulations; the marketed version contains soybean, shiitake, mung bean, red date, scallion, garlic, lentil, leek, hawthorn fruit, onion, American ginseng, angelica root, licorice, dandelion root, senega root, ginger, olive, sesame and parsley. Memorial Sloan Kettering's About Herbs summary reports animal studies suggesting anticancer effects and small human studies in which use alongside conventional treatment was associated with longer survival, weight maintenance and better performance status in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer, and says larger randomised studies are needed. The NCI PDQ summary, no longer being updated, adds that each study tested a different formulation, making comparison difficult, and that design weaknesses raise doubts about the reliability of the findings. The common side effect is fullness or bloating. No drug interactions have been reported, but MSK points out that several ingredients (licorice, ginseng, ginger, soy, hawthorn, lentinan from shiitake) have known interactions of their own.