mick mars condition is Ankylosing spondylitis which has not been shown to react favorably to immunosupressant drugs so probably not as i use it as a substitute for such drugs...at least in my single case tudei kava occaisonally slows down my immune response, this is desirable for my psoriatic arthritis and spondylosis but probably not for mick mars Ankylosing spondylitis....the difference is that mick mars problems probably will not benefit from any immunosupressant drugs whereas my condition is regularly treated with such drugs...the discovery of tudei having this effect on me was accidental but has borneitself to be true over time. tudei suppresses my immune system.in my case this is occaisonally desirable. probably not in mick mars, conditions sound similar and are but are different in this component.