Guest guest Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Hi all, I'll just throw one sign at you, wondering if anyone has treated anyone with /white/ skin, zero circulation, due to chemotherapeutic agents. The tissue is weak and can rip or abrade easily. It is slowly increasing in size. Lower calves. I will have more details and photographs next week. Anyone recognise this so far? Thanks, Hugo _________ New Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd./evt=44106/*http://mail..net/uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Parchment-skin as a side effect from longterm cortisone therapy comes to my mind. chemotherapeutic agents in my experience act like heat-toxins, scorching the yin fluids leading to bloodstasis in the end, mudanpi, danshen, danggui, niuxi (especially with " Lower calves " ), zhimu are my favourite herbals in that case. Check what kind of deficiency, heat toxin or what type of stagnation is causing the malnutrition of the skin. > Hi all, I'll just throw one sign at you, wondering if anyone has treated anyone with /white/ skin, zero circulation, due to chemotherapeutic agents. The tissue is weak and can rip or abrade easily. It is slowly increasing in size. Lower calves. I will have more details and photographs next week. Anyone recognise this so far? > Thanks, > Hugo > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 It's called being poisoned.Chemotherapy kills more people than cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Hey Cullen...I'd be interested if you had more info to back this up. Hugo cullen78704 <cullen78704 It's called being poisoned.Chemothera py kills more people than cancer. _ and adjust accordingly. Please consider the environment and only print this message if absolutely necessary. Change settings via the Web ( ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Terms of Use | Un Recent Activity 7 New Members 1 New Photos Visit Your Group Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Please learn more. Chemo kills cancer, eastern medicine helps patients cope. Functional/integrated medicine works. No longer do we have the " pure " body that eastern medicine treated. We must move with the culture, which is far from where we began. - cullen78704 Monday, March 05, 2007 7:18 PM Chinese Medicine Re: Chemotherapy side-effects It's called being poisoned.Chemotherapy kills more people than cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 I treat many chemo/radiation patients. Treat what you see.! It helps. - tayfx Monday, March 05, 2007 7:05 PM Chinese Medicine Re: Chemotherapy side-effects Parchment-skin as a side effect from longterm cortisone therapy comes to my mind. chemotherapeutic agents in my experience act like heat-toxins, scorching the yin fluids leading to bloodstasis in the end, mudanpi, danshen, danggui, niuxi (especially with " Lower calves " ), zhimu are my favourite herbals in that case. Check what kind of deficiency, heat toxin or what type of stagnation is causing the malnutrition of the skin. > Hi all, I'll just throw one sign at you, wondering if anyone has treated anyone with /white/ skin, zero circulation, due to chemotherapeutic agents. The tissue is weak and can rip or abrade easily. It is slowly increasing in size. Lower calves. I will have more details and photographs next week. Anyone recognise this so far? > Thanks, > Hugo > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Without a doubt.I will get some links together and get back to you soon.I hope you are not taking a defensive position,as I am not.I am just tired of pretending that western alopathic medicine has not failed miserably in the way of cancer research and treatments.With the exception of a few very rare types. ______________________________\ ____ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing./arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Thanks, Jason. I am not defensive. Chemo, as a toxic treatment is inherently dangerous. We have a big black gap in our information regarding chemo in some regards. Hugo Jason Senko <cullen78704 Chinese Medicine Monday, 5 March, 2007 10:24:32 PM Re: Re: Chemotherapy side-effects Without a doubt.I will get some links together and get back to you soon.I hope you are not taking a defensive position,as I am not.I am just tired of pretending that western alopathic medicine has not failed miserably in the way of cancer research and treatments.With the exception of a few very rare types. ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Search Marketing. http://searchmarket ing.. com/arp/sponsore dsearch_v2. php <!-- #ygrp-mlmsg {font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;} #ygrp-mlmsg table {font-size:inherit;font:100%;} #ygrp-mlmsg select, input, textarea {font:99% arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;} #ygrp-mlmsg pre, code {font:115% monospace;} #ygrp-mlmsg * {line-height:1.22em;} #ygrp-text{ font-family:Georgia; } #ygrp-text p{ margin:0 0 1em 0; } #ygrp-tpmsgs{ font-family:Arial; clear:both; } #ygrp-vitnav{ padding-top:10px; font-family:Verdana; font-size:77%; margin:0; } #ygrp-vitnav a{ padding:0 1px; } #ygrp-actbar{ clear:both; margin:25px 0; white-space:nowrap; color:#666; text-align:right; } #ygrp-actbar .left{ float:left; white-space:nowrap; } ..bld{font-weight:bold;} #ygrp-grft{ font-family:Verdana; font-size:77%; padding:15px 0; } #ygrp-ft{ font-family:verdana; font-size:77%; border-top:1px solid #666; padding:5px 0; } #ygrp-mlmsg #logo{ padding-bottom:10px; } #ygrp-vital{ background-color:#e0ecee; margin-bottom:20px; padding:2px 0 8px 8px; } #ygrp-vital #vithd{ font-size:77%; font-family:Verdana; font-weight:bold; color:#333; text-transform:uppercase; } #ygrp-vital ul{ padding:0; margin:2px 0; } #ygrp-vital ul li{ list-style-type:none; clear:both; border:1px solid #e0ecee; } #ygrp-vital ul li .ct{ font-weight:bold; color:#ff7900; float:right; width:2em; text-align:right; padding-right:.5em; } #ygrp-vital ul li .cat{ font-weight:bold; } #ygrp-vital a { text-decoration:none; } #ygrp-vital a:hover{ text-decoration:underline; } #ygrp-sponsor #hd{ color:#999; font-size:77%; } #ygrp-sponsor #ov{ padding:6px 13px; background-color:#e0ecee; margin-bottom:20px; } #ygrp-sponsor #ov ul{ padding:0 0 0 8px; margin:0; } #ygrp-sponsor #ov li{ list-style-type:square; padding:6px 0; font-size:77%; } #ygrp-sponsor #ov li a{ text-decoration:none; font-size:130%; } #ygrp-sponsor #nc { background-color:#eee; margin-bottom:20px; padding:0 8px; } #ygrp-sponsor .ad{ padding:8px 0; } #ygrp-sponsor .ad #hd1{ font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; color:#628c2a; font-size:100%; line-height:122%; } #ygrp-sponsor .ad a{ text-decoration:none; } #ygrp-sponsor .ad a:hover{ text-decoration:underline; } #ygrp-sponsor .ad p{ margin:0; } o {font-size:0;} ..MsoNormal { margin:0 0 0 0; } #ygrp-text tt{ font-size:120%; } blockquote{margin:0 0 0 4px;} ..replbq {margin:4;} --> _________ What kind of emailer are you? Find out today - get a free analysis of your email personality. Take the quiz at the Mail Championship. http://uk.rd./evt=44106/*http://mail..net/uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 What does this mean? How do interpret what you see? Different practitioners see different things, some more in depth, some more superficially. On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Joan Tirro wrote: > I treat many chemo/radiation patients. Treat what you see.! It helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Sorry, I don't agree. You are over-simplifying a very complex situation. The effectiveness of chemotherapy is quite variable depending on type of cancer, stage, strength of the patient, attitude of the patient. There is plenty of room for cooperative, integrative thinking in oncology, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be critical of present approaches. Cancer has still not been cured at this point. On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Joan Tirro wrote: > Please learn more. > Chemo kills cancer, eastern medicine helps patients cope. > Functional/integrated medicine works. No longer do we have the > " pure " body that eastern medicine treated. We must move with the > culture, which is far from where we began. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 I agree with this,Dr. Candace Pert who wrote molecues of Emotion and on her more recent work, the Cd of your Body is Your Subconcious Mind also verbally states this fact, chemotherapy and the western way of treating cancer is not successful except in a very few cases.There are links to back this up and i will forward some of those that I have to the group. Dr. Are Thorensen, a master of the ko Cycle and a veterinarian from Norway that treats both animals and people animals has much experience with seeing both sides.It is under his training i first heard the term, chemotherapy call it what it is, it is cell poisoning. Sincerely, Patricia Jordan DVM,CVA,CTCVM & Herbology Jason Senko <cullen78704 Chinese Medicine Chinese Medicine Re: Re: Chemotherapy side-effects Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:24:32 -0800 (PST) Without a doubt.I will get some links together and get back to you soon.I hope you are not taking a defensive position,as I am not.I am just tired of pretending that western alopathic medicine has not failed miserably in the way of cancer research and treatments.With the exception of a few very rare types. ______________________________\ ____ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing./arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php _______________ Rates near 39yr lows! $430K Loan for $1,399/mo - Paying Too Much? Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18226 & moid=7581 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 read Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, MD and you'll be closer. _http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/_ (http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/) <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Foreword (The Politics of Cancer- Revisited) Cancer remains one of the deadliest forces known to mankind, as it has been for centuries. Beyond the millions of people living with cancer, millions more live in fear of one day being diagnosed with the disease. Probably everyone in the country has known someone who has struggled to overcome cancer, or who has eventually succumbed to it. Although physicians and scientists continually try to improve diagnosis and treatment of this dreaded disease, over half a million Americans will die of cancer in this year alone. The Federal government enjoined the medical crusade against cancer in 1927 with a funding allocation for cancer research, and in 1937 Congress established the National Cancer Institute which operated with modest funding for several decades. However, it wasn't until 1971 that President Nixon declared a national " war against cancer " and the National Cancer Act was passed. At that time, Congress was led to believe that an infusion of funding devoted to cancer research could produce a cure before the American Bicentennial in 1976. When Dr. Epstein published The Politics of Cancer in 1978, Congress had increased the budget for the National Cancer Institute to $872 million, from $233 million in 1971, a cure was still nowhere in sight, and there was considerable debate as to how the war against cancer should be fought. Dr. Epstein and many of his colleagues in the public health community argued for a more aggressive assault on the preventable causes of cancer that people are unknowingly exposed to on a daily basis -- at home, on the job, and in the environment -- and often at low doses over a long period of time. Today, the annual budget for the National Cancer Institute is over $2.5 billion, half a billion more than all of the combined budgets from the year it was founded to the year the war against cancer was declared. One thing that we have learned from this massive investment is that the hope for a simple cure was naive. The uncontrolled and destructive cell growth that can attack any part of the body is far more complex than was once thought. Although scientific knowledge about cancer has continued to expand, and significant progress has been made in new areas such as cancer genetics and improved techniques for detection, diagnosis, and treatments, the goal for a cure remains elusive and distant. Despite NCI's growth, Dr. Epstein contends that cancer prevention is still greatly overlooked. In 1992, Dr. Epstein and a group of national experts and former federal officials in public health and cancer prevention held a press conference to engage the public on this imbalance. The group argued that the national cancer program should break from a focus on cancer treatment and do more to reduce the number of people getting cancer in the first place. Pointing to the continued onslaught of new cases of cancer, they urged that the NCI devote as many resources in research and outreach for cancer cause and prevention as for diagnosis and treatment. The NCI could then provide workers, consumers, Congress, and regulatory agencies vital information to reduce our exposure to carcinogens in air, water, food, and the workplace. The underlying goal of this change in policy is to reduce the rate of people getting cancer in each age group down to a level seen in the first half of the century. In recent years, the National Cancer Institute has released some seemingly encouraging news. In 1997, the NCI reported the first sustained, significant decrease in cancer mortality rates since these statistics were collected in the 1930s. More recently, in March 1998, the NCI reported that the overall rate of new cancer cases being diagnosed, or the incidence rate, increased by 1.2 percent per year from 1973 to 1990, then declined by 0.7 percent per year through 1995. The reduction occurred in three of the most common cancers, including lung, colorectal and prostate cancer. Breast cancer rates have leveled, after increasing at 1.8 percent per year. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had been rising at the rate of 3.5 percent per year, and is now increasing at a rate of 0.8 percent per year. The NCI reported the rate of people dying from cancer declined overall by 0.5 percent per year. These figures sound promising, and it is easy to interpret them as significant medical achievements, and as the precursor to the eventual eradication of this disease in our generation. I wish that they were. In this book, Dr. Epstein critiques the NCI statistics and provides a skeptic's view to help us understand these figures in a historical context. The fact remains that the overall incidence of cancer is much higher than it was twenty-five years ago, and survival rates for most common cancers remain unchanged. The direction the Federal government takes in investing public resources in cancer research should be guided in the context of an open and vibrant debate among NCI, outside experts, and the public. The Institute of Medicine recently published a set of recommendations on setting priorities at the National Institutes of Health that emphasize a need to increase public participation in the agency's funding decisions. The recommendations confirm that the public's priorities should be included in the patchwork of factors used to decide how we invest finite research dollars to improve the nation's health. As the National Cancer Institute continues its scientific investigations, with periodic announcements of achievements, discoveries, and hopes for the future (some recent studies suggest a reason for controlled optimism), The Politics of Cancer Revisited provides a highly critical review of the current state of our nation's struggle to reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer. Twenty years ago, the author's publication brought attention to the dangers of ignoring chemical hazards in our environment. I hope this new book will reinvigorate the debate on the direction of our cancer research and prevention efforts with the aim to optimize our nation's resources to spare as many lives as possible from this deadly disease. Congressman David Obey (D-Wisc.) August 5, 1998 <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. 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Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Frankly, I am not sure just what " effectiveness " means? I am not disagreeing with you at all but rather, trying to understand the goal here. I think I hear different goals and that needs to be identified. Related....what about long term effects of chemotherapy? Diane Chinese Medicine , " " <zrosenbe wrote: > > Sorry, I don't agree. You are over-simplifying a very complex > situation. The effectiveness of chemotherapy is quite variable > depending on type of cancer, stage, strength of the patient, attitude > of the patient. There is plenty of room for cooperative, integrative > thinking in oncology, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be critical > of present approaches. Cancer has still not been cured at this point. > > > On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Joan Tirro wrote: > > > Please learn more. > > Chemo kills cancer, eastern medicine helps patients cope. > > Functional/integrated medicine works. No longer do we have the > > " pure " body that eastern medicine treated. We must move with the > > culture, which is far from where we began. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Jason: I am interested in this thread. It is a huge question to take the side effects of chemo or use purely alternative treatments. Anne -------------- Original message ---------------------- Jason Senko <cullen78704 > Without a doubt.I will get some links together and get > back to you soon.I hope you are not taking a defensive > position,as I am not.I am just tired of pretending > that western alopathic medicine has not failed > miserably in the way of cancer research and > treatments.With the exception of a few very rare > types. > > > > ______________________________ > ____ > The fish are biting. > Get more visitors on your site using Search Marketing. > http://searchmarketing./arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 I don't have all the answers.I simply believe what I was taught.I was taught when using herbs(or in this case toxic drugs)the first rule is to do no harm.Chemo directly harms the patient,I really don't think anyone that has ever seen someone go through it would disagree.It is very easy for us to try and clean up the mess that has been made of cancer treatment in the U.S. But is it ethical to allow the myth to be perpetuated.Face it,there is way too much money being made on a treatment that would probably fare worse statistically than a few simple dietary changes.Billions of dollars are spent on a branch of medicine that completely dropped the ball.I don't have all the answers but I can assure you that if someone gave me a billion dollars to spend on the issue,I could come up with something better than poisonous drug therapy.Take greed out of the equation and maybe we can get something done. ______________________________\ ____ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Mail Q & A for great tips from Answers users. http://answers./dir/?link=list & sid=396546091 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Chemotherapy may not be the best treatment for some cancers or other diseases, but it is still an option. I am treating a woman with chronic renal failure who refused to get chemotherapy. I agreed to try Chinese herbs for a while, and after two months of treatment I convinced her to go back to her specialist and discuss her case with him. I even made the phone call for her, and the specialist was happy to hear that she would now try the therapy he suggested. Together with a Chinese herbal formula. The results are much better than he expected (they expected her case to develop into Kahler's disease but it didn't), and the nephrology team now thinks that her relatively speedy recovery is partly due to the herbs she is taking. I sincerely hope there is a future for integrative medicine. Every disease that has been treated well is a positive matter, no matter how we got there, with chemotherapy or herbs. best, Tom. ---- Jason Senko 6/03/2007 17:25:39 Chinese Medicine Re: Re: Chemotherapy side-effects I don't have all the answers.I simply believe what I was taught.I was taught when using herbs(or in this case toxic drugs)the first rule is to do no harm.Chemo directly harms the patient,I really don't think anyone that has ever seen someone go through it would disagree.It is very easy for us to try and clean up the mess that has been made of cancer treatment in the U.S. But is it ethical to allow the myth to be perpetuated.Face it,there is way too much money being made on a treatment that would probably fare worse statistically than a few simple dietary changes.Billions of dollars are spent on a branch of medicine that completely dropped the ball.I don't have all the answers but I can assure you that if someone gave me a billion dollars to spend on the issue,I could come up with something better than poisonous drug therapy.Take greed out of the equation and maybe we can get something done. ________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Mail Q & A for great tips from Answers users. http://answers./dir/?link=list & sid=396546091 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 I am not all for chemotherapy either, but I think we should help patients view the whole picture better, including chemotherapy. CM doesn't have to " own " the patient's treatment exclusively. In early 2003, I had a case of acute leukemia. The patient was under the case of a large HMO hospital, being treated as flu with fever. I sensed the high probability of leukemia with my CM and WM knowledge and asked her to do a blood test. (I even had herbal formula prescribed, but decided to have her take the blood test first.) Because of the acute nature and the relative good constitution and young age (31) I recommended chemotherapy, which was started in less than 4 days after my initial diagnosis. The follow up herbal formula had helped her speedy recovery. It is unfortunate that cancer often is detected late, but it's fortunate that we CM practitioners may be able to detect earlier. If we all polish our diagnosis skills we can save lives by detecting early. It is unfortunate that the mainstream treatment of using chemotherapy is likely to cause side effects but it's fortunate that CM help reducing that. Mike L. Tom Verhaeghe <tom.verhaeghe wrote: Chemotherapy may not be the best treatment for some cancers or other diseases, but it is still an option. I am treating a woman with chronic renal failure who refused to get chemotherapy. I agreed to try Chinese herbs for a while, and after two months of treatment I convinced her to go back to her specialist and discuss her case with him. I even made the phone call for her, and the specialist was happy to hear that she would now try the therapy he suggested. Together with a Chinese herbal formula. The results are much better than he expected (they expected her case to develop into Kahler's disease but it didn't), and the nephrology team now thinks that her relatively speedy recovery is partly due to the herbs she is taking. I sincerely hope there is a future for integrative medicine. Every disease that has been treated well is a positive matter, no matter how we got there, with chemotherapy or herbs. best, Tom. ---- Jason Senko 6/03/2007 17:25:39 Chinese Medicine Re: Re: Chemotherapy side-effects I don't have all the answers.I simply believe what I was taught.I was taught when using herbs(or in this case toxic drugs)the first rule is to do no harm.Chemo directly harms the patient,I really don't think anyone that has ever seen someone go through it would disagree.It is very easy for us to try and clean up the mess that has been made of cancer treatment in the U.S. But is it ethical to allow the myth to be perpetuated.Face it,there is way too much money being made on a treatment that would probably fare worse statistically than a few simple dietary changes.Billions of dollars are spent on a branch of medicine that completely dropped the ball.I don't have all the answers but I can assure you that if someone gave me a billion dollars to spend on the issue,I could come up with something better than poisonous drug therapy.Take greed out of the equation and maybe we can get something done. ________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Mail Q & A for great tips from Answers users. http://answers./dir/?link=list & sid=396546091 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Diane, I'd have to write a long chapter to answer you adequately, and there is not space or time here for that. Let me think about what would be a good answer and get back to you at some point. We have a few subjects to cover: 1) long-term effects of chemotherapy 2) pros and cons of chemotherapy in cancer treatment 3) the role of Chinese medicine in treating cancer patients 4) the role of integrative medicine in treating cancer patients 5) the etiology of the various cancers from a Chinese medical perspective. This is quite complex. On Mar 6, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Diane Notarianni wrote: > Frankly, I am not sure just what " effectiveness " means? I am not > disagreeing with you at > all but rather, trying to understand the goal here. I think I hear > different goals and that > needs to be identified. > > Related....what about long term effects of chemotherapy? Diane > > Chinese Medicine , " Z'ev > Rosenberg " <zrosenbe > wrote: > > > > Sorry, I don't agree. You are over-simplifying a very complex > > situation. The effectiveness of chemotherapy is quite variable > > depending on type of cancer, stage, strength of the patient, > attitude > > of the patient. There is plenty of room for cooperative, integrative > > thinking in oncology, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be critical > > of present approaches. Cancer has still not been cured at this > point. > > > > > > On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Joan Tirro wrote: > > > > > Please learn more. > > > Chemo kills cancer, eastern medicine helps patients cope. > > > Functional/integrated medicine works. No longer do we have the > > > " pure " body that eastern medicine treated. We must move with the > > > culture, which is far from where we began. > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 Another good resource is The Cancer Industry by Ralph W. Moss, PhD. acudoc11 wrote: read Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, MD and you'll be closer. _http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/_ (http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/) <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 Tom, You are right on target. Chemotherapy alone is indeed poison, yet when integrated with Chinese herbs (and I hope some day, other global herbs utilizing the methodologies of Chinese medicine), you turn lemons into lemonade. BUT WE MUST EDUCATE OURSELVES AND OUR STUDENTS TO SPEAK " ONCOLOGESE " AND LEARN INTEGRATIVE PROTOCOLS WHICH CAN EMPOWER US TO SAVE INNUMERABLE LIVES! Yehuda Tom Verhaeghe <tom.verhaeghe wrote: Chemotherapy may not be the best treatment for some cancers or other diseases, but it is still an option. I am treating a woman with chronic renal failure who refused to get chemotherapy. I agreed to try Chinese herbs for a while, and after two months of treatment I convinced her to go back to her specialist and discuss her case with him. I even made the phone call for her, and the specialist was happy to hear that she would now try the therapy he suggested. Together with a Chinese herbal formula. The results are much better than he expected (they expected her case to develop into Kahler's disease but it didn't), and the nephrology team now thinks that her relatively speedy recovery is partly due to the herbs she is taking. I sincerely hope there is a future for integrative medicine. Every disease that has been treated well is a positive matter, no matter how we got there, with chemotherapy or herbs. best, Tom. ---- Jason Senko 6/03/2007 17:25:39 Chinese Medicine Re: Re: Chemotherapy side-effects I don't have all the answers.I simply believe what I was taught.I was taught when using herbs(or in this case toxic drugs)the first rule is to do no harm.Chemo directly harms the patient,I really don't think anyone that has ever seen someone go through it would disagree.It is very easy for us to try and clean up the mess that has been made of cancer treatment in the U.S. But is it ethical to allow the myth to be perpetuated.Face it,there is way too much money being made on a treatment that would probably fare worse statistically than a few simple dietary changes.Billions of dollars are spent on a branch of medicine that completely dropped the ball.I don't have all the answers but I can assure you that if someone gave me a billion dollars to spend on the issue,I could come up with something better than poisonous drug therapy.Take greed out of the equation and maybe we can get something done. ________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Mail Q & A for great tips from Answers users. http://answers./dir/?link=list & sid=396546091 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Hi Joan, & All, Joan Tirro wrote: > I treat many chemo/radiation patients. Treat what you see.! It helps. That is sound advice way beyond treating chemo patients! I use that philosophy every time I treat a horse for performance problems (usually myofascial pain). I have learned that TCM Philosophy - that the #1 Reality is the Law of Change - is correct in my experience. Do not assume that what you meet today (even in the same patient) is the same as whet you met last week! ; no matter what I saw last time (maybe 1 week ago) I treat what I see NOW. Best regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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