liver cancer/nexavar/hot hands & feet

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Id welcome info from personal experience about this :. a friend with liver

cancer is considering acupuncture treatment to help alleviate the side effects

she is having from nexavar -fairly severe swelling and blistering of hands

and feet. Does anyone here have direct experience with this? What are the

cautions in treating a person with cancer and on such meds? is there reasonable

hope for relief of symptoms, or is that not an appropriate aim here (if anyone

has treated such a case, it would be great to hear your thinking as far as

how you approached it, too) . She generally feels pretty well and is generally

strong in mind body and spirit; this last discomfort has been hard to bear,

however. Thank you, for any info and insight!

 

 

 

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Early in my practice, I had a patient who went on a very potent mixed drug

protocol for Hepatitis C (I think it was interferon and ribavirin, but I'm not

sure). She had an extreme reaction that her doctor said was a short-term

allergic response that would be relieved with Benadryl, but Bendaryl did not

help at all. It was a full-body, itchy, oozy, swollen, deep red rash. I

treated her for this with acupuncture alone - the only points I recall using

were SP-10, LI-11, LI-4 and LIV-3 (I'm sure I also added others that I don't

recall). After 45 minutes' retention time, she and I were both amazed that

there was absolutely no trace of the rash anywhere, except in the places she had

scratched and were scabbed over. The redness, swelling, oozing and itching were

all gone! Furthermore, the rash never returned. This lady was also a breast

cancer survivor with a history of addiction to harsh drugs, so I always thought

her healing ability was miraculous. This is one of my

favorite stories about the power of acupuncture to relieve the side effects of

prescription meds. It was also a big confidence-booster when I was just

starting as a practitioner, and taught me alot about the power of acupuncture.

 

By all means, encourage your friend to have acupuncture. A good herbalist can

also recommend topical herbal use to help her hands and feet heal.

 

 

 

Elaebanna wrote: Id welcome info from personal experience about this :.

a friend with liver

cancer is considering acupuncture treatment to help alleviate the side effects

she is having from nexavar -fairly severe swelling and blistering of hands

and feet. Does anyone here have direct experience with this? What are the

cautions in treating a person with cancer and on such meds? is there reasonable

hope for relief of symptoms, or is that not an appropriate aim here (if anyone

has treated such a case, it would be great to hear your thinking as far as

how you approached it, too) . She generally feels pretty well and is generally

strong in mind body and spirit; this last discomfort has been hard to bear,

however. Thank you, for any info and insight!

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Andrea, thanks! What a heartening story. I think Ill just say to my

friend " Ive heard of possible good results " so as not to make

promises..but for me as student, it is so valuable to hear such tales

over and over Coming into CM this era of so much westernization, it

is great to recall the power of *this' medicine.Thank you, again.

 

ps also as student..I can follow Li 11, li4 Lv 3 easily,, can you

tell me exactly sp 10, if you recall? Im still discovering more &

more about the personality & power of each point , alone and in

pattern with others..

 

Chinese Medicine , Andrea Beth

Damsky < wrote:

>

> Early in my practice, I had a patient who went on a very potent

mixed drug protocol for Hepatitis C (I think it was interferon and

ribavirin, but I'm not sure). She had an extreme reaction that her

doctor said was a short-term allergic response that would be relieved

with Benadryl, but Bendaryl did not help at all. It was a full-

body, itchy, oozy, swollen, deep red rash. I treated her for this

with acupuncture alone - the only points I recall using were SP-10,

LI-11, LI-4 and LIV-3 (I'm sure I also added others that I don't

recall). After 45 minutes' retention time, she and I were both

amazed that there was absolutely no trace of the rash anywhere,

except in the places she had scratched and were scabbed over. The

redness, swelling, oozing and itching were all gone! Furthermore,

the rash never returned. This lady was also a breast cancer survivor

with a history of addiction to harsh drugs, so I always thought her

healing ability was miraculous. This is one of my

> favorite stories about the power of acupuncture to relieve the

side effects of prescription meds. It was also a big confidence-

booster when I was just starting as a practitioner, and taught me

alot about the power of acupuncture.

>

> By all means, encourage your friend to have acupuncture. A good

herbalist can also recommend topical herbal use to help her hands and

feet heal.

>

>

>

> Elaebanna wrote: Id welcome info from personal experience about

this :. a friend with liver

> cancer is considering acupuncture treatment to help alleviate the

side effects

> she is having from nexavar -fairly severe swelling and blistering

of hands

> and feet. Does anyone here have direct experience with this? What

are the

> cautions in treating a person with cancer and on such meds? is

there reasonable

> hope for relief of symptoms, or is that not an appropriate aim

here (if anyone

> has treated such a case, it would be great to hear your thinking

as far as

> how you approached it, too) . She generally feels pretty well and

is generally

> strong in mind body and spirit; this last discomfort has been hard

to bear,

> however. Thank you, for any info and insight!

>

>

>

> **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes

> (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Elaebanna,

 

If this is not your first name, please sign your posts so we can know who you

are.

 

Sorry for the lapse in response, I was away for a few days. I don't have my

texts at home, where my computer is, but I seem to remember choosing Sp-10 to

clear heat in the blood, to treat her rash.

 

 

 

being924 <Elaebanna wrote: Andrea, thanks! What a heartening story. I

think Ill just say to my

friend " Ive heard of possible good results " so as not to make

promises..but for me as student, it is so valuable to hear such tales

over and over Coming into CM this era of so much westernization, it

is great to recall the power of *this' medicine.Thank you, again.

 

ps also as student..I can follow Li 11, li4 Lv 3 easily,, can you

tell me exactly sp 10, if you recall? Im still discovering more &

more about the personality & power of each point , alone and in

pattern with others..

 

Chinese Medicine , Andrea Beth

Damsky wrote:

>

> Early in my practice, I had a patient who went on a very potent

mixed drug protocol for Hepatitis C (I think it was interferon and

ribavirin, but I'm not sure). She had an extreme reaction that her

doctor said was a short-term allergic response that would be relieved

with Benadryl, but Bendaryl did not help at all. It was a full-

body, itchy, oozy, swollen, deep red rash. I treated her for this

with acupuncture alone - the only points I recall using were SP-10,

LI-11, LI-4 and LIV-3 (I'm sure I also added others that I don't

recall). After 45 minutes' retention time, she and I were both

amazed that there was absolutely no trace of the rash anywhere,

except in the places she had scratched and were scabbed over. The

redness, swelling, oozing and itching were all gone! Furthermore,

the rash never returned. This lady was also a breast cancer survivor

with a history of addiction to harsh drugs, so I always thought her

healing ability was miraculous. This is one of my

> favorite stories about the power of acupuncture to relieve the

side effects of prescription meds. It was also a big confidence-

booster when I was just starting as a practitioner, and taught me

alot about the power of acupuncture.

>

> By all means, encourage your friend to have acupuncture. A good

herbalist can also recommend topical herbal use to help her hands and

feet heal.

>

>

>

> Elaebanna wrote: Id welcome info from personal experience about

this :. a friend with liver

> cancer is considering acupuncture treatment to help alleviate the

side effects

> she is having from nexavar -fairly severe swelling and blistering

of hands

> and feet. Does anyone here have direct experience with this? What

are the

> cautions in treating a person with cancer and on such meds? is

there reasonable

> hope for relief of symptoms, or is that not an appropriate aim

here (if anyone

> has treated such a case, it would be great to hear your thinking

as far as

> how you approached it, too) . She generally feels pretty well and

is generally

> strong in mind body and spirit; this last discomfort has been hard

to bear,

> however. Thank you, for any info and insight!

>

>

>

> **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes

> (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

>

>

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