Comfort For Terminal Cancer Patients -- TCM ??

[Guest guest]

Hi Mary,

 

> I can speak directly about this. I just finished six months chemotherapy.

> And I did it using TCM to support myself while doing so.

 

Thanks for the testimonial .. and best wishes for success in your

treatment. :-)

 

> HOWEVER - I think its important to be under the care of a practitioner

> who knows the interactions of chemo/radiation and herbs/vitamins. I

> saw a western ND, who specializes in cancer, and it was on his advice

> that I even did chemotherapy. I wasn't keen to do so, having been sick

> and in hospital for so long, the thought of feeling like crap for another

> 6 months was not something I thought I wanted to do. His advice was to

> go ahead, and he would give me herbs and vitamins which would support my

> body during the course of treatment.

 

I'll post on a herb that is being considered .. but not yet recommended.

 

> The cancer clinic was adamant about no other kinds of medicines, including

> vitamins whilst on chemo, but I told them I what I would be doing, and that

> there was no discussion. But there are herbs that definitely should not be

> taken during chemo or radiation - anti-oxidants for example.

 

Yes .. the post I am about to make touches on that.

 

> I would not say it was one of the better experiences of my life, but I

> did get through it, and from what I could see, with the minimum amount

> of effect. I was very tired for two weeks out of the four (for six cycles)

> which was my treatment cycle, and its only now, two months after my last

> treatment, that I am beginning to feel myself again. But on the positive

> side, I kept my hair, albeit its now curly.

 

Great. Its amazing how some people will react to chemo and radiation

while others will not. I have a friend in Georgia who took both close

to two years ago .. colon cancer. No side affects whatsoever and not

once did he even experience nausea.

 

> However, I was prescribed TCM to support my body - not to treat the

> cancer.

 

Understood.

 

> Cancer treatments are evolving very quickly, and are no longer as

> horrendous as they once were.

 

True .. another post coming on that right now.

 

> I would hope that within a few years, alternative medicine and

> allopathic cancer care are integrated.

 

IF .. the high and mighty control organizations ever relax and begin to

accept that they are not the only possessors of knowledge of healing. I

keep referring to the many difficulties (in my lifetime) chiropractors

had being recognized .. but today there is no question that their

services are often the best solution .. even the U.S. Department of

Defense covers the expense of soldiers referred to chiropractors .. and

such referrals are unto themselves a major breakthrough.

 

> Mary

> Well, Naturally

> http://www.wellnaturally.com

 

Again .. good luck and best wishes for continued good health.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

 

> I can probably accept that the AMA and FDA and major pharmaceutical

> companies would prefer to not implement alternative or complementary

> treatments of any type in the USA .. it took chiropractors damn near a

> generation to be recognized .. but we generally pay for our medical

> treatment and I think the system didn't want to split the profits. But

> can anyone tell me why those countries that practice social medicine

> would not grasp alternative modalities IF they have centuries of tried

> and true results .. and if they are cost effective .. and really work?

>

> Can somebody show me that TCM is more than fancy psychological Voo Doo

> and show me that TCM is really practiced all that much in China?

[Guest guest]

< But can anyone tell me why those countries

that practice social medicine

would not grasp alternative modalities

IF they have centuries of tried

and true results .. and if they are cost

effective .. and really work?>

 

Good question, I have asked it of my MP.

You are speaking rationally.

Political decisions, alas, are rarely made

by just listening to reason. They are made by

institutions and people with all sort of vested

interests on all sort of grounds.

Lobbies are not limited to free enterprise

systems either.

Health Canada is about as free of corruption

as the FDA.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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