who among you is a cancer survivor who undergone western treatment like radiation therapy and chemotherapy while taking chinese herbal medicine at the same time?
2007-12-05 21:04:53 · 5 answers · asked by chartreuse 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
I didn't, because the chinese medicine could have interfered with my medical treatment.
2007-12-06 02:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by thinkingtime 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, immune system enhancement is a no-no when undergoing chemo. Panda says you can't even eat some raw fruits and vegetables due to the bacteria and germs that could be prevalent, because you have no immune system after chemo. Chemo is proven to help sometimes, except in the roughly 553,000 that die from cancer on a yearly basis. That's based on the roughly 1.3 million that are diagnosed yearly in the US. Not very good odds in my opinion.
The book A Cancer Battle Plan says they wouldn't do it unless it's critical and natural methods aren't working. Ann Fonfa here found that Chinese medicine, herbs, were what kept her breast cancer tumors from returning, unfortunately she didn't discover that until after a double mastectomy. You need to first get on a good diet and if or when you do develop cancer first try some alternatives to see if you can reverse it. If you can't, then I'd go the poison route, but only after making an attempt at trying the healthy alternative first.
2007-12-06 04:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by Roger 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hi, my grandmother is a cancer patient and yes, she is taking Chinese medication with western treatment. It's not to heal her, but rather, strengthen her. We get it from a place called tong zi yuan, FOC cancer helping Chinese medicine shop
2007-12-06 19:26:48 · answer #3 · answered by L Helinson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did! i was being given ABVD for hodgkin's lymphoma and i had a friend who was an herbalist, she gave me some miatake (spelling may not be correct) mushroom extract that has been shown in japan to shrink tumors. my oncologist was very skeptical but said if i wanted to use it in conjunction with my chemo that he didn't have a problem with it. i'm going on 10 years of being cancer free. can't say for sure if it helped, but it didn't hurt either.
2007-12-06 05:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by amitooblou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got some brilliant advice from my surgeon the other day. She said she was "all for" alternative therapies. AFTER you complete the chemotherapy.
See, she wants to save lives. Alternative therapies are unproven, and personally, I wouldn't bet my life on something that's unproven.
2007-12-06 03:02:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋