Posted by bleauberry on June 18, 2012, at 5:34:38
In reply to Cancer anxiety, posted by Tabitha on June 18, 2012, at 1:44:38
There are plant medicines that can do the job in a more tolerable friendly manner.
Try them each one at a time and then after you know how they feel they work best when you combine 2 or 3, and you use them on an as-needed basis instead of a regular plan.
They include Lemon Balm, Skullcap, Passionflower, Valerian Root. Sometimes some extra magnesium is all it takes, or a soak in an epsom salts bath to absorb the magnesium that way.
On the topic of herbs you might want to do some searching on the topic of cancer because some of them, including many of the lyme herbs I am familiar with, have significant activity at preventing, suppressing, and even reversing the growth of cancers. Any herbs you take can be combined with whatever meds you take. Your doctor may or may not support it, some do some don't, depending on their knowledge. They aren't likely to endorse something, no matter how good it is, if they don't know anything about it or if there is a sense of lawsuit vulnerability.
If you want to stick with just meds, I dunno, xanax might be a choice since it has a shorter half life, but you are going to get some sedation with any of them. It is less likely than the others to worsen any depression issues and is sometimes antidepressant for some people.
I am familiar with all the herbs I mentioned and they can indeed do the job. Maybe not the elephant knockout power of chemicals, but then, maybe that's what you don't want anyway? Just need some fast calming of panic anxiety stuff, right? Without clouding up the mind or getting too sleepY? Right? If so, then the herbs are the way to go.
Food can make a real difference in your fight with cancer. At least 3 times a week or more you are going to want to eat red beans, and watermelon. Why? Believe it or not, these foods have stuff that directly causes cancer cells to stop....according to Dr Oz. Other important foods are in the group of broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts. Other than that, switch the diet to mostly veggies and fruits, very little meat (meat is pro-cancer). The veggies and fruits are anticancer. And where ever possible, choose organic. The tiny amounts of chemicals from fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides....these are cancer friends and your enemies. With meats, you don't want the hormones, antibiotics, and unnatural diets the animals are fed. You want free roaming natural fed animals....but again, keep meats to a minimum.
For the swollen lymph nodes there is one plant in particular very specific for that and is used in lyme for that purpose....it stimulates them to help clear out the debris causing the inflammation. For that, order online Red Root tincture.
Without even studying up on cancer and herbs, off the top of my head I would immediately come up with these.....Pau D'Arco tea, Berberine Complex by Integrative Therapeutics, and any brand of Japanese Knotweed. These things by themselves will offer considerable calming without sedation, in addition to the cancer/inflammation stuff.
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