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Cancer Research with Chinese Herbal Medicine


 

How Chinese Herbal Medicine can

help you if you have Cancer

 

The purpose of this document is to offer people with cancer information about how Chinese Herbal Medicine might be able to help.  There are many ways in which Chinese Medicine can be helpful to cancer patients.  How you decide to make use of what is offered depends on where you are in the treatment process.  Below are summaries and research demonstrating  how Chinese Herbal Medicine can help in various phases of diagnosis and treatment. 

What is Cancer from a Chinese Medical Perspective?

Helping you through surgery

Helping you through chemotherapy

Helping you through radiotherapy

Helping the terminal patient

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What is Cancer from a Chinese Medical Perspective?

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Helping You Through Surgery

Research has shown that Chinese Herbal Medicine is helpful for patients going through surgery.  When herbal medicine is started before the scheduled surgery the recovery time, the risks of infection, the post surgical swelling and complications are reduced.  In addition, the use of Chinese Herbal Medicine helps to create an environment for the early commencement of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. 

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Helping You Through Chemotherapy

Chinese Herbal Medicine has been shown to be extremely helpful to patients undergoing chemotherapy. Not only do the herbal medicines help the patient feel better during the treatment and treat uncomfortable and debilitating side effects, they also have been shown to contribute to the effectiveness of the chemotherapy itself. One of the main effects of many chemotherapies is bone marrow suppression. When the blood counts are very low, often the chemotherapy has to be postponed. Chinese herbal medicine often supports the blood so that chemotherapy can be continued on schedule.

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Helping you through radiotherapy

Research shows that Chinese herbal therapy is extremly helpful for patients during radiotherapy. Not only do the herbs reduce the negative side effects of the therapy such as burning and damage to the blood, it helps increase the effectiveness of the therapy.

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Helping the terminal patient

When a diagnosis is terminal, Chinese herbal medicine can be very helpful for helping make a patient more comfortable. Herbal medicine can calm the spirit, help sleep, keep the digestion moving, reduce fever and stop pain. In addition Chinese herbs have been shown to increase life expectancy.

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Other Research Articles

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