CANCER: NATURAL TREATMENTS USED TO COUNTERACT THE SIDE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPY
March 30th, 2009 | Posted by admin | Category: CancerNo Comments
Broken Capillaries
Diet
• Eat foods rich in bioflavonoids including berries, cherries, buckwheat, citrus fruits, lemons, plums, grapefruit, blackberries, blackcurrants, green peppers, broccoli, tomatoes and apricots.
Vitamins and Nutrients
• Bioflavonoids increase the strength of capillaries, especially the bioflavonoid, rutin. They prevent rupture of the blood vessels and maintain collagen structure. Take vitamin Ñ powder with bioflavonoids daily @ 1000 to 5000 mg of Vitamin Ñ powder containing bioflavanoids including 500 mg of rutin.
• Bromelain accelerates the healing process of the skin. Take 250 to 750 mg per day.
Herbal Teas
• Rosehip herbal tea is rich in bioflavonoids.
• An excellent astringent for capillaries and veins is witch hazel – apply externally (distilled witch hazel can be purchased from a chemist).
• Horse chestnut increases the strength and tone of veins and capillaries and is an excellent circulatory tonic.
Constipation
Diet
Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water per day.
Eat a diet rich in fibre foods including whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, and brown rice. Good foods include prunes, dates, figs, pears, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, cabbage, kale, apples, endive, dandelion greens, beets and okra.
• Avoid spicy foods, full fat dairy products, fried foods, white flour products, processed foods, coffee, sugar and fats.
• A healthy breakfast cereal made from 1/2 part slippery elm, 1 part oat-bran, 1 part lecithin granules, 1 part psyllium husks, 1 part LSA mix and 1/2 part crushed pumpkin seeds mixed together is a fantastic way to begin the day.
Vitamins and Nutrients
• Take a good fibre supplement containing psyllium husks, guar gum, apple pectin or modified citrus pectin, rice-bran, soya bran or oat-bran. Lactobacillus Acidophilus or fructo-oligosaccharides helps to put friendly bacteria into the bowel.
• Essential fatty acids or flaxseed oil is needed for good digestion and stool formation. (This is essential if stools are hard and dry.)
• Vitamin Ñ (3 grams/day) and glutamine repairs intestines damaged by chemotherapy.
Herbs
• Aloe vera juice has a healing and cleansing effect on the digestive tract and aids in forming soft stools. Drink 1/2 cup in the morning and night. OR
• Mix — 1 teaspoon of senna leaves/cascara bark/fennel seeds/chamomile – infuse 1 cup or 1 tablespoon of flax seeds ground – swallow with a glass of hot water. OR
• Dandelion herbal tea is useful not only in alleviating constipation but also in enhancing kidney and liver function. OR
• Infuse 1 teaspoon of psyllium seeds in a cup of boiling water and drink twice daily. OR
• Use 1 dessertspoon of whole linseeds and boil in 600 ml of water for 25 minutes. Strain and mix with equal amounts of water and orange juice or lemon juice. OR
• Alfalfa tablets (3 to 5/day) may also prove useful.
Hydrotherapy
• Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) baths help to stimulate bowel movements.
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