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Chinese medicine found beneficial in treating cancer
“I’ve always heard the use of herbs and supplements and alternative therapies can be a potentially dangerous pursuit when combined with cancer treatment. But this may not be entirely true.

Think about this:

Using Chinese herbs alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy may help protect a breast cancer patient’s bone marrow and immune system. It may also improve the overall quality of life for women, say researchers at the Chinese Cochrane Centre in Chengdu, China.

It is well known that women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer experience significant short term side effects such as nausea, vomiting, fatigue, inflammation of the gut lining, decreased numbers of red and white blood cells, and decreased numbers of blood platelets. Those is search of some relief may wish to give Chinese medicinal herbs a try.”

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Chinese medicine found beneficial in treating cancer
“I’ve always heard the use of herbs and supplements and alternative therapies can be a potentially dangerous pursuit when combined with cancer treatment. But this may not be entirely true.

Think about this:

Using Chinese herbs alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy may help protect a breast cancer patient’s bone marrow and immune system. It may also improve the overall quality of life for women, say researchers at the Chinese Cochrane Centre in Chengdu, China.

It is well known that women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer experience significant short term side effects such as nausea, vomiting, fatigue, inflammation of the gut lining, decreased numbers of red and white blood cells, and decreased numbers of blood platelets. Those is search of some relief may wish to give Chinese medicinal herbs a try.”

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Acupuncture treatment is ideal for treating tennis elbow. DAAN’s Dr. Susan Yen is available by appointment. She can be reached at 415-433-3278 10am-6pm PDT.
“Next to a baseball pitcher, tennis players are the next group of athletes that often tweak their elbows. Acupuncture for tennis elbow relief is a no brainer.

Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow Relief

Tennis elbow is the common name given to the pain and inflammation of the muscles and tendons in the area of the elbow. For those you are more comfortable with a hard to pronounce and medical sounding name, it is called lateral epicondylitis. To really get an appreciation of the reasons why acupuncture for tennis elbow relief is a very viable choice, you might consider the way that certain medical conditions are named in Western style medicine. The suffix “itis” refers to an inflammation. The term epicondyle means a rounded protrusion of bone at the point where tendons and ligaments attach. This would be like the elbow. Therefore, epicondylitis simply means inflammation of the elbow.”

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Chinese medicine found effective in treating polycystic kidney disease
“A new study has found that a centuries old Chinese traditional medicine, Triptolide has the potential to stop cyst formation in polycystic kidney disease

Triptolide is derived from a Chinese medicinal herb named Lei Gong Teng, which has been used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, inflammation, and auto-immune diseases and, more recently, also has been tested in Phase I clinical trials as an anti-tumour agent.

The research holds out hope for what would be the first treatment for the disease other than kidney transplant or frequent dialysis.

The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by researcher Dr. Craig Crews at Yale University.”

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