Guest Mr Know it all Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 Flax seed oil and cottage cheese- study say's that flax seed oil mixed with cottage cheese can cure a lot. To read about it go to Excite.com and search flax seed oil. I used it, it got me through a tuff period acidophlus works pretty good to help keep you regular herbs to stay away from Red Clover, Black Cohosh,Dong Quai,Wild Yam Drugs to stay away from aldactone Quote
Guest Janet W Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 Some of the herbs you said to stay away from have been helpful to me in the area of female problems - some of those worked when nothing else would. Quote
john Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 flax seed oil is supposed to be good. Black Cohosh is a better alternative than hormone replacement therapy. So as Janet said, this may be a good one, since HRT has been implicated in causing cancer Quote
Jenny G. Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 I also hear a lot about red clover being beneficial. What do you know bad about it? Just starting to look into alternative therapies. Jenny Quote
Cary Posted May 3, 2003 Posted May 3, 2003 I believe black cohosh only has a negative effect if your on chemotherapy and then should be avoided due to toxicity issues. Cary Black Cohosh May Make Breast Cancer Drug More Toxic NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with breast cancer (news - web sites) who are undergoing chemotherapy may want to avoid black cohosh, the herbal remedy often used to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, according to Connecticut researchers. In a new study of laboratory-grown breast cancer cells, the herb seemed to increase the toxicity of the commonly used chemotherapy drugs doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and docetaxel (Taxotere), but not a third, cisplatin. "We saw this with three different commercial black cohosh extracts," said Dr. Sara Rockwell of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. The suggestion that black cohosh may make these anticancer drugs more potent than they already are could be "a good thing or a bad thing," Rockwell said. "If this were an effect just on the tumor cells, that would be a good thing because it would mean you get more antitumor effect for a person on black cohosh," she said. "On the other hand, Adriamycin is used in doses that are nearly toxic -- it wipes out the bone marrow and is very close to the limit of heart toxicity. A substantial number of patients treated with Adriamycin show serious heart injury after treatment and if black cohosh increased that it could make this drug lethal." More research is needed to determine if this is true for patients -- results in laboratory cells may not mimic what happens in the body, a much more complex situation compared with a carefully controlled experiment. Rockwell's team focused their studies on black cohosh because they noticed that many women who went off hormone replacement therapy (HRT) when they were diagnosed with breast cancer began taking this particular herb during chemotherapy and radiation therapy. "Many women assume that black cohosh is a safe and effective natural remedy for menopausal symptoms," she told Reuters Health. But how it interacts with other drugs is unclear. Rockwell's team grew breast cancer cells in culture and then exposed them to black cohosh at concentrations found in products on the drug store shelf. Then, in separate experiments, they exposed the cells to radiation or to three drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer -- Adriamycin, Taxotere, and cisplatin. In the radiation experiment, they saw no changes in the breast cancer cells. "Black cohosh did not change the response of the breast cancer cells to the radiation," Rockwell said. And the remedy did not influence laboratory-grown breast cancer cells in the absence of chemotherapy drugs, or affect the growth of breast cancer tumors in mice fed the herbal remedy. "Up to 80% of cancer patients may be taking one or more vitamins, minerals, or herbs," Rockwell said. "Many of these agents are not well standardized and they are not regulated by FDA (news - web sites)." The findings were scheduled to be presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research's 94th Annual Meeting in Toronto, but meeting planners canceled the event citing growing concern about cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in the city. Quote
Jenny G. Posted May 3, 2003 Posted May 3, 2003 Excellent post Cary, thanks! That's the kind of information we need. Quote
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