Cannibus Oil to help with TNBC

Debpahdz

I have read that cannibus oil is very affective in treating or lessening the need for chemo for TNBC. Has anyone used it or can tell me more about it?

I see my oncologist on Monday to discuss treatment and I know she will recommend aggressive chemo followed by radiation as is usually indicated for TNBC. I would perfer to skip the chemo if cannibus oil or other homeopathic treatments are as effective.

Momine

1. There are no verified, medical studies in humans that establish cannabis as a therapy for cancer. There are preliminary studies suggesting that it might be useful against cancer, but as for now, we simply don't know enough.

2. Cannabis is not homeopathy.

3. There is no evidence that homeopathy can treat cancer.

pipers_dream

Yes Momine, it may be time here to clear up some confusion. I think most people, in the US anyway, believe that homeopathy = holistic but that's not the case. It's actually a very specific type of medicine that science is only just now beginning to figure out how it works. I don't think I'd trust it for my BC alone, but I've actually had great success with some homeopathic substances in the past, most notably silicea for hair loss. I would be one of those ladies with my scalp showing thru if I hadn't discovered this miracle but every time my hair starts dropping I get this and it stops falling out almost immediately. This has worked on over a dozen occasions since my early thirties and it has worked every single time. Here is a part of an article that tells the basics:

by Jacob Mirman, MD

(To read the rest of Dr. Mirman's book Demystifying Homeopathy online, for free, click here.)

Homeopathy is a system of medicine whose principle was accidentally discovered by a German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, at the turn of the 19th century. It all came about when he ingested some Peruvian bark (quinine) and developed malaria-like symptoms. Knowing that malaria patients were treated with quinine, he then had the idea that possibly malaria is cured by quinine because it causes malaria-like symptoms in healthy people. He decided to explore his theory by testing other substances. His tests were conducted by either taking the substances internally himself or by administering them to healthy volunteers and then recording all of the symptoms the volunteers experienced. These recorded results created "drug pictures" also known as provings.

The next step was to give the tested substances to patients suffering from the same symptom complex represented by the drug picture recorded in the above manner. The results were incredible. People were being cured from diseases that had never been cured before. He condensed his theory into a single Latin phrase: Similia Similibus Curentur (let likes be cured by likes).

The medicines used in homeopathic treatment come from vegetable, mineral and animal sources. Some are poisons and others are inert substances in their crude form. When properly prepared, these substances lose any inherent harmful nature and develop a power to treat disease. The preparation involves serial dilutions and shaking of the product between dilutions. After several dilutions, the initial substance is essentially washed out and cannot be detected chemically in the final product. Confused? That's very reasonable as it makes no sense whatsoever in light of present day science. But regardless of what our sciences tell us is impossible, in practice, the higher the dilution the stronger and longer lasting the effect.