Alternative Treatment

We are all women on our own journeys.  Let us come in peace and focus on what we have in common as opposed to our differences.  We all want to learn and share ideas and maybe gain some support at the same time.  May our comments be helpful to one another or at least not stressful or antagonistic towards one another. 

Happy Friday everyone!  Peace out.

Man, if I was making water 12 times a night, I'd be a zombie! How do you sleep, Abagail?? I'd have to sleep on the toilet or wear Depends! I think I'd be putting my green tea earlier in the day...

yeah, tea later in the day, I sometimes just don't get to it early, like today

of course the anti-biotics cured the tetanus.  didn't know then what else they did, but probably needed with such a strong microbe

so why does the falling barometer mean a bad time?  astrologers say surgery on tuesdays, (ruled by mars) is a bad idea, but days of the week in a solar calendar are just the solar month divided by 4.  in a lunar calendar that would find last quarter moon which would be a bad time.  but surgeons know that surgery on a stormy day will make blood flow stronger, & I expect that's what causes the bad days with cancers & enflamed cysts

recently gary read a paper citing that clove oil was the best anti-inflamatory.  he said no, cinnamon (oil?) is the best. 

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=health_fitness&sc=health&sc3=&id=88251

Interesting article about barometric pressure and mood, pain levels, etc.

Has anyone done more research into the red and black raspberry studies done at Hollings?  I am very pleased with how I feel after beginning these.  Spoke to dr - he said 1/4 scoop black raspberry seed powder (Meeker variety) and 3/4 scoop of red seed powder of same variety.  FIVE (5) times each day.  This is with lymph node cancer, which I have now, from breast cancer.  He also said same for metz to bones.  I am glad to have a plan to add to my plan. 

LOVEEssa

Gentian Violet brings back memories for me --my son had Impetigo as a toddler. It is very contagious and the nursery school he was going to wouldn't let him back there until he was cured. The doc told me to apply Gention Violet and it did the trick!  Thank God, because I could not afford a private babysitter as I was divorced and my ex had flown the coop--

I lived in the purple paint of gentian violet as a kid. Impetigo was like normal flora for me!! Never an antibiotic or a trip to the doctor for that.

Mercurachrome and GV were the staples of our medicine chest!

Essa,

You don't have lymph node cancer. You have breast cancer which has spread to your nodes. In any event, sorry to hear about the bone mets.

Caryn

I heard pomegranets were estrogenic. (sigh) so much conflicting info.  I had hives around then & carbafung was applied.  I wonder if that was gentian.  I'd think that originally it was made from the plant:  will google

When I was a child my father used to give me gentian violet tattoos over what ever scrapes or cuts I had.  They were always funny pictures of ice cream cones with smiles and lots of hair.  It was such a fond memory that I did the same for my children and, as you can see, eventually chose it for my avatar.  I still have a bottle of it in the house for the grand kids.

Caryn - tomatoes tomatos.

As I said, exactly, "the lymph node cancer, which I have now, from breast cancer"

I do not have bone metz - the doctor said the amount was the same for both bone and lymph node cancer. Breast cancer too, I suspect.

Really, why is it we get breast cancer then it goes into our lymph nodes and through the bloodstream floods through our entire body and we are still breast cancer?  Once a breast, always a breast?  I don't buy into that at all.

I had breast cancer, still identify but all clear on PET CT recently.  But I definitely do have cancer in my lymph nodes, proven.  Yes, breast cancer, if that helps me communicate better.

LOVEEssa

Your talk of gentian and gentian violet sent me browsing and reading on my ne protocol which will include flower essences applied to acupuncture points or wells, or vortexes in my opinion. I will also be moving throuh different homeopathic remedies.  So a few hours well spent in more reading.

Gentian was one of Dr. Bach's flower essences.  For despondency, discouragement, the strength to go on, for recovering from lingering illness and disease. 

Gentian in North America was developed as a flower essence from the Green Cross Gentian, the Elkweed. Was developed to be more universal.... for responding to crises with renewed inspiration for serving humanity and all other life on Earth.

Gentian was developed as a homeopathic remedy --- Stomach symptoms, intermittent fever, dyspepsia, cholera infantum, acid rising in stomach, colic, umbilical region sendry, thick saliva, weakness, vertigo with headache, head tender, brain feels loose, aching, pressing inward sensation in eyes, constricted throat, head, abdomen with distention, fullness, tightness in abdomen. Feeling of creeping over body as from fleas. Vertigo, worse upon rising or motion --- better in open air.  Frontal headache --- better eating and open air.

LOVEEssa

edited for typos

interesting about flower/homeopathy gentian remedies.

gary says not to have lymph ndes removed because of possible infection.  I googled nodes, & apparently there are up to 400 they now think.  various sizes.  & mine are comming off regularly on the side where I use the castor oil packs 

Momine - you are on the Alternative Treatment thread in the Alternative Medicine forum, so please do not continue to challenge me with questions like you just asked.  Thank you.  EDITED TO REMOVEBOLD in Alt title.... toned it down.

As far as breast cancer, deep breath, I know you guys are not attacking me, but I feel cranky.....perhaps the money crap or the cancer crap or the DD rolling her car or the not sleeping last night.

I understand fully well how it works and the consequences of breast cancer or any cancer.  I suppose what I am saying is that it is 'sugar-coated' as 'breast cancer' when it is now lymph node cancer with MATCHING breast cancer cells. And I am not saying anyone at all on bco is sugar-coating bc, we aren't, we know what it is and who it has killed.

My statement of "not buying that" is not about a discrepancy in the medical / biological facts, but in the belief system.

The doctor who I was consulting with knew I had breast cancer.  He asked if it had been a reoccurrence, regional or mets?  Details.  Details.  The amount I take is based on his questions to me.

My statement was that now I have the lymph node cancer which is from the breast cancer.  I stand corrected.  It is still breast cancer but it is in my lymph nodes.  Where it was when the surgeon did the surgery and sentinel node biopsy and left the cancer in my nodes Nov 2011 and didn't know until July 2012.

Have to work, taking this thread of email notices for the day or I know I won't get anything done today, besides my well-deserved nappie.

LOVEEssa

have a great nap, mrs blue bird

I've been having great naps, that kind of weather this time of year

why I'm still alive & 7 (?):  juicing.  we've talked about this a lot, today I juced:  wraped in 2 lettuce leaves;  a few sprigs of curley parsley, some brocolli sprouts a small piece of ginger (& often organic strawberry tops), a handful of grapes, a bosc pear, an organic apple, big new hybred (?), lady something, expensive but the only organic ones this time of year in our market, usually a cucumber but forgot to get new ones monday, a piece of watermellon, not the rind because not organic & the fungacide they use on mellons is very bad.  a half a lemon with much of the juice used in cooking already.  whole thing. half an orange peeled.