Monday, September 25, 2017

Natural Remedies

Ok I want to say that I am not a "hippie" or a "witch" BUT, ever since I was diagnosed with my breast cancer in 2011 I got interested in natural healing.  Now I have an aunt who the family loving calls a "hippie" and she is all into natural/herbal/alternative stuff and tends to go a little overboard trying to push it on everyone in a flower child kind of way.  Please feel free if I make you feel this way because it's not my intention.

So, over the past 6 years of living with cancer I chose to treat it with Western medicine as well as natural medicines.  Working with my doctors I add vitamins, supplements, and oils to my treatment regime.  So far, it works for me, and in speaking with other patients and survivors who have done the same thing, they are happy with the protocol. 

Think about this.  Where did our modern medicine come from????? Nature!!!  Why do the Asian countries still use the same herbal medicines from thousands of years ago still to this day??? Because they work!  Why are super-bugs and viruses getting more resistant to our average medicines???  Because of the mass production of medicine in the US the actual medicine is more chemical than natural and therefore lost it's potency.  We need to go back to medicinal roots. 

There is so much available out there in the stores offering natural remedies, however you need to read the labels carefully and always check for interactions.  Personally I have seen how the herbal remedy has worked better than the doctor ordered steroid medicine in my own son.  He was 8 years old and having a bout of croop (horrific sounding cough and very hard to breathe) and I had been reading about an herbal remedy for coughs and asthma.  I brewed the list of ingredients up, added some honey and a cinnamon stick and he got used to breathing it in, then drinking 1/3 of a cup every 2 hours.  At first it was different and gross to him, but the next time he had a croop episode he asked for the tea not the steroid medicine.  One reason he wants the herbal choice is because it doesn't take 30 minutes to be digested before it starts working like a regular syrup or pill from the doctor.

I could spend pages talking about herbal remedies and why I love them.  But I want to hear from you.  Have you found yourself wanting to try herbal remedies or did you switch to herbal remedies after your diagnosis or treatment????