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My mother is in the early stages of kidney and heart failure. My brother who is only 35 has kidney failure and has to have dialysis 4 times a week. My question is what herbs can my mother take to improve her health. She has a brain tumor as well and also suffers from high blood pressure. The doctors say she only has about 2 years left but i refuse to believe this! Does anyone know anything that could help! Please if anyone has any advice please let me know!!!
Liasdaughter is right . Most doctors follow what the pharmaceuticals say and they are mostly pushing their drugs. They do not care to get to the root of the problem, they do not care to cure the problem, they just simply want you to have to rely on THEIR drugs for the rest of your life so they can make THEIR profit. So why tell a patient that they can detox and get your body balanced and healthy with natural means? The side effects of the drugs alone are enough to make you scared to death.
The secret is to let them work together in the hand of someone, a medical practitioner, who is well educated in both form and could give you SAFELY the benefit of both. That is my honest opinion.
Do you think for one minute we didn't explore every avenue? If alternative medicine works for you, fine. Study, research, do whatever works for YOU. That fact that it didn't work for "us" doesn't mean it won't work for you.
But I see people in the Pharmacy all the time who are mixing prescribed medication and herbals and neither practitioner knows about the other.
Again - do nothing with consulting with your primary. If you don't want to do that, then find one Doctor to fill both roles.
Do not mix and match.
That is my honest opinion. In fact, I hope all the opinions on the board are honest opinions and no one is playing games.
Herbal remedies are medicine and should be taken with caution.They may conflict with any prescribed medicine that is being taken,with potentially fatal results.
Don't take anything without arming yourself with all potential risks and negative interactions.
Please don't judge my emotional state based on your 50 some posts. I'm not bitter. I'm frustrated. There's a difference.
Not just in connection with this thread, but what is your medical background or experience?
And, by the way, my husband was a Doctor of Pharmacy and a teacher. I date an M.D/Surgeon. Across the board Doctor and Pharmacist bashing gets under my skin.
Have to spread the rep. Yes it is important to know what you are doing.
Like too much vitamin E can be fatal when you take blood thinners, while Co Q10 has no side effects and is essential for people with high cholesterol or cancer,
Its ok doctors and M.D.s have found many cures for those. My aunt suffered from kidney failure and is ding fine
Would you please post what she is doing/taking that changed her condition? Kidney failure runs in my family and I would be interested in how she changed things. It would appear by the word "suffered" that she no longer has kidney failure - ?
Have to spread the rep. Yes it is important to know what you are doing.
Like too much vitamin E can be fatal when you take blood thinners, while Co Q10 has no side effects and is essential for people with high cholesterol or cancer,
Yes, I do agree, that Coenzyme Q10 could be valuable, not only for the conditions you have mentioned, but a for lot more, if research can clearly proove it. For this list of conditions you (and others) could look up Mayo Clinic website on:
However, potential side effects are listed there as well, as the cautioning of patients suffering from Diabetes, bleeding disorders, low blood pressure, liver problems, or thyroid problems in general, and a list of conditions specifically for which the safety of Coenzyme Q10 is not clearly established yet.
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