Just for interest…

Hi,
The theory and principle of using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner to treat patient is the balance of (Yin and yen) or ( cold and hot ) of the entire body . And that is why Chinese herbal medicine is complex and require experience TCM practitioner(TCMP) for diagnosis and treatment.
I do not believe TCM is a holistic approach . There are a lot of info on the web about holistic medicine and TCM practice people can find out their difference .
Different cultures have their different traditional medicinal formulas to treat various illness and proven to be useful too.
EU pharmacopoeia is similar to the USP( USA pharmacopeia ); if you look closely, the standard is for Medicine & the raw materials to compound the medicine only. And not for food like all the herbals plants, seeds leaf that you can buy in a grocery store, at least it is in the States herbal medicines are classified as food and nothing else.
The purpose of this long discussion is not for myself but for those who would come later to explore this topic again , like you in the future.
Thanks for the discussion and I will stop here with regard to this subject matter.

God bless

Hi,
I think we may have a misunderstanding between herbs and ” Chinese herbal medicine” practice or the Eastern style of herbal medicine practice in the Far East including Japan’ Kampo practice ,South Korea,Taiwan and down to Singapore. “Chinese Herbal Medicine ” is a generic name refers to the practice itself. The herbal medicines usually contain barks of plants,stones of different metals ,skins and body parts of animals,leaf and seeds,fruits depending on different regions ,climate and time of harvest.
I can only say one thing, lisence or law will not ensure you will get the real thing from some Far East suppliers, there are a lot of look a likes out there.But if you can grow them,then it is a different story.
God bless.

Thanks, Percy.
Hugs,
Marion

may be a bit controversial: herbalists have long found out that very often the whole plant/herb gets a better result than the use of only the extracted active ingredient(s). So far there has not yet been an explanation for this mechanism.
I can only mention my own experiences in treatment of animals (and myself). Of course there is a difference in the treatment of animals and humans but since a lot of tests are still done with different species of mammals very often the results can be transferred to a certain point.
With a combination of three different plants (1 chinese root, 1 south american root, seeds from 1 common european plant) angionesis inhibiting effect could be reached in a pony with a soft tissue tumor. The tumor (which was growing fast before treatment) has been dormant now for more than 5 years. I did not mention the names of the plants/herbs because scientists have found out that one of them does work completely different in other types of cancer such as osteblastic lesions which are triggered in growth whereas the anti-angionetic effects seem to be limited to soft tissue tumors.

My own (very small) tumor (which is not a CC) has been kept at bay with the same combination for 17 years without any other treatment and has since shown no signs of change. This might be coincidence or sheer luck of course.

So what I am trying to say is that each individual is different. In many cases the use of herbal medicine in combination with chemotherapy might be the best approach, but I do believe that in some cases the results of herbal medicine (if not only extracted active ingredients are used) can be very good.
Problem is that so many doctors just don’t know much about herbal medicine, they are not even able to advise you that certain spices should be avoided when taking painkillers which thin the blood.