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Eat Your Greens! A Delicious Cancer Fighting Recipe with Broccoli and Tomatoes
Finding it hard to eat your cancer-fighting greens? Try this tasty broccoli recipe that pairs healthy veggies for an even stronger cancer-fighting effect! Instructions adapted from, and photo courtesy of, Rebecca Katz’s The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen. Note that I would...
Getting to the Point: Acupuncture for Kids with Cancer
Facing the complications from brain surgery and their upcoming chemotherapy treatments, neurosurgeon Dr. William Loudon, suggests to Cade and Max’s parents that they try something outside the box and introduces them to CHOC hospital acupuncturist. Over the next few years, this unique treatment approach helps ease the fatigue, nausea and pain so common in cancer victims while Cade is also helped to recover from a devastating stroke he suffered after his second brain surgery.
Research into Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Patients
While it’s challenging to evaluate acupuncture using conventional biomedical research protocols, numerous studies suggest acupuncture can help reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, cancer-related fatigue, leucopenia, pain, neuropathy, xerostomia (dry...
Traditional Chinese Medicine’s popularity among breast cancer patients worldwide
Studies show that, in many parts of Asia, traditional herbal medicine is used by a large majority of breast cancer patients[1]. A study from Shanghai found that 86.7% of breast cancer patients used Chinese herbal medicine after their breast cancer diagnosis[2], while...
Winter recipe: Lamb Angelica Soup
This recipe is actually based on a formula from an herbal classic (金匮要略 Jin Gui Yao Lue, Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet, by the famous herbalist 张仲景 Zhang Zhong Jing), in which is is called 当归生姜羊肉汤 Dang Gui Sheng Jiang Yang Rou Tang. The soup is warming, so...
Nobel prize for herb-based malaria drug
Many of you likely heard about one of the winners of this year's Nobel prize in science. Tu Youyou, a Beijing-based researcher, was awarded the prize for her role in extracting the malaria-fighting compound Artemisinin from the traditional Chinese herb, artemisia...