Originally Posted by purplecotton
hi. my mother has recently been diagnosed with AML. as nurses have you encountered any doctors who recommended the use of herbal supplements to facilitate treatment? what do you think of astragalus? is it worth spending for this type of herb supplement? Thanks..if anyone can help and shed some light on this disease
What do I think of herbal remedies for treating AML? Not much.
Most herbal remedies are not regulated and frequently contain contaminants. Given the impaired immune system of an AML, this especially dangerous.
In ten years of dealing with AML patients, I have seen NO (and I mean NO) people treated exclusively with herbal rememdies that have survived for any notable length of time.
And while I have heard of a variety of "alternative" treatments for cancers in general, all are done in clinics/treatment centers with a variety of preparations (with some identified ingredients, but even more "secret" ingredients). Most of the better known ones would not advise just randomly taking an "alternative" preparation at home without the accompanied exercise/therapy/diet of a program.
May we ask why she is not doing conventional therapy?
Be aware that many internet sites/foreign will offer people that have poor prognoses "alternative secret cures" that "medicine is trying to cover up". Many of these patients return to their conventional MD with severe cardiac/liver damage from undergoing these treatments and die even sooner. Please check out the source of such treatments carefully.
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