—> Can you (or anyone reading) recommend any possibly helpful ways to boost functioning of the kidneys
My natural doctor recommends Stinging Nettles to strengthen kidneys.
I haven’t been to the thread often enough. It is calming compared to horrornews....
I can post some good things for kidneys in a bit, posting cancer stuff again for someone first. And helping deal with stress/anxiety etc with natural remedies.
Pinging the list, freepmail to get on/off.
Link to a fairly comprehensive list of herbs etc that help prevent and/or treat cancer, many of which I used.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3735908/posts?page=1332#1332
My cancer story, never put it all together like this for the thread, in parts, details what I took. A friend with relatives with cancer asked me to write it all up.
Part One
Cancer Happens
In February 2019 I found a lump in my R breast and immediately made a doctor appointment. She checked, there it was, hadn’t been there a year ago. Recommended mammogram, which I got, and the radiologist said it looked like cancer. I got a biopsy. Cancer, stage 3, considered aggressive. My doctor, who is a naturopath who uses natural and “regular” medical measures as needed, told me “Get that sucker out as soon as possible”. I had surgery in June, and results were a malignant cancer almost 3 centimeters, spread beyond the milk duct, and two sentinel lymph nodes, with cancer beyond the margins; in other words, metastasized.
Within a week or two, the surgeon called and wanted to take out all lymph nodes on the right arm. I knew I did not want that, did a quick search, and found that 30% or more people who had that surgery wound up with lymphodema, huge swelling of the entire arm and hand that has no cure or treatment. Of course, no way.
My doctor had made an appointment with a team of oncologists, which I canceled, as I knew they would recommend radiation and chemotherapy. Because I am very allergic to many things, including almost all drugs, I knew I would likely not survive such treatments. Doctor gave me a prescription for Tamoxifen, which has been widely used for three decades, with very few women getting side effects. Me? Horrible side effects, all the ones listed, and more. Between that and the drugs for general anesthesia I was like a drugged stumbling zombie for more than a month, and my cognitive functions were badly affected for months.
Nine months after the surgery my doctor ordered a blood test specific for this type of cancer, a new very sensitive test, only from Mayo Clinic. I had to drive 30 miles to the hospital for the blood test as the sample had to be flown to the clinic right away. The results were so surprising that the doctor at Mayo who saw it commented how unusual it was. Results? Not one cancer cell in the sample; 5< is considered excellent, and I had zero.
So, how was this accomplished? I took a large amount of herbs and some other supplements recommended by my doctor, and from my own herbal research. I have studied and used herbs for treating and healing many conditions for more than thirty years, and have helped several people become cancer free. Many of these herbs tasted horrible, and it was not “fun” taking them day after day, but they worked. Detailed in Part Three.