Breast Cancer

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I have a patient who was dx with a malignant, stage 1 tumor in her

right breast in Dec and had the whole breast removed. She recovered

beautifully and quickly. Her doctors are recommending tamoxifin which

she has decided not to take. I have definitely not encouraged this,

saying that with herbs and acupuncture the side effects could be

significantly reduced. Her chances of recurrence are 10-15% w/o

tamoxifin and only 1-6% less with. She is 42yo. Very healthy. Does

yoga on a regular basis, eats well, does not smoke. Drinks coffee and

alcahol on a very occasional basis. She is african american. She has 3

children. She was on birth control pills for 25 years. She is the

only woman in her family with breast cancer.The original reason she

came to me was for high blood pressure which I was getting okay not

great results with. She has been taking maxzide, 50mg which we where

able to get down to 25mg. She has also been having problems with dry

eyes for which she takes topamax. She also has cold hands and feet. A

pink tongue with a very clean, slightly thick white coat. Her pulse is

slippery and soft in the HT, LU positions. Small in the liver

position, and thready/wiry in the SP and KI positions. She has dry

skin. Asthma as a child. Menstration is pretty regular. Dark and thick

blood. I was giving her tian ma gou teng yin and ming mu di huang wan

for her eyes and blood pressure. As I said the blood pressure was

slightly improved and the eyes nothing notable. I am now wanting to

treat her not only for the blood pressure and eyes but as a cancer

preventitive as well. I have read quite a few articles by Bob Flaws

and the whole series by Isaac Cohen. I also ordered a book last month

by Li Pei feng(sp)which has not come in. I was thinking of giving her

a modified Xiao Yao Wan but am hesitant to give her anything with Dang

gui as her MD would not approve and I would also rather avoid chai hu

for the high bp. The formula I found that I thought might be

appropriate is for irregularity of the chong and ren. Shu di, Shan

yao, Gou qi zi, Shan zhu yu, Lu jiao, xia ku cao, tu su zi, hai zao,

kun bu, hong hua, bai shao, ju hua. It seems like a balanceed formula

and would address her High BP and eyes from a different angle which I

am suspecting will be more effective. Any suggestions,

additions/subtractions appreciated.

 

Thank you, Petra Buchanan.