Re: an herbal tea that is tea-like in taste?

"Space Cowboy" <netstuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Ozzy,

If I was doing chemo or radiation I would use TCM from the side
effects. I would make sure they practiced in China first and can speak
the language. I included the Chinese keyword links for a Google
search. There might be something you can use but mainly false
positives for chemotherapy. Puer it seems is used in radiation
treatment not chemo. You can use the keywords on the optional
translation. If vomiting is a side effect I would definitely drink
black puer if I couldn't smoke pot. It is also a fact people who are
proactive in their treatment from any sickness recuperate faster with
better results.

http://tinyurl.com/r7xfq pu'er chemotherapy

http://tinyurl.com/lh5vy pu'er cancer

Best of luck. Keep us posted on tea and the use of chemo. I still
don't know perse off the top of my head what is contradicted in tea
with chemo but a little Internet searching should find some information
I don't know what I would do if somebody cut me off from tea.

Jim


Thank you very much, Jim, for doing the research above and for the good
wishes. (Unfortunately this is no false positive; I had a biopsy done on
the suspicious area to determine just what it was. It proved to be a
tumor -- fortunately a small, lazy tumor, very slow-growing :=) -- in
medical jargon, "non-agressive").

All the oncologists whom I consulted concurred: since further surgery was
out of the question due to location of it, both chemo & radiation
*concurrently* would give me the best chance of being truly cancer free.
So, with great reluctance and hestitation, having heard the same horror
stories that most of you have, that is what I'm doing.

If it were only radiation alone, that has no biochemical method of
operation, I would almost certainly drink vast quantities of the tea I
liked best and/or was theraputic. just as I did after the first surgery.
(At that time there was the positive expereince of learning more about
tea itself and different ways to appreciate it. BTW, for what I learned
about what was what in the world of tea from this NG, I wish to thank all
of you.)

I think the fact that antioxandants (not just those in tea, but all of
them, Vitamin C, Cocoa, etc.) oppose the platinum agents (i.e. standard
for my type of cancer) is valid -- at least the doctors in whose
competence I'm truating my life all do. Perhaps I'll do more indepedent
research at a later time, but for now, the boat has sailed.

I'm on the third week of both therapies, and while I wouldn't recommend
either of them as an addition to anyone's experiences, they're not so
terrible in and of themselves, and you do what you have to do -- or what
you believe is necessary to live.

That having been said, as a veritable newbie to this stuff I have on some
occaisons drunk a little more than the frowning limit of a cup of green
that was recommended. I'm *no* superman, wishful thinking to the
affirmative notwithstanding :-) -- and tea is too much a part of my life
to give up totally at one go.

Ozzie





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