Re: May have Type II Diabetes--questions about herbs
"eekanoshy?....ekanacy?....(scratches head)...you know, you gotta be careful, I've heard that taking some of those herbs can be real dangerous".
That (paraphrased) was the advice on herbs given to Jerry Brunneti by one of the two oncologists who were offering him an orthodox diagnosis and treatment schedule for non-hodgkins Lymphoma. That was the advice given in the same breath by an oncologist who was leaning on Jerry to follow the oncologist's expert recommendations for treating his cancer. What was that expert advice: "some pretty aggressive chemotherapy.... 'MOP' and 'CHOP', roughly 20 treatments costing about $3000 a pop, that's my expert advice".
Jerry eventually (starting roughly 5 minutes after the above expert advice was issued) went his own route, an alternative route. Along this route Jerry discovered that "MOP" and "CHOP", what the modern cancer industry of the 21st century considers it's state of the art for treating cancer, is based upon ........... (drum roll please)....... World War era stockpiles of mustard gas mixed in with an overall pharmaceutical cocktail. Bear in mind that the state of this particular art, as of the year 2000, had been the beneficiary of over $200,000,000,000 (two hundred billion) during the previous 30 years of tax-payer funded "government research" grants. Know what the state of the art had been prior to all of those years and all of those dollars? Cut (surgery), Burn (radiation) and Chemo (mop & chop).
Jerry eventually came up with his own method for healing his condition of cancer. He used a wide variety of radically dangerous foods, to include copious vegetables, fruits, herbs and, of all things, specially prepared organic milk. As far as I know, to this day Jerry is still quite alive and healthy ..... but just remember, some of those herbs can be real dangerous ;)
Sarcasm aside, it has been my recent experience with a close relative who's been struggling with "type II diabetes" for several years, that there is a real danger whenever natural herbs are introduced into a body full of un-natural prescriiption meds. Case in point: Ginger. After the fact, I found that a person who does the seemingly harmless task of drinking a cup fresh-brewed ginger tea WHO HAS ALSO been regularly taking any one of a fairly narrow range of commonly-prescribed Type II meds (like Glyburide [sp?] to name one), is likely to experience some fairly significant severe reactions as a result. About 20-40 minutes after drinking the tea, this person began sweating profusely, felt "woozy", with vision blurred, and
Sugar levels pegging off the chart (350s). This reaction lasted about 3 to 4 hours before it subsided. I then tried to search the web looking for information that explains this. I did not find much, but found various snippets (on-line), loosely under the guise of "medical literature" that said, basically "if you are taking any of _______ medications for Type II diabetes, do not take ginger". ______ was the fairly narrow range mentioned above. The thing that bothers me about this kind of advice is A) it does not explain why not to do this, just, don't do it and B) while further browsing similar on-line info, I actually found a patented formula, based in part on ginger, that a company is promoting as among it's prescriiption remedies for people under treatment for type II...... ? (shrug)