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endocrine system
thyroid cancer
nutrition

dietary guidelines

therapeutic foods:
• foods that soften masses
• onions, garlic, artichokes, seaweeds
• foods rich in Iodine, Silicon, Phosphorus: kelp, dulse, Swiss chard, turnip greens, egg yolks, wheat germ, cod roe, lecithin, sesame seed butter, seed and nuts, raw goat milk (Jensen, p. 61)

fresh juices:
• clam juice with celery (Jensen, p. 53)

specific remedies:
• dry taro root ground into a powder, then take equal parts of water chestnuts and jelly fish and boil into tea. Take the liquid and mix with the taro root powder; roll into pills the size of mung beans, take 2 tbsp. of pills three times daily with warm water (Ni, p. 51)
• make soup from dried green orange peel, carrots, and seaweed (Ni, p. 47)
• make tea from seaweed, peach kernel, and green orange peels to take internally. Externally, make poultice of seaweed, ginger, and dandelion and apply locally (Ni, p. 47)

avoid:
• meat, alcohol, fried foods, fatty foods, rich foods, salty foods, coffee, caffeine, sweet foods and sugar, cow's milk and other dairy products, white bread, refined foods, processed foods, catarrh-forming foods: tofu, ice cream


supplements

• Shark cartilage 2 g per kg body wt q d (Lane, 1992)
• Vitamins C and E for patients using adriamycin: antioxidants, specifically reduces cardiac toxicity of adriamycin (Doxorubicin) (Fujita, et al., 1982, 42: p. 309-316; Ellison, 1985; 37 (3): 112-113; Am Heart J, 1986; 111: p. 95)

drug interactions:
» Vitamins B1, B2, B3, Vitamin K and folic acid can become deficient in patients using chemotherapy due to consequent anorexia, damage to the digestive tract, and malabsorption (Dreizen, et al., 1990; 87 (1): 163-170)
» Vitamin K has been found to potentiate various chemotherapeutic drugs in animals (Taper, et al., 1987; 40: 575-579)
» Vitamin A and cancer chemotherapy, esp. fluorouracil (5-FU): vitamin A enhances antitumor effect in animals (Nakagawa, et al., 1985; 76: 887-894)


footnotes