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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