CancerAcupuncture: Chemotherapy
Most Cancer treatment requires multiple chemotherapy sessions over a 4-6 month period. There is generally a 3-week break in between each session and often during these times, the side effects are at their worse and can be both depressing and painful to tolerate. Below are the side effects that we can help you manage with, to make you feel physically and mentally capable to complete the chemotherapy with ease and without delay.
Common side effects of Chemotherapy includes:
Nausea, vomiting, mouth ulcers, insomnia, dry mucous membrane, constipation, hot flushes, lethargy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040922070424.htm
http://www.jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/28/7188
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/chinesemedicine3.html
Aches and pains are a common side effect from chemotherapy or the heavy medication that is used to target the cancer cells. Research has showed that acupuncture can help reduce the aches and pains, which means you can get back to a more pain-less life with ease.
http://www.painjournalonline.com/article/S0304-3959(99)00304-8/abstract
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/acupuncture/acupuncture-for-pain.htm
Above are studies which has shown acupuncture and/or herbal medicine can help reduce the severity of Chemotherapy.
Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.
Dr An Ni Chien CMD
Blue Sky Chinese Medicine Clinic
02 61624950