Frequently, these symptoms will interfere with a decent nights sleep, often for months on end. The hormone fluctuations of menopause and peri-menopause are a common cause of sleep problems and insomnia.

An estimated 75% of menopausal women suffer from hot flashes. The hot flashes can be mild to severe. Sometimes the hot flashes can be so severe, you feel as if you are burning up. This is called “steaming bones” in Chinese Medicine.

Hot flashes and night sweats respond very well to acupuncture and herbal formulas. I’ve treated quite a few woman with both, with just acupuncture and with just herbal medicines. All had noticeable and lasting improvement.

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Over the years, I’ve had many requests to continue care when a patient goes to another state or country. And I’ve been doing herbal consultations by phone and online by email with my patients for as long as I’ve been in Florida. We have a lot of ’snowbirds’ in Florida, that’s people that spend their winters here, and summers up north where it’s cooler.

When you call you are reaching my clinic “Blue Orchid Healing Center” & Herb Consults. Please leave me a message with your name, phone number and what you are calling about. During patient treatment hours, I often am not available, but will get back to you when I’m done seeing patients.

At Herb Consults you have the opportunity for online herbal consultations without having to physically visit my clinic. Where else can you get an in-depth evaluation of your health problems and determine the best herbal solutions?

First of all, herbalists (& acupuncturists) don’t actually treat cancer, we treat the side-effects of Western medicine treatments for it.

Second, as Oriental Medicine Practitioners, we’re not allowed to say or claim that we treat cancer or cure it! As for myself, I have to testify to that for my malpractice insurance and there is some statement to that effect on our practice act here in Florida. I can only assume that it’s the same in other states.

Third, it’s my personal opinion that you should have a good medical workup if you have cancer by a qualified MD, surgeon, oncologist, and/ or radiologist. Only then can you make an informed decision on how you will deal with this diagnosis.

Now with that out of the way we can explore how herbs can help you when you have cancer.

Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation have fairly common side-effects. You might lose your hair. You may have nausea & vomiting. You may be easily fatigued and tired all the time with low energy. Your immunity is probably at an all time low. This is all from your cancer treatment.

Herbal medicines can help with all these side-effects:

• decrease nausea and vomiting
• improve your energy
• decrease tiredness & fatigue
• boost your immunity
• help you sleep
• speed up healing
• and more….

Recipients of bone marrow transplants have months to years of extremely poor immunity before their bodies can cope with foreign germs like you might meet up with at the grocery store or church. Many transplant patients are home bound for long periods of time. Here, herbs can make such a tremendous difference in speeding up the process of re-building immunity.

These are just a few of the ways the right herbal medicines can help someone experiencing the side-effects of cancer treatment. For more information on how Herb Consults could help you go to our home page.