Tree Nuts have been used in Chinese Medicine as herbal supplements to enhance patient’s Kidney Yin. Especially in the case of Yin deficiency such as Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy, taking Tree Nuts will certainly help recover body’s Yin. Situations like thirsty, low temperature fever, hot flashes will alleviated also. Modern science also gives support recently.
February 28 publication in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has shown Tree Nuts can improved colorectal cancer (CRC) Survival rate which includes disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) .
“After a median follow-up of 6.5 years, patients who consumed at least two 1-oz servings of any type of nuts per week had a 42% improvement in DFS (hazard ratio [HR], 0.58; P = .03) and a 57% improvement in OS (HR, of 0.43; P = .01).
Further analysis of this cohort revealed that disease-free survival increased by 46% among the subgroup of nut consumers who ate tree nuts rather than peanuts [HR, 0.54; P = .04],” senior author Charles Fuchs, MD, director of Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, said in a statement.
OS was 53% longer in the same subgroup of tree nut consumers than in those who did not eat tree nuts (HR, 0.47; P = .04), the investigators observe.
Besides Chinese Herbal Medicine, acupuncture has also been widely used in helping patient for after treatment recovery. Acupuncture points in Spleen and Kidney meridian can help most for enhancing energy and removing some oncology treatment side-effects.
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