Uterine Fibroids are a common disease.  A quarter of African women suffer from this condition.  Fibroids are caused by excessive production of estrogenic hormones. 

Oestrogen hormones stimulate the unstraited muscle of the uterus to grow thereby causing fibroids. Fibroids cause over bleeding, severe lower abdominal and back pains, anaemia, fatigue, infertility, vaginal discharge, infections, miscarriages among other symptoms.  A few cases become malignant (cancerous).

AVAILABLE TREATMENT
In Western medication, the treatment of fibroids is mainly by use of progesterone hormones.  Unfortunately this form of treatment has side effects which include causing the women to grow beards, develop a hoarse voice and even gain weight.

Surgical operation is another form of treatment commonly used in the management of uterine fibroids.  Operations are usually only able to remove the big sized fibroids, and consequently after an operation multiple small fibroids remain which will later grow to big Fibroids.

In Chinese herbal practice, doctors attribute fibroids to an imbalance in the Ying and Yang forces in the body, hormone imbalance, poor blood circulation and low immunity.  The approach of traditional Chinese herbal practice in treating Fibroids is to boost the immunity, give herbs to balance the hormones, promote proper blood circulation, treat anaemia and other infections which cause the condition and to give herbs that help to dissolve the fibroids and tumours.  Treatment works well when sought early and when the fibroids are not too large.

Chinese herbs also help in the treatment of endometriosis, endometritis, dysmenorrhoea and adnexitis which are associated with Fibroids attacks.

Once uterine fibroids are successfully treated, women get a normal menstrual flow and it is easy for them to conceive and carry the pregnancy to full term.

OVARIAN CYSTS
Chinese herbal practitioners use similar herbs as the ones used to treat the Fibroids mentioned above to help dissolve the ovarian cysts.  As compared to fibroids, treatment of ovarian cysts is faster.  Results are always better once treatment is sought in the early stages of the infection.

BREAST TUMOURS
Breast tumor cases are also on the increase in our society.  Forty per cent of breast        tumours later become malignant.  They also tend to recur even after an operation.  Chinese herbal practice uses herbs in form of tea and creams that help to dissolve the breast tumours.

At the Oriental Chinese clinic one 23 year – old girl had a 10 cm tumour on her left breast.  Western doctors had recommended an operation to remove the breast.  She was distressed and decided to try Chinese herbal treatment. After 3 months of treatment, she took a mammogram which confirmed that the tumour had disappeared.

Chinese herbs also help in the treatment of breast cancer.  They help to dissolve the cancerous tumours and to increase immunity.  This is because when the immunity improves the tumour stops to grow further.

Clinical research has confirmed that Chinese herbs can inhibit the telomerase cells in the chromosome of the cancer cells and their DNA chain. Chinese herbs can also induce an apoptosis of the cancerous cells and help to inhibit and eventually destroy cancerous cells.

These Chinese herbal remedies introduced in this article are natural and safe to use.  They are certainly safer in effects than chemotherapy and radiation treatment used for the treatment of cancer in Western medical practice.

For more information contact the Oriental Chinese Clinic.