Do you have any experience with raised CEA levels on a test with someone using English Chamomile topically and taking OTC pain meds (or even blood thinners) type pain meds while on chemo pills (Xeloda)?
There is a lot going on here that could be causing the high CEA levels.
For our readers, CEA, Carcinoembrionic Antigen, is a protein that is found in the blood of human fetuses. It is also found in people who may have certain cancers, some benign tumor conditions, and cancer that has returned after treatment. Testing for CEA does not necessarily indicate that the person has cancer, but increased blood levels of CEA are an indication that further testing is necessary.
My personal preference is working with people who have exhausted their options with western medicine. When western medicine has given them all that it can, and there are no more options, people become willing to give the alternative path their full commitment. And it becomes easier for a person to let go of the constant checking, testing, and proving that goes on as a matter of course.
All of the testing that patients are subjected to, can become an emotional burden that breeds fear, especially when the test results do not match up with the improvements that a person is experiencing as they go through the intense herbal cleansing process to recover from cancer. That said, I know that many healers are now working with people who are dancing between western medicine and alternative medicine, and there are special ways to support them.
When a patient is taking a chemo drug that is killing off cancer cells, it very likely would raise CEA levels in the blood.
Blood thinners change the liver over time, and change how the liver processes and breaks down proteins in the blood, which is also very likely to contribute to high CEA blood levels.
I can not make a generalization about over the counter pain medicines, as I do not have any experience with this or know how it relates to CEA levels.
Chamomile essential oil, used topically, could possibly contribute to higher blood levels of CEA. It is absorbed by the blood and carried throughout the body when used topically, and it does trigger immune responses and activate the body’s cleansing mechanisms. Cleansing may temporarily raise the CEA blood levels as toxins and cancer cells are broken down and eliminated.
The thing to realize here is that the intention of cleansing is to gradually eliminate toxins and impurities, and gradually rebuild the internal environment into a healthy state of equilibrium. If the CEA levels rise during certain parts of the cleansing cycle, they will certainly fall again if the cleansing is effective and doing what it is designed to do.
If people are going to be tested during initial stages of cleansing, they should consider doing several tests over time to get an idea if the cleansing protocol is working, before taking any drastic action. Cleansing takes longer than suppression; but cleansing has the potential to eliminate the cause of the condition, whereas suppression just keeps it suppressed in the hope that it will go away on its own.
I hope I have addressed your question--if not, please comment below.
Many blessings go out to you. Kathryn
The same member wrote a follow-up: I do have an experience to add, but I don’t want to start posting to the blog directly yet.
ReplyDeleteI didn’t find much info out there about combining these drugs and I’d like to see others share that kind of info if they are using oils with western medicine. That could be quite a resource.
Anyway, my Mom had severe nerve pain in her thigh. So I gave her some diluted English Chamomile (maybe 3 drops in 5ml bottle olive oil) to apply topically and it worked immediately. She had to have blood drawn for her checkup within the next few days.
The tech had to try 3 times and asked if she was taking blood thinners. Chamomile contains coumarin. Still, I mentioned it to her doctor and he recommended that she continue using the chamomile for nerve pain. He did not know about the blood thinning.
She was taking 1/2 to 1 whole Alleve regularly for a few days. She takes minimal meds other than the Xeloda. If she had more pain she would still use it again too, but more cautiously. The chamomile made her mobile without pain as she stopped taking her Xeloda and was mostly in bed for a few days before that.