LYMPHEDEMA HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS

Herbal Supplements

Lymphedema and Herbal Supplements

There is increasing interest in using herbal supplements to assist in the treatment of lymphedema. These herbs are supposed to serve two main functions. First, they are meant to help detoxify the body and secondly to improve fluid transport.

This is for information only and inclusion of this section does not constitute an endorsement. You should check with your physician before undertaking any alternative or homeopathic treatment.

Before taking any herbal supplement I suggest research and asking several questions.

1. Is this herbal supplement safe?
2. Is there information of possible toxicity and side affects?
3. How does the herb fit my specific situation?
4. How would it affect any other medical conditions I have?
5. What are the contraindications for any prescription medicine I use?

These supplements are classified as food products instead of drugs so they are not regulated, approved or unapproved by the FDA. Also, they are based upon the traditions of "folk" medicine and many have not undergone the critical rigors of clinical studies. The few that have undergone a study generally have been shown to be ineffective.

It is so vitally important that we once and for all need to recognize that there is no magic bullet, no magic pill, no magic cure for lymphedema. Indeed, if there were, we would all be lined up to buy it. There simply is no replacement at the present time for a treatment protocol of manual decongestive therapy, compression bandages, compression garments and a compliant patient who is willing to take the time necessary for proper management...a patient who does so because they as a person are worth it.

Pat O'Connor

May 4, 2008

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Coumarin

This is perhaps the most widely used supplement in the treatment of lymphedema. Used throughout India and Europe, it has not been approved by the FDA for use in the United States.

It is found in a variety of plants including the tonka bean, lavender, sweet clover and licorice.

This agent binds to interstitial proteins with the result that the proteins fragments pass more freely into the venous capillaries and are able to be eliminated from the body.

There have been numerous reports of liver damage from this substance.

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Horse Chestnut herb

Has a coumarin component and a compound called escin that is said to strengthen the tissues of lymph vessels capillaries and veins.

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Grape Seed Extract

This is used as an antioxidant agent to assist in cleansing
radical free agents from the body. It has also been suggested grape seed extract may help prevent cardiovascular disorders and may assist in the treatment of opthalmology disorders.

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Bromelain

Extract from the pineapple that has sulpher containing enzymes that digest or breakdown proteins. Also used as an anti-infammatory and supposedly assists in helping antibiotics treat cellulitis and/or infections.

Should not be used by anyone taking any type of blood thinner or anticoagulant medication.

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Linden

An herbal supplement derived from the linden tree, this has been widely used in Europe for a number of conditions.

Extract from the flowers is said to have diuretic properties and charcoal used topically is said to promote healing of wounds and assists in treating cellulitis.

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Other Herbs used in the treatment of edema

Butcher's Broom
Golden Rod
Dandelion leaves
Corn silk
Horsetail
Juniper oils

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Herbs used to support the immune system

Echinacea
Yarrow
Comfrey root
Calendula flower
Fenugreek seed

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Lymphovenous Canada: Liver toxicity raises doubts about coumarin

http://www.lymphovenous-canada.ca/benzo.htm

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Lack of Effect of Coumarin in Women with Lymphedema after Treatment for Breast Cancer

Abstract

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/340/5/346

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Comparative Study of the Clinical Efficacy of Two Different Coumarin Dosages in the Management of Arm Lymphedema After Treatment for Breast Cancer

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~witte/contents/1999.1.burgos.pdf

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Grape Seed

Also Named As:

Activin, Extrait De Pepins De Raisin, Grape Seed Extract, Grape Seed Oil, Grapeseed, Leucoanthocyanin, Muskat, Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins, Oligomeric Procyanidins, OPC, OPCs, PCO, PCOs, Proanthodyn, Procyanidolic Oligomers. Vitis vinifera; Vitis coignetiae.
Family: Vitaceae.

Also Used For:

Orally, grape seed is used for treating and preventing vascular or circulatory disorders including venous insufficiency, varicose veins, atherosclerosis, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, edema associated with injury or surgery, and myocardial or cerebral infarction. It is also used orally for hemorrhoids, strengthening blood vessels, inflammation, diabetic complications such as neuropathy or retinopathy, improving wound healing, preventing dental caries, cancer prevention, macular degeneration, poor night vision, liver cirrhosis, allergies, allergic rhinitis, and prevention of collagen breakdown associated with collagen diseases and aging. Grape seed oil is used orally as a supplemental dietary source of essential fatty acids and tocopherols.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/grape-seed-000254.htm

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Grape Seed Extract

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/grapeseed/

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Horsechestnut Herb in the Treatment of Lymphedema

http://www.uhealth.net/article2.htm

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Horsechestnut Herb in the Treatment of Lymphedema

The swelling and edema characteristic of Lymphedema is caused by excessive leakage of fluid due to poor tissue integrity. This manifests itself in various parts of the body but is typically found in the arms and legs. Bandaging and compression garments are used successfully to reduce and control edema by mechanical means, i.e. pressure. Plant compounds that improve tissue integrity are also used to treat edema but work in a different manner. One particular herb, Horsechestnut seed, contains a plant compound (escin) that strengthens the tissues of the capillaries and veins. When these tissues are strengthened there is less leakage of fluid out of the veins and into the surrounding tissue. Edema is therefore reduced at its source; the weakened tissues of the capillaries and veins.

A recent study at the Department of Internal Medicine in Germany proved the efficacy of this herb in a clinical setting. Results were published in the February, 1996 issue of the Lancet by C. Diehm (vol. 347, pp 292-4). The effectiveness of horsechesnut seed extract was compared to compression stockings in 240 patients with chronic venous insufficiency. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either compression treatment, horsechestnut seed extract (containing 50 mg of escin twice daily) or placebo for twelve weeks. Horsechestnut seed was found to be as effective as compression treatment, determined by the reduction in swelling in the legs of the patients. Both treatments were significantly more effective than the placebo.

Based upon this study, we began incorporating horsechesnut extract into our treatment program with encouraging results. Our patients were at different stages of treatment when the horsechestnut was introduced and results have varied from patient to patient. The first patient to include horsechestnut into her regime was a 69 year old woman with secondary Lymphedema of the left arm. She had 11 CDP/MLD treatments nine months ago along with our complete program of herbs, vitamins, and enzymes. She also had one maintenance treatment every 2 weeks for 5 months before starting the horsechestnut herb. She was bandaging nightly, or using a CircAid, and wearing a Juzo compression sleeve with custom hand piece. After a few days of taking 10 drops of horsechestnut once a day, she stopped bandaging, using the CircAid and the compression garment. When she came in for her next bi-monthly treatment, there was very little increase in swelling from her last visit (0.1cm to 0.4cm). She continued this routine for over 3 months.

Each time she came in for a treatment, her arm measurements were the same or slightly higher with the increase ranging from 0.1cm to 0.4cm. She reported feeling fine but did notice some swelling when she overexerted herself. However, that swelling came down without compression garments when she relaxed for a while. Her dosage was increased from 10 drops once a day to 10 drops twice a day during this timeframe. The only time she uses the compression garment and CircAid is when she flies. She is extremely happy with these results.

Another patient has secondary Lymphedema of both legs that goes up and iinto the abdominal area. She started treatments at our center seven months ago. She had been treated at another clinic in our area and only came in for maintenance treatments. We started her on our holistic protocol and treated her Lymphedema once or twice a week for a month, every one or two weeks for 2 more months, and then once a month. At this time, we started her on 10 drops of horsechestnut twice a day. It took 2 weeks to notice any improvement in edema. After 2 weeks the edema was decreasing and she was able to stop wearing the compression garments, however, her legs were swelling by the end of the day. We increased her dosage to 30 drops twice a day and that reduced the edema at the end of the day. She reports feeling much better on the increased dosage and is very happy with the results.

http://www.iamts.org/diana_brady1.htm

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Horsechestnut Herb

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/horsechestnut/

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Horsechestnut Herb and the Treatment of Lymphedema

Research Study of Herbal Therapy as a Treatment for Lymphedema

(Portland, OR) - Legacy Cancer Services is seeking additional lymphedema patients to participate in a research study evaluating the effectiveness of an herbal therapy (horsechestnut) as an alternative to conventional treatments.

Lymphedema is a swelling of the arm or leg and/or other body part caused by an abnormal build-up of protein and excess water in the tissue space. Lymphedema is commonly found in women with breast cancer who have had some lymph nodes surgically removed. Conventional treatment methods for lymphedema include manual drainage and bandaging.

"While current treatments are effective, they are labor intensive and difficult for many patients to sustain over a long period of time" says Nathalie Johnson, M.D., Medical Director, Legacy Cancer Services. She is the principal investigator for the study. "Herbal therapy offers patients the possibility of decreasing the frequency and amount of bandaging."

Horsechestnut can be helpful in reducing inflammation and has been used for relief of venous insufficiency. The study will look at whether or not horsechestnut will help reduce fluid accumulation and inflammation associated with lymphedema.

Participants in the study should have a diagnosis of lymphedema and not have undergone treatment in the last three months.

For more information about the study, call Legacy Cancer Services at 503-413-6284. For more information: Tracey Barnett, telephone: 503-415-5770, pager: 503-938-7797, email: tbbarnet@lhs.org

News from Legacy Health System --- June 24, 2002

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Chinese Herbs for Lymphedema

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/lymphedema.htm

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Cellulitis, the Immune System and Herbs

While there are no scientific studies showing that herbs have a direct effect on cellulitis, the following herbs that support the immune system may be helpful:

Echinacea (Echinacea spp.) is widely used in clinics to boost the immune system in order to prevent infection. In addition, the World Health Organization (WHO) supports the use of Echinacea purpurea externally for treatment of inflammatory skin conditions.
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is approved in Great Britain for skin infections and inflammation; it is applied topically.
Comfrey root (Symphytum officinale) is an anti-inflammatory. Some clinicians suggest a paste can be made from comfrey root and placed on the affected area twice a day to speed healing. Goldenseal root (Hydrastis canadensis), which has both anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, and slippery elm (Ulmus fulva), an antiseptic, may be added to a comfrey paste to increase its beneficial effects.
Calendula flower (Calendula officinalis) is approved in Germany for topical application to leg ulcers (open wounds of the leg that can readily become infected).
Fenugreek seed (Trigonella foenum-graecum), which contains flavonoids, is approved in Germany for external use on skin inflammation and infections.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsConditions/Cellulitiscc.html

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Impetigo and Its Treatment

Inhibitors of Staphylococcus

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/impetigo.htm

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Medicinal Herbs

http://www.diavlos.gr/samos/herbs/english.html

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Butcher's Broom

Broom is one of those indefinite common names that tends to make the field of herbal nomenclature such a difficult one. The name was originally applied to several plants whose tough stems and rigid leaves made them useful for sweeping up debris. Used without a qualifying adjective, broom refers to the previously discussed Cytisus scoparius L., a common roadside plant in the Pacific Northwest, distinguishable by its showy yellow flowers. Spanish broom or gorse (Spartium junceum L.) is another yellow-flowered leguminous shrub that flourishes in parts of California. Although both plants have been used in folk medicine, neither is the so-called butcher's-broom that is, so to speak, "sweeping the country" at the present time.

Butcher's-broom, also known as box holly or knee holly, is a fairly common, short evergreen shrub (Ruscus aculeatus L.) of the family Liliaceae, native throughout the Mediterranean region from the Azores to Iran. Butcher's-broom, too, has a long history of use in herbal medicine. As early as the first century, Dioscorides recommended butcher's-broom as a laxative and diuretic. The seventeenth-century apothecary-astrologer Nicholas Culpeper suggested that a decoction of the root be drunk and a poultice of the berries and leaves applied to facilitate the knitting of broken bones. However, the drug never became popular in either Europe or the United States and was seldom mentioned in standard references on drugs.

Then, during the 1950s, French investigators showed that an alcoholic extract of butcher's-broom rhizomes (underground stems) produced vasoconstriction (blood vessel narrowing) in test animals. Further studies identified the active principles as a mixture of steroidal saponins, the two main ones being identified as ruscogenin and neoruscogenin. They apparently produce their vasoconstrictive effects by direct activation of a-adrenergic receptors. Japanese researchers have isolated twelve steroidal saponins, including seven new ones, two of which have cytostatic activity on leukemia HL-60 cells.

Limited clinical trials in humans have, in general, provided support for the effectiveness of the drug in venous disorders. In addition to its vasoconstrictive effects, the extract was demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory properties.

Such studies convinced certain European drug manufacturers that butcher's-broom extract is superior to some of the conventional plant remedies, such as extracts of horse chestnut and witch hazel, which are marketed for their supposed beneficial effects on venous circulation. Consequently, they have made extracts of butcher's broom commercially available in capsule form to treat circulatory problems of the legs and as an ointment or suppository to relieve the symptoms of hemorrhoids.

Capsules containing 75 mg of butcher's-broom and 2 mg of rosemary oil are now being sold in the United States, mainly through health food stores. One such product is being advertised as "a proven European herbal formula-said to improve circulation in the legs," while another is being promoted with the claim that "millions of Europeans report it works wonders-particularly for women who often complain about a 'heavy feeling' in the legs." The ads also state that butcher's-broom is "rare" or "hard-to-find" which is not true.

Although there may be some basis for cautious optimism concerning butcher's-broom as a potentially useful drug, would-be consumers should recognize that manufacturers of butcher's-broom products have never presented proof of safety and efficacy to the Food and Drug Administration and that therapeutic claims for these products are therefore illegal. Moreover, self-diagnosis and self-treatment of circulatory disorders, or any other potentially serious health problem, are certainly inadvisable.

Parts Used

Aerial parts, rhizome.

Uses

Butcher's broom is not used much today, but, in view of its positive effect on varicose veins and hemorrhoids, it could be due for a revival. In the European tradition, both the aerial parts and the rhizome are considered to be diuretic and mildly laxative.
Other medical uses - Chronic venous insufficiency, Lymphedema, Swollen Ankles.

Habitat and Cultivation

Butcher's broom is found throughout much of Europe, western Asia, and North Africa. Butcher's broom is a protected species, growing wild in woodland and on uncultivated ground. Cultivated plants are gathered in autumn, when in fruit.

How Much to Take

Ointments and suppositories including butcher's broom are typically used for hemorrhoids. These are often applied or inserted at night before going to bed. Encapsulated butcher's broom extracts, often combined with vitamin C or flavonoids, can be used for systemic venous insufficiency in the amount of 1,000 mg three times per day. Alternatively, standardized extracts providing 50-100 mg of ruscogenins per day can be taken.

Side effects and Caution

There are no significant side effects or problems if butcher's broom is used in the amounts listed here.

http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_butchers_broom.htm

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Lymphedema People - Support Groups

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Children with Lymphedema

The time has come for families, parents, caregivers to have a support group of their own. Support group for parents, families and caregivers of chilren with lymphedema. Sharing information on coping, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Sponsored by Lymphedema People.

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Lipedema Lipodema Lipoedema

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All About Lymphangiectasia

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Lymphatic Disorders Support Group @ Yahoo Groups

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Information and support for rare and unusual disorders affecting the lymph system. Includes lymphangiomas, lymphatic malformations, telangiectasia, hennekam's syndrome, distichiasis, Figueroa
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All About Lymphedema

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