Re: Re: Benadryl Spray! - Chamomile tea, homeopathy

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> I haven't heard that chamomile tea isn't good for Graves. Details?

me neither. I've been drinking two cups of chamomile tea a day since I

started taking the hawethorne berrry - about a month now - the only thing

that worries me about tea is that someone ( B?) said she read a

report that tea contains flouride. I buy the organic chamomile and am hoping

that it doesn't have the flouride, but how do you know?

Here is *my* story with the Benedryl Spray:

6 years ago I got a horrible case of poison oak. I did everything -

cortisone creams and shots, steroid pills, calamine lotion, oatmeal baths,

and lots and lots of benedryl spray. I was getting married soon and could

not be all splotchy and itchy in my wedding dress if you know what I mean...

It took months for the poison oak to go away...and I was desperate and

begged the doc for more and more shots or pills, what ever it would take to

get this thing to go away... and now that I'm taking my homeopathic course,

I'm learning all about how when you suppress illnesses with allopathic

medicine exactly the way I did with the poison oak and all these things, it

can drive the disease deeper into your system and cause even worse problems.

Looking back, after the poison oak episode is when I started to have some

weight gain and depression and started feeling slow and sluggish (hypo I now

think). So I think suppressing this poison oak thing was the very beginning

to my thyroid/autoimmune problems.... and I would caution anyone about

suppressing things on your skin - it's your body's way of ridding itself of

toxins... rather, you should either find out what is causing the problem and

stop exposing yourself to it or see a classical homeopath who help your body

to deal with it and get rid of it once and for all.

Obviously just my take on things, but if you want to check out what a

homeopath has to say, here is a list of good homeopaths if anyone wants to

go that route:

http://www.homeopathy-cures.com/html/referrals_to_homeopaths.html

Pam B.

Diagnosed 12/01 (hyper with both graves and hashimotos ABs)

Mostly Alt Med - doing MUCH better. Numbers very close to normal and ABs

going away.

My story: http://www.webmosaics.com/thyroid/

" If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible

warning. " - anonymous