I am a big believer in natural cures - I was planning to use this tea but then I found a study which made it almost sound like it made breast cancer worse - of course it might be lies the drug companies put on the web. I will see if I can find the link again.
I found the link - this is part of what it says:
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We made progress in both aims as follows:- Specific Aim 1: This aim has been successfully completed. Female rats were given water or a 3% or 6% solution of Flor-Essence® Herbal Tonic for 23 weeks beginning at one day of age. They were given a single oral dose of DMBA (40 mg/kg body weight) at 7 weeks of age to induce mammary tumors. At the end of the study 82% of the Flor-Essence® treated rats had palpable tumors compared to 71% in the control group. Pysiologically relevant concentraions of Flor-Essence® did not inhibit mammary tumor development but instead appeared to promote it.
- Specific Aim 2: The animal work for this aim has been completed. (MMTV)c-neu transgenic mice were treated with 3% Flor-Essence® in utero, from birth to weaning, over their lifetime, or not at all to determine if timing of Flor-Essence® exposure had an effect on mammary tumor development in this model. Although the data have not been analyzed for statistical significance, preliminary results suggest that the mice consuming lifetime Flor-Essence® had fewer tumors than the other groups. However the overall survivability of this group suggests that the Flor-Essence® had a negative impact on their health.
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For the rest of the info go here:
http://www.cbcrp.org/RESEARCH/PageGr...?grant_id=2101
There are several brands of this tea but Flor-Essence was the one which the nurse at our health food store recommended to me.