Henna never bores me at all. It always presents something new. There are so many uses. We see it in traditional body art (mehndi), natural hair care, artwork, and medicinal uses.
I have always felt that henna was put on the earth for very important reasons. Think about the regions in which it grows in. Those countries are all very hot countries. Henna was put their as a mercy to those people. Henna’s cooling properties benefit them.
We have several clients who are now using henna to bring relief to their cancer treatments. We have a few of them using different drugs, but similarly all suffer from hand-foot syndrome. This is a syndrome where your hands and feet burn, and feel so hot you can barely function. Henna is a mercy to those cancer patients as well.
Here I have provided some of my favorite ressources, articles, and recipes that can help us all learn more about dealing with hand-foot syndrome and bringing some natural relief to the pain it causes.
- Blog: Xeloda Side Effects. How to use Henna for Relief
- Topical henna for capecitabine induced hand–foot syndrome
- Want a zillion-dollar cure idea?
- Blog: Running a Hospital
- Shin’s Cancer Blog
I want to thank each and everyone person who has helped a cancer patient get relief with henna. For telling others, and sharing this information over the web. I myself am so happy to hear that in fact, henna has been giving relief to those people! I always see good in henna. It seems to radiate good times, and spirits.
My dad also had cancer. I don’t talk about this too much, honestly, I don’t. I mean I can talk about it, but I don’t really bring it up. He had 80% prostrate cancer. So he was going to have the surgery. He had the surgery at a local hospital by one of the “supposed” best doctors. It was a success, but his after care wasn’t good enough in my opnion. I don’t know what happened, but four days later he died suddenly in the hospital of a heart attack. This happened in Montreal, Canada. I had read some stories about c.difficile and thought perhaps that was might have happened to him, but I lived in the USA at the time, so it was hard to do something from far. I remember him telling me he had diarhea, and had trouble breathing. They were about to run a tube up into his nose, and as suddenly as they did that, he started having a heart attack. My sister was right there with him. I can just remember the moment she told me, and my screams, my tears.
How then had I wished to have been right there with him when he had the surgery, and in his recovery time. Don’t any of you ever get to the point where you have to ask yourself the what if’s. NEVER. Don’t waste your time and energy being angry or upset at you would have, should have, could have done. The point is that you should have and could have! You’ll just end up with too many regrets, if you don’t act right away.
But there was nothing I could do. He died, and a part of me felt lost. I felt like not only did I lose him, but that I had lost a part of my whole family. He was what attached me to them. He was the one who accepted me as who I am. Not one day, did he EVER make me feel like he didn’t want me. Never did he make me feel different. Not everything was perfect, and that’s life, but I felt like he took us all in when he didn’t have to. I felt that I owed him, and I completely took care of everything for him afterwards. He’ll be missed, and my kids they’ll miss out too. They barely got to know him. To my father, Lance Carryl, who did the right thing. Going on 6 years of his passing: January 29, 2002: age 48.
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us
It is indeed a mercy and one of the natural wonders of this earth
Your story touched my heart and indeed you are 100% in saying it’s wasting time to go through the “if’s”
May your father rest in peace…
Welcome! and thank you for your kind remarks.
My heart goes out to you! I, too, lost my mom to cancer, lung cancer, in 1994. I think of her and miss her every day. I wish I had known of henna back then. I strove to find things that would ease her mind and her pain. Honestly, they’re our parents, they gave us life, nurtured us, and loved us unconditionally. Could we have ever done enough for them? Thank you for sharing this valuable information. Know that you provide comfort and caring, that is a blessing!
Thanks Debi! Oh no your mom. 🙁
You know I only grasped that I understood death and how others felt only once it had happened to me. I was so clueless before. Every image I remember from that time, makes me tear up.
Your question is right on the ball “Could we have ever done enough for them?” It really sucks that it takes us THIS LONG to realize that though.
With every blessing, there is a grateful lady right here!
*BIG hugs* Sweetheart, thank you so much for feeling comfortable enough to share your story and to turn into something wonderful! My Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer but was treated with meds but the doctors found out too late that the cancer had spread from his lungs, through the majority of his body into the prostate. It will be 6yrs this March, two weeks after my 20th birthday. My Dad wasn’t around for my wedding let alone kids. I met my Husband when my Dad was very end stage and I know just how well they would have gotten along. My Mum had breast cancer last year, we have a large gala every year for a group called “Braz for the cause” which helps pay for bras, prothetis, cold packs for hand and feet (for people in chemo so they don’t lose their nails), wigs etc. And I am getting ahold of “Braz” and the cancer centre to offer my services to help raise money at the gala and to help people who are fighting the biggest fight of their life. You’re doing such a wonderful thing hun, may you be blessed.
Really Maggie!! wow, we have a lot in common in this area. I was only 24 when my dad passed. So close in age.
Thanks hun. May you be blessed too. If I can ever help those with hand-foot syndrome let me know!
This is WONDERFUL. Thank you for spreading the word and that you for your generosity. You are just great and so is your Jamila!
Gratefully,
Monique
I have a very big smile right now!
Monique, we all need to really thank you! Because without you starting all of this, we wouldn’t be here today. I am so glad that you took the plunge with henna!
So my thanks go out to you!
hello Khadija, Thank you for sharing this with me. I know you’ll miss your dad all the days of your life. My folks are getting on too, and I know it’s just a matter of time….I berate myself so often about not being there for them as much as I should be.
Our memories will be there forever, good ones and not so good. They’ll keep us connected…
You have a good heart, dear lady *s*
~Jada
Jada 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this. I didn’t loose my father to cancer, but I lost him all the same. I know the feeling of wondering how things may have turned out ‘if only’. I stopped beating myself up a long time ago. I just miss him to no end. I’m truly a Daddy’s girl. Thank you once again for sharing.
Hi Khadija, I am just overwhelemed…
Your story and the ones of the other friends touched me deeply…I want to thank you all for sharing, cause these stories always have something to teach, even to those who fortunately had not gone through such a painful experience, cause you know, life can surprise you at any moment!
I just feel like saying something…never feel sorry for what you have not done and you think you could have done, cause there are things in this life that we just cannot control.And never feel desperate at the thought of your departed dear ones. They are in a better place now, resting in God’s heart and still living in the memories of the ones who love them.
Sincerely wishing you a lot of happiness and peace.
Hugs from Italy.
Thank you Susanna for such kind, inspiring words.
You are right though too, that what is meant to be will be. We can only try our best. Sometimes I think that maybe his suffering would have been bad in some other way in the long run. Only God knows.
Let’s take life as it comes…yes, we only have to try our best. But if our will is attuned with God’s will, then we can be sure that we will never be disappointed. Even in trouble we will see His tender smile and His immense love always there for us.
Regards.
My Dad was Dx. with colon cancer about four week ago and in treament right now one of the medication that he take is Xeloda 500mg three talbe in the am and in the pm but he is having alot pain in his joint back and so on what can we do to relief that and how do use the henna
Thanks for your comment. Under our recipe category here on our blog there are instructions on how to use henna. I’d recommend you look at the recipe for henna and hair as that is the best basic recipe to follow.
It is applied onto the area where there is hand foot syndrome, like the burning areas, and let to sit on there for a few hours to bring relief. The henna is good only for cooling down areas that are feeling burning not for joint pain though.
I hope this helps!
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Hello. I was so amazed with your website. I was looking for a way to make henna hair dye as I bought a box and it had no instructions. I have breast cancer that has spread to the bones and liver. I just turned 50 on April 9th. I am taking part in a study group using Xeloda with an infusion drug called ixabepilone. In two sessions, by cancers have shrunk by 50%. During the last session, I started to have some mild PPE. Since this treatment is so important in keeping me alive, I was so very happy to see a natural remedy for PPE. I do not want anything to stop me from getting this treatment and I know PPE can be a big factor in cutting back on the dosage or witholding treatment altogether until the symptoms stop. Thank you for this information and I plan on sharing it with my case manager and oncologist. If I get syptoms of PPE again, I will give this a try
I have send a mail asking for a package of Green Henna Jamila, but never got an anser.Canyou help me to get powder delivered en Madrid Spain?
Thanks anfd regards
Karla
This is really amazing and unbelievable news.Thanks for Organic henna and herbs.
Turkish Doctor’s have announced ( I believe the article also published) that they have positive results with their Henna studies and will keep working on Henna together with Pharmaceutical divisions as from now on!
Thank you for sharing Ozcan. I’d absolutely love to see that article. Do you know where we could find it?