{"id":2166,"date":"2022-04-27T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2022-04-27T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:36:01","slug":"can-complementary-therapies-ease-cancer-treatment-symptoms-what-the-science-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Can Complementary Therapies Ease Cancer Treatment Symptoms? What the Science Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Marianne Sarcich underwent treatment for breast cancer in 2016, she called an acupuncturist in hopes of easing her cancer-related anxiety\u2014but made sure to be upfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told her right away that I didn\u2019t think this would work, I didn\u2019t believe in it, but I was desperate,\u201d she says. \u201cAbsolutely nothing else was helping. I only considered acupuncture to knock it off the list of possibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To her shock, it helped. Over a few months of sessions, she felt the tightness of anxiety began to loosen, and Sarcich began considering other complementary options she\u2019d dismissed previously. She was curious about breathwork; reiki, which is a form of energy healing; mindfulness; sound baths; and yoga. All of them ended up helping her side effects in some way, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6171230\/complementary-integrative-therapies-cancer\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Marianne Sarcich underwent treatment for breast cancer in 2016, she called an acupuncturist in hopes of easing her cancer-related&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}