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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) occurs when the bone marrow makes atypical white blood cells. These cells crowd out the healthy cells, impairing a persons immune system. Treatment involves killing the cancerous cells to stop them from spreading.

So far, the only scientifically recommended treatments that can achieve this are:

Alternative therapies for CLL involve replacing medical treatments with other forms of medication or lifestyle changes. However, there is not much evidence suggesting they are effective for treating CLL in comparison with standard treatments.

However, for many people, complementary therapies can help ease symptoms and treatment side effects and improve quality of life. Complementary therapies are methods a person uses alongside regular medical treatment.

Because people often integrate these alternative therapies with their regular medical treatments, individuals often refer to this treatment plan as integrative medicine.

In this article, we will discuss whether it is possible to treat CLL naturally, complementary therapies for CLL, and their benefits.

Currently, there is no strong evidence that natural therapies can treat or cure CLL. This includes:

However, CLL does not always need treatment right away. It can develop slowly and may show no signs or symptoms for a few years.

Therefore, in some cases, doctors may decide to monitor a persons condition without giving them any treatments to see if their signs and symptoms change. This is known as watchful waiting or observation.

If a person needs treatment, doctors may recommend one or more of the following:

Doctors do not recommend relying solely on alternative treatments as a replacement for medical intervention. That said, some alternative therapies show promise as complementary treatments, which may help a person cope with having CLL mentally or physically.

Additionally, if someone is considering alternative treatments, they should discuss this with a healthcare professional first to determine if there will be any risks.

Below are some complementary therapies for CLL.

Dietary changes may help a person with CLL:

However, the exact diet a person follows can depend on their symptoms and needs. For example, for those experiencing appetite loss or weight loss, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada recommends:

Learn more about diets for CLL.

Curcumin is an anti-inflammatory compound present in turmeric. It also has antioxidant and anticancer properties. A 2017 review argues that this makes curcumin beneficial to take during cancer treatment, particularly in the early stages.

And while curcumin alone is not a cure for CLL, numerous laboratory and human studies have found it improves outcomes alongside conventional cancer treatment.

However, more long-term, large scale human trials are necessary to fully understand the effects of curcumin. This is because people with CLL may need to take it for long periods for it to have an effect.

According to the National Cancer Institute, some clinical trials report that acupuncture can reduce nausea and vomiting for those undergoing chemotherapy.

A 2020 literature review also found that acupuncture may be helpful in managing cancer-related fatigue among cancer survivors, helping improve their quality of life.

Furthermore, a 2021 systematic review of previous research concluded that acupuncture may be an effective and safe way to reduce pain for CLL patients in palliative care.

Receiving a diagnosis of CLL, experiencing symptoms, and undergoing cancer treatment can all be highly distressing. Some people find that complementary therapies, such as mind-body therapies, help them cope with this.

Mind-body therapies aim to promote mental and physical well-being simultaneously. They often involve mindfulness or relaxation, which in turn, may affect symptoms. People may find it helpful to try:

The National Cancer Institute says there is a lack of conclusive evidence to prove aromatherapy is an effective form of treatment to manage the symptoms of cancer. Some studies suggest it may help some people with their mood, anxiety, nausea, or pain. However, other studies have shown no change in symptoms.

If a person finds aromatherapy helpful, they may feel benefits from aromatherapy massages or diffusers.

Learn more about aromatherapy.

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a chemical compound that occurs naturally in the cannabis plant. It is not addictive, and some report that it helps with relieving the symptoms or complications of cancer, including nausea, vomiting, and depression.

However, research on CBD is still in its early stages. Therefore, more studies are necessary to confirm it works reliably for people with CLL.

Learn more about using CBD for cancer.

Before trying any alternative or complementary therapy, it is important to speak with a doctor. Some therapies, such as herbal medicine, aromatherapy, or diet changes, may affect a persons treatment. Some can also interact with medications.

People with CLL can also speak with their doctor about safely incorporating complementary therapies into their treatment plan.

Other things to consider include what someone wants to achieve with the therapy, whether they need to go to a specific location to get it, and how much it costs.

Some health insurance companies may cover certain complementary therapies for those with leukemia. It is worth contacting insurers to check this before paying.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society recommends that people interested in complementary therapies for CLL ask their doctor some questions, such as:

Some people turn to alternative therapies for CLL instead of doctor-recommended treatments. However, there is not much evidence to support their effectiveness compared with chemotherapy, radiation, and other conventional treatments.

However, many doctors support using complementary therapies alongside medical treatment. Acupuncture, dietary changes, and mind-body approaches may help with managing symptoms and treatment side effects.

Preliminary evidence also suggests some supplements, such as curcumin, may help enhance chemotherapy. However, more research on which therapies are most helpful is necessary.

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Anna Pace, MD: Hi, everyone, and welcome. My name is Dr Anna Pace. I'm an assistant professor of neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and I direct the Headache Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. Today, I'm lucky enough to be joined by my illustrious colleague, Dr Zhang.

Dr Zhang, would you like to introduce yourself?

Niushen Zhang, MD: Hi, Dr Pace. It's great to be here. I'm Dr Niushen Zhang. I'm a clinical assistant professor of neurology. I'm also the chief of headache medicine at Stanford University. Great to be here.

Pace: Today, we're going to be talking about complementary and integrative medicine for migraine. I think this is a topic that has sparked a lot of interest, especially on the patient side over the last couple of years. Dr Zhang, can you tell me a little bit about what exactly complementary and integrative medicine is?

Zhang: There are actually many definitions of it. What we generally think about are nonpharmaceutical treatment approaches or healthcare practices that may not be part of conventional medicine. The American Board of Integrative Medicine gives a very well-rounded definition of this, in which they say that it's a practice of medicine that focuses on the whole person, and it should be informed by evidence and make use of all of the appropriate treatment approaches that can help our patients achieve optimal health.

The name that we use to describe this field of medicine has changed over time. Initially, it was alternative medicine, then it was called complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM. The most recent term that we use is complementary and integrative medicine.

Pace: Or CIM, for short. I think CIM, based on what you're describing, sounds like it would fit well with headache medicine, in general, when we're thinking about all of the different factors that can potentially contribute to or affect a person's headache frequency. Some of the things that we always think about are lifestyle factors that can affect headaches.

Do you have any data or anything you'd like to talk about in terms of some of the different lifestyle factors that patients can work on when they are looking to try to reduce their headache frequency?

Zhang: First, we always want to think about which patients are a best fit for this type of treatment. We think about patients who may not have had adequate responses to their pharmaceutical treatments, who have poor tolerance to these treatments, or maybe some medical contraindication to medications. We also think about people who may be pregnant or lactating or planning pregnancy. These treatments can also be helpful for people who have medication overuse headache or exhibit significant stress and may not have adequate stress coping skills.

Really, the foundation is the lifestyle modifications. The way that I explain it to patients is basically your migraine brain is hypersensitive, especially to change. What it likes is a very regular and predictable schedule for eating, sleeping, and exercise.

Specifically, what we see for exercise is that about 20 minutes a day of aerobic exercise can actually decrease headache frequency and severity. This could be anything from devoted time to walking, hiking, biking, or swimming. Those can all be very helpful.

For sleep, poor sleep quality, including things like insomnia, can affect about 30% of patients with migraine. In our clinic, we always screen for any potential underlying sleep disorders, like sleep apnea. We want to make sure our patients receive appropriate evaluations and treatment for those conditions. What we find most helpful with sleep is just keeping the same bedtime and wake-up time every day, Monday through Sunday.

Of course, we get many questions about food and nutrition. The truth is the evidence is just not strong in this area at this time, for any specific dietary interventions. We always counsel our patients to keep a very regular and consistent meal schedule throughout the day and to avoid skipping meals. Patients also love to ask about food triggers, but the evidence is not strong for what foods must be avoided.

In practice, we find that food triggers are very individual for people. If someone finds that a certain food consistently triggers their migraines, then it would make sense to avoid that food, but in general, we don't encourage people to restrict their diet.

Pace: Exercise and sleep come up often in my clinic as well. Particularly for patients who find that exercise may trigger their attacks or they're hesitant to do any exercise because their attacks are so frequent, I often recommend gentler, low-impact exercises, like yoga, tai chi, or swimming, for example, which I think people find a little bit easier to warm up to or incorporate into their routine.

And really focusing on good sleep hygiene, and even things like trying to wind down before bed and having some type of routine, is really helpful. I have had a number of patients come to me and ask, "Is there anything, like vitamins or herbal supplements, that I can take to try to help prevent my attacks?" There is quite a number of them that have good evidence. What do you usually recommend for your patients?

Zhang: I'm glad you brought that up. There are, I would say, four that are evidence-based and very helpful for our patients. One of them is magnesium. That one has a level B recommendation from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)/American Headache Society (AHS). We think it helps with calming down neuronal hyperexcitability and preventing cortical spreading depression. Some of the formulations we like are magnesium glycinate, magnesium oxide, and citrate. We do want to watch for any loose stool or diarrhea, because those are some of the common side effects that can potentially happen. The daily dosing is about 200-600 mg/d.

Other than magnesium, we also have vitamin B2 or riboflavin. That also has a level B recommendation, and it's well-tolerated. Some people do get very bright orange or yellow urine when they take it, and the dosing is around 400 mg. There's also coenzyme Q10, which has level C recommendation from AAN/AHS. It plays a role in the electron transport chain and may play an important role in sustaining mitochondrial energy stores. It's also very well-tolerated, and the daily dosing is about 300 mg.

The last one we have is something called feverfew, which is a type of chrysanthemum. This also has a level B recommendation. We think this may have some anti-inflammatory properties. Some people do get gastrointestinal (GI) side effects with that, so you do have to watch out. We don't recommend this one during pregnancy because it can cause early contractions and potentially miscarriage. The daily dosing for that is 50-300 mg.

Pace: It's great that there are so many different nutraceutical options for migraine prevention. I personally find the combination of magnesium and riboflavin to be a good one that I tend to start with. I think nutraceuticals come up quite often. I have many patients who ask me about them. Are there any patients, in particular, whom you think would benefit most from nutraceuticals?

Zhang: Similar to what we talked about before, many of our patients just don't tolerate some of the pharmaceutical treatments that we have, so this would be a good option to start with. One thing I always ask my patients to keep in mind is that the improvement can be gradual with these supplements. Really, like any preventive treatment, you want to give it up to 3 months before someone may see maximum benefit.

Pace: Agreed. I think it's hard sometimes to wait that long, but when they do, it really can help. Another type of CIM treatment that has really great evidence in migraine prevention includes the behavioral therapies, which brings to mind things like cognitive-behavioral therapy. I'm curious what your thoughts are about those and whether or not you recommend patients to utilize them?

Zhang: I think those are terrific options. Honestly, I think one of the challenges for providers is how to broach this topic without making your patients feel like you're dismissing their experience as psychiatric or psychological. I think one way to approach this is to help your patients understand that the contributors to their headaches are usually partial and additive, and that things like stress, anxiety, and mood disorders can have a significant impact on their headaches.

That's why it's really important that we find effective ways to address those. What's great is that now we have the highest level of evidence showing that specific biobehavioral treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and relaxation training, are all effective preventive treatments for migraine.

Pace: As far as I understand, it sounds like patients who have migraine and who may also have anxiety and depression may benefit from these. Do you ever see patients who don't have a history of anxiety or depression utilize any of these therapies and find them helpful just for migraine?

Zhang: Absolutely. I would say relaxation training and also biofeedback. These are great because you can not only use them as a preventive treatment things that you practice on a daily basis for prevention but also reach for them as acute treatment tools when you feel that migraine escalating or the onset of migraine.

Pace: I think that sounds great, and I agree. I find that sometimes broaching this topic with patients can be a bit challenging because on the one hand, you want to be able to validate their experience, but at the same time help to target some of the potential mood components of their presentation or the anxiety that comes with having a migraine attack with aura, which I see very commonly and I'm sure you probably do as well. Using things like relaxation therapy in the moment during an aura, I think, can be incredibly useful.

One of the other things that I always get asked about is acupuncture and whether or not there is evidence for that in terms of its efficacy in helping with migraine prevention. I seem to get that question from many of my pregnant patients. Do you have any experience recommending acupuncture to patients? What do you think about the data for that?

Zhang: We are very data-driven and we want to provide evidence-based treatments for our patients. Acupuncture has pretty good evidence for its use as a preventive treatment in episodic migraine. There's still sparse evidence for using it to treat chronic migraine or to use it as an acute treatment.

When it comes to treating episodic migraine with acupuncture, there's an excellent 2016 Cochrane review that nicely summarizes the evidence for acupuncture for this treatment. They looked at 22 trials with almost 5000 patients and found that acupuncture is slightly more effective than sham in reducing frequency of headaches and at least similarly effective as some of our standard prophylactic medications.

Pace: That's great. As far as I know about the data, it seems like it would be a good option in addition to, perhaps, the traditional therapies that we are using, like oral medications. Similarly, yoga also comes up in the same conversation whether yoga can be useful. Again, many of my pregnant patients ask this question. Do you ever recommend yoga to patients?

Zhang: With yoga, I think there's still much we have to learn about in terms of how it helps our patients with migraine. At this time, we just don't have that much robust evidence for that.

There was a randomized clinical trial published in Neurology in 2020 that looked at the effect of yoga as an add-on therapy for episodic migraine. They had two groups. One was a medical therapy group, and the other underwent medical therapy for migraine treatment, as well as yoga. They had the yoga group practice a predesigned yoga intervention 3 days per week for 1 month with an instructor at a center. This was followed by, I think, 5 days per week for 2 months at home. They looked at over 100 patients for this study.

In the end, when they compared the medical therapy group with the yoga group, the yoga group showed a significant decrease in headache frequency, intensity, and some of the migraine disability scores. The conclusion was that yoga, as an add-on therapy for episodic migraine, may be superior to medical therapy alone. I think this is a very promising beginning in terms of the research, and I really hope that we get more studies like this done in the future.

Pace: Yes. I think it illustrates an important concept that I think many of us ascribe to, in that it's really important to think about the patient, what their lifestyle is like, and what they feel comfortable with in terms of a treatment regimen and how important it is to really create an individualized plan for them.

I personally use, often, a combination of pharmacologic treatment and nonpharmacologic treatments, so the fact that that study showed that yoga was great in addition to traditional migraine therapy hammers that point home for me, in terms of using even some of the other therapies that we've talked about in addition to our traditional oral or injectable therapies for migraine. Would you agree?

Zhang: I totally agree, Dr Pace. I think some of the most helpful treatment plans that we develop for our patients are those that integrate both pharmacologic tools and the nonpharmacologic tools that we have. Part of why I love headache medicine is that we actually get to personalize these treatments for our patients.

Pace: I completely agree. I think that's a good place for us to end. We thank you all very much for joining us.

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According to IMARC Groups latest report, titled Complementary and Alternative Medicine Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027, the global market reached a value of US$ 100.04 Billion in 2021. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a range of therapeutic products and diagnostic procedures that are not considered part of mainstream medical therapies. It encompasses homeopathic remedies, self-administered tools, bio-field therapy, naturopathy, acupuncture, and dietary supplements. CAM alleviates muscle tension, improves wound healing, provides relaxation, and reduces stress, pain, and anxiety. As a result, it is generally used alongside conventional medicines to treat various chronic ailments and common side effects.

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The global CAM market is primarily driven by the increasing prevalence of neurological disorders, especially amongst the geriatric population. This is further supported by shifting preferences toward natural medicines owing to their several beneficial properties. Additionally, the rising health concerns and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have prompted governments to invest in pharmaceutical companies to develop alternative natural drugs for treating patients, which is propelling the market growth. Other factors, such as significant improvements in the healthcare infrastructure, extensive medical tourism promotion, and ongoing research and development (R&D) activities to introduce CAM with enhanced efficacy, are contributing to the market growth. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the global complementary and alternative medicine market to reach US$ 315.5 Billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 20.8% during 2022-2027.

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