Angina Angina Home And when you get better, remember. Samuel Hahnemann, MD It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my 67-year-old father about his sex life. "I'm on this medicine, Andrew," he said. "It's for angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is that it causes impotence." I let that image sink in for a minute, as he continued. "Is there any one of your natural remedies that will substitute for the angina medicine?" he asked. Historically, it was an unusual event for my dad to ask my view about anything. One of his mottoes was, "If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you." So I was duly impressed with the gravity of the situation. "Vitamin E, Pa, " I said. "High doses of vitamin E have been used to treat angina since the early 1950's. Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute, who were both brothers and cardiologists, gave patients somewhere between 1,600 to 2,000 International Units of vitamin E daily and it eliminated angina symptoms in hundreds and hundreds of documented cases." I fully expected him to ridicule the idea, and I was surprised and not a little gratified when he thoughtfully nodded his head. "OK," he said, and we gratefully moved on to another topic. | |
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