Herbs
There are no herbs (plant chemicals) that contain thyroid hormone. Therefore, while there are some herbs that may provide some help for a sluggish thyroid (i.e. if the thyroid is producing a low amount of thyroid hormone, but has not stopped completely), myxedema requires treatment with synthetic or desiccated natural thyroid hormones.
Read more about this topic: Thyroid Hormone
Famous quotes containing the word herbs:
“Bear only perfumes and the scent
Of healing herbs to just men’s fields!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For like as herbs and trees bringen forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.”
—Thomas Malory (c. 1430–1471)
“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn’t every nation have its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)