Treating FBD, PCOS and goiter with herbs

I saw this question came up here on Curezone, but on a forum where my responses are not really welcome, so I will answer the question here.

I have had friends in the past who cleared up their fibrocystic breast disease (FBD) with herbs in a short time without a problem.  But they did not use a singular herb but rather combinations, which tend to work much better and reduce the risk of adverse effects.

Some of the herbs used included black walnut hull, red clover blossom, chickweed and vitex.

The poster was also asking about polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and goiter, which are also very easy to address with herbs.  I have seen a number of women successfully treat their PCOS with herbs and supplements such as chromium polynicotinate and magnesium salts to deal with the insulin resistance and herbs for the hormone imbalance. 

Goiters are not hard to address either, but depending on the cause there are different ways to address it.  Hyperthyroidism is treated differently than hypothyroidism for example if people want to do it safely.  And both can have multiple causes, so again it is important to get to the base cause rather than just giving them a Band-Aid treatment.  For example, a lot of cases of hypothyroidism do not involve a lack of iodine and throwing iodine at it will not work.  This is why I have always told people if you go to an herbalist with hypothyroidism and they simply tell you to take an iodine source you need to run because they don't have a clue what they are doing.  Even the uptake of iodine is regulated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP).  If people are not producing sufficient cAMP their ability to uptake iodine will be impeded.  Unless addressed iodine supplementation from any source is not going to do any good.  This can also help explain why so many people have reported adverse reactions to stronger iodine sources such as Lugol's. Point is there is a lot more to proper thyroid function than iodine, which is one of the reasons I prefer herbs for the treatment of thyroid disorders as well.  Herbs can cover a lot more of these aspects of thyroid function than simply taking iodine.