Hope everything works out for you Duck, and on the bright side I'd say you got the best reason going to be on the river daily.

I was never a hippie but plenty of my friends were so a few things you might want to remember:
Western doctors are notorious for "treating the symptom and not the cause", the liver, pancreas, and adrenal glands are in extremely close cahoots, make sure (I'd imagine you already have) they check out.

I've tried a million "hippie home remedys" and almost all of them are junk. I did find three legit ones though, echinacea for immune system, hawthorne for blood pressure (whether high or low), and milk thistle for liver.
Just because they helped me does'nt mean they'll help you but hey, they might see you through to your TX.

Again best wishes.