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Update
(2018): This
was written in the early 2000s. Although these guidelines are still true, more
specific and effective holistic techniques have become available. I will add
them when I have an opportunity to revise the article.
I know that
clammy feeling of discovering you have cancer — that something is
chewing away at you every second. It always
surprises me to see that so many people still assume the best or
only options for cancer are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy
(otherwise known as slash, burn, and poison). I refuse to believe
that God put us here to live in fear of dread diseases and to ransom
our health back from the medical profession for tens of thousands of
dollars. It’s time to get the word out: cancer, like any disease,
is not a random misfortune. There are reasons for these things. When
you understand the reasons, you can get rid of them. The main points are simple, and I can summarize
them here.
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Cancer
is a toxicity issue. Therefore, you must stop taking in more
toxicity. If you’re in any doubt as to what this means, see
Michio Kushi’s book The Cancer Prevention Diet. It
means a strict vegetarian diet: organic produce and grain, no
animal products, no dairy, no refined, chemicalized, or
processed foods, no oil, and no sweets, caffeine, alcohol, or
spices. The best way to do this that I know of is macrobiotics,
because it’s based on the principles of Chinese medicine and
the idea of using the energy in food to promote health and help
you heal. Avoiding electricity in cooking (microwaves, electric
ranges) and chewing well are also helpful.
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Besides
not taking in more toxicity, you have to make sure your body is
able to eliminate the toxicity that’s already there. This is
not as simple as having a daily bowel movement, although some
people don’t manage even that. It means making sure the organs
are working together optimally and particularly that the liver,
which eliminates toxins, and the gallbladder are functioning
properly. Virtually everyone has some kind of energy blockage
that needs to be fixed. The best way I know of to do this is
Touch For Health, which uses applied
kinesiology, also known as muscle testing, to ascertain
which systems aren’t working well and balance them.
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In
addition to toxicity, any nutritional deficiencies must be
addressed. Virtually everyone has nutritional deficiencies now,
because of the poor quality of the soil in which conventional
produce is grown and because most people don’t eat enough
produce anyway. But even organic produce doesn’t have
everything we need. Herbs are a good way to remedy these
deficiencies. Herbs are foods, so the body assimilates them
better than chemically synthesized vitamin or mineral pills.
Herbs also have trace elements that promote their action, which
synthetic products don’t. However, herbal manufacturers are
not all the same — some make much higher quality products than
others. Low-quality herbs are a waste of time and money and can
even be counterproductive. Muscle testing by a competent
practitioner is a good way to find what you need, how much, how
often, and for how long.
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For a
certain period, while the body is coming back into balance, you
may need something to kill the cancer. On the web site, I list a
couple of preparations I’ve found effective. One of them is
called Cansema Tonic I, made by Alpha Omega Labs (www.altcancer.com). It contains chaparral, a traditional cancer
remedy, along with other herbs. The only drawback is that it
tastes awful and is hard on the stomach. But considering the
alternative, it’s not so bad. Alpha Omega also makes other
remedies that may work for some people. However, the idea is not
to have to take something indefinitely — just long enough to
give your own defenses a chance to kick in. Other herbal
products are also available and have been effective in some
cases. Whether they work depends on what you need, and it’s an
individual matter; one size doesn’t fit all. Again, muscle
testing by a competent practitioner can tell if you need these
things (although you may have to buy a bottle first and take it
with you for testing. But if it’s unopened and you don’t
need it, the company will usually take it back.)
- A thorough blood test and urine toxic metals
test are important. The blood test will show, for example, if
you're low in vitamin D, which many adults are, especially in
northern climates, since we get this from sunlight. It's
important for immunity. The toxic metals test (available from directlabs.com
if your doctor doesn't do alternative) will show your toxic
metals load, which can interfere with immunity and healing. You
can eliminate heavy metals via chelation, either oral, with suppositories,
or intravenous (which usually involves weekly visits to a doctor
and can be expensive).
Mercury dental fillings can seriously degrade immunity and
healing and cause numerous problems. Detoxification alone won't
help — they must be removed
by a holistic
dentist who has the proper equipment for it.
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Minimize exposure to electromagnetic radiation (see the Radiation
page).
How long
does it take to get well? It depends on how toxic you are, how far
out of balance your organs are, what energy blockages you have, and
how well you adhere to these guidelines. You may not feel better — you may feel worse,
because the toxicity is beginning to discharge—but you should
notice something. As time goes by, there’ll be periods when you
feel lousy, but overall, the trend should be up. Depending on the
seriousness of your condition, in three to six months the cancer
should be pretty much gone. The subject of discharges is worth
reading up on, and again Michio Kushi, one of the foremost teachers
of macrobiotics in our time, is a good source — he covers it in The
Book of Macrobiotics.
Don’t
assume you have to go the slash-burn-poison-nausea- baldness route.
Can you spare a few days first to try a better way? Remember
that disease is a message about imbalance in the body resulting from
improper diet, toxins in the environment, and energy blockage. As
Michio Kushi put it in the title of an article, “Civilization is the disease;
cancer is the cure.”
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