OVERCOMING
CANCER
With
Natural Therapies
INTRODUCTION (this is a very long file)
Individuals have overcome advanced and medically incurable cancer with a multitude of different methods and sometimes with no method at all. In a way, this is encouraging in that it shows that there are many ways to beat cancer, but it is also confusing as someone confronted with the disease does not know where to start and which method to choose. In the following I want to give an overview of the most important aspects to take into consideration when selecting an individual treatment program.
A key aspect in the development and progression of cancer is the inability of cancer cells to produce energy aerobically, that is by oxidising the food. Instead, glucose is anaerobically converted into lactic acid. The more cancer cells have lost the ability to use oxygen, the more malignant they are and vice versa. This gives us the opportunity to make cancer cells less malignant and tumours dormant or regressing them by normalising the oxidative energy metabolism.
The three main factors for the deterioration of the aerobic energy production in parts of the body are allergies, chemical sensitivities and endotoxins. Allergies are common, frequently in a hidden form, and often involve the most commonly eaten foods. In addition, some foods are good for some blood groups and bad for others. Chemical sensitivities may develop to any of the thousands of unbiological chemicals in our environment and food chain but are most common to petrochemicals, synthetic food additives, pesticides and mercury.
Endotoxins are produced by internal microbes, often starting with Candida or the anaerobic microbes in dead teeth as well as various viruses and the so-called cancer microbe, a pleomorphic or shape-changing organism. This cancer microbe has reportedly been isolated from all malignant tumours but is absent in benign tumours. Growth hormones produced by the cancer microbe strongly stimulate cell division while toxins from the cancer microbe or from the environment interrupt cellular energy production. The combination of these two main factors is the main recipe for creating malignant tumours.
If conditions are sufficiently severe, then also the genetic material in the cells will be degraded. The genetic material may also be directly changed as through strong radiation exposure. The weaker the cellular energy production and the stronger the presence of the cancer microbe, the more malignant is the growth. Whether it will spread to distant parts of the body in the form of metastases or secondary tumours depends mainly on the balance between the strength of the immune system and the degree of invasion of the rest of the body by the cancer microbe. Another important factor promoting spread of cancers and growth of tumours is inflammation, be it general or localised.
To remove these main cancer-causing effects and normalise conditions there are a wide range of therapeutic methods to choose from. It usually does not matter too much which of these you incorporate in your individual program, as long as it is reasonably effective and you believe in it. A recommended rule for choosing methods is to inform yourself as much as you can about the available options and then listen to your inner self to see which feel good to use.
Toxins, for instance, can be removed with a variety of cleansing and detoxification procedures, while suitable foods and supplements help to improve the cellular energy production.
Microbial infestations can be controlled with the electronic zapper, the magnetic pulser, with oxygen therapy, colloidal silver, raw garlic, various herbal and other remedies and by strengthening the immune system. There are also a wide range of anti-inflammatory agents to choose from.
Vitality can be increased by living in unpolluted natural surroundings and being outside as much as possible, using high-vitality food, especially grass juice, good sleep, breathing exercises and guided imagery.
Human cancers often have a strong emotional component in that most cancer sufferers do not sufficiently express their emotions and may even fail to be consciously aware of their emotional needs. This greatly suppresses the life-force, especially if there is an underlying feeling of helplessness or hopelessness. Without much improvement on this level long-term survival chances are not good.
Probably the greatest ally in overcoming cancer is a strong faith or belief in a positive outcome. However, even more important than our conscious beliefs are our subconscious beliefs. Various mind therapies may be used to imprint our positive conscious beliefs on the subconscious mind. If our subconscious mind accepts our healing, it is as good as done.
How To Use This Program
I firmly believe that any form of cancer can be overcome as long as the mind is willing and the body has still sufficient vitality left. If radiotherapy or chemotherapy have been used, the effort required will be much greater. Even in the final stages recovery is still possible but usually requires much faith, support from relatives or friends and a truly spiritual attitude.
With the great variety of natural cancer therapies available and the many different individual requirements it is not possible to write a single program to suit everyone. In the following I have detailed a variety of self-help treatment possibilities from which you may assemble your individual holistic program according to your condition, preferences and abilities. I have grouped the various treatment modalities into four main divisions with an additional chapter on Comments and Strategies.
For selecting and assembling an individual program I suggest that you first read Strategies in Part 5 and adopt the General Cancer Diet. In order to gain a better understanding of what is involved start reading the articles on cancer causes and principles and diversity of holistic cancer treatments . Then skim over the different treatment modalities outlined in the following. Make a note of the options that appeal to you. Read again the section on Strategies and afterwards in more detail the selected options. Finally put it all together as your preferred program. On the one hand try to be consistent and give your selection a chance to prove itself, while on the other hand try also to be flexible enough to adjust to changing circumstances or new information.
DIET & CLEANSING
GENERAL CANCER DIET
Use this general cancer diet mainly when the cancer is under control or when underweight or for limited periods as a break from a stricter cleansing diet. While the cancer is still spreading use one of the cleansing programs explained later. As a general rule, cancer is easier to control if one eats meals or solid food only during a six-hour period of the day, say between 12 noon and 6 p.m. Before and after this unrestricted period use only fresh fruit and juices or some raw vegetables. However, restrict the amount of sweet fruit and juices as well as any other sweet food or use these spaced out in small portions. Any rise of the blood sugar level above normal tends to accelerate tumour growth.
Most recommended during the morning are purple fruit and juices. In addition to a fresh juice including beetroot and if available young grasses such as wheat grass or barley grass, eat mainly black or purple grapes, blackberries, blueberries, blackcurrants or drink their juices in small, frequent sips. In recent years the grape juice cure has been attributed with remarkable successes. According to this cure you drink slowly during the morning a 750 ml bottle of dark grape juice. Try to obtain organic juice. After 12 noon you eat as usual.
Eat as much as possible organically grown raw food. The weaker the body, the more should food be in an easily digestible form as juices, sprouted seeds and lactic acid fermented foods. Even sprouted seeds may be liquefied if chewing is difficult. The most important vegetable is beetroot. Preferably use about 500g daily juiced, grated and cooked, also part of the residue from juicing may still be used in salads or cooked. However, much less is acceptable if plenty of other purple food is used in addition.
Restrict cooked foods mainly to those with cancer fighting potential such as beetroot, onion, green pawpaw, asparagus, red cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and to a lesser degree other members of the cabbage family. To maintain weight or for variety you may use rice, millet, maize, buckwheat, lentils and beans. Best cook these fresh as whole seeds after overnight soaking. To a lesser degree the corresponding flours may be used to bake flat breads or dampers, possibly adding some of the carrot and beetroot residues from juicing. A quick way is to bring residues in some water to the boil, switch off and slowly stir in polenta or maize meal until it sets. However, generally it is preferable to eat more vegetables rather than grains and other seeds.
With advanced cancer restrict nuts and other oily seeds except for almonds and linseed. The best way is to sprout almonds if they are still viable, otherwise soak and grind them and preferably make yoghurt by adding yoghurt starter or use as nut butters or just soak and chew. However, the great American psychic Edgar Cayce used to say that 2 - 3 almonds a day would be effective to prevent cancer or even a regrowth. I assume that the effective ingredient is in the bitter skin (laetrile, amygdalin). Therefore, if the almonds are being soaked, then one should drink the soaking water. Do not soak longer than overnight to avoid fermentation which could release cyanide. This would be harmless with only a few almonds but reportedly has caused a case of poisoning with a handful of apricot kernels. Instead of almonds, you may, of course, use one apricot or peach or plum kernel or a few apple seeds.
Genuinely free-range eggs may be used occasionally, but restrict their use with advanced conditions. Preferably do not feed the chooks with commercial pellets.
The least harmful flesh food is seafood. Commercial chicken and eggs are usually infested with the cancer microbe (according to Virginia Livingston Wheeler) and are best avoided. Lamb supposedly is the only meat that is reliably free of the cancer microbe. All of the foods mentioned so far may be added to the central vegetable salad to make a more varied meal. Also restrict unfermented soy products such as tofu, but traditionally fermented products such as salt-free miso are fine.
Except with signs of overacidity, such as low blood pressure and sensitive skin, you may often use organic or unsprayed fruit, possibly instead of a normal meal. With raised blood pressure and insensitive skin use plenty of acid fruits, such as citrus fruit, pineapple and various berries. Ladyfinger and other bananas are preferable to the Cavendish variety. Bananas may be eaten with salads or used to flavour cooked rice and other grains. (Efforts should be made to ensure bananas are organically grown - something easier to do in Australia than in New Zealand. Dole, Chiquita and Bonita brands imported from the Philippines and South America are heavily contaminated with pesticide residues and therefore positively dangerous in cancer therapy.)
For those used to a conventional breakfast it may be difficult to find a suitable replacement. With normal or above normal blood pressure just fruit on its own will be excellent. Most recommended is the Linseed-Yoghurt Mix, for details see the recipe section. Alternatively, try a sprout salad with rice or a piece of flat bread or flavoured rice or other cooked grains with yoghurt or banana or apple puree. After improvement and testing for wheat and rye allergy also rye sourdough bread will be fine.
The evening meal should be light, early and without protein foods that are difficult to digest, such as flesh food or nuts. Concentrate on the food flavours while you chew peacefully and try to under-eat rather than overeat. Initial weight loss on this diet is normal, later try to regulate your weight by using more or less grain or cereal products in combination with legumes. Try to have a vegetable salad with most meals, especially if you do not use a high-quality low-speed juicer.
A diet high in phosphorus increases inflammatory tendencies.
Special Foods
Here I like to give some more detailed information about foods that are of special importance in overcoming cancer. These are linseed oil and ground linseed, yoghurt, beetroot and mature, green pawpaw. Also bee-pollen is excellent.
Pawpaw is an excellent source of proteolytic enzymes to digest tumours and other unhealthy tissue. The papain is highest in the white sap and skin of green pawpaw. However, to make it more palatable it is best to use mainly mature green pawpaw that just turns yellow inside. Preferably use with skin. It may be grated or juiced and the pulp used as well or you may make it into a 'smoothie': liquefy in a blender together with yoghurt, banana and possibly other fruit. During critical periods have half a pawpaw twice daily. Green pawpaw keeps well and can be easily shipped across the country and refrigerated. If available, you may also use pieces of fresh and raw pawpaw leaf or (male) flowers or buds as digestive aid.
Linseed oil (Also called 'flax seed' oil and not to be mistaken for the 'linseed oil' used to oil cricket bats, which has been heat treated and is rancid) must be as fresh as possible and preferably be stored refrigerated even in the shop before purchase. Also see that there is still a long 'use by' date. It must be manufactured below 50 degrees C, flushed with nitrogen and protected from light as in brown bottles. The reason for all the care with the oil is that it oxidises extremely rapidly on exposure to air and heat. When rancid it has a bitter taste. Use up to 2 tablespoons a day in addition to some ground linseed. Never heat the oil. Add to cooked food after cooling. Use less if it causes problems.
A much cheaper and often safer alternative to taking linseed oil is freshly ground linseed. It contains about 35% linseed oil and is also recommended to improve bowel activity. Preferably buy whole linseed and grind it yourself in a coffee grinder immediately before use. Otherwise you may use a blender, filling it with just so much linseed that it does not scatter around when you start the motor. Refrigerate or better freeze what you do not use immediately. Mix about 1-2 tablespoons, 2-3 times daily with meals or juices. Two to three heaped tablespoonfuls of ground linseed contain one tablespoon of oil.
Linseed oil is high in the omega-3 fatty acid alpha linolenic acid which is anti-inflammatory as are the fish oils as well as the gamma linolenic acid in evening primrose oil. In moderate amounts these oils inhibit tumour growth, although in large amounts they may stimulate it the same as all other oils and fats. Linoleic acid is high in most other seeds and oils. It is pro-inflammatory and can stimulate tumour growth, in the same way as the other omega-6-fatty acid arachidonic acid in meat. Therefore, minimise foods high omega-6 fatty acids and fats in general, but use moderate amounts of omega-3 fatty acids in addition to some extra-virgin olive oil.
As beetroot is an important part of this diet, it is advisable to plan ahead in regions where supply is seasonal. Stock up when supply is plentiful. In a cold climate cover the beets with slightly moist sand or saw dust. Keep the tops exposed in a cool but frost-free position. Regrowth of leaves does not hurt, use them. Try different lots under different conditions of moisture content, inspect from time to time. In warm climates you may let the beetroot continue to grow in sandy soil in a shady place. They easily regrow leaves and remain healthier than stored in a refrigerator but inspect frequently.
Beetroot are in the important group of purple foods. These contain highly unsaturated compounds in the group of Proanthocyanidins (PAC's or OPC's) which are strong antioxidants. In addition and probably more important with cancer, they can normalise the energy metabolism of cancer cells by replacing oxygen as an electron acceptor. This makes cancer cells less malignant. Other recommended purple foods are black or purple grapes and grape seed extract, blackberries, blueberries, red cabbage as well as purple onions.
Most of the colour in onions are in the outer skin. Utilise these as well, for instance as a tea. Also ingest the skins of grapes and if reasonably possible the outside of beetroot. All skins are usually more highly pigmented than the insides. Small beetroot often have a much deeper colour than large beetroot, therefore buy mainly small ones. Use plenty of purple food not only with the normal cancer diet but also with cleansing diets such as the Juice Diet or the Low Protein Diet. Eggplant is not considered to be a purple food.
The original recommendations for successful cancer treatment mention either 1 kg of beetroot or black or purple grapes a day or 750 ml of commercial juice of such grapes. Other things being equal, select the beetroot, grapes or grape juice with the darkest colour. If you use different kinds of purple food then you may use less of each as for instance 250 g of beetroot in addition to 500 ml of grape juice.
Also high amounts of grape seed extract and possibly vitamin C used as a supplements reduce the amount of purple pigment needed but exact quantitative relationships between all of these are not known. Closely related to PAC's are the beneficial catechins in green tea. All of these substances belong to the large group of flavonoids and bioflavonoids (biologically active flavonoids) that are responsible for the scarlet, blue and purple colours of flowers and fruits.
While normally the water in which seeds have been soaked is discarded, ingest the water in which fenugreek has been soaked, it has anti-cancer properties. The water in which grains, such as brown rice have been soaked overnight can be beneficial as it contains growth hormone inhibitors. However, it is also high in phosphorus and not suitable on a diet low in protein and phosphorus Rinse any seeds before soaking them when intending to drink the soaking water.
Sprouted seeds are highly beneficial when there is no actively growing tumour. However, it may be safer to restrict their use as long as the cancer is still very active as sprouted seeds contain plant growth hormones. This is the opposite to dormant seeds that contain growth hormone inhibitors called dormins. These are best being used as soaked fenugreek seeds. They leach partly out into the water in which seeds have been soaked. Soak 2 or 3 tablespoons of fenugreek seeds overnight in 1 to 2 cups of water and drink this water in several lots during the next day, also eat the seeds. However, do not use fenugreek seeds while on a strict low-protein and low phosphorus diet.
Try to combine these general recommendations, with the food selection recommended for your blood type. Peter D'Adamo wrote the book Eat Right For Your Type (or 'The Eat Right Diet' in the GB Century edition). It shows that individuals with different blood groups have different optimal food requirements. Foods that were not traditionally eaten frequently cause immune reactions in the intestinal wall and may eventually lead to a disease.
Blood group O is the oldest blood group. It originated in the hunter-gatherer area and corresponds to the non-vegetarian type. Group A resembles most closely the grain-eating vegetarian type, while B is the lacto-vegetarian type and closest to the balanced metabolic type. Blood group AB has the characteristics of A as well as B. For example, by taking the blood group into account we may say that the milk-based Budwig diet is most suitable for those with blood group B and possibly AB but not for the others. Large amounts of Aloe vera, on the other hand, may only be beneficial for blood group A. For more information you may also see Peter D'Adamo's web site.
The following list shows some common foods that should be minimised or avoided by the various blood types according to the blood group diet.
Type A should avoid: banana, bean (garbanzo, kidney, lima, navy, red), beef, beer, Brazil nuts, cabbage, cow's milk products, duck, egg, eggplant, lamb/mutton, mango, mushroom, orange, papaya, potato (sweet, white, red), shellfish, tomato, vinegar, whole wheat products, yam.
Type B should avoid: barley, bean (adzuki, black, garbanzo, mung, pinto), buckwheat, cashew, chicken, corn/maize, duck, lentils, peanut, pumpkin, radish, rye, salmon, sesame seed/tahini, shellfish, sunflower seed, tapioca, tofu, tomato, wheat.
Type AB should avoid: banana, bean (adzuki, black, garbanzo, kidney, lima, mung), beef, buckwheat, chicken, corn/maize, duck, goat, mango, orange, pepper, seed, radish, salmon, sesame seed/tahini, shellfish, sunflower seed, tapioca.
Type 0 should avoid: alfalfa sprouts, bean (kidney, navy), Brazil nut, cabbage family, cashew, corn/maize, eggplant, lentils, milk products (cow and goat), mushroom, oat, orange, peanut, potato (white, red), strawberry, wheat.
RECIPES
Only a few possibilities can be mentioned here. Be imaginative and experiment yourself. Use a lot of herbs and spices, including caraway, cardamom, cayenne, cinnamon, coriander, fennel, ginger marjoram and turmeric. Also add a teaspoon of lecithin granules to all meals.
Acid Food
Food acids, such as in cider vinegar, citrus fruits and other acid fruits and tomatoes are usually beneficial for individuals with an insensitive body and raised blood pressure. However, fruit acids cause problems for those with a sensitive body and low blood pressure. The main reason for this is an inefficient metabolism that causes the body to become overacid and mineral deficient. The main problem is not the ingesting of fruit acids but rather the mineral deficiency caused by the overacidity. In the right way, that is in neutralised form, fruit acids can be used to remineralise and alkalise the body and in this way are highly recommended.
As the recommended cancer diet based on vegetables, fruits and juices is already high in potassium and low in sodium, sentitive individuals commonly need more calcium and magnesium instead. This may be provided by neutralising dolomite with organic acids. You may buy dolomite as a plant fertiliser at a nursery and in the evening mix one teaspoonful with the juice of a lemon or grapefruit or with about 50 ml of vinegar, preferably organic cider vinegar but also white vinegar may be used. Keep this overnight, possibly refrigerated in a shallow non-metal container to provide a large contact area. In the morning separate the liquid from any remaining powder. Drink before breakfast diluted with water or other liquid. When this is metabolised, the organic acids tend to be broken down and converted to energy while the minerals remain to alkalise the body. If you are rather overacid and sensitive you may drink this also before other meals, possibly mixed with any fresh juice. However, any oils of fats that may be present tend to combine during digestion with calcium and hinder its absorption.
For neutralising the next batch of food acid you may just add more dolomite to the left-over dolomite powder from the previous batch. Dolomite used as fertiliser may contain a large amount of inert residue. You need to replace it when no bubbles appear after adding more acid or when the liquid remains too acid. This same procedure may also be used by sensitive individuals to neutralise acid yoghurt or Kambucha tea or acid oranges or tomatoes, either by mixing just the juice or alternatively the pureed fruit with dolomite. Dolomite supplies calcium and magnesium in the generally desirable ratio of 2 : 1. However, if occasionally only additional calcium without magnesium is required, then you may use powdered egg shell or powdered shell grit (calcium carbonate) for neutralising. Individuals with an insensitive body and raised blood pressure, on the other hand, may benefit from neutralising part of their food acid intake with magnesium oxide or magnesium carbonate. Use so much of the magnesium powder that some is left over the next morning or after a few hours. Instead of acids in food you may also use ascorbic acid to neutralise with magnesium powder or dolomite. For more information see also The Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio.
Baking
To increase your intake of raw food you may experiment baking high-quality flat bread or damper from rice that has been soaked and blended. Make the dough as firm as possible by either draining excess water or adding rice or other non-wheat flour. Spread out on a tray covered with flour or rolled oats and bake in the sun or below 50 degrees C in an oven. It takes only a few hours for the dough to dry. The reason that it is rather easy to sun bake in this way is that, unlike other grains or rice flour, soaked and blended rice still continues to absorb water for several hours.
To make sourdough bread you may mix yoghurt starter with a cup of flour in water and a tablespoon of honey as food for the bacteria. Leave in a warm place overnight, then mix with additional flour and water into a dough. Leave for several more hours in a warm place until it rises and then bake at about 175 degrees C for 90 minutes or until done. Use mainly buckwheat flour for binding with the addition of other flours such as rice and maize. Instead of flours you may use soaked and blended grains.
A simpler way of baking, but not as nutritious, is by mixing a teaspoon of potassium bicarbonate as rising agent with the dough. Fill into a form and bake at 175 degrees C for about an hour. Flavour the bread with caraway, coriander and fennel. For an occasional sweet loaf you may add chopped dates, banana, cinnamon and cloves to the dough. Also try adding carrot and beetroot pulp from juicing.
Hummus
There are many vegetarian recipes for this. Soak chickpeas overnight. Puree them in a blender just soaked or additionally cooked. Mix with extra virgin olive oil, lecithin, lemon juice cayenne and a wide range of herbs and spices. Use as a bread-spread or as an addition to meals.
Linseed-Yoghurt Mix
Mix up to a cupful of ground linseed with some linseed oil or extra virgin olive oil (optional), a tablespoon of bee-pollen, possibly quark or self-made cottage cheese and enough yoghurt for a smooth consistency. Eat plenty of this, on its own, blended with banana or added to meals and as bread-spread or flavoured with chopped fruit or berries. A variation of this without cows' milk products is as follows: several tablespoons of ground linseed and one or more spoonfuls of bee pollen, barley grass or wheat grass juice powder, spirulina or chlorella, powdered acidophilus culture or several high-potency acidophilus capsules and possibly linseed oil or extra virgin olive oil. Mix this with a suitable liquid, such as fresh vegetable juice, apple juice or any other juice, goats' milk or goats' milk yoghurt or rice milk. This may be flavoured with chopped fruit or berries.
Marinated Fish
Dice the fish and cover with lemon juice or diluted cider vinegar. Refrigerate overnight and add onion and herbs and spices.
Sweet Vegetables
Cook sliced or diced beetroot and carrot in just a small amount of water which should nearly have evaporated by the end of cooking. Some time later add vegetables with a shorter cooking time, such as pumpkin and onion and finally, tomato. After serving, flavour with linseed oil and herbs and spices.
Smoothie
Mix in a blender mature green pawpaw (skin, seeds and flesh), banana, any fruit in season and a suitable liquid such as fresh fruit or vegetable juice or yoghurt. You may also mix suitable supplements with it such as pollen or Green Barley, Selenium yeast or various tablets.
Yoghurt
It is essential to repopulate the intestines with beneficial lactobacilli, especially L. acidophilus in the small intestines and bifido bacteria in the large intestines. Instead of or in addition to using high-potency acidophilus/bifido capsules or powders, you may use a self-made fermented product or yoghurt. This may be made from fresh unpasteurized cows' milk, goats' milk, rice milk, soya milk or a mixture of ingredients based on pollen and honey. Commercial cows' milk acidophilus yoghurt (preferably organic or biodynamic) may be temporarily used if nothing else is available. I do not recommend commercial soy milk for yoghurt making.
The commonly used yoghurt based on cows' milk has some problems in that many individuals are allergic or sensitive to some ingredients of cows' milk. Animal milk is also high in estrogens and this is not good for various female cancers, especially breast and ovarian cancers. According to the blood group diet, cows' milk is only acceptable for those with blood group B and possibly AB. A high fat intake is not good either and neither is a high lactose content resulting from added skim milk powder. The best cows' milk yoghurt, as advocated by Johanna Budwig, is made from unpasteurised fresh skim milk. This is not legally available in many countries such as Australia. A reasonable alternative is raw goats' milk which is generally lower in fat and lactose than cows' milk.
You may just use rice as a base for making yoghurt. Cook soaked (organic) brown rice in plenty of water. After cooling blend and strain. Add starter culture and 2 teaspoons of raw honey to the strained rice water. Rice yoghurt does not set - drink it when it turns slightly sour or smells slightly fermented. However, proper rice milk is made by blending rice that has been sprouted or enzymatically broken down. You may do this yourself by blending and straining spouted brown rice. This is sweet enough by itself so that no added sweetener is required.
After improvement you may also use self-made soy milk. Soak whole soy beans for 2 days in the refrigerator, changing the water several times. Then blend and strain through a cheese-cloth. Bring the strained liquid to boil and simmer for 3-5 minutes, cool quickly and refrigerate until needed. One cup of dry beans yields about 3 cups of soaked beans and 2-3 litres of soy milk. Add a tablespoon of raw honey as food for the starter bacteria.
However, the most recommended yoghurt is based on pollen and honey. For this you may add to one litre of (energised) water and starter 10 teaspoons of pollen, 2 or 3 tsp of raw honey, 1 or 2 tsp of kelp powder and possibly several teaspons of spirulina or chlorella or cereal grass powder. You may also try if you can add one or more teaspoons of shark cartilage powder to make is more easily digestible without unduly offending your taste buds. You may experiment and use more or less of the indicated amounts and also different ingredients. As with rice yoghut, this does not set and is used when it starts frothing and tastes somewhat acid. Sensitive individuals may neutralise the yoghurt as described for Acid Food.
As initial starter use either 1 teaspoon each of powdered acidophilus and bifido cultures, or a mixed culture of these or high-potency capsules or a commercial yoghurt containing these bacteria. Do not use commercial yoghurt or starter with only bulgaricus and thermophilus bacteria. Subsequently use up to a cupful of the previous batch as starter, preferably use any liquid or whey as it contains the most bacteria. The more starter you use and the warmer you keep it, the sooner will the yoghurt be ready.
If you do not have a yoghurt maker which keeps the temperature about 40 degrees C, mix half a litre or 2 - 3 cupfuls of any type of milk or pollen-honey liquid with a cupful of starter and keep in a jar standing in a container with initially hot tap water. It usually takes only a few hours to set. With powdered cultures it may take 6-10 hours. In cold weather renew the hot water every hour or keep the jar in a warm place. Refrigerate the yoghurt when it just starts setting, as it continues to become firmer and more acid during storage. If it becomes too sour, use less of the whey as starter and you may eat only the strained curd or neutralise the acid (see Acid Food). Eat about half a litre of yoghurt daily.
If you cannot make or use yoghurt, the more expensive powdered cultures in brown glass bottles may be used. Keep powdered cultures refrigerated. Take 1 teaspoon each of acidophilus and bifido cultures and possibly also bulgaricus 2-3 times daily in juices about 30-60 minutes before meals. Instead of individual cultures you may also use a suitable commercial mixed culture. Instead of or in addition to powdered or live cultures, you may also use high-potency capsules. Kombucha tea is widely used and may be beneficial in neutralised form but does not supply acidophilus and bifido bacteria which should be used in addition at least temporarily.
You may test the viability of powders by adding some as starter to milk and see how quickly it sets. Also in Australia, mainly in health food shops but also in some supermarkets, you can buy the excellent Grainfields Liquid made from grains and vegetables with specially bred acidophilus and bifido bacteria resistant to gastric acid, heat, antibiotics and other drugs. You may either use this as a starter or instead of yoghurt take a small amount of this with meals to aid the digestion. Alternartively, you may use larger amounts in neutralised form.
RESTRICTED FOOD
The foods most commonly causing health problems in our society should initially be avoided and after remission used only sparingly. Food allergies and sensitivities are widespread in a hidden form and if you habitually use problem foods you may not recover.
Therefore, adopt initially a high-quality low allergy diet until proper allergy testing can conveniently be done after remission.
Initially avoid completely: all wheat products, cows' milk products (except as explained for yoghurt making), commercially processed foods with added chemicals (e.g. preservatives, synthetic colours or flavours), alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; fats and commercial oils (except linseed oil and extra virgin olive oil); salt and salted food or food high in sodium (except sodium ascorbate during bowel-tolerance intakes of vitamin C); fried food, commercial fruit juices and soft drinks, tinned food (except asparagus), frozen vegetables, sulphur-dried fruit, sweeteners (and especially the synthetic and carcinogenic sweeteners saccharine and aspartame), sweetened food and yeast such as vegemite (special selenium-yeast is all right), soy products except those that are traditionally fermented such as miso.
Until remission avoid also meat (except some lamb) and have fish and other seafood instead, restrict even organic sun-dried fruit and nuts. Be careful with rye, barley and oats until tested for allergy. With gluten allergy one may also react to malt. Read labels.
Also avoid food cooked in a microwave oven or otherwise heated to more than 100 degrees C. Eat your food, but especially vegetables, as soon as possible after a short cooking time; try to minimise steam or fumes escaping from cooking food. Except baked grains as in flat breads avoid leftover food from a previous meal.
Do not cook food in aluminium and minimise cooking in stainless steel pots. The nickel leaching out may impair the immune system. Cooking in ceramic or glass is best, otherwise enamel. Do not discard any cooking water from vegetables, drink it.
Avoid chlorinated and fluoridated water for drinking and cooking. Filter such water. I prefer reverse osmosis, but if short of money buy at least a cheap jug-type filter. That is also useful for filtering rainwater in cities and other polluted areas. However, most cheap filters do not remove fluoride and only part of the chlorine. Therefore, if your water is fluoridated you should use either reverse osmosis, distilled water or obtain rain or bore water. Even bore water in farming districts needs to be filtered (Ground water in most farming districts is contaminated to some degree with carcinogenic pesticide residues according to studies done in both Australia and New Zealand. When in doubt get water tested by a reliable laboratory), also if it is too high in iron or calcium, alternatively precipitate high calcium levels by boiling. Even commercial 100% reconstituted fruit juice and other commercial liquids may contain fluoridated water in countries where water fluoridation is practised.
According to the investigations of Dr Robert Beck (the inventor of the Beck electronic zapper) eating garllc is highly detrimental to our brain activity, it desynchronises brain waves, prolongs reaction time by a factor of 2 or 3 and may cause attention deficit in susceptible individuals. Therefore, I do no longer recommend it for general use but only for short periods as with the Basic Cleanse or for a 3-day Candida cure.
Have only a light evening meal and do not eat protein food in the evening. If you want to do allergy testing after sufficient improvement add one new food at a time, closely watch deterioration or reactions such as pains or discomfort and also take the pulse for a full minute before and 45 minutes after the meal. A higher than usual rise in the pulse rate after a normal meal may indicate an allergy. Keep a diary about all tests and reactions.
For more information on allergy testing see my book Healing Foods. After three months of abstention you may not react any more to a food to which you were allergic, but a hidden allergy may return if you then eat this food habitually.
JUICES & HERB TEAS
Have your fluid intake as juices and herb teas that help to overcome cancer. Of most benefit are the fresh juices of wheat grass, barley grass and other young grasses, young edible weeds and flowers (e.g. the petals of male pumpkin flowers), beetroot, carrot, pumpkin, also organic celery, beetroot leaves and other vegetables. Some apple or other fruit may be included in a juice mixture for flavouring. For healing cancer I regard the vitality of the juice, its bio-energy or life-force, as even more important than its biochemical composition. The life-force is highest in embryonic or young and vigorously growing leaves or plants. This applies especially to young grasses but you may also juice other young plants, such as sunflower or buckwheat when they are 5 to 10 cm high.
Drink most of your fluids before breakfast and 30-60 minutes before other meals. Have about 1 litre or more of juices daily and when fasting on juices, 2 litres or more (except on a Breuss Fast where you drink only half a litre). Preferably drink the equivalent of two or more glasses of grass juice daily. However, start with small amounts and increase gradually as nausea or other cleansing reactions may initially occur, especially with the strongly cleansing grass juice. These problems can also be minimised by mixing the grass juice with other juices or just diluting it. Start drinking the juice immediately but spaced out in slow sips. Try flavouring juices with ginger and bee-pollen. The more sweetness there is in a juice the more slowly and spaced out you should drink it in order to minimise any rise in the blood sugar level. If the juice is made mainly from carrot, pumpkin, apple, beetroot and celery so that it is relatively sweet, you may also add some olive oi and lecithin to slow down the absorption or drink part of it before and the rest after a meal.
Gerson and other therapists found that patients in serious conditions did not respond so well when juices were extracted with centrifugal juicers as these generated electric charges that inactivated the enzymes. Blenders, especially with glass containers, are somewhat better, but they may cause more oxidation. If you do use blenders, slice root vegetables thinly and cut grass short, possibly add vitamin C powder to reduce oxidation. You also need a high-powered blender for this. Alternatively, you may put grass or vegetables twice through a mincer and press the juice out by hand as with a cheesecloth. This should be well rinsed afterwards and washed at the end of the day.
A limited amount of grass can be pressed with the Champion juicer by following each handful of grass with a piece of carrot or beetroot or other firm vegetable. However, because of its shredding action, it does not very well extract juice from grasses and leaves. In my opinion the best juicers on the (Australian) market, but also much dearer than the Champion Juicer, are the Green Power Juicer or the Green Life Juicer. They easily and efficiently juice all vegetables, fruit, leaves and grasses. Their slow speed and magnet technology ensure a high quality juice. They turn at only 100 rpm compared to 1700 for the Champion and 7000 for centrifugal juicers. They also extract about 25% more juice with a much higher mineral content than the Champion. Avoid the ultra high speed 'Total Nutrition Center', it 'cooks the food with the heat generated by its high speed. The Oscar Juicer turns very slowly with 70 - 90 RPM and efficiently juices grasses and leaves and everything else. The price is similar to the Champion Juicer but it is less robust.
If you juice several times during the day it is sufficient to clean the juicer once a day after the last use. At other times detach the juicer atttachment from the motor unit and keep it in the refrigerator. More juice can usually be extracted if you press the pulp a second time.
Experiment with growing wheat as well as barley grass as they taste very different. I prefer to grow a mixture of both in the same plot. Wheat grass or barley grass may be grown in garden beds or in seed boxes that you may keep on a verandah or even in a room close to the window. Use well mineralised and compost-enriched soil, soak the seeds overnight and sow quite closely, seeds almost touching each other. (Beware of buying seeds of any sort prepared for sowing with a pesticide coating). Cover thinly with soil or just wet newspaper. However, if moulds are a problem, sow more sparsely and possibly add hydrogen peroxide or Condy's crystals (potassium permanganate) to the irrigation water.
Cut the grass for extraction when it is 10-20cm high. Also the first regrowth is usually still good. You may already start cutting the grass finely into salads when it is about 5cm high. Alternatively chew the grass and discard the residue. I actually prefer young ryegrass, a perennial grass used by farmers for pasture and sown from ryegrass seeds, not from rye kernels. Ryegrass grows better in cooler and dryer conditions.
Not only do I prefer the taste of ryegrass, but it does not need frequent replanting like wheat grass and is even juicier. However, it grows much more slowly than wheat and is sown only sparsely. When starting the therapy, you may sow both grasses so that you can use wheat grass until the ryegrass is ready several weeks later.
Initially you may also use various lawn or pasture grasses; just make a taste test and select palatable varieties. Lawn grasses are more fibrous and yield about 60% juice compared to up to 80% for wheat and ryegrass. They are also a greater strain on the juicer. Preferably mix them with other vegetables. Of greatest importance is the vitality or life-force of the juice. This is generally highest in fresh young leaves and shoots growing organically in mineral-rich soil. Good products to mineralise the soil are rock dust, especially volcanic rock dust, seaweed and sea-minerals.
It is preferable to eat fruit whole instead of extracting the juice, except when on a citrus juice fast with mainly lemon and grapefruit. These are good to improve liver functions. With leukaemia and lymph cancers, have mainly fresh grass and vegetable juices. If you want to get more nutrients out of your juice residues and also enjoy a hot broth, you may just cover the residues with water, simmer for 10 minutes and then strain and drink, possibly after adding some herbs and spices for flavouring.
Peppermint tea is good for the digestion; red clover is an anti-cancer herb with a pleasant taste; also pau d'arco is pleasant as well as powerful; pawpaw leaf tea is bitter but good if available. Half a cup of bitter liver herbs is beneficial after meals to stimulate the digestion. Use burdock, celandine, devil's claw, centaury, gentian or a specific cancer herb mixture such as Essiac (Ojibway Indian Tea) or the Choctaw or Hoxsey herbs.
CLEANSING
Cleansing the body is vitally important because of the extremely toxic effects of a growing or disintegrating tumour. The basic aspects of cleansing are fasting, liver and lymph stimulation, sanitising the bowels and flushing the kidneys.
On any kind of cleansing program you will experience weight loss and lack of energy. With advanced cancer these effects may be rather severe and a cause for anxiety. However usually a low point is passed, often with fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, after which weight and energy begin to improve even without any change in diet.
On either cleanse or diet, be sure to have enough fluid intake, aim for about 3 litres daily from juices and herb teas but less if fruit is eaten as well. At the first sign of a reaction with either fever, severe pain or weakness or nausea use frequent coffee enemas and keep the fluid intake up, otherwise the liver may become too toxic resulting in drowsiness and coma. If necessary use double strength coffee enemas and also use hydrogen peroxide enemas; try retention enemas of fresh juices if food cannot be tolerated.
Energy healing as with Reiki or laying-on-of-hands or pyramid energy can be very useful during times of weakness, reactions and in crisis situations. Even if bedridden, rest as much as possible outside, on a verandah or in the garden rather than inside the house. During the cleanse activate the tumour site or the area of the main cancer activity as with suitable packs or hot and cold water applications, reflexology and guided imagery.
Learn to listen to your body to tell you what it needs, rather than sticking strictly to a pre-determined program. Sometimes it may be better to ease the program, have more cooked food or less of a particular food and more of another or choose a less severe type of cleanse. If you are not addicted to a certain food but develop a craving for it, then it is most likely good for you. You also need to keep your 'inner child' reasonably happy. Ask your inner self for cooperation and in return promise and deliver some treats for any hardships that have to be endured.
Furthermore, a good cleansing program is likely to trigger one or several healing reactions, lasting for days and sometimes weeks. Commonly, during a healing reaction pains or areas of discomfort shift around to different body locations. During this time you may ease any strict program and do whatever is necessary to make yourself more comfortable.
THE BASIC CLEANSE
This is recommended at the start of any health improvement program and also from time to time thereafter, say once a year. It is designed to clean out and sanitise especially the gastrointestinal tract, the liver and the gall bladder. Eat apples only for the first three days, as many as you like. Granny Smith apples are usually preferable, but if you feel that they are too acid for you then use a sweeter variety. If organic apples are not available, you may remove the skin and core of commercial apples.
In the evening have a hot castor oil pack on the liver and upper abdomen: Coat the area liberally with castor oil, cover with a woollen cloth folded in several layers and keep warm for one to two hours with a hot-water bottle. At bedtime take a tablespoon of olive oil. Normally extra-virgin is best but in this case light olive oil will be easier to swallow. You may also shake the oil in a jar together with a spoonful of lecithin granules and some fresh citrus juice. However, on the evening of the third day take half a cupful of olive oil in this way. Then lie down immediately on your back or right side. After the first bowel movement the next morning look in the toilet bowl for gallstones. There may be hundreds of little greenish wax balls of different sizes floating on top of the water.
First thing in the morning of the first to fourth day take a glass of water with a crushed clove of garlic and about 1 tablespoon of Epsom salt (more or less to cause a good bowel clean-out within a few hours). If you cannot take Epsom salts then try another strong herbal laxative instead (e.g. senna). If you have trouble taking raw garlic, you may fill it into empty gelatine capsules. About one hour after the Epsom salt and garlic take a large dose of acidophilus-bifido, either as high-potency capsules, powder, yoghurt or a combination of these.
If you do not have the time or energy for the full cleanse, then you may now return to your normal diet and do the rest at another time. Otherwise, from the fourth day on stop using the apples, Epsom salt and garlic and for another five days drink only freshly pressed vegetable juices, although these may be flavoured with apple or some other fruit. However, if you do not have a juicer, then just continue with the apples. In addition, every 3 hours or 5 times daily take a heaped teaspoon of psyllium hulls together with 2-3 teaspoons of ground linseed. Mix in a glass of water and drink immediately followed by some more water. The linseed should be freshly ground in a blender or coffee grinder and refrigerated.
Take a spoonful of lecithin granules and plenty of digestive enzymes together with the juices. With every glassful of juice you may take 2 or 3 tablets such as pancreatin, bromelain or mixed enzymes. Alternatively and even better, use mature green paw-paw if available, when it just turns yellow inside and the seeds are already black. You may make a smoothie by blending it with some vegetable juice or yoghurt. Use about half a medium-size paw-paw a day, but the more the better. You could also use the raw juice of paw-paw leaves or immature fruit but this may need to be flavoured or diluted.
On the morning after the last juice day or possibly already at bedtime the night before take a tablespoon of Epsom salt in water or generally enough laxative to produce a strong bowel clean-out during the morning. You may sit on a bucket to investigate what has come out, often there are long strings and parts of compacted matter looking like sections of bowel.
It is advisable to increase the variety of food very gradually while doing some testing for allergy or food intolerance at the same time. Start with foods that are not likely to cause allergy such as cooked and raw vegetables, rice and other non-gluten grains. Leave any processed food, wheat, oats, rye, barley, citrus fruit, tomatoes, egg, yeast products and cows' milk products for later testing.
Keep a diary of the tested foods and any reactions, such as nausea, pain or discomfort and also record your pulse rate before and after eating a test food or meal. Usually the pulse rate rises slightly 30 to 60 minutes after food intake. If it rises much more than after eating just unflavoured rice or steamed vegetables, then there may be an allergy. The stronger the rise, the stronger the allergy. Allergy testing may not work if you are exposed to tobacco smoke or use coffee, tea or other drugs.
If complications during the Basic Cleanse or the Long Cleanse force you to interrupt, return temporarily to your former diet and try the cleanse again at a later time.
THE LONG CLEANSE
A Long Cleanse of about 6 weeks duration on either a small amount of vegetable juice or grapes has been shown to shrink or dissolve tumours and normalise lymph and blood cancers in thousands of cancer victims. If the body is starving it starts digesting its own non-essential tissues and it starts with diseased parts and tumours. Famous examples of this kind of cleanse are the Breuss Cure on 0.5 litre of fresh vegetable juice, the grape cure of Johanna Brandt, the wheat grass cure of Ann Wigmore and even the urine fast of John Armstrong (for details see the article on Urine & Urea Therapy).
On the Breuss Cure you drink about 1/2 litre of fresh organic juices daily, extracted in a non-centrifugal way as described earlier. The recommended composition is 3 parts of beetroot, 1 of carrot and 1 of grass juice or celery and preferably a small amount of horseradish, radish or turnip or their leaves. However, if you cannot take it this way even if diluted with water or herb tea, try less beetroot and more carrot and possibly some apple for flavouring. Best make fresh juice 3 times during the day and drink it in spaced-out sips that you savour in the mouth for several minutes before swallowing. In the evening you may drink a hot onion broth. However, commercially a 'Breuss Juice' is available that has been heat treated. This does not have any life-force or enzymes and I regard it as useless. Cleansing juices must always be made fresh to be of any value.
As an alternative possibility you may use 1-2 litres of juice consisting mainly of about equal parts of grass juice and beetroot juice flavoured with ginger and pollen and perhaps an apple, again with hot onion broth in the evening. Purple onions are best, cook the skins as well. This larger amount of juice is more suitable for those who cannot afford to loose too much weight.
To keep the bowels clean and stimulate the liver and kidneys you may either use a daily coffee enema or continue with a suitable amount of Epsom salts as on the Basic Cleanse or senna and aloe vera laxative. Also continue with 2-3 tsp of psyllium hulls in a large glassful of water with another large glassful afterwards. These measures may not be required on the grape diet if it produces daily bowel movements. The weight loss during a 6-week fast is usually between 5 and 15 kg.
Instead of juices, you may use follow the grape cure all or part of the time. Black or purple grapes with seeds are best. Eat them with skins and pips. Preferably chew the pips to release their pycnogenol. If you cannot get unsprayed grapes, wash them in warm soapy water and rinse well afterwards (However, recent research evidence suggests no amount of washing will work with a number of carcinogenic pesticides used in conventional vineyard culture). Furthermore, I recommend to soak the grapes with the addition of some hydrogen peroxide to kill and remove any fungi.
Eat about 1 kg daily according to appetite. If a temporary aversion to grapes develops, have a few days of juices with plenty of beetroot in-between. Eat only a few grapes at a time to avoid a strong rise in the blood sugar level. Be very careful to store grapes cool and dry, a good way is to hang them over a washing line in a garage.
If you feel that you definitely need something savoury to keep going, prepare and drink a warm strained vegetable broth in the evening, preferably including plenty of onion. Purple onions are best. Also simmer the outer purple onion skins. Furthermore, you may make a tea from savoury herbs and spices or just from curry powder, also use ginger and fresh green herbs for flavouring. After a Long Cleanse increase the variety and quantity of food only gradually. Remain on a raw food diet for at least one week afterwards. Do light daily exercise, even if you have to stay in bed and plenty of meditation and guided imagery.
From time to time you may experience strong cleansing or healing reactions and feel very unwell for a few days. During this time increase the use of laxatives and liver stimulation and use coffee enemas several times daily to relieve the accumulation of toxic matter in the liver. If you cannot hold food down because of constant vomiting, try ginger and slippery elm powder in strained water from cooked brown rice.
While a Long Cleanse can be very successful in completely removing any tumours, it is also possible that they just shrink and if one is not very careful when returning to a more normal diet, then they will just grow back again. Therefore, if there are signs of remaining tumours, immediately follow the Long Cleanse with a strict anti-inflammatory tumour inhibition program.
THE JUICE DIET
While the Long Cleanse is the fastest dietary way to reduce tumours, it requires a good energy level and immune system to start with and may not be suitable if underweight or after radio or chemotherapy. In this case you may follow the Basic Cleanse with the milder Juice Diet. Typically this may be as follows:
If the bowels do not move freely, then on rising or at bedtime take sufficient laxative as required to produce a good bowel clean-out during the morning. You may use a teaspoon of magnesium chloride, Epsom salts, sea minerals, senna or aloe vera, preferably as part of a fresh leaf, or 50-100ml of Aloe Vera Gel (e.g. Forever Living Products, etc). Also use psyllium and ground linseed as describe under Bowel Cleansing. With pain or other discomfort try a coffee enema in the morning as described under 'Liver Stimulation' below.
Then drink a glass of fresh vegetable juice of unsprayed vegetables, grasses and green leaves. You may either mix a green juice with a sweet juice as from beetroot and carrot or alternate drinking a green and a sweet juice. Commercial pumpkin from produce markets should be fine as it is usually unsprayed. Flavour with an apple and possibly other fruit, especially mature green paw-paw or pineapple. Of greatest importance is the life-force of the juice which is mainly in young, growing leaves and shoots. This comes from a combination of the quality of the soil in which the produce was grown, its freshness and the quality of the juicer (the slower the better). I would like to see up to half of the daily juice to come from young grasses, such as wheat grass, barley grass or ryegrass as well as other young leaves and shoots. A further large part should be from beetroot. Start drinking the juice immediately but very slowly in tasting sips. On a strict program drink another glass of juice every hour except on 3 or 4 occasions when you may have a light meal or fruit instead. If available use plenty of purple fruit such as black and purple grapes or commercial juice of these.
This is similar to the recommendations of the Gerson Diet and most important in rather advanced or 'terminal' conditions. As it is very labour intensive and time consuming, patients obviously need a carer or helper to do most of the work. Even if your energy level is quite good, if you have to do all the work yourself, it will be more realistic to have a glass of juice every 2 hours or 6 times a day in addition to several light meals and snacks. It is important to conserve your energy and not to exhaust yourself with any kind of work.
As a suitable meal you may have several tablespoons of ground linseed with pollen-honey yoghurt and flavoured with banana, fresh berries or chopped fruit. As another light meal you may have a raw vegetable salad flavoured with extra virgin olive oil or linseed oil, lemon juice, yoghurt, herbs and plenty of spices. In addition you may eat a slice of sourdough bread or have a baked potato or a small amount of cooked vegetables. On other occasions you may snack some fruit or drink a warm savoury vegetable broth. Use especially purple foods, such as beetroot, grapes, blackberries and puple onions.
LOW PROTEIN DIET
When the available protein is low, the tumour is forced to stop growing while the body starts digesting non-essential tissues, such as tumours. A diet severely restricted in protein can be maintained over long periods only if most of the protein is raw, not heated.
Proteins are the main building blocks for a growing tumour, while glucose, phosphorus and various B-vitamins are essential for energy production. The aim is to supply just enough of these to maintain vital body functions without providing growth stimulation to the tumour(s). You may use this diet on its own or interchanged with the Juice Diet and before and after a Long Cleanse.
However, some amino acids are also essential in defeating the cancer, especially cysteine and L- methionine which together with linolenic acid from linseed oil and copper help to normalise the oxygen metabolism of cancer cells and make them more or less like normal body cells. Therefore, take at least 2 g of L-cysteine and L-methionine per day in addition to generous amounts of sulphur-supplying onions, raw or cooked. Furthermore, L-glutamine supplementation of several gram is beneficial if one is underweight and cannot gain weight. Also a few teaspoons of bee pollen will be helpful, preferably used as Pollen-Honey Yoghurt. This also supplies desirable acidophilus-bifido bacteria.
Adopt a diet low in protein, phosphorus and glucose that is mainly based on vegetables, purple foods and non-sweet fruits. Maximise the amount of uncooked fresh vegetables as salads and juices. Preferably use Ladyfinger bananas and varieties other than Cavendish. Eat Cavendish bananas only in the early stages of ripening. If available have plenty of mature green paw-paw, e.g. as smoothie together with bananas and other fruit.
Sago, tapioca, arrowroot and potato flour is acceptable, e.g. for making porridge or a pancake. For a pancake soak the sago or tapioca granules overnight. This may be mixed with an equal part of beetroot/carrot pulp left over after juicing, or with freshly grated beetroot, carrot and possibly onion for flavouring. Spread out and heat in a non-sticking pan. Alternatively, for a smoother dough, blend the soaked tapioca or sago alone or together with the vegetable pulp in a minimum of water and then add arrowroot or potato flour to soak up any excess water. On a less strict diet you may also use white rice and maize meal as these are relatively low in protein and phosphorus.
Avoid flesh foods and minimise eggs or milk (only as yoghurt), also cooked legumes and other high protein foods, salt, gluten and other foods restricted in the general cancer diet. Try to obtain most food organically grown or at least not sprayed with chemicals. If commercial vegetables have to be used, avoid or minimise those that are usually most heavily sprayed, such as tomatoes and green leaves, also the cabbage family. Hydroponically grown vegetables may be less sprayed.
Avoid seeds, such as grains, flours, soy products and nuts, including sprouted seeds. Sprouted seeds are high in protein, phosphorus and growth hormones. Introduce these only gradually when tumours are under control. Initially minimise sweet corn, fresh peas and lecithin (all relatively high in phosphorus). Highest quality linseed oil and extra-virgin olive oil may be used freely (but only unheated). See the article on the Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio and select mainly food low in phosphorus. As a daily intestinal flush use only psyllium hulls instead of psyllium with ground linseed.
Gradually ease this diet when the cancer is under control. If you cannot control it, then you may go for six weeks on a Long Cleanse with grapes or juices or try a strict Juice Diet or the Gerson Diet.
LIVER STIMULATION
The liver is the key organ in cancer cleansing. Fasting releases toxins from the tissues, lymph stimulation transports them to the liver and kidneys, a high fluid intake flushes the kidneys. Liver stimulation acts to detoxify unbiological chemicals and toxins and releases them with the bile into the bowels from where they are finally flushed out with Epsom salts or by stimulating bowel activity.
The detoxifying power of the liver is increased with anti-oxidant and enzyme-rich nutrients but especially with sulphur compounds as in onions and the amino acids L-cysteine and L-methionine. Also useful are liver herbs, castor oil packs on the liver, reflexology, magnets and acupuncture-related therapies.
However, the main effort is directed towards frequent release of bile to clear the toxins from the liver. Linseed oil and extra virgin olive oil do this in a natural way, especially if used as described in the Basic Cleanse. Epsom salts help by relaxing the sphincter muscle of the gall bladder and various bitter liver and gall bladder herbs stimulate the release of bile directly. The strongest action, however, is a coffee enema which may be used during the disintegration of large tumours and brings much relief to sufferers from pain, nausea and weakness, as well as from approaching hepatic coma.
Boil 2 tablespoons of coarse ground coffee, not instant coffee, for 3 minutes in 1 litre of water, simmer for a further 15 minutes and strain, rinse the coffee grounds with some more water. Use this as a retention enema after cleaning the bowels beforehand with clear water colonics or an Epsom salts flush. Try to keep inside for at least 10 minutes. It may help to take a glassful of water with a teaspoon of psyllium hulls about one hour beforehand to help absorbing toxins released by the liver. Test for allergy to coffee. Sometimes about 150mg of caffeine is used instead of coffee.
Instead of a coffee enema, you may sometimes experiment with a glassful of psyllium water followed by a tablespoon of Epsom salts and a cup of filter coffee. The idea is that the coffee activates the liver, the Epsom salts dilate the gall bladder and induces the release of bile, the psyllium binds the toxins and the Epsom salts quickly removes it all from the body.
Some toxins may already be removed before they reach the liver. First thing in the morning (before or after a flush) take a large sip of sunflower oil or grape seed oil and swish it around the mouth for about twenty minutes, then spit it out (be careful, it may clog the sink). Continue this for several months.
MUCUS RELEASE
Many individuals have an increased tendency towards mucus congestion which is a contributing factor especially with lung cancer and lymph cancer and often also with leukaemia.
A quick and effective way to clear the head-spaces of mucus is with sugar. Keep a teaspoonful of sugar in the mouth for several minutes until it is dissolved, then spit out and take another spoonful. Preferably use fine brown sugar as it dissolves much faster than other types. Repeat this for 2-4 hours, once a week or more often with continuing congestion.
With lung cancer keep a hot pack of mashed onions on the chest in the evening and best overnight. In the morning let the torso hang for 10 to 30 minutes over a chair or from the bed at about a 45 degree angle with the head to the floor. Also a slant-board would be good for this. Try to cough up mucus and possibly dissolving tumour mass. Support this effort with someone patting the back with cupped hands or using an electric vibrator for this. It also helps to drink warm horehound tea beforehand. Do this daily for a while or as required.
GERSON THERAPY
This is an excellent diet-based therapy with a good rate of documented successes. The following is an overview provided by the Gerson Institut, visit their web site for further information.
The Gerson Therapy Diet: The Gerson diet is naturally high in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and micronutrients. It is extremely low in sodium and fats, and rich in fluids. The following is a typical diet for the Gerson patient:
• Thirteen glasses daily of fresh raw carrot-apple and green leaf juices prepared hourly from fresh, organically grown fruits and vegetables.
• Three full vegetarian meals, freshly prepared from organically grown fruits, vegetables and whole grains. A typical meal will include salad, cooked vegetables, baked potatoes, vegetable soup, and juice.
• Fresh fruit available at all hours for snacking.
Gerson Therapy Medications: All medications used in connection with the Gerson Therapy are safely classed by the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) as biologicals (materials of organic origin). These organic materials are supplied in therapeutic amounts. Here is a list of those holistic medications used with the Gerson Therapy:
Detoxification: A very important part of the Gerson Therapy is frequent detoxification of the tissues and blood. This is accomplished through a variety of means, but first and foremost through the use of coffee enemas. The scientific basis for the use of coffee enemas is well documented, and can be obtained from the Gerson Institute. Patients report that the enemas decrease pain and hasten healing. Biologically, enzyme systems of the gut wall and liver are stimulated, and bile flow is increased. This has been shown to enhance the body's ability to eliminate toxic residues from environmental, chemotherapeutic, and other sources. Tumour and other diseased tissue is also more rapidly eliminated as it is broken down.
Other means of detoxification include the use of castor oil, used as an additional stimulant of bile flow and to enhance the liver's ability to filter the blood.
SUPPLEMENTS & REMEDIES
A wide range of supplements and remedies are useful in cancer therapy. Some of them have direct tumour destroying or inhibiting properties while others help to normalise the metabolism, destroy microbes or parasites, strengthen the immune system and increase vitality. Often these different roles overlap.
Depending on finances and preferences, you may choose a program with a high or a low level of supplements and remedies. The better the diet, the cleansing and the mind therapy and the less advanced the condition, the less supplements and remedies will be needed. Based on these general rules you may put your individual program together from the information given below and in accordance with the overall principles of holistic cancer therapy.
The following supplements consisting of high quality foods and nutrients are helpful with all conditions and especially recommended with advanced cancer.
If no fresh grass juice is available, you may take 2-3 teaspoons of dried green barley or wheat grass juice three times daily with meals or in liquid before meals.Alternatively or in addition you may use spirulina. The deeper the colour of these powders the better.
Lactoferrin derived from colostrum strongly stimulates the immune system. Propolis is highly recommended (3 or 4 x 500mg) as a natural antibiotic. Best suck tablets between meals or chew and keep in the mouth for some time.
Freeze-dried liver is best chewed between meals and kept in the mouth for absorption and in addition crushed and added to grass and vegetable juices. According to Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, enzymes in the liver facilitate the conversion of beta-carotene into abscisic acid which is identical with the plant hormone dormine and inhibits the proliferation of tumour cells. However, in cancer sufferers the liver seems to lose the ability for this conversion. Dormine is also available from fresh raw seeds and vegetables. Take 1 - 3 tablets daily, in strength preferably equivalent to 10,000mg of fresh liver per tablet.
Zell Oxygen supports grass juice and freeze-dried liver in normalising cancer cells. You may use 1-3 teaspoons three times daily with juices, hold your nose while drinking if the smell puts you off.
Bio-Beet or a similar product of dried beetroot powder may be used if fresh beetroot is not available. Tinned beetroot, on the other hand, is not a suitable substitute for fresh beetroot. Ginger is an excellent anti-inflammatory remedy and also stimulates digestion and helps to prevent nausea.
Liquorice is a natural alternative for Tamoxifen with oestrogen-related cancers. Try 3 x 500 mg or 3 x 1 g. However, liquorice tends to hold sodium in the body and expel potassium. This can cause water retention and high blood pressure in susceptible individuals and liquorice should then not be taken. Most cancer patients have normal or low blood pressure and liquorice is fine for them. Alternatively, avoid all sodium supplements and use several grams of potassium chloride in addition.
Ginseng and bee pollen help to increase energy levels. Pollen granules are easier digested if dissolved overnight in liquid, alternatively you may ferment pollen as part of your self-made yoghurt. I recommend using several spoonfuls of pollen together with ginger to flavour your grass and vegetable juices. If the blood pressure is higher than 120/80 you may use potassium chloride instead of salt on your food. However, with very low blood pressure salt may be required, especially if the pressure is lower than about 100/60.
For improving detoxification and oxygen metabolism, especially if tumours are present, supplementation with the amino acids L-cysteine and L-methionine or alternatively MSM is beneficial. You may take 500mg each of L-cysteine and L-methionine twice daily with meals or juices or 5 - 10 g of MSM. Best avoid the racemic or D, L amino acids except for D, L phenylalanine). In addition or alternatively, use plenty of sulphur-rich foods, such as onions and vegetables of the cabbage family, especially red cabbage.
The amino acid L-glutamine is important if one is underweight and weak and cannot gain any weight - take 2 g or more before meals. The thyroid produces hormones by adding iodine to the amino acid tyrosine. Most cancer sufferers have an underactive thyroid.
With lack of energy try L-carnitine, 1 to 3 g daily in divided doses. L-carnitine is required to produce energy from fatty acids and can be deficient with vegetarian diets or liver problems or if elderly and especially in vegetarians with type O blood group. However, if you are underweight it may not help as there is not much fat to burn.
With holistic therapy tumours become more benign. However, due to increasing hormone production and nutrient supply their rate of growth may temporarily speed up and tumour size increase alarmingly. To avoid this situation and also if it should happen, use a low protein diet, keep the body well alkalised and, besides other measures, use plenty of protein-digesting enzymes as from pawpaw or commercial supplements.
If the digestion is weak, in advanced conditions and with any flesh foods or big meals use digestive enzyme tablets and hydrochloric acid-pepsin with meals. However, as a tumour-destroying agent digestive enzymes should be taken well before meals and at bedtime in high doses. Best use a combination of pancreatin, bromelain and papain, several tablets four times daily. If available you may use instead mature, green pawpaw or pawpaw powder or chopped pawpaw leaves or frozen pawpaw leaf juice suitably diluted, the more the better. If unpleasant symptoms develop due to tumour destruction stop using proteolytic (protein-digesting) enzymes temporarily.
Cheaper than using hydrochloric acid-pepsin tablets is taking diluted hydrochloric acid. Up to 1 teaspoon (plastic) of 2-3% hydrochloric acid may be mixed with the protein part of a meal, used as part of the salad dressing or taken in herb tea after the meal. Diluted hydrochloric acid from the chemist is usually 20% and concentrated hydrochloric acid as from a hardware shop 35%. The former may be diluted one to ten with water and the latter one part to 15 parts. Hydrochloric acid is especially lacking in the advanced stages of cancer.
Coenzyme Q 10 reportedly is quite effective with a range of cancers. It stimulates the oxidative energy production of cells. 500 mg daily have been used which makes it too expensive with most low-potency tablets. However, a US company, Bio Tech of Fayetteville, AR, supposedly is selling it in bulk as yellow crystals. These should be dissolved in a cup of hot liquid, tea or coffee, with the addition of a teaspoon of olive oil. As a low-potency suplement you may use 3 x 30 mg. However, if after some time you notice that it does not improve your energy level, you may for a week double or tripple the amounts and if it still does not help, it may not be needed and you can leave it off.
If the recommended homemade yoghurt cannot be used then take powdered cultures sold in refrigerated brown glass bottles or high-potency capsules. Keep refrigerated. Use mainly acidophilus and bifido either in a mixed culture or individually, together about 1 teaspoonful in juice before meals.
The main nutrients to normalise the energy metabolism in cancer cells and make them less malignant are MSM or the sulphur amino acids L-cysteine and L-methionine, linseed oil or freshly ground linseed, red-purple colour pigments as well as organically bound copper as in copper salicylate.
Vitamin/Mineral Supplements
Multivitamins and specific vitamins and minerals can often be helpful and sometimes harmful. Often the high-quality wholefood supplements mentioned so far will be sufficient. Nevertheless, good results have been achieved with specific vitamins and minerals and you may experiment with the following suggestions.
Multivitamins, and especially the full spectrum of the B-group, have sometimes been observed to accelerate tumour growth. Therefore, it is preferable to take these only after tumour removal or signs of regression, possibly a medium potency multivitamin-mineral tablet once or twice a day with meals.
In advanced conditions take individual vitamins and minerals or combinations of those mentioned below. Start with low doses and only gradually increase to the recommended full dose. In a similar way decrease high amounts gradually. This is especially important with vitamin C. Using the maximum levels as recommended may not be the optimal dose for you and you may have to experiment, especially if your weight is much higher or lower than normal.
With raised blood pressure Vitamin C may be taken as ascorbic acid. A non-acid form is best taken as potassium-magnesium ascorbate. As this is difficult to obtain or expensive, you may mix your own with 3 to 4 parts of ascorbic acid and 1 part each of potassium bicarbonate and magnesium oxide (preferable) or magnesium carbonate. You can get or order the potassium and magnesium salts from a chemist. During storage this mixture reacts and cakes together. It is still useable then and may just be crushed, alternatively mix only small amounts as used each day. Take or mix with each meal 1/2 -1 teaspoon of this combination. However, with low blood pressure you may use sodium ascorbate and calcium ascorbate instead.
An average intake of vitamin E is 250mg with most meals. Vitamin E is most beneficial for preventing tumours from regrowing as after surgery or after tumours have disappeared naturally. However, it appears to accumulate in tumours and protect them from destruction by oxygen therapies and other anti-tumour therapies, including radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, it is preferable to avoid using it with therapies that aim to destroy tumours. Use only vitamin E from natural sources and preferably the more easily absorbed form in tablets, especially if there is any sign of fat malabsorption.
Vitamin A is especially helpful with lung cancer and leukaemia, it stimulates the immune system and helps cells to differentiate and become more normal. It is best used in the form of shark liver oil or otherwise halibut liver oil, say 3 capsules daily. Temporarily it has been used with good results in much higher doses.
Copper, manganese, selenium and zinc are essential trace minerals in cancer therapy. Copper is a part of many oxidising enzymes and helps to normalise the energy metabolism in cancer cells. It also strengthens the immune system and, especially as copper salicylate, is strongly anti-inflammatory. Copper ascorbate is strongly anti-microbial. However, inorganic copper as from copper water pipes can be present in excess and is then harmful. Copper can also increase angiogenesis or the formation of new blood vesels in tumours and so stimulate their growth.
It is similar with zinc. Zinc is important for the immune system and generally 5-10mg with most meals are recommended. It is especially important with prostate cancer where you may take 30 mg of zinc daily and also the herb saw palmetto. However, as with copper, zinc can also give additional stimulation to large or fast growing tumours. There are no fixed rules and you may try to find an intuitive answer if in your case it is more important to strengthen the immune system or to weaken the tumour. I believe that copper salicylate and the Schweitzer Formula (a zinc-boron salicylate) are likely to support the immune system without helping the tumour but I do not know if that really is so. More generally I believe that strengthening the immune system, normalising the metabolism of cancer cells with purple food and using anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapy will commonly get any tumours under control.
Equally or even more important is manganese which is for the thymus gland what iodine is for the thyroid gland. Take 20mg daily as manganese chelate. Alternatively, the best food source is from grass juice grown in good soil or Green Barley juice powder.
Additional molybdenum is advisable with cancer of the throat and oesophagus. Selenium will be helpful except in areas with known high soil levels and is especially important in New Zealand and Australia. Take 100-200mcg daily in divided doses.
Cells can be protected from becoming malignant with calcium EAP, while cancer cells may die by raising their alkalinity with caesium salts or increasing the internal calcium level with calcium EAP, calcium orotate or calcium aspartate.
Vitamin B6 is recommended in a dose of 5-10mg and niacin 50-100mg per meal. It may initially cause a harmless skin flush in sensitive individuals. Niacinamide, also called nicotinamide, may be used instead of niacin (500 mg). It is especially beneficial with lung cancer where 500 mg may be used three times daily.
In advanced conditions and especially with lack of energy, weekly injections under the skin with 1000 mcg of vitamin B12 are very good, obtain these from a chemist as Cytamen 1000 or Neocytamen. Later keep a crushed vitamin B12 tablet in the mouth for oral absorption; however, this may not be necessary if freeze-dried liver is absorbed in this way.
Vitamin B2 aids cell oxidation and slows blood vessel growth in tumours - use about 100mg in divided doses. Vitamin D is beneficial with colon cancer and possibly other cancers. With cervical or uterine and ovarian cancer use 5mg of folic acid in divided doses (not necessary if plenty of grass juice is taken), experiment with it in case of leukaemia.
If your program involves taking a great number of different tablets and capsules it may be more convenient to divide them up before breakfast into separate small containers, such as eggcups, one for each meal or for between meals. With diarrhoea and digestive problems crush tablets before taking, mixed with food or juice. During strong reactions greatly reduce intake of most supplements and remedies. With kidney disease use mainly high amounts of natural food concentrates as indicated. Use any vitamin and mineral supplements in small, only gradually increasing amounts, but reduce these if oedema (excess fluid) occurs.
Bowel Tolerance - Vitamin C
In difficult situations and especially with advanced leukaemia and lymph cancers, it can be beneficial and lifesaving temporarily to raise the vitamin C intake to bowel tolerance levels. This helps to eliminate any viruses, keeps the cancer microbe and other microbes down, strengthens the immune system and protects the body from excessive stress. In life-threatening situations intravenous infusions may be given of 100gm or more daily.
Commonly sodium ascorbate is being used. Gradually increase the intake from 1/2 - 1 teaspoon three times daily to half a teaspoon every waking hour and then to one teaspoon every hour and even when awake during the night.
Sooner or later this will cause diarrhoea or intestinal discomfort. When this happens cut the intake back by about 10% or until the dosage can be tolerated. If discomfort occurs already at low levels, try again from time to time to increase the intake.
Continue with a maximum level of vitamin C as long as the condition is critical or for several weeks and then gradually reduce to the recommended maintenance level, but increase again if the condition deteriorates with the reduced intake. Do not stop the use of high vitamin C supplementation suddenly as this can produce a dangerous tissue deficiency; so-called rebound scurvy. A high fluid intake is important together with an ultra-high vitamin C intake. This therapy should not be used with damaged kidneys and dosages should be reduced if water retention with oedema or swellings occur.
Acid-Alkaline Balance
Tumours grow only if the surrounding tissue is too acid. This may be due to the lactic acid production of the tumour itself. However, sensitive individuals are too acid all over which leads to rapid tumour growth. The main cause of overacidity is overproduction of lactic acid due to inefficient metabolism, food allergies, candida overgrowth and too much sweet and acid food including fruit and fruit juices.
On the other hand, if the body fluids are too alkaline (without taking alkalisers) that is even worse. It means that the energy production of the whole body is extremely sluggish due to poisoning of the cells by environmental toxins or chemicals released by the cancer microbe that takes over in the final stages of cancer. The over-alkalinity is due partly to a deficiency of fruit acids which are normally produced from glucose in the normal energy production and partly to massive losses of potassium from body cells which is then replaced by less alkaline sodium.
Therefore, if the body and especially the skin are oversensitive, use additional alkalisers, but if the skin and body are rather insensitive, except for pain in the tumour area, then have plenty of fruit acids and also hydrochloric acid supplements with any cooked meals. If you are not sure if you are too acid or alkaline, buy litmus paper or pH paper from a chemist, preferably with a range of about pH 5 - 8. Of course, if you appear to be reasonably balanced then you do not need to do anything.
The first morning urine may be acid, but during the day it should be slightly alkaline. With some tweezers dip a small strip of test paper into fresh urine and compare the colour within a few seconds. Litmus paper is red when it is acid and turns blue when alkaline, when neutral it is purple or violet. Initially you may add a pinch of bicarbonate to the test to see how an alkaline sample looks.
If the urine is not alkaline or at least neutral during the day, than take either half a teaspoon of magnesium oxide (or magnesium carbonate), potassium bicarbonate or a mixture of both once or several times daily so that the urine remains alkaline. Take the alkaliser with fruit, juices or just water, but not within three hours after a meal.
If you are normally too acid then avoid food acids, such as from fruits or Kambucha tea or even better, neutralise these so that they taste only slightly acid. A highly recommended way of alkalising an overacid body is by neutralising fruit acids or Kambucha tea with dolomite. Leave either the juice of a lemon or grapefruit or about 50 ml of cider vinegar or any other acid fruit juice for a few hours or overnight mixed with a teaspoon of dolomite powder. Use a shallow bowel to provide a large surface area or stir occasionally. This reduces the acidity of the liquid from about pH 1 or 2 to the closer to neutral pH 5 and provides calcium and magnesium in the ratio of 2 : 1. Furthermore, the fruit acid component will then be metabolised to produce energy while the mineral component will alkalise the body. Pour off the liquid and drink before breakfast or other meals.
Over-breathing, breathing faster and deeper than necessary, makes the body more alkaline by releasing excess carbon dioxide with the breath. Sometimes there is a lack of gastric acid despite general over-acidity, often indicated by soft fingernails. This causes deficiency of proteins, vitamins and minerals. In this case use hydrochloric acid supplements as well as sufficient alkaliser.
Calcium EAP
Toxic matter tends to weaken and disrupt the energy production within cells and this is a major factor in cancer. Such toxic chemicals, together with useful ones, can enter inside the cells only through special pores in the cell wall. In healthy cells the entrance points of these pores are protected by special gatekeeper chemicals, mainly the calcium salt of 2-aminoethanol phosphate, also called colamine phosphate or short EAP. This EAP is heavily concentrated at these entrance points and is attached to the cell wall where it keeps the calcium in a fixed position. In addition to keeping unwanted chemicals from entering, EAP is also effective in transporting essential minerals through the cell wall and into the cell. In addition, it helps to maintain and restore a normal electric cell potential between both sides of the membrane.
After evaluating the treatment of several thousand multiple sclerosis patients over many years Dr. Nieper found that hardly anyone of these patients had developed cancer. Also in a 6-year study of 8 patients with repeated surgery for colon cancer there were no further recurrences with calcium EAP therapy. A report from the John Hopkins University states that by using agents that elevate the intracellular calcium level even fast growing metastatic cancer cells could be made to undergo programmed cell death. Other carriers, besides EAP, that are able to transport calcium into cells are calcium aspartate and calcium orotate.
Calcium EAP is commonly sold in packs of 150 tablets, 350 mg each and supplying 44 mg of calcium. Commonly 1 to 3 tablets are taken with meals three times daily. The cheapest source for medium-size orders is directly from the manufacturer: Dr. F, Koehler Chemie, in Alsbach, Germany, phone 062 57-5 09-0, fax 062 57-5 09 46 or from the US subsidiary Koehler Company, P.O.Box 1508, Mt Vernon, WA 98273, phone 206-424-6025 or fax 206-424-6029. Retail sources may be found on the Internet.
Magnesium Chloride
Magnesium is an important mineral in cancer therapy and magnesium chloride is a good supplement to use. It strengthens the immune system as well as all digestive functions. Take up to half a teaspoon 3 times daily mixed with food or drink, it tastes somewhat similar to salt. However, this is not suitable if the blood pressure is low. In this case calcium EAP or calcium orotate may be more appropriate.
Sulphates
Sulphated chains of carbohydrates are important components of our connective tissue. Healthy connective tissue makes it difficult for a tumour to expand. In addition, sulphates and sulphated carbohydrates have immune-enhancing and anti-microbial effects as in the form of mucopolysaccharide in cartilage and aloe vera gel.
The body forms sulphates from the sulphur-amino acids cysteine and methionine, but these are usually in short supply. Therefore sulphate supplementation can be beneficial in cancer therapy. The simplest way is to add half a teaspoon of Epsom salts to a small amount of water (possibly fruit flavoured) and drink before most meals or on an empty stomach with some juice. Larger amounts of Epsom salts just act as a laxative without being absorbed. When taken with or after meals sulphates may form insoluble calcium sulphate. However, by far the best sulphate for connective tissue formation is glucosamine sulphate. Take 3 x 500 mg or more.
Rubidium, Caesium, Lithium
Rubidium and caesium are heavier relatives of potassium with a stronger alkalising potential. They are relatively rare. The cyanide ion liberated from amygdalin (in bitter fruit kernels) by the cancer cell helps to channel these alkalising ions through the cell wall to weaken the cell or make it dormant and susceptible to other tumour-destroying agents.
You may take 3to 6 g of a rubidium or caesium salt daily in a divided dose with meals, that is about half to one rounded teaspoon daily. You may order 100 or 500g of any of their salts, usually the chloride, at the cheapest grade (that is, technical grade) from a supplier of laboratory or fine chemicals. Look for names in the Yellow Pages of major cities. Rubidium and caesium are only useful if the diet is also high in potassium and very low in sodium. Take a few apricot kernels or other bitter pips or kernels in addition.
Lithium, on the other hand, is a lighter relative of sodium. Lithium carbonate has reportedly some benefits in the treatment of leukaemia.
REMEDIES
A wide variety of common and bizarre remedies have been used in cancer therapy, usually backed by either scientific findings or by credible case reports from holistic therapists and cancer victims who cured themselves. Medical and official health experts warn against all of these and try to prevent and restrict their use, the more so, the more successful they appear to be. Best select from these a suitable combination of remedies for your individual program, especially if tumours are present, but remember, you do so at your own risk and responsibility.
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Tumours can only grow by surrounding themselves with an area of inflammation. Therefore, preventing inflammation is one of the most important aspects of cancer therapy. You can do this by using a wide range of anti-inflammatory agents while at the same time minimising any inflammatory influences.
Suitable anti-inflammatory agents include alkalisers, aloe vera, bee pollen, bioflavonoids, blue light, cartilage (bovine and shark), chlorophyll (grass juice), copper salicylate, dormins (soaked fenugreek), glucosamine, grape seed extract, linseed and fish oils, magnesium chloride, magnet (south pole), mussel extract (Lyprinol), Phenergan, propolis, rubidium or caesium salts, Schweitzer Formula, tea tree oil and vitamin B2. See the separate entries for these modalities. Anti-inflammatory herbs are bromelain, echinacea, ginger, golden seal, liquorice, slippery elm and turmeric. A kerosene pack may be used to draw an internal inflammation to the outside to dissipate.
Use a combination of several or most of these agents. In any of these selections I recommend to include blue light therapy of any cancerous or inflamed areas, best cover these with two layers of blue cellophane and expose to a strong light. This not only reduces inflammation but also any pain and stops cancer cells from dividing. Phenergan is possibly the strongest remedy in this group but also more difficult to tolerate. I highly recommend Copper Salicylate and Schweitzer Formula. Lyprinol, cartilage and glucosamine have the added advantage that they also strengthen the connective tissue around a tumour, while cartilage reduces its blood supply in addition. Keep this program up until the cancer has disappeared. Whether you go on a cleanse or use oxygen therapy in addition, always keep up with the anti-inflammatory program.
In addition to acidity, another nutritional factor with strong inflammatory effects is a high intake of phosphorus. Therefore, use mainly foods low in phosphorus, such as vegetables and fruits. Foods very high in phosphorus are meat, yeast, fish and seeds such as legumes, nuts and whole grain products.
Minimise pro-inflammatory influences such as sunburn, oils high in omega-6 fatty acids (basically all commercial vegetable oils except linseed oil and extra-virgin olive oil), sweeteners and sweet foods, fruit acids if your body shows signs of over-acidity and anything to which you are allergic or sensitive. Any infections are strongly inflammatory, keep them under control with all available agents. Have only mild sun exposure (without sun-screen) on the bare skin but expose yourself to the sun fully clothed as much as you can without overheating.
Anti-Microbial Therapy
This is really the heart of cancer therapy. Many of the mentioned anti-inflammatory agents have also anti-microbial effects. In addition use a combination of the following measures: colloidal silver, electronic zapper and magnetic pulser, kerosene, Lugol's solution, oxygen therapy, parasite remedies, vaccines and autotherapy, vitamin C. For details see the separate entries for these modalities.
Anti-Cancer Herbs
Many herbs are useful in cancer treatment, mostly in a supportive role but sometimes as a main therapy. Frequently used are aloe vera (as juice or gel), chaparral, pau d'arco, red clover and violet leaves. Wormwood and pau d'arco in sufficiently large amounts are especially beneficial by eliminating the fungal forms of the cancer microbe. Vinca rosea, a periwinkle, has an active ingredient that has been used in chemotherapy against leukaemia. Milk thistle and bitter herbs, such as burdock, greater celandine, centaury, dandelion leaves and root, devil's claw and gentian, are good to stimulate the liver and release bile. Celandine or Greater Celandine also inhibits division of cancer cells and stimulates the immune system. An extract for injection is available as Ukrain.
Peppermint tea is especially good to stimulate the digestion and uplift the spirit while slippery elm powder soothes the digestive tract. Sage is highly esteemed. An ancient saying is: 'Why die (of a disease) when sage grows in your garden?' It may be combined with other herbs and is prepared by adding 2 teaspoons of dried sage to 1/2 litre of boiling water. After 3 minutes take off the heat and let draw for another 10 minutes. Other fragrant or leaf herbs such as peppermint or St John's wort may be added while drawing.
Root herbs, such as the bitter liver herbs, on the other hand, are simmered for quite a long time. For the after effects of radiation, wild crane's bill (Geranium Robertianum) is helpful. With lung cancer use also horehound, lobelia, mullein and St. John's wort. Pimpernel is used partly to gargle and partly to drink in spoonful amounts for cancer of the mouth, throat and neck glands.
The immune system may be strengthened with echinacea, propolis, European mistletoe (viscum album), Easter lily, Reishi and other oriental mushrooms. Echinacea may be added to all other herb combinations. However, there are some findings that echinacea can cause problems if taken uninterruptedly for several months. Therefore it may be preferable to interrupt its use after a month and then take it again a few weeks later. Mistletoe is especially good for leukaemia, but also used as Iscador or Plenosol for injection near tumours and swollen lymph glands.
With prostate cancer use also saw palmetto and/or willow herb (Epilobium, mainly parviflorum). With leukaemia use especially herbs to strengthen the immune system.
Liquorice root (e.g. 3 x 500 - 1000 mg) is strongly recommended with all oestrogen-related cancers as it blocks the growth-stimulating properties of oestrogen. It also promotes adrenal anti-inflammatory hormones. However it tends to keep sodium in the body while potassium is expelled. Therefore minimise sodium and maximise potassium intake by consuming plenty of vegetable juices and do not use it if your blood pressure is dangerously high or with obvious water retention.
You may select a range of these herbs that are suitable for your condition or that are locally available and use them as your special herb mixture. Alternatively or in addition you may use a commercially available cancer herb mixture. Best known are the Jason Winters mixture, Hoxsey herbs and Ojibway Indian Tea or Essiac. Essiac consists of sheep sorrel, burdock root, slippery elm and rhubarb root. A version that has been tested by the Chinese Ministry of Health in three major hospitals can be obtained as Cessiac from here.
The Hoxsey mixture must generally be made up individually but a local herbalist should be able to do it. The exact quantities are kept secret and may vary, but an independent analysis revealed the following quantities in 5ml of the Hoxsey Tonic:
Cascara amarga is difficult to obtain and the mixture may be made without it. It belongs to the buckthorn family and is also know as Honduras bark or Picramnia antidesma. The tonic is sold by the Hoxsey Clinic, while in individual preparations commonly the dried herbs are mixed and used as a tea.
A powerful combination to cleanse the gastro-intestinal tract is a mixture of chillies with a sufficiently large quantity of ginger root. Blend or crush these in lemon juice and linseed or olive oil and refrigerate. Use this as a salad dressing or generally for flavouring meals. Gradually increase the intake to just below your tolerance level for several weeks. Then you may continue to use it just in normal amounts for flavouring your food.
With lung cancer have daily a steam inhalation (with a towel over the head) of hot chamomile tea and onion and possibly with the addition of eucalyptus or tea tree oil.
Aloe Vera
Preferably use fresh aloe vera gel straight from the garden, as much as you have and can take without getting diarrhoea. You may also blend a small whole leaf with suitable additions such as mature green pawpaw or pawpaw leaf and some fruit juice or other flavouring. Avoid the base of the leaf with its yellow sap as this is a strong irritant and laxative.
Aloe vera appears to be quite effective in the treatment of cancers, AIDS and other infectious diseases. It is also excellent for gastro-intestinal irritation, inflammation and ulcers. However, not all commercial brands of aloe on the market are effective. If nothing seems to be happening, try another brand. Two brands that I know to be effective are the KAIRE product Sabila, a 10x concentrate and also the Forever Living brand.
Cartilage, Mussel Extract, Glucosamine
Sharks do not develop cancer. This prompted Dr William Lane to develop a remedy from shark cartilage that has been tested with reportedly good results in patients with advanced cancer. Commonly 60gm per day is used in 4 divided doses. In these studies the morning and evening dose of 15gm each was given as a retention enema in 100ml of water (apparently to reduce the nauseating taste of a high cartilage intake), while the other two doses were taken orally.
Liquid bovine (beef) cartilage appears to give similar and possibly even better results with only 9gm (corresponding to 15 ml of the liquid) daily due to much better absorption. Cartilage inhibits the formation of new blood vessels and so prevents the tumour from growing. It also has good anti-inflammatory and immune-enhancing properties and strengthens the collagen around a tumour so that it is less invasive. Liquid bovine cartilage is reasonably pleasant to take compared to the rather unpleasant shark cartilage that also delivers an extremely high amount of calcium.
However, shark cartilage may be pre-digested and much less may then be required, although the exact amounts are not known. For daily use I suggest to mix 3 heaped teaspoons or 15 to 20 g of shark cartilage with 3 (plastic) teaspoons of 3% hydrochloric acid and some proteolytic enzymes. These may be from unheated juice of pawpaw leaves or juice or puree of green pawpaw or a ripe Kiwi fruit or pineapple juice or powder from digestive enzyme capsules. Keep overnight and take in 3 divided doses before meals. In this way I find it also more palatable to take than the untreated shark cartilage.
Another effective remedy with similar properties is an extract of Green Lipped Mussel (Perna canaliculus) called Lyprinol and sold as Lyprinex or Seatone. The strong anti-inflammatory action of Lyprinol also inhibits cancer cells.
Glucosamine and chondroitin, commonly used as sulphates, are important basic building blocks in the formation of cartilage and other connective tissue. They strengthens the connective tissue around a tumour to make it less invasive and also have anti-inflammatory properties. I recommend their use in addition to cartilage and/or Lyprinol.
Colloidal Silver
Colloidal silver has a long history in medicine as a natural antibiotic. It is very effective in killing bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites and also the cancer microbe. No serious side effects from overdosing have been reported.
Colloidal silver is commercially available. Commonly the strength of the solution is five ppm or up to 50 ppm in very concentrated remedies. You may use about one spoonful three times daily. Continue until any infection subsides and then continue with one spoonful a day. Best keep it in the mouth for some time before swallowing. During critical periods you may double or triple the above amounts. From time to time you may interrupt for a few weeks. Preferably store colloidal silver in a dark glass bottle in a dark and cool place.
However, it is difficult to assess which of the many commercial remedies work best or even which ones do work and which do not. Therefore I recommend to buy a colloidal silver generator or even build your own. This is quite easy. Connect three 9 volt batteries in series (positive to negative pole) and solder an insulated wire to each end terminal. To the other ends of the wires solder an alligator clip each. Buy 25 cm pure silver wire, .99 fine or purer, about 14 gauge or 1.64 mm (from a precious metal dealer - see Yellow Pages), sterling silver is only .9275 fine. Cut the silver wire in half and attach to the alligator clips.
It is recommended to make colloidal silver fresh each day as the silver may settle out during storage and then is not very effective. Immerse the electrodes about 10 cm deep into a glass of water. Commonly colloidal silver is made from normal drinking water, often with the addition of a drop of saline solution. A white mist may be seen to develop almost immediately. However, the latest instructions recommend to use distilled water without the addition of any saline drops. This produces a very fine and much more effective colloid but takes a long time to start. A white mist may become visible after about 20 minutes. If you do see this fine mist near one of the electrodes, continue for 5 minutes longer. If you cannot see a slight mist after 20 minutes, then next time add a small amount of impure water such as tap water to speed up the colloid formation.
After each use scrub the oxidised positive electrode shiny clean. When making or storing the silver water keep it protected from light as this will precipitate the silver and make it ineffective. If one uses water higher in minerals then mainly silver chloride will form which is not very effective. For more information on how to make a colloidal silver maker and how to use colloidal silver go here, click on 'Dr Robert Beck', then 'Complete Paper' and open page 13. However, if you want to use only small amounts of silver as a maintenance dose, you may just keep some pure silver overnight in a glass of water.
Flower Remedies
Commonly cancer sufferers need to overcome feelings of fear, shock, guilt, resentment, hopelessness and depression. In addition to working with other methods, Flower Remedies can be very helpful. In the following some suitable Bach Flower Remedies are listed.
Agrimony - for those suffering with a smiling face;
Centaury - to strengthen the will and self-assertiveness;
Crab apple - for shame, self-dislike, feeling unclean, a cleanser;
Gentian - negativity, discouragement, self-doubt, depression;
Gorse - despair, hopelessness, utter despondency;
Larch - feeling inferior, lack of self confidence, expecting failure;
Mimulus - shyness, timidity and fear of known things;
Pine - self-blame, feel should have done better, guilt;
Rock water - self denial, mental rigidity, inflexibility, idealist;
Sweet chestnut - anguish, loss of faith, limit of endurance;
White chestnut - persistent unwanted thoughts, mental arguments, worry;
Willow - resentment, bitterness, 'not fair' attitude;
Rescue remedy - for shock of cancer diagnosis, surgery, radiotherapy.
In addition you may explore Californian Flower Remedies and Australian Bush Flower Remedies.
Homeopathic Remedies
Commonly homoeopathic remedies are selected according to the individual condition and symptoms of the patient. However, some are also listed as useful for general conditions, so for instance, Kali. phos., Arsen. album., Hydrastis, Antimon. chlor. and Carcinosin.
For specific tumour locations the following are mentioned: Bladder - Taraxac; Breast - Asterias rubens, Conium; Bowels - Carcinoma, Ruta; Glands - Hoang nan; Liver - Celandine, Conium, Hydrastis; Lung - Carcinoma squamous; Stomach - Carcinoma adeno; Uterus - Aurum mur.; Pain - Euphorb.
Furthermore, a successful folk healer urged me to try Ammon. carb. 30 in all conditions. The most useful remedy is one made from any liquid that may drain from your own tumour or its surroundings. For instructions on how to potentise your own body fluids see Urine Therapy. If you have or had mercury amalgam fillings, then ultrahigh-potency mercury will aid in the release of tissue stores of mercury, that is 1M or higher.
Hydrazine sulphate
Large tumours produce much lactic acid that is reconverted in the liver into glucose in a process that consumes much energy. It is of positive benefit to block this conversion by taking hydrazine sulphate or chloride. The main benefits are weight gain and increased energy that are especially important in the last stage of cancer, called cachexia. In addition, tumour growth may be inhibited, in some instances tumours gradually disappeared.
It is taken in an amount of 60 mg 3 times daily with meals. Start with only one 60 mg capsule with breakfast for 3 days, then add a second capsule with lunch for another 3 days and finally an additional capsule with dinner. If the body weight is less than about 55 kg then only 2 capsules per day may be taken and below about 43 kg 3 times 30 mg may be used. If you feel good on this schedule, then this program may be maintained for several months but more commonly it is interrupted by a 2 week rest period after about 6 weeks.
Hydrazine sulphate is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor and the following should not be used during hydrazine therapy: tranquillisers or sedatives in doses greater than 100 mg per day, especially benzodiazepines and phenothiazines should be avoided, also antihistamines, alcohol and other agents that depress the central nervous system such as morphine. Also vitamin B6 should not be taken. Foods high in tyramine must be avoided. These are aged and fermented products such as most cheeses, cured meats or fish, sour cream and yoghurt, tofu and tempeh, bouillon cubes, sauerkraut, pickles and yeast extracts. Also restricted are broad beans, avocados, bananas, raisins, figs, dates and dried fruit in general as well as overripe fruit.
You can buy it from a chemical supply company and may dissolve 2 level teaspoons of hydrazine (or hydrazinium) sulphate in a litre of water and each time take one teaspoonful of this. Increasingly you also can now obtain it from various alternative outlets. From the Cancer Information & Support Society (CISS) in Sydney, Australia, members may obtain a detailed treatment protocol as well as a 2-months supply of hydrazine sulphate, phone 02-9906 2189, also check their Home Page.
Kerosene
Kerosene is a popular and apparently successful cancer remedy widely used in poorer countries. Its general effectiveness with cancer and infectious diseases seems to be due to the anti-microbial properties of kerosene, that is it kills not only viruses and other microbes but also the cancer microbe and possibly cancer cells.
The usual prescription is to take one teaspoonful of refined kerosene on an empty stomach for six weeks. No food or drink should be taken for two hours afterwards. Then the intake is interrupted for eight weeks and finally repeated for a further four weeks. As far as I know, no serious side-effects have been reported.
All retail kerosene is now coloured blue in Australia and suitably purified kerosene (BP) is no longer available. Therefore I no longer recommend the internal use of kerosene in cancer therapy, although it is still effective externally as a pack.
Laetrile
Laetrile is another name for amygdalin, the bitter ingredient in apricot and other bitter fruit kernels. It contains cyanide in a normally safe form. However, cyanide can be released during fermentation and by a specific enzyme that is high in cancer cells but low in normal cells that also have high levels of a detoxifying enzyme. Laetrile treatment reportedly resulted in relief of pain, increased wellbeing with better appetite and weight gain as well as an absence of the nauseating odour of advanced cancer and sometimes tumour regression.
Food sources of amygdalin, besides bitter kernels of fruit, are bitter almonds, macadamia nuts, sprouted lentils and mung beans, also some other beans, linseed and sesame seeds, wheat grass, brown rice, buckwheat, oats, millet and most wild berries.
In some clinics amygdalin is given by injection, 2 x 3g per day for four weeks or longer. Orally it is to be taken after meals, gradually increasing from 1/2 tablet per day to 3 x 2 tablets daily. If gastro-intestinal problems occur reduce the intake. However, in most Western countries Laetrile is not legally available. Interestingly, a pharmaceutical company is now working on a patented anti-cancer drug that releases cyanide.
In self-therapy apricot kernels are commonly used, from 10 to 15 per day or 1 kernel for about 5kg in body weight. They may be used in divided doses but never fermented or left standing blended or mixed with enzymes as this may liberate cyanide and cause poisoning. I recommend to use some foods high in amygdalin mainly in combination with caesium and rubidium supplementation.
Lugol's Solution
This is an internal iodine solution designed to eliminate Candida and other microbes, viruses and the cancer microbe from the bloodstream. Obtain 100ml of Lugol's solution, also labelled Aqueous Iodine Oral Solution BP, from a chemist. Take a test drop in liquid other then just water to make it taste less strong. If this does not cause an allergic reaction, continue to take 4 x 6 drops daily in liquid or mixed with food, but not together with vitamins A, C, E, grape seed extract or cysteine. Iodine is an oxidant and it is best to reduce the intake of anti-oxidants while using it. Continue for 3 weeks, but interrupt if you develop a serious reaction. After that you may continue with 1-2 drops once a day for several months.
Oxygen Therapies
Most effective in cancer and AIDS therapy is professional ozone therapy - usually ozonising about 200ml of blood withdrawn from the patient and then re-infusing it. This method is widely used in Germany and Mexican cancer clinics but illegal in most other western countries. The same applies to hydrogen peroxide infusions.
Therefore, most cancer victims try to help themselves with hydrogen peroxide or so-called stabilised oxygen. The latter is an unstable oxygenated chlorine compound that easily gives off oxygen. The usual amount is 10 drops in juice several times daily, but start with much less and increase gradually. You may combine taking hydrogen peroxide on rising and at bedtime with stabilised oxygen before meals. This is suitable for those who have difficulty to 'stomach' much hydrogen peroxide but otherwise I regard hydrogen peroxide not only as the cheapest but also as the most suitable product for home oxygen therapy.
Another possibility is an ozone generator. However, generators for medical or internal quality ozone can be rather expensive. Common ozone generators just ozonate room air and also produce some potentially toxic nitrogen oxides. Ozone for internal use is best made from bottles of medically pure oxygen for which in Australia you need a medical prescription. All this is expensive and difficult and what do you get? If ozone comes into contact with water then you get hydrogen peroxide.
Both, ozone and hydrogen peroxide have an unstable single oxygen that tends to attach to and oxidise or peroxidise any suitable molecule. The beneficial effect in cancer therapy appears to be mainly the peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids which then may destroy microbes and malignant cells, provided these are not protected by accumulated vitamin E. A healthy immune system routinely produces hydrogen peroxide to kill microbes. Therefore, I see no advantage in using ozone at home and would rather use the much cheaper and simpler hydrogen peroxide.
Preferably use 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide available from some natural therapists and health shops, otherwise any other 35% product or the 3% (10 Volume) or 6% (20 Volume) peroxide from a supermarket or chemist .
Best dilute the peroxide for daily use to about 3%. Just add 1 part of the 35% peroxide to 10 parts of water. Start taking just a few drops in a glass of water. Gradually increase to 1 teaspoon or more four times daily before meals and at bedtime. If you develop an aversion against it, just decrease again to a more comfortable level. Swallow quickly instead of slowly sipping. To disguise the strong aftertaste add aloe vera gel and fruit flavours or herb tea or water flavoured with cinnamon.
You may continue this for many months and when the cancer is under control gradually reduce the intake to only once before breakfast. In addition, use hydrogen peroxide to rinse your mouth and gargle morning and evening. It helps to prevent colds and other infections and also tooth decay and is better than most toothpaste. You may also use 35% hydrogen peroxide with a dropper, a teaspoon of 3% peroxide is equivalent to about 12 drops of 35% peroxide. Be careful handling 35% hydrogen peroxide, flush immediately with water or immerse in water any accidental spills on clothes or skin.
It is also helpful to bathe the tumour site daily in 3% hydrogen peroxide or better cover it with a cloth soaked in it, especially for tumours close to the skin, preferably combined with a honey pack. Renew the pack several times daily. A pack may be on the tumour site for most of the time or until the skin becomes red or sore and blisters. This will be good as it draw out toxins. When this happens cover with cabbage leaf instead, and wash only with peroxide. Keep the pack in place with plastic attached to the skin with tape. Have a daily body rub with 3% hydrogen peroxide, best after a bath or shower. With cervical cancer or bowel cancer douche twice daily with suitably diluted hydrogen peroxide, keeping it inside for some time.
Of great benefit are peroxide retention enemas. After a normal enema to clean the bowels, insert half a litre of water or diluted vegetable or grass juice containing one tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide. Try to hold it inside for 10 minutes or longer. The next day add 2 tablespoons, continue increasing the amount of peroxide on subsequent days until you find the highest concentration that you can hold for several minutes. You may also try to increase the volume of water or juice to 1 litre.
Recently magnesium peroxide has become available as powder or in capsules and also Oxy-Mag, a powdered magnesium ozonite. The peroxide releases a highly reactive oxygen radical which is more aggressive than the oxygen molecule released by the ozonite, but I cannot say at present which one is more effective in cancer therapy. Perhaps both may be used. Either one of them may be good. Use according to instructions on the container or enclosed literature. Sometimes simple magnesium oxide is sold to oxidise the colon. While it may be good as a mild laxative, it does not liberate oxygen for oxygen therapy.
During and for some time before oxygen therapy avoid any vitamin E supplements which tend to protect cancer cells, preferably also restrict additional vitamin C. Fresh juices are best and at this stage will be sufficient to supply antioxidants. Healthy body cells as well as acidophilus bacteria are not normally harmed by oxygen therapy. In fact, acidophilus bacteria produce hydrogen peroxide themselves to destroy Candida and other fungi.
If you have an ozone maker, you can use it in a similar wa y as hydrogen peroxide. With a tube you may lead it into water, insert the tube into the rectum (with another shorter tube as outlet), irradiate the skin over diseased areas with a funnel or put the body (but not the head) int o a bag into which you lead ozone.
For information on how to construct and use a medical-grade ozone generator that does not oxidise nitrogen go here, click on 'Dr Robert Beck' and then 'Complete Paper'.
Parasite Elimination Program
In her book, 'The Cure for all Cancers' Hulda Clark claims that the human intestinal fluke causes cancer when it lodges in the liver. The stages of the life cycle of this fluke, as she describes it, look rather like that described for the cancer microbe by other researchers. Also various other parasites and microbes contribute. Many individuals claim that eliminating parasites with the 3 recommended remedies, tincture of green hulls of black walnut, wormwood and ground cloves, has greatly helped them. In addition, one should avoid propyl alcohol, propanol or isopropanol as in cold cereals, cosmetics, shampoo, lotions, sprays and shaving supplies as well as a range of other unbiological chemicals and heavy metals.
The cloves should be freshly ground, you may order 200g in addition to 100g of ground wormwood. You may put these powders into empty gelatine capsules size 00. Alternatively, you may take them just with a spoon and wash them down quickly with plenty of liquid, 1 heaped teaspoon is equivalent to about 7 capsules. In her latest book, 'The Cure for all Advanced Cancers', she recommends a 21-day cancer program with the following amounts:
During the first seven days 2 tsp. of green black walnut tincture extra strength, 9 capsules of cloves (500 mg each) and 9 capsules of wormwood (200 - 300 mg each). Take this with juice, water or herb tea before breakfast, some food may be needed to get all the capsules down. For the rest of the 3 week period take 10 tsp. of black walnut tincture but continue with 9 capsules each of cloves and wormwood.
You may repeat this or a similar program twice a year to prevent re-infection. There are now tinctures available which contain all three ingredients in one convenient preparation. The recommended dose is written on the bottle. However, this preparation is weaker and may not be sufficient for cancer treatment. Most important in cancer treatment appears to be the wormwood which also appears to be effective against the cancer microbe. You may continue this on its own for a longer period. For details of other supplements and remedies recommended by Hulda Clark see her book 'The Cure for all Advanced Cancers'.
Pawpaw Leaf
Pawpaw leaf tea or extract is highly regarded as a tumour destroying agents. However, I believe that the main healing agent is in the white sap that is more in the leaf stems, twigs and skins of green pawpaws than in the leaf itself. Dried preparations may be less potent, especially as it is so much easier to dry leaves rather than stems. Fresh leaves and stems may be supplied by parcel mail from a pawpaw farm and refrigerated or frozen for several weeks. You may also prepare a concentrated tea or juice and freeze that.
The usual instruction is to cram as many pawpaw leaves as possible into a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and then allow to simmer for 2 - 3 hours. Drain and refrigerate the liquid. Drink one large glassful or about 200ml three times a day. Continue until recovery.
In addition, you may eat some cooked green pawpaws and ingest the water in which they have been cooked. You may also use peeled green pawpaw for juicing or in salads and simmer the skin with or instead of leaves to make the bitter tea. Pawpaw leaf juice is also available commercially but I cannot comment on the effectiveness of these preparations.
However, I believe that the fresh juice of green pawpaws, leaves and stems is even more effective than boiled reparations. This is a concentrated solution of the protein-digesting enzyme papain. A spoonful of it in diluted form will be excellent to be taken with or after meals. It is, of course, rather bitter. A recommended way of preparing it is to freeze the juice in ice-cube trays. This may be used in addition to the boiled leaf juice.
Phenergan
Promethazine or Phenergan is an anti-histamine and anti-inflammatory drug. It is freely available from a chemist and relatively harmless with a good track record of inhibiting tumour growth. Phenergan supposedly interferes with the energy production of cancer cells. However, if treatment is prematurely interrupted, tumour cells appear to become immune and Phenergan becomes ineffective for tumour destruction when resuming treatment. However, it may still have some benefit as an anti-inflammatory agent. The earlier Phenergan treatment is started, the better is the outcome.
The original instruction is to take 50 mg at bedtime of the first day and then continue taking a 25 mg tablet every 8 hours for about 6 months after any cancer tumours have disappeared. For several days and sometimes even weeks one may experience drowsiness or extreme sleepiness, lack of energy and a dry mouth. Therefore, do not start it until you have a quiet period ahead without important commitments. Temporarily you may try coffee to minimise the initially strongly sedating effect of Phenergan. If extreme drowsiness continues after two weeks, then take a 25 mg tablet or two 10 mg tablets at bedtime and a 10 mg tablet twice during the day.
It is necessary to avoid alcohol, opiates and steroids and minimise aspirin and other analgesics, sunbathing or UV-light exposure. Also monoamine oxidase inhibitors, including hydrazine sulphate, should be avoided. Serious side effects are rare. These may be jaundice or yellowing of the skin, a decrease in white blood cells (which may be suspected if a sore throat develops after a month or two) and a fall in platelet count which may be recognised from unexplained bruising and prolonged bleeding times of wounds or cuts. In these cases treatment should be discontinued. Robert Jones, the originator of this therapy, published the paper "Successful Cancer Therapy with Promethazine" in Medical Hypothesis 46, 25-29, 1996. He recommends taking a vitamin-mineral supplement with about 2.5 mg of copper, 4 mg of manganese, 15 mg of zinc, 50 mcg of selenium and low doses of vitamins as well as fish oil or linseed oil (or freshly ground linseed). High doses of vitamin C and especially E are to be avoided. Phenergan crosses the blood-brain barrier and may be used with brain tumours.
Interestingly, another anti-histamine, the anti-stomach ulcer drug Tagamet or Cimetidine has been successfully used with surgery for colorectal cancer. Even if used just for seven days at the time of surgery at about 1000 mg per day this increased the 3-year survival rate from 59% to 93%.
Pycnogenol / Grape Seed Extract
Proanthocyanidins (PACs or OPCs) are a group of antioxidants that chemically belong to the class of bioflavonoids. Their main benefit in cancer therapy is a strengthening of the connective tissue and a reduction or prevention of the inflammation that surrounds an invasive tumour. Without this inflammatory tissue destruction, a tumour cannot grow or spread. It is equally important with leukaemia, especially protecting blood cells and capillaries.
Commercially it is extracted from maritime pine bark and grape seeds. The extract from pine bark is sold under the trade name 'Pygnogenol'. There are contradicting claims as to the best commercial product but the grape extract is much cheaper and normally used. Take the extract of about 10 - 20 g of grape seeds per day or a standardised amount of about 75 - 150 mg of PACs or OPCs.
PACs are widely distributed in fruits and vegetables. The colour of black/purple/red grapes, blackberries, blueberries and red cabbage consists of anthocyanins, the active form of PACs. The pigment of beetroot belongs to a subgroup of anthocyanins, the betacyanins. Both groups are important in cancer treatment. Try to have plenty of these. In addition to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, PACs, anthocyamins and betacyanins help to restore normal metabolism in cancer cells by taking the role of oxygen as electron acceptors. Closely related to PACs are the catechins in green tea which are also helpful in cancer treatment.
Urea
Only recently has it been discovered that the concentration of urea in the blood has a key role in regulating at least 7 major pathways. Urea levels are low with cancer and many other diseases. The frequency of cancer and especially of multiple tumours and metastases increases greatly if urea levels are low.
The use of urea in cancer treatment was pioneered by E V Danopoulos, a Professor of Internal Medicine in Athens. The results were published in The Lancet in 1974. Urea was notably effective with liver cancer and in preventing the development of metastases or secondary tumours. He used 45g of urea daily in 6 divided doses for 40 days and then 20g in 3 doses for 2 years. 45g correspond to 6 rounded teaspoons, while 20g is about 3 teaspoonfuls. You may dissolve the daily amount in half a litre of water and drink it in portions during the day. However, urea appears to be ineffective after chemotherapy. You may order pure urea from a chemist or buy a cheaper product from a garden nursery. However, use the cheaper urea only if it is pure white and does not have any black speckles.
Vaccines and Auto-Therapy
In some clinics vaccines are used to stimulate the immune system of the cancer patient. There are general vaccines made from tuberculosis-related microbes and individualised ones made from the patient's own body fluids. Both can be helpful as long as the immune system is still strong enough to respond.
Individualised or auto-vaccines are generally more effective but also much more expensive and because of health and customs regulations very difficult to obtain as they are manufactured only in a few overseas laboratories.
A way around this is by making your own vaccines in a process called auto-therapy. There are two basic methods. The easier one uses homoeopathic principles as described in my article on Urine Therapy. The most effective remedy is made from any fluid draining from or extracted from a tumour.
Also often effective but more difficult do is the re-injection of haemolysed blood. This method is called auto-haemotherapy and used with remarkable success for a wide range of serious conditions.
Draw 1ml of boiled water into a 2ml syringe. Fill up with venous blood and mix for a full minute by slowly turning the syringe over its long axis. Inject slowly under the skin, commonly at the outer upper quadrant of a buttock. Do this initially once a week, later less frequently. However, if a reaction occurs, such as a fever or inflammation, wait with the next injection until the reaction has subsided. A nurse may assist, especially initially to show you how to get blood out of a vein. Injecting under the skin is generally harmless and free of the dangers associated with injecting into a vein.
As a variation of this method, you may add a few drops of 3% hydrogen peroxide to the water drawn into the syringe. This has a stronger effect. You may gradually increase the peroxide drop by drop until the injection or any local reaction becomes uncomfortable.
Other Remedies
D, L-phenylalanine or short DLPA is the synthetic form of an amino acid used for long-term pain relief. Take 3 tablets daily until the pain subsides and then continue with a lower maintenance dose. You may also use it for its anti-depressive effect.
Tea tree oil or eucalyptus oil can be used as a body rub or pack over inflamed and tumour areas. However, I find it most useful for patients with lung cancer. I advise inhaling deeply the fumes from an opened bottle of tea tree or eucalyptus oil frequently during the day. In addition, use steam inhalation by adding a small amount of tea tree oil to a pot of very hot chamomile tea with your head over the pot covered with a towel. With cancer of the mouth or throat you may also gargle with it and with gastro-intestinal cancers frequently add a drop or two to drinks.
Other helpful remedies are Carnivora, an extract of the meat-eating Venus flytrap plant; melatonin, a hormone of the pineal gland; Germanium, a rare metal; Chinese and Japanese medicinal mushrooms, which all strongly enhance immune functions; and the Gaston Naessens preparation 714-X which is injected into lymph glands. Most of these latter are expensive or difficult to obtain.
Digitalis, especially as the natural digitoxin from the ground leaves of the foxglove, appears to be very effective with breast cancer. The synthetic drug digoxin is also effective but less so. It has been estimated that with continued digitoxin therapy death from breast cancer could be reduced by 80%. Unfortunately, a drug prescription is required which may be nearly impossible to get.
PHYSICAL THERAPIES
Physical therapies work from the outside on the body in contrast to diet, supplements and remedies which are ingested and work from the inside. Almost as important as specific cancer-fighting therapies is the creation of healthy living conditions and in particular, avoiding or minimising the many negative and harmful influences on our health caused by modern living.
The main negative influences at present are chemical pollution, electromagnetic pollution and radiation. Not only our food and water are heavily polluted with chemicals but our city air is equally unhealthy. It is especially bad in industrialised areas, close to heavy traffic and in modern houses with many synthetics and plastics.
If you live in a modern house, try to sanitise it by minimising the use of synthetic items that release chemicals, such as formaldehyde from glued material such as many carpets, chipboard or plywood. Avoid solvents and smelling household cleaners and disinfectants, tobacco smoke, mothballs and insect sprays. If the outside air is reasonably clean, good ventilation helps to minimise the problem.
If you live in an area with much outside air pollution, you may try to live away from home during the critical period, possibly with friends or relatives and best in green surroundings. A health farm would be excellent but unfortunately few are geared for clients on low budgets.
Avoid or minimise wearing a bra, synthetic clothing and even heavily chemicalised wool or cotton material (e.g. permanent press). The only good mattresses are futons that are filled with natural fibres. A latex mattress is excellent and recommended most. A cheaper alternative is straw or hay from a pesticide-free source. An innerspring mattress should only be used if it does not deflect the needle of a compass moved across it close to the surface. Commonly only older mattresses are suitable. Do not use steel-framed beds, steel-spring frames and move the bed if there are metal beams or live wires in the wall behind the bed.
Furthermore, sleep in total darkness or alternatively cover your eyes during sleep. Cancer protective melatonin is released in normal amounts only when we sleep in darkness. Profoundly blind women have up to 70% less breast cancer than women with normal sight. Profoundly blind men have less cancer of the colon, lungs, prostate, skin and stomach. However, simple vision impairment does not reduce cancer rates, only if there is no sensitivity to light at all.
Sunlight
Sunshine can be beneficial or harmful depending on the type, time and amount of exposure. An article in the Journal of Preventive Medicine (22, 132-40, 1993) states that there is a strong negative correlation between available sunlight and breast cancer death rates, that is living in a sunny area is associated with lower cancer rates. Even skin cancer is inhibited by regular low-level sun exposure, while sunburn is a strong skin cancer promoter. The article states further: "Trends in the epidemiological literature suggest that approximately 30,000 U.S. cancer deaths yearly would be averted by the widespread public adoption of regular, moderate sunning."
However, too much sunlight inhibits the immune response and is also a strong inflammation promotor. Any increased inflammatory tendency leads to stimulation of tumour growth. Therefore with cancer any sun exposure must be so mild that afterwards there is no reddening of the skin. This means the best time for sunbathing is about an hour or two after sunrise or before sunset for about 5 to 10 minutes. No glasses or sunscreen lotion should be used during this time. A recent report states that 90% of sunscreen lotions contain chemicals that kill skin cells.
At other times aim to be outside as much as possible such as in a garden or on a veranda. If it is sunny remain in a half-shade or when in the full sun cover up sufficiently. The life-force associated with sunlight penetrates the clothing and also charges the air that you breathe. As an added bonus sunlight has a strong anti-depressant effect. A good way of catching the life-force associated with direct sunlight is by exposing drinking water or cooked or refrigerated food for a while to the sun before eating it.
Minimise Electro-Pollutants
Try to minimise electromagnetic pollution, especially while sleeping when the pineal gland is most susceptible and sleep in the dark or at least cover your eyes to produce the immune-stimulating hormone melatonin. Unplug all electric leads in the bedroom before going to sleep, watch that there are no live electric wires inside the wall near the head and try to sleep with the head in a northerly direction or otherwise towards the east. Cover your head during cold nights to minimise heat loss.
Do not habitually remain within a few metres of a working electric appliance, minimise fluorescent lighting, wearing sunglasses, watching television, using video games, computers and even electric typewriters and hand-held electric tools. Television sets still have quite a strong radiation even when switched off.
Actually, AC electric fields do not diminish when an appliance is switched off, only AC magnetic fields disappear. I have been rather surprised by the strong electric fields I have found in some bedrooms. Such fields should be zero at the bed-site or at least under 1V/m, but often they are over 5 or 10 V/m. Therefore remove the bed and especially the head as far as possible away from power points and wiring inside the wall with a minimum distance of one metre. The safest possibility is to disconnect the fuse for the bedroom (commonly including all power points in the house) overnight, at least while the cancer is active. Alternatively have a separate fuse switch or plug installed for the bedroom only. In addition, have an EM Power Modulator installed to de-stress the whole house.
Some dowsers claim to have discovered harmful earth rays from fault lines and underground streams under the beds of most cancer victims. Try to find someone who is able to check the location of your bed for harmful underground radiation, even if you sleep on an upper floor. Such geopathic disturbances can also be detected with a scientific instrument, the Geo Test 35 Meter which indicates the degree of distortion of the local geomagnetic field.
If you cannot have your bed checked then move it to a different location if you were sleeping there before the cancer was discovered. In addition use a shielding device under the bed: place wire netting under the whole area of the bed and connect this to an electric earth, or cover the area under the bed with several centimetres of quartz sand or use a purple slate - see Resources, or use a combination of these. You may be able to check the bed yourself with a short wave radio - over a fault line the reception deteriorates. Especially dangerous are crossings of fault lines.
Dental Problems
Another major problem is the teeth of many cancer victims. Frequently they have dead teeth with filled root canals or inflammation inside the jawbone even after removal of teeth. These problems may not cause any pain and so are difficult to detect. It is best to have dead teeth removed as soon as possible and the remaining cavity scraped out to remove any softened parts of the jawbone. Just leave some gaps if you cannot immediately pay for replacements.
Root-canal filled teeth appear to be a major contributing factor in many health problems, not only cancer, but also heart disease and auto-immune diseases. This is due to microbes multiplying in the multitude of tiny canals or tubuli in the dentine and gradually leaching out into the lymph system. Until now the only solution was the removal of such dead teeth but problems might still persist from the infection having spread to the jaw-bone. The microbes in dead teeth and infected jaw-bones cannot normally be eliminated with pharmaceutical or natural antibiotics.
Dr Beck claims in an interview that the magnetic pulser can eliminate these problems caused by dead teeth. I can confirm from my own experience that a tender abcess on a root that had resisted treatment for years appears to be healed after several weeks of treatment with the pulser. Nevertheless, I still recommend to play it safe and remove any dead teeth, especially if they are already dead for several years and show signs of deterioration and also in case of cancer, auto-immune diseases and other serious diseases. If you cannot immediately have all dead teeth removed, but also as after-treatment for several weeks or months after their removal continue to use the magnetic pulser on these tooth positions.
In addition try to have amalgam fillings replaced with plastic composite. The dentist should use a rubber dam and suction when removing old fillings. If you cannot pay for proper replacements, just seal them with a cheap temporary filler and do not chew any hard items. Also nickel as in stainless steel can suppress the immune system. Try to find a dentist who is familiar with safe amalgam removal procedures as recommended by holistic dentists associations. In addition to a vitamin C supplement program before and after amalgam removal, the amino acid L-cysteine as well as homoeopathic mercury 1M and higher potencies are helpful in removing mercury from tissues. Professionally injections of the mercury chelator DMPS may be used. However, these have occasionally lead to complications and the oral DMSA not only is much cheaper but apparently also safer.
The pink colour of dentures may be due to heavy metals, commonly mercury or cadmium. If you cannot get a guarantee that the colouring is free of heavy metals, it is safer to ask for clear plastic dentures made of Methyl Methacrylate, or Flexite for partial dentures. Use plastic denture teeth rather than porcelain teeth which are based on aluminium oxide and other metals. Bridges and metal partials should be changed to clear plastic partial dentures. Even gold can be a problem because to make it cheaper it is commonly blended with 20% of the more harmful palladium. A small amount of gold as for one crown may be acceptable but as a general rule keep your mouth free of metals and make sure only metal-free plastics are used as replacement. Try to find a holistic dentist.
Even after removal of bad teeth, health problems can arise or continue from root or metal fragments or due to chronic infection and inflammation in the jawbone. This may be discovered by an experienced dentist with panoramic X-rays. If you cannot do all of this to sanitise the inside of your mouth, just do the best you can and do not worry. Compensate any shortcomings here with a better diet and positive thinking.
Overheating
The following method is described for your information only as I do not recommend it any more. The reason for this is that it appears to work only when the blood sugar level during the overheating is low and the temperature high enough, otherwise tumour growth may be stimulated. However, it is still good to have an occasional overheating bath followed by sweating.
Cancer cells and viruses start dying at 40-41 degrees C while normal cells can withstand higher temperatures. This explains the curative effect of high fever on cancer. In home treatment fever can be simulated by overheating baths. Even if the maximum temperature is not reached, tumours may be weakened by temperatures about 37 degrees C and become more susceptible to other therapies.
Start each daily bath at 38-39 degrees C and slowly add hot water to reach 42 degrees C. Initially remain only up to 10 minutes at the maximum temperature but gradually extend this to 20-30 minutes. In the second week start increasing the temperature to 43 degrees C, in the third week to 44 degrees C and so forth until 47 degrees C is reached in the sixth week.
If the weekly temperature increase is too severe, increase more gradually each week. If 47 degrees C cannot be reached, then just extend the duration at your highest possible temperature to one hour.
The Japanese traditionally bathe at 48 degrees C. First degree burns start only at 50 degrees C. During and after the bath drink 1-2 litres of water to make up for fluid losses. The body should be completely immersed but the forehead may be cooled with a cold cloth.
As a safety precaution keep the bathroom door open and have a helper close by. You are safe while lying in the water, the danger arises when leaving the bath. Therefore, strictly observe the following rules:
1. If you must leave the bath suddenly, immediately lie down again in front of the bath;
2. Normally remain in the bathtub until all the water has been drained;
3. Alternatively add cold water until the temperature drops to 38 degrees C.
In any case, dry yourself only while sitting, never standing, afterwards cover with sheets and blankets and sweat for up to one hour. Do not use overheating baths in very weak conditions.
Packs
Packs over the tumour site are very helpful with pain relief or to help break down a tumour. Packs are especially effective in combination with cleansing periods. Helpful packs are freshly grated or pulped beetroot, crushed wheat grass or other grass or black or purple grapes, 3% hydrogen peroxide, copper salicylate, Schweitzer solution, tea tree oil, hot castor oil, honey or even urine. Keep the pack on as much as possible, changing it several times during the day. At other times you may keep a fresh, best outer cabbage leaf over the tumour, cut out the lower part of the stem and make the leaf more pliable by rolling it with a bottle. Renew the cabbage leaf as well after several hours.
In addition I recommend stimulating the liver frequently - best daily in advanced conditions, with a hot castor oil pack. Liberally apply castor oil to the skin over the upper abdomen, stomach and the right side of the lower rib cage. Cover with several layers of a woollen cloth and then with a hot water bottle. When it becomes too hot add more layers of cloth or just newspaper under the hot water bottle. Later remove these again as the water cools. Keep the pack in place for 1-2 hours, the longer the better, even overnight. Hot castor oil packs are also excellent over the tumour site to stimulate the area, especially during cleansing periods.
With lung cancer use hot onion packs on chest and back and eat plenty of onions. For the pack squash the onions after heating until soft in an oven.
The honey plaster has an excellent reputation for destroying tumours, mainly close to the skin but it reportedly also helped with internal tumours such as liver cancer. The honey must be raw and not heated above 45 degrees C like most honey sold in shops, and it should not be crystallised. Smear a thick layer of honey over the tumour area and cover with linen. Continue renewing the honey for several weeks whenever it has dried. It is even more effective if you mix a few drops of 35% hydrogen peroxide with the honey. Gradually increase the number of drops until either the honey becomes too runny or the skin is irritated.
Another good pack for tumours, infections, inflammations, calcifications and scar tissue is with a concentrated warm solution of magnesium chloride (or alternatively Epsom salts) over the problem area. Just cover the crystals with water, stir and after a few minutes soack a suitable cloth and keep it over the tumour site. Cover the pack with a non-absorbent material taped to the skin and preferably leave in place for many days, just applying more magnesium chloride solution when it becomes too dry. For shorter application you may keep the pack warm for one to two hours with a hot water bottle. If available, you may use Sea Mineral Liquid or Bitterns instead of magnesium salts, that is the residual solution after salt has crystallised out of sea water.
In a similar way a pack of urea may be applied. Urea is especially effective for dissolving dead and putrefying flesh and removing bad odour from weeping or pussy areas. See also the article on Urine & Urea Therapy, especially the section on Urea. However, best for softening hardened or scarred areas is probably a urine pack.
If the area is open and weeping then discard the pack daily and apply a fresh one. Possibly alternate with cabbage leaf.
Blistering
An even stronger effect than simple packs are substances that irritate the skin, thereby drawing the inflammation around the tumour to the surface where it can dissipate. The skin becomes red and often tender or sore to the touch and may even blister. Blistering is especially effective as it allows toxins to drain out.
Conventionally used for raising blisters is a cantharides plaster as available in Germany from a Reformhaus. Cut the plaster about the size of a large stamp and leave over the tumour for 12-24 hours or until a blister has formed or it starts burning when it should be removed. Drain the fluid from the blister and cover with fresh cabbage leaf until healed. The fluid may be used to make a homoeopathic remedy.
As an alternative to cantharides use freshly crushed garlic. As it has less of a blistering action, cover a larger area. Put some cabbage leaf or cloth on top of the garlic and seal with a plastic sheet to minimise odour problems. Renew the garlic daily until the skin becomes too sore and irritated and then just cover with a frequently changed cabbage leaf alternating with baths or packs of 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Other skin irritants are a paste of cayenne, mustard and the white sap from pawpaw, fig and petty spurge (Euphorbia peplus). The latter is also called cancer weed or radium weed and is excellent on skin cancers and insensitive external tumours. Also the Australian Kangaroo apple, Devil's apple or Solanum hermannii (Curaderm) is very effective.
Kerosene packs are especially good as in addition to the blistering they also have strong antibiotic effects. A kerosene pack is excellent around the neck for any tumours, lymph gland swellings or infections in that area or to stimulate thyroid activity but also good over any internal tumour where the skin is not broken or oversensitive. Moisten a cloth with kerosene and keep over the tumour until gradually increasing burning of the skin becomes unbearable. This may happen after about 30 minutes, but can also take hours if the immune system is slow to react. The longer you can keep it on the better. The skin will be very red and peel a few days later as after a sunburn. Repeat every one or two weeks for as long as required. In between use honey packs overnight or even during the day if possible.Skin cancers may also be destroyed by repeatedly applying a drop of 35% hydrogen peroxide, preferably protecting the surrounding skin with a barrier cream.
The inflammatory healing reaction initiated by blistering agents has a strong immune effect and kills cancer cells. In contrast, the inflammation surrounding an invasive tumour is largely due to local over-acidity which activates tissue-destroying cancer enzymes. A dormant or slow-growing tumour is largely painless because it is free of this pathogenic tumour inflammation. With advanced cancer it is often difficult to initiate an inflammatory healing reaction until the immune system has been sufficiently strengthened.
Escharotics
However, the most effective way to remove melanoma and tumours close to the skin, including breast tumours, is to apply an 'Escharotic'. These are caustic remedies, commonly with zinc chloride and the herb bloodroot as main ingredients. In Australia an imported escharotic is available as Cansema. In New Zealand a similar product is called Herbveil 8.
To reach a tumour under the skin, such as a breast tumour, it may be necessary to leave the paste in place for two or three days and reapply fresh paste several times as soon as any developing pus has cleared. Keep covered with a vaseline -coated pad which may need frequent changing. Commonly this causes a strong local inflammation with swelling of the breast, redness and pain for several days. The bigger the breast and the deeper down the tumour, the more difficult it is to create a hole deep enough for the Cansema to reach it and the more applications are required. While this can be more uncomfortable and drawn-out than surgery, an advantage is that Cansema has a reputation of not creating secondary tumours and especialy not in other remote organs as surgery appears to do. Discomfort during this time may be eased not only by pain killers (see Reactions and Pain in Comments & Strategies) but also by anti-inflammatory mearures, such as Phenergan, blue light and alkalising the body. However, for melanomas and malignant tumours use Cansema only in combination with strong anti-microbial therapy.
A word of warning: causing tumours close to the skin to disappear with external remedies is relatively easy. However, this does not mean that the cancerous condition of the body has been cured. That would be just like cutting off a breast which does not achieve much either. Other tumours or metastases may grow or form inside the body and cause the real damage. Only eliminating the cancer microbe combined with a profound improvement in lifestyle can give you the certainty to remain healthy. When the cancerous body and mind condition has been healed, any tumours will disappear on their own.
Colour Therapy
Blue light therapy has several desirable effects in cancer treatment. Blue light inhibits cell division, it stops the tumour from growing or white blood cells from being formed in excessive amounts. It also reduces tumour inflammations, relaxes and relieves pain. However, except with a general infection or inflammation all over the body and possibly leukaemia and widespread lymph cancer, treat only areas of malignant activity and other sites of inflammation with blue light as this may slow the body metabolism. Also, except for the purpose of relaxing and becoming more peaceful or sleepy, do not look for long periods into blue light as this may reinforce any depressive tendencies.
Using a blue light bulb at close range is only suitable with leukaemia, widespread lymph cancers and a general infection and inflammation. To avoid an overall depressing effect from the blue light, it will be helpful to expose the eyes and possibly other parts of the body to a strong yellow light to stimulate the metabolism and uplift the spirit.
However, normally a more convenient way and possibly more effective is to use a 100 watt bulb and place two layers of dark blue cellophane over the tumour site. Over the healthy tissue around the tumour place some orange cellophane in order to stimulate and strengthen it. In addition you may expose the eyes to yellow light. Instead of a light bulb, you may use sunshine as a light source and use blue, orange and yellow cellophane for the desired effects. With lack of energy you may use yellow or orange light therapy for long periods on skin areas where there is no suspected malignancy or inflammation.
In addition it is helpful to project green-filtered ultraviolet light for short periods onto the spine. You may use a green filter or green cellophane over the back and either UV lamp or sunshine. Be aware that cellophane does not block ultraviolet frequencies. Green light therapy in combination with daylight or a normal light bulb may be used for extended periods on all parts of the body.
Magnetic Therapies
Flat ceramic magnets and smaller but more powerful neodymium magnets have a role in cancer treatment. Commonly ferrite blocks of about 75 x 50 x 20mm (e.g. the Medi Magnet) and smaller magnets of about 40 x 25 x 10mm are used. Both have a strength of about 4,000 gauss, but the larger magnets also have a larger field and reach much deeper into the body.
In addition small but stronger 9,000 gauss Neodymium (a Rare Earth) magnets may be used. As dot magnets they may be taped to acupuncture points on the body or ear, while the larger discs (22 x 10 mm) or blocks (25 x 25.4 x 12.7) may be kept directly over tumours or areas of pain.
There is much confusion in the literature about magnet treatment. The original research in this area was done by Roy Davis and his followers in the USA who named the poles opposite to the convention in science. In science the north-pointing pole of a suspended magnet is called the north pole but Davis named it south pole. Therefore, most of the published regressions of tumours with a north pole were really done with the south pole in scientific terms but this is not always mentioned in these books.
Magnets are mainly used for pain relief by keeping a south pole towards the skin over the painful area. The magnet may be on top of clothes and packs. Experimentally you may also try to regress a tumour with a south pole. For regression large or strong magnets have been used for up to an hour several times a day and small magnets for longer periods, but for pain relief keep the magnet in place as long as required. Do not use a magnet in bed if it has an innerspring mattress or a steel frame or base. This may cause the iron parts to become magnetised as north poles and that could stimulate tumour growth. Generally, the south pole inhibits infections, inflammations, pain and tumour growth, while the north pole may stimulate these activities as part of its general energy giving properties.
To support the immune system, a small north pole may sometimes be placed on the upper end of the breastbone as this stimulates the thymus gland.
Drinking water can be improved by keeping it overnight exposed to the south pole of a strong magnet. You may also expose cooked or refrigerated food for at least a few minutes to a south pole before eating or drinking it. When not in use keep magnets well away from the body and from sensitive instruments, watches, pacemakers, credit cards. Check the Yellow Pages for suppliers of magnets, in Australia you may order from A Magnetic Force Ph: 02-9999 2388. For more details see also the article on Magnet Therapy.
Electronic 'Zapper'
There are two types of electronic zappers commercially available, the Hulda Clark zapper and the Robert Beck zapper. They are supposed to eliminate all kinds of parasites, bacteria, fungi and viruses including the cancer microbe. They do this with low-voltage pulsed electric currents. The Clark zapper operates with a 9 V positive offset current at a high pulse frequency of about 30,000 Hz. The Beck zapper uses 27 to 36 V and a low frequency of about 4 Hz, but experimental units may have an additional frequency of 100 Hz. It appears that microbes are not outright killed by the mild electric current but rather changed in such a way that they are prevented from multiplying.
With the Clark zapper you hold an electrode in each hand through which a modulated 9 V current flows with a positive offset frequency. To establish a firm contact rub your palms with salty water and hold the electrodes very firmly. Alternatively, wrap the electrodes in absorbent paper or cloth moistened with salted water. With weak grip strength the best contact results by dipping each hand or foot in a bowl of salted water together with a partly immersed electrode, but not if any electronics are in the handle. After the last treatment of the day rinse your hands and/or feet under running water to remove any static electricity.
With a local infection or tumour also press the electrodes on both sides close to the problem area or one electrode besides a problem area and the other in the opposite hand. The negative electrode, commonly attached to a black wire, tends to sting on sensitive skin.
As with magnets, it can be important in which hand you hold a particular electrode, otherwise one may feel weaker after zapping. It will usually be best to hold the negative electrode on that side of the body where the tumour, pain, infection or inflammation is located and the positive electrode with the red wire in the other hand. You may also try muscle testing to find the best electrode placement: Have someone gently press down your raised, outstretched arm while holding the electrodes one way and then the other. Use the electrodes as for the stronger test.
The normal treatment schedule is seven minutes three times daily. The second zapping should follow 20 - 30 minutes after the first one and the third one after a similar interval. The first zapping is to kill unshielded parasites and microbes. Dead parasites release further bacteria which are killed with the second zapping, and these then release viruses that are eliminated the third time.
After a period of zappings it is advisable to ensure the re-establishment of beneficial rather than harmful gut microbes by taking acidophilus and bifidus cultures. The zapper should be used in addition to the Hulda Clark parasite herbs.
While I found the Clark zapper useful and have no doubt that it is helpful, I now believe that the Beck zapper is even better. Blood tests supposedly show the Beck zapper to be more effective in eliminating microbes from the blood. It appears that with the Clark zapper the current travels mostly over the skin due to its high frequency, while the Beck zapper is specifically designed to electrify and purify the blood. I believe the best type of zapper might actually be a combination of both with the stronger voltage and low frequency of the Beck zapper but the positive offset current of the Clark zapper. Furthermore, according to principles of vibrational medicine it would be more beneficial to use copper electrodes rather than beam the nickel vibrations from stainless steel into the body.
With the Beck zapper the small electrodes are fastened directly over the arteries, where you feel a pulse, on one forearm or near the ankle of a foot. The recommendation is to use the zapper for 2 hours daily and this should eliminate all harmful microbes and parasites in the blood within a month or two, including the AIDS virus. In addition, I also recommend to use the electrodes on both sides of a tumour or an area of infection or inflammation.
In addition, Dr Beck also designed a magnetic pulser to treat infected lymph glands and other parts of the body with poor blood supply. With cancer I also recommend to pulse your tonsils and the teeth or jawbone in any position where these are not obviously completely healthy. Also use the pulser on any area where there is a chronic or acute inflammation or infection, be it on the liver, kidneys or abdomen. You may suspect an inflammation in an area when it is either red, hot or painful or even when it is rather tender when pressing into the area. However, at this time I do not recommend to pulse directly on a tumour. Instead pulse on the healthy tissue around the tumour.
A strong but very short magnetic pulse induces a tiny current in the cells and body fluids up to 10 cm into the body. There is evidence that this is not only effective in eliminating microbes, parasites and cancer cells, but also to recharge and rejuvenate weak body cells. Some of the effects I have observed are pain relief and grey hair becoming darker. Often there is a healing reaction or a series of healing reactions whereby old health problems flare up for a short period before final healing takes place. I regard the Beck-type magnetic pulser in combination with the electronic zapper as the greatest technological healing aid on the market. There are other types of much more expensive magnetic pulsers available that may be helpful in stimulating cellular rejuvenation. However, because of their much lower magnetic pulse intensity, they do not appear to inhibit any microbes or parasites but rather may stimulate their growth as well.
For sources to buy a zapper and pulser see ads in alternative journals, such as Nexus. Commonly, the Beck zapper is bifunctional and may also be used as a colloidal silver maker. If you do not want to build your own, then this is a good way of getting one. For further information and articles by Dr Beck, including plans how to build the zapper and pulser yourself, see www.padrak.com/beck/ and www. rarebooks.net/beck/ and click on 'Bob Beck Papers'. In addition, there are various types of Rife instruments available to destroy the cancer microbe with selected frequencies. Their success depends very much on finding the correct frequency and I cannot comment on their effectiveness.
Meridian and Pressure Therapy
Pressure therapy may be used as acupressure, pressing specific acupuncture points, as in reflexology by pressing sensitive spots under the feet, as pressure directly into tense muscles or as shiatsu which is similar to acupressure.
The easiest method is reflexology. Have someone press the soles of your feet or press them yourself, as against the corner of a piece of furniture or against a rock or onto a golf ball or a broom handle, wherever you find a tender area, also at the sides and top of the feet.
Press each tender spot for as long as possible either daily or several times a week. Select appropriate points from the reflexology chart in the article on Reflexology. Press especially the liver, kidneys, intestines, thyroid and the tumour area in addition to any tender spots.
Check also the back and especially around the neck and shoulders for tense muscles. Press straight into tense muscles with the thumb or a knuckle or even the elbow so that it is somewhat sore but easily bearable. After the pain subsides press somewhat harder or start circling under pressure. This will improve the general blood, lymph and energy circulation through the body, ease pain and support cleansing. Afterwards finish with some gentle massaging or stroking.
Massage in the area of the tumour(s) can help greatly to ease any pain and improve lymph circulation. Do not disturb the tumour itself but rather try to soften any tense muscles in the area and try to gently push the lymph fluid towards the left collarbone. This is especially important if any lymph glands have been removed in that area. If lymph glands have been removed in the groin or armpit, then raise the arm or leg while press-massaging it from the foot or hand towards the collarbone. Furthermore, problems in internal organs and the breast often cause chronic muscle spasms in related parts of the back with much pain and discomfort. Find and ease these spasms or tense muscles with pressing or kneading and also press the related foot reflexes. In addition, give a gentle and relaxing body massage.
If you can get an acupuncture map you may also press points related to the tumour area and to the organs indicated before, or you may treat these with an electro-acupuncture or laser instrument. Ear acupuncture is quite easy and effective. Also easy to do and very helpful is meridian therapy. Here you trace along the course of an acupuncture meridian with one or more fingers or with a magnet. For details see the article on Meridian Therapy.
Energy Therapy
Wilhelm Reich wrote in his book 'The Cancer Biopathy' that he could destroy all malignant tumours by charging the red blood cells with bio-energy (orgone energy). He could actually see under the darkfield microscope at 2000 to 4000 x magnification how the blue energy charge of the red blood cells killed the cancer cells. While this also eliminated the anaemia and cachexia (wasting) of his 'terminal' patients and greatly increased their survival time, it did not automatically lead to a cure. As he did not use any cleansing measures, he realised that most patients or animals still died from congestion of the organs of elimination. Interestingly, he also observed that sometimes the tumours became enlarged due to their interior being filled with blood.
Wilhelm Reich used his invention, the orgone accumulator to charge his patients and experimental animals with bio-energy. There are various possibilities of charging the body. A relatively easy and effective way to achieve this at home is by frequently drinking the fresh juice of young grasses. For further information on energy therapy see the article on Bio-Energies.
Exercise
The main aims of exercise in cancer therapy are the increase of blood and lymph circulation and the improvement in oxygen supply and uptake. Most suited for this are slow jogging and light rebounding. It is essential to breathe as deep and fast as possible without getting out of breath, which would cause oxygen deficiency and aid the cancer.
If you have enough energy to jog and can do so in a relatively unpolluted area, then start with just a few minutes and gradually over the weeks work up to 30 minutes a day. Jog as slowly as possible but breathe as hard as you can. Pay attention to your lower rib cage and abdomen expanding during inhalation. You may, of course, just jog on the spot at your verandah or even inside at an open window.
Even better, especially for those low in energy, is a rebounder. Some expensive models, called lymphasisers, are definitely much better and preferred if you can afford the price. Otherwise settle for a cheap one or if you cannot afford even that, bounce on top of one or two innerspring mattresses.
While it is alright to bounce higher for a while if you feel like it, during the basic exercise you remain with both feet firmly on the mat. Bounce only very gently up and down, starting with just a few minutes and gradually increasing up to 10 or 15 minutes 3 or 4 times daily, best before meals and bedtime, the more the better.
Keep your hands touching body areas in need of healing, such as the tumour area and the liver or wherever you feel discomfort. With each upward bounce take a sniff until your lungs are filled after 10-20 sniffs and then exhale again in sniffs. Always try to fill and empty your lungs as completely as possible. If you do it right, you should feel energised after the exercise.
Lymphasising is especially important with cancers of the lymphsystem, after removal of any lymph glands and also with any kind of fluid accumulation. If the patient is too weak to stand, he or she may sit on the mat and a helper may do the bouncing. In addition activate the lymph drainage by circling with light thumb pressure just below the clavicles and press on top of the feet at the bottom of the toes.
I am especially impressed with the results achieved by using the RH48 Lymphasiser and the exercise program supplied with it, in Australia phone 1800 683 555, in N.Z.09-832 4394.
Breathing exercises can be used to influence our acid-alkaline balance. If we breathe deeper and faster than normally, then more carbon dioxide is expelled and the body becomes more alkaline, while with shallower and slower breathing it becomes more acid.
If you are bedridden, frequently inhale fully, thereby tensing all your muscles, hold for a few seconds and then exhale slowly while relaxing at the same time. Do this as often as possible. Balance your energies with alternating breathing: inhale through the right nostril, exhale through the left, inhale through the left, exhale through the right nostril, and so forth for a minute or two.
BOWEL CLEANSING
Most failures in healing programs occur because bowel cleansing is neglected. Toxins are reabsorbed from the bowels and accumulate in the blood, causing fatigue, migraine, eczema, boils, colds, inflammations, coughs and swellings.
Increasing bowel movements to two or three a day is only a first step. Even more important than the frequency of bowel movements is the speed with which food residues move through the intestines. To check this, eat a highly colored food (for example, beetroot) with an evening meal. A healthy intestine should eliminate all colouring matter before lunch the following day or at least before evening. If it takes longer, you are constipated. Use appropriate mineral and vitamin supplements, laxative foods, colonics, acupressure and exercise to improve bowel conditions.
Ordinary toilets encourage a sitting rather than a squatting position. This is not conducive to complete emptying of the lower bowels and contributes to many health problems. A squatting position is preferable. If you cannot squat on top of the toilet, you may support your feet with a footstool; additionally, bend forward to exert more pressure on the bowels. An alternative way of cleaning the bowels is taking an isotonic flush, preferably with some crushed garlic added. People on a low-salt diet may use Epsom salts instead with plenty of water.
Early in the 20th century a British surgeon became famous for curing all kinds of incurable diseases by removing the lower part of the large intestines of his patients. We can do the same and help to cure cancer by keeping the lower bowel very clean. This is important with all forms of cancer but most of all with bowel cancer.
If you prefer to be clean on the inside as well as on the outside, you may develop the habit of rinsing your lower bowel repeatedly after each bowel movement and possibly again before going to bed. You can do this by sitting on the toilet and having an enema bucket or bag hanging from the wall near the toilet. After a bowel movement you insert about half a litre of hand-warm water and expel it immediately. You may bend forward for a while with the bottom up to let the water penetrate further, but this is not essential. Finally rinse the outside. Preferably use some gel or oil before inserting the douche and possibly use a plastic glove. The tube or end-piece should preferably have side holes in addition to the central opening.
A good way of keeping your whole intestinal tract clean is to have one or several drinks with psyllium hulls or psyllium and ground linseed before meals. This is especially important when on a limited food intake, especially on a juice diet. Stir either 1 teaspoonful of psyllium hulls or 1 teaspoon of psyllium and 1 or 2 teaspoons of ground linseed in a glass of water. Drink immediately and drink more water afterwards.
Colonics
Colonics (the name is short for colonic irrigation) are a very effective therapy, bringing immediate relief in many disease problems. The more serious the condition, the more often colonics should be used - once a week at first, but even daily use may be required for a while. After several treatments, you may have a colonic once a month, later once or twice a year. Iris diagnosis may guide you about the frequency necessary. If the intestinal area shows dark or brown discoloration, or if it is quite extended, colonics should be used more often, also if foul-smelling wind indicates putrefactive processes in the bowel pockets.
The aim of colonics is to remove all putrefying matter from the bowels, clean out the bowel pockets and remove the hard crust that often coats the walls. In order to achieve this, the bowels should be filled repeatedly with as much water as possible. It is best to have a thorough bowel movement before starting the colonic.
HOW TO GIVE A COLONIC - To administer a colonic, add 1 heaped teaspoon of salt and 1 level teaspoon of baking soda to 2-3 litres of moderately warm water. Use a bucket enema or enema bag; place it about two feet above the body on a table, chair or the rim of the bath. A good position is to kneel on the floor with the head down. More comfortably, you may lie in a warm bath with the rectum elevated, or you may lie in bed in a similar position or on the right side; use a plastic sheet underneath.
Lubricate the rectal tube and insert it slowly up to a depth of about 20 to 30 cm. If there is any pain or discomfort, do not insert any further. Expel the first lot of water when increasing pressure is felt. After that, you should be able to hold much more water. When renewed pressure is felt, stop the inflow of water and assume different positions, especially lying on the right side for a while to fill the ascending colon. Repeat the expulsion and intake of water until all of it has been used.
Finally, if available, you may introduce a pint of diluted fresh juice of grass or green leaves and retain that for up to 30 minutes. This is the standard procedure for home colonics that applies to all people with normal or acid body conditions. The addition of baking soda is to neutralize the often overacid bowel conditions, while the salt acts partly as a drawing agent and partly to prevent demineralization of the blood plasma by osmosis, which could cause shock. This is important for people with low blood pressure and a poor circulation.
However, those with high blood pressure or very weak kidneys should not add salt and baking soda to the colonic water but use very diluted lemon juice instead. If this causes soreness, or if the body is not too alkaline, use diluted fresh juice of green-vegetable leaves.
If you cannot use a colonic at home, have a series of professional colonics done at a hydrotherapy centre. Everyone would benefit from some form of bowel cleansing from time to time. Instead of a series of colonics, you may use the Basic Cleanse.
COFFEE ENEMA - For stimulating and detoxifying the liver in the case of serious conditions, for example, cancer, a series of coffee enemas may be helpful, especially if there is pain and discomfort. Boil 2 tablespoons of ground coffee (not instant coffee) for three minutes in 1 litre of water, simmer for a further 15 minutes and strain; rinse the coffee grounds with some more water. Use this as a retention enema after cleaning the bowels with a normal enema or colonic. If you can hold only part of the coffee, use the rest with a repeat enema. Try to hold for 10 to 20 minutes. Do not use this if you are allergic or sensitive to coffee.
OXYGENATING COLONIC - This can often improve the wellbeing of people with a poor oxygen metabolism -patients with cancer, for example. These oxygenating colonics are available at some hydrotherapy centres.
As an alternative for home treatment, you may add hydrogen peroxide to a 'rectal implant' after the colon has been cleaned with an ordinary colonic. Use up to one litre of hand-warm liquid in which 1 teaspoon of salt has been dissolved. Initially, include 1 tablespoon of 6 per cent or 2 tablespoons of 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide. Hold this inside for about 10 minutes. If this is well tolerated, double the amount of hydrogen peroxide with each successive treatment until it becomes too uncomfortable and you cannot hold it any more. Then cut back to the preceding level and continue at that rate.
For 'terminal' patients, and under professional supervision, one may start at higher levels and include up to 250 ml of 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide. This may induce the evacuation of much stinking waste during the following days and the patient may look and feel worse. After this, however, there should be a considerable improvement.
In the following a wide selection of mental and emotional therapies have been used in the treatment of cancer. The same principles can be adopted to overcoming any other disease or improving health and wellbeing in general.
MIND THERAPIES
Our mind is the most important healing factor in cancer therapy. With the mind we decide which therapy we want to adopt, how much effort we put into it and how strongly we believe in our ultimate success. With our mind we can mobilise deep inner resources and open ourselves to healing energies and spiritual guidance. Clinical studies have shown that mind therapies are more effective in cancer therapy than any other properly evaluated conventional therapy.
I firmly believe that the key to successful cancer therapy is in the mind and especially in healing our emotions. There are a number of steps and mind tools to help you reach this goal. Most prominent among these are a spiritual philosophy, prayer and affirmations, visualisation or guided imagery meditation and emotional therapy. An excellent site on mind and emotional therapy is www.ahealth.com from where you can download the free book 'Your Power to Win with Cancer'.
Emotional Therapy
Many cancer sufferers are inhibited in their emotional expression. Often they are unselfish, quiet and dependable; the caring and enduring partner in a relationship. However they also tend to harbour resentments as they hold back in expressing their anger or their own needs. For them, family and partner come first, while they sacrifice their own desires and dreams. This then inhibits their life force, their inner drive and vitality. This type of behaviour has been called the ‘Type C Personality’ as compared to the Type A Personality with the opposite character traits and a susceptibility to heart disease.
Another emotional cause of cancer is an unexpected emotional loss. This may be a partner or close relative, a job, business, financial security, anything with which the individual has a strong emotional bond. In individuals with a Type C or cancer personality, such loss often causes a severe depression of the emotions as well as of the immune system and any hitherto dormant or slow-growing tumours explode in a sudden growth spurt.
These emotional cancer causes need to be rectified in order to give any additional therapies a chance to work. If you have the opportunity and financial resources, see someone who specialises in emotional therapies, otherwise just work with your partner or a friend.
Sit down and write in as much detail as possible about ‘the worst experience of your life’. Then preferably share it with a trusted person. Also search your mind and write and talk to someone about your other resentments, hurts, disappointments, losses and shattered dreams.
Practise to express yourself forcefully, even exaggerate gestures and body movements. Remember incidents that you did not like and induce and release anger by kicking and punching something, cry, scream if possible. Afterwards formally forgive yourself as well as everyone else for past hurts and mistakes.
Practise expressing emotions and feelings with your body. Read poetry aloud and with feeling, express feelings through dancing and arm and hand movements, also through pantomime. Find another dream, something worthwhile and exciting to do after you have recovered from your disease.
Be assertive, especially with medical and other authorities, make sure that your emotional needs are being met. Preferably get together with other cancer sufferers in weekly sessions for emotional group therapy and support as well as sharing information and meditating and visualising together. Inform yourself and take control of your therapy program. I believe that your emotional transformation, learning to express your emotions, is the key to winning the battle with cancer.
To sum up:
Most cancer patients have a so-called Type C personality or behaviour:
• They rarely or never feel or express anger or other negative emotions, such as fear or sadness.
• They are patient, cooperative, appeasing, 'nice' individuals, compliant with authorities and non assertive.
• They are extremely self-sacrificing and overly concerned with meeting the needs of others rather than their own needs.
• Instead of speaking out, they tend to hold resentments.
In addition to any of the other therapies it is essential to change this type of behaviour by:
• learning to feel your negative emotions and expressing them appropriately;
• learning to feel your emotional needs and moving towards fulfilling them;
• uncovering and releasing all resentments;
• forgiving yourself and others for anything you or they may have done;
• learning to speak out, becoming assertive, trusting your own knowledge and intuition;
• finding a dream that you would love to make come true in coming years;
• becoming enthusiastic about your future and your present life.
Keep these points in mind and move towards changing your behaviour in small steps in your daily life whenever an opportunity presents itself. In addition, use mind improvement methods, such as meditation, affirmations and guided imagery or visualisation to help you shape yourself and your future as you want it to be.
Overcoming Fear
Our disease provides us with a great opportunity to learn not only how to care for our body, but also how to heal our mind and emotions and to become truly spiritual. Some of the inner causes of cancer are long-standing resentments, habitual worries, carrying inner hurt or grief, guilt, repressed sexuality and a lack of inner joy and spontaneity. All of these are expressions of fear in its many and varied forms which we need to overcome by developing unselfish love.
One of the most basic forms of fear to overcome is the fear of dying. This can best be done by seeing yourself as an immortal soul which temporarily inhabits and operates a biological body in order to gain certain experiences. Numerous near-death experiences show that death or shedding the biological form is generally a liberating and pleasant event for the soul and you may even have similar experiences during meditation.
Another aspect is a fear of pain and dependence on others and especially in an impersonal and technological hospital setting. However, by using a holistic program you remain in charge. There is hardly any pain and even if you are too old or start holistic therapy too late you can expect to spend your last days in a dignified way. Instead of trying to cling to the body or being drugged semi-conscious, this should become the spiritual high-point of your life as you prepare in prayer and meditation for the liberation of your soul.
After the shock revelation that you have cancer you must gradually progress to hope, belief and faith - faith in your spiritual guidance and that all will be well. You just do your best and the rest is in God's hands: 'whatever will be will be', there is nothing to be afraid about. This inner transformation can be achieved with the indicated mind tools. Preferably develop a daily routine which you start with prayer, affirmations, relaxation and followed by guided imagery and meditation.
Releasing Stressful Memories
Clinical studies reveal that it is surprisingly effective for improving long-term disease conditions just to write about a stressful experience. In these studies participants were asked to write several pages about what they regarded as the most stressful experience in their lives. While many were upset and felt worse initially, after a few weeks and months they were in a much better condition than control groups who just wrote about an emotionally meaningless event.
I suggest you do the same. After thoroughly processing the stressful event with all its underlying emotions, you may then read your memories aloud to a trusted partner or friend, although it is not essential to do this. The following week you may write about another stressful event that may now have become the most stressful unprocessed event in your live. In this way continue to comb through your life, selecting to process one additional stressful event every week or at another suitable interval. If it is not convenient to write, you may record your thoughts on a tape recorder.
Embrace Life
As an essential factor in overcoming cancer make a conscious and formal decision to choose life rather than death. Fully and joyfully embrace life with al its ups and downs by seeing it as an exciting adventure rather than a struggle of life and death. See yourself as an actor and producer in a play that is still being written. You write it yourself. The goal is not to keep your body for as long as possible, but rather to lead an interesting life in which you learn and grow. If you adopt a spiritual philosophy, then you realise that you have nothing to lose, nothing to fear, you can only gain from your experiences as your individual life-stream carries on with or without a biological body.
If you truly realise this, then it will set you free to enjoy your life without fear, you are willing to take risks just to see where they lead you.
Even if you have to endure temporary hardships, see them as an athlete does who trains for the Olympics or a mountaineer who tries to climb Mount Everest. They ache with pain much of the time, but they still push on. You do not need to push all the time. Give yourself frequent rewards or treats for following a restricted diet or enduring other hardships. You may occasionally break the diet and nourish your inner child. Listen to it and try to keep it happy by giving it little surprises, going to the movies or dancing, or a gentle massage or beauty treatment, whatever your inner child fancies and what is in your ability to do.
After your early morning meditation, affirmation and visualisation get out of bed with the rhythms of some lively music. On a sunny day admire the beauty of whatever you can see from your open window, even if it is just the sky. On a dull day expose yourself to bright yellow, golden or orange lights and colours indoors. Try to be in nature as much as you can. Look at the bright site of any event. The more pleasure you can discover and create in your life, the more your body and mind will relax, the more energy and the less pain you will experience.
Dream about what you would like to do, the next hour, the next day, the next year. Try to have dreams that are possible to come true and then start planning on making them come true. Do not postpone working on manifesting your big dream until you are healed, working on your dream is part of the healing process.
A Spiritual Philosophy
A spiritual philosophy is our basic belief system about the nature and purpose of our existence. Everyone has a philosophy of life that forms the basis of their decisions and actions, even if they are not consciously aware of it. With a spiritual philosophy of life we try to understand our relationship with any higher or guiding forces. It gives us guidance and support in our daily interactions.
I suggest that you contemplate the following outline of a spiritual philosophy as a basis for your healing efforts, suitably modified according to your present religious and spiritual beliefs.
Our existence is meaningful and has a purpose. This purpose can be expressed in different ways, such as learning to do the will of God, following Christ, becoming one with our Source or just learning to lead a spiritual life and manifesting the spiritual attributes of love and faith.
Whatever it is, it requires a conscious effort and our problems, and in particular our health problems, show us what we need to learn and provide the opportunity to advance spiritually. Disease cannot continue to exist if we learn to live in harmony with the natural and divine laws that govern our existence.
Our individual life-stream is more or less eternal, that is our consciousness continues to grow and expand. It does not need a physical body for this. We can live in an etheric body, an astral body, a light body, gaining experiences on many different levels of consciousness. Our present personality is only a small part of our whole Self and the goal of our spiritual journey is to become aware of all of ourselves. Therefore, there is nothing to fear, nothing to lose, we can only gain in experience and expanded consciousness.
Prayer
Prayer can be a very powerful healing tool. However effective prayer is not easy. In a dangerous situation it tends to be much more effective than in everyday life. This is because of the spontaneous outpouring of emotional energy at a time of great need. Like a carrier wave, this energy easily succeeds in catapulting our prayer into the highest spiritual realms.
A normal prayer, on the other hand, without emotional charge, is like an earth-bound rocket, it just remains within our mind like an affirmation or simply wishful thinking. Therefore, the first requirement for a successful prayer is an emotional opening and outpouring which can be achieved in so-called higher states of consciousness as in devotional services or meditative states or just as a feeling of unconditional love or compassion.
Furthermore, I do not believe in prayer as a means to receive a free gift. I believe we generally have to pay for what we may receive in answer to our prayer by our willingness and effort to change; trying to understand what God wants us to do and then do it. The details may be different, but I believe the general terms are the same for all of us: learning complete forgiveness and to act out of love instead of fear and developing a child-like trust and faith in our higher or divine guidance.
When we are prepared to take these steps towards God, then our daily prayer should mainly be concerned with asking for guidance and strength on this, our spiritual path. When in this way we become gradually healed on the spiritual level, our prayers for healing our biological body will automatically be answered.
A final requirement for a successful prayer is faith that it will be answered. You can be confident of that by asking that the will of God be done. I am sure God does not want you to suffer and will grant you all the health and happiness that you deserve. You just need to remove your own fear and resistance that prevent you from receiving these gifts. Conclude with thanksgiving for what you have and pray.
Affirmations
While prayer is addressed to a higher or guiding consciousness, affirmation is used to re-program our subconscious mind. To be successful, we must make a believable statement of how we want to be and then repeat it daily for a considerable period. Our subconscious is not impressed with intellectual or left-brain statements which are generally ineffective.
There are, however, several says of making affirmations acceptable to our subconscious. One possibility is by creating an emotional carrier wave, as explained for prayer, which can then be modulated with mental statements. We can also support an affirmation by trying to feel or visualise it at the same time. Our subconscious will like a statement phrased in poetic language, spoken rhythmically or in rhyme or melodically, even singing it. Finally, we may sedate our left brain with relaxation exercises when using affirmations or say them in a meditative state. Experiment to find out what suits you.
Carefully choose the best affirmations for your condition, then write them down and say them several times daily, either aloud or just in your mind; best both. Also ask your subconscious for a comment on your chosen affirmations. Repeat each one slowly and feel into yourself if it sounds genuine and believable or if there is any resistance or a suggested change comes to your mind.
When you are sick, it may sound phoney if you assert: 'I am happy, healthy and fit.' However, remember that your affirmation is a statement of your goal, not a description of your present condition. Therefore, your subconscious is only asked to accept the chosen affirmation as a goal. It may, however, suggest to say instead: 'We are happy, healthy and fit' to feel accepted as a partner of the conscious part of your mind. Another general affirmation, made famous by Emile Coue, is: 'With every day in every way I am better and better.' Make it a habit to say some affirmations shortly after waking up and before falling asleep.
In addition to such general affirmations, select also a set of affirmations that are specific for your condition. You may, for instance, say: 'My liver is healthy, the thyroid is strong, my nervous system is balanced, my immune system is in charge, it kills all cancer cells and microbes, the tumour is shrinking, all toxins leave my body' and so forth.
As a daily body-mind tonic I like the system of affirmations used by John Diamond in his book, 'Life Energy'. With muscle testing he found that specific affirmations and their related attitudes and emotions are linked to specific organs via the acupuncture meridians.
• For the thymus gland you may say: 'I trust, I have faith, I have courage, I am grateful, I feel love'.
• For the lungs: 'I am tolerant, humble and modest'.
• For the liver: 'I am cheerful and happy' while the gall-bladder is strengthened if you say 'I reach out with love.'
• For the spleen and pancreas you affirm your faith and confidence in your future and say that you are secure.
• The kidneys respond to the suggestions of balanced sexual energies. For the large intestines you affirm being worthy of being loved and that you are basically clean and good.
• For the blood circulation which is also related to the sexual organs and functions you state that you are relaxed and generous and renounce all past conditioning and negativity.
• The heart responds to feeling forgiveness in the heart, while the stomach wants to be content and tranquil.
• The thyroid needs to feel light and buoyed with hope and the small intestine wants to jump with joy. The bladder likes peace and harmony.
Two well-known books about affirmations are: 'You Can Heal Your Life' by Louise Hay and 'I Deserve Love' by Sondra Ray. Also many other good affirmation books and tapes are available. Experiment and change your affirmations from time to time to suit your changing circumstances.
Relaxation
Relaxation is a pre-requisite for successful visualisation and meditation and also affirmations are much more effective if used in a state of deep relaxation.
An easy method is slow, rhythmical breathing. Inhale for a slow count of eight, hold for two, exhale for eight, hold for two, and so forth. Then focus your attention on your breath, how it quietly flows in and out and forget counting. In addition you may imagine and feel how you drift lower and lower in a long tunnel, or towards the bottom of the sea, or walking down a shaded path to the bottom of a waterfall, or contract your consciousness into your abdomen.
Very successful, too, is progressive muscle relaxation. Lie comfortably with closed eyes. Focus your attention for a while on one foot, feel it becoming heavy and warm. Then shift your attention in turn to the ankle, the calf, the knee and the thigh. After this start with the other foot and work your way upwards. Now move gradually up the back and the front of the trunk. Pay attention to the shoulders, the neck, the jaw, the eyes, the forehead and the back and top of the head. With continue practise a whole leg or arm or the torso may be relaxed at the same time.
When fully relaxed let your affirmations casually drift into your middle and hold them leisurely for a while. In the same leisurely way keep your attention on feeling the various body areas associated with any affirmations. You are in the correct state of mind if you startle at an unexpected noise.
Before opening the eyes when finishing your relaxation or meditation or after awakening give yourself a positive suggestion, such as: 'When I count to five I will open my eyes and feel refreshed, energetic and joyful'.
With your consent, a friend or relative may also give you a pre-arranged suggestion in your sleep or you may use a tape-recorded message with automatic timing. Also commercial tapes are available for relaxation and guided imagery.
Autogenic Training
This is the most thorough body and mind relaxation technique, developed by J.H. Schultz. It requires diligent practice for several weeks or even months to master the technique, but it is worth the effort, especially for those who are tense or who have difficulties in contacting their body.
Lie comfortably on your back, arms loosely alongside the body, palms down, or hands folded over the abdomen. Close your eyes and breathe slowly into the abdomen for a few minutes. At the same time focus your mind on the formula: "I am peaceful".
Afterwards repeat slowly in your mind: "My right arm feels very heavy". Feel your arm becoming limp and heavy like a leaden weight. If you are left-handed use the left arm. After a few minutes bend and stretch the arm energetically and repeat mentally: "Arm moves firm and free". When you can readily feel the heaviness after several days of practice, include the other arm and finally also the legs and the torso. At the end of each session give the suggestion that the whole body is now light and free.
For the next step add the focus: "My right arm is streaming warm". After you can easily feel the warmth in the arm, include also the other arm, the legs and the torso. The warmth does not need to be taken back at the end of a session, only the heaviness.
For beginners in mind-body work it may take about three weeks until the heaviness and warmth can be readily felt together. Now you can move to the next step. Support your right elbow with a pillow so that your right hand lies over your heart. Feel it beating and hold the mental focus: "My heart is peaceful and strong". When you can experience your heart, you may later keep the right arm in the usual position.
During further practice, add the focus: "It breathes me". Feel the breath flowing in and out without mental control. After a week or two include the solar plexus (inside the upper abdomen):"My solar plexus radiates warmth" or "My solar plexus is streaming warm".
While exhaling imagine the warmth of the breath accumulating in the stomach and abdomen and heating them up. The final focus is: "My forehead is light an cool". You may mentally transfer the coolness felt in the throat from the incoming breath onto the forehead.
Each time go first through all the previous steps, such as heaviness, warmth, peaceful heart, and the focus on the next step you want to learn. Practice each new step until you can readily feel it. Eventually it will be easy to relax the body completely within a very short time. Body and mind will be still and peaceful, with the body feeling warm and heavy and the head cool and light. You may be in an altered state of consciousness but should be inwardly alert and definitely not drowsy. This is an excellent preparation to follow up with guided imagery to strengthen the immune system and destroy any tumours.
Guided Imagery
Guided imagery is one of the most powerful tools in cancer therapy. Visualisation is a specific form of guided imagery. The most effective way is to visualise as well as feel what you want to achieve. At the beginning and end of each period of guided imagery you may visualise or feel something like the following affirmations: 'All cancer cells are now being destroyed, all toxins leave the body, the immune system is powerful and the metabolism is normal in every way'. However, visualisations or affirmations work only if they are immersed in positive feeling energy. Therefore it is best to combine specific guided imagery with an exercise that arouses the feeling energy such as autogenic training, the love cure or chakra meditation. Surround the tumour with love and see and feel it melting and convert to normal tissue.
You may visualise the tumour as a black or grey mass in whatever organ it is supposed to be. With each inhalation see and feel a flood of white, blue or golden-yellow energy entering your lungs and spreading from there to the tumour site. See the healing energy washing around the tumour, gradually dissolving it. This causes the healing energy to become discoloured and you exhale it. With the next slow breath, more clear healing energy flows in and dissolves more of the tumour and so forth until after 5-15 minutes it has completely disappeared and only the pure healing energy remains in the formerly diseased organ. See yourself as being already healed.
As an alternative picture, you may see and feel a golden or white healing energy flow in through the top of your head, wash away at the tumour and carry the discoloured energy down to the feet and out of the soles as a stream of dirty-grey energy which gradually becomes clearer as the tumour gets smaller.
Finally, visualise the white healing light in the affected organ becoming brighter and brighter until it is a brilliant white light that fills the whole body. At the same time feel the body being filled with love and joy.
You may also visualise your immune cells (B-cells and T-cells) in any shape or form charging into the tumour and destroying cancer cells. You may see the tumour as a big cheese and the immune cells as white mice nibbling away at it. Repeat this tumour destroying visualisation several times for a total of 15-20 minutes at a time and in serious conditions several times daily.
With leukaemia you send the healing energy through your bone marrow and through the lymphatic system, cleaning out any discoloured obstructions and normalising the functions of bone marrow, liver and spleen. Also feel the healing energy as a warm, tingling presence in these organs, bones and lymph glands.
Body Talk
Guided imagery is even more effective if you combine it with talking to your body. Imagine that the body has many different layers or levels of consciousness. Your mind usually works at the mental level while your subconscious mind is in charge of the emotional level. Below that is the life-force level and that is where your body-self operates. However, I have reasons to assume that each organ in our body and even each cell has its own distinct consciousness. You were already enlisting the cooperation of all these individual consciousnesses with your guided imagery. Now imagine that you can talk to them as well and that they are willing and eager to comply with your wishes.
When in a relaxed state and either combined with other imagery or separately talk to any organ that you want to improve. First talk to the body self that is charge of all the different organs and body parts. You may give it a name, as for instance your unused middle name and talk to it as you would to a child with a problem. Tell it repeatedly what you want it to do, such as shrinking a tumour, putting on weight, strengthening the immune system, removing toxins and so forth. Give it enthusiastic encouragement and convince it that it is able to do it. If, for instance, you have a breast tumour then ask it to heal the breast and to support the breast in its efforts to heal itself.
Then in the same way talk to the affected breast. Tell it what you want it to do. Tell it that it is strong enough to heal the tumour and heal any lesions. Ask it to turn to the body self for help. Assure your breast that you love it and promise frequently to send it it love energy and any other support that it may need. Then do not forget to do as you said. Tell you body self as well as your breast to let you know what you can do better to support them and in a relaxed state listen for an answer. A helpful idea may unexpectedly cross your mind.
Talk audibly to your body and frequently repeat talking to it, art least once a day. After the initial contact you do not always need to be in a relaxed state but can talk whenever you feel like it. You may find it very effective talking in front of a mirror. You may also directly talk to your army of immune cells, giving it a pep talk as their commander in chief or ask the red blood cells to carry more oxygen or the lymphfluid to remove waste products more efficiently.
Meditation
There are many different forms of meditation. A healing meditation aims to raise our consciousness to become more closely aligned with our spiritual self or the Divine Will from where all healing originates.
During meditation we should be wide awake. If you feel tired beforehand, do a few minutes of deep, fast breathing, possibly while rebounding or shaking the limbs or the whole body. Then you may either do the full sequence of relaxation, affirmations, visualisation and continuing with a prayer and meditation, or do just a short relaxation followed by a prayer in which you state the goal or theme of your meditation and ask for guidance before you quieten your mind with slow rhythmical breathing.
Assume a comfortable position in which your spine is straight for an extended period. You may sit erect in a chair with good back support with both feet on the ground or cross-legged on the floor or sit Japanese-style on your heels or lie flat on your back if you can remain wide-awake in this position.
The aim is to reach a meditative state in which breathing becomes slow and shallow, almost imperceptible and the body sensations fade away. You feel as if you are in your spiritual home: content, safe, with a warm inner glow and no inclination to think. You may not notice the passage of time. After the meditation you may retain or be able to recall that warm inner glow for a considerable time.
It may be several weeks or months of daily meditations before you reach this meditative state, but even the initial pre-meditative states are already of considerable benefit. In these, the mind is occupied with a structured activity, such as following the breath or trying to feel and radiate love.
For me the easiest way to reach the meditative state is by intentionally changing my breathing to a shallow 8-2 rhythm, focusing my closed eyes behind the middle of my forehead and also concentrating my awareness there.
Others may find it easier to start by concentrating on the heart centre behind the middle of the breastbone. You can keep your attention there by imagining that with each inhalation the breath energy or prana moves from the outside through the middle of your breastbone towards your spine while during exhalation you imagine that it moves out again through the same point. After a while you may feel some pressure or warmth in that area and then you concentrate on this feeling and try to intensify it.
When thoughts arise just let them drift past like small white clouds on a blue sky without paying any attention to them. The same with outside noises, just ignore them. Initially meditate for only 5-10 minutes but gradually extend this to 30 and even 60 minutes, as long as it feels good doing it. Preferably make meditation a regular habit at the same time and the same location each day. With advanced cancer try to meditate three times daily. The following is an example of a meditation using guided imagery.
Healing and Love Meditation
Sit or lie relaxed but with a straight spine. Take some slow, full breaths, mentally follow each breath as it continues to flow quietly in and out on its own. Feel how your body gradually becomes immersed in a cosy warmth - you may imagine being in a warm bath.
Then concentrate on the idea that with each inhalation vital energy or prana begins to fill the body. Direct this energy into your abdomen and feel it becoming very warm. After this, you direct the pleasant feeling energy stream to those areas of the body that are especially in need of healing.
Finally, you concentrate on the middle of the chest where you create a feeling of intense love and compassion. You may initiate this feeling by remembering an actual situation or person that invoked such feelings in you previously. After a while you forget the actual memory and feel love and compassion in an abstract way.
Now imagine that you radiate these feelings, like being a sun, just radiating love and compassion instead of light and warmth. You radiate these to all your body areas in need of healing as well as to the outside, filling the room, the house and finally all the world. Realise that you are not the originator of this powerful energy flow, but just a channel through which it emerges from higher dimensions.
Chakra Meditation
Instead of or in addition to conventional meditation you may do the energy exercises described in The Love Cure. In particular, focus on the energy centre or chakra that dominates the region where the cancer is located. With cancer of the breast and lungs, for instance, that is the heart centre, with cancer of the liver, pancreas, stomach or upper abdomen you focus on the solar plexus centre, with cancer of the sexual organs or glands on the sacral centre and with cancer in the lower bowel in addition also on the base centre. With brain tumours you activate the chakras in the head and with problems in the throat area you choose the throat centre. For more information see The Chakra System in the BIO-ENERGY page. The main aim is to generate the appropriate feeling in the selected centre, such as love or compassion in the heart centre.
Centering
Frequently during the day try to recall this feeling of love and warm contentment enjoyed during meditation. If you are not yet able to do this, try to keep part of your attention focused on your forehead centre or your heart centre or just on your breath while performing your daily activities.
Initially it may be easier if you just repeat an affirmation over and over in your mind, this is also sometimes called a mantra. You may inwardly say: 'I am healed' or 'God loves me' or 'Jesus Christ', preferably in a very short but highly meaningful statement. Even more helpful than repeating a mantra in your head, is to project it into your heart centre and repeat it there.
A highly recommended exercise is to feel and send love from your heart. Whenever you meet someone or think of someone smile and silently say: "God bless you" while feeling a wave of love or joy or compassion radiating from your heart centre. Another exercise is to think of someone and extend your arms with palms forward in the so-called Madonna gesture. Again, smile and feel the love, joy or compassion in your heart. During the day try to remember this feeling of love in your heart and centre on it.
Initially you may forget a hundred times a day to centre but a hundred times something inside you causes you to remember until gradually you can remain centred most of the time, that is except during concentrated mental activities. Being centred allows us to gather our energies and gives us strength, poise and serenity. We are more alert, intuitive and mentally and emotionally balanced.
Attitude
I regard attitude as the most important single factor in cancer therapy. Scientific studies attest to its importance, but I can soon get a feeling with a 'terminal' patient whether he or she is going to make it based on the displayed attitude.
But what is the right attitude?
It has several key features. The starting point may be called 'self-responsibility'. We accept that we have developed the disease for a reason. We did something wrong in the past in our way of living and possibly in our emotional, mental and spiritual attitude. Whatever it is, we are willing to learn to improve ourselves, so that in future we can live in harmony with all divine and natural laws.
Therefore, we regard our disease as an opportunity to learn and to grow, not as a punishment. Whatever the final outcome, we can greatly advance on all levels of our being by seeing our therapy as a great learning and healing adventure, something exciting that stirs us up to bring all of our inner resources to the surface.
Do not focus on fighting your cancer. Do what needs to be done but focus instead on improving your health.
Our main goal is not to save our body, but our soul. The healing of our body will just be a side effect of healing our soul. We have a willingness to learn, to change, to do whatever is required to become whole in body, mind and spirit. We will have succeeded when we can fill our daily lives with love, joy, peace and serenity, regardless of what happens ultimately with our body. But having transformed yourself in this way, you are much less likely to die of cancer, there is no spiritual need for this any more.
You may not have the right attitude right now, but that is not important if you are willing to change your attitude. You can do this with the explained mind therapies.
Regression
Regression is a very useful technique to reach deeper psychological levels if you want to find out more about the inner reasons why cancer developed and where it expressed itself. In addition, regression can help to overcome these subconscious causes.
Basically, regression is a guided imagery led by a therapist. It is easy to learn and you may experiment with a suitable friend. The patient lies relaxed on the back while the therapist gives instructions in a soothing voice. The initial aim is to induce deep relaxation which may be done with the methods described previously.
Then the therapist may suggest: 'Now you feel very light and begin to float upwards. You rise higher and higher into the blue sky'. After reinforcing this suggestion for a while, it may be suggested: 'You look down but cannot see the earth because of a dense cloud cover. You continue to fly over the clouds to look for a place and a time that hold an important clue for understanding your present condition. When you have found this spot, dive through the clouds and descend to earth. After landing look around and tell me what you see or hear or feel.' Make a suitable pause after each suggestion.
If the patient remains quiet, the therapist asks after a while what is going on. If the patient just describes a landscape, ask to find a house or some people and observe or talk to them. Always keep verbal contact with the patient. Whatever the patient reports, the therapist tries to deepen the experience. Some may report vivid scenes and others just vague feelings. The related incident may be an actual forgotten experience or it may symbolise the problem.
A patient with cancer of the mouth and throat, for instance, related to me that he had landed on a beach. Some distance away he saw a group of people amicably gathered at another beach. I asked him to join the group to see what was going on but he found it impossible to approach them. He then realised that he had felt as an outsider all his life.
While he was a good talker, he talked to or at people not with them in an open and personal way and he had felt especially separated and excluded from group activities. This caused the energies in his mouth and throat area to stagnate and allowed a tumour to develop specifically in this area.
Another patient related a true incident. He saw himself as a young man in a fishing boat with friends. They were drinking moderately. While all the others had just fun, this patient became rather ill and had to vomit. He said that this happened usually when he drank alcohol. This shows that he had inherited a weak liver that he damaged still further by trying to keep up with his mates.
Instead of inducing the regression as indicated here, you may find other suitable methods. To end a regression the therapist gives some positive suggestions for coming back into the here and now. If memories become too disturbing and emotional, the session may also be ended with positive suggestions and repeated another time.
Repeated regressions may probe more deeply into subconscious problems or explore different situations. If a strong negative experience arises, the patient may be asked to reinvent that experience with a happy or emotionally satisfying ending. The patient can also continue to work on unearthed problem areas with affirmations and guided imagery.
While psychiatrists may argue that it is dangerous to have lay persons explore the subconscious in this way, I believe that it is even more dangerous for cancer victims not to do it and few can afford to pay psychiatrists or psychologists to do it for them.
Psychic Methods
Various psychic methods can help to overcome cancer. Psychic healers often can give information on hidden emotional and attitudinal problems and uncover spiritual or other inner causes for the disease. They may also be able to channel healing energy to the patient, directly or indirectly over a distance. Some just use their heightened awareness and intuition, others act as mediums or channels for spirit beings and still others work with the pendulum or radionic instruments.
Some can see auras, the coloured energy field surrounding the body and a few can even see directly into the body to evaluate the condition of the tumour and of key organs. Some psychics work professionally and you can find them in the telephone book. Others may be found at meditation groups or other New Age ventures and even many children are highly spiritually gifted and can easily see auras.
However, psychic information can also be unreliable or misleading. Generally, the more spiritual and selfless a healer, the more trustworthy is the information.
I found it helpful to have a colour picture of the aura drawn with colour pencils or crayons by a young boy. I could see on the bright colours where the therapy had already been successful and on dark, dull or murky areas where more attention was required to energise them. With pictures drawn in monthly intervals progress can be evaluated more reliably than by just relying on the patient's feelings and less dangerously than with most medical diagnostic tests.
With advanced cancer and after chemotherapy and radiation, dark, dull colours with grey and black usually predominate. With holistic therapy the aura colours gradually become brighter and clearer and turn into orange, yellow, green and then blue or white.
Changing Reality
Your reality is that you have been diagnosed as having cancer and you may have various physical signs and symptoms to prove it. However, the crucial point is that you cannot change reality by focusing on what is. This is so because we create our own reality by what we focus on. If we focus on having and fighting cancer, then we reinforce cancer as our reality. The harder we fight it, the harder it fights back. Resist and it will persist.
Therefore, to change your reality you need to change your focus. You need to focus on what you want instead of what is. That is real magic. You focus on what you want to be your reality and fill it with your mental and emotional energy. To do this you may use various mind tools such as affirmation, visualisation, guided imagery, prayer and meditation. But most importantly, you must live in harmony with the new reality that you want to manifest. You must live as if - as if your healthier and more joyful reality has already started to manifest. It is not enough to expect tomorrow to be better or on awakening in the morning to expect having a better day. It is good to expect that but expectation is not enough. During the day you actually need to act according to your new reality by embracing life to the fullest.
Do whatever you need to do to improve your health. You may occasionally have a cleansing period, you may take certain supplements, make juices and eat certain foods, but do it with the focus of improving your health rather than fighting the cancer and, whatever you do, do it willingly and joyfully. Make your day as interesting and joyful as you can. The more you succeed in this, the more you will forget that you have cancer and the less you will have it and the less it will have you.
Change your focus, deny your present reality your emotional and mental energy and it will gradually vanish, allowing your new reality to manifest to the degree that you invest it with your energies. But in our physical reality that takes time. You need to be persistent with your new focus. Any period of doubt or negativity may invalidate a long effort of positive refocussing and you may have to start all over again. Therefore, avoid people and situations, mainly of a medical nature, that tend to generate doubt and negativity. Train your mind to see only the good in everyone and everything. Even your cancer was good by helping you to refocus on a new and better life.
On Death and Dying
Here, even more so than in other parts of my writings, I can only offer my own views, hoping that they may be helpful, but without intending to convince the reader that my beliefs are correct. Coming to terms with our biological mortality is important to anyone, but especially to the elderly and those with cancer and other serious diseases.
Our emotional reaction towards death depends largely on our beliefs about the purpose of life and the afterlife. Taking into consideration my inner knowledge, regressions as well as studies of Near Death Experiences I have no doubt that our personality as a part of our soul survives the death of the biological body and also that existence without a biological body is generally much more enjoyable than life in a deteriorating body.
Furthermore, the actual dying is pain-free and an exhilarating experience. Therefore, the only regrets about the approaching death would be the separation from loved ones and leaving parts of our dreams and intentions for this life unfulfilled. This will be offset by the possibility to visit and help our loved ones from the other side and the chance of fulfilling our dreams in another life under more suitable circumstances. Also, while separating from family and friends here, we will meet previous family and friends on the other side.
Finally, I believe that we will not die accidentally just because we used the wrong remedies or healing methods. Our personality is just a tool or instrument of our soul to gain certain experiences and the soul decides if the personality is still suitable for its purpose. The personality is most useful to the soul when it starts travelling the spiritual path and while I regard this as an important factor in surviving cancer, it is not a guarantee for a cure. Perhaps it is best to say, as Jesus did: "Father, your will be done" and be confident that everything will be well, not only for ourselves but also for out loved ones. If and when we should lose our body, we can expect to get something better in return.
COMMENTS & STRATEGIES
After studying the holistic cancer program you may be confused by the great variety of treatment possibilities and wonder which ones to try and where to start. In the following I give some general guidelines. However, selection depends not only on your individual condition, but also what you believe in, what is possible for you to do considering your financial constraints, your energy level, support from relatives and friends and how much effort you want to put into this program. Do you want to do the minimum or the maximum possible to overcome this disease? Furthermore, it is important to balance a restricted diet or cleansing program with your emotional need to feel good about your life and what you are doing. Can you see temporary hardship as a self-selected challenge that heralds better times to come?
You cannot start everything at once. Make a list of your selected program and in which order you intend to implement it. Then see how you react to each new treatment. Preferably find an experienced natural therapist to supervise your program. In addition you may get the help of a medical practitioner for periodic pathology tests and possibly to monitor the size of internal tumours with X-rays about every 6 - 12 months.
However, live blood diagnosis may give you a more reliable picture of your disease than measuring the size of any tumours. Look especially for signs of the cancer microbe in the blood.
Certain proteins have been identified as markers for specific tumours and it will be very useful to monitor a marker that can be traced in your condition. The following are commonly used:
• CEA - Carcinogenic Embryonic Antigen is a general marker;
• PSA - Prostate Specific Antigen for prostate cancer;
• AFP - marker for liver cancer;
• CA-105 - for pancreatic, gastric, liver and colorectal tumours;
• CA-549 and CA-15.3 - markers for breast cancer;
• CA-19.9 - marker for gastrointestinal cancers.
Not all patients with such tumours have elevated levels of these markers and sometimes markers may be slightly elevated for other conditions. If a marker should continue to increase in your case, this means that you must make a greater effort and add some additional treatments or higher doses of some remedies or supplements.
With leukaemia and other blood cancers and anaemic conditions try to obtain periodically a complete blood count. Make sure that you receive a copy of the pathology report and show it to your natural therapist. These reports will in addition to your result show the normal range so that you can easily spot trouble areas yourself.
During treatment of advanced inner tumours new external swellings and nodules may suddenly appear. These are relatively harmless in themselves and will disappear when the body is strong enough to dissolve the inner tumours. However, they indicate a dangerously increased activity of the cancer microbe and a need for stronger anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapy. Sometimes dead tumours remain visible on X-rays and may be felt if close to the skin. This is because they may become encapsulated in a tough wall which is difficult to break down. They are then harmless but should not be disturbed as with radiotherapy or even biopsy. This could cause the cancer to flare up again and be more virulent than before. You may assume that a tumour is dead if you feel well and energetic after about a year on a good program, pathology tests are clear, the tumour size does not change and possibly other tumours have disappeared during this time. Nevertheless, be careful and remain indefinitely on a good preventive program.
This rule applies quite generally that biopsies and other medical procedures, including any invasive diagnostic procedures, all can make the cancer more virulent and remission times tend to shorten after repeated medical interventions. This is in contrast to natural therapies which strengthen the body's resistance and make it less likely that cancer will reappear.
Therefore, if you suspect you have cancer or just as a precaution, go for some time on a good anti-cancer program instead of having a biopsy. It is quite possible that whatever you had before will be gone afterwards. But if you still opt for a biopsy, your immune system will be much stronger even after just a few weeks on a natural program so that the chances of developing metastases will be very much diminished.
Unfortunately, practical experience has taught me that periodic diagnostic tests to monitor the size and spread of tumours during holistic cancer therapy are not always beneficial. Often a patient experiences greatly increased wellbeing on the program and believes the tumours to be disappearing. It may then come as a devastating shock if a medical test shows that the tumours have actually grown. This may cause a severe depression that may mean the end.
Commonly tumours still continue to grow for a while after the start of holistic therapy, especially after invasive medical procedures which greatly increases tumour virulence, but also as part of the maturation of a tumour before it disappears. Many cancer sufferers are emotionally not very strong and are best protected from negative news and attitudes during the initial stages while they are still very vulnerable. A sensitive therapist may be able to judge correctly when the time is right for confirmatory tests. Generally it is best to believe that the tumours are gone but follow the therapy as if they are still there.
Also remember that the tumour is not the cancer. If your body is free of the cancer microbe then any remaining tumours are relatively harmless and will probably disappear on their own in due time. Therefore, I see tumours mainly as symptoms and indicators of the activity of the cancer microbe. My best advice is to live as healthy as you can, follow a good anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory program, become emotionally outgoing and assertive and focus your mind on living life to the fullest.
Underactive Thyroid
Most individuals with cancer have an underactive thyroid. This is an important contributing factor in the development of cancer as well as a serious obstacle in its healing. It causes lack of energy and depression by slowing down the metabolic rate. This is especially a problem during extended cleansing periods or reduced food intake when the metabolism slows down even further. A Long Cleanse may not work to eliminate tumours if the metabolic rate is too low. To find out if you are affected measure your temperature before getting up in the morning.
Measure it in the armpit for 3 consecutive mornings. Women before menopause should select these days in the first half of the cycle before ovulation and best in the first week after the start of a new period. The temperature should be 36.5 degrees C or higher, otherwise the thyroid is likely to be underactive. However, be sure that you do not have a raised temperature due to a healing reaction with fever during this time..
If the thyroid is underactive, try the following measures. Take a supplement of the amino acid tyrosine (except when already taking D.L.P.A. or d, l-phenylalanine for pain) three times daily before meals. Best take it together with kelp as powder or tablets as a source of iodine (but do not use kelp if you are on a course of Lugol's solution). Also helpful are freeze-dried thyroid, chelated manganese (e.g. containing 20 mg of elemental manganese per day) and vitamin B6 (5 to 50 mg daily). Selenium is needed to activate the thyroid hormone. Unfortunately high dose supplements of vitamin A and even very high intakes of beta-carotene from vegetable juices can slow down thyroid activity, although you may be able to overcome this with the suggested supplementation. Experiment and compare your morning temperature under different conditions.
If you are in the care of a medical doctor, ask for a prescription of the thyroid hormone thyroxine. Commonly 100 mcg is used daily. While it may or may not sufficiently raise the morning temperature, it is likely to increase the metabolic rate during the day. In some countries (but not in Australia) it is also possible to obtain freeze-dried thyroid. Other useful measures are to press the thyroid foot reflexes, use the magnetic pulser on the thyroid gland and sanitise your teeth. Also singing is good, as well as visualisation exercises and deliberately feeling enthusiastic about something. A method that can be very effective is to tape the north pole of a small magnet over the thyroid gland. Best use a small neodymium button magnet. Tape it either at the middle of the throat close to the collarbones or, better still, place it slightly to the side, but it needs to be the correct side. For details see the article on Magnet Therapy. The main cause of thyroid problems, except for iodine deficiency, are dead teeth (eg root-canal fillings) and mercury from amalgam fillings.
Reactions and Pain
In the course of therapy you can expect to experience repeated short but sharp healing reactions. You may develop vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea, weakness, fever, indigestion, strong pain, swellings and skin reactions. These reactions are a favourable sign and show that the body is finally strong enough to attack the tumour. The symptoms are caused when more toxins are generated by the shrinking or dying tumour then can be eliminated.
The first reaction may come after only days or after months on the program. The stronger the body to start with and the stricter the program, the sooner it will be. Usually a reaction lasts only for a few days but can be so severe you may fear that you are dying. Unfortunately, that can happen in advanced conditions if cleansing efforts are not sufficient, and especially if all cleansing stops by the patient being admitted to a hospital.
Recovery from reactions may be slow, especially if a tumour continues to disintegrate rapidly. Reactions are generally less severe on the Long Cleanse as much of the disintegrating tumour is being digested rather than decomposed. For this reason it also helps to have a high intake of protein-digesting enzymes.
The most favourable reaction is a high fever and is a very efficient method of killing cancer cells and even tumours. Therefore try to keep the temperature up as high and as long as possible. Do not be afraid of the fever going too high. Believe instead that the body has its own wisdom and knows what it is doing. If you are lucky enough to develop a high fever, drink a cup of hot herb tea, put a hot castor oil pack on the abdomen and remain wrapped in sheets and blankets, especially in the evening. However, it is not good if the fever remains low-grade and becomes chronic. That would then call for greatly increased anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapy.
With fever, vomiting or diarrhoea increase your fluid intake to at least three litres daily, including plenty of warm peppermint tea, which is soothing to the digestive system.
Vomiting and diarrhoea are attempts by the body to expel poisons rapidly and should not be stopped with drugs. Instead, all negative reaction symptoms can most effectively be relieved with frequent coffee enemas. These stimulate the liver to release its overload of toxins with the bile. In crisis situations patients survived by having a coffee enema every 2 hours, sometimes even at night.
Generally, take a coffee enema whenever you feel that the benefit received from the previous enema is wearing off. In case of vomiting, or difficulty in handling any kind of food, try a broth made of 1 tablespoon of cooked slippery elm powder and the strained liquid from brown rice well cooked in plenty of water. With any food take plenty of digestive enzymes. Take liquids in small sips several minutes apart, keep in the mouth for some time. If necessary, nutrients may be introduced as a retention enema of fresh juices.
Diarrhoea can be made more bearable by taking psyllium hulls with a minimum of liquid but not so much as to stop it altogether. Blue light on the liver and abdomen is helpful and also in any area of pain. Use D.L.P.A. (d, l phenylalanine) 2 tablets of 500mg 3 x daily for persistent pain, when it eases, reduce intake. For short-term or occasional pain use homoeopathic Hypericum 30 C. Put several drops in half a glass or a glass of water and take a sip every 5-30 minutes, keep in the mouth. Also try Hypericum cream rubbed onto the painful area.
Alkalise the body with potassium bicarbonate, magnesium oxide or magnesium carbonate and possibly even further with rubidium or caesium salts and apricot kernels. With low blood pressure you may also use sodium bicarbonate.
The magnetic pulser often relieves pain. Even more effective may be the south pole of a strong magnet towards the skin over the painful area, I like to use a 25 x 25 x 13mm neodymium magnet for this purpose. Leave in place as long as required to control the pain. Also helpful are hot packs of castor oil (over abdomen) or of Epsom salts over muscle spasms, or of raw honey or fresh outer cabbage leaves over the pain. Even warm soft bread, possibly soaked in yoghurt can relieve pain. Press the foot reflexes related to the painful area, press very hard. Visualise the pain as a red hot fireball that is gradually washed away with each breath of cool blue prana until completely gone.
Take morphine if nothing else helps, (in addition to D.L.P.A. and others) but the more helpful alternative may be frequent coffee enemas. Another method that I found to be very successful is a fast on (preferably energised) water only, possibly as part of a moderate urine therapy and having an occasional warm vegetable broth. Commonly persistent pain and other problems disappear after about 3 days fasting.
Is Cancer Self-Limiting?
A recent article in the conservative Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that cancer is actually a self-limiting disease. It has been observed in many types of tumours that they grow steadily to full size and then disappear. This also applies to leukaemia.
The author concluded that letting a tumour grow freely without inhibition will only lead to a maximum size and then the tumour will commonly disappear on its own. The author just did not know how to let the tumour grow to its maximum size without overwhelming the patient with the usual side effects due to metastatic spread.
This finding confirms my view that cancer is made into a vicious killer mainly because of medical treatment and fear which induce such metastatic spread, while ignoring any lumps and just eliminating the cancer microbe and greatly improving our lifestyle will keep it benign and eventually cause it to disappear spontaneously.
This also means that you should not be unduly concerned if you do the right thing and strictly follow your holistic program but the tumour still continues to grow for a while. This may happen with any successful therapy that induces a strong immune response in the form of a healing inflammation around the tumour with swelling, pain and an apparent increase in tumour size. Commonly just the outside shell continues to expand while the inside dies off and contains only dead cancer cells and decomposing matter.
However, a sudden breakdown of the shell may release a large amount of toxic waste that then causes a bad reaction that can be life threatening if the patient is too weak and unprepared.
Therefore, consistent cleansing in the presence of a large tumour is of utmost importance. This leaves no room for wasting your energies by keeping a regular job with advanced cancer. Instead you need to concentrate all your time and energies on cleansing and getting well and generally lead a stress-free, leisurely and joyful life. Joy may be the last thing on your mind but it is a most effective healer. Lack of joy may be a reason why you are in your present condition.
Another example of the self-limiting aspect of cancer is a report from Stanford University. Doctors treated a group of lymphoma patients by doing nothing. Not only did these not fare worse than the treated group, but a full 23% had spontaneous regressions of their tumours. This prompted the authors to point out the obvious advantage of deferring treatment as it allows spontaneous regressions to occur. How many more 'spontaneous' regressions would there have been if the patients had practised holistic therapy?
Another article stated the following common links between those who had experienced spontaneous regressions:
• They question or opposed medical advice;
• They practised some form of alternative health care;
• They let go of repressed feelings and worries and
• They had a positive attitude and faith that all would be well.
Further causes of spontaneous regressions mentioned in still another article were pregnancy, severe diet changes, infections with fever and stopping using oral contraceptives.
Another area of concern is the increasing practise of removing healthy organs because of genetic susceptibility. For instance, several women had recently not only both of their healthy breasts removed, but also their healthy ovaries and wombs. I do not believe that this will protect them from dying of cancer.
Surgeons instil patients with fear by telling them they have a high percentage probability of contracting a cancer because of genetic susceptibility. These surgeons seem to be ignorant of scientific papers showing that genetic expression is a function of the environment. This is as true to genes as it is for pathogenic microbes. With a healthy lifestyle both remain benign, with unhealthy living they can become killers. We can choose.
STRATEGIES IN CANCER THERAPY
From all the information that you have available on natural and conventional cancer therapies you develop a program or plan on how to proceed. That is your strategy. From each section you select certain items that appeal to you and combine them all as your individualised cancer program. This includes your diet, cleansing measures, supplements and remedies, sanitising your environment, physical therapies as well as mind improvement.
Then you need to decide how far you want to rely just on natural methods and which, if any, conventional therapies you want to use. The combination of all of these is your overall strategy. There obviously exists a wide range of possibilities. Here I like to discuss the more important considerations based on my personal experiences and beliefs. I do not intend to convince anyone that my view is right or the best. I just state it for those who want to take it into consideration when working out their strategy.
My Personal View
My views on cancer treatment have changed over the years. Here I want to share my present position. I have several basic assumptions on which my beliefs in regard to cancer treatment are based. For details see the relevant articles in this book. These basic assumptions are:
• Cancer is due to a combination of factors, mainly the activity of the cancer microbe, a 'cancer personality' as well as an accumulation of chemical and microbial toxins.
• Conventional cancer therapies do not address these underlying conditions and this explains why they have not been shown to be successful.
• Tumours are not the cancer, only a symptom of it and relatively harmless. Instead, most cancer mortality is due to the activity of the cancer microbe.
• The ultimate outcome of therapy is decided on the soul level and more or less independent of the methods being used.
• The decisive factor influencing the soul level as well as the success of selected therapies is our mind.
From this it follows that success in overcoming cancer depends mainly on constructively using the mind to gain the support of all parts of the Self. By opening ourselves spiritually we gain guidance and approval from the soul level in the way of intuition and inner certainty, but we also need to gain the support of our subconscious or inner self by eliminating negative feelings and beliefs and focusing on what we want to achieve.
This helps us to be in tune with our inner and higher self and make the right decisions in our selection of therapies, not based on fear, but rather on our genuine inner need. Furthermore, the support of all levels of our self helps us to get the greatest benefit from any adopted therapy.
The Conventional Option
If you have been diagnosed with cancer you obviously have the choice to opt for orthodox or natural methods or a combination of both. My opinion of surgery is that it can give some peace of mind, although I am not aware of any proper evidence that it increases survival rates. The main advantage of surgery is psychological: it makes it easier to believe that you have been cured. If your belief is strong enough and the cancer microbe is kept under control, then surgery can be a quick and easy cure.
However, if your faith is not strong enough, then the main drawback of surgery comes into play. That is the increased likelihood of secondary or metastatic tumours appearing a few years later anywhere in the body. If, on the other hand, the tumour is not disturbed, then it tends to spread only locally and can be more easily observed and controlled. It also tends to grow more slowly.
Theoretically radiotherapy and chemotherapy should have the same psychological benefits for the believer as surgery. However, their more severe side effects appear to negate this potential benefit. There is evidence that they cause a high rate of death during and soon after treatment and make it much more difficult for subsequent natural therapies to succeed. Any tumour shrinkage is usually temporary with much faster growth afterwards. That means tumours become more malignant and the cancer more aggressive. However, there are semi-orthodox methods of destroying tumours by controlled overheating as with microwaves or inserted electrodes that are much less harmful.
However, chemotherapy has some success with leukemia, especialy in children. I believe the main benefit from chemotherapy is an unintended and unknown side-effect: it can also decimate the cancer microbe. The problem is that it also damages the immune system. While children often have sufficient vitality to bounce back, this is usually lacking in adults and when chemotherapy stops the cancer microbe can recover and spread much faster than before.
If you do opt for surgery, make sure by prior written agreement with your surgeon that only the minimum is cut out or just the 'lump' without making an effort to 'get it all' by removing all the surrounding lymph nodes. While that may reduce the likelihood of a local reappearance, there is no evidence that it increases the survival rate, and generally, the more is taken out, the greater the traumatic after-effects. The lymph nodes are essential for healing the diseased area with subsequent holistic therapies. Commonly only one or two lymph nodes are affected and these can now be identified and selectively removed.
Another consideration is to have only local anaesthesia if at all possible. There is evidence that the general anaesthesia is the most damaging part of surgery because it knocks out the immune system for a considerable period. This is a major factor in the development of metastases or the later appearance of secondary tumours. With breast cancer and probably all female cancers you should also ensure that any surgical intervention does not take place in the first week and the last week of the menstrual cycle but rather between the days seven and twenty of the normal cycle. With surgery in the first and last week of the cycle it is four times more likely that cancer recurs and patients die within ten years.
Also avoid surgery close to full moon. At this time there is a much higher rate of complications from excessive bleeding. Use Wild Yam or any natural progesterone cream and take liquorice before and after surgery to block any growth-stimulating effect due to oestrogen. Also take high amounts of vitamins C, propolis, grape seed extract, Green Barley powder and any other helpful measures that you can think of at the same time. Have a Basic Cleanse before surgery. Surgery is almost never that urgent that you have to do it immediately as commonly suggested by specialists. On the contrary, I am convinced that the better you prepare yourself for the surgery with cleansing, mind therapies and fortifying your body with high-quality nutrients, the better will be your chances of a successful outcome.
Before and after successful surgery adopt a strict anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory program combined with a suitable cleansing program . Furthermore, there is evidence that distant metastases become established only after first a blood clot forms in the area. Therefore, reduce blood clotting by using anticoagulant remedies, such as magnesium (chloride), vitamin B6, garlic oil, grape seed extract and bioflavonoids.
'Don’t Touch It'
My position on tumours is to disturb them as little as possible. I would consider surgery or radiotherapy only if a tumour presses on a vital organ or otherwise inhibits its function with an immediate threat to life. Personally I would not even have a biopsy.
I believe that any disturbance of a malignant tumour greatly increases the activity of the cancer microbe and is a starting point for metastases or secondary tumours to develop in other parts of the body. It does not matter whether all of the tumour and malignant lymph nodes have been removed or not. I regard it as much safer to improve the health as much as possible and watch what happens, regardless of whether a tumour is deemed to be malignant or benign. Because of their slower growth and more normal metabolism, benign or low-grade tumours are often much more resistant to therapy than malignant tumours. I believe that the critical difference between malignant and benign tumours is the absence of the cancer microbe in the latter, but that can change with unhealthy living conditions.
If the cancer microbe is well controlled and toxins are removed from the area so that the energy metabolism becomes more or less normal, then any tumour can be expected to shrink or gradually disappear or calcify and remain dormant. With this, you have an excellent indicator of what happens in your body and how effective your therapies are. By removing this indicator you may not know what happens until metastases appear anywhere or everywhere a few years later. However, sometimes tumours may still appear to grow with a thin outer shell while the inside is filled with blood which can be somewhat confusing.
Unfortunately, also other and seemingly unrelated events can activate the cancer microbe, such as surgery unrelated to the tumour, exposure to toxins and some medical and recreational drugs, severe stress, emotional shock and having a dead tooth pulled out. In all of these cases health improvement measures and especially anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapies need to be intensified.
In most cases the cause of death is not due to any tumours, but rather to strong inflammations combined with progressive poisoning of the cellular energy and protein metabolism. Both of these are caused by the uncontrolled activity of the cancer microbe. The stronger the activity of the cancer microbe, the stronger are the inflammatory conditions in the body and vice versa, the more inflammation, the more active the cancer microbe becomes. This results in a vicious circle that usually leads to a rapid end once the cancer microbe is out of control.
At this stage the symptoms and results are the same regardless of whether any tumours are present or not, with much pain and often fluid accumulations in and around the abdomen and lungs. The poisoning of the cellular energy and protein metabolism leads to increasing loss of body weight and severe lack of energy or cachexia. Episodes of increased body temperature or fever show that the immune system is still fighting against the cancer microbe. If tumours are present, then the strong inflammations cause rapid tumour growth and spread. Also nodules often appear in the skin which may or may not be malignant and are often due to a non-malignant condition called Sarcoidosis which, too, results from the activity of the cancer microbe.
None of these events can be prevented or slowed down by removing or shrinking any tumours but only by a strong and persistent anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapy. However, if you had already medical intervention or decide to use it, that is all right as well. Just do your best and be confident that you will be successful. Furthermore, if you follow an intense anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory cleansing program before and afterwards, then tumour surgery or other tumour destroying interventions should no longer be a starting point for the formation of metastatic tumours and might in some cases be beneficial.
Anti-Microbial and Anti-Inflammatory Therapy
If there is evidence or just the suspicion of an active cancer with or without prior surgery, you may adopt the following holistic strategy. Use the General Cancer Diet until you are ready to start with the Basic Cleanse and possibly the Low Protein or Juice Diet. Sanitise your environment and your teeth and start working on your mind and emotions. Use a Beck-type blood purifier and magnetic pulser, if available Rife technology or Gaston Naessens remedies, colloidal silver, Hulda Clark parasite herbs, Lugol's solution, reflexology, oxygen therapies, anti-cancer herbs and other indicated remedies. Avoid or minimise any food or chemical to which you are allergic or sensitive.
Be persistent with a strong anti-inflammatory program as described mainly in Part 2 SUPPLEMENTS & REMEDIES. Keep these anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial programs up for 6 months after any signs of cancer have completely disappeared. If all goes well and the cancer appears to be under control, then that may be all that you need to do. Just continue with this program until all is well. It is quite common to get the occasional strong healing reaction from this program.
If, on the other hand, the cancer seems to be getting worse, then you may use additional or higher concentrations of remedies or consider a Long Cleanse, provided that you still have sufficient weight and energy. During this cleanse continue with the strong anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory program. The critical time is when you start eating again, because if the cancer has not been completely eliminated, then tumours tend to grow again as you gain weight. Usually the more gain in weight, the more tumour growth. Therefore, make sure that you gain weight very slowly using the Low Protein Diet or the Juice Diet.
Instead of a strict Low Protein Diet designed to starve the cancer of protein and phosphorus, you may try to 'normalise' cancer cells with the Budwig Diet high in ground linseed, linseed oil and 'quark' made from unheated skim milk. This is best suited for those with blood group B or AB. Another possibility is a strict conventional Gerson Therapy or a variation of it that may come close to the Juice Diet. With unacceptable weight-loss add glutamine and consider using hydrazine sulphate. Whatever else you do, keep up a vigorous anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory program.
There is an antagonism in cancer therapy between using high amounts of antioxidants and intensive oxygen therapy and other therapies specifically aimed at destroying tumours (including radiotherapy and chemotherapy). Antioxidants, especially vitamin E, protect cancer cells from being destroyed. Therefore, use vitamin E only when tumours are no longer a problem and avoid antioxidants during selected periods aimed specifically at tumour destruction.
However, unlike vitamin E, the water-soluble antioxidants are not stored in the tumour and at other times can be very effective at normalising cancer cells and dissolving tumours. The strongest antioxidants are the purple pigments in beetroot, blackberries and black or purple grapes. These pigments are also the basic ingredients in grape seed extract and pygnogenol. High doses of vitamin C (eg 10 g per day) may be helpful in addition. Overall, I recommend to have longer periods of very high antioxidant intake alternating, if necessary, with shorter periods of intensive oxygen therapies.
Encouragement
You can do it! You can overcome cancer. To be successful you need a positive attitude and sufficient energy to follow a holistic program. The diagnosis of cancer is a call to mobilise all your inner and outer resources and channel them into this one goal. You achieve this by greatly improving your spirituality and lifestyle. This is a great adventure and should become the most exciting and uplifting time of your life.
The medical system spreads doom in an attempt not to give false hope. That may be warranted with their methods, but not with holistic therapies. Here we have no false hope. Without hope you are as good as dead, with hope you have made the first important step towards healing yourself.
Find an experienced natural therapist to help you in selecting and implementing your individ-ualised holistic program. Join a cancer support group or a meditation circle or any other natural health group in your area. Find out from health food shops or natural therapists if and where such groups exist. If there is none, try to form your own. Place notices in health food shops and with natural therapists inviting interested individuals. However, beware of cancer groups that follow just the official negative medical line.
Meet once or several times a week to relax, meditate, pray, visualise and experiment together. Try regression, reflexology, meridian therapy, exchange recipes, techniques and experiences. Study helpful books together, invite therapists and those who cured themselves of cancer to lecture. Have outings and fun together, laugh a lot. Surround yourself with positive, supportive people. Read success stories of former cancer victims. Develop and listen to your intuition, trust your inner and higher guidance. Look at the bright side of everything that happens. Discover your real Self. Do all you can to improve your health and make your life interesting and forget that you supposedly have cancer.
SUMMARY
The main aspects of holistic cancer therapy are normalising the metabolism with proper food, strengthening the immune system, eliminating the cancer microbe, removing accumulated toxins and waste products and improving the emotional condition. Start with the General Cancer Diet followed by the Basic Cleanse and possibly the Juice Diet or Low-Protein Diet. Most important is a vigorous anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory program at all times. Indefinitely continue with bowel cleansing. If the body is oversensitive, keep the urine slightly alkaline possibly using alkalisers (see Acid Food in the Diet section and Acid-Alkaline Balance in Supplements & Remedies). If the body is insensitive or mineral-deficient (soft finger nails), take hydrochloric acid with meals. As soon as conveniently possible start with an electronic zapper, the Hulda Clark parasite cure, occasional oxygen therapy, colloidal silver and a course of Lugol's solution.
Some useful remedies are sulphur-amino acids (L-cysteine and L-methionine), copper salicylate, propolis, ground inseed, aloe vera, colloidal silver, kelp, freeze-dried liver, shark liver oil, proteolytic enzymes or, where available, small amounts of mature green pawpaw or chopped pawpaw leaf or juice/extract of fresh pawpaw leaves suitably diluted.
Some good herbs are pau d’arco, Hoxsey herb mixture, Essiac, pawpaw leaves, echinacea, greater celandine, red clover blossoms. Urea is beneficial with liver cancer and helps to prevent metastases; hydrazine sulphate helps to regain weight and strength. There are hundreds of more or less useful remedies available, use whatever appeals to you.
The most important vitamins are niacinamide (2 x 500 mg), B2, B6, B12 (inject or dissolve under tongue), folic acid (not needed with grass juice) and vitamin C. The most important minerals are magnesium, organic or chelated copper, manganese, selenium and zinc.
Sanitise the bedroom by minimising electro-stress, chemical pollution as well as geopathic radiation, do not use innerspring mattresses or metal beds, sllep in total darkness. Sanitise your teeth, especially have all dead teeth removed. Experiment with ways to increase your life force. Try strong south pole magnet and blue light therapy for pain and tumour control, also use various types of packs.
Use several hours daily of guided imagery and energy meditation. Especially improve the chakra or energy centre closest to the area of cancer activity. Practise positive thinking and develop faith and a joyful mind. Nothing will cure you if you do not believe in it. Learn to feel and express your negative emotions as well as your emotional needs, become assertive. Focus on improving your health instead of fighting the cancer. Choose to live life to the fullest, have a goal for the future, become enthusiastic about your life. Your attitude is the key to your success.
If I had to name the four most important therapies I would select guided imagery, purple food therapy, parasite herbs and an electronic zapper.
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Last modified: May 11, 2001, Friday.
