Cancer requires a very comprehensive, individualized approach. The whole person will need to be carefully considered on all levels, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Many people should be involved with treatment, not simply one practitioner or just the hospital, but rather a team of practitioners and therapists and a network of friends and caregivers. Certainly, do not self choose herbs; get qualified help.
FOR THE VERY SICK
When there is no time to lose and conventional medicine has pronounced someone terminally ill, a thirty-day natural healing and cleansing program can be undertaken under the guidance of a qualified practitioner, hospital consultants, the patient’s own doctor, and a team of two or three assistants or caregivers. Guidance on this routine will be very specific, with many individual considerations.
Herbs to support the body in general will be vital, and those called adaptogens will be specifically required. Siberian ginseng root taken as a tincture (one teaspoon three or four times daily) is a very good choice; Astragalus root is another. Adaptogens make sure that the body can cope with any incoming stress, helping the body to “adapt” when it is asked to do things, rather than “crash.” Optimal adrenal function is vital, and those with low adrenal output due to low levels of corticosteroids will be disadvantaged. Strong adrenal function will help keep a person’s weight stable rather than allowing it to fall off, as it often does with cancer. If you experience weight loss, drinking three cups a day of fenugreek seed tea will be very helpful.
Herbs used for cancer are called neoplastics, which means that they have a blocking or inhibiting effect on the new growth, or neoplasm. A simple and famous neoplastic is garlic, while others include mistletoe berry, pokeweed root, burdock root, and red clover flower.
Herbs that clean the bloodstream will also be vital for cancer and other chronic diseases, as they support the body through its process of releasing toxins shed from cancerous growths. A blood nourisher and general stimulator, vital for all chronic diseases, is cayenne. It is vital to use very hot cayenne. Herbs with liver-balancing or neoplastic abilities combined, like burdock root, red clover flower, yellow dock root, cleavers leaf, and dandelion root, should be used.
Other foods and herbs will be required to support and nourish the nervous system (see chapter 9).
Immune-system enhancers and lymphatic cleansers like echinacea root, grapefruit seed, olive leaf, barberry root bark, turmeric root, pokeweed root, mullein flowers, and lobelia leaf and seed will be crucial.
Detoxification
All eliminative channels (including the kidney, liver, and bowel) will need to be cleansed and balanced. For this you will need plants like artichoke leaf, milk thistle seed, Schisandra berry (vital to optimum liver function), cascara sagrada aged bark, and corn silk. Specific cleansing routines will be essential—see chapter 6.
Other Considerations
Some individual areas will need assessment—for instance, breast cancers will require an increase in progesterone-rich herbs to counteract the estrogen surge that can often cause the cancer. Herbs rich in estrogen, like red clover flower and hop strobilus, will need to be avoided.
The digestive system is a key factor in cases of cancer. This must work efficiently.
Many cancer patients have low hydrochloric acid levels. Therefore, use meadowsweet leaf and other digestives, like gentian root. Food programs, however individualized, will need to be centered on plenty of freshly juiced vegetables—72 percent carrot juice, with the rest taken from cabbage family vegetables (avoiding beet and beet tops, and avoiding cabbage if certain thyroid conditions exist). In addition, take superfood and raw food in general, especially garlic. Precautions are necessary to ensure that plenty of raw food and juices are eaten and drunk without causing an excess of cold and therefore creating excess mucus, coldness, tiredness, and a less-efficient spleen. Listen to your body; if you overdo anything it will let you know.
Anti-inflammatory assistance for cancer is of vital concern, because inflammation and cancer cell proliferation appear to go hand in hand. Many of the previously mentioned adrenal support herbs will help, but also black cohosh root, chamomile flower, and marshmallow root.
Finally, as a natural bonus, many of the herbs already mentioned are rich in antioxidants, including milk thistle seed, turmeric root, and Schisandra berry.
Vaginal and anal suppositories, poultices, compresses, and castor-oil packs will be vital to deal with the manifestations of the cancers and other diseases, such as tumors and cysts. This drawing-out and healing routine will either pull the toxins up and out to the surface or help flush them through the circulatory and lymphatic systems and finally the bowel. Flower remedies and essential oils will be part of the routine, just as the herbs in their other forms are.
Other requirements will be exercise, acupuncture, massage, reflexology, and lymph drainage and hydrotherapy routines, some of which are very specific to chronic diseases.
Of course, emotional support and therapy with plenty of laughter to encourage the healing process will be vital.
This Herbs For Alternative Cancer Treatments article is taken from :
The complete home guide to herbs, natural healing, and nutrition / Jill Rosemary Davies.
