ALTERNATIVE CANCER THERAPY

By Lawrence Wilson, MD

© 2008, The Center For Development

Thousands of people are still alive, years after they were given up by their doctors, thanks to alternative cancer therapies. Many of these exist. However, this article will mainly focus on prevention and basic procedures you can do to alleviate many symptoms.

I will briefly discuss three excellent natural and much less toxic therapies. The first is the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy. This is the most complete program, when one includes the use of an infrared lamp sauna. However, it is costly, about $2000.00 per month for some cases, and must be continued for at least a year and usually far longer.

Therefore, the Kelley program has this drawback. However, it is quite effective, even with advanced cases, when done properly. A second drawback for those who are busy is this program takes more time and energy. It is recommended that one have full time available for any cancer therapy program, but this one in particular due to its nature, which is slow and sure. I have seen excellent results from this therapy and was on it myself many years ago.

The second remedy is much less expensive and yet effective in a lot of cases, even some advanced cases. It is called Protocel, and also goes by the name of Cantron or Entelev or an older name, not used anymore of Cancell.

Protocel or Cantron is just a remedy, not a total program of diet, supplements, lifestyle, enemas and the rest, as is the Kelley program, so one should supplement the remedy with a total program, as described later in this article.

However, I have seen excellent case histories with this program, at least as good or better than with conventional therapy at much lower cost and many fewer side effects. One should continue taking the product, unfortunately, forever, or the cancer could come back. However, by combining it with a diet, lifestyle and detoxification program that are described in this article and in other publications, this should not be as needed.

The third remedy is an herbal ointment called Black Salve or bloodroot salve or other names for essentially the same thing. This product is widely available on the internet, as the others are, too, and extremely useful for removing pre-malignant or malignant skin cancers.

It does not do anything for benign moles, but can be easily applied to any questionable mole on the body. It is very cost effective and usually does not leave much of a scar. Usually there is just a slight discoloration, much better than many surgical scars, with less cost and less trauma.

With black salve, precancerous and cancerous moles and even tumors near the surface of the body actually drop off the body. Moles usually fall off after about one week. I don’t know how long it takes for a larger tumor.

Procedure For Removing Precancerous and Cancerous Moles: The salve burns a little and is applied only for 12 to 24 hours. Then it is taken off and a Band-aid placed over the mole with some Vaseline or oil to keep the area moist. This is changed daily and washed with hydrogen peroxide before placing a new Band-aid on it. It can be used anywhere on the body but is not good in sensitive areas such as around the eyes, where more caution is needed,

OFFICIAL STUDIES OF THESE REMEDIES

What I will say is depressing to contemplate. With all the sick people out there, these methods and remedies have not been studies by official medicine, at least not in an unbiased way. So beware, if you look these up on the internet and read the National Institute of Health of other government efforts to prove or disprove these, you will hear that they are totally unproven. This is true, but it is only their fault.

However, they work! They are not perfect, as no therapy is perfect. However, they have helped many, many thousands of innocent victims of the medical system who have chosen not to take chemotherapy, radiation or surgery and have lived to tell their story.

A Few of these stories are in a book called Outsmart Your Cancer, by Tanya Harter Pierce (2004). I highly recommend this book to anyone who is contemplating alternative cancer therapy. Another interesting new book is called The Breast Stays Put by Pamela Hoeppner (2008). These are inspiring stories, to say the least.

The fact that, after spending billions of your taxpayer dollars, these methods have not been officially tested by the government is sufficient proof to me that they could care less about your health. This is intense talk, but is the absolute truth about government research and governments in general. They prefer a sick population or this would have been thoroughly researched. It has not been researched at all, as evidenced by their own website reports on Protocel and the other methods described in Outsmart Your Cancer and numerous other excellent books on this subject.

NUTRITIONAL BALANCING AND CANCER

This website has many articles on nutritional balancing science. One might therefore conclude that I recommend it for cancer patients. This is not the case, as explained below.

However, once a person has stabilized and cleared the cancer and achieved a higher level of health, I believe the nutritional balancing approach is best. It uses many of the same therapies as the Kelley program, which are not too costly such as the coffee enema, colon cleansing and the infrared sauna therapy.

Here are the reasons why I do not recommend nutritional balancing for cancer patients:

1. It is not powerful enough, by itself. This is critical to know about it. It is is not a criticism of nutritional balancing science at all. It is simply that caner may be described as an acute condition that must be stopped immediately or the life of the person is in doubt.

Nutritional balancing is not designed to do this, so it is not such an appropriate treatment for cancer.

2. The nutritional balancing approach uses chelated minerals and other supplements that are not always best for cancer patients, who may have lost their ability to utilize these minerals. Therefore, it is not recommended for this reason as well. These minerals are fine for everyone else, in my view, but not for the very ill cancer patient. One also cannot know how ill one is, because it may not manifest with physical or mental symptoms. Thus, a second reason exists why I prefer the two therapies above for cancer.

3. Nutritional balancing is somewhat costly, about $200.00 per month. This is more than many can afford for any length of time. For this reason, Protocel and/or Cantron/Entelev may be used with some success for a short time at a lower cost, in my estimation, and this is beneficial to save a life.

THE CAUSES OF CANCER

One major fact about cancer is that it is universal. This means that it is actually a normal tissue of the body. This is disputed in medicine. However, the evidence for this is overwhelming and is explained in the next section. The idea is termed the trophoblastic theory of cancer and needs to be thoroughly understood.

It is important for our discussion because the factors that cause the growth of the trophoblast are well-understood all apply to cancer as well. Reverse the conditions and the cancer/trophoblast tissue will decrease and can go away completely. Ignore these factors and cancer will grow, despite the use of any therapy.

Cancer is a terrible scourge today, and will continue to get worse until the cause and correction are understood well.

WHAT IS CANCER?

In 1902, Dr. John Beard published a paper in The Lancet on the trophoblastic theory of cancer. It is quite simple and has never been disproven. In fact, it recently received strong confirmation by scientists at the University of Michigan. Dr. Beard showed that a normal tissue of the body, the trophoblast, exhibits characteristics identical to cancer. It is invasive, metastatic, forms new blood vessels (angiogenesis) and has the same specific markers and chemical composition as cancer cells.

The trophoblast is a special totipotent or stem cell that grows around a developing fetus during the first eight-twelve weeks of pregnancy. The word trophoblast means 'nourishing the baby'. The proper function of this tissue is to burrow into the lining of the mother's uterus and supply the fetus with blood until the placenta forms. It is essential for life!

The trophoblast normally disappears between 8 and 12 weeks of pregnancy. If it overgrows, the result is a very virulent form of cancer, choriocarcinoma. It usually kills both mother and fetus within a few weeks.

One may say, if the trophoblast only develops during pregnancy, how can it explain all the other cancers? Dr. Beard found that the cells that form the trophoblast, called totipotent or stem cells, are present all over the body in small numbers. Given the right stimulus, they begin to grow when and where they are not supposed to grow. A key to understanding cancer is to understand what makes these cells grow.

ESTROGEN, THE PRIMARY CARCINOGEN

The primary stimulus for the growth of the trophoblast is unopposed estrogen circulating in the blood, as occurs during pregnancy. Estrogen is associated with cell proliferation and is well-recognized as a potent carcinogen. This was demonstrated recently in a large study that found that women taking replacement estrogen for menopausal symptoms demonstrated a higher cancer rate.

There are actually many compounds that are called estrogens. The most toxic of these common ones is estrone. Others are estradiol and estriol. Estrone is the most harmful. When the liver becomes toxic, estrone increases and the stage is set for cancer.

One may ask, however, why so much cancer occurs in men and in post-menopausal women who do not produce much estrogen? The answer is, everyone's adrenal glands produce estrogens, in both sexes and at all ages.

Normal estrogen production by the adrenals or ovaries is not a problem. The liver converts the estrogen into a harmless or less-toxic products, which are excreted in the bile and the feces. The problem arises, however, when the liver is toxic, congested or compromised in some way. In this situation, it cannot detoxify estrogen properly.

Unfortunately, liver toxicity, congestion or other impairment to some degree is the rule rather then the exception. This may not show up on any standard blood tests or scans, as it can be a subtle disturbance of liver function that causes these imbalances. However, the causes are quite obvious to those who understand that the liver is the body’s main filter for poisons of all types. I will divide these into primary toxins and secondary causes of liver problems.

Primary liver toxins include:

* Toxins in the food supply. These include pesticide residues, toxic metals, other chemicals, such as from plastic packaging, hundreds of food additives and more.

* Other Ingested Toxins. All pharmaceuticals are synthetic chemicals that must be detoxified and excreted, primarily by the liver. Many herbs are toxic as well, though much less than most drugs. Even some vitamin products that contain sea minerals and land-based mineral deposits often contain toxic metals.

A portion of any ingested drug or chemical remains in the body, often for years. These will build up and can be an important source of liver toxicity.

Water used for drinking and bathing is another important source of toxicity. All municipal water contains toxins, either natural or added to the water such as chlorine, fluorides, aluminum, copper and more. Check with your local water company if you are unsure what is added to your water.

In addition, most water supplies are contaminated with toxic metals and at times hundreds of toxic chemicals. Recently, it has come to light that many city water supplies contain residues of pharmaceutical drugs and over-the-counter remedies. These do not break down in the body are are “recycled” by the sewer systems.

Wells are also often a problem due to contamination by many metals, especially iron and manganese in some areas of the nation.

* Thousands of organic chemicals and toxic metals in the air and absorbed through contact. This includes air pollution and skin contact with hundreds to thousands of metals and toxic materials in modern society. More specifically, it includes dental materials, especially silver amalgam fillings, and skin contact with toxins found in soaps, detergent in solvents, detergents, skin care chemicals and many other household and industrial chemicals.

* Electromagnetic Pollution. This, along with radiation toxicity, are generally ignored by most people. Electromagnetic pollution and radiation sickness can be so subtle they are hard to measure. However, many people feel ill sitting in front of computers or television screens all day. Others notice they do not feel well talking on cell phones or even portable phones for more than a few minutes.

All these devices, along with many more, give off harmful electromagnetic fields. Some can be avoided, depending on your lifestyle, location, and effort you willing to make. However, they all affect us, no doubt. We hope more will be said about them in the future as they are a major source of problems for some people.

* Radiation Exposure. Everyone today is exposed to radiation from bomb fallout and nuclear accidents (most of which are never told to the public). Other sources, often more important, include extensive use of x-rays and CAT scans in medical, chiropractic and other doctors’ offices, and radiation that finds its way into homes and other locations cue to smoke detectors and other devices that utilize radioactive materials. Certain areas are naturally radioactive and emit radon gas. Homes must be ventilated in these areas. Radioactive material is sometimes used in ammunition, sad to say, because uranium and other radioactive elements decompose to lead used to make shot and other ammunition.

Many nations are talking of building many more nuclear power plants to provide electricity. This will only make radiation toxicity worse, however. This is a terrible idea, in terms of health and healing.

We would be much better off using coal, oil and other natural sources of power. Conservation would help a lot, as well, along with new technology. There is no reason for amping up our exposure to any radioactive materials whatsoever.

In addition to these toxins, indirect causes of liver toxicity are many . Among the most important are:

* Fatigue and Adrenal Exhaustion. Stress or fatigue from any cause activates the sympathetic nervous system. You can read more about this fascinating topic in the article entitled, Healing The Nervous System.

This effect severely impairs digestion, which has effects described below that are extremely detrimental. It also reduces the detoxification ability of the liver, kidneys and other organs, leading to an impaired ability to remove all types of poisons from the body. It also directly causes some suppresses of aspects of the immune system. This includes white blood cell counts and more.

Stress also contributes to adrenal exhaustion. This may sound simple, but it is not. The adrenal glands, also called the fight-or-flight glands, are the body’s major defense against stressful events. They are responsible for the secretion of many hormones that protect our bodies from insults and injury in many ways. When the adrenals are impaired, the immune system and many other body organs and systems are not going to function adequately.

This is another indirect cause of cancer in many people. One can read much more about Adrenal Burnout by clicking on the article title here. Among many other effects, adrenal fatigue gives rise to more sluggish liver activity and therefore impairs detoxification severely. Also, the body compensates for it by accumulating certain metals including copper, iron, manganese , aluminum, cadmium and lead. These toxic metals further impair the body’s ability to cope with stress and to repair itself adequately to maintain one’s health.

* Nutrient Deficiencies. This factor is also a major contributor to the cancer problem today. Never in history has the food supply been more damaged by industrial agriculture, food processing, hybridization of food and poor dietary habits.

The effects are multiple. However, the main one is that without the minerals, in particular, in abundance, the human body cannot repair itself, protect itself, eliminate waste materials and do all the things it must do to keep going. This leads to all manner of illness, with cancer as just one of the many of them.

* A Cancer Personality. There are metabolic types who are more prone to cancer. This is well known in medicine. These individuals are described as perfectionistic, angry, resentful, and often tired. Some act very sweet to compensate for their anger, while others are obviously very upset all of the time.

This is sometimes called Sympathetic Dominance as a personality type. It is described in a separate article. Suffice it to say at this time that one’s personality and emotions can play a significant role in contracting cancer and in healing it.

In fact, it is a crucial part of our program, although there are therapies that can heal without discussing personality tendencies. However, success will be far greater and more permanent if personality and emotions are addressed in a positive manner, as we will discuss later.

* Impaired Digestion. Poor digestion causes the production of toxic substances in the intestines due to fermentation and putrefaction of food. A vicious cycle occurs in which a toxic liver does not produce enough bile and digestive enzymes.

As a result, food is poorly digested, which generates toxins that, in turn, worsen the condition of the liver. This further impairs enzyme production that, in turn, results in more toxins in the intestines. This a widely ignored factor in cancer and most other illnesses today.

Most people do not eat well to begin with, and, in addition, their bodies are unable to produce adequate digestive enzymes to break down their food. This is a deadly combination of factors that lead to intestinal toxicity, which further intoxicates the body. This theory is called auto-intoxication and was known about for years, but is out of favor with medical practitioners. It is the truth, however, and needs to be acknowledged widely if we are to conquer cancer and most other degenerative diseases.

This is the reason we give everyone a digestive aid, regardless of their ages, sex, or condition. That is how common the problem is. It is simple to overcome, however, with proper diet of mostly steamed vegetables and a few grains and some protein. However, eating refined foods, and too many foods at one meal, particularly sugars with starches, damages the intestinal flora to such a degree that the body cannot digest properly.

We therefore endorse basic food combining principles, which dictate that one eat vegetables with either starch or protein, but not both at one meal. This is the simplest food combining rule and not a bad one. More important, however, is to avoid starch and sugars at the same time. This will greatly help many people’s digestion without requiring significant food habit changes. Just eat the junk without the sugar and one is better off. Avoid it altogether, of course, is the best route for healing, especially with cancer and any serious health condition.

* Chronic or Acute Infections. This is a second much overlooked factor in the etiology of most chronic illnesses. Infections are widespread and are often ignored or not diagnosed because they are viral, do not affect standard serum tests by much, and there are no simple cures for most viral diseases.

These infections damage the body in many ways. For one, they produce what are called endotoxins and, when they die, they produce extotoxins. These chemicals are so toxic they can kill a person, even if the bacteria or virus is minor, such as in a tooth or even a skin lesion.

Yet these toxins are permitted to circulate in the bloodstream, where they can affect any organ or system of the body. Endocarditis from a simple dental cleaning is a common example of their destructiveness. However, most people have these at all times, to some degree.

Teeth are a primary source, as the mouth is hardly a sterile place. Those with poor oral hygiene are extremely susceptible. However, they are found in skin lesions, eyes, ears very commonly, sinuses almost all the time, and many other locations where drugs cannot reach them easily.

Now let us turn to treatments for cancer that are not toxic in the slightest, and in fact depend on detoxifying the body, instead of making it more toxic.

PANCREATIC ENZYMES AND CANCER

At about 12 weeks of pregnancy, the trophoblast mysteriously stops growing and the placenta takes over the function of nourishing the fetus. Dr. Beard found that enzymes produced by the fetal and maternal pancreas.stops the growth of the trophoblast.

This is the basis for the pancreatic enzyme treatment of cancer promoted widely by Dr. William Kelley, DDS and others. Large quantities of pancreatic enzymes are given by mouth which helps stop the growth of the malignant cells.

The pancreas plays another role. Pancreatic enzymes are needed for proper digestion. A weakened, toxic or depleted pancreas contributes to a toxic liver by failing to provide adequate enzymes for complete food digestion.

This belongs to the causes, but is included here because it relates to the pancreas, a vital organ in cancer treatment, along with the liver. Many people do not produce enough pancreatic enzymes or they overeat, exceeding their enzymatic capacity.

Normally, excess pancreatic enzymes are secreted so that any cancer that gets started will be destroyed. However, if the diet is so deficient in nutrients that the pancreas will not make all the enzymes needed for digestion of any tumors that arise, they will continue to grow unopposed by the action of the pancreatic enzymes. This is a major factor in the cancer problem, and one easily solved by supplementing with pancreas extract, usually porcine, unfortunately, but this is the most effective type of pancreas extract available.

Causes for deficient pancreatic activity are similar to the causes of liver toxicity. They include poor-quality diets, poor eating habits, nutrient deficiencies and toxic exposures, particularly to iron, which damages the enzymatic and insulin-related activities of the pancreas.

CORRECTING CANCER

Nourishment. From the above perspective, we can see easily how to reverse the cancer process, as we might call it. One must nourish the body much better, including the use of supplemental items to save time.

Rest. Also, the body needs much rest. Most patients are very tired, although they may be so stimulated by their toxic bodies they are not aware of their fatigue in many instances. However, they need to rest anyway, even if the rest seems unproductive.

Detoxification. This is the third item that always needs attention, as it should be with any illness of any kind, even emotional diseases. The idea is to rid the body of the toxins that are causing damage, and do it as fast and as completely as is humanly possible. This is, by far, the most difficult part of the job, as the organs of detoxification themselves are often severely impaired by the time the patient reaches the doctor’s office. Therefore, remedies are often required that slow the cancer process directly, although this is or should never be a substitute for thorough detoxification.

Other Measures. All other measures should support these first three. This is the key to success. Support the nourishment function, the elimination function and the rest function and many people will survive well into their later years without a recurrence. However, when remedies are the primary modalities used, then success is not at all assured.

Now let us discuss particulars. The first is nutrition, followed by rest and then detoxification procedures. After we discuss these simple, but critical ideas, we will proceed to more specific therapy for tumors.

THE FIRST BASIC STEP, THE DIET

There is no substitute for fresh, chemical-free or organically grown food . That is the basic principle, once again. This will contain thousands of plant and animal chemicals our bodies need on a daily basis.

Vegetables. The best foods are vegetables, lightly steamed. Foods with powerful anti-cancer and protective effects include broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, asparagus, parsley, cilantro and garlic to some degree in moderation. Others include rutabaga, a very wonderful root. Turnip is excellent, as is carrot and onion as well.

Protein. Avoid all meats for a while, especially red meats. The chicken and turkey may be eaten a little, once per week, perhaps. Eggs may be eaten soft boiled, poached or soft scrambled only.

We do not recommend much protein for cancer patients for at least six months. One may have some beans such as lentils and others. If eaten with rice, for example, the protein is complete. Other proteins that are excellent include almond butter, preferably raw, though toasted is okay. Some protein powders such as whey protein powder or egg may be eaten in very small quantity.

Fruit. Fruit was once another healthful category of food, but is no longer. Articles on this website explain why in full detail. However, for a while, fruit may be eaten in small quantity, not more than 1 piece per day of a juicy fruit. Try to avoid very sweet fruits, even bananas, as they can cause blood sugar problems. Most fruit is horribly hybridized today, and horribly sprayed unless labeled organic, though this is not some guarantee. If you feel ill on a food, stop eating it as it may be sprayed without your knowledge or consent.

Grains or Cereals. Rice, preferably brown rice or Basmati white rice, is good, though not great. They are too starchy for many people who are ill to digest well. Therefore, they should be eaten in small quantities with not too many combinations to make them easier to handle.

Blue organic corn chips and even yellow organic corn ships and blue or yellow corn tortillas may be eaten. These are, in fact, excellent foods for Americans, in particular, including those of Canada and Mexico. Other grains are to be avoided. A small amount of quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, flax and others may be eaten once in a while. However, all are difficult to digest by someone who is very ill. Vegetables should remain the mainstay of the diet and may be eaten all alone at a meal, with preferably just one or two at a meal. Rotate all foods to avoid developing sensitivity to them.

Foods To Avoid. Potato is not good, nor are beets, unless it is the golden beet. The red beet has a substance that is somewhat toxic in it and so the golden ones are better, though the red beet is a nourishing food as well.

Equally important are to avoid all spoiled and refined foods, including white flour products in general, sugar in general, white breads in particular because of their iron content and much more.

Also, avoid wheat for the best digestion, as it is no longer a healthful product for most people. Most dairy is also not that healthful, thanks to antibiotic use in animals, hormone supplements, hybridization of cows and more atrocities against this product category.

It is best to avoid all soy products, as most are extremely hybridized today. Even tofu and tempeh, which are excellent traditional soy foods, may not be that healthful today. It is safer to avoid them all, until health improves. Then a little soy is acceptable. However, isolated soy protein or textured vegetable protein (TVP on some labels) is a junk food. It is leftover when soy oil is extracted with chemicals from soy beans. Please avoid all such items that contain it, though it can be better than some other junk items such as sugars of all kings.

Sweet Foods. Sugars of all varieties are harmful for everyone. They should not be in the diet at all, in our estimation. They enter the blood stream rapidly and upset blood sugar. This applies to honey, maple syrups and even delicacies like agave nectar and fruit concentrates, including dried fruits. They are simply too sweet for most people. This also includes sweet fruits such as dates and to some degree dried figs, though they are less sweet than dates.

The worst are the refined sugars, with fructose in particular a horrible food item that is so widespread in soda pop, junk food, candies, cookies and so much more. Even vitamins and many over-the-counter drugs contain it. It not only upsets blood sugar, but upsets metabolism the worst of the sugars. The others, dextrose, glucose, mannose and others are somewhat better, though still harmful for anyone who wishes to avoid or be healed from cancer.

Even worse are most artificial sweeteners, as they confuse the body to think it is eating something sweet when it is not true. Please avoid these as well. Use a little honey or maple syrup or other natural sweetener if absolutely necessary. However, with some practice, one can learn to be very happy without sweeteners in the diet.

REST, THE SECOND KEY FOR SUCCESS

One cancer patient who called me had been through 11 surgeries for breast cancer over a period of years. I was amazed that no one addressed the fact that she only sleeps five hours a night. It is difficult to get well on that much sleep. None of her many allopathic or naturopathic doctors had addressed this basic cause of illness.

Anyone with a diagnosis of cancer needs at least 12 hours of rest per day. Read this again, as it is very important. One may take some of this as a nap or two in the morning and afternoon. However, the total should be about 12 hours of rest time each and every day.

Resting this much just on weekends or when the mood strikes will not be the same. The body needs this much time to rebuild, repair and regenerate itself. There is no substitute for this, just as there is no substitute for the proper diet or for detoxification.

Rest is not only for the body, however. It is for the mind just as much. Many, if not most cancer patients are so mentally exhausted that unless they close their eyes for this much time, the mental exertion of their lives wears them down quickly, in many cases. Thus, rest is a key component of our healing program for cancer, as well as for most chronic illnesses we can think about.

Rest is not only for the body and mind, but for the spirit as well. This may sound odd, but it is not. The human body and mind are dependent upon rest because during sleep, in particular, but also during deep rest periods, the spirit or soul can leave the body and return home to its native environment. This is sometimes called soul travel when, in fact, being awake in this physical world is the real travel and the soul longs to be back in its real environment in other dimensions of reality. So rest is critical for this purpose as well.

DETOXIFICATION THERAPIES, THE THIRD KEY TO SUCCESS

Doctors and even natural practitioners often overlook this aspect of cancer therapy, in our experience. It cannot be emphasized too much that all cancer suffers are quite toxic. They may look radiant. However, it does not matter. The problem is they cannot often eliminate toxins well, as the process is complex.

Toxins that are stored deep within body cells, organs and systems must first be removed from the tissues and placed in the bloodstream. This is not so easy, because some of the toxins are quite dangerous to the body. So the body must have the proper transport mechanisms operable to chelate the toxic metals, for instance. For other toxins, such as free oxygen atoms called free radicals, the body must have the buffering ability to prevent them from damaging other tissues as they are being eliminated.

For some toxins, such as bacteria and viruses, the body must protect the tissues from further infection as best it can. The list goes on in this fashion. The point is that if one believes that toxin elimination is just a matter of flushing things from the body, this is far from the truth. It is extremely complex, in fact. And it is not easy for a sick body at all. In fact, it is not easy for a healthy one, either, for which reason we recommend some fairly drastic methods to assist the process. Let us discuss these in some detail. The first and best is the coffee enema.

Coffee Enemas. These were first recommended by Dr. Max Gerson, MD, a holistic physician from Germany, who said he learned about them around 1900 from his cleaning lady, as they were a folk remedy that he somehow tried on a few patients with excellent success. We say somehow because getting patients to do these procedures is not always easy. He worked originally with tubercular patients who had little other hopes for healing and he was able to improve most of them using little more than coffee enemas, carrot and other juices (there were few vitamin pills available) and loads of rest.

The coffee enema procedure has changed not at all from the days when Max Gerson, MD used them. While he died in 1958 an old man, they have survived him and continue to help cancer patients and many others worldwide. The procedure is available on this website by clicking here.

However, this is only the beginning of the procedure. The ramifications of this procedure are quite varied, beyond the physical, as with rest and diet. We emphasize this point because it is too easy to overlook the mental, emotional and even spiritual aspects of these procedures and keys to success and substitute a more “convenient” or easier method, thinking it is just as good when it is not nearly as good.

So, for example, it is obvious that one could simply take a vitamin or herb and detoxify the liver in this manner. However, it will not do the same thing. We emphasize this over and over. Substituting will not work as well. In fact, there is no substitute for this simple folk remedy that costs practically nothing and is done in the privacy of the home at least once daily for several years. One may do it more often, but this is usually not needed, especially if the next procedure is employed along with the enemas.

Near Infrared Sauna therapy. If I were to single out one method to combat cancer-causing environmental causes, it is the use of a near infrared lamp sauna. You can read more about this type of sauna by clicking on the Sauna Therapy article.

The regular, daily or twice daily use of a near infrared sauna is extremely effective for reducing the level of many toxins in the body. It also has many other benefits described here, and in more detail in our book, Sauna Therapy. Among its many benefits are reducing the levels of all the toxic metals, many toxic chemicals and even reducing the load of ionizing radiation all must cope with today. It does this by actually destroying mutated cells that are heat-sensitive, an ancient form of cancer therapy called thermotherapy or heat therapy. Raising the body temperature a few degrees not only stimulates the immune system, as occurs naturally with fever. However, it also damages or even kills weaker cells. This may seem destructive, but these are the cells that are filled with chemical or biological toxins or radiation that the body cannot get rid of as easily without the heat.

In this sense, saunas have genetic effects that improve the overall quality of the body's DNA. Genetics researchers who are seeking to explain cancer as a genetic defect often overlook the facts that nutrients activate genes while many types of toxins block gene expression.

Infrared sauna therapy is also the most powerful method I have found for uncovering and promoting the healing of deeply buried chronic infections. One must use the sauna for 30-60 minutes once or twice a day. Cancer patients may require it three times a day for a while. The best times to use it are first thing upon waking up in the morning and last thing before bed at night. These are the times when we are most relaxed, so that the most toxins will be removed. It may be used at any time, however, with great benefit.

Any sauna will be helpful for a cancer patient. However, patient feedback and other research indicates the near infrared lamp sauna is best for cancer patients. The secret of the light sauna, compared to the standard “hot rocks” sauna or even the far infrared type is its employment of a combination of mechanisms simultaneously. These include but are not limited to:

1. Heating The Body Has Many Benefits. Hyperthermia is a well-known and underused method of killing cancer cells. Cancer cells are weaker than normal cells and more susceptible to damage from heat.

Heat therapy is not new. Coley's toxins was and is a very simple and at times useful cancer therapy developed over 100 years ago by an oncologist who worked at the sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City. It is based on inducing a fever by injecting pyrogenic (fever-causing) bacteria into the body. Its effectiveness is somewhat less today because the causes of cancer have changed somewhat in 100 years. Today, the food and chemical toxins we are exposed to demand that we also detoxify the body, not just induce fevers for healing it of cancer.

Researchers at UCLA are experimenting by using malaria toxin to induce fevers in cancer patients in another use of this concept. Others in Germany and elsewhere use warm baths, electric blankets and other methods to induce a fever.

Saunas are a safe, gentle and the easiest of these to control. We are concerned about safety anytime a fever is used for healing, as fevers can be quite dangerous, as anyone knows who is familiar with them.

Infrared saunas of any kind are more efficient at heating because they penetrate the skin and heat the tissues directly up to about one to three inches beneath the surface. Infrared electric light saunas heat the tissues the deepest, and this is their primary benefit over the other types of saunas.

Our recommended design also places all the heating power on one side of the body, intensifying the effect even more. Rotating the body is necessary in this situation, however, and this is an inconvenience for some people. In these cases, the lamps can be spread around the sauna, though this presents a few design issues that must be resolved safely.

Our book, Sauna Therapy, addresses these concerns for cancer patients who are too debilitated to sit in a sauna for any length of time. As mentioned earlier, 30-60 minutes is needed at about 120 degrees F. for a typical sauna session. However, less time is best when one begins until one is sweating adequately so that the body does not have a chance of overheating.

2. Heating Can Normalize Body Temperature. This is an unusual feature of heating most people’s body that have cancer growing in them. Heating a degree or two often normalizes the body temperature. This may not seem important, but it is quite vital for healing in some cases.

Low body temperature is associated with low thyroid and low adrenal activity. It is often the case with what we call slow metabolizers, for this reason. As these glands begin to weaken and fail, the temperature drops. As a result, normal enzymatic activity involving thousands upon thousands of chemical reactions in the body become stalled or inhibited to some degree. While one or another system may be okay, the overall effect is a reduction in enzyme efficiency in the body. This can and does have serious consequences.

Many people report feeling so much more relaxed during or after a sauna session. One important reason for this is that the sauna allows the body temperature to become normal, greatly assisting enzymatic activity. This can be another key to healing of cancer in the body.

3. Heating The body In A Sauna Inhibits Powerfullly The Sympathetic Nervous System. Saunas are excellentto shut down the sympathetic nervous system. At least two mechanisms cause this.

According to Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology, heating the body causes the cessation of normal heat production, a sympathetic nervous system activity. Saunas also draw blood from the center to the periphery of the body. This also requires less sympathetic nervous system activity. In fact, other mechanisms work with this at the same time, but these are the main ones.

4. Sauna Therapy Dramatically Enhances Circulation. Cancer often grows in tissues with poor circulation. This includes places such as the breasts in women, the lungs in men and women and the prostate and testicles in men. For this reason, these tissues may receive less nutrition and oxygenation, predisposing them to a cancer situation.

Saunas are excellent to enhance overall circulation to bring needed nutrients, hormones, oxygen and other substances to all body tissues. Also, excellent circulation is essential to help remove toxins from all the body tissues and to drain toxins from the internal organs, with which the sauna also assists.

5. Sauna Therapy, Especially With The Near Infrared Type, Decongests The Internal Organs. Excellent health depends on the activity of the liver, kidneys and other internal organs. Sympathetic nervous system activity drives blood toward the interior of the body and can cause congestion of these organs, which impairs their functioning.

The sauna has an opposite effect, causing blood to move toward the surface . This decongests the internal organs and can enhance their level of enzymatic activity greatly.

6. Saunas Can Greatly Enhance The Activity Of The Skin And Even The Other Eliminative Organs. Saunas cleanse the skin from the inside. In most people, the skin, a major eliminative organ, is quite inactive due to wearing clothing and exposure to hundreds of toxic chemicals in bathing water, in the air and from skin care products.

The skin, once activated as a powerful eliminative organ, in turn reduces the burden of detoxification on the liver and especially on the kidneys, assisting them to rest and heal.

Decongesting the internal organs, as explained above, aids the liver, kidneys, lungs and bowel among the many benefits of this activity.

7. Color Therapy. Color therapy is an ancient method of healing that is greatly under-rated. The near infrared light sauna emits in the red, yellow and orange visible ranges. These colors affect mainly the lower chakras or energy centers of the body. Here are located many vital organs such as the liver, kidneys, pancreas, emotional centers such as the solar plexus, the bowel and adrenals, among others.

8. Infrared Benefits Abound. Among these, near infrared in certain ranges can help decouple toxins from water molecules. This is an enormous benefit of near infrared light, in particular. Far infrared, however, has other benefits, so both are excellent and may be used together if one wishes. Usually one would buy a far infrared sauna, as these are widely available. Then one can add the three or four lamps to this sauna if desired. This is probably the most versatile arrangement, though it is not the only one that works.

9. Sauna Use Enhances Hydration And Oxygenation. Saunas increase blood flow through the lungs, increase circulation to all the body tissues and infrared has antioxidant properties that enhance oxygenation and cell metabolism. Much more could be said, but this is the basic mechanisms involved in sauna use for hydration and oxygenation.

10. Balancing the pH. Saunas can help balance both excessively acid and too alkaline conditions within the body. In addition, they are a safer method than many that are porposed today. These unsafe methods include juice therapy, raw foods, alkaline water machines and more. We want to warm people about these other methods, as they can severely unbalance the body as they add too much alkalinity too fast.

Let us explain basic acidity and alkalinity. The most important factor in most cases is the mineral reserves of the body. These are sometimes referred to as the “alkalines reserves”. They are minerals such as zinc, selenium, chromium and others, in the proper quantities and locations.

Other minerals form an acid reserve, such as sulfur and phosphorus. The balance is critcal, not just the pH. Note that saliva, urine, and even blood do not reveal what is happening at a cellular level in most cases. So these tests are quite useless for assessing pH in many people and cause untold confusion.

What the sauna does, in conjunction with an excellent diet, of course, and digestive enzyme therapy, is to free up toxins that occupy enzyme binding sites, preventing the vital minerals from remaining where they belong. As the toxic metals and toxic chemicals are removed, the pH approaches normal automatically, without the need for alkalinizing foods, drinks, water or remedies.

To be sure, these remedies have a role, but are often overused while toxin removal is missed all too often. Recall that toxin removal is very difficult, especially in sick patients. A six-month “cleansing program” or even a year-long program is just scratching the surface.

While we may clear a cancer in a year or two, it takes a number of years to remove the bulk of the body’s toxic load. Always keep this in mind when discussing detoxification with anyone.

OTHER GENERAL MEASURES

Reduce All Toxic Substances In Your Immediate Environments. This can play an important role in preventing and correcting cancer. The basics include living in a clean environment, deep breathing whenever possible, and avoiding all contact with toxic substances and even toxic human beings.

We refer here mainly to people who are emotionally quite toxic to be around. They may yell, swear, manipulate constantly, cry to get attention and other behaviors that are difficult to endure. We do not refer to physically toxic human beings because basically all humans are quite toxic on a physical level.

Beware that non-supportive or worse, hostile partners, parents, children, friends and others can definitely reduce the effectiveness of any natural cancer recovery program. Please do your best to obtain the support of all family members or do not share with them what you are doing. The negativity is not helpful in the slightest.

A sure trap is the desire to teach others who are not really interested about what you are doing. Some people want to correct their family’s perceptions of natural therapies so they continue to discuss or argue with them. This just feeds your anger, in reality and is never recommended. You may have to defy others, but do not teach them, as they don’t want to learn unless they initiate. Otherwise, you just waste your energy that you need for healing. Once again, do not waste your energy on anyone that is not interested in what you are doing.

Negativity is intense in some people, even if it is disguised as love and a caring presence. It applies also to “teaching” you doctors about your program. Please do not do this. Leave them to their own methods until they come to you to learn. You are not their teacher and most resent your efforts, even if they say otherwise. They are content with what they are doing, or they would have changed long ago.

Instead, be extremely selective whom you tell about your approach to healing cancer. We do not mean to be secretive. However, many well-meaning family members, friends and doctors have caused the death of cancer patients by sowing doubt in their minds when what the patient needed was encouragement to keep going, despite temporary setbacks.

Always Seek Out Excellent Supervision. This brings us to another related topic. Always work with someone on your cancer therapy program. Do not work alone at this therapy. We repeat, do not work alone. There are many reasons for this. However, it applies to everyone, even doctors and other healers. Do not work alone. It simply is a bad idea.

It is important to have someone to ask questions to, to check symptoms and signs with, and to converse with about your progress. Most people who are ill are so because they are somewhat out of touch with reality. Therefore, do yourself a favor and accept help. However, be discerning whom you ask and from whom you accept advice.

Do not listen to news broadcasts, for instance. These are almost always lies or half truths. Do not listen to uninformed friends, family members or doctors. These are as bad or worse than the news media. Do not listen to the pronouncements of the FDA, FTC, National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society and similar groups. These groups make a living off cancer in too many instances.

Do listen to a holistic practitioner who has loads of experience. For this reason, beware of young practitioners of any type. This cancer therapy is not taught at all at most healing schools, including naturopathic schools. Do not be taken in by names, degrees and other trappings. You want someone with loads of experience and down-to-earth, common sense advice. You will know if you are astute if you are getting good advice. If not, seek out someone else. We can advise you to some degree, though we prefer to refer you to someone local who can help. Check the list of practitioners and doctors at our site by clicking here.

Exercise and Eating Habits. Some exercise is very helpful. However, please do not over-exercise. This is more common than one may imagine. A short walk each day is plenty when one is tired or ill. Vigorous exercise or exertion of any kind is not helpful and, in fact, can be quite harmful to our program.

Excellent eating and living habits are always helpful. These include regular, sit-down, peaceful meals and avoiding noisy eating locations and arguments at mealtimes.

Also, your mental diet is important. This involves what you take in with your senses, such as television, computer items, conversations, books, tapes, CDs and movies. These can help healing or get in the way if they upset you too much.

Be careful about what you are exposed to in these areas as well. Attempt to surround yourself with uplifting, inspiring books, music, movies and all other mental input.

Also, do not become too stimulated by anything. Healing has so much to do with rest that even the best movies, CDs, tape programs and other input can be easily overdone. Do not be in a hurry to learn anything, do anything, start a new career or anything that detracts from your rest and relaxation.

Commitment And Financial Considerations. This program is designed to be as cost effective as possible. There are many costly cancer remedies available, some of which are excellent and most of which are not as wonderful as they sound, although they help some people. So beware of items for sale.

Also, it will take a certain commitment on your part to stay with this program through the ups and downs that are a necessary part of the healing process. This requires a time, money and energy commitment, without which you won’t succeed. If you can design your life to be as simple and cost-conscious as possible, it helps greatly to delay or avoid any financial difficulties.

If, however, you need help in this area, you may contact us at Larry@drlwilson.com. We may be able to assist you in some way.

PSYCHOLOGICAL/SPIRITUAL ASPECTS

Visualization. The Simington's, a husband and wife team of radiologists, noticed that their patients' attitudes had much to do with how long they lived. They wrote Getting Well Again, describing the use of visualization and imagery in cancer therapy. They basically encouraged people to visualize a positive outcome of their radiation treatment, nothing more. However, those who were able to do the visualization exercises had a much better outcome. This is a simple example of the power of the mind to either assist healing or impair it.

Dr. Bernie Siegal, MD, author of Love, Medicine and Miracles and other titles, found that patients who take charge of their health, asking many questions and not blindly following doctors orders, have a better healing outcome. The fighting response to cancer, rather than the stoic or helpless-hopeless response, appears to predict a better outcome.

The mind has a far more powerful effect on health and disease than commonly recognized. I wrote The Real Self, a short compilation of spiritual principles that promote healing. It is also a positive view of life on earth that may be of help for some cancer patients. In fact, there are many ways to enlist the support and real power of your mind to assist healing of any condition. Here are a few of the more popular and powerful methods that I strongly recommend for anyone with any type of health condition.

Prayer. Never underestimate the power of prayer for healing. It is a time-tested, ancient method of refocusing the brain on what you want, instead of allowing it to dwell on the negative. It is also a way of invoking help from others, who also then focus on the desired outcome, instead of sending fearful vibrations to you. Prayer is also a way of enabling unseen helpers to gather their energies to assist in ways that are little understood, but can be critical for healing.

Prayer saves lives every day. In fact, double blind, controlled studies years ago by Larry Dossey, MD and others have confirmed the value of prayer in healing. Hospital patients were divided into two groups and one group received prayer long distance, while the others did not receive prayer. Even though it was accomplished long distance, without the knowledge of who or when the person was having prayer directed to them, prayer significantly altered the outcome of their operation or condition.

Illness As a Positive Experience. Another important and sometimes critical method is to reframe or re-interpret your condition as “a positive experience” or a positive passage in your life. This can and will, if you do it, transform the entire process, even the process of dying, into a new and exciting experience, rather than a depressing one. Often when one does this, the transforming aspect is enough to initiate a healing, rather than a giving up response.

It can be totally surprising for the person, as it was for me when I made a shift in this way with a chronic fatigue condition that was probably also a cancer condition, though I did not have a definitive diagnosis. I subsequently recovered from what was otherwise probably a death sentence, as I was severely debilitated at the time of the shift.

One must have the awareness that chronic, painful, debilitating illness can be a blessing! This may seem ridiculous, but it is not. The blessing is that life was not going in the right direction before, although you may have thought it was. The illness forces one to change one’s life, give up your job, friends, relationships with family and much more, and refocus that attention on a new goal, which is to find out who one is and why one is on the earth. Another facet of this transformative attitude is to learn to take help or assistance in a new way. One does not take it as a victim only, but one truly learns to accept love for its own sake from strangers who would not even know you if it were not for your condition. This, for me, was a radical shift in consciousness that I feel was extremely helpful for me. It also helps others who can make the shift discussed here.

The shift can go so far that you realize that your illness can help others as well as yourself. You begin to know that nothing happens for naught, even if it makes no sense to the logical mind. It is not necessary or even helpful at all to know all the reasons for your condition, or even how to handle it. Instead, you can focus on the fact that it is for some reason, and you are open to learning these reasons. Once you learn them, the illness will often vanish as fast as it came.

Needing Your Illness. In fact, while it may sound odd, one may “need” an illness for some unknown reason. Maybe it helps you slow down or perhaps it prevents a worse condition later. Perhaps the reason you need it is even for someone else in your family or for a friend. The exact reason is not important, as I found out.

I was once told many years ago by several brilliant friends that, indeed, I needed my chronic fatigue and most likely a cancer condition. So I sought high and low for the reason, of course. But I realized after a futile search that the reason was not as important as the fact that the condition kept me focused on my meditation, nutrition and other practices that would lead to where I am today.

So one does not want to become obsessed with the reasons for one’s condition. This is very important. And definitely do not just decide that you know the reason. That will invariably lead to mistake. These might include divorcing, or turning away from certain people, or quitting your career or others. These may be correct, but stay open-minded at all times, as the reasons can shift for illness and it is far too easy to project the cause onto another person or job or location or other situation.

Shifting Your Perspective. The point is that shifting your perspective and perceptions and viewing illness positively will lead you to dig deep inside for healing resources and to touch the depths of the soul, so to speak, as you learn more about yourself. This is the real healing power, you will discover. There is more about this in the section below on meditation.

Healing then becomes a spiritual experience, not just a physical one. Instead of being the “victim” of an illness, one can turn it around and make use of the condition as a motivator for personal and spiritual development. This is an extremely transformative experience for the person who is ill. It can reinvigorate one, give new strength and determination and completely alter the symptoms of almost any condition, either mental, emotional, spiritual or physical. This is also a key to healing that is far too little understood by medical people and psychologists alike.

Humor is another tool of the mind that can alter a situation dramatically in a few instants and definitely promotes healing of both body and spirit.

For example, some readers may be familiar with the book, Anatomy Of An Illness, by Mr. Norman Cousins. It is a true story of how humor turned around a chronic “incurable” illness, in this case a rare form of crippling arthritis. The author, who was told there was little that could be done for him, found that laughing gave him a few minutes respite from his constant pain. As a result, he ordered his favorite old comedy movies to be brought to his room and he began to use them as painkillers. They became more and more effective until, after a while, he was able to get out of bed and resume a normal lifestyle.

Meditation. We highly recommend a particular type of meditation. It is a very grounding and centering exercise, unlike most meditations we have seen. This one is basically to be aware of your right hand as you look through the middle of your forehead with your eyes closed.

The original exercise is taught by Mr. Roy Masters and is available at www.fhu.org. We have designed and recorded our own version of it, without Mr. Masters permission since it is not copyrighted or trademarked. We took out some of the references to God and the bible, as these are completely unnecessary. Our exercise also includes some material that is not on the original one. This may be even more helpful, if you prefer it. Click here to obtain information on the Meditation-Observation CD or ours.

OTHER THERAPIES

Many natural therapies are very helpful for cancer. I will discuss just a few that are extremely cost effective, quite safe and effective. They include inhibiting the sympathetic nervous system, many nutritional products and methods, bodywork, chiropractic, pancreatic enzyme therapy and much others.

Inhibiting The Sympathetic Nervous system. Therapies that inhibit the sympathetic nervous system are wonderful for cancer. These include infrared saunas, coffee enemas, colon therapy, pancreatic enzyme therapy, and the use of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, zinc and others. Vitamins that inhibit the sympathetic system include choline, inositol, vitamins A and D and others.

Lots and lots of rest and sleep, relaxation techniques, meditation, body work, biofeedback and other methods are also helpful.

Nutritional Balancing Science. Much of the process described above is included in the nutritional balancing procedure described on this website in other articles.

A hair mineral analysis is required and a number of basic nutritional products are needed, based on the analysis. It is an excellent addition to the basics given above. However, if funds are limited, nutritional balancing is not indicated until the person is out of cancer danger. It is often best to just focus on a cancer protocol until.it is in remission.

Having said this, hair analysis can be a wonderful tool to monitor general progress in many cases.

Vital Nutrients. A few nutritional supplements, however, are often a big help with cancer. These include vitamin A and D, which can be taken in fish liver oil, for instance. Oils such as sunflower, safflower and others are often helpful, about a tablespoon daily. Others include selenium, in the form of a tablet or garlic capsules are fine. Another one is iodine, as kelp or other forms that are quite natural.

Cancer patients do not digest protein well. Many people benefit from supplementary digestive enzymes for this reason. Amino acids, the end-product of protein digestion, may also be taken in some quantity if needed.

High dosages of vitamin C are sometimes given for cancer. However, we would warn people against this. It will work for a while, but then it usually removes vital minerals because vitamin C acts as a chelating agent in large quantities. Also, it is very yin in Chinese medical terminology.

Other compounds and products may be extremely helpful for some cancers and these should be used as required under excellent supervision. A piecemeal program usually will not work well. Nor does it work well to take multitudes of pills and products each day. This can confuse the body and upset digestion.

PHYSICAL THERAPIES - COLON CLEANSING

The most-researched detoxification methods are enemas and colonic irrigation therapy. These save so many lives in those who are willing to undergo them that they cannot praised enough. Often they will stop the growth of cancer without even doing all the other therapies listed here.

They work so well because most people have extremely impaired, toxic, sluggish bowels. Even if one has regular bowel movements on a daily basis, this is no guarantee that the colon empties properly, or that parasites, yeast and other microorganisms of a pathogenic nature do not reside there.

A tipoff, however, that all is not well include foul-smelling stools. Stools should have a pleasant barnyard-like odor, not unlike cow or horse manure, though not exactly the same. The smell will vary, but it should not be terribly offensive, as is so often the case.

Other indicators of problems may include constipation, diarrhea, straining at the stool, extensive gas or bloating or stomach or abdominal pain relieved by having a bowel movement. Others include hard balls instead of soft stools, hemorrhoids and anal fissures. To be fair, all these symptoms, in a few cases, can be due to other causes such as not drinking enough water, vitamin deficiencies, metal toxicity, other types of parasitic or microbial infections or other problems. Let us consider these procedures in much more detail.

Coffee Enemas. Coffee enemas reduce the toxic load in the colon and liver, stimulate bile flow, alkalinize the intestine by promoting bile secretion and much more.

Coffee is somewhat astringent, which means that it helps clean the walls of the colon as well. Coffee is high in potassium and other minerals the cancer patient needs. The caffeine helps stimulate gall bladder activity, also helpful for these patients. So one hears all sorts of critiques of coffee enemas. In the end, however, they work exceedingly well for many conditions, not just cancer.

Dr. Max Gerson made extensive use of the coffee enema, and wrote about its use in his book, A Cancer Therapy - Results of 50 Cases. He used up to 6 enemas per day with his terminal cancer patients with excellent results.

Colonic Irrigation. This procedure is excellent for most cancer patients when beginning a natural cancer therapy program. It usually involves seeing a therapist specifically trained in cleaning the colon. The only caution with colonic irrigation is that if the patient’s colon is compromised in some way, such as with a colon cancer, extreme caution must be exercised as it is conceivable one could perforate the colon. I have personally never heard of this occurring. The colon is a pretty tough organ. However, if one has a known problem in the colon such as a tumor there, this should only be done professionally with someone experienced in doing it.

Colonic irrigation is an old-time procedure that used to be routine in many hospitals until about 50 years ago, when it was abandoned as too much trouble. Instead, patients today are just given a laxative. However, colonic irrigation is far more thorough and completely cleans the entire colon from one end to the other. It is far superior to the use of any laxatives, which often just irritate the colon to cause an evacuation. This can do more harm than good in some cases. Many more operations would be successful if colon cleansing using coffee or colonic irrigation were practiced in modern hospitals.

Colonic Irrigation Procedure. The procedure is quite clean and simple. A double-barreled tube is inserted easily into the rectum. Water is pumped into the colon gently until it cannot hold more. Then the therapist gently massages the area where the water is. The therapist can feel blockages, hard spots and much more if well-trained and experienced.

A clear tube allows the water to be expelled easily without the patient having to get up and go to the toilet. The therapist can easily see what is coming out. Many people will expel parasites, long strands of mucus, undigested food and various types of bacterial and yeast colonies, often still intact in clumps. Some people literally lose 10 pounds on the colonic table. Many report strong emotional experiences as they eliminate various organisms they have carried with them often for years.

The contents of the colon that are removed provide valuable information for a trained therapist, who can then recommend other products to be added to the colonic such as oxygen, and even medications if needed to complete the job right.

Conclusion Regarding Colon Cleansing. If colonic irrigation were widely practiced, instead of being frowned upon by the medical profession, the incidence of most cancers would go to zero. This is an extreme statement that describes the horrible shape of most Americans’ colons, the place where waste products should be eliminated and are not.

The reason we like coffee enemas is not just the coffee, which is excellent. However, they can be done at home at basically no cost. Colon therapy will become expensive if done often, although a series of 10 to twenty sessions is fabulous for starting any caner treatment program. This alone will often stop the growth of the cancer. The rest is easy, as they say.

Another option at home is to buy a Colema board or even a complete home colonic unit. This is not that difficult and then the person can do them at home. However, the services of an excellent colonic therapist cannot be easily replaced. So both are excellent and we cannot say enough good things about colon therapy for cancer patients of all kinds.

Due to all the colon problems out there, intensive colon therapy, and especially coffee enemas on a daily basis, are very helpful for many degenerative conditions, and quite safe when done properly.

OXYGEN THERAPIES

Cancer cells do not require oxygen for their cellular growth and respiration. They are more like fungal or yeast organisms that thrive on sugar as their fuel. This means they depend on a ready supply of sugar (hint hint).

As a result, increasing hyrdration or water in the body, increasing the circulation with saunas and other means, and improving oxygenation of the blood and tissues can really help get rid of cancer.

Methods

1. Deep Breathing. The most easy and reliable method for increasing oxygenation is to wake up each day and breathe deeply for 15 minutes at least. This would not impair anyone’s schedule. Everyone can do this, no matter how ill or how impoverished or how busy one’s schedule. It cannot be recommended too much.

Also, sleep with some air circulating in your bedroom. It it is too cold to open the window a crack, then run a fan to circulate the air. This prevents rebreathing stale and poorly oxygenated air. Do not sleep with covers over your head, for example, for the same reason.

Short, quick breathes that are powerful do the best job of irrigating the lungs and promoting better oxygenation. Long, slow breathes are fine, but not quite as good.

2. Ozone. Ozone is O3, an unstable form of oxygen that readily releases an oxygen atom. Ozone generators are a few hundred dollars. The ozone can be introduced into drinking water, or in a bath, or in a steam bath unit or occasionally even in an enema or through the rectum. Ozone works well, is extremely safe and is an excellent addition to any cancer therapy, even conventional therapy. The same is true of colon cleansing, in that these will not interfere with any other therapies, natural or otherwise.

3. Hydrogen Peroxide. This is H2O2 that splits readily into water and one oxygen atom. It is used orally at 35% H2O2, (not the strength at the drugstore) taken in drops dissolved in water or in other manners, even intravenously.

Hydrogen peroxide, while very helpful in some cases, has a few problems. It is very corrosive, irritating to the stomach or an IV site and is less stable. However, it has saved many lives. The cost is also very reasonable.

Hydrogen peroxide also has tremendous germ-killing properties, for which reason it can be used well to purify water and even to clean a hot tub or swimming pool to make the water safe for bathing. It is even better than ozone for this purpose and should be used more often.

4. Other Oxygen Therapies. These include living in the countryside, which significantly increases the concentration of oxygen in the air, breathing O2 from bottles, which is dangerous and to be avoided, exercising, which is excellent in moderation, and oxygen products in bottles such as “Aerobic 07” and many others. These are of limited value in my experience, mainly because you have to take a tremendous amount of the product over a period of time, making them a costly answer for oxygen.

LIGHT THERAPY

The therapeutic use of light and color has a long history. We have already discussed the near infrared sauna, which emits in the near, middle and some far infrared range as well as red, yellow and orange visible light ranges.

Light has wonderful effects on the human body when used wisely. It can boost circulation, especially in the red range, it can stimulate healing, as with infrared and it can penetrate the body, as does infrared light.

Other frequencies have other specific effects too complicated to go into here. We find that sunlight alone is excellent for cancer patients, provided you do not overdo and become sun toxic, too tanned and more. In fact, in areas with greater sunshine, cancer rates tend to be lower.

Sun Exposure. It is not necessary to lay out in the sun for hours. Just exposing the eyes to sunshine by itself has healing power. This is especially true if one exposes the eyes to the sun very early in the morning or late in the afternoon. This is a recognized therapy in some Eastern healing systems. It is wonderful and its value cannot be underestimated.

A related therapy is irradiation of the blood with ultra-violet light or possibly infrared as well. Let us examine this interesting therapy in more detail. It is not a do-it-yourself therapy, however. It must be done by a physician trained in the technique. Blood is removed from the body and is placed in a clear vial. Then the light is shined on it. Finally, the blood is returned to the body. Of course, it must be a sterile procedure or one could become much worse.

The effects of unltraviolet blood irradiation on infections can be dramatic and amazing. Similarly, sunlight has a healing effect on infections that is also excellent. Blood irradiation is not a specific treatment for cancer, but if it reduces infection in the body, it may be extremely helpful in some instances. Dr. William C. Douglass spent a year studying this therapy in Russia. For more information, read his book, Into the Light.

ELECTROMAGNETIC/ENERGETIC THERAPIES

A number of machines that alter electrical and magnetic potentials in the body are used for cancer therapy. The most famous is the Rife frequency generator. This machine generates frequencies that may inhibit cancer and help rebuild healthy tissue. Other machines include Lavhosky's multi-wave oscillator and subtle energy machines such as the Abrams radionic device developed 80 years ago. The FDA destroyed as many of these and other machines as they could find, setting back research for years. Many other energy machines exist, and may be of benefit. However, we do not recommend depending on any of them as your sole means of treatment. They may cause dramatic tumor reduction, but, in general, they are not a substitute for a wholesome diet and a total detoxification program.

Energetic therapies also include therapeutic touch, Reiki, energy balancing, jin shin jyutsu, acupuncture, shiatsu and acupressure. People definitely report feeling better from these therapies, though I am unaware of any large, controlled studies supporting or disproving their benefit specifically for any type of cancer. Once again, they are excellent, but combine them with a total health program for best results.

ELECTROMAGNETIC/ENERGETIC THERAPIES

A number of machines that alter electrical and magnetic potentials in the body are used for cancer therapy. The most famous is the Rife frequency generator. This machine generates frequencies that may inhibit cancer and help rebuild healthy tissue. Other machines include Lavhosky's multi-wave oscillator and subtle energy machines such as the Abrams radionic device developed 80 years ago. The FDA destroyed as many of these and other machines as they could find, setting back research for years.

Energetic therapies also include therapeutic touch, Reiki, energy balancing, jin shin jyutsu, acupuncture, shiatsu and acupressure. People definitely report feeling better from these therapies, though I am unaware of any large, controlled studies supporting or disproving their benefit.

HOMEOPATHY

Dr. William Frederich Koch was director of the Women's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and wrote The Survival Factor in Neoplastic and Viral Diseases.

He developed homeopathic parabenzoquinone to combat cancer in the 1930's. It was a remarkable achievement in its day, although I hear that the substance is not as effective today. This is likely because the bodies are so much more toxic and degenerated today.

Dr. Koch’s achievement stands as an important contribution to American medical science. He was rewarded by being exiled from the United States due to harrassment by the American Medical Association. This group was far more powerful and menacing than it is today, although cancer pioneers are still harassed and even destroyed by the “establishment forces” to this day. This brings us to a critical topic, though it is not one we like to discuss openly.

POLITICAL ASPECTS

It may seem strange to inject politics into a discussion of cancer. However, it is necessary to point out that the $30 billion or so "war on cancer" has been a massive failure. Cancer incidence is rising and treatment outcomes are little better than 30 or even 50 years ago.

Cancer research and treatment has become a growth industry (no pun intended) with a huge federal cancer bureaucracy. Once this occurs with any illness, researchers are not likely to find a cure. It would be bad for job security.

In fact, the National Cancer Institute and other federal institutes have even suppressed natural cancer therapies in their press releases and public information. This is inexcusable but understandable when one realizes that it would threaten the bureaucratic status quo.

I differ with some colleagues in that I do not believe in the need for more federal cancer research institutes or more “studies”. This is not to say there have been no benefits from all this research. Obviously, some has been beneficial. However, most has not been beneficial and the financial cost has been tremendous. The money would have been much more wisely spent on environmental cleanup or nutrition education.

In many ways, the federal cancer bureaucracy has actually slowed progress by suppressing alternatives and promoting false cures which are mainly rehashes of old drug regimens. Pharmaceutical companies often have cozy patent arrangements with federal research institutes so that taxpayers are actually funding drug research. Private research is much better, much less politicized and much more productive. The federal institutes, which have tremendous access to the press, should be shut down and the money returned to taxpayers to use as they see fit.

The Food And Drug Administration. The FDA has waged an all-out war against alternative cancer treatments for years. Anyone who believes the FDA acts in the public interest needs to read the book written by the first director the FDA, Dr. Harvey Wiley, MD. Dr. Wiley helped found the FDA in 1906. The title of his classic book is The History Of A Crime Against The Food Law. It may also be titled The History Of A Crime. How Could It Happen? In the book, Dr. Wiley describes the wholesale corruption of the bureau of Chemistry, later renamed the Food And Drug Administration, that occurred within 6 years of its founding – over 100 years ago. He realized its purpose of the agency had been subverted by the food and drug companies, so he resigned and wrote the book.

The identical problems continue at the FDA. Coca Cola, Twinkies and thousands of other junk food products are "approved". But offer a cancer therapy and you are liable to end up in prison or worse. I believe America would be much better off replacing the FDA with private certification agencies. These would compete in the marketplace, which would keep them more honest.

CONCLUSION

The cancer problem continues to grow and with it, the demand for alternative cancer therapies will continue. Due to lack of funds, few large studies exist regarding these therapies.

However, dietary and psychological influences on cancer are well established. Also, many years of experience with colon therapy, coffee enemas, sauna therapy and other natural healing modalities should not be ignored. They are, in fact, much safer than newer holistic treatments such as intravenous peroxide, vitamin C, sodium bicarbonate and many, many others. This is why I have focused on these somewhat less recent advances in natural cancer therapies.

National policy still basically ignores alternative and non-toxic therapies. Medicare and Medicaid won't pay for them, even though many people want them and everyone, including natural practitioners, pay into the national Medicare and Medicaid systems. Politics, not common sense, dictates what these programs will pay for.

For the patient, a drawback of the alternative therapies is the lack of support from traditional sources such as physicians, hospitals and cancer groups. However, many patients find that alternative therapies offer hope, a better quality of life and often complete remission of their condition.

Resources:

Protocel or Cantron/Entelev are found on the internet. These are excellent, as far as I know, though I am just starting to learn about them. The book, Outsmart Your Cancer and The Breast Stays Put detail the use of this therapy more.

The best person to contact regarding the Kelley Metabolic Cancer Therapy is Pamela McDougle at (208) 424-7600.

For black salve, health food stores sometimes carry it. The brand I know best is labeled Sun Skin Salve. It is in a 1 ounce container. The label also sayscontents: calcium, zinc, potassium, magnesium and 12 trace minerals blended in a base of synergistic herbs. Black salve.

For a little more information about the trophoblastic theory of cancer with references see Moss, R, The War on Cancer, The Townsend Letter, #240, July 2003, pp.34-35

Information about alternative therapies is available from:

Cancer Control Society (lists of clinics and physicians)

2043 N. Berendo St., Los Angeles, Ca. 90027

213-663-7801

Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (books and tapes) at P.O. Box 1242, Old Chelsea Station, New York, N.Y. 10113 (212) 741-2790

National Health Federation (an excellent group that makes available many books and other resources)

P.O. Box 688

Monrovia, Ca. 91017

818-357-2181

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