An amazing multitude of different cancer
cures have been described in books and articles. Former cancer
victims have written about their recovery, which often
involved nothing more than living peacefully on an organic
raw-food diet. Others attribute their cure to immune-enhancing
factors, alternative technology or meditation and guided
imagery, sometimes to specific remedies, but commonly in
various combinations of any of these methods. There are so
many combinations and variations; the list seems to be
endless.
To bring some order to this confusing diversity, I would like
to form a few broad categories in which the main treatment is
based either on nutrition, specific remedies, and technology
or mind improvement.
NUTRITION CURES
One
of the simplest methods was used by the Danish doctor Kristine
Nolfi. She cured her own cancer with a hundred
percent organic and vegetarian raw-food diet, and then
continued to cure cancer patients in the same way on her
health farm. She lost her medical license for using
'dangerous' and unapproved methods but her fame nevertheless
spread throughout Scandinavia.
In New
Zealand Dr
Eva Hill did much the
same thing to cure her own cancer, and to help many of her
patients.
Ann Wigmore pioneered
and promoted wheat-grass
juice after curing
her own cancer with it, in combination with an organic
vegetarian diet. Together with Victoras
Kulvinskas she formed
the Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston,
and branches and health farms using wheat-grass juice quickly
sprang up in many countries. It is more effective if a
non-centrifugal juicer is used for making juices, or possibly
just a mincer with the juice pressed by hand.
In South
Africa, Johanna
Brand, a naturopath,
invented the now famous
grape cure by curing
herself of stomach cancer in the 1920's. For six weeks she ate
nothing but grapes, black varieties are the best. Thousands of
former cancer victims have testified as to the effectiveness
of her method. Because it is now so difficult to obtain
unsprayed grapes, commercially sprayed grapes have sometimes
been used after thorough washing in warm soapy water and
careful rinsing
The Breuss-Cure, which
originated in Germany,
also lasts for 6 weeks; a maximum of 500 ml of freshly pressed
vegetable juices are used, mainly beetroot with some carrot,
celery and radish. In addition herbal teas and onion broth are
recommended. It too, is claimed to have cured thousands.
Hans Nieper, a
respected German cancer therapist (recently deceased), used in
addition to a good diet a wide range of supplements to inhibit
tumor growth, activate the immune system, degrade the tumor
with large-scale enzyme supplementation, and strengthen the
liver and general metabolism. Nieper claimed a 50% survival
rate of ‘terminal’ patients. If patients survive for 18 months
on this program, their statistical life expectancy becomes
about normal, unlike with chemotherapy where life expectancy
continues to drop after 18 months.
Another German cancer therapist,
Dr J Kuhl, used a diet high in lactic acid
fermented foods with good results. Lactic acid produced by a
tumor rotates light to the left and enhances tumor growth.
Lactic acid produced by lactic acid bacteria, on the other
hand, rotates light to the right and inhibits tumor growth.
Dr Johanna Budwig,
also in Germany,
found high-quality linseed/flax oil combined with ‘quark’ and
a mainly vegetarian raw-food diet most effective. Quark is the
German word for cottage cheese, but made from lactic acid
fermented raw skim milk as used by Budwig. This provides not
only the beneficial fermentation products, but also a high
amount of sulfur-amino acids. These are mainly cysteine and
methionine, which together with the polyunsaturated fatty
acids in linseed/flax oil can quickly restore the oxidative
energy production in and around tumors, and cause them to
regress.
The Bristol Cancer Help Centre
in England,
formerly under the direction of Dr Alec Forbes, offers a
wide-ranging holistic program similar to the Mexican clinics.
This includes a vegetarian diet of largely raw foods,
supplemented by specific vitamins, minerals, enzymes, ginseng
and liver herbs, in addition to colonic cleansing,
visualization, biofeedback, relaxation, meditation and
spiritual healing.
Dr Maud Fere, in New
Zealand, claimed success with
a much more limited program that had helped her to cure her
own bowel cancer. She advocated a good vegetarian diet, but
her main emphasis, similar to Max Gerson's, was that there
must be no salt in it. She also found it beneficial to use
diluted hydrochloric acid, diluted phosphoric acid, ammonium
chloride, and tincture of iodine.
Earlier Are
Waerland became famous for a successful diet
that consisted of sour milk and similar products, whole grains
raw or only partly cooked, as well as fruits and vegetables.
There are still many active Waerland groups in Germany
and Scandinavia. Bircher-Benner
advocated a similar lacto-vegetarian raw-food diet. He
invented the by now famous but greatly deteriorated muesli.
The macrobiotic
diet based on cooked brown rice and only a
minimum of raw food is very different from all the other
anti-cancer diets. It has a mild cleansing action and some
cancer victims claim to have been cured with a strict
macrobiotic diet.
From 1951 Dr
A. Ferenczi in Hungary
used large amounts of beetroot
successfully for tumor regression, up to 1 kg daily have been
used. The active ingredient is the purple coloring containing
anthocyanin. It is now also available as a freeze-dried
powder.
The Gerson
Therapy
Best known is probably the Gerson therapy. Born in Germany,
Dr Max Gerson immigrated to the US
in 1938. His diet consists mainly of fresh, preferably
organic, fruit and vegetables. He stressed a high potassium
content that is more in the skins or outer part of root
vegetables than in the centers. Sodium, on the other hand, was
to be severely restricted - the diet was completely without
added salt, but with added potassium salts instead.
In
addition, Gerson prescribed hydrochloric acid with pepsin,
pancreatin, and high doses of Lugol's solution for iodine
together with freeze-dried thyroid, niacin, Royal Jelly and
injections of vitamin B12 with crude liver. In addition, raw
liver juice was used for its high content of enzymes. Later,
with increasing chemicalization of agriculture, the liver
juice was omitted while linseed/flax oil was belatedly added
to the list of supplements.
Liver detoxification with frequent coffee enemas was another
cornerstone of the Gerson Therapy; otherwise patients with
advanced cancer might die despite disappearing tumors. Gerson
treated hundreds of so-called terminal cases of which about 50
% recovered.
Dr Issels used the
Gerson therapy successfully in Germany.
In addition, he realized the harmful influence of dead or
infected teeth and mercury amalgam fillings on the outcome of
cancer therapy. Therefore, his patients had to have all
unhealthy teeth removed at the beginning of the treatment.
The Kelly
approach
Dr
W. D. Kelly, an American dentist, was given only one month to
live with multiple tumors of the liver, pancreas and other
organs. He cured himself with a vegetarian raw-food diet with
the addition of various supplements, but especially with high
doses of pancreatin. Pancreas enzymes are very effective in
destroying tumors and sometimes even too effective. Kelly,
like Gerson and other holistic cancer therapists, saw the
greatest danger in a too rapid destruction of the tumor that
can kill the patient with poisons generated by the
disintegrating tumor proteins. He recommended daily Epsom
salts purges during the critical period and, if required, also
coffee enemas.
After helping thousands of patients by supplying
individualized information to the patient's doctor, he
believes that cancer can usually be cured if there is at least
one month, but preferably three months, of life expectancy
when starting the program.
As
a simple, but somewhat expensive self-test for the early
detection of cancer before tumors can be found clinically, he
recommends taking six to eight pancreatin tablets after each
meal for four weeks. If you feel worse after these four weeks
with nausea, headaches or fatigue, there is likely to be a
cancerous condition. If you feel better instead, brighter and
with more energy, the condition is pre-cancerous. If there is
no difference there is probably no early cancer, but there may
already be a clinically detectable malignant tumor present.
Kelley has an extensive documentation with 10,000 medically
verified diagnoses. In one study all his cases of pancreas
cancer were investigated. With conventional treatment there
were virtually no survivors after 5 years. He had 22 cases on
record. Of these, 10 never started the treatment and survived
for 67 days. 7 followed it partially and survived an average
of 233 days, while the 5 who followed the Kelley treatment
completely all recovered completely.
Aajonus Vonderplanitz,
in California,
claims great success in overcoming advanced cancer with a
raw-food diet that includes raw (organic) meat, see his book We
Want to Live (1997).
REMEDIES & HERBS
I
recently read that about ten thousand Americans a day cross
the border into Mexico
for medical treatment. Many of these have US
health insurance that is not valid in Mexico.
For some the attraction may be cheaper treatment, and for
others a more humane face of medicine, but the most important
draw card would be the fact that all holistic cancer clinics
have effectively been eliminated in the US, and are now just
south of the border down Mexico way. While these clinics also
give dietary advice, they rely mainly on specific remedies,
such as laetrile, ozone therapy, herbs and specific immune
enhancing measures, but also visualization and meditation.
Many thousands of former cancer victims have attested to the
beneficial effects of
laetrile in the treatment of their disease.
While not a cure in itself, laetrile has been found in
clinical trials to reduce or eliminate cancer-related pain,
improve the appetite with weight gain in underweight patients,
eliminate the typical nauseating cancer odor in terminal wards
and induce a sense of well-being and hope. In animal
experiments also tumor inhibition was evident. Initially,
laetrile commonly is injected, several grams daily, while oral
doses of similar amounts may continue for a year or more.
Animal experiments showed similar benefits to those from
laetrile even when just bitter almonds or apricot kernels were
eaten. These are also commonly used in countries where the
availability of laetrile is restricted or where its use is
illegal.
Garlic is frequently
used as a supporting remedy in the treatment of cancer. It has
proven anti-cancer properties. Not only does it protect
against the formation of tumors, including metastases, it also
inhibits the growth of established tumors. In addition, it
strengthens the immune system and improves the detoxifying
ability of the liver.
Two
other remedies used widely in the Mexican and other cancer
clinics are Vitamin C, and hydrazine sulfate. Linus Pauling
and Ewan Cameron pioneered Vitamin
C treatment for cancer, and found greatly
increased survival times for terminal cancer patients with 10
g of Vitamin C daily. Now it is sometimes used in even larger
amounts, just below the threshold where it causes diarrhea,
initially it may also be infused intravenously.
Hydrazine sulfate was
discovered by Dr Joseph Gold for use in cancer treatment. It
blocks a liver enzyme which converts the lactic acid produced
by a tumor back into glucose, a reaction which takes much more
energy from the patient than it generates. It was mainly used
with ‘terminal’: patients who reported improved appetite,
normalized weight, increased strength and less pain. However,
presently it is increasingly used in earlier stages and more
and more patients claim that their tumors have disappeared.
Another group of remedies is specifically designed to
stimulate the immune system. In the 1950s Krebiozen made
headlines in the US,
promoted by a respected scientist, Dr Andrew Ivy. Five hundred
doctors used it, and 20,000 testimonials of cancer victims
stood behind Dr Ivy and his co-workers at their trial. They
were acquitted, but the AMA succeeded in blacklisting
Krebiozen.
Dr B Coley was an
early US
cancer pioneer who used a special vaccine to induce fever and
inflammation in cancer patients. Out of 500 cases half
remained free of malignancy during follow-up for 5-54 years.
Virginia Livingston-Wheeler,
an US
microbiologist, combined a vegetarian diet with a vaccine
prepared from the patient's own body fluids. Most widely used,
however, especially in Germany,
are vaccines related to the tubercle bacillus that were
developed by Prof
Enderlein.
In Japan,
Dr Hasumi claims
outstanding success in curing cancer with a vaccine made from
the patient's own urine; however it works only if the immune
system is still sufficiently strong.
In
addition to the successful homeopathic cancer treatment by
the US
doctor E
G Jones before
homeopathy was outlawed, Dr
W F Koch also gained
the support of thousands of patients with his homeopathic
oxidation catalyst. Mistletoe, too, is often given in
homeopathic form. A ‘folk healer’ told me that he found Ammon.
Carb. 30 excellent for cancers in animals as well as in
humans.
Somewhat hard to take for many is
urine therapy. J
W Armstrong in his book The
Water of Life relates many cases of medically
diagnosed cancer that appeared to be cured after a urine fast
usually lasting for about three weeks, drinking nothing but
one's own urine and additional water. With this, Armstrong
regarded cancer as rather easy to cure; ’child's play’ he
called it, except if someone had previously already received
medical treatment.
The
Greek Professor of Internal Medicine, E.V.
Danopoulus, discovered that urea
was the most potent anti-cancer factor in urine. At first he
treated several liver cancer patients with it who recovered,
and then he also used it successfully with many other advanced
cancers. However, after the publication of his results in the
Lancet in 1974 he experienced increasing harassment and
retired from medical practice.
Dr William Lane
in the US
noticed that sharks do not develop cancer. This prompted him
to experiment with good results with shark
cartilage that is now
commercially available. Liquid bovine cartilage appears now to
be preferable to shark cartilage. Also shark oil is useful.
Gaston Naessens in Canada
was successful curing cancer by injecting a modified camphor
compound into lymph nodes to strengthen the immune system. He
claims a long-term remission rate of 75%. His remedy, called 714-X,
is now available from Canada
and New Zealand.
Thousands of cancer victims, in East European and other poor
countries, claim to have been cured by taking refined kerosene.
That apparently kills the cancer microbe and possibly cancer
cells as well.
Dr Seeger, the German
cancer researcher, found Zell Oxygen most helpful to
‘normalize’ cancer cells by restarting their oxidative energy
production. Zell Oxygen is a culture of special young yeast
cells very high in oxygenating enzymes. It works best combined
with Royal Jelly. Wobe-mugos
is imported from Germany
and contains proteolytic enzymes from hydrolyzed beef
pancreas, thymus and other glands. It is claimed to be very
beneficial in so-called terminal conditions.
Herbal Remedies
Essiac (Ojibway Indian Tea)
is another famous cancer herb mixture developed about 1922 by
the Canadian nurse Rene Caisse. In 1937 the Royal Cancer
Commission found that Essiac was effective against cancer and
in 1938 Essiac came within three votes of being legalized as a
remedy for terminal cancer. After this, Rene received special
permission to treat terminal cancer patients but was not
allowed to take money for it. At the time of her death in 1978
the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare destroyed her huge
collection of documents and patient files on the effectiveness
of Essiac.
The
four ingredients are rhubarb root, burdock root and slippery
elm as blood purifiers and the tops of young sheep's sorrel
(Rumen acetosella) to destroy cancer cells. The use of Essiac
is gradually spreading to other countries but there is also a
warning that some distributors have substituted yellow dock or
curly dock for the essential sheep's sorrel.
A
tea made from leaves and stems or twigs of papaw
is another traditional cancer remedy. It was revealed to Stan
Sheldon on the Queensland Gold Coast in 1962, who cured his
rapidly spreading tumors in both lungs within two months. This
remedy is now widely used throughout Queensland.
According to an article in New Scientist, a chemical has been
discovered in one kind of papaw, which is one billion times
more effective against cancer cells than presently used
anti-cancer drugs. An Aboriginal cancer remedy is the maroon
bush, while the use
of mistletoe
preparations is based on ancient European folklore and
recommendations by Rudolf Steiner.
Jethro Kloss was a
well-known early American herbalist of the ‘old school’. For
cancer treatment he used mainly red clover blossoms, violet
leaves and flowers, the roots of burdock and yellow dock,
golden seal, echinacea, aloes, agrimony, dandelion root,
supposedly with good success.
Even more famous and most widely used in many countries, is
the Hoxsey
herb mixture. It originated about 1925 in the US
with thousands of patients attesting to its usefulness in
overcoming their cancer. The internal remedy consists of
amarga, berberis root, buckthorn bark, burdock, licorice,
pokeroot, prickly ash, red clover, stillingia root and
potassium iodide. There were also three external remedies to
be painted on any visible tumors to make them dry up and fall
out. Presently mainly Herbveil
8 and KC101
(in NZ) and cansema are
being used for melanoma and other skin cancers as well as
tumors close to the skin, such as breast tumors.
Jason Winters
described his own cure from terminal cancer in his book
'Killing Cancer'. In addition to diet, he used red clover,
chaparral, gotu kola, selenium and some not well-defined roots
and spices in his herb mixture, which is not available in most
countries.
ALTERNATIVE
TECHNOLOGY
Ozone therapy has
been pioneered in Germany,
and it is used there as well as in the Mexican cancer clinics
by thousands of doctors, not only for treating cancer, but
also AIDS, and other serious infectious diseases. Generally
about 220 ml of the patient's blood is mixed with ozone, often
under pressure, and then re-injected into a vein. This kills
not only cancer cells and the cancer microbe in the treated
blood but in the whole body, while the immune system is
strengthened at the same time. Where ozone therapy is not
available, patients commonly take diluted hydrogen peroxide.
A
similar beneficial effect is achieved with overheating
a tumor. Cancer cells are damaged or weakened by temperatures
of 42-43ºC, which are still harmless for normal cells. To
overheat internal tumors, daily bath temperatures are
gradually raised over a period of weeks or months up to 47ºC.
Various precautions are required, especially the blood sugar
level needs to be kept artificially low during treatment;
otherwise tumor growth may be stimulated if temperatures are
not quite high enough. As after ozone therapy, the damaged
tumor becomes highly responsive to any additional holistic
therapy. In addition, the blood circulation is greatly
increased.
The
south-pointing pole of a magnet
inhibits not only microbes but also cancer cells. Tumors could
be inhibited or regressed by long exposure to a strong
south-pointing pole of 4000 gauss or more. This also appears
to reduce pain, inflammation and infections. Presently many
cancer patients use electronic
zappers and
magnetic pulsers with apparently good success.
The most commonly used varieties are the Hulda Clark zapper
and the Beck zapper or blood purifier, recommended to be used
in combination with oxygen therapy and colloidal silver.
Similar results may be achieved by radiating the tumor site
with strong
blue light. An article in New Scientist
revealed that blue light inhibits cell divisions; it is also
used in some hospitals as the quickest cure for jaundiced
babies.
The Tronado
machine is a German invention to shine very
high radio frequencies onto a tumor area. It overheats the
tumor and causes its destruction but unlike conventional
radio-therapy, it does not damage the surrounding healthy
tissue.
Dr John Holt, a
radio-therapist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth,
managed with the help of the then Premier of Western
Australia, John Tonkin, to buy a Tronado for the hospital, and
in addition, one for his private clinic. Holt treated more
than seven thousand cancer patients with the Tronado with
remarkable results. At the same time he continued to treat
cancer patients at the hospital with normal radiotherapy.
In
a published trial with head and neck cancers (for easy
verification of results) a 34 % initial success rate was
achieved with radiotherapy while after three years 17 % were
still in remission. With the Tronado the initial success was
92 % and after three years 68 %. However, such are the
mysterious ways of the medical profession that only the
Tronado in private practice could be used, until quite
recently the one installed at the hospital was never allowed
to be operated .
The Roy
Ray Rife electronic frequency instrument
emitted waves of a frequency that was specific to kill cancer
cells. Conventional research institutions confirmed a high
success rate before the AMA (US) took court action and
destroyed the treatment machines. Now there are replicas
appearing, some of which seem to be more effective than
others.
The US
magazine The Choice (Spring
1990) published an article about Nick van Echteld, who claims
to have completely recovered from terminal metastatic cancer
in 1989. Echteld attributes his remarkable cure to
self-treatment with a Rife instrument, while his orthodox
specialists believe instead in ‘spontaneous remission’ - a
cure without cause.
Wilhelm Reich
attributed his success with terminal cancer patients to their
immersion in a strong field of bio-energy or orgone, as he
called it. Orgone
accumulators are easy
to build with alternating layers of metal and organic
material. More recently ‘orgonite’ is being used, a mixture of
a resin with fine metal particles.
Harold S Burr
discovered the electric life fields around living organisms.
Tumors have an abnormal negative charge as compared to the
surrounding healthy tissue. In Sweden
Bjorn Nordenstrom
used 10-volt needle-like electrodes inserted into a tumor to
destroy it. For external tumors, I experimented with a large
flat 1.5-volt positive electrode on the tumor and the negative
electrode on a healthy tissue nearby.
Finally I may mention that various cancer victims claim to
have been cured by psychic
surgery, especially in the Philippines.
Also radionic instruments are sometimes claimed to be
successful with cancer.
MIND IMPROVEMENT
Wilhelm Reich discovered the harmful effects of repressed
sexual feelings in the development of cancer.
His methods for freeing up feelings and energy flows have
become standard practice in bio-energy therapy and other
holistic treatments.
Another ten-year study published in the Lancet, of women with
advanced metastatic breast cancer found that just belonging
to a support group and meeting once a week,
doubled the life span as compared to a control group that had
medically been treated in the same way. In addition to some
well-known support groups, such as those run by the Bristol
clinic in England,
or Ian Gawler's support group in Victoria
(Australia),
there are now small groups, often in connection with
meditation groups, in many cities.
Well known for his meditation
work with cancer patients was Dr A Meares of Melbourne.
In the US
the Simontons have pioneered guided
imagery in cancer
treatment. They showed that survival times with terminal
cancers can be doubled in this way. Characteristics in
patients, which they found to be associated with above average
results are emotional resilience, flexible beliefs, physical
activity, strong self-concept and social autonomy. Many cancer
patients have been greatly helped and seem to have recovered
mainly because they learned to express their feelings and
emotions and they moved towards fulfilling their emotional
needs.
Of
all the published, properly randomized clinical trials,
psychotherapy is by far the most effective
cancer therapy. Eysenk and Grossarth-Maticek (Behavior
Research and Therapy 1991; 29
(1):17-31) found that 13 years after extended individual
therapy none of 50 patients in the treated cancer-prone group
had died but 32 percent in the control group. With group
therapy, after 7 years, there were18 out of 239 cancer death
in the treated group, compared to 111 of the 234 in the
control group. With terminal cancer patients the increased
survival time was 64% and women with metastasized breast
cancer lived about twice as long.
The
most powerful setback to recovery, on the other hand, is a
medical pronouncement that the condition in incurable and
terminal, especially if a time limit is mentioned. This then
becomes a self-fulfilling hypnotic suggestion; just like
"pointing the bone" in other cultures and it is then difficult
for a holistic therapist to change this medically implanted
death wish into hope
and faith that are the keys for recovery.
The
most promising therapy appears to be The
New Medicine of the much-persecuted German Dr
Hamer. He claims a 95% success rate by
discovering and eliminating the emotional shock that triggered
the development of cancer, commonly one to two years before
its diagnosis. My own preference is a combination of Dr
Hamer’s approach, with an organic raw-food diet that is
suitable for the metabolic type of the patient.
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