The
Cancer Hoax
Cancer is curable!
It's not a death sentence, like most of us have been led to
believe. Every year thousands of people
conquer cancer by using natural approaches.
In fact, those who go the natural route have a tremendously higher rate
of cancer remission, and experience much less pain, discomfort and expense to
boot! Usually they end up getting rid of
most of their other ailments as well, and rarely have a recurrence of cancer if
they continue the healthy approach that got them well.
But the modern, established cancer-industry (yes, it
is an industry, and an extremely profitable one at that) would not like you to
believe that there exists any other treatment but their woefully inadequate one. And it is not that they are ignorant of the
fact that chemo and radiation don’t work, for a survey of oncologists revealed
that over 80% of them would not use chemo or radiation on themselves or their
family. Quite an indictment of the whole system, if you ask me!
There have been a number of doctors over the past 70
plus years who have discovered and used very effective
natural cures for just about every type of cancer. Max Gerson, MD., to name one, was
outstandingly successful in curing cancers in
Through the backing of the AMA they were successful in having Dr.
Gerson labelled as a "quack" and were able to shut down the cancer
treatment facilities that Dr. Gerson had set up. Strange that a man whom Dr.
Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Laureate, stated was "one of the most eminent
geniuses in the history of medicine" (after Dr. Gerson cured Schweitzer's
wife of diabetes) should turn out to be a "quack" when
cancer-treating profits were involved!
I could write pages on how medical science has become
stuck in using the allopathic approach (use of toxic substances to get rid of
the symptoms or fight bacteria) instead of the more natural (homeopathic)
approach, which instead focuses on building the health of the patient. To quote
from "Healing Cancer the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic
Diseases" (by Charlotte Gerson [Max's granddaughter], copyright 2007) page
xxiii: "It is often said that modern allopathic medicine is the only major
science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.
Indeed, it still operates in the spirit of Louis Pasteur, the 19th
century French scientist and so-called "father of the germ
theory."
Pasteur maintained all his life that diseases were
caused by germs (which he was the first to identify) and that cure was achieved
by destroying the germs (bacteria).
Unlike his contemporary and opponent, Antoine Bechamp, who claimed that
what mattered was not the germ but the condition of the organism which it
attacked, Pasteur stuck to his dogma until the very end. Only on his deathbed did he admit that
"the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything." Unfortunately, this late change of mind has
remained largely unknown, leaving modern medicine in the trap of the germ
theory, the neglect of the "terrain" and relentless
specialization." (end of quote)
The modern standard devastating treatment for cancer
(surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy) only attempt to get rid of the
symptoms (the tumor or growth) versus the natural, wholistic approach, which
realizes that the cancer is only a symptom of the problem, and to cure the
cancer problem itself the health of the patient must be restored.
If you want to really get educated on the current
treatments for cancer (which don't work, but actually devastate the body)
versus the nutritional approach, which does work amazingly well, then let me
recommend some resources you need to examine.
Following these recommendations, I will post a number of very
informative articles dealing with cancer and nutritional healing.
Videos:
"Healing Cancer From Inside Out" - Jan 2008
- Mike Anderson, RaveDiet.com - A TRULY AWESOME, jaw-dropping 2 hr documentary video that will
expose the hoax behind the current conventional cancer treatments, and then
show you that diet can cure not only cancer, but most of our diseases. $17.95. Available thru www.amazon.com
(be sure to read the 7 comments by buyers) or www.ravediet.com
(for qty discounts). Get this resource,
if you get nothing else!
"Dying to have Known" -
Kroschel Films, 2006. An 80 minute documentary by
nature film maker Steve Kroscel, which picks up where “Healing Cancer from
Inside Out” leaves off. He
travels the world talking to various doctors (such as Dr. Dean Edell, etc.) on
both sides of the cancer healing issue. A real sleeper of a film, really good -
possibly even better than the "Healing Cancer from Inside Out" video,
if that is possible (but should be watched after
“Healing Cancer from Inside Out.” ). $24.95. Available thru www.amazon.com
(be sure to read the 2 buyer comments).
"Super Size Me" - 2004, 100 minutes, with
Morgan Spurlock. For those that think
what you eat doesn't really matter, this video will help set you straight. Morgan goes on a 30 day "McDonald's food
only" diet, with 3 doctors checking his health every 7 days. This is a classic film, very entertaining and
enlightening. $7.95. Available thru www.amazon.com and others.
Websites:
www.hacres.com - Excellent
website of Hallelujah Acres, with pastor George Malkmus. Great info on how to eat,
and a great list of testimonials by those who have gotten rid of their health
problems thru diet. He offers a number of books that he has authored,
which are very good.
www.naturalnews.com
- Great website for up-to-date articles of every aspect of health thru
nutrition.
www.mercola.com - Great
website by Dr Joseph Mercola. Many good articles and source of info.
And of course, my website where you are right
now: check out article # 29 – “Eat to
Live” – my 32 page condensed version of Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s very informative 292
page book, with my comments added.
By the way, a great place to buy natural supplements
is at www.iherb.com They
carry hundreds of top quality brands discounted by 25-50%, and usually ship the
same day (free shipping with $60 orders).
They also have very useful comments by the users, who rate each product
from one to 5 stars. MegaFoods
supplements, available at this website, are 100% whole food derived, and my
favorite. Use the promo code WIL572 and
get a $5 discount off your first internet order with iHerb.
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Can You Trust Chemotherapy to Cure Your
Cancer?
by Andreas Moritz (see all articles by this
author)
(www.NaturalNews.com / July 2008)
Former White House
press secretary Tony Snow died in July 2008 at the age of 53, following a
series of chemotherapy treatments for colon cancer. In 2005, Snow had his colon
removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with
colon cancer. Two years later (2007), Snow underwent surgery to remove a growth
in his abdominal area, near the site of the original cancer. "This is a
very treatable condition," said Dr. Allyson Ocean, a gastrointestinal
oncologist at
The media headlines proclaimed Snow died from colon cancer, although
they knew he didn't have a colon anymore. Apparently, the malignant cancer had
"returned" (from where?) and "spread" to the liver and
elsewhere in his body. In actual fact, the colon surgery severely restricted
his normal eliminative functions, thereby overburdening the liver and tissue
fluids with toxic waste. The previous series of chemo-treatments inflamed and
irreversibly damaged a large number of cells in his body, and also impaired his
immune system -- a
perfect recipe for growing new cancers.
Now unable to heal the causes of the original cancer (in addition to the newly
created ones), Snow's body developed new cancers in the liver and other parts
of the body.
The mainstream media,
of course, still insist Snow died from colon cancer, thus perpetuating the myth
that it is only the cancer that kills people, not the treatment. Nobody seems
to raise the important point that it is extremely difficult for a cancer
patient to actually heal from this condition while being subjected to the
systemic poisons of chemotherapy
and deadly radiation. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake and don't get an
antidote for it, isn't it likely that your body becomes overwhelmed by the
poison and, therefore, cannot function anymore?
Before Tony Snow began his chemo-treatments for his second colon cancer, he
still looked healthy and strong. But after a few weeks into his treatment, he
started to develop a coarse voice, looked frail, turned gray and lost his hair.
Did the cancer do all this to him? Certainly not.
Cancer doesn't do such a thing, but chemical poisoning does. He actually looked
more ill than someone who has been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Does the mainstream media ever report about the
overwhelming scientific evidence that shows chemotherapy has zero benefits in
the five-year survival rate of colon cancer patients? Or
how many oncologists stand up for their cancer patients and protect them
against chemotherapy treatment which they very well know can cause them to die
far more quickly than if they received no treatment at all? Can you trustingly
place your life into their hands when you know that most of them would not even
consider chemotherapy for themselves if they were diagnosed with cancer? What
do they know that you don't? The news is spreading fast that in the
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy... Chemotherapy
does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented
for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors... Women
with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it." -
Alan Levin, M.D.
An investigation by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northern Sydney
Cancer Centre, Australia,
into the contribution of chemotherapy to 5-year survival in 22 major adult
malignancies, showed startling results: The overall contribution of curative
and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated
to be 2.3% in
The research covered data from the Cancer Registry in
With a meager success
rate of 2.3%, selling chemotherapy as a medical treatment
(instead of a scam), is one of the greatest fraudulent acts ever committed. The
average chemotherapy earns the medical establishment a whopping $300,000 to
$1,000,000 each year, and has so far earned those who promote this
pseudo-medication (poison) over 1 trillion dollars. It's no surprise that the
medical establishment tries to keep this scam alive for as long as possible.
In 1990, the highly respected German epidemiologist, Dr. Ulrich Abel from the
Tumor Clinic of the
Abel's epidemiological
study, which was published on
Abel points out that chemotherapy rarely improves the
quality of life. He describes chemotherapy as "a scientific
wasteland" and states that even though there is no scientific evidence
that chemotherapy works, neither doctor nor patient is willing to give up on
it. The mainstream media has never reported on this hugely important study,
which is hardly surprising, given the enormous vested interests of the groups
that sponsor the media, that is, the pharmaceutical
companies. A recent search turned up exactly zero reviews of Abel's work in
American journals, even though it was published in 1990. I believe this is not
because his work was unimportant -- but because it is irrefutable.
The truth of the matter would be far too costly for the pharmaceutical industry
to bear, thus making it unacceptable. If the mass media reported the truth that
medical drugs, including chemotherapy drugs, are used to practically commit
genocide in the
Many doctors go as far as prescribing chemotherapy drugs to patients for
malignancies that are far too advanced for surgery, with the full knowledge
that there are no benefits at all. Yet they claim chemotherapy to be an
effective cancer treatment, and their unsuspecting patients believe that
"effective" equals "cure." The doctors, of course, refer to
the FDA's definition of an "effective" drug, one which achieves a 50%
or more reduction in tumor size for 28 days.
They neglect to tell
their patients that there is no correlation whatsoever between shrinking tumors
for 28 days and curing the cancer or extending life. Temporary tumor shrinkage
through chemotherapy has never been shown to cure cancer or to extend life. In
other words, you can live with an untreated tumor for just as long as you would
with one that has been shrunken or been eliminated by chemotherapy (or
radiation).
Chemotherapy has never been shown to have curative effects for cancer. By
contrast, the body can still cure itself, which it actually tries to do by
developing cancer. Cancer is more a healing response than it is a disease. The
"disease" is the body's attempt to cure itself of an existing
imbalance. And sometimes, this healing response continues even if a person is
subjected to chemotherapy (and/or radiation). Unfortunately, as the previously
mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly
reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs.
The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both
patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical
treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the
patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune
system, is doing the exact opposite. Chemo-therapy can give the patient
life-threatening mouth sores. It attacks the immune system by destroying
billions of immune cells (white blood cells). Its deadly poisons inflame every
part of the body.
The drugs can slough
off the entire lining of their intestines. The most common side effect
experienced among chemo patients is their complete lack of energy. The new
additional drugs now given to many chemo patients may prevent the patient from
noticing some of the side effects, but they hardly reduce the immensely
destructive and suppressive effect of the chemotherapy itself. Remember, the
reason chemotherapy can shrink some tumors is because it causes massive
destruction in the body.
If you have cancer, you may think that feeling tired is just part of the
disease. This rarely is the case. Feeling unusually tired is more likely due to
anemia, a common side effect of most chemotherapy drugs. Chemo drugs can
dramatically decrease your red blood cell levels, and this reduces oxygen
availability to the 60-100 trillion cells of your body. You can literally feel
the energy being zapped from every cell of your body -- a physical death
without dying. Chemo-caused fatigue has a negative impact on day-to-day
activities in 89% of all patients. With no energy, there can be no joy and no
hope, and all bodily functions become subdued.
One long-term side effect is that these patients' bodies can no longer respond
to nutritional or immune-strengthening approaches to cancerous tumors. All of
this may explain why cancer patients who do not receive any treatment at all,
have an up to four times higher remission rate than those who receive
treatment. The sad thing is that chemotherapy does not cure 96% to 98% of all
cancers anyway. Conclusive evidence (for the majority of cancers) that
chemotherapy has any positive influence on survival or quality of life does not
exist.
To promote chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is misleading, to say the
least. By permanently damaging the body's immune system and other important
parts, chemo-therapy has become a leading cause of treatment-caused diseases
such as heart disease,
liver disease, intestinal diseases, diseases of the immune
system, infections, brain diseases, pain disorders, and rapid aging
Before committing themselves to being poisoned, cancer patients need to question their doctors and ask them to produce the research or evidence that shrinking a tumor actually translates to any increase in survival. If they tell you that chemotherapy is your best chance of surviving, you will know they are lying or are simply misinformed. As Abel's research clearly demonstrated, there is no such evidence anywhere to be found in the medical literature. Subjecting patients to chemotherapy robs them of a fair chance of finding or responding to a real cure and deserves criminal prosecution.
Andreas Moritz's book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism, explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good. Available through (www.ener-chi.com) or (www.amazon.com).
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Exposed: 10
Facts about the Breast Cancer Industry You're Not
Supposed to Know (opinion)
by Mike Adams (see all articles by
this author)
(NaturalNews.com) With Breast Cancer Awareness month fully upon us once again,
retail stores have been invaded with everything pink, including "pink
ribbon" candies and personal care products made with blatantly
cancer-causing ingredients. Retail grocery stores like Safeway even hit up
customers for donations at the cash register, promising to raise funds to find
"the cure for cancer."
Consumers of course, have virtually no idea where the funds they donate
actually go, nor do they know the truths about breast cancer they'll
never be told by conventional cancer
non-profit organizations. In this article, I'll reveal ten important myths
about breast cancer, and the truths that can save your life.
Myth #1: Breast
Cancer is not preventable
The Truth: Up to 98% of breast cancer cases can be prevented through
diet, nutritional
supplements, sunshine and exercise
It's true: Breast cancer can be almost entirely prevented through commonsense
changes in diet, the addition of anti-cancer nutritional supplements, boosting
vitamin D creation from sunlight, avoiding exposure to toxic chemicals in consumer
products, pursuing regular exercise and eating a live foods diet.
The breast cancer
industry -- which depends on the continuation of cancer for its profits and
employment -- has so far refused to teach women even basic cancer prevention
strategies (such as increasing the intake of vitamin D, which prevents 77% of
all cancers). See: http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html
Myth #2: Pink
ribbon products are sold to raise money to support breast cancer victims.
The Truth: Nearly 100% of the funds are used to recruit more
breast cancer
patients into highly-lucrative treatments that do more harm than good.
You know where all that money goes that you donate to the "search for the
cure" and other cancer scams? Virtually none of it goes to actually teach
women how to prevent cancer. The World Health Organization says 70% of all cancers are preventable, but
the breast cancer industry helps zero percent of women actually prevent
it.
Those funds actually go to recruiting breast cancer patients by offering
"free" mammograms.
This is the clever recruitment strategy of the cancer industry. It's sort of
like a greasy garage mechanic offering a "free" checkup on your car's
transmission. It's in his financial interest to find something wrong (or to
break something), just like it's in the financial interests of the cancer
industry to diagnose a women with cancer and scare her into expensive,
high-profit treatments like chemotherapy, radiation
therapy or cancer surgery. (Mammogram false positives are commonplace...)
Want proof of where these funds go? Check out this grant list at the Komen for
the Cure organization, and you'll see it's almost entirely spent on recruiting
more women with mammograms: http://www.komenphoenix.org/site/c.nsKZ...
When you read that list, note that there is not a single grant provided for nutritional
education to teach women how to prevent cancer with vitamin D, cruciferous
vegetables, anti-cancer
herbs, supplements or to avoid dangerous cancer-causing food ingredients like sodium
nitrite, MSG and chemical sweeteners.
Myth #3: The
only proven treatments for breast cancer are chemotherapy and radiation
The Truth: Chemotherapy doesn't work and radiation causes cancer
Chemotherapy is a fraud, plain and simple. It's as ludicrous as poisoning
patients with mercury and calling it medicine (which is something doctors did a hundred years
ago, by the way). There is absolutely no reliable scientific evidence
showing that chemotherapy has any positive effect
whatsoever on breast cancer. Try to find the science yourself: It doesn't
exist!
Sure, there's evidence that chemotherapy shrinks tumors. Too bad, however, that
tumor size is irrelevant. Artificially reducing the size of a tumor does
nothing to reverse the physiology of cancer in a patient's body. It doesn't
initiate the healing that needs to take place to reverse cancer and stay
cancer free. And this doesn't even take into account the quality of life
issues here: Chemotherapy doesn't help people LIVE any longer, but it sure does
make them DIE longer!
Myth #4: Chemotherapy is safe
and doesn't cause permanent damage to your health
The Truth: Chemotherapy causes vomiting, hair loss, muscle loss, brain damage, heart
damage, kidney damage and liver damage. Much of this damage is permanent. Read
these stories to learn more:
Cancer Drug Causes Permanent Brain Damage
http://www.naturalnews.com/024475.html
Chemotherapy Causes Brain Shrinkage
http://www.naturalnews.com/021200.html
Chemotherapy Found to Cause Permanent Brain Damage
http://www.naturalnews.com/020665.html
Myth #5:
Regular mammograms are the best way to detect cancer
The Truth: Mammograms harm 10 women for every one woman they help
Here's part of a story we published in 2006, called Breast Cancer Screening
Harms Ten Women for Every One That it Helps (http://www.naturalnews.com/020829.html)
"A new study by researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark
found that mammograms may harm ten times as many women as they help.
The researchers examined the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer
screening programs on 500,000 women in the
Got that? For every 2,000 women receiving mammograms, only ONE would have her
life extended at all. TEN women, though, would be harmed with chemotherapy,
radiation or mastectomies.
What the study didn't point out, by the way, is that all these treatments are highly
profitable for the cancer industry. That's the real reason why mammograms
are pushed so aggressively onto women. It's not because mammograms detect
cancer; it's because mammograms make them money.
To the breast cancer industry, a woman is nothing more than a piece of meat
with a cash reward attached to it. The push for mammography is a marketing ploy
designed to keep women scared, misinformed and lined up to be poisoned with
chemotherapy while they shell out their life savings for treatments that, for
most of them, aren't even medically justified!
That's why I say the breast cancer industry is, by any honest assessment, a crime
against women. In America,
husbands who beat their wives are considered criminals. They're arrested and
locked away. But those very same men, when wearing a doctor's coat, can assault
women with chemicals, slice off their breasts with scalpels and even kill those
women... all with impunity. There's not a single breast cancer doctor who has
ever been arrested for the death of a patient.
The true history of western
medicine's violence
against women
In time, of course,
this will change. Medical violence against women is a crime, regardless of
whether the weapon is a fist, a baseball bat or a syringe full of chemicals
that will cause permanent damage to her vital organs. In time, chemotherapy
will be outlawed and breast cancer doctors will be put out of work or
prosecuted for their crimes against women. Perhaps they'll even be castrated as
part of a "fitting" punishment.
To all the women reading this, note carefully the history of western medicine
and its numerous assaults on women over the years. Do you know where the
term "hysterectomy" comes from? It comes from the belief by male
doctors that women's emotions were "hysterical," and they believed
the best way to "cure" women of their hysteria was to violently cut
her reproductive organs out of her body.
The procedure was widely adopted by male surgeons and used for well
over a hundred years to treat women who were diagnosed as suffering from
virtually every kind of emotional variance you can imagine. Doctors who didn't
use scalpels to remove these organs from a woman's body often resorted to so-called
"pelvic massages" -- a medicalized raping of the female patient by
the male doctor, of course.
Even today, tens of thousands of hysterectomies are performed each year with no
medical justification whatsoever. Doctors continue to view women's bodies as
diseased and abnormal, surgically removing their breasts and reproductive
organs for no justifiable reason whatsoever. It's even being done today as a
cancer prevention procedure, against women who have no cancer at all!
Western medicine's treatment of breast cancer patients today is little more
than an extension of hundreds of years of medical violence against women by the
male-dominated medical establishment.
Want proof? Notice that cancer doctors never advise men to surgically remove
their testicles as a way to "prevent" testicular cancer? That's
because the male surgeons performing these operations prefer to maim women, not
men.
If you have the stomach for it, read the rest of the truth about how
conventional doctors and surgeons commit outrageous medical violence against
women and children even today: http://www.naturalnews.com/019930.html
Myth #6:
BRCA-positive women should consider mastectomies to prevent cancer
The Truth: Cruciferous vegetables target BRCA1
and BRCA2 genes, preventing
cancer with nutrition
Women who are BRCA positive are being scared into utterly unnecessary double
mastectomies -- a procedure that benefits no one except the surgeon. What
nobody is telling these women is that cruciferous vegetables contain
anti-cancer nutrients that specifically target BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes,
protecting these women from breast cancer.
All it takes is a single ounce of fresh broccoli juice each day, or
fresh sprouts, superfoods
or other nutrient-dense foods or juices consumed daily.
Cancer doctors, of course, conveniently forget to tell women about these little
facts. It would hurt their business if women knew how to prevent cancer on
their own, at home, with everyday groceries and simple herbs.
Here's text from one study that might interest you. It shows that I3C (from
broccoli) and genistein (from fermented soy) inhibit estrogen-stimulated
receptor activity in a dose-dependent fashion:
"...we showed that I3C induces BRCA1 expression and that both I3C and
BRCA1 inhibit oestrogen (E2)-stimulated oestrogen receptor (ER-) activity in
human breast cancer cells. We now report that both I3C and genistein induce the
expression of both breast cancer susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) in
breast (MCF-7 and T47D) and prostate (DU-145 and LNCaP) cancer cell types, in a
time- and dose-dependent fashion.
http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v94/n...
Conventional cancer doctors, of course, refuse to tell women about scientific
evidence like this. If women could prevent breast cancer with I3C, why would
they need cancer doctors? The answer, of course, is that they wouldn't. You can
buy I3C, but the way, right here: http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-I3C-Indole-...
The FDA, of course, won't allow companies selling I3C supplements to tell you
the scientifically-validated truth about their anti-cancer benefits. It's all
part of the censorship and oppression that characterizes today's cancer
industry. The
It is the job of the FDA
and the cancer industry to keep women stupid, uninformed and scared when it
comes to breast cancer. The last thing they want is for women to be
nutritionally literate.
Myth #7: The cancer non-profits
are searching for a cure
for cancer
The Truth: Even if one was found, they would never allow a cure to be
publicized: It would destroy the cancer treatment
industry
It's the great scam of the cancer industry: We're searching for a cure, they
claim! Never mind the fact that they've been using this same con since the late
60's, when they claimed to be only a few million dollars away from curing
cancer forever.
The search for "the cure" is pure deception. It's a clever con to
take money from people for all those silly pink ribbon activities, but the
truth is that the cancer industry doesn't believe there's such a thing as
cure. Just ask the FDA, the AMA or any state health licensing board: Anyone
claiming to have a cancer "cure" is immediately considered a quack.
Over the last several decades, countless doctors researching genuine cancer
cures have been arrested, imprisoned or run out of the country. Read about
Stanislaw Burzynski to learn about just one example: http://www.cancure.org/burzynski_instit...
Finally, even if they actually find a "cure" (which they won't, since
that would destroy the profits of the cancer industry), do you think they would
give it away for free? Of course not! They'd charge hundreds of thousands of
dollars for it, milking the maximum profits out of a terrified population for
their newest wonder drug.
Notice, by the way, that not a single conventional breast cancer non-profit
group -- nor any drug company -- has announced that its breakthrough cancer
drugs will be given away for free. And that leads me to this question: If
they're not planning on giving away the cure for free, then why are you
giving them money for free to pay for their R&D?
Why should people donate money to the wealthiest corporations in the world (the
drug companies) who are going to take their money and use it to develop a new
wave of drugs that are sold to cancer victims at outrageous price markups
sometimes exceeding 550,000% of the cost of the chemical ingredients?
The truth is, anyone who donates money for any such
"search for the cure" is being conned outright. There's a sucker born
every minute, P.T. Barnum famously said. What he neglected to add is that most
of them are now buying pink products and thinking they're helping find a
"cure" for cancer.
Don't be suckered. Keep your money, or invest it in vitamin D supplements or
anti-cancer herbs. You want to cure cancer? Cure it in your own body first.
It's a lot less expensive, and you get to keep your hair, too.
Myth #8: There
is no cure for breast cancer
The Truth: There are MANY natural cures for
breast cancer available right now
Just a few hours of research will turn up numerous
natural cures for cancer: Vitamin
D, cat's claw herbs, the Essiac formula, medicinal mushrooms, spirulina,
cruciferous vegetables, green tea, graviola herbs, Chinese medicinal herbs,
oxygen therapy, alkalizing water therapies and much more.
All these cures have one thing in common: They are ALL suppressed by the FDA
and FTC. Telling the truth about anti-cancer foods,
herbs or supplements is now a criminal offense in
Myth #9: If my
mother had breast cancer, I'll get it too
The
Truth:
Breast Cancer is not caused by bad genes; it's caused by bad diets
This is another common lie told to woman by cancer
doctors to scare them into medically unnecessary cancer "treatments"
(which can kill you or harm you). Did you know that radiation treatment for one
breast actually causes cancer in the OTHER breast? See: http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000366_...
Your genes don't control your health, but what you put in your mouth and on
your skin has near-total control over your health! If your parents had cancer,
they were no doubt eating cancer-causing foods (processed meats) and
not using anti-cancer foods, superfoods, herbs and supplements. They were also
likely deficient in vitamin D, and they probably didn't drink fresh anti-cancer
vegetables on a daily basis (www.JuiceFeasting.com).
Lastly, they no doubt had regular exposure to cancer-causing chemicals:
Cigarette smoke, chemical solvents, perfume chemicals, household cleaners,
pesticides, skin care products, conventional cosmetics, etc.
Read the truth about processed meats: http://www.naturalnews.com/022288.html
Myth #10:
Sunlight causes cancer
The
Truth:
Sunlight generates Vitamin D in your skin, which prevents 78% of ALL cancers
The disinformation
put out by the cancer industry about sunlight has reached a level of absurdity that's
virtually unmatched in the history of medicine. If you believe what the
American Cancer Society tells you (still being suckered?), sunlight causes
cancer!
Yes, that's right: Sunlight causes cancer, they claim. According to the entire
cancer industry (and most dermatologists, too), you'd be much better off hiding
in a cave, or living your life under fluorescent lights or smothered in a layer
of toxic sunscreen chemicals (which actually DO cause cancer, by the way).
Somehow, the human race has miraculously managed to survived 350,000 years of
natural sunlight without be obliterated. This is nothing short of astonishing,
given that sunlight is so deadly. It sort of makes me wonder how the human race
survived at all, with sunlight striking any given area of the Earth, say, 50%
of the time. Did our ancestors live underground?
The ploy here is so obvious that it's child's play to expose their strategy:
Cancer industry authorities know that vitamin D prevents 77% of all cancers.
Since sunlight exposure causes the skin to generate vitamin D in the human body
(for free, no less), the cancer industry has come to the realization that in
order for it to continue surviving (and exploiting cancer patients), it has to
scare people away from anything that might actually prevent or cure cancer.
This is the whole reason behind the sunlight scare campaigns, of course. It's
all just a clever profit strategy to keep people sick and diseased by enforcing
widespread vitamin
D deficiency across the human population. Note, too, that this deficiency
is especially prominent in men and women of darker skin color, which means the
cancer industry's whole campaign against sunlight is filled with disturbing
racial overtones that smack of genocide. (Ever wonder why breast cancer is FAR
more aggressive in black women and white women? It's the vitamin D deficiency
caused by the skin color, of course. But cancer docs never tell their black
patients anything about it...)
Remember this: Healthy people with abundant vitamin D levels in their blood
don't get cancer and they almost never catch colds. They also don't need vaccines, by the way. These
are three huge profit centers for conventional medicine: Cancer, vaccines and
colds. This is why the industry goes to such great lengths to (hilariously) try
to discredit the sun.
It's hilarious because the sun, of course, is the source of ALL life on our
planet. Without the sun, there would be no plants, no bacteria, no animals, no
fish and certainly no humans. The sun is the single most important source of
life on our planet, and without it, we'd all die in a matter of a few hours
(from the cold alone). That the cancer industry would declare war on the sun is
just a disturbing example of how far removed modern medicine is from the real
world.
Why the cancer
industry is dangerous to women
The cancer industry
people are living in a world of self-reinforced fictions, where sunlight is
bad and chemotherapy chemicals are good; where food is useless but
pharmaceuticals are essential. Almost everything said to you by a conventional
cancer doctor is the opposite of what's real, and yet they believe their own
delusions only because those delusions are so widely shared by their
colleagues. It is circular logic at its worst, driven by arrogance and greed,
and totally lacking any discernable degree of intellectual honesty or compassion
for the value of a human life.
The cancer industry is, in a very real way, a danger to the safety of men and
women alike. It is a kind of home-grown medical terrorism, through which
the application of fear and disinformation results in massive corporate profits
that are only exceeded by the body count of our dead women; our mothers,
daughters, sisters, aunts and nieces who fall victim to conventional cancer
treatments. They are being lost to a medical regime wielding weapons of mass
destruction: Chemical weapons (chemotherapy), radiological weapons (radiation)
and weapons of sharp steel (scalpels).
These weapons of medical violence are being directed at our women for one
purpose only: To secure profits that go into the hands of a few wealthy men who
sit at the top of these organizations, raking in fifty-million-dollar salaries
while the cancer treatment centers send women home in body bags.
It is the ultimate act of cruelty to promise a woman "treatment" and
then deliver poison.
It is the ultimate act of violence to promise a woman "healing" and
then mutilate her body.
The cancer industry, as operated today, is ultimately a criminal organization
engaged in acts of medical violence against women.
Why women
should revolt against the cancer industry
Even worse, it is
being staffed by women, cheered by women and supported by women. In World War
II, before the Jews were exterminated, Nazi soldiers pried the gold fillings
out of their mouths. The fillings were sold off, and the money went to two
places: The pockets of the top Nazi commanders, and the continued funding of
the prison camps and extermination chambers. The Jewish prisoners, in other
words, paid for their own gas chamber treatments using the gold right out of
their own mouths.
Today, women are paying for their own cancer industry chemical assaults using
the dollars right out of their own pockets. Those who support the conventional
breast cancer non-profits
are feeding the very beast that may someday destroy them and send them home
poisoned, emaciated, or mutilated beyond repair.
And you know what the pink ribbon non-profits will do to help these women? WIGS. They'll give them wigs to cover their hairless heads.
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It is no coincidence
that women who receive chemotherapy visually resemble the women of the Nazi
concentration camps. They become emaciated through dangerous losses of muscle
mass and bone mass. They lose their hair, vomit their food and suffer the
devastating effects of massive nutrient loss.
They are, in effect, both prisoners of the same system of control and violence
against women. It is a system that has existed for thousands of years, taking
on new names and new faces as it shifts from one corner of the planet to
another.
Today, that system of abuse and violence against women has a corporate logo, a
cute pink symbol and a clever slogan. It has hundreds of offices all across the
country, and thousands of pink products in retail stores. It is a system of
violence against women, painted pink and repackaged as something that cares for
women; and in that disguise, aided by the purchasing dollars of gullible consumers, it is ensnaring women in a system of such great
evil that it can only be accurately compared to historical events like the
Holocaust.
May God save our women from the cancer industry, lest we lose four generations
to this modern chemical
holocaust that has been unleashed against our mothers, daughters,
grandmothers and sisters. And if our government will not protect us from this
home-grown terrorism that seeks to turn the bodies of women into corporate
profit centers, I hope that the People of America will one day wake up and take
all justified (non-violent) measures to protect themselves from the cancer
industry.
It is odd, I think, that women will protest in front of abortion clinics in
order to save the life of an unborn child, and yet that same woman will say
nothing when a cancer doctor destroys the life of her own mother or daughter.
It is time to start protesting the cancer clinics and cancer non-profits. It is
time to end this chemical holocaust
and this medical violence against women. The women should be marching against
mammograms and chemotherapy, demanding the arrest and prosecution of cancer
surgeons who perform unjustified double mastectomies.
Throughout history, women have fought hard for the right to vote, to pursue an
education and to be heard. I believe it is time that women exercised those
rights to protect their freedoms and their lives from the conventional cancer
industry.
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Women Remain
Uninformed about the Hazards of Mammograms
by Barbara L. Minton (see all articles by this
author)
(www.NaturalNews.com) It takes a long wait to
get a mammogram these days, sometimes up to a month. The waiting rooms are
jammed despite the opening of new mammography centers. It is clear that more
women than ever are operating under the delusion that mammograms reduce the
risk of death from breast cancer, even in the face of overwhelming evidence
that radiation causes all types of cancer including that of the breast. The
more radiation a woman receives in her lifetime, whether it is during a dental
exam, at an airport, or during her yearly mammogram, the more likely it is that
she will develop breast
cancer. In fact, the spiraling rates of breast cancer seen in the last 25
years may be directly tied to the increased use of mammography.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) began to encourage the use of mammography in the
early 1980's. Mammography fit right in with their financial objectives and even
the advertising rhetoric at the time urged "a checkup and a check".
For the past 25 years, women have paid the price for compliance to a cancer industry that
failed to have their best interests at heart.
The harmful effects of radiation and mammograms have been
known for decades
In 1974, while mammography was in its infancy, the National Cancer Institute
was warned by Professor Malcolm C. Pike at the University of Southern California
School of Medicine that a number of specialists had concluded that "giving
a women under age 50 a mammogram on a routine basis was close to
unethical". This warning was ignored.
Also in the 1970's, the Director of Biostatistics at Rosewell Park Memorial
Institute for Cancer Research, Dr. Irwin Bross, headed a study involving data
from 16 million people. This ground breaking study found that the main cause of
the rising rates of leukemia was medical radiation in the form of diagnostic
medical X-rays. Applying
his findings to the breast cancer screening program, Dr. Bross later elaborated
that "women should have been given the information about the hazards of
radiation at the same time they were given the sales talk for
mammography."
In the early 1980's as the mammogram began to be rolled out to women across the
country in the face of this research, the NCI and ACS jointly urged annual breast
X-rays for women under age 50. Doctors assumed there was good evidence
supporting the recommendations and enthusiastically ordered mammograms for all
their female patients, even though they should have known better.
In 1985, the Lancet, one of the five leading medical journals in the
world, published an article condemning the mammography recommendations under
which "Over 280,000 women were recruited without being told that no
benefit of mammography had been shown in a controlled trial for women below 50,
and without being warned about the potential risk of induction of breast cancer
by the test which was supposed to detect it.
Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the
The media and the government health
officials stayed silent regarding the mounting evidence that mammograms caused
cancer, and the ACS and
the NCI continued to recommend mammograms. In 1992 Samuel Epstein, professor at
the University of Illinois Medical Center along with 64 other distinguished
cancer authorities opposed this status quo thinking and warned the public about
what the ACS and NCI were up to.
The next month, the Washington Post broke the story into the mainstream media,
exposing what the ACS and the NCI had done to countless women for several
years. In this article Dr. Epstein was quoted, "The high sensitivity of
the breast, especially in young women, to radiation induced cancer was known by
1970. . . the establishment ignores safe and effective
alternatives to mammography." He saw this as a conscious, chosen,
politically expedient act by a small group of people for the sake of their own
power, prestige and financial gain, resulting in suffering and death for
millions of women. He regarded them as committing "crimes against
humanity".
In December, 1992, the New York Times published facts about mammography
and concluded that women were not being told the truth.
In 1995, the Lancet again blasted the ACS and NCI mammography scam by
concluding: "The benefit is marginal, the harm caused is substantial, and
the costs incurred are enormous."
Meanwhile, women's health advocate Susan Weed began to publish her findings. In Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way,
she reports that "scientists agree that there is no safe dose of
radiation. Cellular DNA in the breast is more easily damaged by very small
doses of radiation than thyroid tissue or bone marrow; in fact, breast cells
are second only to fetal tissues in sensitivity to radiation. As an added risk,
one percent of American women carry a hard-to-detect oncogene which is
triggered by radiation: a single mammogram increases their risk of breast
cancer by a factor of 4-6 times."
Sister Rosalie Bertell, a highly respected world authority on the dangers of
radiation wrote that one rad of radiation increased breast cancer risk one
percent and is the equivalent of one year's natural aging. "If a woman has
yearly mammograms from age 55 to 75, she will receive a minimum of 20 rads of
radiation. Women surviving the blast in
As a result of all this pressure, Dr. Charles B. Simone, a former clinical
associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute
finally came out and said "Mammograms increase the risk for developing
breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing
an existing growth. The annual mammographic screening of 10,000 women aged
50-70 will extend the lives of, at best, 26 of them; and the annual screening
of 10,000 women in their 40s will extend the lives of only 12 women per
year."
Radiation is not the only danger posed to women by mammograms
Although mammography is widely used for early cancer
detection screening, remarkably little attention has been paid to the
techniques of breast compression used in the mammography procedure, according
to William Campbell Douglass, Jr., writing for the Weston A. Price
Foundation. He saw that although the principal of handling cancer very
gently so as not to spread it is widely accepted by the medical profession, it
doesn't apply to breast screening. During mammography the techniques used are
designed for maximum detection of abnormalities without regard to the possible
consequences of the action. Douglass notes a survey that found mammographers
used as much compression as the patient could tolerate and had no idea how much
compression they were using. In fact, the guidelines for mammography state that
"adequacy of the compression device is crucial to good quality
mammography." That force is 300 newtons, the equivalent of placing a 50
pound weight on the breast.
Cambell reports one animal study that found that the number of metastases will
increase by 80 percent if the tumor is manipulated. A human study reported in
the British Medical Journal found that death rates were increased by 29
percent in women whose breasts were squeezed during mammography. This is likely
to be the result of the rupture of small blood vessels in or around small yet
undetected breast cancers.
This squeezing into the blood stream of malignant cells is why many women with
breast cancer have cancer cells in their lymph nodes.
Mistaken false positive diagnoses are common in pre-menopausal women and
post-menopausal women on estrogen replacement therapy because the breast tissue
of these women is dense and glandular in nature. These mistakes result
in needless anxiety, more mammograms, and highly dangerous biopsies that will cause
cancer cells to metastasize if indeed there is a cancer. For the group of women
with multiple high-risk factors, such as a strong family history, prolonged use
of contraceptives, early menarche, and no history of breast feeding, the
cumulative risk of false positives increases to as high as 100 percent over a
decade of screening due to this being the group most strongly urged to
participate in multiple screenings.
Over diagnosis and subsequent over treatment are major risks of mammography.
The unchallenged use of screening has resulted in a huge increase in the
diagnosis of ductal carcinoma-insitu (DCIS), a pre-invasive form of cancer
which has about 40,000 diagnoses annually. DCIS is composed of
micro-calcifications and treated by lumpectomy plus radiation or even
mastectomy and chemotherapy. However, over 80 percent of DCIS do not become
invasive if left untreated. The mortality rate from DCIS is the same as for
women diagnosed and treated early and for those diagnosed later, following the
development of invasive cancer.
The Lancet reported that, since mammographic screening was first
introduced, the incidence of DCIS, which represents 12% of all breast cancer
cases, has increased by 328% for all women, and 200% of this increase is due to
the use of mammography. The increase in incidence for women under the age of 40
has gone up over 3000%. Without any screening and intervention, many DCIS
situations are able to be positively resolved by the body, leaving women in
blissful ignorance of their situation.
Mammograms fail to
reduce breast cancer mortality
Despite all evidence to the contrary, the mantra
remains that routine mammography screening allows early detection and treatment
of breast cancer and reduces mortality. In reality, the vast majority of breast
cancers are unaffected by early detection, either because they are aggressive
or because they are not. The aggressive cancers will continue to kill women no
matter how much surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy they have, unless the
source of their cancer is addressed. The cancers that are not aggressive
suggest a well functioning immune system that would be compromised by
traditional treatments. Cancerous tumors should serve as a wake up call.
Mammograms divert women's attention from addressing the real issues
The mammogram industry has made women passive
participant in their own health. If the result of the mammogram is positive,
the woman moves on to the next phase in the cancer machine. She has even more
mammograms followed by biopsies. If a cancer is found she enters the belly of
the machine where she undergoes surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. She is
prescribed a regimen of debilitating drugs to carry her through the rest of her
life, and she is spit out the other end of the machine completely ignorant of
what caused her to have cancer in the first place and what she can do to try to
regain her health.
If the result is negative, she breathes a sigh of relief, schedules another
mammogram for next year, and goes about her business as usual. Again, she is
given no information with which to empower herself about how to avoid cancer.
In a world where women were well treated, these actions of the cancer industry
would be abhorrent. In this kind of world, a woman would be allowed to discover
breast irregularities on her own and come to treatment center where a physician
would help her examine her physical situation, personal history and psychology,
and lifestyle. A treatment protocol would be designed specifically for her
based on her situation. This protocol would address how best to restore balance
and health to all aspects of her body, mind and spirit.
Sources:
Samuel S. Epstein, Rosalie Bertell, and Barbara Seaman, "Dangers and
Unreliability of Mammography," International Journal of Health Services.
William Campbell Douglass, Jr. "Mammography
Madness," The Weston A. Price Foundation.
Chris Gupta, "The Depths of Deceit Mammography," Share the Wealth.
Rcik Ensminger, "Alert - Mammograms Cause Cancer," Rense.com.
James Howenstine MD, "Do Mammograms Cause Breast Cancer?" newswithviews.com.
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Breast Cancer
Rates Soar after Mammograms and Some Cancers may Heal Naturally
by Sherry Baker,
Health Sciences Editor
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(NaturalNews) A report just published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association's Archives of Internal Medicine (Arch Intern Med.
2008;168[21]:2302-2303) reaches a startling conclusion. Breast cancer rates
increased significantly in four Norwegian counties after women there began
getting mammograms every two years. In fact, according to background
information in the study, the start of screening mammography programs
throughout
This raises some obvious and worrisome questions: Did the x-rays and/or the
sometimes torturous compression of breasts during mammography actually
spur cancer to develop? Or does this just look like an increase in the disease rate because
mammography is simply identifying more cases of breast cancer?
The answer to the first question is that no one knows (and it isn't addressed
in the Archives of Internal Medicine study). But the second question has
an unexpected and – for those interested in the human body's innate ability to
heal itself – potentially paradigm-shifting answer. The researchers say they
can't blame the increased incidence of breast cancer on more cases being found
because the rates among regularly screened women remained higher than rates
among women of the same age who only received mammograms once after six
years.
Bottom line: the
scientists conclude this indicates that some of the cancers detected by
mammography would have spontaneously regressed if they had never been discovered
on a mammogram and treated, usually with chemotherapy and radiation. Simply
put, it appears that some invasive breast cancers simply go away on their
own, healed by the body's own immune system.
Per-Henrik Zahl, M.D., Ph.D., of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health,
The scientists then
compared the number of breast cancers found in this group to the rate of
malignancies among a control group of 109,784 women who were the same ages in
1992, and who would have been invited for breast screenings if the program had
been in place that year. Cancers were tracked using a national registry. Then,
after six years, all participants were invited to undergo a one-time screening
to assess for the prevalence of breast cancer.
The researchers were surprised to find that the incidence of invasive breast
cancer was 22 percent higher in the group regularly screened with mammography.
In fact, screened women were more likely to have breast cancer at every age.
"Because the cumulative incidence among controls never reached that of the
screened group, it appears that some breast cancers detected by repeated
mammographic screening would not persist to be detectable by a single mammogram
at the end of six years," the authors stated in their report. "This
raises the possibility that the natural course of some screen-detected invasive
breast cancers is to spontaneously regress."
The researchers also conclude that their findings "provide new insight on
what is arguably the major harm associated with
mammographic screening, namely, the detection and treatment of cancers that
would otherwise regress."
This does not mean breast cancer should be ignored or not treated. After all,
breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among American women. But
the extraordinarily good and hopeful news is that it appears invasive breast
cancer sometimes can be destroyed naturally -- at least in some people -- by
the body's own innate defenses.
"Although many clinicians may be skeptical of the idea, the excess
incidence associated with repeated mammography demands that spontaneous
regression be considered carefully," the scientists wrote in their report.
"Spontaneous regression of invasive breast cancer has been reported, with
a recent literature review identifying 32 reported cases. This is a relatively
small number given such a common disease.
However, as some
observers have pointed out, the fact that documented observations are rare does
not mean that regression rarely occurs. It may instead reflect the fact that
these cancers are rarely allowed to follow their natural course."
In an editorial in the Archives of Internal Medicine that accompanies
the breast cancer study, Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D., of the University of California,
Los Angeles, and Franz Porzsolt, M.D., Ph.D., of Clincal Economics University
of Ulm, Germany, wrote that the most important concern raised by the study is
"how surprisingly little we know about what happens to untreated patients
with breast cancer.
In addition to not knowing the natural history of breast cancer for younger
women, we also know very little about the natural history for older women. We
know from autopsy studies that a significant number of women die without
knowing that they had breast cancer (including ductal carcinoma in situ). The
observation of a historical trend toward improved survival does not necessarily
support the benefit of treatment."
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Studies show
reishi mushrooms benefit people stricken with a variety of ailments, from high
blood pressure to AIDS
by Dani Veracity,
citizen journalist
(www.naturalnews.com) Hailed in
ancient Eastern medicine as the "mushroom of immortality" and the
"medicine of kings," you'd expect reishi to offer you some pretty
astounding health benefits, right? Your assumptions are correct. This prized
fungus may be able to boost your immune system, fight cancer, ward off heart
disease, calm your nerves and relieve both allergies and inflammation.
"Reishi indeed
sounds like a cure-all," writes Rebecca Wood in her book "New Whole
Foods Encyclopedia." She goes on to explain reishi's wide range of uses:
"An immunostimulant, it is helpful for people with AIDS, leaky-gut syndrome,
Epstein-Barr, chronic bronchitis
and other infectious diseases. It is used as an aid to sleep, as a diuretic, as
a laxative and to lower
cholesterol." It almost seems too good to be true.
How can one fungus
help the human body in
so many ways? Traditional Eastern medical science explains reishi's wide range
of medicinal applications better, perhaps, than mainstream medicine ever could.
According to Eastern thought, the body needs to defend itself against threats
to its "equilibrium." These threats can be physical, such as viruses
and bacteria that cause
infection; emotional, such as stressors that cause anxiety; or energetic, in
that they reduce alertness. Whatever the threat, reishi helps the body
maintain its defense against these threats to its equilibrium, helping the body
to maintain balance. In this sense, diseases like heart disease and
cancer mean that the body is out of balance, which is why an
equilibrium-enhancing remedy such as reishi can help so many diverse ailments.
Skeptics can doubt the
previous explanation as Taoist "mumbo jumbo," but laboratory research
proves many of reishi's medicinal applications. As Dr. Andrew Weil writes,
reishi "has been the subject of a surprising amount of scientific research
in Asia and the West."
Research shows that the polysaccharide beta-1,3-D-glucan
in reishi boosts the immune
system by raising the amount of macrophages T-cells, which has major
implications for people suffering from AIDS and other immune system disorders.
This immune-boosting
action also works wonders in the prevention and treatment of cancer, as the T-cells are
then able to fight cancer
cells more effectively. However, reishi may help the body defeat cancer in
not just one, but four ways. In addition to boosting the immune system, the
glucan in reishi helps immune cells bind to tumor cells.
Many experts believe
that it also actually reduces the number of cancerous cells, making it easier
for T-cells and macrophages to rid the body of them. Another substance in
reishi, called canthaxanthin, slows down the growth of tumors, according to
"Prescription for Dietary Wellness" author Phyllis A. Balch and other
experts. As a result of these amazing anti-cancer abilities, laboratory
research and traditional medicinal usage of reishi to fight cancer is so
positive that the Japanese government officially recognizes it as a cancer treatment.
Besides cancer, reishi
can help and treat another of
While you protect your
body against infectious disease, cancer and heart disease, your use of reishi
can also help relieve your everyday discomforts. Do you have allergies? Japanese
researchers discovered that the lanostan in reishi acts as a natural
antihistamine. Do you suffer from muscle aches or arthritis? Dr. William B.
Stavinhoa of the University of Texas Health Science
Center found that reishi is as powerful as five milligrams of hydrocortisone,
but with minimal side
effects. What about anxiety or insomnia? According to
"Mind Boosters" by Dr. Ray Sahelia, the reishi mushroom can calm the
mind, as well as improve memory, concentration and focus. With all these
benefits, reishi truly is the "medicine of kings."
Different types
of reishi
Though there are six
different types of reishi, all classified by color, herbalists generally call
red reishi the most potent and medicinal variety, and thus it is the most
commonly used form of reishi in North America, Japan, China,
Taiwan and Korea. In the wild, the mushroom grows on deciduous trees in heavily
forested areas of China and Japan,
but it's now easily and widely cultivated commercially, so you don't have to
venture into the forest to enjoy the benefits of what "Herbal
Medicine-Maker's Handbook" author James Green calls a "remarkably
beneficial fungus for the
human body."
However, keep in mind
that reishi isn't exactly the kind of mushroom you'll want to put in your next
salad, either. Since it's more than 90 percent indigestible fiber, reishi has
an extremely wood-like texture and to top it off, it's unpleasantly bitter. In
spite of this bitter flavor, many reishi enthusiasts use ground reishi to make
a life-enhancing tea or even use the mushrooms in soups. For
the less daring, many health food stores
offer reishi capsules, tablets and extracts, and Japanese research suggests
taking vitamin C along with it may enhance reishi's medicinal effects.
So, how much reishi
should you take? In the "Vitamin Bible for the Twenty-first Century,"
vitamin expert Earl Mindell advises an average dose of 100 milligrams of reishi
extract daily to boost your immune system, reduce inflammation and ease
joint pain. On the other hand, Dr. Linda B. White recommends up to three
1,000-milligram tablets up to three times per day in her book "The Herbal
Drugstore."
Because of this wide
range of dosage suggestions and additional risks it might pose for pregnant or
lactating women (even though reishi has no known toxicity) you should check
with a physician, preferably a naturopath, before adding reishi to your
regimen. Similarly, you should be aware that reishi does have some side
effects, including abdominal upset, dizziness, nose bleeds and dry mouth and
throat, according to "Natural Pharmacy" author Schuyler W. Lininger.
In other words, it's up to you and your naturopath to decide which dose of
reishi is right for you.
The
experts speak on reishi:
Reishi's wide
range of medicinal applications
Health Benefits:
Reishi indeed sounds like a cure-all. An immunostimulant, it is helpful for
people with AIDS, leaky gut syndrome, Epstein-Barr, chronic bronchitis, and
other infectious viruses.
It is used as an aid to sleep; as a diuretic; as a laxative; and to lower
cholesterol. Reishi mushrooms are antioxidants and liver protectants..
New Whole Foods Encyclopedia by Rebecca Wood, page 288
One key function,
identified long ago by Eastern medical science, is defense--that is, the body
has the need and ability to defend itself against threats to its equilibrium,
whether they be physical, emotional, or energetic.
Having noted and studied the body's defensive capabilities, Chinese doctors then explored the
natural world to find ways of maintaining and enhancing them, and they
discovered a number of ways to do so, including the administration of herbal remedies.
Among these remedies are ginseng,
astragalus, and several mushrooms that grow on trees, such as Ganoderma lucidum
(known to the Chinese as ling chih and the Japanese as reishi).
8 Weeks To Optimum Health By Andrew Weil MD, page
15
Not all of the active
components in reishi have been isolated; like many other organic substances,
the molecules in this plant are quite complex, though they are probably mostly
polysaccharides and peptides. Dr. Terry Willard, a proponent of the medical
uses of this mushroom, maintains that reishi also decreases free radicals by 50.4
percent through an as yet, unidentified antioxidant. ... Other
researchers suspect that reishi may not have an antioxidant of its own but
rather stimulates production of the body's own free radical scavenger, an enzyme
called superoxide dismutase (SOD). According to the Bulletin of the Oriental
Healing Arts Institute, reishi acts as an agent for promoting an increase in
leukocytes, phagocytosis which in turn increase the number of disease-fighting
T-cells in the bloodstream.
Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency An Informed
Citizens Guide by Duncan Long, page 196
These powerful
adaptogens -- Siberian ginseng, schisandra, ginseng, astragalus, and
reishi--are among what Teeguarden calls the "superstars of Chinese tonic
herbalism . . . incomparable, legendary herbal substances [that] have withstood
the test of time." These five herbs also tend to be the ones
with the most scientific backing for their strengthening and normalizing
effects.
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And
Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 291
Reishi and the
immune system
Reishi is a purely
medicinal mushroom, not a culinary one, both because it is hard and woody and
because it tastes very bitter. But it is nontoxic and has been the subject of a
surprising amount of scientific research, both in
8 Weeks To Optimum Health By Andrew Weil MD, page
140
Reishi is a supreme
immune tonic. Because of its neutral energy, it is fine for anyone to take. It
treats immune disorders including AIDS as it raises the T cell levels (an index
of AIDS and immune disorders). It is also specific for Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome. It inhibits bacteria and viruses, treats cancer and tumors and its
adaptogenic quality protects the body against stress. It treats heart disease,
reduces cholesterel and lowers high blood pressure.
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 195
Maitake, shiitake, and
reishi mushrooms possess beta-1,3-D-glucan, a type of
polysaccharide that stimulates the immune cells. Their immune-boosting power
makes them essential for fighting the flu.
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A
Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 469
In addition to being
an effective energizer, reishi is an antioxidant that protects the body from
the harmful effects of radiation and free radicals. It contains polysaccharides
and other compounds that may combat bacteria and viruses and boost the immune
system
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And Nutrients To Stay Well By
Mark Mayell, page 56
Reishi Mushrooms Known
as kisshotake or the "lucky fungus," in
Earl Mindells Soy Miracle Earl Mindel RPH PHD, page 107
reishi is a supreme immune
tonic. Because of its neutral energy, it is fine for anyone to take. It treats
immune disorders including AIDS as it raises the T cell levels (an index of
AIDS and immune disorders). It is also specific for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
It inhibits bacteria and viruses, treats cancer and tumors and its adaptogenic
quality protects the body against stress. It treats heart disease, reduces
cholesterel and lowers high blood pressure.
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 195
Herbal Medicine: There
are numerous herbs useful in the care of infections. Some are
directly antibacterial or antiviral while others are immune potentiators. Some
herbs do both. Examples include goldenseal, licorice, astragalus, garlic, Panax ginseng, reishi
and shiitake mushrooms, slippery elm, and echinacea.
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The third is reishi
(Ganoderma lucidum), currently available in US health food stores. It
is said to have been used as a "fountain of youth" elixir for
centuries. A novel protein with immunomodulating activity in vivo has been
isolated from the mycelial extract of reishi.
Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 248
reishi tones the immune
system, supports nerve function, scavenges free radicals, protects the liver,
and quells inflammation and allergies. According to
Disease Prevention And Treatment by Life Extension
Foundation, page 116
Reishi, shiitake, and
maitake mushroom extracts or powders are all proven antivirals and are used as
immunostimulants around the world for everything from colds to cancer.
Herbal Defense by Ralph T Golan ND, page 180
Immunity (increases)
astragalus, codonopsis, cinnamon, ginger, ginseng, bayberry,
schisandra reishi echinacea and American ginseng.
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 231
The most common herbs
used in fu-zheng are blood-vitalizing herbs, including astragalus, milletia,
reishi, panax ginseng, schizandra, jujube, ligus-ticum, hoelen, salvia, ho shou
wu, cordyceps, atractylodis, and codonopsis. Studies continue to demonstrate
that these herbs have a dramatic impact on the enhancement of an immune system
weakened by chemo and radiation therapies. They not only protect the immune and
endocrine systems but also inhibit such diseases as influenza, upper
respiratory infections, fungal infections, and chemically induced hepatitis. These diseases
can cause serious complications for the person with cancer, requiring an
interruption in treatment and a course of antibiotics that can lead to diarrhea
and other debilitating problems.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 85
If yeast or other
vaginal infections keep coming back, your best bet is to see a natural health
practitioner who'll recommend an herbal tonic program that you'll use for a
series of months. It will likely include herbs such as astragalus, reishi,
shiitake, nettles, or burdock -- botanicals that gently and gradually rebuild
the immune system and the many organs it involves. Such a program will likely
include some diet changes as well, such as cutting down on caffeine and sugar.
The Herbal Drugstore by Linda B White MD, page 535
The once extremely
rare and precious reishi mushroom is now cultivated and widely available. It is
a very potent immune system and longevity tonic.
Traditionally used to "nourish the heart and pacify the spirit," it
has also been found to have numerous other health benefits.
The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Keith Tillotson, page 190
Use one of the
immune-boosting tonics, like maitake, reishi, or astragalus. In cities, people
live in close proximity and come into contact with each other more frequently
than in rural areas. Germs spread easily in dense populations, so give your immune
system some help.
8 Weeks To Optimum Health By Andrew Weil MD, page
229
HERBS: Herbal medicine
is best administered under the guidance of a professional trained in their use.
The following herbs can be used safely as a self-care protocol, however. Dr.
Bock recommends astragalus, ginseng, and maitake and reishi mushrooms for
general immune support.
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Mushrooms,
particularly Eastern varieties, revitalize the body. Various cultures consider
them to contain the secrets of staying young. Reishi and shiitake mushrooms
build resistance to stress by strengthening the immune system. They also
provide key B vitamins to the liver and stimulate the adrenals with their high
concentration of pantothenic acid. The common American button mushroom contains
methionine, an amino acid high in sulphur. When combined with tofu, the result
is a more complete protein.
Food Swings by Barnet Meltzer MD, page 258
Several species of
mushroom -- including shiitake (Lentinus edodes), reishi (Ganoderma lucidum),
and maitake (Grifola frondosa) -- are considered immune system stimulants. They
contain compounds called polysac-charides that are similar to those found in
other immune-boosting plants, such as astragalus and echinacea. These compounds
increase the ability of white blood cells
to devour germs.
Anti-Aging Prescriptions by James Duke PhD, page 163
This is the type of
herbal tea I drink most frequently. After all, on a day-to-day basis, we mostly
need to keep our good health intact. If I feel "immune challenged" or
I want to start my day with an immune boost, I'll drink a cup of a blend that
contains any of the following tonic herbs, known as adaptogens (herbs that
strengthen or enhance the immune system, nervous system,
and/or glandular system while they help the body cope with stress): Siberian
ginseng, Panax ginseng, astragalus, shizandra, echinacea, ashwagandha, reishi
mushrooms, licorice.
Caffeine Blues By Stephen Cherniske MS, page 324
Therapeutic and
Healing Powers: reishi and shiitake mushrooms boost the immune system by
producing interferon-like effects that fight viral infection. Mushrooms are
also being studied for their anti-cancerous capabilities.
Food Swings by Barnet Meltzer MD, page 216
Mushrooms from
Herbal Defense by Ralph T Golan ND, page 152
All edible mushrooms
contain both medicinal and nutritional qualities. Scientific research indicates
that the major actions of medicinal mushrooms are stimulating the immune system
and protecting against cardiovascular disease, free radicals, mutagens, and
toxins. Most medicinal mushrooms contain polysaccharides (complex sugar molecules) called
beta-glucans that increase RNA and DNA in the bone marrow where immune
cells, like lymphocytes, are made. The combination of compounds in mushrooms is
believed to target the immune system and aid in neuron transmission,
metabolism, and the transport of nutrients and oxygen. Three mushroom
varieties -- reishi, shiitake, and maitake -- have been studied intensively and
have proven to possess strong medicinal properties. All mushrooms must be
cooked to get the nutritional value. The cell walls cannot be digested unless
they are tenderized by heat.
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 167
If you have a family
history of cancer, have been a smoker, have worked in a hazardous occupation,
or know that you have had toxic exposures, take one or more of the tonics that
are cancer-protective and immune-enhancing. My first choices would be maitake
and reishi mushrooms.
8 Weeks To Optimum Health By Andrew Weil MD, page
251
Ganoderma: Ganoderma
lucidum, the Chinese "mushroom of immortality" called ling zhi (in
Viral Immunity by J.E, page 292
In
Miracle Medicine Herbs by Richard M Lucas, page 9
Try shiitake or reishi
mushrooms with your veggies -- the Chinese use them to bolster the immune
system.
Prescription Alternatives by Earl Mindell RPh PhD and Virginia Hopkins MA,
page 283
Preliminary human
research demonstrates some efficacy for the mushroom reishi in treating chronic
hepatitis B, although
this use still needs to be confirmed.
The Natural Pharmacy by Schuyler W Lininger, page 80
Many researchers are
now recommending a combination of mushrooms to maximize effects on the immune
system. "A complex blend of medicinal fungi can offer a powerful
therapeutic punch," says internationally renowned mycologist Paul Stamets,
known by some as "Mr. Medicinal Mushroom."1 Two other mushrooms that
hold great therapeutic promise are reishi, or Ling zhi (Ganoderma lucidum), and
maitake (Gri-Jola frondosa).
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Herbs by Robert S
McCaleb, page 335
Improves
conditions of viral hepatitis (70% of all cases with this condition showed
marked improvement after taking reishi).
Miracle Medicine Herbs by Richard M Lucas, page 9
Chinese herbalists
have long considered mushrooms to be the most beneficial of all medicinal
foods; however, the ordinary culinary mushrooms found at the supermarket are
not as advantageous to the immune system as the more exotic reishi, maitake, or
shiitake mushrooms. Modern research has determined that these mushrooms can
support immune function. Extracts of these mushrooms can be purchased in
capsule form.
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 10
Immune tonics: reishi,
astragalus, schisandra liver tonics: dandelion, fennel nerve tonics: scullcap,
valerian nutritive tonics: comfrey, marshmallow.
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 139
Immune-modulating
plants often used by doctors of herbal medicine
include Asian ginseng, eleuthero (Siberian ginseng, ashwagandha, and the
medicinal mushrooms shiitake and reishi.
The Natural Pharmacy by Schuyler W Lininger, page 89
The reishi mushroom is
traditionally used in Chinese medicine for asthenia-type syndromes, characterized
by a deficiency of vital energy and functions of the lower body. reishi is the perfect remedy for the typical American
suffering from constant stress. This type of individual has depressed vital
force and is likely to be both deficient and toxic. When a person in such a
state develops cancer and is then faced with the toxicities of chemotherapy, the
situation calls for reishi. reishi's overall effects
could be described as regulatory and beneficial to the restoration of
homeostasis. Its effect on the immune system is total enhancement of immune
function: increase of white blood-cell count, platelets, hemoglobin, and
various tumor-fighting cells. reishi also improves
both energy and sleep.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 156
Master the language of
mushrooms. Forget those bland, almost tasteless specimens that you find in the
typical mushroom omelet. Your immune system craves exotic mushrooms, notably
shiitake, maitake, and reishi. "Shiitake and maitake mushrooms strengthen
the immune system," notes
Blended Medicine by Michael Castleman, page 10
Reishi is one of the
most versatile medicinal mushrooms. It has long been used in
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And
Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 88
The fruiting body of
reishi mushroom is sweet in taste and neutral to slightly warming in action. It
calms the spirit; strengthens immunity; slows aging; strengthens the heart,
lungs, and liver; and relaxes spasms.
The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Keith Tillotson, page 190
Reishi and
cancer
For the past decade,
reishi has also been used as a cancer treatment in
Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible by Earl Mindell RPh PhD, page 167
One of the reishi
polysaccharides, called glucan, shows anti-tumor potential according to some
researchers. Researchers speculate that glucan reduces the number of cancerous
cells making it possible for the body's immune system to handle them more
effectively.
Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency An Informed
Citizens Guide by Duncan Long, page 196
Carbohydrate-proteins,
called mucopolysaccharides, which are found in many herbs, such as echinacea
and reishi mushrooms, not only activate macrophages but actually help them to
bind to the antigen or tumor cell.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr., page 93
Canthaxanthin acts as
an antioxidant, boosts immunity, slows the growth of cancer cells, and may help
to prevent skin and breast cancers.
Food sources include mushrooms, particularly reishi, maitake, and shiitake.
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 50
Studies done at the
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 166
Ancient Chinese
herbalists considered the reishi mushroom the most beneficial of all medicines
and the emperors of
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 167
Because it is called
ling zhi in Chinese, the scientists called this protein ling zhi-8. And Prof.
H. Maruyama called the antitumor activity of a water extract of reishi as
well as two other mushrooms "remarkably effective for inhibition of tumor
growth."
Cancer Therapy by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 248
Scientific studies
report this food's effectiveness in controlling cancers of the breast, lung,
and prostate, and in minimizing the side effects of chemotherapy. Shiitake and
reishi mushrooms, also called ganoderma mushrooms, exhibit anticancer
properties as well, and are used by Orientals to enhance longevity. Animal
research done in
Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing by Gary
Null PhD, page 82
Besides its anti-tumor
and immuno-modulatory properties, reishi also helps counteract stress. The
crude extract of reishi has been found to be more effective in fighting free
radical damage than isolated, synthetic compounds. reishi
also contains bitter triterpenes. These strengthen the circulatory and immune
systems, tone the liver and protect the body from physical stress. Triterpenes
work as adaptogenics, antihypertensives and to control allergic reactions.
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 166
Shiitake and reishi
mushrooms will be magic because they help prevent cancer.
Asian Health Secrets by Letha Hadady DAc, page 477
The reishi and maitake
mushrooms are two other fungi for which researchers are cheering in their fight
against cancer and viruses.
The Complete Book Of Alternative Nutrition by
Selene Y Craig, page 225
Other Herbs -- Other
herbal medicines have been identified as potentially useful adjuncts to cancer
treatment, including: pearl barley
(Hordeum vulgare); reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum); shiitake mushroom
(Lentin-ula edodes); cauliflower (Brassica oleracea); wax gourd (Benincasa
hispida); calendula (Calendula qfficinalis); chaparral (Larrea divaricata and
Larrea tridentata); white mulberry (Moms alba); Japanese pepper
(Piperfutokadsura); thyme (Thymus serpyllum); Chinese cucumber (Tri-chosanthes
kirilowii); and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
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The reishi mushroom
(Ganoderma lucidum) has a sweet and warm energy, is both sedative and tonic, is
a supreme deep immune system tonic, and nourishes the spirit, essence, and
vital energy. It has strong anticarcinogenic properties and is rich in a number
of complex phyto-chemicals, including ergosterol, fumaric acid, aminoglucose,
and man-nitol; coumarins; alkaloids; lactone; and various enzymes.
The Way Of Herbs by Michael Tierra, page 313
Finally, evidence has
shown that reishi, shiitake, and maitake mushrooms can serve as formidable
opponents of cancer cells.
Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing by Gary
Null PhD, page 72
If you have cancer,
you should work with a knowledgeable physician or natural healer. As a cancer
treatment, doses are much higher than those for pain control -- you will need
to take about 10 grams of reishi daily. But reishi is considered safe even at
the highest levels; there is no known toxicity.
Earl Mindell's Supplement Bible by Earl Mindell RPh PhD, page 167
According to
researchers at the
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As with other
medicinal mushrooms, this herb is rich in polysaccharides that increase white
blood cells; it serves as a potent free radical scavenger and generally exerts
broad anticancer and antitumor properties. Reishi contains the immune
stimulating polysaccharide, beta D-glucan, which has been shown to be effective
against sarcoma. The polysaccharide stimulates macrophage activity to produce
tumor-necrosis factor (TNF-a), together with cancer killing interleukins. In
another study the polysaccharides (PS) from fresh fruiting bodies of G. lucidum
(PS-G) were isolated and used to potentiate cytokine production by human
mono-cytes-macrophages and T lymphocytes.
Results demonstrated
that the levels of interleukins (IL)-l beta, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-
alpha, and IL-6 in macrophage cultures treated with PS-G (100 micrograms/ml)
were 5.1, 9.8 and 29 fold higher, respectively, than those of untreated
controls. In addition, the release of interferon (IFN)-
gamma from T lymphocytes was also greatly promoted in the presence of PS-G
(25-100 micrograms/ml). Furthermore, these cytokine-containing mononuclear
cell-conditioned media (PSG-MNC-CM) suppressed the proliferation of both the
HL-60 and the U937 leukemic cell lines. Further, a process of DNA labeling was
able to induce cell death (apoptosis) only of cancer cells.
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 166
Two other types of
medicinal fungi, which have received considerable attention in the scientific
community in the last few decades, are the reishi (pronounced REE-she) and
shiitake (pronounced SHE-taw-key) mushrooms. They are venerated throughout the
Orient for their marvelous healing properties, especially in the treatment and
prevention of cancer. Laboratory and clinical studies
done with both of them in man and beast alike have shown remarkable regression
of malignant tumors, particularly through the injection method.
Encyclopedia Healing Herbs Spices by John Heinerman, page 243
Adding
foods to the diet which contain significant amounts of the trace element
germanium, which enhances the action of oxygen in the body. Germanium foods and
supplements are commonly used as cancer remedies and for immune restoration in
general. Among the more concentrated food and herb sources: "turkey tails" and
related shelf or punk mushrooms that grow on the sides of decaying trees; other
mushrooms including shiitake, ling zhi or reishi (Ganoderma luddum), and
champignon; garlic; the herbs Suma (Pfaffia paniculata), ginseng, and unrefined
aloe vera juice; chlorella micro-algae, and barley.
Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, page 40
Medicinal mushrooms
with immunomodulating activities have been traditionally used as tonics in
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). They are now used in cancer treatments to
counteract the toxic effects of radiation and chemotherapy. Mushrooms used in
cancer therapies are generally processed into liquid or powder in order to
obtain the necessary potency. It takes about 15 pounds of reishi mushrooms to
produce 1 pound of the powdered concentrate. Medicinal mushrooms make a
significant contribution to the healing process by enhancing and stimulating
the body's own immune system. This is a very important factor in diseases like
cancer and HIV, which have
components unique to each individual. In my protocols for people with cancer, I
always include one or more medicinal mushroom extract products. Descriptions of
some of the more frequently used mushrooms follow.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 155
It is believed, they
are more accessible to the immune system cell called the macrophage. Remember,
these are nonspecific "Pac Man"-like immune cells that literally
gobble up invaders. When the macrophage becomes activated, it signals helper T
cells to get to work. From research in
Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures By Henry
Pasternak DVM CVA, page 114
Reishi calms the
central nervous system, exerting a blood-pressure-lowering effect beneficial to
the heart. It is now employed in
The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Keith Tillotson, page 191
reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)
contains carbohydrates, fiber, amino acids, protein,
steroids, triterpenes, lipids, alkaloids, polysaccharides, glucoside, coumarin
glycoside, volatile oil, vitamin B2 (riboflavin), and ascorbic acid. It also
contains the minerals
calcium, zinc, magnesium, copper, and germanium. Additionally, reishi contains
ganoderic acid, which is a free-radical scavenger, giving reishi antioxidant
powers. The polysaccharides in reishi mushrooms appear to activate a type of
white blood cell known as a macrophage. These cells filter the blood,
destroying cancer cells, viruses, bacteria, and other large particulate
material. Macrophages also signal other white blood cells to seek out and
destroy tumor cells.
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 168
Reishi is also being
studied for its effects against arthritis, bronchitis, asthma, acute hepatitis,
diabetes, allergies, insomnia, and altitude sickness
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Herbs by Robert S
McCaleb, page 335
reishi. Several species of
ganoderma have traditionally been used by the Chinese to prevent or treat
cancer of the esophagus and other organs. Studies show that certain steroidlike
compounds in reishi can help kill liver cancer cells. reishi
extracts have also been shown to boost the immunity of cancer patients.
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And
Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 226
One study showed that
reishi strongly inhibited the growth of sarcoma 180, with an inhibition rate of
95.6 to 98.6 percent at an interperitonial dosage of 20 mg/kg for ten days in
mice.116 Another study demonstrated that reishi
polysaccharides significantly inhibited the proliferation of JTC-26 tumor
cells, a human cancer-cell strain. Ganodermic acids U through Z, which are six
types of cytotoxic triterpenes found in reishi, showed significant
cytotox-icity on hepatoma cells grown in vitro.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 156
Reishi mushroom has
impressive antioxidant and anti-cancer benefits, as do shiitake and maitake
mushrooms.
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Herbs by Robert S
McCaleb, page 421
Medicinal Mushrooms:
Especially maitake, reishi, shiitake and turkey tail mushrooms. Maitake D- fraction has been
shown to enhance the effects of chemotherapy as well as having anticancer and
immune strengthening properties. New research shows maitake D-fraction also has
apoptosis (cancer cell death) inducing properties. Planetary formulas Maitake
Mushroom and reishi Mushroom Supreme have shown themselves to be very
efficacious.
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 374
Like the shiitake,
reishi extract -- known as G. lucidum -- has shown immune-enhancing ability and
may curb the growth of tumors, according to proponents. They also believe that
reishis can help to fight a host of ailments, including high blood pressure,
allergies, asthma, fatigue, arthritis, high cholesterol, dizziness, liver
problems and congestion.
The Complete Book Of Alternative Nutrition by
Selene Y Craig, page 225
Immune tonics such as
reishi mushroom and astragalus can be given in higher dosage during the early
stages of disease or to prevent recurrence. In the more advanced stages, tonics
are also used but to a lesser extent, with greater emphasis on the use of
eliminative, heat clearing herbs. In the middle stages of cancer one combines
tonification and elimination substances equally.
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 117
Kelp, reishi, and
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A
Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 730
Antitumor: Prevents or
helps alleviate tumors. Examples: chaparral, red clover, astragalus, reishi,fu ling.
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 137
Cancer and HIV/AIDS
Foods: beans and legumes; blueberries; carrots; cherries; cruciferous vegetables; flaxseeds;
garlic; kelp; all leafy greens; maitake, reishi, and shiitake mushrooms;
millet; papaya; peaches; red grapes; vegetables; soy foods; wheatgrass.
Prescription For Dietary Wellness by Phyllis A
Balch, page 288
Herbal and nutritional
therapies can make chemotherapy more sensitive to the particular cancer being
treated. For example, bromelain and quercetin are especially compatible with
most chemotherapies used in cases of breast, ovarian,
and colon cancers, as well as leukemia and most melanomas, while reishi,
coriolus, astragalus, and Siberian ginseng work well with all chemotherapies
for all types of cancers.
Herbal Medicine Healing Cancer by Donald R Yance Jr, page 281
The immune potentiating
effects of the astragalus polysaccharide was validated
through research at the M.D. Anderson hospital in
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 77
Sabley said that
reishi contains two major groups of organic compounds: Ganodermic acids
(compounds with a structure similar to steroid hormones) and polysaccharides
(long chains of naturally occurring sugar molecules or carbohydrates). Many
believe that polysaccharides, commonly found in mushrooms, seaweed and numerous
plants, have immune-enhancing properties, possibly capable of treating some forms
of cancer.
Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency An Informed
Citizens Guide by Duncan Long, page 196
Popularized by the
Chinese and Japanese, ganoderma, also known as the reishi mushroom, is a
general energy stimulant that also possesses cancer-fighting abilities. It is
particularly effective when used along with astragalus and legustrum.
Complete Encyclopedia Of Natural Healing by Gary
Null PhD, page 108
< p> reishi:
immune booster, cancer preventive, system balancer
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And
Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 19
The beta-glucans
lentinan, grifolan, schizophyllan and SSG are available in
PDR For Nutritional Supplements by Sheldon Saul
Hendle and David Rorvik, page 316
Various types of
mushrooms can be good sources of vitamin D, Bi (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3
(niacin), minerals, and amino acids. They have the ability to enhance the
body's immune system T cells that seek and destroy cancer cells. Shiitake, zhu
ling, enoki, reishi, and maitake mushrooms have all been reported to have
anti-cancer properties.
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A
Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 253
reishi MUSHROOM
(Canoderma lucidum) Ling zhi All types of cancers when there is qi weakness,
blood deficiency, low and/or threatened immune system, dampness, nervousness
and anxiety. It is also used to offset the adverse effects of chemotherapy and
radiation. Dose: 9-30g
Treating Cancer With Herbs by Michael Tierra ND,
page 81
Ling zhi, the famous
reishi mushroom, is not known for its sweet flavor so much as for its
cleansing, anticancer effects. Although the mushroom itself is not sweet, the
instant cube is.
Asian Health Secrets by Letha Hadady DAc, page 52
Reishi and
cardiovascular disease
Reishi contains several
constituents, including sterols, coumarin, mannitol, polysaccharides, and
triter-penoids called ganoderic acids. Ganoderic acids may lower blood pressure
as well as decrease low-density lipoprotein and triglyceride levels. These
specific triterpenoids also help reduce blood platelets from sticking together
-- an important factor in lowering the risk for coronary artery disease. While
human research demonstrates some efficacy for the herb in treating altitude
sickness and chronic hepatitis B, these uses still need to be confirmed.
The Natural Pharmacy by Schuyler W Lininger, page 456
Because there is some
evidence that reishi extract lowers cholesterol and blood pressure and reduces platelet stickiness,
another cardiovascular risk factor, it is being studied for its potential in
the treatment of heart disease.
Off The Shelf Natural Health How To Use Herbs And
Nutrients To Stay Well By Mark Mayell, page 56
This mushroom is
prized in
The Herbal Drugstore by Linda B White MD, page 327
Chinese herbal
medicine physicians regard the reishi mushroom as an "elixir of
immortality." Research confirms that reishi is an effective cardiotonic.
In a study of 54 people (average age, 58.6) whose blood pressure was over
140/90 and who were unresponsive to hypertension medication, those taking
reishi mushroom extract in tablet form three times a day for four weeks
experienced a significant drop in their blood pressure compared to the control
group. The blood pressure of all the test subjects fell below 140/90.
Heart Disease by
Today, both shiitake
and reishi mushrooms are used to treat a variety of disorders and to promote
vitality. They are used to prevent high blood pressure and heart disease, to
control and lower cholesterol, to build resistance to disease, and to treat
fatigue and viral infections. They are also known to have anti-tumor properties
valuable in treating cancer.
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A
Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 80
Reduces
excessive levels of cholesterol in the blood, thus improving circulation.
Miracle Medicine Herbs by Richard M Lucas, page 9
reishi has been shown in
several studies to lower cholesterol levels, helping to prevent atherosclerotic
changes in the blood vessel walls (reported in Huang, 1999).
The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook by Alan Keith Tillotson, page 191
Today, both shiitake
and reishi mushrooms are used to treat a variety of disorders and to promote
vitality. They are used to prevent high blood pressure and heart disease, to
control and lower cholesterol, to build resistance to disease, and to treat
fatigue and viral infections. They are also known to have anti-tumor properties
valuable in treating cancer.
The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements by James F Balch MD, page 157
Reishi is a variety of
mushroom that also fights infection and has traditionally been used to treat
heart disease and lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Alternative Medicine by
High Blood Pressure
hawthorn berries ginkgo
leaf, reishi dandelion, echinacea, chamomile, plantain
The Herbs Of Life by Lesley Tierra, page 231
Clinical studies at
the
Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency An Informed
Citizens Guide by Duncan Long, page 197
Reishi
(Ganoderma luciduni). Sixteenth-century Ming Dynasty texts say that this marvelous Chinese
medicinal mushroom "mends the heart." And my good friend,
pharmacognosist (natural product pharmacist) Albert Leung, Ph.D., says in his
Better Health with (Mostly) Chinese Herbs and Food that reishi has considerable
value in preventing and treating arrhythmia.
The Green Pharmacy by James A Duke PnD, page 121
This medicinal mushroom
has long been used in
The Herbal Drugstore by Linda B White MD, page 155
Morel, reishi,
shiitake, and maitake are mushrooms that were touted by the ancient Chinese as
superior medicines that give eternal youth and longevity. They prevent high
blood pressure and heart disease, lower cholesterol,
prevent fatigue and viral infections, and much more. They are found in
supplement form as well as fresh.
Prescription For Nutritional Healing by Phyllis A
Balch CNC and James F Balch MD, page 138
Since heart disease is
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Herbs by Robert S
McCaleb, page 12
Reishi is a heart
tonic, like hawthorn and ginkgo. It improves blood flow to the heart, reduces
coronary demand for oxygen and helps ease the chest pain of angina. I make
reishi tea using three to six teaspoons of dried herb per cup of boiling water.
The Green Pharmacy by James A Duke PnD, page 121
Reishi is a type of
mushroom, contains several constituents that seem to help decrease triglyceride
levels based on preliminary reports.
The Natural Pharmacy by Schuyler W Lininger, page 88
Perhaps one of the
reasons the Chinese regard mushrooms as spirit medicine is the claim found in
the oldest recorded botanical monograph on another powerful Chinese medicinal
mushroom, the ling zhi or reishi mushroom (Canoderma lucidum). The Chinese
claimed that it made the body lighter, which may refer to its ability to reduce
cholesterol and blood lipid levels. Shiitake mushrooms have immune-potentiating
properties similar to those of reishi mushrooms.
The Way Of Chinese Herbs by Michael Tierra LAc OMD,
page 431
Reishi as an
antihistamine
Japanese researchers
have also found that reishi acts as an antihistamine, making it useful for
treating allergies. Lanostan, a compound found in reishi, appears to control
the release of transmitting chemicals
in the body, thereby inhibiting the release of histamine. Since reishi also
promotes the adrenal function and immune reaction, it has added effectiveness
in controlling the body's reaction to an allergen.
Attaining Medical Self Sufficiency An Informed
Citizens Guide by Duncan Long, page 196
reishi is a true adaptagen,
enhancing health and normal functions of the body. For example, while it
increases some components of the immune response to cancers, it also inhibits
pathological immune functions in autoimmune diseases. It has also been reported
to reduce the histamine release associated with allergic reactions, and even to
help prevent life threatening ana-phylactic reactions.
Healing Pets With Nature's Miracle Cures By Henry
Pasternak DVM CVA, page 112
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[The article below could help you save the
life or health of someone you know - maybe even yourself. I know it’s an
anecdotal story, and Snopes.com and truthorfiction.com do not confirm it, but
deftly sidestep the real issue. This
article does, however, agree with the mountain of evidence accumulated over the
years. I've read numerous well-documented and well-footnoted articles on this
topic and this article rings true in every respect. Be sure to see my closing
comments at the bottom of the page.
Whistler]
SWEET
POISON (A must read)
In October of 2001, my sister started getting
very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting
around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out
of bed; she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone several
tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The
doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain,
and so sick...she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts,
life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her
younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so
she planned a trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.
On March 19th I called her to ask how her
most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but
they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine E-mailed to me
and I asked my sister if she drank diet pop? She told me that she did. As a
matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment... I told
her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet pop!!! I E-mailed her the
article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our
phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet pop AND she
could walk!! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she
sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this
article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her
doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if
they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind... In a nutshell she was being
poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda... and literally dying a slow and
miserable death.
When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to
take was one pill, and that was a pill for the aspartame poisoning! She is well
on her way to a complete recovery... and she is walking!!! No wheelchair!!!
This article saved her life. If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label, DO
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD
ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,'
'Equal', and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced
that in the United States 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and
systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this
to be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to
lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous:
When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol
in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn
causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire
ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis
and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although
multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence... methanol toxicity is! Systemic
lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet
Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers.
The victim usually does not know that the
Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to
such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen
patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In
cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease
is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases
where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and
fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME
(NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms,
spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss...you probably have ASPARTAME
poisoning!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have
some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking
diet sodas and be alert for aspartame food labels! Many products are fortified
with it!!!
This is a serious problem. Dr. Esparto (one
of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and
during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends,
who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is
beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a
chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product
that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you
GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat
cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin
and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products
we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our
body!!!
Dr. H.J. Roberts stated in his lectures that
once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in
exercise, his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians,
who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms
caused by aspartame. The aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control.
Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss
due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken
without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes
is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the
blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing
various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic
attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of aspartame causes these same
symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal
that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and AHD have had complete
turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their
diet. So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin
and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the
first place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily
basis with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar."
It is also suspected that the aspartame in
thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women
fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-know Gulf War
Syndrome. Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy.
Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be
given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate
of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances
due to the use of NutraSweet.
Unfortunately, it is not always easy to
convince people that aspartame is to blame for their child's illness. Stevia,
which is a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the metabolism of
sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been approved as a
dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed
this "true sweet food," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical
Company.
Books on this subject are available:
EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blaylock (Health
Press 1-800-643-2665) AND: DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -written by DR
H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist.
These two doctors will soon be posting a
position paper with case histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the
Internet.
According to the Conference of the
The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep
pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over
5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will
be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a "piece of the aspartame
pie."
I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of
aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds,
among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic
Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has
been recently exposed in the New York Times.
These Associations cannot criticize any
additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the
food industry and are required to endorse their products. Senator Howard
Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on
products containing aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children
and infants.
The bill would also institute independent
studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general
population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes
and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful
drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of
disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public.
Well, now you're informed!
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CLOSING COMMENTS:
I know that www.truthorfiction.com
says that these assertions are 'disputed', as the author of this letter is
unknown. But aspartame IS the FDA's
NUMBER ONE complained about food product, with many experiencing severe side
effects, including those listed in the article above! In 1995, FDA Epidemiology
Branch Chief Thomas Wilcox reported that aspartame complaints represented 75%
of all reports of adverse reactions to substances in the food supply from 1981
to 1995 [Food Chemical News, June 12, 1995, Page 27].
Concerns about aspartame frequently revolve
around symptoms and health conditions that are allegedly caused by the
sweetener. A total of 92 different symptoms and health conditions were reported
by physicians and consumers [Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS),
1993, April 1, Adverse Reactions Associated With
Aspartame Consumption (HFS-728). Chief, Epidemiology Branch]. I've read various
doctor's accounts in a number of books that verify the
article above. Perhaps this product is still on the market because so many are
getting so rich from its sale.
Snopes says the allegation that aspartame is
responsible for 'an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and lupus' is false. In the
Snopes article, they are only addressing MS and lupus, and the key words
they've used that makes it false are 'proved responsible.' No, the FDA has not
'proved' that aspartame has caused these two problems....yet. Nor do they
currently seem too interested in doing so.
But there is ample evidence that aspartame
does cause these and many more problems, hence the mountain of complaints about
this sweetener. The FDA is famous for
finally admitting that products they earlier approved are not safe years down
the road, after the body count finally gets large enough to catch their
attention. Aspartame is certainly shaping up to be another such product!
Aspartame has been linked with seizures to
such an extent that the US Air Force issued an alert in 1992, warning air force
pilots about drinking diet drinks containing aspartame before flying [US Air Force
1992. 'Aspartame Alert.' Flying Safety 48(5):20-21
(May 1992)]. Having a seizure during flight could well end the career of a
pilot, if not his life. I think most of us know that a seizure could just as
easily end our lives, given the right circumstances.
Here's the official "last word" on
aspartame from the Centers for Disease Control:
"In summary, currently available
information, based on data with limitations as described in the report,
indicates a wide variety of complaints that are generally of a mild nature.
Although it may be that certain individuals have an unusual sensitivity to the
product, these data do not provide evidence for the existence of serious,
widespread, adverse health consequences attendant to the use of aspartame. Reported by Div of Nutrition, Center for Health Promotion and
Education, CDC."
Apparently the complaints "that are
generally of a mild nature," according to the CDC, include:
disorientation, hyperactivity, extreme numbness, excitability, memory loss,
seizures, suicidal tendencies, and severe mood swings. Thank goodness there
were no complaints of a serious nature!
Notwithstanding the above assurances,
apparently the state of New Mexico is not too swayed by the CDC's whitewashing
of aspartame, as according to a press release distributed by Newswire Today on
January 17, 2006, a bill to ban the neurotoxin artificial sweetener aspartame
was introduced in the New Mexico legislature by state senator Jerry Ortiz y
Pinto. This action was based on the
Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology's study that proved aspartame causes 6 kinds
of cancer. Doesn't sound like aspartame is all that safe, now does it, even if the FDA and CDC aren't too concerned.
WHAT YOU CAN TAKE AWAY FROM THIS ARTICLE IS
THIS: If you know someone who is having unexplained health problems and is
using aspartame in some manner or form, PLEASE suggest that they discontinue
using it to see if the problem lessens or goes away completely! Also, each of
us should personally consider using products that contain much safer low-cal
sweeteners, such as agave nectar, stevia or xylitol. Or just eat
sugar-sweetened products, but eat less of them, (and brush your teeth afterward. :0)
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Post Script:
I sent this e-mail out to several hundred
people about a month ago, and I recently heard back from an old high school
classmate whose husband has had a lot of health problems, accompanied by a lot
of constant pain.
She e-mailed me back several weeks ago,
thanking me profusely for the warning about aspartame. Her husband, a diabetic, had been drinking 3
cans of diet root beer (containing aspartame) every day and had also been
putting Equal (which contains aspartame, dextrose and maltodextrin) on his corn
flakes each morning. He stopped taking
anything with aspartame in it immediately after my warning. Within a week his pain level dropped
considerably! They are very thankful, and passing the word on to others.
I also learned that a lady at work, whom I
had sent this e-mail to, also had some dramatic improvements. After eliminating aspartame and sucralose
from her diet, within a week her energy level improved so much that she was
able to work on cleaning her house and working on her yard for the first time
in 2 years. Her occasional leg cramps
disappeared, and a slight trembling of her hands cleared up several weeks
later.
I mention these events, not to toot my own
horn, but to let everyone know that the aspartame danger is very real, and not
just some sort of over-blown scare, as some would view it. And Splenda (sucralose) is not much better,
(it was discovered by British scientists working with chlorine derivates,
looking for a new pesticide!). One of
sucralose’s primary side effects is hot flashes. In fact, I work with a fellow in his 50’s who was experiencing occasional hot flashes, which went away
when he stopped using sucralose in his tea.
But that's another story, available to anyone
via www.google.com.
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Get a free download of the first half of his
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This is an amazing mineral that can be bought
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With all the super germs now out there, this
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The Original Four-herb Formula for Essiac Tea by Lanny Messinger |
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Rene
Caisse and her Herbal Cancer Treatment, Essiac By
Lanny Messinger -- http://www.HealthFreedom.info On a fateful day in 1922
Canadian nurse Rene Caisse happened to notice some scar tissue on the breast
of an elderly woman. The woman said that doctors had diagnosed her with
breast cancer years before. However, the woman didn't want to risk surgery
nor did she have the money for it. As luck would have it, she
had met an old Indian medicine man who told her that he could cure her cancer
with an herbal tea. The woman took the medicine man's advice, and
consequently she was still alive nearly thirty years later to pass on this
herbal remedy to Nurse Caisse. About a year later, Rene
Caisse was walking beside a retired doctor who pointed to a common weed and
stated: "Nurse Caisse, if people would use this weed there would
be little cancer in the world." Rene later stated: "He
told me the name of the plant. It was one of the herbs my patient named
as an ingredient of the Indian medicine man's tea!" The
"weed" was sheep sorrel. In 1924 she decided to test
the tea on her aunt who had cancer of the stomach and was given about six
months to live. Her aunt lived for another 21 years, cancer free. Rene Caisse (pronounced
"Reen Case") later gave the tea to her 72-year old mother who was
diagnosed with inoperable cancer of the liver, with only days to live.
Her mother recovered and lived without cancer for another 18 years. In the ensuing years Nurse
Caisse refined and perfected the original "medicine man's"
formula. She tested various herbal combinations on laboratory mice and
on human cancer patients. She eventually reduced the tea to four
herbs: burdock root, sheep sorrel, slippery elm and turkey
rhubarb. She called the formula Essiac, which is her surname spelled
backwards. Rene
Caisse devoted over fifty years of her life to treating thousands of cancer
patients with Essiac. So effective were her free treatments that in
1938 her supporters gathered 55,000 signatures for a petition to present to
the WHAT DID DOCTORS SAY ABOUT
RENE CAISSE'S TEA? Rene Caisse operated her
cancer clinic under the supervision and observation of a number of
doctors. Based on what those doctors saw with their own eyes, eight of
them signed a petition to the Department of National Health and Welfare at To Whom It May Concern: "We the undersigned
believe that the 'Treatment for Cancer' given by Nurse R.M. Caisse can do no
harm and that it relieves pain, will reduce the enlargement and will prolong
life in hopeless cases. To the best of our knowledge, she has not been
given a case to treat until everything in medical and surgical science has
been tried without effect and even then she was able to show remarkable
beneficial results on those cases at that late stage. "We would be interested
to see her given an opportunity to prove her work in a large way. To
the best of our knowledge she has treated all cases free of any charge and
has been carrying on this work over the period of the past two years." Initially, Rene was not
aware of the control that the medical/pharmaceutical establishment had over
governments. After the petition was delivered to the National Health
and Welfare Department, she was continually threatened with arrest until she
finally withdrew from public view. Unlike Nurse Caisse, the medical
establishment was more interested in making money than in helping
people. Essiac was cheap. It could cut into the lucrative profits
from radiation, chemotherapy and surgery--treatments that often did more harm
than good. Essiac is non-toxic. Rene said, "Chemotherapy
should be a criminal offense." The story of Rene Caisse's
struggle to make Essiac an official cancer treatment was told by Dr. Gary Glum
in his book CALLING OF AN ANGEL: ESSIAC, NATURE'S CURE FOR CANCER.
In a telephone conversation Dr. Glum stated that people who take Essiac on a
regular, preventive basis do not get cancer. Dr. Glum interviewed JFK's
personal physician, Dr. Charles Brusch, who stated: "I know Essiac
has curing potential. It can lessen the condition of the individual,
control it, and it can cure it." Dr. Ralph Moss was appointed
to the Cancer Advisory Panel that evaluates alternative cancer therapies for
the government. On his web site and in his book CANCER THERAPY, Dr.
Moss points out that each of the herbs in Essiac has been scientifically
shown to contain anticancer substances. In his "Cancer
Chronicles" [www.ralphmoss.com/essiac], Dr. Moss notes Essiac's rising
popularity by comparing Essiac's low cost to a $150,000 bone marrow
transplant. ESSIAC--MORE
THAN JUST A CANCER TREATMENT Dr.Frederick Banting, the
co-discoverer of insulin became interested in Essiac and even offered Nurse
Caisse research facilities to test it. According to Rene, Dr. Banting
stated that "Essiac must actuate the pancreatic gland into normal
functioning". Even today diabetics are using Essiac to improve
their condition and many have gone off insulin entirely. Essiac has become widely
known for its remarkable ability to boost the immune system and detoxify the
body. Many people who drink Essiac tea regularly report feeling
healthier with less incidence of colds and
flu. Burdock, for example, has a well-established reputation for
detoxification and support of the liver and organs of elimination. BURDOCK
ROOT (Arctium
lappa) For centuries burdock root
has been regarded as an effective blood purifier that neutralizes and
eliminates poisons from the body. Burdock contains a volatile
oil--especially in the seeds--that is eliminated through the sweat glands,
taking toxins with it and alleviating skin problems. Burdock contains
niacin, which is known to eliminate poisons from the body, including
radiation. Burdock also supports the bladder, kidney and liver and has
been said to dissolve kidney stones. It also contains an abundance of
minerals, particularly iron. Studies have shown anti-tumor activity in
burdock. Japanese scientists have isolated an anti-mutation property in
burdock, which they call the "B factor". The Japanese grow
burdock root for food as well as medicine. A memorandum from the World
Health Organization revealed that burdock was active against HIV. SHEEP
SORREL (Rumex
acetosella) Rene Caisse isolated sheep
sorrel as the main Essiac herb that caused regression of metastasized cancer
and reduction of tumors. She used the whole herb including the
roots. Dr. Ralph Moss points out that sheep sorrel contains aloe
emodin, a natural substance that shows significant anti-leukemic
activity. Sheep sorrel contains antioxidants, is diuretic and has been
used to check hemorrhages. It has also been used for food. SLIPPERY
ELM (Ulmus
rubra/fulva) The inner bark of the
slippery elm tree is well-known for its soothing and healing
properties. It reduces inflammations such as sore throat, diarrhea and
urinary problems. It has been regarded as both a food and
medicine. Dr. Moss noted that "slippery elm contains
beta-sitosterol and a polysaccharide, both of which have shown [anti-cancer]
activity. (Rheum
palmatum) CAVEAT
EMPTOR Due to the ever-increasing
popularity of Essiac, numerous entrepreneurs have jumped on the Essiac
bandwagon with their own four, six, or eight-herb products.
Unfortunately, Rene never published the formula and it appears that she
experimented with different herbal combinations. Therefore, it is
understandable that there would be controversies over who has the correct
formula or the best product. Curiously, Essiac didn't become a
trademark name until several years after Dr. Glum published the Essiac
recipe. Yellow dock or garden sorrel is sometimes substituted for sheep
sorrel. Imported turkey rhubarb may be irradiated, fumigated or
both. So how do you know if you are buying the real, unaltered
Essiac? I
often receive emails from people who report being confused about Essiac tea
after visiting various web sites with conflicting information. This
wealth of misinformation that has obfuscated the Essiac formula has compelled
me to help clarify the issues with documented evidence. Unfortunately,
Rene is not alive today to remind people that it's all about "helping
suffering humanity", not money. As Rene stated in "I Was Essiac is truly a
multi-cultural phenomenon. So here are the plain, non-commercial facts: 1) Essiac marketers often
claim that Essiac is an Ojibway Indian formula. Unfortunately, there is
no evidence to substantiate this common belief. In "I Was 2) Since the modern North
American diet of over-processed foods can cause chronic constipation which
can promote cancer, Rene Caisse's decision to include turkey rhubarb in the
formula appears to have been a wise one. One of the first benefits that
I noticed when I first began drinking Essiac tea was that my bowel movements
normalized. After drinking Essiac tea for four years, I embarked on a
thorough colon cleanse and discovered that my colon was already clean from
daily use of Essiac tea. Several well-known American herbalists believe
that 80 to 95 percent of all illnesses are due to unclean colons.
Turkey rhubarb is now being grown commercially in North America,
and that may very well be due to the ever-increasing popularity of Essiac
tea. 3) Burdock and sheep sorrel
are not native to 4) Slippery elm is the only
Essiac herb native to In spite of the numerous,
conflicting claims as to what the original Indian medicine man's formula was,
no one has yet offered any verifiable evidence to settle that issue.
Some claim it was a four-herb formula while others claim it was an eight-herb
or six-herb formula. Many of these claims state that turkey rhubarb was
one of the original herbs. Rene Caisse did experiment with a number of
herbs and changed the formula through time. She finally settled on her
four-herb formula. Since this four-herb formula was demonstrated by
Rene Caisse and untold cancer patients to be an effective, health-giving
remedy that has stood the test of time, the debate over what the original
formula was may very well be a moot point. The only person Rene Caisse
trusted to help her make Essiac tea was her best friend, Mary
McPherson. Mary had worked alongside Rene since the 1930s and knew the
formula by heart. However, Mary had made a deathbed promise to Rene
never to reveal the formula to anyone. Mary would have taken the Essiac
formula to her grave, too, had it not been for Dr. Gary Glum. He
purchased the formula for $120,000 from one of Rene's former patients.
Dr. Glum could have kept the formula secret and become very wealthy selling
bottles of Essiac. However, he unselfishly released the formula into
the public domain in 1988. At first he offered the formula on a video
tape that he advertised in his book, CALLING OF AN ANGEL, but the feds
unlawfully seized the tapes before he could sell very many of them. He
then gave out the formula and recipe free of charge to anyone who mailed him
a request for the Essiac formula. When Dr. Glum met Mary
McPherson in In "I Was Another reason why Rene kept
the Essiac formula secret was that she didn't trust people to make it
properly and she thought that it would be altered. She was right.
For example, in the 1980s, Canadian talk show host Elaine Alexander marketed
her own altered version of the formula containing eight herbs, which she
called "FLOR ESSENCE" [TM]. She subsequently died of
cancer. Even today a common misconception still exists that Elaine
Alexander's formula is Rene Caisse's authentic Essiac formula. Every herbal formula has its
own synergy and therefore creates a specific effect. Rene Caisse spent
her life refining the formula with her hands-on research. No one else
has done such extensive research on Essiac tea. Essiac works--Why
change it by adding more herbs that may diminish its healing
properties? THE
FORMULA The following formula and
recipe for Essiac (in italics) is a word-for-word transcription of the Essiac
formula from the affidavit which Mary McPherson filed with the Town of Essiac 6 ½ cups of burdock root
(cut) (upper left) 1 pound of sheep sorrel
herb powdered (upper right) 1/4 pound of slippery
elm bark powdered (lower left) 1 ounce of Turkish
rhubarb root powdered (lower right) Mix these ingredients
thoroughly and store in glass jar in dark dry cupboard. Take a measuring cup,
use 1 ounce of herb mixture to 32 ounces of water depending on the amount you
want to make. I use 1 cup of mixture
to 8 x 32 = 256 ounces of water. Boil hard for 10 minutes (covered)
then turn off heat but leave sitting on warm plate over night (covered). In the morning heat
steaming hot and let settle a few minutes, then strain through fine strainer
into hot sterilized bottles and sit to cool. Store in dark cool
cupboard. Must be refrigerated when opened. When near the last
when its thick pour in a large jar and sit in frig
overnight then pour off all you [can] without sediment. This recipe must
be followed exactly as written. I use a granite
preserving kettle (10 – 12 qts), 8 ounce measuring cup, small funnel and fine
strainer to fill bottles. ADDITIONAL
TIPS & INFORMATION The preparation of Essiac is
as important as the formula itself. Essiac is a decoction, not an infusion.
An infusion is what people make when they put a tea bag in a cup of hot
water. Generally speaking, an infusion tends to extract vitamins and
volatile oils. A decoction is used to extract minerals, bitter
components, etc. from hard materials such as roots, bark or seeds by boiling
for a few minutes and then allowing the herbs to steep for several
hours. Entrepreneurs often sell
Essiac imitations in tincture form (herbs in alcohol) or in gelatin capsules;
neither form is Essiac because Essiac is a tea and, more specifically, a
decoction that must be made in a certain way in order to be effective. People often substitute
stainless steel for an enameled pot and lid. The main concern is not to
use an aluminum pot. Also, be sure not to use chlorinated water.
The formula above can be reduced to 1/2 cup of herb mix to one gallon of
water. [Optional: Dr. Glum suggests adding 2 or 3 cups of
extra water to replace water lost through evaporation during boiling.
Also, the dry herbs will absorb water as well.] After boiling for
ten minutes, let the tea steep about 12 hours. Then heat up tea to
steaming, but not boiling. (Do not boil twice.) The remaining
pulp can be used for healing poultices. Don't use cheese cloth to
strain Essiac. Likewise, do not use a kitchen sieve that has a very
fine mesh as this may filter out the slippery elm. Slippery elm gives
the tea a slight viscous [syrup-like] consistency when poured. If you
do not notice this consistency after refrigerating your tea, you may be using
a sieve that is too fine. Don't worry about herb particles in your
Essiac; they will settle to the bottom of the jars. Some people drink
the Essiac dregs, others don't. Some people give the Essiac dregs to
their pets or farm animals. Many people have reported the same or
similar health benefits with their pets that humans are reporting. I have found from experience
that it is best to refrigerate the Essiac tea as soon as it has cooled.
Discard the tea if mold appears on the surface or if the tea does not taste
right. For preventive purposes,
people often take about 2 oz. (1/4 cup) per day once or twice a day diluted
with about 1/2 cup hot water. Herbalists recommend increasing daily
water intake due to diuretic and detoxifying action; it takes lots of water
to detoxify. People who are using Essiac to treat an illness or to
eliminate toxins, sometimes take Essiac three or four times a day, depending
on the situation. [Note: Rene Caisse recommended one
ounce of Essiac, once or twice each day, but it is not certain how
concentrated she was making the tea when she made that recommendation.
She was using Essiac primarily to treat cancer. Today many people use
Essiac to detoxify their bodies as well. We are exposed to a great deal
more toxins in our environment and food today than when Rene operated her
clinic in the 30s & 40s, so perhaps the increase in today's dosages may
be well justified.] Essiac has a well-earned
reputation for being non-toxic and people often take 2 ounces (1/4 cup) of
Essiac taken three times each day. Do not eat or drink anything (except
water) one hour before to one hour after taking Essiac. Rene Caisse
recommended that Essiac tea be taken at bedtime, but it can be taken any time
of day. Some people don't like to take any liquids before bedtime
because it makes them have to urinate during the night, thus interrupting a
good night's sleep. Make sure that the sheep
sorrel you use is the small, wild variety of sheep sorrel and not a
substitute like yellow dock or garden (French) sorrel. According to
letters written by Rene Caisse to Dr. Chester Stock of *Quotes are from A MODERN
HERBAL, first published by SOURCES FOR ESSIAC Lanny Messinger Calling of an Angl: Rene Caisse and Essiac Tea--14 by Dr. Gary
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Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival
Mechanism (Book Excerpts)
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(www.NaturalNews.com) What you are about to read may rock or even dismantle the
very foundation of your beliefs about your body, health and healing. The title,
“Cancer Is Not a Disease” may be unsettling for many, provocative to some, but
encouraging for all. This book will serve as a revelation for those who are
sufficiently open-minded to consider the possibility that cancer and other
debilitating illnesses are not actual diseases, but desperate and final
attempts by the body to stay alive for as long as circumstances permit.
It will perhaps astound you to learn that a person who is afflicted with the
main causes of cancer (which constitute the real illness) would most likely die
quickly unless he actually grew cancer cells. In this work, I provide evidence
to this effect.
I further claim that cancer will only occur after all other defense or healing
mechanisms in the body have failed. In extreme circumstances, exposure to large
amounts of cancer-producing agents (carcinogens) can bring about a collapse of
the body’s defenses within several weeks or months and allow for rapid and
aggressive growth of a cancerous tumor. Usually, though, it takes many years, or
even decades, for these so-called “malignant” tumors to form.
Unfortunately, basic misconceptions or complete lack of knowledge about the
reasons behind tumor growth have turned “malignant” tumors into vicious
monsters that have no other purpose but to kill us in retaliation for our sins
or abusing the body. However, as you are about to find out, cancer is on our
side, not against us. Unless we change our perception of what cancer really is,
it will continue to resist treatment, particularly the most “advanced” methods.
If you have cancer, and cancer is indeed part of the body’s complex survival
responses and not a disease, as I suggest it is, you must find answers to the
following pressing questions:
* What reasons coerce your body into developing cancer cells?
* Once you have identified these reasons, will you be able to change them? What
determines the type and severity of cancer with which you are afflicted?
* If cancer is a survival mechanism, what needs to be done to prevent the body
from taking recourse to such drastic defense measures?
* Since the body’s original genetic design always favors the preservation of
life and protection against adversities of any kind, why would the body permit
self-destruction?
* Why do almost all cancers disappear by themselves, without medical
intervention?
* Do radiation, chemotherapy and surgery actually cure cancer, or do cancer
survivors heal due to other reasons, despite these radical, side-effect-loaded
treatments?
Cancer has always been an extremely rare illness, except in industrialized
nations during the past 40-50 years. Human genes have not significantly changed
for thousands of years. Why would they change so drastically now, and suddenly
decide to kill scores of people? The answer to this question is amazingly
simple: Damaged or faulty genes do not kill anyone. Cancer does not kill a
person afflicted with it! What kills a cancer patient is not the tumor, but the
numerous reasons behind cell mutation and tumor growth. These root causes
should be the focus of every cancer treatment, yet most oncologists typically
ignore them. Constant conflicts, guilt and shame, for example, can easily
paralyze the body’s most basic functions, and lead to the growth of a cancerous
tumor.
After having seen thousands of cancer patients over a period of three decades,
I began to recognize a certain pattern of thinking, believing and feeling that
was common to most of them. To be more specific, I have yet to meet a cancer
patient who does not feel burdened by some poor self-image, unresolved conflict
and worries, or past emotional trauma that still lingers in his/her
subconscious. Cancer, the physical disease, cannot occur unless there is a
strong undercurrent of emotional uneasiness and deep-seated frustration.
Cancer patients typically suffer from lack of self-respect or worthiness, and
often have what I call an “unfinished business” in their life. Cancer can
actually be a way of revealing the source of such inner conflict. Furthermore,
cancer can help them come to terms with such a conflict, and even heal it
altogether. The way to take out weeds is to pull them out along with their
roots. This is how we must treat cancer; otherwise, it may recur eventually.
The following statement is very important in the consideration of cancer:
“Cancer does not cause a person to be sick; it is the sickness of the person
that causes the cancer.” To treat cancer successfully requires the patient to
become whole again on all levels of his body, mind and spirit. Once the cancer
causes have been properly identified, it will become apparent what needs to be
done to achieve complete recovery.
It is a medical fact that every person has cancer cells in the body all the
time. These cancer cells remain undetectable through standard tests until they
have multiplied to several billion. When doctors announce to their cancer
patients that the treatments they prescribed had successfully eliminated all
cancer cells, they merely refer to tests that are able to identify the
detectable number of cancerous cells. Standard cancer treatments may lower the
number of cancer cells to an undetectable level, but this certainly cannot
eradicate all cancer cells. As long as the causes of tumor growth remain
intact, cancer may redevelop at any time and at any rate.
Curing cancer has little to do with getting rid of a group of detectable cancer
cells. Treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are certainly capable of
poisoning or burning many cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy cells in
the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc.,
which often leads to permanent irreparable damage of entire organs and systems
in the body. A real cure of cancer does not occur at the expense of destroying
other vital parts of the body.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people who were once “successfully” treated
for cancer die from infections, heart attacks, liver failure, kidney failure
and other illnesses because the cancer treatments generate a massive amount of
inflammation and destruction in the organs and systems of the body. Of course,
these causes of death are not being attributed to cancer. This statistical
omission makes it appear we are making progress in the war against cancer.
However, many more people are dying from the treatment of cancer than from
cancer. A real cure or cancer is achievable only when the causes of excessive
growth of cancer cells have been removed or stopped.
Power in the Word
Cancer is the second leading “cause” of death for Americans. According to the
American Cancer Society, about 1.2 million cases will be diagnosed with cancer
in the
Cancer is not just a word, but also a statement that refers to abnormal or
unusual behavior of cells in the body. However, in quite a different context,
cancer is referred to as a star sign. When someone tells you that you are a
“cancer”, are you going to tremble with fear of dying? It is unlikely, because
your interpretation of being of the cancer sign does not imply that you have
cancer, the illness. But if your doctor called you into his office and told you
that you had cancer, you would most likely feel paralyzed, numb, terrified,
hopeless, or all of the above.
The word “cancer” has the potential to play a very disturbing and precarious
role, one that is capable of delivering a death sentence. Being a cancer
patient seems to start with the diagnosis of cancer, although its causes may
have been there for many years prior to feeling ill. Within a brief moment, the
word “cancer” can turn someone’s entire world upside down.
Who or what in this world has bestowed this simple word or statement with such
great power that it can preside over life and death?
Or does it really? Could it actually be that our collective, social belief that
cancer is a killer disease, in addition to the aggressive treatments that
follow diagnosis, are largely responsible for the current dramatic escalation
of cancer in the Western hemisphere? Too far fetched, you might say! In this
book, however, I will make the point that cancer can have no power or control
over us, unless we unconsciously allow it to grow in response to the beliefs,
perceptions, attitudes, thoughts, feelings we have, and the life choices we
make.
Would we be just as afraid of cancer if we knew what caused it or at least
understood what its underlying purpose is? Unlikely so! If truth were told, we
would most probably do everything to remove the causes and, thereby, set the
preconditions for the body to heal itself.
A little knowledge (which is what we call ignorance) is, in fact, a dangerous
thing. Almost everyone, at least in the industrialized world, knows that
drinking water from a filthy pond or polluted lake can cause life-threatening
diarrhea, but still only few realize that holding on to resentment, anger and
fear, or eating fast foods, chemical additives, and artificial sweeteners, is
no less dangerous than drinking polluted water; it may just take a little
longer to kill a person than tiny amoeba can.
Mistaken Judgment
We all know that if the foundation of a house is
strong, the house can easily withstand external challenges, such as a violent
storm. As we will see, cancer is merely an indication that there is something
missing in our body and in life as a whole. Cancer shows that life as a whole
(physical, mental and spiritual) stands on shaky grounds and is quite fragile,
to say the least. It would be foolish for a gardener to water the withering
leaves of a tree when he knows so well that the real problem is not where it
appears to be, namely, on the symptomatic level (of withered leaves). By
watering the roots of the plant, he naturally attends to the causative level,
and consequently, the plant regenerates itself swiftly and automatically.
To the trained eye of a gardener, the symptom of withering leaves is not a
dreadful disease. He recognizes that the dehydrated state of these leaves is
but a direct consequence of withdrawn nourishment that they need in order to
sustain themselves and the rest of the plant.
Although this example from nature may appear to be a simplistic analogy, it
offers a profound understanding of very complex disease processes in the human
body. It accurately describes one of the most powerful and fundamental
principles controlling all life forms on the planet. However skilled we may
have become in manipulating the functions of our body through the tools of
allopathic medicine, this basic, highly evolved principle of evolution cannot
be suppressed or violated without paying the hefty price of side-effect-riddled
suffering and pain - physically, emotionally and spiritually.
I fervently challenge the statement that cancer is a killer disease.
Furthermore, I will demonstrate that cancer is not a disease at all. Many
people who received a “terminal” cancer sentence actually defied the prognosis
and experienced total remission.
The Need for Answers
There is no cancer that has not been survived by
someone, regardless how far advanced it was. If even one person has succeeded
in healing his cancer, there must be a mechanism for it, just as there is a
mechanism for creating cancer. Every person on the planet has the capacity for
both. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you may not be able to change the
diagnosis, but it is certainly in your power to alter the destructive
consequences that it (the diagnosis) may have on you. The way you see the
cancer and the steps you take following the diagnosis are some of the most
powerful determinants of your future wellness, or the lack of it.
The indiscriminate reference to “cancer” as being a killer disease by
professionals and lay people alike has turned cancer into a disorder with
tragic consequences for the majority of today’s cancer patients and their
families. Cancer has become synonymous to extraordinary suffering, pain and
death. This is true despite the fact that 90-95 percent of all cancers appear and disappear out of their own accord. There is not a
day that passes without the body making millions of cancer cells. Some people,
under severe temporary stress make more cancer cells than usual and form
clusters of cancerous cells that disappear again once they feel better.
Secretions of the DNA’s anticancer drug, Interleukin II, drop under physical
and mental duress and increase again when relaxed and joyful. Thus, most
cancers vanish without any form of medical intervention and without causing any
real harm.
Right at this moment, there are millions of people walking around with cancers
in their body without having a clue that they have them. Likewise, there are
millions of people who heal their cancers without even knowing it. Overall,
there are many more spontaneous remissions of cancer than there are diagnosed
and treated cancers.
The truth is, relatively few cancers actually become “terminal.” However, once
diagnosed, the vast majority of all cancers are never even given a chance to
disappear on their own. They are promptly targeted with an arsenal of deadly
weapons of cell destruction such as chemotherapy drugs, radiation and the surgical
knife. The problem with cancer patients is that, terrified by the diagnosis,
they submit their bodies to all these cut/burn/poison procedures that, more
likely than not, lead them to the day of final sentencing, “We have to tell you
with our deepest regret there is nothing more that can be done to help you.”
The most pressing question is not how advanced or dangerous a cancer is, but
what we need to do to not end up dying from it. Why do some people go through
cancer as if it were the flu? Are they just lucky or is there a mechanism at
work that triggers the healing? In other words, what is that element that
prevents the body from healing cancer naturally, or what is that hidden element
that makes cancer so dangerous, if it is dangerous at all?
The answers to all these queries lie with the response of the person who has
the cancer, and not with the degree of “viciousness” or advanced stage it
appears to have progressed to. Do you believe that cancer is a disease? You
will most likely answer with a “yes,” given the ‘informed’ opinion that the
medical industry and mass media have fed to the masses for many decades. Yet,
the most pressing yet rarely asked question remains: “Why do you think cancer
is a disease?” You may say: “Because I know cancer kills people every day.” I
would question you further: “How do you know that it is the cancer that kills
people?” You would probably argue that most people who have cancer die, so
obviously it must be the cancer that kills them. Besides, you may reason, all
the expert doctors tell us so.
Let me raise another question, a rather strange one: “How do you know for sure
that you are the daughter/son of your father and not of another man?” Is it
because your mother told you so? What makes you think that your mother told you
the truth? Probably because you believe her; and you have no reason not to.
After all, she is your mother, and mothers do not lie about these things. Or do
they? Although you will never really know that the person you believe to be
your father is, in fact, your father, you nevertheless have turned what you
subjectively believe into something that you just "know," into an
irrefutable truth.
Although there is no scientific proof whatsoever that cancer is a disease
(versus a survival mechanism), most people will insist that it is a disease
because this is what they were told to believe. Yet their belief is only
hearsay information based on other people’s opinions. These other people heard
it from someone else. Eventually, the “truth” of cancer being a disease can be
traced to some doctors who expressed their subjective feelings or beliefs about
what they observed and wrote about in some review articles or medical reports.
Other doctors agreed with their opinion, and before long, it became a
“well-established” fact that cancer is a vicious illness that somehow gets hold
of people in order to kill them. However, the truth of the matter may be quite
different.
Wisdom of Cancer Cells
Cancer cells are not part of a malicious disease process. When cancer cells
spread (metastasize) throughout the body, it is not their purpose or goal to
disrupt the body’s vitals functions, infect healthy cells and obliterate their
host (the body). Self-destruction is not the theme of any cell unless, of
course, it is old and worn-out and ready to be turned-over and replaced. Cancer
cells, like all other cells, know that if the body dies, they will die as well.
Just because some people assume that cancer cells are there to destroy the body
does not mean cancer cells have such a purpose or ability.
A cancerous tumor is neither the cause of progressive destruction nor does it
actually lead to the death of the body. There is nothing in a cancer cell that
has even remotely the ability to kill anything. What eventually leads to the
demise of an organ or the entire body is the wasting away of cell tissue
resulting from continued deprivation of nutrients and life force. The drastic
reduction or shutdown of vital nutrient supplies to the cells of an organ is
not primarily a consequence of a cancerous tumor, but actually its biggest
cause.
By definition, a cancer cell is a normal, healthy cell that has undergone
genetic mutation to the point that it can live in an anaerobic surrounding (an
environment where oxygen is not available). In other words, if you deprive a
group of cells of vital oxygen (their primary source of energy), some of them
will die, but others will manage to alter their genetic software program and
mutate in a most ingenious way: the cells will be able to live without oxygen
and derive some of their energy needs from such things as cellular metabolic
waste products.
It may be easier to understand the cancer cells phenomenon when comparing it
with the behavior of common microorganisms. Bacteria, for example, are divided
into two main groups, aerobic and anaerobic, meaning, those that need to use
oxygen and those that can live without it. This is important to understand
since we have more bacteria in our body than we have cells. Aerobic bacteria
thrive in an oxygenated environment. They are responsible for helping us with
the digestion of food and manufacturing of important nutrients, such as
B-vitamins. Anaerobic bacteria, on the other hand, can appear and thrive in an
environment where oxygen does not reach. They break down waste materials, toxic
deposits and dead, worn-out cells.
The body sees the cancer as being such an important defense mechanism that it
even causes the growth of new blood vessels to guarantee the much-needed supply
of glucose and, therefore, survival and spreading of the cancer cells. It knows
that cancer cells do not cause but, prevent death; at least for a while, until
the wasting away of an organ leads to the demise of the entire organism. If the
trigger mechanisms for cancer (causal factors) are properly taken care of, such
an outcome can be avoided.
It is commonly believed that our immune system protects us against cancer.
However, this is only partially true. On the one hand, the immune system
readily destroys the millions of cancer cells that a healthy human body
produces as part of the daily turnover of 30 billion cells. On the other hand,
the immune system takes no action to eradicate cancer cells that develop in
response to a build up of toxins, congestion and emotional stress.
Cancers and all other tissues in the body are larded with cancer-killing white
cells, such as T-cells. In the case of kidney cancer and melanomas, for
example, white cells make up 50 per cent of the mass of the cancers. Since
these T-cells easily recognize foreign or mutated cell tissue such as cancer
cells, you would expect these immune cells to attack cancer cells right away.
However, the immune system allows cancer cells to recruit it to actually
increase and spread the cancer to other parts of the body. Cancer cells produce
specific proteins that tell the immune cells to leave them alone and help them
to grow
Why would the immune system want to collaborate with
cancer cells to make more or larger tumors? Because cancer is
a survival mechanism, not a disease. The body uses the cancer to keep
deadly carcinogenic substances and caustic metabolic waste matter away from the
lymph and blood and, therefore, from the heart, brain and other vital organs.
Killing off cancer cells would in fact jeopardize its survival. Cleansing the
body of accumulated toxins and waste products through the various cleansing
methods advocated in my book Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation (www.ener-chi.com) removes
the need for cancer.
Cancer is not a disease; it is the final and most desperate survival mechanism
the body has at its disposal. It only takes control of the body when all other
measures of self-preservation have failed. To truly heal cancer and what it
represents in a person’s life we must come to the understanding that the reason
the body allows some of its cells to grow in abnormal ways is in its best
interest and not an indication that it is about to destroy itself. Cancer is a
healing attempt by the body for the body. Blocking this healing attempt can
destroy the body. Supporting the body in its healing efforts can save it.
Andreas Moritz’s book, Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism,
explains the root causes of cancer and how to eliminate them for good. Available through www.amazon.com
or www.ener-chi.com.
CBS Interview Peddles Misinformation on
Melanoma, Vitamin D and Deficiencies
by Ella Andersen, citizen
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(NaturalNews) In an effort to drum up fear and to push Big Pharma
propaganda, CBS did a piece on how skin cancer, particularly melanoma, is
increasing in young women. The interview goes on to blame the sun instead of
really looking at what really causes melanoma: niacin deficiency.
I am now beginning to understand why many nutritionists believe doctors are
ignorant when it comes to nutrition, vitamins, and how macro- and
micro-nutrients relate to overall health. In a startling interview, Dr. Downie,
while talking to Katie Couric on the CBS evening news, proclaimed some
mistruths about American nutrition and melanoma. The first falsehood the doctor
stated, “
It is true though that Americans do tend to be heavy, further pointing to their
nutritionally depleted status. However, if the doctor meant that Americans are
heavily supplied with good nutrients, I along with many others would strongly
disagree. In fact, as stated above, melanoma is caused by a nutrient
deficiency: vitamin B-3 or niacin deficiency. That alone disproves the doctor’s
position that Americans are okay concerning overall nourishment.
Secondly, the doctor states, “So we can get vitamin D from our diet and if not
we can get it from nutritional supplements, i.e. vitamins, and that would be
fine”. Since we have nutritionally depleted people, it’s not a great leap to
say that we have nutritionally depleted food. Furthermore, since the typical
American diet is mostly devoid of proper nutrients, getting any sort of
beneficial vitamins is extremely difficult. This doctor, when talking about
supplements, probably means the synthetic, toxic versions as well, meaning less
effective vitamins that do virtually nothing for health improvement.
Additionally, this doctor must not have read the recent research published in
the JAMA journal(1) that demonstrated how Vitamin D levels are Common in
healthy looking children; or the study conducted by Boston University showing
vitamin D deficiency to be common and widespread. These children are apparently
not getting adequate levels of vitamin D from their diet (even with all the
pasteurized, homogenized, and fortified poison, a.k.a milk, they drink).
The Vitamin D Council has a preponderance of valuable information on how
widespread vitamin D deficiency is, and steps on how to solve this problem.
Furthermore, the solution is not to slather on cancer-causing chemicals to
protect yourself from your environment; rather, the solution is moderate and
careful sun exposure (approximately 15 minutes daily).
In this interview, the doctor promotes more of the same malarkey about
nutrition and vitamin deficiencies, and I am truly disappointed that those who
viewed this interview most likely bought into these false-hoods. Whether this
interview was to actually bring awareness to melanoma in young women, or to
slow the already burgeoning progress of vitamin D and nutrition research, no
one can tell. But what we can garner from this interview is that misinformation
is still being publicized and promoted so that real cures and real help can
never reach those who need it.
Sources:
1. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...)
2. (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...)
3. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/...)
4. (http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/)
5. (http://www.naturalnews.com/np/melanoma.html)
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increase in cancer in the skin of
niacin-deficient individuals raises the issue of the link, if any, between
exposure to the sun and the development of melanoma. The great
majority of dermatologists have accepted that exposure to the sun is the
major cause of melanoma. There are exceptions to this generalization.
Dr Bernard Ackerman, after reviewing the literature and drawing on his own
experience in dermatology, concluded that the connection is both inconclusive
and inconsistent.^0 To illustrate, melanoma
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Heal Yourself With
Sunlight (Part 1 of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation)
by Andreas Moritz, citizen
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(NaturalNews) The time when one’s immediate natural impulse on the first sunny
spring day was to get outside and enjoy it is long gone. Only the very
courageous or “careless” who defy the grim warnings from medical mandarins and
cancer specialists, wholeheartedly endorsed by the sunscreen industry, dare to
venture forth into the “dangerous” sun. Unless they are covered head to toe
with sun protection factor (SPF) 60, they gamble with their lives, or so they
are made to believe, by those who serve their own vested interests.
Fortunately, this view is beginning to crumble in the blatant absence of
scientific proof that sunlight causes disease. What is being discovered instead
is that lack of sun exposure is one of the greatest risk factors for disease.
Very few people know that not getting enough sun kills 50,000 people from
cancer deaths every year in the
Unfortunately, it is the ultraviolet portion of sunlight that is the most
easily eliminated by windows, houses, spectacles, sunglasses, sun lotions, and
clothing. Before antibiotic drugs were discovered in the 1930s – penicillin
having been the first one – the healing power of sunlight was favored by the
medical community, at least in
The medical doctor and author, Dr. Auguste Rollier, was the most famous
heliotherapist of his day. At his peak, he operated 36 clinics with over 1,000
beds in
The miraculous complete cures of tuberculosis and other diseases facilitated by
these doctors made headlines at the time. What surprised the medical community
most was the fact that the sun’s healing rays remained ineffective if the
patients wore sunglasses. [Sunglasses block out important rays of the light
spectrum which the body requires for essential biological functions.] Note:
your eyes receive these rays even if you are in the shade.
By the year 1933, there were over 165 different diseases for which sunlight
proved to be a beneficial treatment. However, with the death of Rollier in 1954
and the growing power of the pharmaceutical industry, heliotherapy fell into
disuse. By the 1960s, man-made “miracle drugs” had replaced medicine’s
fascination with the sun’s healing powers, and by the 1980s the public was
increasingly being bombarded with warnings about sunbathing and the risks of
skin cancer.
Today, the sun is considered the main culprit for causing skin cancer, certain
cataracts leading to blindness, and aging of the skin. Only those who take the
“risk” of exposing themselves to sunlight find that the sun makes them feel
better, provided they don’t use sunscreens or burn their skin. The UV-rays in
sunlight actually stimulate the thyroid gland to increase hormone production,
which in turn increases the body’s basal metabolic rate. This assists both in
weight loss and improved muscle development. Farm animals fatten much faster
when kept indoors, and so do people who stay out of the sun. Therefore, if you
want to lose weight or increase your muscle tone,
expose your body to the sun on a regular basis. The use of antibiotics, which
has practically replaced heliotherapy, has in recent years led to the
development of drug-resistant strains of bacteria, which defy any treatment
other than the balanced use of sun, water, air, and food. Cutting out or
substantially reducing any of these four essential constituents of life,
results in disease.
Any person who misses out on sunlight becomes weak and suffers mental and
physical problems as a result. His vital energy diminishes in due time, which
is reflected in his quality of life. The populations in Northern European
countries like
UV light is known to activate an important skin hormone called solitrol.
Solitrol influences our immune system and many of our body’s regulatory
centers, and, in conjunction with the pineal hormone melatonin, causes changes
in mood and daily biological rhythms. The hemoglobin in our red blood cells
requires ultraviolet (UV) light to bind to the oxygen needed for all cellular
functions. Lack of sunlight can, therefore, be held co-responsible for almost
any kind of illness, including skin cancer and other forms of cancer. As you
are about to find out, it may be highly detrimental to your health to miss out
on sunlight.
Can UV-Radiation Prevent and Cure
Skin Cancer?
A major concern of our scientists today is the dramatic increase of skin
cancers around the world. There are three main types of skin cancer, two of
which, basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma (non-melanomas), are increasingly
prevalent, whereas the third, malignant melanoma, is much rarer but far more lethal.
The most pressing question is why would the sun suddenly become so vicious and
try to kill scores of people after thousands of years of harmlessness?
The medical community claims that ultraviolet light (UV) is the major cause of
skin cancers. This theory is based on the assumption that our thinning ozone
layer permits too much of the germicidal UV to penetrate to the surface of the
earth and causes destruction of all kinds, including damage to our skin and eye
cells. Yet the theory has major flaws and no scientific backing. Contrary to
general belief, there is no evidence that reduction in the ozone layer,
observed at the poles, has caused any increase in melanomas.
The germicidal frequency of UV is destroyed or is filtered out by the ozone
layer in the Earth’s stratosphere, and only small amounts—necessary to purify
the air we breathe and the water we drink— actually reach the surface of the
earth. To that effect, a study of
The fact that the number of skin cancers in the
Overall, since the beginning of the new millennium, each year one million
Americans are being diagnosed with some form of skin cancer. There are millions
of sufferers now, all of whom have been made to believe that the sun is the
culprit for their skin diseases. But since UV radiation is decreasing every
year and skin cancers were extremely rare 100 years ago when UV intensity was
much higher and people spent much more time outdoors, what other factor could
be held responsible for causing skin cancer?
The More UV, the Less Cancer
Even if UV penetration to the surface of the Earth did actually increase by,
for example, one percent each year (which is not the case), such slight
increases would still be hundreds, if not thousands, of times less than the
normal variations which people experience because of differences in geography.
Let’s assume that you move from an area near either one of the
Today, millions of people around the world travel from low exposure places to
areas of high exposure near the equator. Many thousands of tourists travel to
areas that are located at much higher altitudes than where they normally live.
For every 100 feet of elevation there is a significant increase in UV
radiation. But this does not prevent people from climbing mountains or living
in countries like
The human body has a unique ability to become accustomed to all kinds of
variations in the environment. It is equipped with perfect self-regulating
mechanisms that protect it against damage from the natural elements.
Overexposure to swimming in the sea or in a lake can lead to extensive skin
swelling, shivering, and circulatory problems. Our body will let us know when
it is time to get out of the water. Getting too close to a fire will heat us up
and encourage us to move away from it. Rainwater is natural, but standing in
the rain for too long can drain our immune system and make us susceptible to
catching a cold. Eating sustains our lives, but overeating can lead to obesity,
diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Sleeping recharges our “batteries” and
revitalizes the body and mind, yet too much of it makes us sluggish, depressed,
and ill. Likewise, sunlight has healing properties unless we use it to burn
holes into our skin. Why should any of these natural elements or processes
cause us harm unless we abuse or overuse them?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to say that a preference for unnatural things like
junk food, stimulants, alcohol, drugs, medical intervention (unless it is for
an emergency), as well as pollution, irregular sleeping and eating habits,
stress, excessive greed for money and power, and the lack of contact with
nature, are more likely to cause such diseases as skin cancer and cataracts
than natural phenomena that have ensured continued growth and evolution on the
planet throughout the ages?
It is very encouraging to see that new treatments using light are increasingly
being recognized as breakthrough methods for cancer and many other diseases.
The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved “light therapy” to fight
advanced esophageal cancer and early lung cancer—with fewer risks than are
found with the use of surgery and chemotherapy. Although it has been known for
over 100 years that light can kill diseased cells, it is only since a number of
convincing research studies have been conducted that there has been a sudden
resurgence of interest in light therapy. There is promising success with
bladder cancer, infertility-causing endometriosis, advanced lung and esophageal
cancers, skin cancer, and diseases leading to blindness, psoriasis, and
autoimmune disorders. In one study, light therapy eliminated 79 percent of
early lung cancers. Regular exposure to sunlight still seems to be one of the
best measures one can take to prevent cancer, including cancers of the skin.
Now Even Doctors And
Scientists Say, “It’s Not True!”
Like myself, there have always been some health practitioners who didn’t buy
into the theory that the sun causes deadly diseases. It warms my heart to hear
that now even some of the top authorities in the field are standing up for the
truth, despite intense criticism from their colleagues. In an article written
in the New York Times in August 2004, a high-profile dermatologist, Dr. Bernard
Ackerman (a recent winner of the
Dr. Ackerman didn’t stop at exposing this decades-long deception of the masses;
he also cast doubt on the increase in the incidence of melanoma cases medical
mainstream doctors insist is happening. He found that an expansion of the
diagnostic definition of “melanoma” has allowed a much broader array of
symptoms to be classified as the deadly disease compared to just 30 years ago.
Melanoma has to a large extent “grown” to epidemic proportions because of
statistical manipulations. In other words, if the same diagnostic definition
applied 30 years ago were applied today, melanomas would have increased only
insignificantly.
Furthermore, this respected physician challenged the medical mainstream to
explain why nearly all cases of melanoma among certain races (black African,
Asian and South American) occur in areas of the body that are almost never
exposed to sunlight—places like the palms, soles of the feet, and mucous
membranes. Should it not raise doubts among physicians and patients alike when
even among pale-faces, the most common sites for melanoma (legs in women, torso
in men) get significantly less sunlight exposure than other parts of the body?
To make a point, based on this and other evidence, your best chance of avoiding
melanoma is to move to areas of higher UV-concentration, such as mountainous
regions or the equatorial tropics and become a nudist! Since sunlight boosts
the immune system, you may find that such a move would also help with many
other health issues from which you may be suffering. Naturally, all this data
raises the question, what actually causes skin cancer? The answer may surprise
you greatly.
More in the author's book, Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, (www.amazon.com) or (www.ener-chi.com)
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While previous studies have implied
this protection comes from skin cells (damaged by the sun) committing
suicide, cutting the risk of cancer, two studies propose the reduced cancer
risk stems from an increased production of vitamin D made by sun-exposed
skin. The two studies found:
Despite findings, experts do not
promote extremely high levels of sun exposure, as too much sun could also
cause cancer. Therefore, it is important to remember to cover up during peak
sunshine hours, seek shade and wear factor 15-plus sunscreen. BBC News
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