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The Diversity of Natural Cancer Cures

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by Walter Last

 

An amazing multitude of different cancer cures have been described in

books

and articles. Former cancer victims have written about their

recovery, which

often involved nothing more than living peacefully on an organic raw-

food diet.

Others attribute their cure to immune-enhancing factors, alternative

technology or meditation and guided imagery, sometimes to specific

remedies, but

commonly in various combinations of any of these methods. There are

so many

combinations and variations; the list seems to be endless.

 

To bring some order to this confusing diversity, I would like to form

a few

broad categories in which the main treatment is based either on

nutrition,

specific remedies, and technology or mind improvement.

 

NUTRITION CURES

 

One of the simplest methods was used by the Danish doctor Kristine

Nolfi. She

cured her own cancer with a hundred percent organic and vegetarian

raw-food

diet, and then continued to cure cancer patients in the same way on

her health

farm. She lost her medical license for using 'dangerous' and

unapproved

methods but her fame nevertheless spread throughout Scandinavia. In

New Zealand

Dr

Eva Hill did much the same thing to cure her own cancer, and to help

many of

her patients.

 

Ann Wigmore pioneered and promoted wheat-grass juice after curing her

own

cancer with it, in combination with an organic vegetarian diet.

Together with

Victoras Kulvinskas she formed the Hippocrates Health Institute in

Boston, and

branches and health farms using wheat-grass juice quickly sprang up

in many

countries. It is more effective if a non-centrifugal juicer is used

for making

juices, or possibly just a mincer with the juice pressed by hand.

 

In South Africa, Johanna Brand, a naturopath, invented the now famous

grape

cure by curing herself of stomach cancer in the 1920's. For six weeks

she ate

nothing but grapes, black varieties are the best. Thousands of former

cancer

victims have testified as to the effectiveness of her method. Because

it is now

so difficult to obtain unsprayed grapes, commercially sprayed grapes

have

sometimes been used after thorough washing in warm soapy water and

careful

rinsing.

 

The Breuss-Cure, which originated in Germany, also lasts for 6 weeks;

a

maximum of 500 ml of freshly pressed vegetable juices are used,

mainly beetroot

with some carrot, celery and radish. In addition herbal teas and

onion broth are

recommended. It too, is claimed to have cured thousands.

 

Hans Nieper, a respected German cancer therapist (recently deceased),

used in

addition to a good diet a wide range of supplements to inhibit tumor

growth,

activate the immune system, degrade the tumor with large-scale enzyme

supplementation, and strengthen the liver and general metabolism.

Nieper claimed

a 50%

survival rate of 'terminal' patients. If patients survive for 18

months on

this program, their statistical life expectancy becomes about normal,

unlike

with chemotherapy where life expectancy continues to drop after 18

months.

 

Another German cancer therapist, Dr J Kuhl, used a diet high in

lactic acid

fermented foods with good results. Lactic acid produced by a tumor

rotates

light to the left and enhances tumor growth. Lactic acid produced by

lactic acid

bacteria, on the other hand, rotates light to the right and inhibits

tumor

growth.

 

Dr Johanna Budwig, also in Germany, found high-quality linseed/flax

oil

combined with 'quark' and a mainly vegetarian raw-food diet most

effective.

Quark

is the German word for cottage cheese, but made from lactic acid

fermented raw

skim milk as used by Budwig. This provides not only the beneficial

fermentation products, but also a high amount of sulfur-amino acids.

These are

mainly

cysteine and methionine, which together with the polyunsaturated

fatty acids in

linseed/flax oil can quickly restore the oxidative energy production

in and

around tumors, and cause them to regress.

 

The Bristol Cancer Help Centre in England, formerly under the

direction of Dr

Alec Forbes, offers a wide-ranging holistic program similar to the

Mexican

clinics. This includes a vegetarian diet of largely raw foods,

supplemented by

specific vitamins, minerals, enzymes, ginseng and liver herbs, in

addition to

colonic cleansing, visualization, biofeedback, relaxation, meditation

and

spiritual healing.

 

Dr Maud Fere, in New Zealand, claimed success with a much more limited

program that had helped her to cure her own bowel cancer. She

advocated a good

vegetarian diet, but her main emphasis, similar to Max Gerson's, was

that there

must be no salt in it. She also found it beneficial to use diluted

hydrochloric

acid, diluted phosphoric acid, ammonium chloride, and tincture of

iodine.

 

Earlier Are Waerland became famous for a successful diet that

consisted of

sour milk and similar products, whole grains raw or only partly

cooked, as well

as fruits and vegetables. There are still many active Waerland groups

in

Germany and Scandinavia. Bircher-Benner advocated a similar lacto-

vegetarian

raw-food diet. He invented the by now famous but greatly deteriorated

muesli.

The

macrobiotic diet based on cooked brown rice and only a minimum of raw

food is

very different from all the other anti-cancer diets. It has a mild

cleansing

action and some cancer victims claim to have been cured with a strict

macrobiotic

diet.

 

From 1951 Dr A. Ferenczi in Hungary used large amounts of beetroot

successfully for tumor regression, up to 1 kg daily have been used.

The active

ingredient is the purple coloring containing anthocyanin. It is now

also

available as a

freeze-dried powder.

 

The Gerson Therapy

 

Best known is probably the Gerson therapy. Born in Germany, Dr Max

Gerson

immigrated to the US in 1938. His diet consists mainly of fresh,

preferably

organic, fruit and vegetables. He stressed a high potassium content

that is more

in

the skins or outer part of root vegetables than in the centers.

Sodium, on

the other hand, was to be severely restricted - the diet was

completely without

added salt, but with added potassium salts instead.

 

In addition, Gerson prescribed hydrochloric acid with pepsin,

pancreatin, and

high doses of Lugol's solution for iodine together with freeze-dried

thyroid,

niacin, Royal Jelly and injections of vitamin B12 with crude liver. In

addition, raw liver juice was used for its high content of enzymes.

Later, with

increasing chemicalization of agriculture, the liver juice was

omitted while

linseed/flax oil was belatedly added to the list of supplements.

 

Liver detoxification with frequent coffee enemas was another

cornerstone of

the Gerson Therapy; otherwise patients with advanced cancer might die

despite

disappearing tumors. Gerson treated hundreds of so-called terminal

cases of

which about 50 % recovered.

 

 

Dr Issels used the Gerson therapy successfully in Germany. In

addition, he

realized the harmful influence of dead or infected teeth and mercury

amalgam

fillings on the outcome of cancer therapy. Therefore, his patients

had to have

all unhealthy teeth removed at the beginning of the treatment.

 

The Kelly approach

 

Dr W. D. Kelly, an American dentist, was given only one month to live

with

multiple tumors of the liver, pancreas and other organs. He cured

himself with a

vegetarian raw-food diet with the addition of various supplements, but

especially with high doses of pancreatin. Pancreas enzymes are very

effective in

destroying tumors and sometimes even too effective. Kelly, like

Gerson and other

holistic cancer therapists, saw the greatest danger in a too rapid

destruction

of the tumor that can kill the patient with poisons generated by the

disintegrating tumor proteins. He recommended daily Epsom salts

purges during

the

critical period and, if required, also coffee enemas.

 

After helping thousands of patients by supplying individualized

information

to the patient's doctor, he believes that cancer can usually be cured

if there

is at least one month, but preferably three months, of life

expectancy when

starting the program.

 

As a simple, but somewhat expensive self-test for the early detection

of

cancer before tumors can be found clinically, he recommends taking

six to eight

pancreatin tablets after each meal for four weeks. If you feel worse

after these

four weeks with nausea, headaches or fatigue, there is likely to be a

cancerous condition. If you feel better instead, brighter and with

more energy,

the

condition is pre-cancerous. If there is no difference there is

probably no

early cancer, but there may already be a clinically detectable

malignant tumor

present.

 

Kelley has an extensive documentation with 10,000 medically verified

diagnoses. In one study all his cases of pancreas cancer were

investigated. With

conventional treatment there were virtually no survivors after 5

years. He had

22

cases on record. Of these, 10 never started the treatment and

survived for 67

days. 7 followed it partially and survived an average of 233 days,

while the 5

who followed the Kelley treatment completely all recovered completely.

 

Aajonus Vonderplanitz, in California, claims great success in

overcoming

advanced cancer with a raw-food diet that includes raw (organic)

meat, see his

book We Want to Live (1997).

 

REMEDIES & HERBS

 

I recently read that about ten thousand Americans a day cross the

border into

Mexico for medical treatment. Many of these have US health insurance

that is

not valid in Mexico. For some the attraction may be cheaper

treatment, and for

others a more humane face of medicine, but the most important draw

card would

be the fact that all holistic cancer clinics have effectively been

eliminated

in the US, and are now just south of the border down Mexico way.

While these

clinics also give dietary advice, they rely mainly on specific

remedies, such

as laetrile, ozone therapy, herbs and specific immune enhancing

measures, but

also visualization and meditation.

 

Many thousands of former cancer victims have attested to the

beneficial

effects of laetrile in the treatment of their disease. While not a

cure in

itself,

laetrile has been found in clinical trials to reduce or eliminate

cancer-related pain, improve the appetite with weight gain in

underweight

patients,

eliminate the typical nauseating cancer odor in terminal wards and

induce a

sense of

well-being and hope. In animal experiments also tumor inhibition was

evident.

Initially, laetrile commonly is injected, several grams daily, while

oral

doses of similar amounts may continue for a year or more. Animal

experiments

showed similar benefits to those from laetrile even when just bitter

almonds or

apricot kernels were eaten. These are also commonly used in countries

where the

availability of laetrile is restricted or where its use is illegal.

 

Garlic is frequently used as a supporting remedy in the treatment of

cancer.

It has proven anti-cancer properties. Not only does it protect

against the

formation of tumors, including metastases, it also inhibits the

growth of

established tumors. In addition, it strengthens the immune system and

improves

the

detoxifying ability of the liver.

 

Two other remedies used widely in the Mexican and other cancer

clinics are

Vitamin C, and hydrazine sulfate. Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron

pioneered

Vitamin C treatment for cancer, and found greatly increased survival

times for

terminal cancer patients with 10 g of Vitamin C daily. Now it is

sometimes used

in

even larger amounts, just below the threshold where it causes

diarrhea,

initially it may also be infused intravenously.

 

Hydrazine sulfate was discovered by Dr Joseph Gold for use in cancer

treatment. It blocks a liver enzyme which converts the lactic acid

produced by a

tumor

back into glucose, a reaction which takes much more energy from the

patient

than it generates. It was mainly used with 'terminal': patients who

reported

improved appetite, normalized weight, increased strength and less

pain. However,

presently it is increasingly used in earlier stages and more and more

patients claim that their tumors have disappeared.

 

Another group of remedies is specifically designed to stimulate the

immune

system. In the 1950s Krebiozen made headlines in the US, promoted by

a respected

scientist, Dr Andrew Ivy. Five hundred doctors used it, and 20,000

testimonials of cancer victims stood behind Dr Ivy and his co-workers

at their

trial.

They were acquitted, but the AMA succeeded in blacklisting Krebiozen.

 

Dr B Coley was an early US cancer pioneer who used a special vaccine

to

induce fever and inflammation in cancer patients. Out of 500 cases

half remained

free of malignancy during follow-up for 5-54 years.

 

Virginia Livingston-Wheeler, an US microbiologist, combined a

vegetarian diet

with a vaccine prepared from the patient's own body fluids. Most

widely used,

however, especially in Germany, are vaccines related to the tubercle

bacillus

that were developed by Prof Enderlein.

 

In Japan, Dr Hasumi claims outstanding success in curing cancer with a

vaccine made from the patient's own urine; however it works only if

the immune

system is still sufficiently strong.

 

In addition to the successful homeopathic cancer treatment by the US

doctor E

G Jones before homeopathy was outlawed, Dr W F Koch also gained the

support

of thousands of patients with his homeopathic oxidation catalyst.

Mistletoe,

too, is often given in homeopathic form. A 'folk healer' told me that

he found

Ammon. Carb. 30 excellent for cancers in animals as well as in humans.

 

Somewhat hard to take for many is urine therapy. J W Armstrong in his

book

The Water of Life relates many cases of medically diagnosed cancer

that appeared

to be cured after a urine fast usually lasting for about three weeks,

drinking nothing but one's own urine and additional water. With this,

Armstrong

regarded cancer as rather easy to cure; 'child's play' he called it,

except if

someone had previously already received medical treatment.

 

The Greek Professor of Internal Medicine, E.V. Danopoulus, discovered

that

urea was the most potent anti-cancer factor in urine. At first he

treated

several liver cancer patients with it who recovered, and then he also

used it

successfully with many other advanced cancers. However, after the

publication of

his

results in the Lancet in 1974 he experienced increasing harassment and

retired from medical practice.

 

Dr William Lane in the US noticed that sharks do not develop cancer.

This

prompted him to experiment with good results with shark cartilage

that is now

commercially available. Liquid bovine cartilage appears now to be

preferable to

shark cartilage. Also shark oil is useful.

 

Gaston Naessens in Canada was successful curing cancer by injecting a

modified camphor compound into lymph nodes to strengthen the immune

system. He

claims

a long-term remission rate of 75%. His remedy, called 714-X, is now

available

from Canada and New Zealand.

 

Thousands of cancer victims, in East European and other poor

countries, claim

to have been cured by taking refined kerosene. That apparently kills

the

cancer microbe and possibly cancer cells as well.

 

Dr Seeger, the German cancer researcher, found Zell Oxygen most

helpful to

'normalize' cancer cells by restarting their oxidative energy

production. Zell

Oxygen is a culture of special young yeast cells very high in

oxygenating

enzymes. It works best combined with Royal Jelly. Wobe-mugos is

imported from

Germany and contains proteolytic enzymes from hydrolyzed beef

pancreas, thymus

and

other glands. It is claimed to be very beneficial in so-called

terminal

conditions.

 

Herbal Remedies

 

Essiac (Ojibway Indian Tea) is another famous cancer herb mixture

developed

about 1922 by the Canadian nurse Rene Caisse. In 1937 the Royal Cancer

Commission found that Essiac was effective against cancer and in 1938

Essiac

came

within three votes of being legalized as a remedy for terminal

cancer. After

this,

Rene received special permission to treat terminal cancer patients

but was

not allowed to take money for it. At the time of her death in 1978

the Canadian

Ministry of Health & Welfare destroyed her huge collection of

documents and

patient files on the effectiveness of Essiac.

 

The four ingredients are rhubarb root, burdock root and slippery elm

as blood

purifiers and the tops of young sheep's sorrel (Rumen acetosella) to

destroy

cancer cells. The use of Essiac is gradually spreading to other

countries but

there is also a warning that some distributors have substituted

yellow dock or

curly dock for the essential sheep's sorrel.

 

A tea made from leaves and stems or twigs of papaw is another

traditional

cancer remedy. It was revealed to Stan Sheldon on the Queensland Gold

Coast in

1962, who cured his rapidly spreading tumors in both lungs within two

months.

This remedy is now widely used throughout Queensland. According to an

article in

New Scientist, a chemical has been discovered in one kind of papaw

(papaya),

which is one billion times more effective against cancer cells than

presently

used anti-cancer drugs. An Aboriginal cancer remedy is the maroon

bush, while

the use of mistletoe preparations is based on ancient European

folklore and

recommendations by Rudolf Steiner.

 

Jethro Kloss was a well-known early American herbalist of the 'old

school'.

For cancer treatment he used mainly red clover blossoms, violet

leaves and

flowers, the roots of burdock and yellow dock, golden seal,

echinacea, aloes,

agrimony, dandelion root, supposedly with good success.

 

Even more famous and most widely used in many countries, is the

Hoxsey herb

mixture. It originated about 1925 in the US with thousands of patients

attesting to its usefulness in overcoming their cancer. The internal

remedy

consists

of amarga, berberis root, buckthorn bark, burdock, licorice,

pokeroot, prickly

ash, red clover, stillingia root and potassium iodide. There were

also three

external remedies to be painted on any visible tumors to make them

dry up and

fall out. Presently mainly Herbveil 8 and KC101 (in NZ) and cansema

are being

used for melanoma and other skin cancers as well as tumors close to

the skin,

such as breast tumors.

 

Jason Winters described his own cure from terminal cancer in his book

'Killing Cancer'. In addition to diet, he used red clover, chaparral,

gotu kola,

selenium and some not well-defined roots and spices in his herb

mixture, which

is

not available in most countries.

 

ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY

 

Ozone therapy has been pioneered in Germany, and it is used there as

well as

in the Mexican cancer clinics by thousands of doctors, not only for

treating

cancer, but also AIDS, and other serious infectious diseases.

Generally about

220 ml of the patient's blood is mixed with ozone, often under

pressure, and

then re-injected into a vein. This kills not only cancer cells and

the cancer

microbe in the treated blood but in the whole body, while the immune

system is

strengthened at the same time. Where ozone therapy is not available,

patients

commonly take diluted hydrogen peroxide.

 

A similar beneficial effect is achieved with overheating a tumor.

Cancer

cells are damaged or weakened by temperatures of 42-43ºC, which are

still

harmless

for normal cells. To overheat internal tumors, daily bath

temperatures are

gradually raised over a period of weeks or months up to 47ºC. Various

precautions are required, especially the blood sugar level needs to

be kept

artificially

low during treatment; otherwise tumor growth may be stimulated if

temperatures are not quite high enough. As after ozone therapy, the

damaged

tumor becomes

highly responsive to any additional holistic therapy. In addition,

the blood

circulation is greatly increased.

 

The south-pointing pole of a magnet inhibits not only microbes but

also

cancer cells. Tumors could be inhibited or regressed by long exposure

to a

strong

south-pointing pole of 4000 gauss or more. This also appears to

reduce pain,

inflammation and infections. Presently many cancer patients use

electronic

zappers and magnetic pulsers with apparently good success. The most

commonly

used

varieties are the Hulda Clark zapper and the Beck zapper or blood

purifier,

recommended to be used in combination with oxygen therapy and

colloidal silver.

 

Similar results may be achieved by radiating the tumor site with

strong blue

light. An article in New Scientist revealed that blue light inhibits

cell

divisions; it is also used in some hospitals as the quickest cure for

jaundiced

babies.

 

The Tronado machine is a German invention to shine very high radio

frequencies onto a tumor area. It overheats the tumor and causes its

destruction

but

unlike conventional radio-therapy, it does not damage the surrounding

healthy

tissue.

 

Dr John Holt, a radio-therapist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

in

Perth, managed with the help of the then Premier of Western

Australia, John

Tonkin,

to buy a Tronado for the hospital, and in addition, one for his

private

clinic. Holt treated more than seven thousand cancer patients with

the Tronado

with

remarkable results. At the same time he continued to treat cancer

patients at

the hospital with normal radiotherapy.

 

In a published trial with head and neck cancers (for easy

verification of

results) a 34 % initial success rate was achieved with radiotherapy

while after

three years 17 % were still in remission. With the Tronado the

initial success

was 92 % and after three years 68 %. However, such are the mysterious

ways of

the medical profession that only the Tronado in private practice

could be

used, until quite recently the one installed at the hospital was

never allowed

to

be operated.

 

The Roy Ray Rife electronic frequency instrument emitted waves of a

frequency

that was specific to kill cancer cells. Conventional research

institutions

confirmed a high success rate before the AMA (US) took court action

and

destroyed the treatment machines. Now there are replicas appearing,

some of

which seem

to be more effective than others.

 

The US magazine The Choice (Spring 1990) published an article about

Nick van

Echteld, who claims to have completely recovered from terminal

metastatic

cancer in 1989. Echteld attributes his remarkable cure to self-

treatment with a

Rife instrument, while his orthodox specialists believe instead

in 'spontaneous

remission' - a cure without cause.

 

Wilhelm Reich attributed his success with terminal cancer patients to

their

immersion in a strong field of bio-energy or orgone, as he called it.

Orgone

accumulators are easy to build with alternating layers of metal and

organic

material. More recently 'orgonite' is being used, a mixture of a

resin with fine

metal particles.

 

Harold S Burr discovered the electric life fields around living

organisms.

Tumors have an abnormal negative charge as compared to the

surrounding healthy

tissue. In Sweden Bjorn Nordenstrom used 10-volt needle-like

electrodes

inserted into a tumor to destroy it. For external tumors, I

experimented with a

large

flat 1.5-volt positive electrode on the tumor and the negative

electrode on a

healthy tissue nearby.

Finally I may mention that various cancer victims claim to have been

cured by

psychic surgery, especially in the Philippines. Also radionic

instruments are

sometimes claimed to be successful with cancer.

 

MIND IMPROVEMENT

 

Wilhelm Reich discovered the harmful effects of repressed sexual

feelings in

the development of cancer. His methods for freeing up feelings and

energy

flows have become standard practice in bio-energy therapy and other

holistic

treatments.

 

Another ten-year study published in the Lancet, of women with advanced

metastatic breast cancer found that just belonging to a support group

and

meeting

once a week, doubled the life span as compared to a control group

that had

medically been treated in the same way. In addition to some well-

known support

groups, such as those run by the Bristol clinic in England, or Ian

Gawler's

support group in Victoria (Australia), there are now small groups,

often in

connection with meditation groups, in many cities.

 

Well known for his meditation work with cancer patients was Dr A

Meares of

Melbourne. In the US the Simontons have pioneered guided imagery in

cancer

treatment. They showed that survival times with terminal cancers can

be doubled

in

this way. Characteristics in patients, which they found to be

associated with

above average results are emotional resilience, flexible beliefs,

physical

activity, strong self-concept and social autonomy. Many cancer

patients have

been

greatly helped and seem to have recovered mainly because they learned

to

express their feelings and emotions and they moved towards fulfilling

their

emotional needs.

 

Of all the published, properly randomized clinical trials,

psychotherapy is

by far the most effective cancer therapy. Eysenk and Grossarth-Maticek

(Behavior Research and Therapy 1991; 29 (1):17-31) found that 13

years after

extended

individual therapy none of 50 patients in the treated cancer-prone

group had

died but 32 percent in the control group. With group therapy, after 7

years,

there were18 out of 239 cancer death in the treated group, compared

to 111 of

the 234 in the control group. With terminal cancer patients the

increased

survival time was 64% and women with metastasized breast cancer lived

about

twice as

long.

 

The most powerful setback to recovery, on the other hand, is a medical

pronouncement that the condition in incurable and terminal,

especially if a time

limit is mentioned. This then becomes a self-fulfilling hypnotic

suggestion;

just

like " pointing the bone " in other cultures and it is then difficult

for a

holistic therapist to change this medically implanted death wish into

hope and

faith that are the keys for recovery.

 

The most promising therapy appears to be The New Medicine of the

much-persecuted German Dr Hamer. He claims a 95% success rate by

discovering and

eliminating the emotional shock that triggered the development of

cancer,

commonly one

to two years before its diagnosis. My own preference is a combination

of Dr

Hamer's approach, with an organic raw-food diet that is suitable for

the

metabolic type of the patient.