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Kelly Wortkoetter wrote:
I have been researching alternative healing for cancer for two years now. I
have compiled information that I think is very important to have, if you have it
yourself, or know someone with cancer. As never before, there is a wealth of
information at our fingertips in the Internet and in books. In my search for a
natural cure to my own illness, lupus, I have come across a common theme, which
is go back to nature. The body doesn't want to be sick. It has wonderful
mechanisms to heal itself. In every country, in every part of the earth, there
are foods, herbs, and other plants that are there for us to use in the healing process.
Gerson Therapy might be able to help you. Buy the book "The Gerson Therapy"
by Charlotte Gerson and read it right away. The diet of Dr. William D. Kelley is
similar to this therapy. He cured himself of pancreatic cancer. There is a story
of a woman in the Gerson book who cured herself of ovarian cancer with no chemo,
etc.
[Ed.: Natural Crystal Salt is very different from refined table salt, and is
metabolized very differently in your body. We have found many people actually
salt deficient. So it may be that it is the refined salt that is the poison.]
A lot of my readings have been about the work of Dr. Max Gerson who is a
hero to me. In the early 1900's, he suffered from migraines. He tried dietary
changes which successfully treated these migraines. Later he applied this
dietary regimen to patients with a tuberculosis type of lupus in his practice,
with great results. Dr. Gerson reasoned that a high intake of potassium-rich
foods allowed toxins to pass out of cells much easier. Consequently, a diet high
in salt would keep those toxins in. When toxins are in the cell, healing enzymes
have trouble getting in. Soon, he was treating cancer patients with his diet,
often with remarkable results. This occurred in the fifties when todays current
technology was not available to him, and to have achieved what he did at that
time makes him brilliant and a true visionary. Since Dr. Gerson's discovery that
changing the body's metabolism rapidly influences healing, many doctors have
begun using metabolic diets with their own variations of course. Two such
doctors are William D. Kelley and Nicholas Gonzalez. It is interesting to note
that Dr. Kelley used his own nutrition regimen to cure himself of pancreatic
cancer in the 1960's. Here is Dr. Kelley's book which is available free on-line
called "One Answer to Cancer".
http://www.drkelley.com/CANLIVER55.html
Natural Cancer Healing Strategies
The first thing that I would do is to start you or your loved one on:
pure organic veggie juices, esp. carrot, spinach, and apple (freshly juiced)
barley grass juice (green) powder (mixed with water or lemon water)
[Ed.: Other healers have suggested that sugar feeds cancer (true), and that
you should be limiting high glycemic index foods. That would include carrot and
apple juice. In the greater scheme of things, the things that you should eliminate
are refined foods: sugar, flour, salt, hydrogenated fats, soda pop drinks.]
These are things that heal. They flood your body with potassium. They boost
your immune system. They send healing enzymes where cells need them most. Cancer
cannot survive in a well-oxygenated environment and an alkaline body means that
it is well oxygenated. Foods that produce acid in the body are meats, milk
products, grains, processed foods, cooked foods and refined sugar. The only way
to get your body alkaline is by eating raw or only slightly cooked veggies and
raw fruits. A cancer specialist in the town that I live told me that vitamin A
(like in spinach and carrot juice) can reverse the mutations that lead to cancer
(p53 gene), so it would seem that antioxidants might be able to actually
"right" your cells. This info correlates to the Gerson therapy and
other raw veggie and fruit juice regimen successes. One would be Rev. Malkmus of
Hallelujah acres. He had a big tumor in his colon. He began drinking nothing but
carrot juice and barley grass powder drinks and it reversed itself, it was
absorbed by his body. I have learned that once people stop putting so much
nutritionless food in their bodies, with excess hormones and protein, the body
starts to digest what is most injurious and foreign to it (cancer). Also,
whatever you put into your body your immune system reacts to. This reaction
takes place in the bowel and in the bloodstream. By eating foods which the immune
system tolerates well, you can ensure that your immune system will be able to
focus more appropriately on cancer and other invaders.
The first things to get are three or four books as well as reading about the
works of Dr. Kelley and Nicholas Gonzalez, etc. Anything by Max Gerson MD or his
daughter Charlotte is a must. Here are the names of some books that I know can
help you.
The first book is
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer by
Dr. Gerson. These are 50 cases of cancer which were reversed by diet. This book
was written some fifty years ago, but details well how the body must receive more
potassium than salt to detox and heal. A note, Doctor Gerson, who wrote the book
in the 50's, used raw calf's liver as his only animal food, while today
it may be prudent to take fresh flax seed oil supplements or cod liver oil
supplements instead. Though it was written 50 years ago it could be one of the
most valuable books you ever buy.
Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer This lists doctors across
the state who have been successful using diet and supplements, some intravenous.
It lists their actual protocol and results and tells you how to get in touch
with their clinics. The people who wrote and took part in this book believe that
cancer is a reversible condition. This book could be so helpful to you, to read
about all the alternative means that traditional complementary physicians are
using to heal people.
More books
A Cancer Battle Plan: Six Strategies for Beating Cancer, from a
Recovered "Hopeless Case" and
A Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook: A Step-by-Step Health Program to Give Your Body
a Fighting Chance, and
The Gerson Therapy, by Charlotte Gerson published in 2000. Read as many of
the above books as soon as you can. A Cancer Battle Plan is a great beginning
book because it explains in layman's terms why you need to do all these things,
so it is a great companion to Dr. Gerson's book.
In conjunction with dietary changes, to open up your bile ducts and stimulate
your liver, most naturopaths would recommend water or watered down coffee enemas
given at least twice a day. This prevents the contents of the colon from being
reabsorbed into the blood stream, reducing the toxins your liver has to eliminate.
Enemas are not the same as high colonics which have water touching the entire
large bowel. There is a higher chance of electrolyte depletion with colonics, which
should be supervised by professionals. The enemas are designed to release the
bowel contents and stimulate the bile ducts to contract moving bile and stones
if you have them through.
[Ed.: Further to this, liver and gallbladder flush can bring a lot of fast
progress in your body's healing ability.]
While doing the things mentioned above, you can research the importance of
the things in the list below. I wouldn't begin taking them all at once however.
As you are looking them up you will be able to decide which ones you or your
loved one should begin with.
- pancreatic enzymes (digestive enzymes like lipase, protease, and amylase)
- ellagic acid (raspberries, other berries, fruits)
- graviola powder
- Pau d'Arco tea
- Purslane (Portulaca Oleracea)
- shark cartilage (stimulate immune system and inhibit tumor blood vessel growth)
- selenium, powerful antioxidant said to be low in people with cancer
- Essiac tea
- Johanna Budwig diet (cottage cheese or yogurt and flax seed oil)
- vitamin B17 (nitrilosides)
- haelan - a fermented soy product, highly touted as a nourishing food with
highly oxygenating anti-cancer properties
- prebiotics, probiotics, and soil based organisms
- glutathione - one of the most powerful antioxidants (nautal whey)
- garlic - (Garlic is a potent antioxidant that has been found to inhibit
tumor cell formation and is currently being studied by the National Cancer
Institute. It may be effective in fighting stomach, skin and colon cancer.)
- MSM - methylsulfonylmethane, is a natural sulfur compound found in all
living things. MSM can restore flexibility and permeability to cell walls,
fluids can pass through the tissues more easily. This helps equalize pressure
and reduce or eliminate the cause of pain. Harmful substances such as lactic
acid and toxins are allowed to flow out, while nutrients are permitted to flow
in. This prevents the pressure buildup in cells that causes inflammation
- structured water - a variety of devices are available that creates
beneficial alkalinity in water. The importance of alkalinity is stated above).
- Calcium-Magnesium supplements. The best kind is powdered and mixed well
with water. Elevates ph and alkalinity. [Twilight Bath Crystals].
- Vitamin D also facilitates absorption of calcium. In winter months in
North America Americans are often deficient in Vitamin D. A good source of
Vitamin D and A is cod liver oil.
- Vitamin B17, also called Laetrile, amygdalin and nitrilosides, have not
really been consumed regularly in America for a long while. In areas where
they are consumed year round, the cancer rates are extremely low.
Nitrilosides are found in:
High: wild blackberry, choke cherry, wild crabapple, cranberry, apple seeds,
apricot seeds, cherry seed, nectarine seed, peach seed, plum seed, prune seed,
bitter almond, broad beans, cassava, alfalfa
Medium to high: elderberry, gooseberry, macadamia nuts, mung beans
Medium: boysenberry, currant, loganberry, mulberry, raspberry, buckwheat,
linseed, millet, squash seeds, lentils, Burma butter (lima) beans, alfalfa
sprouts, broad bean sprouts, chick pea sprouts, mung bean sprouts
Low to medium: black-eyed beans, chick peas, kidney beans
Low: domestic blackberry, market crabapple, black beans, green peas, U.S.
butter beans (lima), shell beans, cashews, beet tops, spinach, watercress, sweet
potato, yams.
Nitrilosides are found in other foods too, like grape seeds. People just
don't eat seeds and berries like they used to. I recommend that you juice apples
and leave the seeds in with them. (I am doing this. I have lupus and have a
familial predisposition to cancer. Already I have noticed less arthritis when I
drink fresh juices while avoiding wheat, milk, and meat). B-17 "eats the shield"
around cancer cells exposing them to other enzymes that kill these cells. These
enzymes are produced in the pancreas. Pancreatic enzymes do not just stay in the
digestive system and they are not solely for food. They circulate in the blood
as well. They digest protein, fats, and carbohydrates that we eat. If we eat
excessive animal protein these valuable digestive enzymes are used to digest the
food, but if you eat veggie proteins and fast a bit, there will be more
pancreatic enzymes in the blood stream to eat up foreign proteins like cancer
cells. You can start taking digestive supplements with your food. After the age
of 35, people's enzyme production goes down, but you can also get these types
of enzymes naturally from raw veggies, etc. Raw veggies and fruits have their
own digestive enzymes intact so they and this lessens the burden on the pancreas.
[Ed.: Proteolytic enzymes, such as serrapeptase in Zymitol, have been shown
to very effectively reduce the fibrin levels in the body.]
There is an ingredient in ESSIAC TEA which is said to cause the cancer cell
to commit apoptosis or suicide. Essiac tea can be taken during chemotherapy to
make you stronger. The four most common ingredients of Essiac tea are Burdock
Root (Arctium lappa), Sheep Sorrel (Rumex acetosella), Slippery Elm (Ulmus fulva),
and Turkey Rhubarb (Rheum palmatum).
GRAVIOLA powder, from a tree in the Amazon is touted as 10,000 times stronger
in killing colon cancer than Adriamycin, a commonly used chemotherapeutic drug.
ELLAGIC acid from raspberry seeds is said to also have this property of
causing cancer cell death while sparing normal cells.
Pau d'Arco is a natural grown herb that is derived from the inner bark of
the Tabebuia Avellanedae or Tabebuia Impetiginosa (Taheebo) tree grown in South
America. I know someone personally who claims that it helped eliminate his
stomach cancer. Walter Lubeck has a book entitled "The Healing Power of Pau
d'Arco".
Purslane (Portulaca Oleracea) plant is chock full of healing enzymes and
fatty acids. Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids than any other leafy
vegetable plant we know of. It is highly nutritious and healing.
The Johanna Budwig diet. This biochemist from Germany was nominated for 7
Nobel awards for her discoveries about fats and healing. She has been very
successful with cancer. The diet she reportedly used to heal many people of
cancer is called the flax seed oil/ cottage cheese diet. The sulphur compounds
in the cottage cheese (or yogurt) bind with the Omega 3 fatty acids in flax seed
oil and send them all over the body, spreading huge amounts of healing oxygen.
These Omega 3 fatty acids are also necessary for basic living, hormone
production, etc. The American diet is highly deficient in them. Make sure you
buy a flax oil product that is bottled under the best conditions or you can
learn to successfully grind your own. Barlean's is supposed to be a quality flax
seed oil product.
6 musts, from a speech given by Dr. William D. Kelley. Info about him is
available at curezone.com and below in one of the listed sites. The examples are
mine (not a part of Dr. Kelley's speech).
- Detoxification (juice fasting, enemas, antioxidants, barley juice powder,
much more)
- Nutrition and Oxygenation ( flax seed oil, cod liver oil, juice fasting,
veggies, fruits, barley juice (green) powder, haelan, much more)
- Immune system building (example: essiac tea, vitamins, minerals,
antioxidants, shark cartilage, maitake, reishi, shitake mushrooms, juice
fasting, much more)
- Enzymatic Therapy (pancreatic enzymes, bromelaine, barley juice powder,
greens, fruit, veggie juices, more)
- Mental healing, meditation, prayer
- Non-toxic natural chemotherapy (ellagic acid, graviola tree powder, Pau
d'Arco tea, Essiac tea, more)
Your liver: Dr. Gerson reasoned that a liver that is working properly is the
best way to fight disease. Many naturopaths and complementary physicians advise
patients to do liver flushes. Not only in your gall bladder can you develope
stones from sluggish bile and the SAD Standard American Diet but you develop
stones in the bile ducts of your liver as well. These stones impede toxins from
leaving the liver. If you believe you may have gallbladder or liver stones, start
juicing fresh vegetables and drinking lots of fresh apple juice which contains
malic acid that softens these stones. In your later flushes you will be able to
get out these softened crushed stones much easier than if you tried a flush without
drinking apple juice for a while. There are fats in veggies. The only fats you
would need to supplement with are Omega 3's found in flax seed oil or fish oil.
Note: If you are taking any kind of blood thinner do not take fish oil. Fish oil
thins the blood much more so than flax seed oil. The protocol for successful
flushes (most centering around olive oil, grapefruit juice, and epsom salts) can
be found at www.curezone.com, along with many testimonies. If you have been
having pain and gallstone symptoms at the time you do start a flush, start out
with a mild one.
If you have gallstones, liver disease or cancer of the liver, you should
start taking milk thistle (major liver support and antioxidant which actually
helps healthy liver cells regenerate) and lecithin (thins the bile). You should
try to drink fresh beet juice which also thins the bile and has antioxidant
properties.
Chances are you have a bacteria, parasite, or candida overload from the sad
Standard American Diet in your liver as well as your bowels and possibly all
over your body. Your immune system fights these daily. This is a valuable army
which you would much rather be using to fight cancer. In the liver, these
organisms irritate your bile duct walls and keep stones stuck there. There are
some mild parasite cleanses you can look into, information about which also can
be found at curezone. A physicist named Dr. Hulda Clark believes that the growth
factors emitted by parasites and bacteria are major contributors to cancer
development. This phenomenon may also be true in the case of candida. Candida is
a relatively benign bacteria that everyone is supposed to have in the bowel.
Commonly, conditions occur which allows this bacteria to mutate into a fungus
which can go all over the body. The toxic by-products emitted from candida are
carcinogenic. In time, when medicine allows itself to become more nature-based
(as it already is in many other countries) more and more information will come
out about the role of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses in today's
illnesses. For example, there is a type of lymphoma which occurs in the stomach
called malt lymphoma. This lymphoma occurs in conjunction with a tiny spiral-
shaped bacteria called helicobacter pylori. When successful antibiotic regimens
are given and the bacteria is eradicated, the lymphoma goes away.
It is wise to look into liver flushes and parasite cleanses, but if you have
been sick, start slowly with both. As the micro organisms come out of their hiding
places and start to die off, you may feel much worse for a week or so. Places like
curezone usually advocate that you do a parasite cleanse before attempting a liver
flush. If you do liver flushes and get live parasites and candida out of your bile
ducts, they will only attach to the colon and start the process all over again.
Regardless of whether you decide to do these two things, there are other natural
ways to fight viruses, candida, parasites, and bacteria: When I have listed
antifungals, it is primarily candida I am speaking of: All of these are
antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic in varying degrees:
- garlic - antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral
- grapeseed extract - antiparasitic, antifungal
- caprylic acid - antifungal
- Pau d'Arco tea - antifungal
- pumpkin seeds, cloves, onions, thyme and sage, other herbs, grapefruit
seed extract- antiparasitic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral
- probiotics or soil-based organisms - fight all
- there are many more healthy and delicious natural microbe fighters
http://www.hopeandhealing.com/healingfoods.htm
I know I have given you lots of info, so I will condense it here to give my
advice about what is most immediately necessary.
- Purchase the Gerson books, and books like them, research every dietary
protocol that you can, Kelley's for instance, and find the one you think will
be most beneficial to you. The actual protocol Gonzalez uses is available
on-line.
- Buy or borrow a juicer. The best kind has a separate type of press which
doesn't inundate the juice with electromagnetic radiation
- drink freshly made juices, vegetable and fruit, throughout the day
- alternate these juice drinks with green drinks which contain young barley
juice bowder, and things like kelp, chlorella, msm, and spirulina
- take in no refined salt, no meat, no milk products (except cottage cheese or
yogurt with flax seed oil), no processed foods like grains, except for an
occasional whole grain product, etc., no refined sugar
- supplement with pancreatic enzymes and bromelain
- eat or juice foods that contain vitamin B-17
- do enemas, start out slowly
- Pau d' Arco tea or Essiac tea, or both
- fresh flax seed oil
- probiotic supplements or soil based organism supplements
- eat as much raw garlic as you can each day
- supplement with lots of antioxidants
- join an on-line group like those offered at yahoo.com (yahoogroups),
these groups will add to your knowledge immeasurably and you will meet others
battling the same illness as you or your loved one. It takes courage to look
elsewhere than traditional medicine for healing. I have found many wonderful,
strong people in groups like this. I am surprised daily by how many people
have improved their lives and overcome illnesses like cancer by using natural
methods either alone or in conjunction with allopathic (traditional) medicine.
If detoxing by drinking juice drinks only, a natural fiber supplement is
necessary (psyllium husk) as well as vitamin B-12 (the kind that melts on your
tongue is the best). Info available at
www.hacres.com.
In the books I have mentioned above you will find the juicing and supplement
regimens outlined for you. You can use these regimens or create your own, based
on the outlines that people like Dr. Max Gerson, Anne Frahm, Dr. Kelley, or
Reverend Malkmus (at www.hacres.com) have created for themselves, and to be
examples for other people in need, like you and me. And as I do, in your own
research you can learn new things all the time from books and the Internet, and
incorporate this knowledge into your healing process. Dr. Gerson asked that his
patients followed his protocol from one to two years, after which they were able
to start eating some of the foods they had eaten before, but with caution and
common sense.
There are cancer survivors who have followed the above protocols and are
cancer free. In the most recent book "The Gerson Therapy" there are
pictures of actual people, their names and their advice for people like your
loved one who is suffering from cancer.
It is a sad sad thing that has happened to the medical industry in America.
To teach people how to eat to heal themselves is not a great money making tool.
It would be wonderful if we could all go to a clinic like the Gerson clinic in
Tijuana, Mexico or the retreat type of learning center created by Anne Frahm and
her husband David (Health Quarters Ministries). Most of the clinics that use
"radical" natural therapy have been forced out of the U.S, but there are
complementary physicians, some possibly in your area who believe wholeheartedly
in the natural treatment of cancer coinciding with some traditional treatments
when necessary. These doctors are found in the above mentioned book Alternative
Medicine Definitive Guide to Cancer, across the U.S., the book gives their
clinic locations and phone numbers.
BELOW ARE THE BEST SITES I have found so far detailing natural treatments for
cancer and the reasoning behind them. They are very comprehensive, full of
common sense and ultimately two of the most helpful sites I have found so far.
They are chock full of valuable information for anyone who is fighting cancer.
It is my hope that with this information and information from the lifelong work
of doctors like Max Gerson and William Kelley you can begin to get your health
back and be well on the road to recovery. These natural treatment methods are
not over-night sensations. It took your body time to become imbalanced enough to
get cancer. It will take time to fully heal.
www.healingcancernaturally.com
www.cancertutor.com
www.cancer-prevention.net
And here are some other sites with info related to what I have written above.
www.docevaonline.com
www.dr-gonzalez.com
www.healthcaretimes.com
www.healthquarters.org
www.drkelley.com
www.cancerfoundation.com
www.anticancerinfo.co.uk
www.plantmiracle.com
www.holistichealthline.com
www.hacres.com
www.suite101.com
www.pau-d-arco.com
www.alternative-treatments.com
www.life-enthusiast.com
www.grand-strand.com
www.psa-rising.com
www.sawilsons.com
www.worldimage.com (MSM Facts)
I am learning new things all the time, please email me if you would like to be
updated when I come across something in my alternative cancer treatment group or
in books or on-line that I think is important. Please feel free to e-mail me
with any questions you have regarding what I have written. I wish the best for
you. I hope I have helped you, especially in understanding the importance of
returning to nature to heal yourself.
Thank you,
Kelly Wortkoetter
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