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Herbal Cancer Therapies
The following outline covers the therapeutic categories most often recommended
in western herbal practice.
Overview of popular herbal protocols:
Diets:
- Live foods (purifying diet): wheat grass juice, carrot juice, raw fruits,
vegetables; avoid cooked foods
- Macrobiotic diet: brown rice, millet, other grains, vegetables, mostly
cooked; avoid raw foods, sugar Building diet: fish, chicken (20%), whole
grains (40%), lightly cooked vegetables (30%), concentrated foods--dairy,
nuts, seeds (5%), comfort foods (5%)
"Blood purifiers"
- Red clover compound
- Essiac
- Hoxey formula
Protein-shock (mitogen) therapy
- Enderlein therapy
- Mistletoe, poke, venoms, carnivora
- Compound Q
"Herbal Chemotherapy"
- Laetrile (vit. B-17)
- Chaparral
- Sanguinaria
"Host immune modulators (herbal bone-marrow transplant)"
Reishi
Shiitake
Maitake
Trametes
Astragalus (spleen tonic)
Ligustrum
External preparations: Escarotic salves, anti-cancer herbs
Sanguinaria
Chaparral
Euphorbia
Castor oil
Poke oil
With Deficient Conformation:
1. Macro or building diet
2. Protein-shock therapy
3. Host immune modulators
With Excess or Normal conformation:
In younger people, or robust people, usually with excess, warming diet
(meat, sugar, stimulants, processed food).
1. Diet: live foods, purifying, then macro
2. Blood purifiers: red clover combo
3. Protein-shock therapy
3. Herbal Chemotherapy
4. Host immune modulators (with caution)
Breast Cancer
Identify and eliminate as many risk factors as possible:
- sugar
- Xanthine-containing beverages, foods
- pesticides, food additives, estrogenic foods, alcoholic beverages, electromagnetic
radiation, etc.
Chinese Patent formulas for Breast Cancer:
- Lithospermum & Oyster Shell (T.K. (blood tonic), Oyster shell, Astragalus
(tonify spleen), Lithospermum (dispel blood heat), Peony (blood tonic),
Rhubarb, Licorice, Cnidium (blood tonic), Cimicifuga, Lonicera (dispel heat
poisoning)]
- T.K. 16 herb combo
- W.T.T.C.
- Major 6 herb combo: ginseng, pinellia, jujube, atractylodes, citrus,
licorice, hoelen, ginger. (tonic formula)
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Christopher Hobbs is a fourth generation herbalist and botanist with over 30 years experience with herbs. Founder of Native Herb Custom Extracts (now Rainbow Light Custom Extracts) and the Institute for Natural Products 
