 | 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)
About The Author 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 Research. Christopher writes and lectures internationally on herbal medicine. He is a consultant to the herb industry and is currently practicing and working on a... ...more |
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