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The Complete Home Guide todiHseerabsse, Nsatural Healing, and Nutrition  
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or dead worms and parasites.  
Cancer and Other “Incurable”or  
So-Called Terminal Chronic Diseases  
Cancer requires a very comprehensive, individualized approach. The  
whole person will need to be carefully considered on all levels, physically,  
mentally, and emotionally. Many people should be involved with  
treatment, not simply one practitioner or just the hospital, but rather a  
team of practitioners and therapists and a network of friends and  
caregivers. Certainly, do not self choose herbs; get qualif ed help.  
for the very sick  
When there is no time to lose and conventional medicine has pronounced  
someone terminally ill, a thirty-day natural healing and cleansing  
program can be undertaken under the guidance of a qualif ed practitioner,  
hospital consultants, the patient’s own doctor, and a team of two or three  
assistants or caregivers. Guidance on this routine will be very specif c,  
with many individual considerations.  
Herbs to support the body in general will be vital, and those called  
adaptogens (see chapter 7) will be specif cally required. Siberian ginseng  
root taken as a tincture (one teaspoon three or four times daily) is a very  
good choice; Astragalus root is another. Adaptogens make sure that the  
body can cope with any incoming stress, helping the body to “adapt” when  
it is asked to do things, rather than “crash.” Optimal adrenal function is  
vital, and those with low adrenal output due to low levels of  
corticosteroids will be disadvantaged. Strong adrenal function will help  
keep a person’s weight stable rather than allowing it to fall off, as it often  
does with cancer. If you experience weight loss, drinking three cups a day  
of fenugreek seed tea will be very helpful.  
Herbs used for cancer are called neoplastics, which means that they have  
a blocking or inhibiting effect on the new growth, or neoplasm. A simple  
and famous neoplastic is garlic, while others include mistletoe berry,  
pokeweed root, burdock root, and red clover f ower.  
Herbs that clean the bloodstream will also be vital for cancer and other  
chronic diseases, as they support the body through its process of releasing  
toxins shed from cancerous growths. A blood nourisher and general  
stimulator, vital for all chronic diseases, is cayenne. It is vital to use very  
hot cayenne. Herbs with liver-balancing or neoplastic abilities combined,  
like burdock root, red clover f ower, yellow dock root, cleavers leaf, and  
dandelion root, should be used.  
Other foods and herbs will be required to support and nourish the  


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