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Healing Cancer Naturally:
Supplements & Herbs
 

”Crops have higher yields when more [carbon dioxide] is available... But there's a trade-off between quantity and quality. While crops may be more productive, the resulting produce will be of lower nutritional value.”
Peter S. Curtis, ecologist at Ohio State University, linking escalating
greenhouse gas levels (and resulting crop yield increases)
to a decrease in the nutritional value of these crops
 

The following offers a (certainly far from complete) list discussing supplements and herbs which are being mentioned and/or recommended by various sources in connection with the “alternative” or natural cure of cancer and/or tumours, complemented by pertinent articles addressing a number of pros and cons as well as background considerations relating to dietary supplementation in general.
 

General, Pros and Cons & Background

• Rising atmospheric CO 2 decreases micronutrients in plants world-wide
• It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb
• Should I Take Supplements and Vitamins? (excerpted from The Master
   Cleanser Lemonade Diet)
• Stanley Burroughs on the need for vitamins and supplements
• Research corroborates: wholesome diet more healing than isolated
   supplements
• On the Need for Supplementation, the "Best" Supplements, Natural &
   Commercial Glyconutrients and Cancer
• All supplements are not created equal
• Bioavailability: the science behind “live” and “dead” minerals
• Edgar Cayce concise reading on vitamins
• Dr. Clark on Vitamin D pollution

Supplements

• Vitamin cocktail cuts cancer deaths
• Ginger and turmeric fight cancer
• Tomatoes/lycopene beneficial for healing & preventing prostate cancer
• Oral megadoses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and cancer
• Intravenous High-Dose Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Infusion in Cancer
   Treatment
• Vitamin C healing testimony
• Additional tips on using Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)
• Vitamin D Supplementation During Seasons Lacking in Sunshine May Slow
   Down Prostate Tumor Growth
• Vitamin D [Cholecalciferol] in the Treatment/Therapy of Prostate Cancer
• Vitamin B 17 (Laetrile/Amygdalin) I
• Vitamin B 17 (Laetrile/Amygdalin) II
• The Ultimate Cancer Conspiracy: Vitamin B17/Laetrile
• Broccoli (Sprouts or Extract) May Halt Growth of Breast Cancer Cells
• Best & worst foods & most effective/low-price supplements for people
   with or recently recovered from cancer
• Haelan - fermented beverage “best nutritional supplement” for cancer?
• Sam's formula: a suppressed miracle?
• Sam’s formula: testimonies from cancer patients using Sam's formula
• More data on Sam's formula
• Cesium Chloride (High pH Therapy): A Cure for Cancer?
• Variously recommended supplements
• Glyconutrient Supplement Home-Made Substitute: Make Your Own
   Inexpensive Natural Glyconutrient Formula
• Dietary Sources: Foods Containing Glyconutrients
• Less expensive commercial alternatives to MLM-marketed glyconutrients
• Patients' Testimonials: “MLM-Marketed Glyconutrient Supplement
   Was Ineffective For Me."
• Mangosteen (XanGo) Fruit Juice Supplement - Pure Business? A Review
   of Research Studies into Xanthones, ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance
   Capacity), Health Benefits & Effects on Cancer & Other Diseases
• Marine phytoplankton in “FrequenSea”: a valuable health food
   supplement helping to combat serious disease including cancers and
   even mental disorders?
• Zeolites: a Natural Detoxifier Offering Even More Hope for Cancer
   Patients?
• MMS (chlorine dioxide) - miracle supplement & inexpensive DIY treatment
   for malaria, cancer, Aids and many other diseases?
• Cellect (upcoming)
• Chlorella growth factor
• Garlic

Herbs & Grasses

• Introduction
• Herbs and cancer
• Herbal cancer treatments
• Home-Made “Anti-Tumor/Anti-Cancer/Anti-Parasite” Herbal Tea
   Treatment
• SARVAPISTI
• Barley green: on the medicinal benefits of barley grass powder
   in cancer and other diseases
• Green barley cancer cure testimonial
• Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper (Capsicum)
• Red Clover Flowers (trifolium pratense): An Effective Anticancer Herb?

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Related

• Metabolic Typing
• Cure From Outer Space?
• On Finding The Right Foods And Remedies For You
• The Dr Johanna Budwig diet & protocol FAQ on supplemental antioxidants
 

General, Pros and Cons & Background

Rising atmospheric CO₂ decreases micronutrients in plants world-wide

by Ulla, designer of Healing Cancer Naturally, © 2004
Copyright Notice

An October 2002 report (Rising atmospheric CO₂ and human nutrition: toward globally imbalanced plant stoichiometry? by Irakli Loladze, Ph.D., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) discusses the effects of rising CO₂ (ongoing increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration) on human nutrition.

The atmospheric CO₂ concentrations have increased since pre-industrial times, altering the chemical composition of plants - the fundamental food source for humanity, with the data showing that overall concentrations of microelements in plants decline when atmospheric CO₂ rises. One example of many: a new report by Fangmeier et al. (2002) based on a large study of the second most important crop in Europe (potato), shows an overall decline in the concentrations of almost all measured essential elements in both foliage and tubers under elevated CO₂ conditions.

In other words, rising CO₂ aggravates 'hidden hunger' - apparently the leading nutritional disorder in the world. Since increasing atmospheric CO₂ affects all plants world-wide, this decrease in nutrients would apply to both conventionally grown mass-produced crops and to organically grown foods (which otherwise are consistently superior in both taste, nutritive content and mineral balance), and simultaneously invalidate the often-heard claim that a well-balanced diet renders supplementation superfluous.

The above-described “CO₂ effect” adds its detrimental influence to that of an “agriculture which robs our daily food of over 60 natural and  crucially vital trace elements without which we sicken and die - and as if this were not enough - an agriculture which then adds its poisons to our daily food, to the air we breathe, to the water we drink, and to the soil in which we grow our crops.” The final result? A world where more and more people fall prey to all manner of disease including cancer. Read an eye-opening article on conventional husbandry and rising cancer incidence.

Dr. Bodo Kuklinski, director of the renowned Diagnostic & Therapeutic Centre for Environmental Medicine in Rostock, Germany, has arrived at a similar conclusion but attributes the decrease in nutrition of foodstuffs uniquely to industrialized farming methods and mass production leading to dramatic decreases in vitamin and mineral content. He found that even those eating a normally varied diet are chronically undersupplied with vital nutrients and "starving in the midst of abundance". The European Centre for Immunotherapy and Immunological Research (private clinic Obertal in Beiersbronn, Germany) for instance ascertained that the calcium content of potatoes decreased by 70 percent (from 14 milligramm per 100 grams to 4 mg) between 1985 and 1996. The vitamin C content of spinach dwindled by more than half while bananas showed a whopping 93 percent decrease in essential vitamin B6 (which, among other things, strengthens mental concentration and the immune system).

Karen Vago confirms in "Protégez votre corps": “Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium-based fertilizers make the plants grow so fast that they have no time to store a sufficient amount of minerals. They can't draw from the soil their share of zinc, manganese, chromium, selenium and magnesium. If allowed to grow "naturally", they are able to accumulate the substances vital for our cells and our whole organism.”
Related articles: On Cravings, Organic Food and On Glyconutrients, Cancer, & the Need for Supplements.
 

On supplements, intestinal flora, cancer
and immune system: It’s not what you
ingest, but what you usefully absorb

by Ulla, designer of Healing Cancer Naturally, © 2004 & 2005
Copyright Notice

Food & nutrient input = food & nutrients assimilated?

It seems it’s not so much what you ingest that matters, but what you usefully absorb and digest, i.e. effective nutrient supply to your body depends on both your food intake and the quality and effectiveness of your assimilation and digestion. This applies to both food and supplements, and the following is meant to address both with special emphasis on the latter. (Thankfully, some of our ingested food or supplements is already absorbed into the mucosa of our mouth and esophagus - homeopathic remedies for instance are often placed under the tongue).

If supplements are absorbed, they may do a world of good considering the toxic world we are living in. As examples show, vitamins and minerals taken in supplement form (as opposed to through natural food alone) can trigger or accompany dramatic shifts in health, including the long-term recovery from cancer, curing massive cancer (barley green) and reducing cancer risk by some 30%.

Intestinal flora & absorption of supplements

Dr. Elmar Wienecke, German inventor of the ”Saluto Program” reports the following significant results from his institute’s research into micronutrients, supplements and their effect on human health:

The Saluto Institute measures the supply of micronutrients at the cellular level, i.e. within the cell itself. Customary blood serum tests do not reveal any deficits that might exist on the cellular level in a timely manner, showing such deficits only after distinct deficiency symptoms have already set in. In other words, cellular measurements provide the sole means of showing a lack of nutrients in good time, i.e. before health has been impaired.

Studies done on a group comprising 1500 persons established that the great majority of health problems arises from the individual being undersupplied with micro nutrients.

The following test was conducted: A group of students undersupplied with micronutrients were fed those nutrients in high concentrations. Still, after six months’ time their cells were found to not having replenished themselves, the reason being that the students’ eating habits had not improved (thus maintaining a poor intestinal flora).

The digestive tract of people with a poor intestinal flora doesn’t absorb ingested nutrients well. In other words, such a person could pour tons of so-called healthy foods, drinks and supplements down their “gullet” but due to these nutrients being destroyed by a "toxic" interior environment (laden with bacteria, fungi, mucus etc. etc.), the nutrients will or may do them no good at all - they do not survive and arrive where they actually could do the person good.

Cleansing and optimizing the intestinal flora

This means that the flora needs to be cleansed and optimized before any additionally supplied nutrients will be usefully absorbed (any nutrients excepted which are absorbed at the level of the buccal and esophageal mucosa, as mentioned in the introduction). The intestinal flora can recover a health-promoting bacterial composition through various means such as: wholesome eating habits which take advantage of the “20,000 different vital elements found in fruits and vegetables”, the intake of live probiotics (acidophilus, bifidus, L. casei and others as particularly found in unpasteurised yogurt and/or cultured vegetables), avoidance of toxins (incl. those found in household products such as antibacterial cleaners), drugs, toxic air and food (such as pesticide- and antibiotics-containing produce), internal cleansing/detoxification, proper food combining according to Dr. Hay, Edgar Cayce and others, effective fasting or juice-fasting where required. And it’s important to thoroughly chew one’s food: digestion (and some assimilation) starts in the mouth, with certain nutrients as mentioned even being absorbed through the inner lining of mouth and esophagus. Compare Dr. F.X. Mayr’s in-depth research into the link between nutrition, dietary habits, intestinal health and overall health & beauty.

Intestinal flora, immune system & cancer

The intestines house an extensive part of the human immune system (lymphoid tissue). According to a number of sources, the development of cancer and cancerous tumors is due to an underperforming and inefficiently-working immune system. For this reason, it would seem paramount to help the faltering immune system by properly cleansing and supporting one’s intestinal flora. Additionally, the immune system’s functioning and effectiveness is strongly influenced by our thoughts, visualization and emotions.

How do you know which supplements you may need?

According to Dr. Wienecke, the most effective method consists in measurements at the cellular level. Redoing the test half a year later establishes whether the supplements have had an effect and are working. If no improvements are recorded, it may be due to dosage or an unhealthy intestinal flora (which should be addressed in the first place anyway).

If you don’t want to go to the expense of having yourself tested, see Finding the right modalities, foods and remedies for you for alternative suggestions. Also read Metabolic Typing to see why “[d]ifferent metabolic types react differently to the same nutrient”.

A recommended supplement?

For the above-listed reasons, I do not recommend any single supplement by itself since I think this could mean propagating a half-truth (though I am impressed by the featured testimonial attributing the cure of massive cancer to barley green even if I think that the placebo effect [power of belief] coupled with an indomitable will to live played a major part in this “terminal” cancer healing). Instead, I encourage you to do further research and follow your own feelings regarding the question which modalities are part of your personal “healing route”. Overall and generally speaking, optimising one’s diet and cleaning one’s body, mind, spirit and environment seem the least expensive while most thorough and natural approach to healing cancer and other disease. See Healing Cancer Naturally and Cancer Causes, and for details Budwig Diet & Protocol, Energetics, Nutrition, Detoxification, Emotions, Healing Cancer & Your Mind, Spirituality, Greatest Hits, Healing with (Sun-)Light and Nature Heals. Also compare Research corroborates: a wholesome diet is more healing than taking isolated supplements.

The only easily available and cost-efffective “supplements” I could wholeheartedly recommend perhaps to most everyone is clean seaweed and increasing clean water and/or fresh organic juice intake: the latter helps to flush out toxins and to “alkalize” the body while the former should help in replenishing mineral/trace elements stocks in a natural and balanced way.

(And not just in cases where money is an issue: before trying and relying on any fancy and expensive supplements, I'd do these two things which from my reading can do miracles of healing by themselves.)

Compare On Supplementing, Glyconutrients and Cancer.

Some interesting comments on supplement absorption excerpted from www.mercola.com

“Hydrochloric Acid: If you do not have a sufficient amount of hydrochloric acid secreted by your stomach then it will be very difficult to ionize mineral supplements to absorb them properly. There is a hydrochloric acid reflex present on the lowest rib approximately one inch lateral to the midline. If this area on the rib is tender to palpation there is a strong likelihood the person is deficient in hydrochloric acid and would benefit from supplementation.

This is especially common in individuals over 50 years old, and also in individuals with food allergies. One to six capsules or more of Betaine hydrochloride is generally taken with the first bite of every meal for proper digestive support. The Betaine can be discontinued once the reflex point is non-tender to deep palpation.”

A similar mechanism applies to the digestion of normal food: Improper digestion due to low stomach acid apparently is one of the contributing factors in food matter putrefying in our digestive system, i.e. becoming the breeding ground of bacteria, fungi and parasites instead of serving to nourish our cells. For instance “hydrochloric-acid secretion from the stomach, pancreatic enzymes, and bile all inhibit the overgrowth of Candida [yeast or fungus] and prevent its penetration into the absorptive surfaces of the small intestine. Decreased secretion of any of these important digestive components can lead to overgrowth of Candida in the gastrointestinal tract.” (Healthnotes.com)
Compare Fungi producing mycotoxins: The Fungal/Mycotoxin Etiology of Human Disease (particularly CANCER).
 

What to do when the digestive tract has been damaged by chemotherapy

A vital addition to the foregoing excerpted by Healing Cancer Naturally from Tutorial For Alternative Treatments For Cancer

“Chemotherapy can destroy a person's stomach lining and the lining of their intestines. When that happens, a person's digestive tract can no longer absorb many of the nutrients in foods and supplements. Many cancer patients die of malnutrition, long before they die of cancer, because chemotherapy has destroyed the lining of their digestive system and they literally die of nutrient starvation.

‘Because of the problem of nausea and vomiting caused by cancer itself as well as many chemotherapy agents and/or radiation therapy, many cancer patients develop anorexia - the loss of appetite or desire to eat. This situation is not good at all because it can lead to a condition known as cancer "cachexia" - a wasting syndrome characterized by weakness and a noticeable continuous loss of weight, fat, and muscle. It is estimated that roughly 40% of cancer patients actually die of malnutrition rather than their disease itself.’ www.doctormurray.com/articles/chemotherapy.htm

There are actually several reasons cancer patients die of malnutrition:

First, is that cancer cells themselves steal nutrients from healthy cells. This is an unintended testimonial for the value of foods that contain cancer-killing nutrients as part of an alternative cancer treatment program because it proves cancer-killing nutrients get into the cancer cells in a higher volume than normal cells!

Second, as mentioned above, nausea and vomiting can remove nutrition from the body and cause a person to lose their appetite for food.

Third, when a patient's digestive tract is destroyed by chemotherapy, nutrients are not absorbed into the body.

What is the solution that orthodox medicine has for these problems? Their solution is to add nutritious foods and supplements to the diets of those on chemotherapy. That may sound like a good solution, but remember that two of the three causes of malnutrition are caused by chemotherapy. A more logical solution would be to stop chemotherapy.

In any case, when the malnutrition is caused by chemotherapy destroying the digestive tract, nutrient-based treatment plans may not be as effective as plans that do not depend on the digestive tract! The "Ten Commandments" [article on the cancertutor site] is mostly a nutrient based cancer diet, and thus may be the wrong treatment program for people who have had their digestive tract destroyed by chemotherapy!

However, it is difficult to know where to draw the line. For example, for people with mild damage to their digestive tract, juicing can be a benefit. [testimonial snipped]
Compare Juicing & Best Juicer for Cancer Patients.

When a person has had their digestive system virtually destroyed, this situation may require treatment plans that are pure liquid, use an I.V., or use some technique that does not depend on the digestive tract.

For a patient whose stomach and/or intestines have been severely damaged by chemotherapy, and they cannot absorb nutrients, the good news is (but it is not very good news) that there are some alternative treatments that will work without the immunity system and without the ability of the digestive tract to absorb nutrients.

Examples of these treatments are: cesium chloride (liquid or I.V.), Hydrogen Peroxide (liquid or I.V.), HBOT, ozone therapy ("transfusion" and other plans), and others.
Compare Treating Cancer With Oxygen, Ozone & Hydrogen Peroxide.

If a person decides that their digestive tract cannot handle nutrients, they can contact The Cure Research Foundation (a.k.a. The Cancer Cure Foundation) at cancure.org/directory.htm to find an alternative doctor (some of these doctors are M.D.s) who can administer one of the treatments that do not require the immune system or the digestive tract.

A person might also read my articles on Alkaline therapies [cancertutor.com/Cancer/Alkaline.html] and Hydrogen Peroxide [cancertutor.com/Cancer/HydrogenPeroxide.html].
All of this is another reason that combining chemotherapy with alternative treatments makes absolutely no sense for all major types of cancer.”

More on chemotherapy. Also compare Should I Take Supplements and Vitamins?

Research corroborates: a wholesome diet is more healing than taking isolated supplements

Research corroborates that eating nutrients as part of a wholesome diet and/or within a whole food is more health-promoting and cancer-fighting than taking the respective supplements in isolation. This is due to the synergistic effect various food nutrients display in the human body. See for instance

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3239483.stm

mercola.com/2003/may/21/supplements.htm

mercola.com/2003/oct/25/vitamins.htm

Quotes: "’Our findings strongly suggest that risks of poor dietary habits cannot be reversed simply by taking a pill... We shouldn't expect easy solutions to complex problems. We must focus more on choosing a variety of healthy foods, exercising and watching our weight.’ ...The researchers also found that restricting the amount of food given to the rats cut their risk of developing prostate cancer - regardless of which diet they were on...Separate research has shown that higher levels of lycopene in the blood is linked to a lower risk of prostate cancer." See Cancer Diet & Nutrition.
More on the preferability of eating nutrients as part of a wholesome diet in Bioavailability: the science behind “live” and “dead” minerals
 

Should I Take "Supplements"?

excerpted from The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs

Some people want to take vitamin pills or food supplements while on the [Master Cleanser lemonade detoxification] diet. This frequently fails to produce the desired result. There are many reasons. As the lymphatic glands become clogged, they are no longer able to assimilate and digest even the best of foods. As we cleanse our bodies and free our cells and glands of toxins that clog and paralyze our assimilation, we free our various organs and processes to do their proper jobs. Note earlier about all the necessary vitamins and minerals are in the lemonade, and therefore we do not need an additional supply in most cases.
Compare Edgar Cayce on Assimilation and Elimination.

Vitamin pills and supplements do not grow on trees as such but rather come to us in fruits, berries, vegetables and plants. Man will never take a group of natural or synthetic foods; process and combine them in a variety of products, and come up with anything equal or better than the original. They have lost much of their basic life and energy by combining them according to a man made concept. Many dangerous side effects can occur because of improper and unequal balances present. Stay with the natural laws of balance. First one must decide if God is right or if man is right. If God is right then man and his ideas of processing-tearing apart and rearranging-are likely to be wrong.

Later, as we consume a more complete variety of foods, we find our sources of vitamins and minerals complete and in forms that are easily assimilated-it should not be necessary to return to these supplements even if one is accustomed to taking them. The sources of good food are steadily being enlarged as people become more educated concerning them. Search these sources and rely on them for your total nutritional needs.

The lemon is a loosening and cleansing agent with many important building factors. The ability of the elements in the lemon and the maple syrup working together creates these desired results.

Its 49% potassium strengthens and energizes the heart, stimulates and builds the kidneys and adrenal glands.
Its oxygen builds vitality.
Its carbon acts as a motor stimulant.
Its hydrogen activates the sensory nervous system.
Its calcium strengthens and builds the lungs.
Its phosphorus knits the bones, stimulates and builds the brain for clearer thinking.
Its sodium encourages tissue building.
Its magnesium acts as a blood alkalizer.
Its iron builds the red corpuscles to rapidly correct the most common forms of anemia.
Its chlorine cleanses the blood plasma.
Its silicon aids the thyroid for deeper breathing.

The natural iron, copper, calcium, carbon, and hydrogen found in the sweetening supplies more building and cleansing material. It truly is a perfect combination for cleansing, eliminating, healing, and building. Hence, supplements are not needed during the diet and may actually interfere with its cleansing action.

What about the use of vitamins?

Vitamins and minerals have always been a necessary part of natural living. Not satisfied with God's plan, man has attempted to improve the situation by separating them from fresh live foods, then processing and combining them to conform to his concept of what they should be. Not satisfied with the finished product, attempts were made to produce them synthetically. It was big business-and we became a world of "pill pushers," whether they were needed or not. More often they were not needed. No one really knew if the pills were needed, or how many-people just took them because they might have a deficiency!

Just how these vitamins and minerals should be balanced and formulated led to many differences of opinion. A large variety of experts, in processing and manufacturing of pills, disagree as to how the many billions of pills should be made. They all have different formulas and claim theirs are the best even though much is lost in the processing. However, even without any clear consensus as to their worth and use, they were manufactured and processed; therefore they must be sold with no thought as to possible side effects from overdosing or imbalances. Millions of dollars are made by the producers and the sellers with little regard for the true needs of the consumer.

In reality, the whole process could have been completely avoided. Our Creator has already done a better job of making sure we receive all the needed vitamins and minerals in a perfectly balanced form. Only the finest of natural foods in their original package are good enough for bringing complete energy and life to build and retain a healthy body. Any time man attempts to improve on God's formulas and plans, the result is bound to be a failure.

The simple rules to complete nutrition include all the vitamins and minerals needed by all mankind and all animals. Our Creator has given the right food for the right animal for complete nutrition. This is also true for man. When these foods are properly prepared and eaten, there is nothing more that man can do to prepare a better food.

As we eat the correct foods without excesses, the body will produce ALL the needed vitamins. Foods grown properly, in complete, mineral-rich soil, will have all the minerals in them. Thus, we have no need for vitamin enriched foods, created synthetically by man, nor for extra minerals.
But see Rising atmospheric CO₂ decreases micronutrients in plants world-wide.

All refined and devitalized foods must be completely eliminated from our diet. If refined and devitalized foods are eaten, then and only then does man have any need for additional supplements. Just how much and what combination, even with long and complicated tests,, will probably never be determined, so this form of unnatural nutrition will always be lacking. Such a plan is a very poor substitute for the right way.
Read long excerpts from The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs .
 

Dr. Hulda Clark on Making Clean Vitamin D

excerpted from www.HuldaClark.net

The pollution problem for vitamin D comes from the need to dilute it to the standard 400 units allowed by regulations, in such a way that the consumer knows how much they are getting. This can be done in an elaborate way or a simple way such as adding it to plain oil with flavor added. But oil is never "plain". It comes polluted with PCB, benzene and often antimony, an outright poison. It also is loaded with Ascaris eggs and other invisible filth. The flavoring is not simple either. It might have any or all the immune-destroyers. ... the vitamin D3 concentrate, as it comes from the manufacturer could have lead in it. ... Lead could come simply from the copper plumbing used in the manufacturing plant.

So you see how pollution and contamination at the very beginning of the preparation of a supplement could get amplified into a formidable problem at the end. The final product will carry every pollutant brought in from all the ingredients.

For an introduction to the cancer healing and and “self-health” protocols developed by Dr. Clark, see Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark's detoxification protocols where you can download extensive excerpts from her work The Cure For All Diseases and The Cure For All Cancers.
 

Edgar Cayce concise reading on vitamins

“Eat the foods that carry these vitamins, rather than adding the vitamins ...” READING 3099-1 F 57

“Although Cayce typically relied on diet to meet nutritional needs, he sometimes recommended nutritional supplementation.” See Cayce’s Dietary Advice for Cancer Treatment & Prevention.

More on health & healing cancer by Edgar Cayce:
Edgar Cayce’s Recommendations re Cancer and Diet
Edgar Cayce’s General Nutrition & Diet Recommendations
Edgar Cayce on Keeping Our Bodies in Balance Nutritionally
Edgar Cayce’s View of Cancer Causes, Healing and Prevention
Almonds in the Cayce Readings Compared to Current Medical Research
A Summary of Edgar Cayce’s Readings’ View of Illness, Health and Healing
Edgar Cayce’s Readings on Health & Healing of the Human Body: Spirit Is the Life, Mind is the Builder, the Physical Is the Result.

For detailed coverage of Edgar Cayce’s view of cancer causation, genesis and healing, see The Causes and Treatment of Cancer: A Research Report Based on the Readings of Edgar Cayce.

About Supplements
 

Vitamin cocktail cuts cancer deaths

Supplement had a dramatic effect

An extensive study has revealed that a specific mega-dose (antioxidant) supplement group can dramatically reduce cancer risk. A total of 13,000 men and women took part in the seven year study, which found that regular use of a particular supplement group produced a 31% reduction in the risk of all cancers in men taking the antioxidants. The supplement group is: 6mg of beta-carotene, 120mg of vitamin C, 90mg of vitamin E, 100 micrograms of selenium, and 20 milligrams of zinc.

The findings “completely support recommendations for following a healthy diet, particularly one rich in fruit and vegetables which are major dietary sources of antioxidant vitamins and minerals, for all ages in life and for both sexes." The “scientists agreed that vitamins and minerals were better obtained from fruit and vegetables. They wrote: ‚There is reason to believe that the effect would be less than that of dietary sources of antioxidants, particularly fruit and vegetables, which provide other protective substances.‘"
Compare Research corroborates: a wholesome diet is more healing than taking isolated supplements.

To read more about the study, go to news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3122033.stm.
 

Vitamin C healing testimony

From files http://natural-oncology.org

When my teenage daughter Helen was hospitalized with "terminal" (stage 4B) Hodgkin's disease in 1974, I put her on 40 grains of vitamin C per day (526 mg/lb.). Her doctors were aghast: "You'll kill her!" "Nonsense!" I replied. She recovered quickly, and 24 years later is in vibrant good health. (For more about Helen, see page 7.)...If vitamin C is used in large amounts, most experts suggest that buffered vitamin C (sodium ascorbate) should be used rather than ascorbic acid, since the acid form may be too acidic in multi-gram doses. Sodium ascorbate powder (1 level tsp. equals 4 grams) may be purchased inexpensively by the pound or the kilogram from the Wholesale Nutrition Company (1-800-325-2664) or from Bronson (1-800-610-4848).

Compare Oral megadoses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and cancer and Intravenous High-Dose Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Infusion in Cancer/Tumor Treatment.
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Additional tips on using Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C)

by Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net)

I think the benefits (for people with cancer) of taking large amounts of vit. C far outweigh any harmful effects (such as the alleged acidification of the blood when taking more than a few grams per day). [Also], acidifying is NOT NECESSARILY harmful for cancer patients (Boik). According to Gonzalez, the ascorbic acid form of vit. C tends NOT to acidify sympathetic-dominant persons, which most cancer patients are. ... if you're not on a low-sodium diet, you can use sodium ascorbate (or perhaps mixed ascorbates in moderate amounts).

Buffered formulas sometimes contain way too much calcium if one wishes to take large doses of C. I would avoid calcium ascorbates, including Ester C.
If using small amounts, I would get food-based vit. C (Megafood or New Chapter). If using large amounts AND money is not an issue, I would use beet-derived (ideally BioImmune.com) vit. C; cancer cells reportedly don't develop a resistance to it (like they do to corn-derived vit. C). If money is an issue, I would take sodium ascorbate or ascorbic acid. If using HUGE amounts, I would use sodium ascorbate.
Many practitioners recommend taking vit. C to bowel tolerance.
Vit. C is synergistic w/beta-glucan.

Receiving IV drips of several dozen grams of vit. C can be powerfully cancer-healing.

Compare Intravenous High-Dose Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) Infusion in Cancer/Tumor Treatment.
 

Vitamin B 17 (Laetrile/Amygdalin/Nitrilosides)

by Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net)
(Background article on Laetrile here)

“I've read ... about amygdalin/Laetrile [that] "cancers of the lung, breast, colon, ovaries, stomach, esophagus, prostate, and the lymphomas, are much helped" by Laetrile (Ernesto Contreras, Sr., M.D. cited in Diamond et al., 1997, pp. 126-127). I do NOT think it's especially effective with myeloma. The above comments refer to IV laetrile, not oral amygdalin, which is much less powerful. Its effectiveness appears to be greatly enhanced by taking it with proteolytic enzymes (particularly pancreatin) and vit. A. It's a powerful pain-reliever and also alleviates nausea and vomiting. Michael Schachter, M.D. and Douglas Brodie, M.D. have prescribed 500 mg taken 3 times a day or 3-5 apricot kernels 3 times a day (Diamond et al., 1997, pp. 78-79, 376). I heard it's best to take it with food, in several small dosages throughout the day (NOT one large dosage). The richest sources are the pits/seeds/kernels of apricot, peach, cherry, and (probably to a lesser extent) apple, and plum/prune.

Since they are (slightly) toxic when taken orally, I'd eat about 5 kernels (no more than that a one time) 3 or 4 times a day, but no more if I had cancer. Laetrile is powerfully effective in healing cancer (and is nontoxic) only when taken IV.

Sun-dried kernels and bitter almonds contain significant amygdalin (sweet almonds do not). Foods highest in amygdalin are 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, and alfalfa.

In conclusion, I think it's helpful but I would not make it a priority. (Addendum by Healing Cancer Naturally: Also compare the following testimonial from a former bladder cancer patient, now healed by a combination of “alternative” approaches: “Two years ago I chewed upwards of 30 apricot kernels a day ... [but t]he months and months of heavy kernel use did nothing. This is not a condemnation of apricot kernels. {Not everything works for everyone all the time.}”)

CAUTIONS
Do NOT exceed recommended dosage. "Apricot kernels...although they have been widely used, they are potentially toxic taken orally (Moss, 1992, p. 367). Avoid eating large amounts of (sweet) almonds while taking amygdalin. Do NOT take megadoses of Vit. C while taking Laetrile/amygdalin (unless directed by practitioner), and do NOT use Laetrile/amygdalin at times of fever. Slight temperature, itching, or irritation at tumor site indicate healing.

For more information:

Griffin's book [World Without Cancer] is considered the "bible" on amygdalin. It's summarized at geocities.com/freee80/B-17.html.

A good brand [of apricot pits] is (organic) Apricot Kernels americanbiologics.com/NoFrames/Products/specialtynf.htm
CytoPharma www.cytopharma.com (888-281-6663) also reportedly one of the best.
 

Another good brand, Kemdalin
kemsa.com/english/kemdalindescripcion.htm, is available only in Mexico.
Another brand is
http://208.234.10.47/mcart/?task=item&ItemID=IT184
For other good brands, see cancure.org/laetrile.htm
[Apricot pits are also] available in many health food stores.

Note by Healing Cancer Naturally: Organically grown apricot kernels are also available from KJAY Services www.kjay.com/shop/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=2
(currently shipping to the UK, Ireland, Europe [EU] and USA).

Compare background article on Laetrile, Ernst Krebs lecturing on Vitamin B17, The Ultimate Cancer Conspiracy: Vitamin B17/Laetrile, Vitamin B17 quotes and the book World Without Cancer.
 

Haelan - fermented soy beverage “the best nutritional food supplement” for cancer patients?

by Leonard (leonardleonard1 at earthlink.net)

Haelan, a high-quality, expensive fermented soy beverage ... costs about $1,500/month if using 1 bottle/day (if ordered by practitioner or health food store); standard recommendation is 1 bottle/day for 30-60 days, then 1/2 bottle/day for another 30-60 days. [I wouldn't use it if money was an issue, despite what's written in the following]. More
 

Variously recommended supplements

”Superfoods” recommended by Tim O'Shea on his generally excellent www.thedoctorwithin.com comprise

Dr. Juergen Buche recommends as “Supporting Supplementation” among other things:

Dr. Buche adds a general caveat to prevent readers from thinking that popping a pill (even an “alternative” or herbal one) will necessarily do magic if the recovery from cancer isn’t addressed in a more encompassing, holistic manner.

www.cancertutor.com addresses the following supplements or alternative cancer treatments:

and many other alternative cancer treatments “including information on how to combine these treatments and how to supercharge these treatments with new discoveries” (compare Links).

Complete listing of all Healing Cancer Naturally articles on Supplements