Acupuncture and Herbal Treatments Help Cancer
Causes of cancer
What is the cause of cancer? Some believe that sunshine, gamma rays like radiation, tar and automobile fumes, arsenics, heavy metals, asbestos, benzene, dyestuff, mold, cigarettes, saccharine etc. causes cancer. Most of those are from modern materials. These would be a contributing cause of cancers, but are not all the factors. Cancers have been around for a long time before most modern materials were created. What is the cause of cancer?
Most experiments on white mice do not use real cancer cells which are grown on the mouse itself. They come from other sources, such as from human beings. The best experiment should be from cells grown by the animal itself. However, these present procedures are limited to only treatments, but not on curing or finding the original cause.
In this article I use terms such as ‘stomach fire, phlegm, cold, liver, stomach, spleen, deficiency, stagnation’. These terms are used by Traditional Chinese Medicine to describe conditions and their meaning is different than in Western medical practice.
Cancer, stress and emotions
A female had a stomach surgery due to stomach cancer. Even though it was minor one, more than half of stomach was removed. She was ok for the first 3 months. After three months, she had same symptoms as before surgery, even though she didn’t eat spicy or salty foods at all. She came to my clinic and got acupuncture treatments. While she was on the table for treatments, I educated her about emotions. When I mentioned anger could damage liver and thinking too much would damage stomach, she answered back right away “yes, I am thinking always for my children.”
There are two points I want to mention.
- She had weak stomach and spleen according to my diagnosis. We call this an inheritance. Her continued stress damaged her stomach further. Removing stomach cancer by a surgery will not solve the real problem. This is only part of solution. The real cause was her stress which was thinking too much.
- Original cause is not to supply enough blood (oxygen and nutrition) into stomach area from the beginning. Without solving this, how can we expect no more recurring sickness, in this case, stomach related problems including stomach cancer?
There was a study that after complete surgery, cancer was removed in total. However another cancer develops at same spot at a later time. The study believes that cancer cell has some kind of sensor going back to original spots. This may be true. But I have a different view.
In another example, heavy drinking causes a man to have stomach cancer. After a surgery there are no more cancer cells left in his body. He drinks again due to his bad habit and cancer grows back again. Do you agree in that in this case a cell that had fallen off from the stomach hides somewhere and comes back to the original spot? Salmon go back where they were born. Is cancer cell like salmon? What is your opinion?
Stress plays a much greater role in all sickness than most people realize. It's proven to weaken the immune system. Most doctors are taught basically to treat symptoms and rarely consider the underlying cause of a person getting sick. I guess that's not really their job. There should be maybe some sort of life coach that could advise a sick person on ways to change their lifestyles to be healthier physically and emotionally and give them right information.
Cancer helped with alternative treatments
A woman had a breast cancer on her left side. Dr. suggested a surgery and advised her that even surgery may only extend her life 6 months to one year at most. She had a son who would go to collage soon. If she had a surgery, there was no money left for her son’s tuition. She decided to give up the surgery and tried the alternate solution. Her acupuncturist suggested bee sting therapy. She learned how to do it and treated herself at home. She also got acupuncture treatments once a week. Her breast became swollen and felt hot with this bee therapy. She got the therapy two times a week. She fully recovered from cancer after 6 months. Her Dr. became speechless as he had insisted surgery was the only option.
Please note that bee therapy doesn’t work every time. However many report this therapy may work.
There are many successful reports with moxibustion using aiye (mugwort leaves). This method can be done by oneself or with a family member’s help. The patient needs to know the exact location and how to do it. It is very inexpensive and easy to learn.
People usually get treated for cancer first with "modern" medicine which is a variety of chemicals and radiation. When that doesn't work, they try alternative medicine. I think the best solution is to combine conventional and alternate medicine, such as acupuncture and herbs.
Cancer disappears
A couple came to NYC from Washington State for two weeks stay He got an endoscopy just a day before heading to NYC. He got a phone call from his MD two days later who said that a biopsy from 8 spots showed cancer and asked him to get a CAT SCAN appointment. He had one malignant tumor out of four spots three month ago on 1st test. They tried to fly back earlier, but that would cost them $900 extra. Someone advised them that cancer wouldn’t grow much faster within two weeks, so he decided to stay in New York as planned.
He came to me with great anxiety. After examination, I told him that I don’t treat cancer and it is beyond my practice. However I can treat edema on legs, swollen face and productive phlegm and no energy and lots of sweating on his back with a little movement. All these symptoms are related to stomach and spleen.
I gave him two acupuncture treatments a day and he drank herb two times a day. This herb was to remove stomach fire and dampness and phlegm. He felt better with the treatments of acupuncture and herbs. His swollen face and edema almost disappeared after one week.
When he went back to his home, he made an appointment for the test. CAT SCAN showed negative meaning no cancer or tumor found. MD couldn’t believe the result and wanted another endoscopy later. He got another biopsy from the same spot while doing the endoscopy. This test was also negative. The MD said when he did the previous biopsy; all the cancer may have been pulled out. Who knows?
Cancer, sadness and anger
A man had a lingering pain in his abdominal area for one and half years. He had constant diarrhea. When he had a desire to go to the toilet, he couldn’t hold at all. The test showed cancers on his ascending large intestine. The test showed cancer was not spread to other areas.
He understood the surgery would remove the cancer, but the original body functional cause would still remain the same. He wanted to discuss getting acupuncture treatments. After finishing his diagnosis I touched his large intestine and found cold. His large intestine became cold due to deficient and loss of yang qi. I advised him I may be able to remove his lingering pain. During the first and second treatments, he felt some sensation exactly on large intestine area even though there were no needles on that area. This means a correction of energy direction.
After three acupuncture treatments, he didn’t have lingering mild pain anymore and felt better. The large intestine became warm like other parts of body. He also wanted treatments to prevent catching cold as his MD advised him to be careful about catching cold. His breathing became much easier and he could do even deep breathing after acupuncture treatments for cold prevention. He also began to prepare for a surgery which was planned before he came to me.
While I treated him, I found that his mother left him and his father due to his father’s drinking problem when he was young. He grew up without a mother’s love and care. He really wanted his mother back and looked for, but failed to find her. He felt an irresistible yearning for his mom, but this missing feeling changed into anger gradually. He believed he was not a lovable person. He didn’t discuss this matter with anyone, but he knew this anger may be a real cause of his cancer. He got help from church members and began to pray to forgive his mother.
His stay in hospital was relatively short, less than a week. He complained of nausea and minor vomiting and severe pains and anemia during chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He took some painkillers prescribed by MD. These helped him, but not so much. He wanted herbal drinks in addition to acupuncture to reduce all related symptoms and side effects. When he drank herbal drinks, he didn’t experience any kind of pains or nausea while getting chemotherapy. His pain scale was low, making it endurable for his daily life. He didn’t experience any physical exhaustion. The herbal drink prescribed was for strengthening organ function.
Acupuncture can help with nausea and vomiting during cancer treatment
We acupuncturists also treat cancer related symptoms, such as loss of hair, discoloration of skin, skin disease, nausea, vomiting or loss of appetite, diarrhea, constipation and pain. Acupuncture and herb combined treatments can relieve patient’s pains very much during chemotherapy or radiation.
How acupuncture and herbs can help with cancer
It is impossible for acupuncturists to find cancer. It is only possible by modern tests. After finding cancer in the body,
It is important to remove cancer itself through chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.
- It is also important to remove original causes, such as stress and anger and resentment based on 7 emotions.
- It is required to correct unsuitable body function. Try acupuncture to remove any kind of blockage for better blood circulation, deficiency, stagnation, blood stasis and phlegm.
- Try to increase immunity with herbal drink providing the body’s basic requirement, as our body consists of qi, blood, body fluid and essence. If immunity is strong, there is no worry about cancer from the beginning.
- Proper diet and exercise are mandatory.
For more information on cancer and acupuncture see National Cancer Institute - Acupuncture
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