Homeopathy for Cancer

By Tamara Der-Ohanian
The intention of this article is to introduce you to homeopathy and the important role it can play in treating patients with cancer.
Given the opportunity, I could write volumes on how cancer politics have kept you in the dark: why unsuccessful treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation continue to dominate oncology, and what role the petrochemical and nuclear industries play in ensuring this gruesome reality; and how the public is misled into believing that the millions of dollars collected and spent for cancer research each year is actually going to result in finding a cure. While I am passionate about my feelings on these topics, I am equally determined to give you information in this article that will offer hope and viable solutions.
In reality, cancer cure already exists and many cases of cancer have been successfully reversed. The answers are not found in drugs, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, although, in moderation and in rare cases they can be useful. Statistics show that the most successful recipe to cancer cure is the synergistic approach, combining a wholistic lifestyle with different natural treatments. An arsenal consisting of a diet rich in raw organic foods and juices, regular exercise, therapeutic doses of antioxidants and other natural supplements, regular detoxification, a healthy emotional state through counseling and meditation, combined with homeopathic treatment can dramatically increase your chances of combating and reversing cancer.
What is Cancer?Among 150 different types, five major groups of cancer are recognized:
1. Carcinomas form in the epithelial cells that cover the surface of skin, mouth, nose, throat, lung airways, genitourinary and gastrointestinal tract, or that line glands such as the breast or thyroid. Lung, breast, prostate, skin, stomach, and colon cancers are called carcinomas and are solid tumours.
2. Sarcomas form in the bones and soft connective and supportive tissues surrounding organs and tissues, such as cartilage, muscles, tendons, fat, and the outer linings of the lungs, abdomen, heart, central nervous system, and blood vessels. Sarcomas are also solid tumours, but sarcomas are both the most rare of malignant tumours and the most deadly.
3. Leukemias form in the blood and bone marrow and the abnormal white blood cells produced there travel through the bloodstream creating problems in the spleen and other tissues. Leukemias are not solid tumours; they are characterized by an overproduction of abnormal white blood cells.
4. Lymphomas are cancer of the lymph glands. Lymph glands act as a filter for the body’s impurities and are concentrated mostly in the neck, groin, armpits, spleen, the center of the chest, and around the intestines. Lymphomas are usually made up of abnormal lymphocytes (white blood cells) that congregate in lymph glands to produce solid masses. Two prime examples are Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas.
5. Myelomas are rare tumours that arise in the antibody-producing plasma cells or hemopoietic (blood cell-producing) cells in various tissues in the bone marrow.1
A key characteristic of cancer cells is their greatly prolonged life span compared to that of normal cells. Not only do cancer cells not die when they are supposed to, they also fail to develop the specialized functions of their normal counterparts. Masses of cancer cells may become like parasites, developing their own network of blood vessels to siphon nourishment away from the body’s main blood supply. It is this process that, unchecked, will eventually lead to the formation of a tumour — a swelling caused by the abnormal growth of cells. If the tumour invades adjacent normal tissue or spreads through lymph vessels or the blood vessels to other normal tissues, this tumour is considered malignant.2
How Homeopathy Can HelpHomeopathy is a medical science that aims to treat the whole person rather than just physical symptoms. It works on the principle that the mind and body are so strongly linked that physical symptoms or illnesses cannot be cured without understanding and considering the person’s emotional state, constitution and character.
Homeopathy does not treat the cancer. Homeopathy treats the patient who has cancer as their primary physical manifestation. It works by stimulating the body’s own healing intelligence so as to activate the healing process. This is the essential distinction between the orthodox medical approach to cancer, which seeks to destroy the tumour, and the homeopathic approach, which treats the patient enabling their system to destroy the tumour. Addressing the overall constitution of the patient and administering one corresponding remedy is called constitutional treatment using classical homeopathy.
This was the method I used for treating a 39-year-old patient with an endometriotic tumour. The remedy Arsenicum album, which corresponded to the patients’ overall constitution (energy patterns, sleep, appetite, digestion, personality, etc.), was the only remedy used. By the time of her next ultrasound four months later, her body had healed itself and the tumour had completely disappeared. In addition, the patient experienced considerable improvement in her sleep patterns, stopped having nightmares, her anxiety level decreased considerably along with menstrual disturbances.
More aggressive methods are used depending on the seriousness of the cancer. One approach includes using the constitutional homeopathic remedy along with organ-specific remedies — remedies that target the organ presenting the tumour. (e.g. Hydrastis for cancer of the stomach, Chelidonium for cancer of the liver and gall bladder and Phytolacca for cancer of the breast.). Specific remedies can also be used to support as well as detoxify various organs.
In the case of a 54-year-old man with colon cancer, I used the organ specific remedy Aloe with his constitutional remedy Lycopodium. The pains and the rectal bleeding stopped within the first three weeks. The patient became more in control of his bowel movements within eight weeks. By the three-month mark, there was considerable improvement in his energy levels, moods and mental outlook, appetite, quality of sleep and digestion. Six months following the commencement of homeopathic treatment, his follow-up tests showed no trace of cancer. My patient was convinced that had he gone through with the recommended surgery and chemotherapy, his health would not have improved and the tumour likely re-emerged.
G. Zajicek, M.D., of the H.H. Humphrey Center for Experimental Medicine and Cancer Research at Hebrew University — Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, challenges the way modern medicine deals with cancer: “Modern oncology (study of tumours) needs to radically rethink its cancer model, which is based on the Halstead theory of cancer (developed by W.S. Halstead, 1852-1922). This theory, whose central premise is that the primary fact about cancer is the tumour, not the patient as a living organism, must be dropped in favour of a more systemic model. The fact that the mortality rate for breast cancer has remained virtually unchanged for 60 years (from 1939-1990) means that the standard treatments devised to kill tumours have failed because they are based on false premises. This hypothesis implies that tumour removal should cure the patient, yet 60 years of intensive effort to remove the tumour did not change the biological outcome of the disease. Obviously, the hypothesis is wrong and should be modified. Focusing medical efforts on removing the tumour is fundamentally a mistake, and will not cure cancer because cancer is metabolically a systemic deficiency and a chronic system disease. Halstead’s cancer theory is flawed, because it emphasizes the tumour and ignores the patient.”3
Among the more profound benefits of homeopathy is its ability to prevent disease (or tumours) from re-occurring by changing the “terrain” of the body, or the biochemical environment of the cells that determines a person’s susceptibility to disease. When the terrain is improved, the immune responsiveness of the individual can be profoundly strengthened. It is also possible to change some of the hereditary weaknesses, called miasms in homeopathy, which make some people more susceptible to cancer and other illnesses.
One 73-year-old patient had been diagnosed with pre-cancerous intestinal polyps when he first came to see me. The prescribed constitutional remedy was able to prevent and reverse the progression of the disease. The next colonoscopy examination, a few months later, showed no sign of the polyps. In addition, my patients’ overall health improved in the process.
Homeopathy can help in all stages of cancer. If you choose to employ the conventional treatment methods of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, homeopathy can help alleviate the pains, discomforts and fears associated with surgery, as well as the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. In addition terminal patients entering the death process can find relief. Certain remedies can help comfort individuals and help them deal with their fear of death. It can assist individuals in coming to greater peace about the death process, enabling them to embrace the transition with greater spiritual centeredness and dignity.
In overcoming any serious or terminal illness, I cannot stress strongly enough the importance of a positive mental/emotional outlook. Finding love and forgiveness, for self and others, holds the key to our emotional health. I strongly believe that our consciousness has a vote in everything that happens to us. We create our own reality by every thought we have and every choice we make each and every moment of our lives. Prolonged periods of emotional stress can culminate in serious diseases. Homeopathy has the ability to profoundly and positively affect one’s emotions, which in many cases is the underlying cause of illness.
“We’re holistic creatures. When we betray our truth, we can call illness into our lives. Psychoneuroimmunologists like Herbert Benson, Joan Borysenko and Hans Selye, all pioneers in the mind-body connection, have found a link between disease and what we think and feel. Norman Shealy, M.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association and coauthor of The Creation of Health, wrote that 75% of his patients told him they wanted to die six to twenty-four months before they were diagnosed with cancer.”4 Be careful what you wish for.
When facing a diagnosis of cancer, I highly recommend that you explore your options by consulting a wide variety of health practitioners and alternative cancer treatment modalities. And most importantly, be realistic — expect a miracle!
Tamara Der-Ohanian, HD, (RHom) is a Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine who practises and teaches in Toronto. Telephone (416) 694-0015 ext. 224; website: www.fishtree.com
References1. Diamond, W., M.D, Cowden, L., M.D., Cancer, Future Medicine publishing Inc., California, 1997, p518
2. Ibid, p519.
3. Ibid, p517
4. Cirocco, G., Take the Step, The Bridge Will Be There, Harper Colins, Toronto, 2002, p. 35

Cancer and Homeopathy

There are several ways homeopathy can help cancer patients. First, there are specific remedies for various cancers. These remedies may be used whether a person has conventional treatment or not. A number of remedies can make conventional treatment easier for the cancer patient. Finally, homeopathic remedies can help with terminal pain and with the fear of dying.
Homeopathy can also help with the psychological issues which occur in cancer. There are remedies for ailments from bad news to fear of dying. Homeopathy can also help with terminal pain.
The cancer diathesis may first be antidoted with a dose of Scirrhinum 200 or 1000. The regular treatment can be started at least after 24 hours.
Intercurrent remedies for Cancer: Psorinum 200, Medorrhinum 200. Tuberculinium 200 can be used if history of T.B. is present in the family.
Phosphorus: Cancer of the forehead with an open sore with blood and pus.
Arsenic Album: For Leukemia and Stomach Cancer with burning heat and dryness of the skin; thirst, restlessness, apprehensiveness, shortness of breath and anxiety. Repeat 200 every week.
Nitric Acid: Pricking pain with some gnawing. Cancer of the stomach with burning pain, thirst, water producing an indescribleable nauseating effect, inability to retain food; vomiting of slime and blood; bloody dejections, face yellow, scrawny and emaciated.
Causticum: For pricking pain.
Alumen: Breast cancer.
Alumina: Cancerous growth in the rectum with pain after stool. Generally the patient is constipated.
Ruta: Cancer of rectum with pain which continues for several hours after stool.
Apis M.: When pain is stinging character and there is itching also with the pain.
Clematis: Cancer of the lip. If there is watery growth Dulcamara may be alternated.
Sepia: Scirrhous induration. Cancer of lips.
Conium: Head remedy of cancer of lips and prostate cancer.
Calendula: For any stage of Cancer. It allays the pains and gives great comfort to the patient.
Hydrastis: Scrofulous and cancerous cachexia. Cancer of the lips or breast. Cancer hard; adherent; cutting like knives in breast. Mother tincture of this remedy may be applied locally for cancer of lips.
Aurum Ars: Cancer of face and lips.

The Prime Cause of Cancer is Not Genetic

By. Dr Johanna Budwig M.D
"...What is shocking to most people, the scientific fact that cancer is genetically recessive, not dominant. In fact, the human body is highly resistant to cancer. In 1969, Professor Henry Harris of Oxford University shook the cancer research community to its core when he proved these previous theories wrong. Professor Harris took normal tissue cells and fused three types of cancer cells to them. Surely, he thought, the cancer cells would take over the normal cells and "convert" them into cancer. Surprisingly, they grew normally.
Contrary to popular opinion, cancer takes several decades to develop in humans. Given this long incubation period, science can show us the way to destroy any initial pre-cancerous cells and keep the cancerous ones from causing widespread damage.If you think cancer has a genetic basis, then think again. Dr Robert A. Weinberg of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world's leading cancer researchers and discoverer of the so-called oncogene (cancer-causing gene), reversed his previous conclusions after discovering that "fewer than one DNA base in a million appears to have been miscopied". It's not enough of a defect! His exact words: "Something was very wrong. The notion that a cancer developed through the successive activation of a series of oncogenes had lost its link to reality." He called the genetic discoveries made thus far "sterile".6 The prime cause of cancer is therefore not genetic. This was announced in 1998. Did you hear about it? Probably not.
In 2006, the heads of the world's largest cancer research centre in Houston, Texas, announced that cancer's prime cause isn't genetic: "'If it could have happened [solving cancer with genetics], it would have already happened with genetic mutations,' said William Brinkley, a senior vice-president at Baylor who says other research should take precedence over the cancer genome project. Dr John Mendelsohn [president of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center] states, 'Any claims that this [genetic research] is going to be the key to curing cancer are not appropriate.'" Thus, the prime cause of cancer is not a genetic mutation. Even if cancer "runs in your family", there is real hope. Unfortunately, the geneticists have it backwards, attempting to force the facts to fit their genetics-based theories when they don't fit the facts, because, as Professor Harris demonstrated many years ago, cancer isn't genetically dominant. Where does this leave us? Where can we look for solutions? What about the popular nutritional solutions to fighting cancer?

Cancer and Homeopathy

By Dr. Bruce Semon, MD, Ph.D of Wisconsin Institute of Nutrition

What does homeopathy specifically offer the cancer patient? There are several ways homeopathy can help cancer patients. First, there are specific remedies for various cancers. These remedies may be used whether a person has conventional treatment or not. A number of remedies can make conventional treatment easier for the cancer patient. Finally, homeopathic remedies can help with terminal pain and with the fear of dying.
Let us begin with helping a cancer patient through conventional cancer therapies. One remedy which may be used during cancer chemotherapy and radiation therapy is cadmium sulph. This remedy has a number of uses but one of its main uses is for severe projectile vomiting. Thus this remedy can be taken before any cancer treatment which causes vomiting. This remedy is also an antidote to radiation sickness. A 30C dose of this remedy before and after treatment will ease any possible vomiting.
Homeopathy was developed at a time when conventional medicine had little to offer the cancer patient. Later there was cancer surgery, but the surgery and the diagnostic testing underlying the surgery were not as sophisticated as that of today. Homeopathic physicians found that there were remedies for cancer. Although it may seem that the more advanced the cancer, the less likely homeopathy would be to help but this was not always true. The successful use of homeopathic remedies depends on being able to identify characteristic symptoms which lead to specific remedies. Sometimes the more severe the cancer the easier it is to find the symptoms and the appropriate remedy.
Cancer from a homeopathic perspective must be seen as a disease and as a disturbance of the vital force and that something must have disturbed the vital force to lead to cancer. Homeopaths would thus often search for a cause in trying to find the appropriate remedy. For example physical trauma to the breast leading to cancer, also points to a specific remedy. Another cause would be a miasm, an underlying predisposition to illness.
The problem is that for someone choosing surgery over homeopathic treatment is that the disease, the disturbance of the vital force, does not go away because the cancer is cut out. The cancer can recur elsewhere and can be more malignant when it does. This is not really explainable under current understanding of cancer. For example if a woman has had cancer in one breast, why should cancer then appear in the other breast, which unfortunately happens all too frequently. The academic model that cancer arises because of hits to DNA, the genes, which somehow results in cancer, means that cancer has a certain probability of affecting a certain tissue, such as the breast, but why once the cancer is removed surgically, that cancer should show up in the other breast has no obvious explanation if everything is random hits to the genes, to DNA.
But in homeopathy, there is an explanation. The disease, the disturbance to the body's vital force, is still present even after the diseased tissue is removed. The disease can then move to other tissue. The important thing to know about cancer and choosing whether to use homeopathy or not is that surgery will not remove the disease.
Most people will still opt for conventional treatment, so how can homeopathy be useful to them. They can take the appropriate remedy starting before the surgery and continue the same remedy after surgery, to prevent recurrence. For strict homeopathic thinking such a procedure is not optimum. Nonetheless, it is quite possible to do things this way.
In reviewing cases from the past, one finds that cancer treatment was a lengthy process and even in past written cases by the masters, not all remedies that they tried worked. But there were patients in those days who did not want surgery and there are books of cures. But the treatment was lengthy. Sometimes even people with very advanced cancers were cured by homeopathy.
Homeopathy can also help with the psychological issues which occur in cancer. There are remedies for ailments from bad news to fear of dying. Homeopathy can also help with terminal pain.
Some of the main remedies used for cancer are arsenicum, hydrastis, conium, phosphorus, carcinosin, lycopodium, asterias and the cadmiums.

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Breast Cancer Cure - Organopathy Treatment

A homeopathy practitioner, Dr. Aziz, based in Kuala Lumpur and Perlis beliefs he has effective cures to breast cancer via a form of homeopathic treatment called Organopathy.

Dr. Aziz has never claimed that the treatment he applied to his patients are guaranteed to work 100%. However, the combinations of special homeopathic herbs extracts and preparation administered to his patients seemed to effectively increase chance of cure by 70%.

There were few cases, where his patients with late stage of breast cancer, who were at the point to have their breasts remove via conventional treatment, were managed to be saved from the breasts removal operation. After few months undergoing the organopathic treatment, reaccessment at conventional hospital showed the cancer cells has reduced. And given further 1 to 2 years repeated check-up indicated that they were totally cured.

According to Dr. Aziz, Organopathy has been practiced more than 100 years in Britain and Germany.

Homeopathy & Organopathy Yaqin:
Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Dahaman
782 Jalan E 5/5 Taman Ehsan Kepong,
52100Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Phone: +60-12-418-2536