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| ters worse? I believe, as all traditional healers have known for thousands of years, that a fever is the body's healing reaction to an infectious organism and that, instead of being suppressed, it should be worked with to allow the body to disperse the heat by sweating. When a patient is taking interferon, for example, I would recommend drinking a diaphoretic tea and taking an Epsom salt bath before bed at least three nights a week. The diaphoretic tea would be made with herbs like boneset, yarrow, elder, peppermint, and ginger. This not only relieves the achiness and flulike symptoms that interferon brings with it, it actually helps the interferon to be more effective. |
| Often, when a person is first diagnosed with cancer and decides to follow a standard form of therapy in hopes of a cure, he can be successful at putting the cancer into remission, but what about the future? There are a few very important questions that need to be asked: |
| 1. Does the patient have choices or is the decision-making process in the hands of others? |
| 2. What are his or her chances for a cure? |
| 3. How long will the remission last? |
| 4. How successful will the next treatment(s) be? Although treatment may cause tumor regression or inhibit further tumor growth, will the treatment ultimately provide longer life and/or better quality of life? |
| 5. Can holistic complementary therapies be integrated into a comprehensive approach or would holistic treatments alone be better in this situation? |
| 6. Is there anything that can be done to inhibit the cancer from returning or to prevent another cancer from forming? |
| 7. If the doctor says the patient is just wasting time and money with an organic diet and medicinal herbs, should the patient abandon responsibility for her long-term health and well-being? |
| For many people, serious problems and conflicts arise when their conventional doctor disapproves of their interest in natural therapies. However, I have worked with thousands of people who have cancer and have learned that those who include herbs, good nutrition, and other nontoxic approaches in their treatment are able to reduce the likelihood of recurrences, enhance any conventional therapies that they are undergoing, and lessen their side effects. My approach has been used as the primary treatment for healing as well as a |
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