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| ject to change in strength and number of dosages over the course of treatment, depending on the client's health status. |
| This chapter presents the theory and practice of herbal healing, especially as it pertains to cancer. It covers classifications and descriptions of useful plants in the treatment of cancer, including mushrooms and sea herbs, and offers various healing formulas, plus general guidelines for some of my own. |
| The Efficacy of Herbal Treatment for Cancer |
| When I prescribe herbs and herbal tonics, I am often asked how they work and whether there are any scientific studies that validate their effects. The answer is that though there are not many studies of herbs in the modern medical literature, certain herbs and herbal remedies have historically been proven curative in certain diseases not just once or twice, or even in hundreds of cases, but in thousandsand not just for one or two years, or even hundreds of years, but for thousands of years. |
| Of course, for herbs to be truly effective, it is important for practitioners who work with them to study the action, dosage, and energetics of each herb in addition to knowing for which diseases it is curative. This requires careful study of the materia medica, but this alone is not enough. It is also essential to understand the client's symptoms as well as her constitution and lifestyleall the factors that make that client a unique individual. Of course, experience also counts. Even after twenty years of experience, having worked with thousands of people, many of them cancer patients, my knowledge about herbs continues to expand. |
| Chinese Herbal Treatments |
| Today, most of the research on the use of natural herbal compounds is being done abroad. For example, the Chinese government has funded an intensive study of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. There are thousands of herbal formulas currently being used for cancer treatment in China, and over four hundred of them are described in three recently published books by M.Y. Chang, J.W. Yang, Y.Y. Hu, and M.S. Xuan. Most Chinese medicinal herbs and their combinations have been used for many hundreds of years, and I use |
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