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| 7. Years and years of practice performed in humble goodwill to help people heal. |
| These seven factors are the basis of herbal wisdom, a state quite different from herbal knowledge. Practitioners who have developed such wisdom have a great deal of freedom to use their innate intuition and healing abilities in their practice. They know hundreds of applications for most herbs and understand their essential energetic qualities and how to use them constitutionally as well as for specific organ systems. This gives them many options when developing a protocol for a specific client. |
| Treating people individually, understanding each herb's energetic characteristics, and having the ability to relate them to the energetic characteristics of each client appear to be forgotten arts, even among holistic practitioners. Today, some are caught in the same "one-size-fits-all" approach as allopathic doctors, who tend to treat the disease and not the individual. I believe their clients would benefit greatly if these practitioners challenged themselves to delve deeper into the lives of their clients. By recognizing their clients' unique needs, they would be able to offer them the very best care from every perspective. |
| Three Stages of Cancer Therapy |
| In treating people with cancer, I have found that generally they need tonic therapy first to strengthen the vital force and the immune system. Second, they need liver and lymphatic detoxification, and third, cytotoxic therapy. As a rule, tonic therapy and liver detoxification are not available through conventional medicine, and its cytotoxic methodsradiation and chemotherapytend to suppress rather than enhance the patient's vital force. |
| In each stage of therapy I use two classifications of herbs: |
| Stage 1: Tonic Therapy |
| Herbs that strengthen the individual's constitution and vitality |
| Tonic herbs, adaptogens, and herbal immune enhancers |
| Stage 2: Liver and Lymph Detoxification |
| Antioxidant, liver-detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, and antiangiogenic herbs |
| Alternatives and lymphatics |
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