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| to happen. Approaching healing in this way allows for a certain aspect of mystery in the healing process, which we, with all of our modern technology and need to be in control, often ignore. |
| Although this book contains numerous references to medical research studies, it is based primarily on my own firsthand experiences in helping people who are dealing with cancer. |
| I am frequently asked what really heals cancer. Frankly, I don't know whether it's the herbs, the nutritional supplements, changes in diet or lifestyle, changes in mind and spirit, or even some conventional protocols. Perhaps it's a combination of all these things. I do know, however, that just as each herb is a complex entity, so too is each individual. Thus, healing with herbs brings us into a realm where physical explanations are not always as clear and scientific as we would like. The synergy that takes place between the body's own innate tendency to heal and the herbs that aid in that process is, in some ways, a mystery even though the healing itself is indisputably real. |
| Whatever the reason, I am simply overjoyed when a healing happens. I am thankful and believe it to be a miracle from God. |
| I believe if we truly want to heal people, we need to cut through, not eliminate, a lot of modern science. At the same time, we need to restore some important basics like compassion, humility, and respect for each individual's uniqueness. Doctors (as well as the entire technology-driven medical establishment) need to look at patients as human beings, not objects; individuals, not cases; creative eccentrics, not benumbed normals. Unfortunately, in spite of all its advances, modern medicine as it is practiced today is leaving its mark on human life in the shallowest of ways. |
| I believe that the human body has an amazing ability to maintain homeostasis if we provide the proper environment for it to do so. I also believe that an overwhelming amount of stress underlies most chronic illness, and that patients need to address the issues of stress in their lives for true healing to take place. Conventional medicine, on the other hand, preaches that only medical interventions and modern drugs will lead to healing. It also holds that the body's healing responses to illness must be treated and suppressed. |
| It is standard procedure, for instance, to suppress the body's curative powers by using Tylenol to lower a fever or to relieve the aches and pains often caused by interferon production when one is ill. Is this helping or making mat- |
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