[YOUR HEALTH] Treatment of breast cancer in Alternative Medicine (7)

Today’s column, seventh in this series, was not part of the presentation to the College of Integrative and Alternative Medicine. It is an outgrowth which reinforces belief in Alternative Medicine that cancer can be cured.
This column brings good tidings all around. First, the Nigerian gentleman in England who went there in January, in search of a cure for Stage 4 (terminal) colon cancer which had spread to the liver, one lung and kidney, should return home in November, a healthier man two months after he added six herbs to his treatment protocols of chemotherapy and radiation as described in earlier parts of this series, a scan report revealed 25 per cent shrinkage of the tumour. Another two months on, blood markers of the cancer had decreased from 1,400 to 500. The consultants described his recovery as “unusual” and said he could come home, and return in February next year for checks. The second case is that of a gentleman in Nigeria challenged with prostate cancer confirmed by a biopsy after a PSA (Prostate Sensitive Antigen) reading of over 160 against a normal range of 0 – 4. Last week, within one month of an aggressive herbal therapy, the PSA fell from 164.7 to 114. He is happy and hopeful of another crash later next month.
As a reminder, this is the seventh part in the serialisation of the text of a presentation by FEMI KUSA at the maiden seminar of the College of Integrative Medicine held at the Water Parks, Toyin Street, Lagos, on August 1 and2, 2013.

The college was founded to train members of the National Integrative Medicine Practitioners Association (NIMPA). Now let me introduce her…

who is she?

MrsOlusolaSowemimo is an alternative medicine enthusiast who continues to dig for knowledge, having been raised by parents who embraced healthy nutrition. In her quest for knowledge, she attended the 41st Cancer Control Society Convention in California and shares her experience. She enjoys learning, sharing and guiding others with similar interests. She writes from Lagos.

When a loved one passed away about five years ago from complications arising from cancer, I got curious and started to do a lot of reading and all manner of research on this dreaded topic. It is so prevalent now that, there is hardly anyone who does not know someone battling cancer. It is as though if it is on a rampage. It does not know class or gender.

In my findings, I also realise that there is very little that conventional doctors do to help, apart from putting patients through those powerful and mostly toxic drugs used in chemotherapy.

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I grew up in a household where natural unprocessed foods were encouraged and, in fact, salad was served as dinner on Thursdays. We ate no white sugar and in those early years, my mom baked the wheat bread that the family ate. The leaves of her lovely ewedu stew came straight from the garden at the back of the house while the pawpaw she ate every morning came from the compound. This woman will pick the hibiscus leaves and put in her teapot and drink the infusion as tea. I was surprised to find hibiscus tea on the shelves of Holland &Barret a few years after.

With all of these experience growing up, I was not surprised to find out that we will only eradicate cancer when we go back to nature. You cannot begin to imagine the potential damage our future generations will face if we keep encouraging pastries and fizzy drinks. On a visit to Cotonou last year, I was impressed to see that the country has not encouraged any infiltration of foreign eateries. We visited Mama Benin in Cotonou, it was all about our local delicacies. On another occasion, we were confident enough to sit at a roadside eatery where we had jollof rice with grilled fish laced with rich green lettuce and peas. Our drink was fresh pineapple juice with ginger and we had a local drummer who provided the music that accompanied the meal. There was no one in sight to disturb the experience.

The quest to validate my knowledge about the importance of healthy lifestyle led me to the 41st Annual Cancer Convention of the Cancer Control Society. I was surprised to learn that this society has been in existence for very many years. The purpose of the society is public education in the prevention and control of cancer and other diseases through Nutrition, Tests and Non-Toxic Alternative Therapies. They lay no claim to curing cancer but CONTROLLING it.

The President of the Society is Frank Cousineau, a very tall gentleman who does not say two sentences without referring to his wife. She was a nurse in the hospital where his mom was admitted to treat her cancer. She showed so much compassion that he knew he had found his future bride immediately. The convention Director is Lorrain Rosenthal and the society is a California non-profit educational corporation funded solely by memberships, donations and book sales.

The society maintain a telephone ‘hotline’ and supply a ‘Green Sheet’ which lists available therapies and doctors. From my experience at the Convention, there are several medical doctors who have embraced alternative healing processes for cancer other than chemotherapy.

The convention was held at Sheraton Universal from August 31 – Sept 1 and 2, 2013 in California. It was highly intensive with lectures by well-known medical doctors, clinical researchers, nutritionists, authours, who spoke on prevention and control of cancer and other diseases through nutrition and therapies such as chelation, DMSO, Oxygen, Herbal, Cellular & Electromagnetic therapies, Laetrile. Gerson, Hoxsey, Poly-MVA, Phytochemicals & Immunotherapy. There were also talks on natural therapies for Heart, Diabetes, Athritis, MS and Eye diseases. Of great importance were the many recovered cancer patients who gave encouraging reports, some of who were medical doctors (who knew that chemotherapy was not an option).

There were about 40 speakers, many of them medical doctors several film shows and a lot of demonstrations at the event, most of which I would share with you. The speakers on day one were, Tony O’Donnel Ph.D., Phytonutrients & Cancer, Doris Rapp M,D, Challenges of our Toxic World – A wake up call, Gary Gordon, M.D., Dr Gordon’s answer to Cancer, Charlotte Gerson, Founder Gerson Institute – Healing Cancer and other Chronic Diseases, Michael Murray M.D. The Role of Blood Sugar in Cancer and Diabetes, Robert Rowen, M.D. Oxygen Therapies and Cancer, Doug Kaufmann, Author Does Fungus Cause Cancer. After lunch we had more speakers, PhranqTamburri, N.M.D. Options For Surviving Prostrate Cancer, Billy Best, Patient, The Billy Best Story, Geronimo Rubio M.D. Reversing Liver Cancer With Stem Cells & Immunotherapy, Christian Wilde, Author Researcher, Tumeric-Out of the Closet, Rick Hill, Patient, My Recovery from Testicular Cancer, Oram Miller B.B.E.C. Cell Phones, Wi-Fi, and the Wirings in Your home: EMF Hazards & Solutions

I had made friends with a lady who sat next to me on day one, by name Rhodora, she used to be a nurse in the hospital but felt she could do more in terms of caring for the aged and advising people on healthier alternatives. She had come with her different fresh juices and fresh salad to last her for the day. My greatest surprise was when she said she was 67 years old. I was stunned because she looked about 10 years younger. She was not the only surprise of the day there were many more. Betty, a lady who works with the society, was another surprise. She refused to tell her age and craved my indulgence not to have her picture taken and I promptly respected that. If I could guess, I would put her age nearer 90. Betty went up and down with little sign of tiredness. She was happy to bang the bell to encourage people to return to the auditorium from the exhibition stands. Another lovely I met is Mary, she would be starting a four year training to become a naturopath as she is so passionate about alternative medical practice.

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At the exhibition were so many natural products with proven successes, machines, gadgets and different practitioners. It was an opportunity to get medical advice, many were free and many attracted some fees. I would be sharing in subsequent editions many of these products. One thing that surprised me was how all the results from the different practitioners added up to the same medical reports.Of note was the fact that many of the delegates were already practising healthy habits. Even though natural foods were served on the lawn by Sheraton Hotel, they came armed with their fresh juices in glass jars, salads and different organic meals. I would be showing you pictures of many of these foods.

The convention proper lasted three days, on the fourth day, there was a Doctor’s symposium, the forum was for doctors to challenge themselves to do more by debating, analysing and showcase their discoveries. It was opened to the public.

On the last day was the Bus tour of Cancer Clinics in Mexico. These clinics are undeterred by the bad publicity they continue to receive purely because the ‘powers that be’ do not want people to know the incredible work going on in these clinics. In one of the clinics, a famous doctor had brought his mom to cure her cancer BUT he had begged that all records of his visit to the clinic should please be expunged. One key factor among them all is to uphold a healthy nutrition, details of which I shall provide as we go along. We walked round the hospitals, spoke with some of the patients, had healthy snacks and meals at the hospitals

I am happy to know that some Nigerians have been successfully treated in some of these clinics.

Do you know that some of these clinics had been in existence for over 20 years? Indeed ‘Knowledge is Power’

I went to the Convention with a skin tag or mole of over 20 years. By the time I went through different tests and supplements, it has dissolved. I was surprised to find the smelly content on my fingers.

This gets more interesting, can you believe that I held something in my hand to sleep and I slept all through the night for six straight hours? There is a lot out there waiting to be tapped.

- Olusola Sowemimoo/The Nation

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