Susan S. Weed's Eight Steps for A Woman Dancing With Cancer
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Eight Steps for A Woman Dancing With Cancer
c. 1997 by Susun S Weed
1. Submit. Give up. Make room for the miracle.
2. Inform yourself. Listen to your intuition. Examine all the options, but only use what feels right to you.
3. Accept support. Surround yourself with loving friends, healing music, special colors, prayer and affirmation. Create a ceremony of healing/wholing and invite your supporters.
4. Annoint your breast(s) with healing herbal oils such as calendula, dandelion, or poke. Visualize healing energies suffusing your tissues.
5. Maximize the healthy qualities of your diet:
Use organic olive oil and butter to the exclusion of other fats.
Increase your use beans, especially lentils, and fermented foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut, miso, tamari, homemade wines and beers.
Include immune building and anticancer herbs in your diet:
(1) Daily use of a nourishing infusion, especially red clover flower or burdock root or violet leaf infusions.
(2) Daily use of fresh herb vinegars, especially yellow dock, burdock , and dandelion root vinegars.
(3) Frequent use of a long-cooked soup containing seaweed (such as kombu or wakame), astragalus root, and medicinal mushrooms (reishi, shiitake, puffballs, etc.).
6. Increase you exercise level. Take a yoga or tai chi class weekly. Walk daily. Get a weekly massage. Pamper yourself with activity.
7. Use drugs (chemotherapy, tamoxifen, anesthesia, pain killers) as required but (1) consider a short trial of a powerful herb such as poke root before resorting to drugs and (2) always combine drug use with complimentary herbs. For instance, protect the liver with milk thistle seed tincture.
8. Use radiation and surgery as needed but (1) always combine with complimentary herbs and (2) be willing to set limits that you feel comfortable with, they can't take your lymph glands if you say "No."
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Comments
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Thank you for that! I actually do all of those things except #8, and #3 has been a challenge since so very many people don't believe in what I'm doing and I've had to stop telling people and I regret many of the ones I have told. I about dropped my teeth one day as I joined a group of my friends at a restaurant and one woman that I don't know all that well loudly asked me how my health issues are coming along. I had not even got sat down yet! So I've done everything else but I can't convince people that I'm doing the right thing and don't try anymore, even though everyone says I look great. Sorry, I'm a little down about that right now.
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Many good points on the list, although I have a real problem with #7. A big factor in the efficacy of standard drugs is timely use. A quick experiment with alternatives before starting regular treatment would in many cases be a supremely bad idea
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