My wife aged 38 has a glioblastoma multiforme, a very aggressive form of brain tumour. She has been battling it 18 months, currently it is 6cm and still growing fast.

She has had 3 surgeries, radiotherapy, three chemos (temodal, thalidomide and now Gleevec) and may have to do another surgery. She faces a prognosis of 6 - 8 weeks without surgery, 6 - 12 months with surgery.

Can anyone give me any experiences or point me to any documented cases of successful treatment of aggressive brain tumours using homoeopathy?

Many thanks

Glen
Sydney
Australia

Dear Glen,

The main remedy for brain tumors is Conium,
and I don't think you can go wrong by trying it, Conium 6C three or four times a day. You can also post your wife's case here.
Read some of the other posts on the bulletin board so you'll know the info we're interested in, as it's usually quite unlike what a doctor wants to know. For instance, we would want to know what your wife likes to eat and drink and we would want to know what's the worst thing that's bothering her right now that's sapping her energy more than anything else. We would want to know if there are any striking mental or emotional symptoms, like, aversion to lying in bed, or cannot stand the least noise, etc. Maybe some our Australian homeopaths on the board will help you find a homeopath near you.

Here are some tips:

Alfalfa tincture 10 drops in water 3 times a day will improve her nutrition and weight and appetite.

Vitamin C, at least 10,000 mg. spread throughout the day will prolong her life and sense of well-being.

Cut out the junk food as cancer cells thrive on it. Replace with as much raw fruit and vegatables, like salads, as you possibly can.

If you can get raw carrot juice--some people have cured cancer on carrot juice alone. The same with fresh grapes.

Try this web site: www.AlternativeMedicine.com
There's a lot of alternative cancer info there--alternative clinics that will take personal care of your wife and perhaps save her life;
there's one in Mexico, BioPulse, that has a wonderful non-toxic cancer therapy; but there must be many of these places all over the world, so check out this web site.

Stay in touch,
Snoopy

At the very least, homeopathy can be used for palliation with advanced cancer. Dr's A. U. Ramakrishnan and Farokh Master from India have differing approaches in their treatment of cancer with homeopathy, but both have a great deal of experience. "A Homeopathic Approach to Cancer" by Ramakrishnan and Catherine Coulter outlines treatment protocols (including brain cancer) which have evolved after 5,000 cases, but which need to be followed with the help of an experienced homeopath. Dr. Master's book "Tumours and Homeopathy" discusses the classical homeopathic treatment of cancer, but does not have protocols per se.

Please look at Dr. Hulda Clarks site as well
it is www.drhuldaclark.org - she has written a book titled "the Cure for Advanced Cancers" which can be purchesed through her site or I believe most bookstores have it (probably your local library too).

There is a member of this board who I beleive knows of someone using her technique to cure cancer - perhaps she will post here (JVOLKMAN?)

You can also go to amazon.com website and look up her other books "The Cure for Cancer" and "the Cure for all Diseases" and click on the public reviews where you will find many people who have written reviews, good or bad, about her information.

Her program is not homeopathic but since time is obviously of the essence here I would do anything and everything in my power to try to beat this and so if I were you I'd follow her program religously while finding a homeopathic practitioner in your area.

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I'm sorry to hear such bad news - the diet which is most beneficial for cancer patients is a strict macrobiotic diet. There are many books on the subject. This could be a first step at this time. My good thoughts are with you and your wife. I hope you have support of family and friends in this trying time.
Best wishes, Claudia

The macrobiotic diet is very good for cancer patients as well as the Gerson diet - here is an overview of both.

Gerson Regime
The Gerson regime is a low-fat, low-animal protein, high carbohydrate dietary regimen, which particular emphasis upon organic fruits, vegetables and whole grains. There is also attention paid to achieving a high potassium, low sodium diet.

This programme is designed to:
* Aid in the detoxification of waste and toxic products which impede normal metabolism and the natural healing process;
* Infuse the body with highly therapeutic and nutritious dietary nutrients.

The main components of the Gerson regimen include:
* More than a dozen glasses per day of freshly pressed vegetable and fruit juices, much of this carrot juice;
* Reduced sodium, increased potassium diet, including potassium supplementation;
* Vegetable soup daily;
* Coffee enemas every three to four hours.

Additionally, some patients receive iodine supplements. Raw liver juice, formerly a feature of this programme has been discontinued due to bacterial and parasitic contamination of commercially-available supplies of liver.
From the foregoing articles in this series attesting to the significant anti-tumour and anti-oxidant properties of fruits, vegetables, Vitamin A and beta-carotene, it is clear that consuming large quantities of freshly prepared fruit and vegetables would provide cancer patients sustenance which is both therapeutic and healing. Coffee enemas, which were standard German medical practice from the 1920s, are used to stimulate the liver, the body's main detoxification organ.
Contrary to the notions sometimes advanced in an over-zealous media prone to labelling practices such as drinking carrot juice and taking coffee enemas as "cancer quackery", there is actually a reasonable amount of scientific and clinical literature on the Gerson regime.4-9 An excellent account of this and virtually every other type of anti-cancer substance and programme, written by a distinguished expert in cancer research and the politics of suppression of non-othodox approaches, is especially recommended as authoritative reading.10 One of the few clinical long-term studies carried out evaluating the effects of Gerson's dietary methods11 found that:

* Patients were in better general condition;
* Patients had fewer complications and improved tolerance of radiotherapy and chemotherapy;
* Cachexia (wasting) could be prevented or significantly delayed;
* There was reduced demand for pain killers and psychotropic drugs;
* Existing liver metastases progressed more slowly with reduced tumour effusions.

An evaluation of case histories of 149 Gerson clinic patients was carried out by physicians at Maudsley and Hammersmith hospitals. Of 27 patients with independent documentation, 20 were disregarded as "non-assessable" because they had received conventional therapy at the same time. Of the 7 cases evaluated, 3 (43%) were in complete remission. Amongst the findings as published in The Lancet12 were the following:

* Patients exhibited high ratings for confidence and mood;
* Patients felt that they had a significant degree of control over their health;
* Patients had low pain scores and low pain relief requirements, despite their extensive metastatic disease;
* Although there was little objective evidence of an anti-tumour effect, definite tumour regression was documented in a few patients;
* In view of a "fighting spirit" which correlates with better prognosis, the Gerson patients' sense of well-being could be a significant factor in the clinical management of their disease.

The above clinical studies and evaluation in no way constitute definitive proof of the clinical efficacy of the Gerson dietary regime in the treatment of cancer. The only rather implausible way to gather such evidence would be to conduct a large trial of cancer patients who are randomised to a particular regime and who would be equally motivated to follow whatever regime they were assigned to – a highly improbable exercise! Nevertheless, in light of research from the past few decades attesting to the significant anti-cancer properties of a diet high in fruit and vegetables, whole grains, fibre, and low in fat, the Gerson dietary regimen would appear to score high grades in each of those categories.

Macrobiotics10,13
The Macrobiotic diet, a high fibre, low fat, low animal protein diet, as part of a much larger world systematic view, is about achieving a balance between yin at one extreme and yang at the other in every aspect of ones life. As pertaining to food, sweet foods, alcohol and drugs are extremely yin, while meat, cheese, dairy and eggs are at the extreme end of the yang spectrum. At the centre of a continuum, from which the macrobiotic diet is selected, are grains, vegetables, fruits and sea vegetables.

The main functions of the macrobiotic diet are:

* To eliminate toxins accumulated through eating excess sweet, greasy, animal and dairy foods and alcohol, and restore health by eating a balanced, centred diet;
* To eat foods appropriate for any particular geographic area and climate; in other words, diets for those living in temperate climates wouldn't include tropical foods, and those living in cold climates wouldn't eat a primarily raw diet.

The Macrobiotic diet is comprised of the following proportions of foods:

* Whole grains – brown rice, barley, millet, oats, corn, rye, wheat, buckwheat – 50-60 percent;
* Vegetables – a wide variety of locally, organically grown vegetables, including cabbage, kale, greens, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, carrrots and many more – 25-30 percent;
* A variety of beans, including tofu, tempeh and natto, and sea vegetables – 5-10 percent.
* Soups, especially miso soup – 5 percent.
* Fish, seafood, seasonal fruits, condiments and seasonings are supplements to the main diet.

The Macrobiotic diet is a non-rigid, gentle and individualised regimen, devised according to a particular person's constitution and medical condition, contrary to many popular misconceptions. Complementary are ancillary diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines such as such as pulse and face diagnosis, acupuncture and shiatsu, the Japanese branch of oriental medicine. Despite the small proportion of raw vegetables and fruits, there are particular aspects of the Macrobiotic diet which have been shown to have significant anti-cancer properties:

* The consumption of yellow, orange and green vegetables, usually steamed, with their abundance of beta-carotene, calcium, selenium and other micronutrients. In addition, cabbages and cruciferous vegetables contain the anti-cancer compounds indole glycosinate;14,15
* Sea vegetables have been shown to possess significant anti-cancer properties;10,16,17
* The use of soy products and fermented soy products, containing phytate, protease inhibitors and isoflavones, inhibitors of oncogenes;18,19
* The consumption of Bancha tea, a variety of green tea, containing a potent anti-cancer compound EGCG;20
* The abundance of high fibre-containing whole grains and the avoidance of red meat, a known promoter of colon cancer.

There has not been a great deal of clinical or scientific evaluation of macrobiotic diets;21 however, Michio Kushi, the foremost advocate of Macrobiotics has been fairly articulate in publishing the principles, philosophy and application of Macrobiotics to cancer and other health problems.22 However, as judged by promoting the major anti-cancer dietary elements – low fat, high fibre, fruits and vegetables, low animal protein – Macrobiotics, totally different from the raw vegetable, juicing regimen of Gerson, also appears to score highly on the anti-cancer scorecard.

For more info on the Gerson diet (which I highly recommend) please go to www.gerson.org also the following are some cases on brain cancer using the gerson diet.

DAVID NELSON, HOPELESS ASTROCYTOMA (BRAIN CANCER).
January, 1986, grand mal seizure. Surgery removed 50% of lemon-sized tumor, many 'crabgrass roots' into brain remained. Biopsy: astrocytoma. Doctors said two to 12 months to live. Began Gerson Therapy in Mexican hospital April, 1986. Four MRI scans in three years showed reduction and disappearance of tumor. Excellent health, remained free of cancer for nine years. Son of Bill Nelson.

GEORGE GIMSON, INOPERABLE BRAIN CANCER.
Case 35 in A Cancer Therapy. Presented by Dr. Gerson in 1946 to U.S. Senate Committee. Ulcer biopsied, U.S. Army, August, 1944: basal cell carcinoma. Surgery removed right mastoid cancer. Recurred April, 1945. Discharged, no treatment. Carried to Dr. Gerson, crying in severe pain, left eye swollen closed, right eye barely open. October, 1945, X-rays showed fist sized tumor at base of skull growing into brain. Almost gone in four weeks. Complete recovery. Remained free of cancer for 49 years. Died of heart attack 1994.

DORA SHERKEN, LARGE PITUITARY CANCER IN BRAIN.
Case #1 in A Cancer Therapy. Dizziness, weakness, irritability, depression, fell unconscious in 1942. Hospital tests diagnosed adenoma. Right eye blind, left optic nerve partly destroyed. Brought by ambulance, unconscious, to Dr. Gerson, March, 1944. Remained unconscious during first week of treatment. After two months did housework, eyesight improved. Did secretarial work. Two CAT scans in 1980 showed brain, bones and pituitary clear. Remained free of cancer for 50 years. Died at age 92 of heart failure.


Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you during this horrible time.

[ 18 July 2001: Message edited by: Barb ]

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Also, something to check out would be lorraine day's website. She was a surgeon who cured herself of cancer with no chemotherapy..mostly juices, mostly carrot juice (unless one is a diabetic). She also has a list of other things needed when one has cancer such as sunshine and distilled water.

http://www.drday.com/

One of my fellow homeopathic students had a brain tumour and was given four months to live. That was five years ago. Because of the remarkable success she had with her recovery, she now studies homeopathy, relates her experiences to any journalist who will listen and is in the process of writing a book about her experience with cancer.

As well as a homeopathic approach, you might also like to do some further reading on how various people survived their cancer.

"A Time to Heal" by Beatta Bishop (Gerson Therapy)

"The Journey" Brandon Bays (Mind-Body Medicine approach)

Both of the women above had cancer and recovered perfect health.

"Quantum Healing" Deepak Chopra M.D. (Mind-Body Medicine approach).

Deepak is an M.D. who details many cases of recovery and research into why various people recover.

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dear glenn,

please read Merc Auratum,Plumb met also

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Hi Glenn,
I'd just like to echo Barb's thoughts about the Gerson therapy it can be extremely effective and it is well worth consulting them to get an honest prognosis.
Best wishes to you both
Dave