Just hearing the word ‘cancer’ can strike dread into the heart and mind, especially when on the receiving end of an official cancer diagnosis. It is difficult even to consider cancer in neutral terms, the word ‘cancer’ is so loaded with negative connotations, and the many negative ‘thought-forms’ associated with it. (In essence, ‘thought-forms’ are semi-materialised ethereal forms or shapes that the mind builds). Given the rise in the various forms of cancer, and despite the huge efforts of modern western medicine to treat it effectively, this perception only compounds the sense of victimisation that many patients feel. This is a challenge that humanity faces on a global scale, but armed with information about our personal genetic predisposition, we could be granted a deeper understanding of the implications of cancer, and how we might address and treat it on an individualised basis.
Genetic Predisposition to Cancer
Genetic considerations are important, recent research shows that inherited variants form only about 10% of cancer – this statistical estimate most probably is an underestimate, as the NCI (National Cancer Institute) acknowledges that scientists have discovered hundreds of DNA and genetic changes i.e. variations, mutations, or alterations, that helps cancer form, grow, and spread. Cancer may at times appear to ‘run in families’ even if it is not caused by an inherited variant. Most cancers are caused by acquired mutations – these are gene changes that take place in a person’s cells during their lifetime (according to Macmillan Cancer Support information). General awareness of food and lifestyle habits that increase cancer risk is improving, yet many people may still not be as aware of the bigger picture, which this article will attempt to address. There is much information already out there about the biology and physiology underpinning this extensive subject matter, which we will review to enhance our perspective and understanding of the importance of the cellular processes involved. What is less often talked about or widely available in the public domain, are the specific genetic vulnerabilities and deeper causations behind cancer.
At present, there is no established single certain cure for cancer in orthodox western medicine. This article will attempt to explain the complexity and challenges in attempting to propose a single cure or cures for cancer. Western medicine treatment protocols often leave many casualties in their wake. Take for example the replies to Elon Musk after he asked Wuhan doctors what their biggest mistakes were after the ‘first wave’ intubation (the insertion of a tube into a patient’s body, especially that of an artificial ventilation tube into the trachea) in the Covid pandemic. He was informed that far too many people were put on intubated ventilators for an extended time frame – this medical practice was damaging the lungs and in effect, the treatment was worse than the disease. Similarly, with cancer treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and targeted cancer drugs can often make patients feel incredibly ill. Worse than this, immunotherapy drugs used to fight cancer may trigger inflammation in different parts of the body, often causing serious side effects. Hormone therapies, bisphosphonates, painkillers, radiotherapy, surgery and total body irradiation (TBI) all present serious challenges to the body and contribute to iatrogenic disease. This refers to the deleterious effects of a therapeutic (drugs, surgery, other invasive procedures) or diagnostic regimen (mechanical and radiological) that directly causes pathology independent of the condition for which the treatment protocols are advised. The Chambers English Dictionary definition is, “Iatrogenic (of a disease or symptoms) induced in a patient by the treatments or comments of a physician”. Hospitalisation is another factor that can result in additional iatrogenic disorders in the form of hospital-acquired infections, often involving the urinary tract and respiratory system.
Cellular Health
This article intends to give some insight into the significance of cellular health and how this relates directly to cancer.
The average adult male human has around 36 trillion cells – that is 36,000,000,000,000. It is important to understand that cancer can originate in any one of these normal cells, triggered by something within your environment that destroys mitochondria, the energy part of your cells. The mitochondria produce energy for the body. When the mitochondria become dysfunctional for whatever reason, the cellular intelligence in your body utilises an innate ‘back-up’ programme to cope instead. Cancer is, in effect, an adaption to another energy source, and runs on this ‘back-up’ programme. In normal circumstances, a cell uses an energy process called oxphos (oxidative phosphorylation), but when it becomes cancerous it shifts to aerobic glycolysis. This is known as the ‘Warburg effect‘, when the mitochondrial damage causes tumour cells to exhibit an increased rate of glycolysis, one way in which the presence of cancer can be diagnosed.
The actual source from which the mitochondria in our cells originated is bacterial. Mitochondria have all the properties of bacteria that early in our evolution entered our cells and co-evolved to work together to produce energy; in exchange the cell provided a kind of home for the mitochondria. The mitochondrial function is not only about producing energy but is also responsible for balancing iron and calcium metabolism, making hormones, generating neurotransmitters, producing melatonin and generating cross-communication pathways between the circadian clock cycles, gut microbes and immune cells. In short, the mitochondria are vital for normal and healthy functioning.
The mitochondria present a pivot point between health and disease. When mitochondria become damaged and that cell turns into a cancer cell, this cell may then become ‘immortal’, losing its inbuilt program to die off. The cancer cell also develops inflammation and may grow and spread into both new and old areas that have injury and inflammation present. This cancer cell now has a certain advantage in that it resists death and apoptosis – a cancer cell can resist tumour suppressor genes (TSG) and also can counter the immune system’s attack on itself. Further on in this article, we detail exactly what you can do to restore the mitochondrial function and reverse this cancerisation process.
Main factors that can increase your cancer risk
Excess Food & Glucose Excess
A lot of food is consumed very often, together with sugary foods. Fasting (intermittent and periodic) when undertaken under supervision can help offset eating too much and consumption of sugary foods.
Fasting and exercise in effect introduces the ‘counter Warburg effect’, they can both repair and remodel part of the mitochondria. Electron chain transport is a very important part of the extraction of electrons from food in the form of the nucleotide ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate). Most significantly, fasting and exercise trigger autophagy – this helps to recycle old, damaged proteins and impaired mitochondria. Fasting and exercise increase insulin sensitivity which also decreases risk. Fasting encourages cancer cells to lose their ability to resist death. The fasting-mimicking diet may be another less intense option to consider for those patients not yet presently strong enough to manage actual fasting.
A Sedentary Lifestyle
Living a sedentary lifestyle with little or no exercise is a cause of cancer. Taking regular and appropriate exercise for your needs can help to mitigate your cancer risk.
Loneliness or Social Dysfunction
This is another risk that may lead to or be a sign that all is not well within. Social interaction is essential as is being part of some kind of community. However, it is also important to bear in mind that too much socialising can lead to a dissipation of your personal energy reserves, so it is important to be as selective or mindful as you can about the amount and quality of company you choose to keep. It is thought that chronic loneliness can double the risk of diabetes and increase the risk of cancer. Good socialising is just as important as good food and exercise.
Circadian Misalignment
This is when when your sleep-wake cycle is out of synchronisation with the day/season and natural environment where you live. Regular healthy balanced sleep i.e. a satisfactory duration for you as an individual, is essential for good health. For many bodily functions the quality (depth) of sleep is also vital in helping to reduce the risk of cancer. Circadian waves cross over to mitochondria – good sleep will lower cortisol production, the stress hormone. Also, melatonin, the hormone produced by the brain in response to darkness and which helps with circadian rhythms, uses oxphos not aerobic glycolysis. Any prolonged situation where your sleep wake cycle is disturbed and moved away from its inherent natural rhythms poses an increase in cancer risk, such as, shift work and regularly eating at inappropriate times of the day. Your stomach meridian is most active from 7-9am, so it makes sense to eat your breakfast meal within this time frame – this is due to the fact that, during this time, most energy is available to process ingested food and thereafter distribute it as precisely as possible to where it needs to get to. Long term colon elimination issues can also add to this kind of dysfunction.
What goes into your body via food and the environment
There are 6 clearly identified main foods that can potentially cause cancer. The key factors with cancer are whether the exposure has been chronic i.e. long term and the extent of the dose, determining the poisonous effect of the substance. Chronic exposure to a substance that exacerbates cancer will create inflammation and or dysfunction in the mitochondria in your cells. As mentioned previously, the mitochondria are the energy part of your cells and use oxygen to help burn fuel. With cancer, that mechanism is destroyed and a ‘back-up system’ steps in to help keep you alive, that system is aerobic glycolysis and results in fermentation which feeds the cancer cells. This shift means that cancer is now out of control and in effect it could live on forever, although this is until it causes death in the host.
Chronic exposure to pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides all increase cancer risk. For example, it has been demonstrated that the chemicals used in wine production on the ground and airborne in France cause various cancers such as leukaemia, brain cancers and breast cancer. Basically, the more exposure, the more damage over time. It is known that radon gas can seep into houses from underground and is invisible and odourless – its link with lung cancer is well established. Cleaning chemicals exposure also poses a cancer risk. Old age is also a risk factor as over time you can lose your mitochondrial function and this damage increases susceptibility. Reaction to viruses such as HPV (Human Papillomavirus), certain fungi and bacteria, parasites, and pollution all increase cancer risk.
The 6 foods with links to cancer risk are:
Alcohol – chronic exposure to alcohol leads to damage to the mitochondria.
Trans fats (partially hydrogenated) – in junk foods.
Charred meats/barbequed meats – HCAs (Heterocyclic Amines) and PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) are generated by burning meats, which have both been found to be mutagenic, causing changes in DNA that increase the risk of cancer.
AGEs – Advanced Glycation End products are compounds created when you combine a protein and a sugar under heat. It can also be created when a protein is combined with a fat under heat. Barbequed ribs create AGEs, this generates inflammatory processes especially within mitochondria.
Processed meats frequently contain nitrates to prolong the shelf life of the product. These are chemicals associated with an increased risk of cancer. When red meat becomes processed meat you have the possibility of producing cancerous cells but there is a significant difference between unprocessed red meat and processed meat. There is no evidence that proves red meat is damaging at all, quite the contrary in fact if it is grass-fed, grass-finished, or grain-fed meat. Many people have healed their bodies with healthy red meat. Venison is amongst the healthiest of all red meats.
UPFs – Ultra Processed Foods or junk foods. 50 per cent of all calories consumed in the West are UPFs. The process involves turning something natural into something adulterated, the end-product is so refined, altered and therefore ‘dead’ that it offers zero nutritional benefit. Consuming UPFs leads to the body having to pull vitamins and minerals from its own reserves in order to metabolise it; it is anti-nutrition.
Getting and assessing a cancer diagnosis
When contending with the significant stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis, careful consideration of your treatment options should be prioritised, weighing up how effective your chemotherapy treatment option is really going to be when compared with the side effects. It would be helpful to establish whether your oncologist might be open to considering the wide array of natural medicine approaches that could help your chances of survival, increase the amount of time available to you, and potentially also improve your quality of life.
Oncologists can present three main treatment options to you: medical oncology, radiation oncology, and surgical oncology. Some cancer patients may find the availability of these three treatment options limited. If you should find that your oncologist is not open to the potential of natural medicine to help you in your cancer journey, then this tells you that they have a fixed idea (often revolving around just the three main treatment options mentioned earlier), despite there being significant science and evidence behind the careful and individualised use of natural medicine to affect cancer.
Due to the high incidences of cancer in Australia, it makes sense to look to this country as a source of information on the effectiveness of chemotherapy. A meta-analysis was undertaken there entitled ‘The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to a 5-year Survival in Adult Malignancies’, to quantify and assess the actual benefit conferred by chemotherapy in the treatment of adults with the commonest types of cancer. This report revealed that the contribution of chemotherapy to a 5-year survival rate was 2.3 percent in Australia and 2.1 percent in the US. This means that in a group of people opting for chemotherapy as their main source of treatment, after 5 years there would be only 2.1 percent of this original group remaining alive.
There are two definitions for which it is crucial to have absolute clarity on, these are: relative risk and absolute risk. When being informed about the effectiveness of a drug or some kind of treatment, relative risk is not as significant as absolute risk. Pharmaceutical companies and others desiring favourable study outcomes often ‘massage’ the numbers generated, to make their drugs appear more effective than they are. As an example, let’s look at the following numbers as examples of this point: 2/100 people die when not opting for chemotherapy, and 1/100 people die after embarking on chemotherapy. This result shows relative risk as chemotherapy reduces the cancer mortality rate by 50 percent, in other words accepting chemotherapy will double your chances of survival – this appears to be very encouraging and hopeful but what in fact this means in absolute risk terms is that opting for chemotherapy reduces cancer mortality by 1 percent. This demonstrates why it is important to always consider absolute risk and not just the glamour of how the relative risk looks. It is recommended you talk with your oncologist and ask how long chemotherapy may prolong your life and ask them for the studies behind their opinions. In fact, there are many studies demonstrating other effective natural ways of battling with your cancer, such as with diet, lifestyle change, or natural medicine. It is important to have a full grasp of your oncologist’s definition of what effectiveness is, and how safe chemotherapy is, because it is a poison that can just add another toxic ‘burden’ for your body to contend with.
Natural prevention for consideration
Prevention is always going to be way better than seeking a cure – being proactive with your general health and health choices is a good investment in time and energy that will inevitably pay off in terms of improved health.
A polyp is a pedunculated abnormal tissue that can occur in the colon. Certain polyps can have a higher risk of colon cancer – the best type of food that actively works to prevent the growth of polyps is sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, kimchi, or fermented vegetables. Studies suggest eating kimchi regularly may help some digestive problems, it contains fibre, vitamins, minerals, and natural probiotic bacteria. Along with sauerkraut, if you eat them fairly frequently the probiotics in fermented foods can be very beneficial to your gut microbiome. They contain lactobacillus which is a type of friendly lactic acid bacteria. Lactobacilli have the following properties: they are antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, they inhibit pathogens, help the tight junctions in your colon, bind to carcinogens, decrease mutations, and decrease pre-cancer growth. The bonus of incorporating sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, kimchi into your diet is you are getting probiotics and prebiotics together. Prebiotic fibre feeds the microbiome in your gut and makes short-chain fatty acids, one of which is butyrate. This helps reduce unnecessary stimulation of tumours, polyps and decreases inflammation. The recommended quantity of sauerkraut, pickled vegetables and kimchi is small amounts eaten frequently throughout the months when you decide you would like to benefit from eating them. Because they have to be kept refrigerated to keep all the friendly bacteria and health promoting components intact, (i.e. chilled, so their consumption may chill the stomach if eaten straight from the fridge), they lend themselves more to being eaten through the spring and summer months, although you wouldn’t want to deny yourself the benefit from their inclusion into your diet through other seasons of the year as well.
Miasms and Genetic Predisposition
All the subsequent content is easier to understand if you refer to the ‘Diagram of the Miasms or Genetic Predispositions’, explaining the nuisances involved in getting to grips with a working knowledge of these genetic predispositions. The chart depicts the genetic ‘terrain’ of the entire human race and is therefore universally applicable. There will however be a wide variety of predominant miasms displayed amongst the different peoples and ethnic groups found living in different parts of the world.
Let’s explore the immediate relevance of this diagram to a dynamic around the Covid pandemic, specifically in relation to the worldwide rollout of the mRNA jab. Any jab or vaccine has its ingredients in a liquid serum which is then injected directly into a person. This serum material broadly speaking resembles a discharge, although it has not been produced directly by the body, as it would in reaction to for example a gonorrhoeal infection. Because this jab matter resembles a puss-like discharge that may or may not be circulating around the body, its presence is often treated much like a gonorrhoeal infection might be with antibiotics. It is clear to see with reference to the diagram that this process could add fuel to the Sycosis miasm, which in turn can have a knock-on effect in acerbating any latent pre or actual cancerous states. The over-reliance on jabs and vaccines as a panacea for multiple illnesses is something we need to address as a culture, especially with regard to an individual’s specific genetic terrain. For instance, it is not wise to give the BCG vaccine to those individuals who have a Tubercular miasmatic underlying terrain, as it contains attenuated tubercular material that has the potential to aggravate this layer of their makeup. You will also be able to see how over-reliance on antibiotics can deny the body a much needed discharge and elimination of this unpleasant material that would otherwise be circulating or stored in the body’s tissues somewhere out of harm’s way. The body will do its utmost to protect its major organs and pathways that are essential for its survival.
Genetics includes the study of how genes and traits are passed down from one generation to the next (hereditary). It is widely accepted that our genes carry all kinds of information that affects our health, appearance and even our personality. A medical model, based on natural philosophy and the careful observation of how and why people become ill and remain ill often throughout their life, was formulated in the mind of a brilliant physician over 200 hundred years ago.
Homeopathy
Dr Hahnemann’s discovery was then and remains to this day largely unappreciated and has not been given the significance and importance it is due, especially when considering that allopathic western medicine cannot currently beneficially modify and regulate heredity. He was born on 10th April 1755 in Meissen, Germany and passed over on 2nd July 1843. Hahnemann achieved his M.D. in 1779 at the age of 24 in Erlangen, Bavaria. During his lifetime his major accomplishment was to ‘birth’ into the world Homeopathy in 1796, by publishing his paper ‘Curative Power of Drugs’. He was both a medical and social reformer because he questioned the medical practice of his day; discovered immunology along the same lines as Dr Jenner; identified a cause of disease as being bacteria; adopted a sympathetic approach to mental illness, and advocated hygiene and public health.
A miasm or genetic predisposition is a ‘taint’ that may be either acquired during a lifetime or inherited. It may be passed on to each succeeding generation, or this ‘imprint or influence’ may skip a generation or generations. In Homeopathic medical practice, reference to the miasm is often used as means to recognise the deeper roots of illness, for example a family history of T.B (tuberculosis). This vulnerability is often passed on to the lungs of a descendant, despite this patient not having the actual diagnosis of T.B. The same applies to congenital syphilis, when passed on from a parent or parents as a genetic predisposition this can lead to the birth of a baby born with cleft-palate/harelip, or other facial and bodily asymmetries etc. which are peculiar to this miasm. This means that the imprint of the miasm was conferred genetically, yet in this case the infant will not have the actual disease of syphilis itself – in this way you can see how significant hereditary is in determining health. For better or worse, we are the products of our parents and ancestors. Vulnerabilities in certain organs may or may not present themselves, as can predispositions to certain health conditions.
Homeopathy does not have a monopoly on the delivery of treatment that addresses the miasms or genetic predispositions, although it does offer a highly individualised and direct route into tackling the many issues presented by the miasms. Contemporary practitioners of Homeopathy now tend to view these genetic predispositions as opportunities and not as enemies that require overcoming. However, this can be easier said than done, when presented with illnesses such as a diagnosis of actual cancer or syphilis.
In natural medicine it is widely accepted that a person’s constitution does not remain uniformly stable and healthy throughout their lifetime. Using the analogy of soil helps to illustrate what is going on. Different soil types mean that certain plant forms grow more or less well. In comparison, our bodies are formed following the dictates of our genetics – the ‘taints’ within the soil in which our bodies germinate and grow are: Psora, Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Sycosis and Cancer. In Hahnemann’s time he identified primarily three ‘faults’ in the soil within which the people of his era lived as being: Psora, Sycosis and Luetism or Syphilis.
Diligent study and observation by countless Homeopaths perfecting the art and science of Homeopathy, has led to the ability to form a psycho-physical profile of an individual requiring treatment for the Cancer miasm, meaning that the patient would benefit from treatment directed specifically to this genetic predisposition. For those patients with the imprint of cancer, it does not mean that they will definitely go on to develop cancer, although unfortunately some may, and it is more likely if the imprint is clear.
The Miasms
As this is a subject involving increasing complexity through time, it is best to start at the beginning and from there build towards the greater complexity; the result is a picture or perspective that works best when seen as a whole. The Psoric miasm is where everything begins – it is the beginning of all physical sickness. Chronologically we know that Psora appeared first, then Syphilis appeared shortly after, and subsequently the other miasms.
- PSORA – a spiritual imbalance of a loss of connection with Source, resulted in an itch and skin problems. As this itch was medicated, maltreated, and suppressed over thousands of years it went further inside the organism and became dormant in body cells and erupted sporadically henceforth, passing from generation to generation. Hypofunction, skin disturbances, malassimilation and nutritional deficiency diseases emerged together with allergies.
- SYPHILIS – the negative thoughts propelled from acquisition of Psora, led to actions such as the contraction of syphilis and gonorrhoea. The physical pathological characteristics of syphilis are destruction/ulceration and deformity. It begins as a minor skin problem often appearing on the genitals. If cauterised or suppressively treated (mercury used to be a standard treatment in the past for this disease) it enters deeper into the organism eventually affecting the brain, spinal cord and bones – the end result is distorted-functioning.
- SYCOSIS – this is gonorrhoea or suppressed gonorrhoea from a previous generation. It can be acquired or induced by over-vaccination or antibiotics. If suppressed as in tonsillitis with use of antibiotics, this can lead to tonsil removal and the disease will be driven internally affecting pelvic organs and or generative organs with tissue changes away from what is normal. The characteristics of sycosis are hyper-function frequently leading to pelvic organ and genito-urinary tract imbalances. Benign tumours, cysts, any kind of excess of growth anywhere on the body e.g. warts on the skin, around or in the genitalia, may all indicate that this genetic predisposition is active. This may contribute to some patients in the grip of this miasm to be more susceptible to chlamydial and other STD infections e.g. mycoplasma genitalium, HSV-1 and HSV-2. When the use of artificial hormones (e.g. contraceptive pill) are introduced, as in allopathic western medicine, to ‘manage’, ‘check’ and ultimately suppress the proliferation of symptoms caused by this genetic predisposition, further complications may arise e.g. myoma, endometriosis, chocolate cyst, cervical erosion, with the end result often a diagnosis of polycystic ovaries.
- TUBERCULAR – Is a combination of the Psoric and Syphilitic miasms. Often the Psoric side is stronger and at other times the Syphilitic is uppermost and active. For these reasons it is often referred to as pseudo-psora (refer to the diagram for positioning clarity). This miasm primarily affects the lungs and upper respiratory tract, ear-nose-throat (E.N.T), glands, brain and kidneys.
- CANCER – the three main miasms combined = the Cancer miasm (Psora–Syphilis–Sycosis), refer to the miasms diagram for a complete graphic depiction of this. It is important to consider that surgical removal of a cancerous organ doesn’t remove the initial cause.
The archaic names of these miasms can lead to misconceptions. Unfortunately, as their names also refer to their respective diseases, this gives them a somewhat ominous quality that is challenging to conceptualise in current and more tangible terms.
The main consciousness challenge posed by Psora is ‘how to survive on planet earth’, specifically relating to temperature, hunger, metabolism, elimination, and hygiene.
The central consciousness challenge presented by Syphilis is the ‘acceptance of the necessity of both death and destruction’. Individual challenges relate to encountering one’s own personal interior inner darkness. Egoic death also encapsulates consciousness issues relating to this genetic predisposition. Breaking down and letting go allows for homeostasis or a kind of natural balance. The fire element and purification are also synonymous with this miasm.
The main consciousness challenge presented by Sycosis is ‘sustainable growth and reproduction’. Specific challenges thematised for Sycosis are survival of the species, the water element, boundaries, sensitivity/sensuality.
The challenges presented by the Tubercular miasm relate to ‘our highest aspirations’ which indirectly ties in with the same act of the drawing both down (from above) to our lungs (below) of beneficial substances into our air passages, such as prana or ion rich air. The consciousness challenges presented by this genetic predisposition are dissatisfaction, homesickness, freedom, balancing heaven with earth, lungs/breath, heart/romance, displacement/imprisonment, hope/idealism and restriction/freedom.
Cancer specifically relates to ‘self in relationship to others’. The consciousness challenges presented by this genetic predisposition relates very directly to personal relationships, individuation i.e. the drive to become a whole human being, suppression/conformity, self-esteem, taking responsibility as an antidote to victim consciousness and cancer the disease – boundaries between self and other, cancerous cells can metastasise from one location to another, replicating uncontrollably. There may be in some aggressive cancers and equally aggressive (Syphilitic) self-assertion of a group of cancer cells to the detriment and well-being of neighbouring cells and the whole organism. One of the central consciousness challenges presented by the Cancer miasm is related precisely to your ability to go within and connect with who you truly are on a deep level; this usually requires letting go of who you thought you were, or who and what you may have identified yourself to be.
Just as the Syphilitic fuels the Tubercular miasm, so the Tubercular predisposition fuels the Cancer. Both the Cancer and Tubercular miasms can be seen as transitional miasms. This means that we don’t have to keep going round and round the miasmatic challenges until certain patterns are broken. On the contrary, they are concerned with major life transformations, where often much personal struggle is worked through internally so that a whole new consciousness may emerge into awareness.
Psora can be associated with the base chakra and adrenal glands specifically. Syphilis is associated with the solar plexus chakra and heart chakras which includes the Thymus gland. Sycosis is associated with the sacral chakra and genito-urinary glands and brow chakra. Tuberculosis is associated with and has affinities with the heart and throat chakras. The Cancer miasm, as you would expect, is linked with every chakra, this also explains the difficulty in treating it successfully only with allopathic suppressive medicine, but its strongest chakra links would be the base, solar plexus and heart, also often resorting to spreading via lymphatic tissue.
In clinical practice each miasm has its own general character, frequently in the clinic at The Natural Medicine Practice we find combinations in patients. The perception of and therefore recognition of such traits in patients is paramount, as by treating these individuals prior to them becoming parents, this minimises the encumbrances on any future offspring.
Mental and emotional predilections precipitated by the internal presence of the miasms in each patient has not been gone into in detail here, for the sake of conciseness and readability. Suffice it to say that decades of empirical study, clinical practice experience and astute observation amongst physicians of natural medicine and specifically Homeopathy has amassed a wealth of knowledge on how to directly tackle chronic illness, and the genetic predispositions that underlie and influence a patient’s health either directly or indirectly. A physician with a working knowledge of, and a highly detailed personality and physiognomic map of, how these 5 main genetic predispositions present, operate and manifest in a patient, means that through the appropriate treatment true healing is made possible. In harnessing and applying through treatment the knowledge contained within the miasms, there is a ‘golden-thread’ of opportunity to return a chronically sick patient back through their ‘maze’ of symptoms to a more stable experience of health, back from a state of illness. This ‘golden-thread’ offers a safe way back through the forest of symptoms that can at times seem overwhelming to the uninformed observer or frightened patient.
With real medicine at our disposal, it is essential that treatment reaches the centre of the target and ‘rear lines’ simultaneously. A skilled practitioner will match all the information presented by the patient, using a highly complex method of pattern recognition that identifies the similimum or most resonant similie that will bring balance to their immediate symptoms whilst stabilising their constitutional instability (as dictated by the presence of the genetic predispositions). For example, a remedy treatment administered to a patient marked strongly by their psoric (Psora) heredity will to a significant extent correct the immediate or acute problem whilst to a lesser extent beneficially modifying the predispositional vulnerability tendency, which has contributed towards modelling the present problem.
Concluding remarks
It is important to reiterate that cancer cells originate from normal cells. Any treatment options that employ terms such as ‘combat’, ‘battle’, ‘attack’, ‘destroy’, and ‘annihilate’ are essentially offshoot semantics that describes an operative medical paradigm at play, entailing the aggressive destruction of cancer as a prerequisite for winning the battle against cancer. The territory of the body is the battlefield upon which the ‘war’ against cancer is fought. This kind of mentality should be a thing of the past and needs to be balanced and reconciled with a much deeper understanding of the mechanics at play within the intricate functioning of each human being.
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For optimum effectiveness of treatment, different natural medicine healing modalities need to be applied synergistically, to effect as deep and lasting a cure as is possible. It is important to be aware that due to the nature of each individual’s life journey and the time it takes before a patient will appear in the clinic for treatment, at times it may only be possible to effect a palliative cure. This might mean a patient’s life is extended beyond what was initially expected, giving them the opportunity to spend time enjoying the company of their loved ones and allowing time to conclude any loose ends.
Disclaimer: If you or someone you know is dealing with cancer then here at The Natural Medicine Practice we advise against predominantly self-treatment. Many of the natural medicines that can be employed advantageously require careful supervision, monitoring, and individualising. With cancer treatments, timing is crucial so effective treatments need to be delivered at precisely the right time and in the correct dose for maximum effectiveness. Because of the fear and panic after a diagnosis, the temptation can be to ‘throw the kitchen sink’ at the problem, however, this leads to a situation of general confusion as to what is useful and of genuine benefit. When an individual is dealing with cancer, what they incorporate in the way of treatment becomes as important as what they exclude as a matter of necessity.
The views presented here are those of the author and do not in any way represent those held by any professional organisations the practice is affiliated with.
About the author
John M Rawlings BA (Hons) DIHom PgDSHom HMD MHMA Lic Ac AAC
John runs a multi-discipline natural medicine practice in Hove offering among other treatments Five-Element Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Allergy Testing. It was his own experience and recovery from early eczema, asthma and allergies that informed how he would establish a safe place for his patients to discuss their experience of ill health, and thereby support them back to a state of wellness. His enduring love and respect for nature is reflected in his interest in harnessing its healing potential – from his worldwide travel, John has brought together knowledge about the natural medicine practices from many countries, including India, Japan, China and Thailand. He has developed a comprehensive, holistic approach that effectively treats and prevents a wide range of health issues.