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In cancer fight, a spice brings hope to the table
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 11, 2005 | TODD ACKERMAN

Posted on 07/11/2005 1:19:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: backhoe

A year or more ago, we had a doctor who was a freeper, he wrote to me about using the natural cancer cures for my
daughter in law.

He felt that the natural cures should be used, as well as the treatments from the doctor.

He felt that the addition of the natural cures would increase the chances of survival by 20 to 25 percent.

Theresa's cancer was to far along for any cure and we lost her last fall.

My sympathy for the loss of your wife.


21 posted on 07/11/2005 4:43:28 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp Meet YOUR Communist party members in Congress)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This looks more promising than some...thanks for posting this.


22 posted on 07/11/2005 4:44:23 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve.(Central Florida))
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To: nw_arizona_granny
A year or more ago, we had a doctor who was a freeper, he wrote to me about using the natural cancer cures for my daughter in law. He felt that the natural cures should be used, as well as the treatments from the doctor. He felt that the addition of the natural cures would increase the chances of survival by 20 to 25 percent. Theresa's cancer was to far along for any cure and we lost her last fall.

I'm very sorry to hear that- there are just some conditions that can't be survived. It doesn't make it any easier to bear, however.

The one thing I'll say in favor of Contreras's clinic is that they tried everything- conventional or not- and sometimes bought time, or even saved those considered beyond hope.

23 posted on 07/11/2005 5:05:45 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

I met a family in Ohio where two sisters and brother lived to 100,102,103.... All were bright and active until the end (the last died of complications from a broken hip or would probably still be alive)
Most people do not give genetics enough respect because there's no way to improve your genes. Still I suppose diet and exercise couldn't hurt.


24 posted on 07/11/2005 5:44:03 AM PDT by hford02 (I have to get my tinfoil hat refitted -- I keep picking up NPR and Air America)
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To: backhoe
If I or any of my family were told they had cancer, I would head to the mecca--MD Anderson. When I saw this research was being done there, I put more credibility in the story.

Many many friends of mine have been treated for their various cancers at MD Anderson, and most have done real well. I have yet to hear anyone criticize the treatment they have gotten there.

25 posted on 07/11/2005 5:55:18 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: SoDak

Mine too. I've lost my mom, two nephews and my sister to this curse. I know there are natural cures but the FDA and FTC won't pursue them because there's no MONEY involved in it. I won't give a dime to the Cancer Society until they start pursing these natural cures or at least testing them.

Cinnamon is supposed to be very good for diabetics, too. I think many spices will be coming to the forefront.


26 posted on 07/11/2005 6:18:28 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: basil
Many many friends of mine have been treated for their various cancers at MD Anderson, and most have done real well. I have yet to hear anyone criticize the treatment they have gotten there.

I've heard many excellent things about them- at that time in my own adventures, Duke was leading with immunothearapy for melanoma, so we ended up there. It does help to have a Doc you really trust, which we did- old family friend. I actually had young medical people track me down in those neo-gothic corridors, grab my hand, and ask, "Say, I've heard you know Marv Engel? Hellofa doctor!"

27 posted on 07/11/2005 6:23:29 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

Brother I went on that same search with my later wife as well. Nothing worked not the most ancient nor the most modern and no one could have fought more persistently or with more courage than my dear Arlene. It will be eight years in September since she passed at the age of 43.


28 posted on 07/11/2005 6:23:38 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: F15Eagle

I had a cheeseburger yesterday with onions and mayo. It was sooo good. Today I'll have a boca burger in repentance (smile). I think a vegan diet is the best if you have any kind of illness but I can't just do carrot and other fruit/veggie juices and vegetables. I tried it and my bowels were working just great but it's a hard one to stay on for long. I'm not supposed to eat a lot of green veggies because of the renal diet and being on coumadin, but I have a lot of salads. M


29 posted on 07/11/2005 6:24:31 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: Marysecretary
In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel, CANCER WARD, the patients have a long discussion about a tree bark tea that is supposed to work wonders. Later one of the three female doctor admits that it may have some beneficial effects especially with stomach cancer.

This novel takes place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR in 1955. It is semi-autobiographical as Solzhenitsyn was a cancer patient there after serving an eight year sentence in the Gulag. He was given three weeks to live at one point but is still alive today after getting conventional treatments and waiting in the queues.
30 posted on 07/11/2005 6:28:07 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24
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To: SoDak
Oh man, I actually saw a PBS special in the 1980's that said that bacon causes cancer.
31 posted on 07/11/2005 6:32:05 AM PDT by krb (ad hominem arguments are for stupid people)
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To: Sabatier
"Most intriguing, the rate of colon, breast, prostate and lung cancer is 10 times lower in India than in the United States."

Very interesting!

Well, it's no wonder...have you ever eaten Indian food? Let's just call it "intestinal Drano."

32 posted on 07/11/2005 6:32:13 AM PDT by Andonius_99
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Brother I went on that same search with my later wife as well. Nothing worked not the most ancient nor the most modern and no one could have fought more persistently or with more courage than my dear Arlene. It will be eight years in September since she passed at the age of 43.

God bless you neighbor- life goes on, but it leaves a hole in your heart that nothing ever really fills. I remarried after a few years, and it kind of spooks me when I realize how many years I've had with wife #2 compared to the little more that seven with my first. And how, every once in a while, I'll have the errant thought, "boy, wait 'til I tell Helen about that one!" and then realize I'm not ever going home to that home again.

33 posted on 07/11/2005 6:33:00 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Very interestng news.

We have always thought that GOD put on earth something to cure every disease, all we have to do is locate them.

34 posted on 07/11/2005 6:35:35 AM PDT by Dustbunny (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist)
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To: F15Eagle
It should be mentioned the high number of vegetarians, indeed strict vegetarians by Indian diet.

I know several dozen "strict" vegitarians and several vegans. Down to the last person they are the unhealthiest looking people I've ever known. They are gaunt, stay sick all winter and lack energy. Forget about trying to find somewhere to go out to dinner with them too. One even suffered a broken arm (humerus bone) in flight in a hang glider under normal flight conditions. She is a nurse practitioner and knows and understands the benefits of good nutrition. She has since begun eating meat again, her color came back, she has boundless energy and she no longer stays sick during the cold and flu season.

35 posted on 07/11/2005 6:38:48 AM PDT by Thermalseeker
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To: backhoe; justshutupandtakeit
My heart goes out to both of you.

Cancer is such an insidious, awful disease. However, once in a while, you run across a patient who has cancer and has undergone treatments that to me seemed worse than the disease itself, but they hang on somehow, and keep going.

Someday, the cure will be found, but until that day, there will be many horrors such as you experienced. God bless you both, and your families.

36 posted on 07/11/2005 6:44:46 AM PDT by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: backhoe
I was given less than a year to live in 1998 -- lung cancer. Thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet that my RN daughter put me on, I'm still here. I'm convinced that the diet played a large part in my case. Anyone who would like details, just FReepmail me.

Carolyn

37 posted on 07/11/2005 7:22:06 AM PDT by CDHart (The world has become a lunatic asylum and the lunatics are in charge.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

When the article states: "curcumin, the pungent yellow spice in both turmeric and curry powders" what it really means is "curcumin, otherwise known as turmeric, which is the spice in curry powder which makes it yellow".

It's TURMERIC! Same family as ginger and golden seal. I use it like golden seal because it is so much cheaper. It helps cuts and wounds, to sprinkle on them -helps heal them up. Make a paste and apply to boils, rashes or pimples. Of course, turns the skin an appealing shade of yellow. :-)

It's good to eat it every day in food.


38 posted on 07/11/2005 7:25:57 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: Caipirabob

Indians eat turmeric every day. I doubt the British eat it every day.


39 posted on 07/11/2005 7:26:56 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Usually when lifespans are determined, all the infant and child deaths are figured in, but once a person attains adulthood they may live to an old age.

Just like we read that in the middle ages, or a couple of hundred years ago in our country, the lifespan was shorter. Actually many people lived to a ripe old age, but the infant mortality was higher so it brought down the average. It's not that everyone in the middle ages died at 40. I'm sure it's the same in India - there are plenty of old people there.


40 posted on 07/11/2005 7:29:39 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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