In Alternative Medicine we work with various protocols including Chinese Medicines. Listed are the popular ones that are readily adaptable and available for us in The United States: Gerson Therapy & Detoxification, Dr. Gonzalez Therapy, Budwig Diet Therapy, Kampo Medicine, Homeopath, and Ayurveda Medicine. Each Alternative modalities, titled and defined are a significant protocol which differ from allopathic, conventional medicine.
It suggest cancer is a preventable disease with diet, balance, herbal remedies, detoxification, a changed belief system – mindset, while also improving the immune system…. which also plays a critical role in the prevention of the malignancy of cancer. It has been established “you are what you eat,” which is the totality of our diet and lifestyle choices.
It is also where Alternative Medicine versus allopathic medicine differ… with allopathic non-treatment of its patient in the discipline of nutritional health. The origin of the clichéd quote, “you are what you eat,” is a phrase that has come to us via quite a twisted route. Anthelme Brillat – Savarin also wrote, in Physiologie du’ Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendente, 1826 say, Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es translated “[ Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are].”
In an Essay titled, Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism, 1863/4 Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote: “Der Menschist, was er iBt.” which also translate in English as ‘man is what he eats.’ Neither Brillat – Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to be taken literally. They were stating, “that the food one eats has a bearing on what one’s state – of – mind and health has become.”
Eating, therefore, includes what we breathe, environmental poisons, industrial waste, food safety which today includes allergen foods, hormone and chemical meats, as well as meat products, non- food ( junk or fast food) and genetically modified organism, good or bad, collectively determines for whom we are.
Gerson Therapy:
Followers of the Gerson Therapy promote that diet plays a vital role in cancer and suggest only eating fresh vegetables immediately after juicing….
Detoxification:
Exposure to toxins is believed to contribute to developing cancer. While Herbs like Milk Thistle and Oregon Grape Root are thought to also help detoxify the body.
The Budwig Diet, created by Dr. Johanna Budwig and not well known uses the mixture of flaxseed oil and cottage cheese….
This blog was submitted by: B Lee Fitzgerald Jones, Founder & Administrator of www.facebook.com/groups/foodherbhealthhealing Whom also studied Alternative Medicine at Everglades University in Boca Raton, Florida.