Everyone has heard the comment that traditional treatments for cancer are often as deadly as the disease itself. Chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery all take their toll patients so that quite often, their quality of life deteriorates. Because of this, there is a continuing effort to seek healing through cancer alternatives that are not debilitating and invasive. Here are some alternative therapies that clinics use today:
Electromedicine as an Alternative Cancer Treatment
Electromedicine is the use of electrical devices to kill cancer microbes in the bloodstream, the lymph nodes and in other parts of the body. These devices also energize organs and the immune system to deal with the cancer.
Electromedicine is considered a new concept in cancer treatment although discoveries about it started back in 1890. It is different from radiation and its advocates claim that the action of electromedical machines is so gentle patients hardly even notice when they are turned on.
Energy Healing
Energy healing uses energy from the hands of the person who is facilitating healing. Energy is sent out to the patient’s body serving to manipulate cancer cells. One of the branches of this method is called "DNA Signature Destruction Method" and its main proponent states that he has a client base of over a thousand with hundreds in remission.
Nutrition Therapy
Nutrition therapy is one of the most popular approaches taken by people who are earnestly trying to find healing through cancer alternatives. This entire approach is based on the principle that the best way to overcome cancer is to nurture the body so that it can function at its best. Nutrition enables the body to fight the disease by strengthening the immune system, rebuilding tissue, and improving health. It also lessens the risk of infection and increases energy.
Some practitioners of this type of therapy are very open to the idea of pursuing conventional treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy but they push for nutrition therapy because this helps patients tolerate and survive mainstream interventions.
Under nutrition therapy, much emphasis is given to the cancer healing properties of certain foods. These foods are usually rich in fiber and flavonoids. Among the most frequently recommended foods are garlic, onions, shallots, and leeks. Foods with vitamin C, selenium, and sulfur compounds are also favored under nutritional therapy on the premise that they improve metabolic disposal of carcinogens. Similarly, foods rich in antioxidants figure prominently in nutrition therapy.
Holistic Medicine
Holistic medicine is an alternative discipline, which uses the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of a person to fight disease and achieve wellness. Mainstream medicine considers holistic medicine as, at best, complementary to conventional therapies.
Health care providers that practice holistic medicine usually insist that it is not enough (or possible) to cure the disease; the whole person must be the subject of treatment if healing is to be achieved.
Those who undergo holistic healing will find that treatment will include a change of diet, a healthier lifestyle, and even behavior modification. Methods used by practitioners may include, among others, art therapy, hypnosis, imagery, meditation, psychotherapy, spirituality and prayer, and yoga. Advocates of holistic healing aver that combining these methods help people attain wellness spiritually, physically, and mentally and this wellness is the key to cure.
Detoxification
Detoxification as a cure for cancer is done through the removal of toxins in the body. Interventions under this school of thought include colon cleansing, water therapy, fasting, heat therapy, and chelation, to name a few. Detoxification is usually used in combination with herbal and nutritional therapy.
It is a well-known fact that traditional and conventional cancer treatments often have many undesirable side effects. Because of this, healing through cancer alternatives will continue to be a reasonable goal for people afflicted with cancer. Although these alternatives have yet to be accepted as cures today, the medical community is not ignoring their value as complementary interventions that provide relief to people who need it badly.