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Morwenna Given, medical herbalist outlines alternative therapies for cancers.
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Cancer Simplified & Demystified
A talk by Morwenna GivenMedical Herbalist
www.medicusherbis.com
Who am I?
I am a Medical Herbalist trained in the UK in hospital/clinic settings
I focus on treating Cancer and pre Cancerous conditions
I believe the role of Plant Medicine in cancer can be enormously effective without being invasive or having latent side effects. It is validated by scientific evidence.
© 2011
What is Cancer?
Uncontrolled growth of cells. Hippocrates & Nobel prize winners 1931 and 2008
Cancer is a Preventable Disease that Requires Major Lifestyle Changes
B.B Aggwal et al. MD Anderson Cancer Research CentrePharm Res. 2008 September; 25(9): 2097–2116. Published online 2008 Jul 15. doi: 10.1007/s11095-008-9661-9.
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SOME STATISTICS
90-95% OF CANCERS due to ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES
Cancer in Ontario is increasing each year CANCER IN ONTARIO: OVERVIEW A Statistical Report
Types of cancer and mortality rates are changing
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Conventional Approaches:
CUT “ the primary tumour suppresses
angiogenesis …..removal causes a flare up in vessel neo formation and thus enhanced metabolic activity and metastasis”
Peeters et al Surgery 2005 Feb; 237(2): 246-9
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Conventional Approach (2)• Burn
Radiation is a known carcinogenic - Hiroshima
• Poison
Kills indiscriminately especially in an already diseased state
• Result:An @80bn $ industry which would not survive in a normal competitive
environment© 2011
Why does this approach not work?IS THERE A BETTER WAY?
Our bodies are a collection of atoms held together by electrical bonds ( positive negative and neutral electrical charges)
Anything that disrupts those bonds causes dysbiosis
Normally our bodies prevent this happening but in cancer the body can’t repair itself as these mechanisms have been subverted
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What is Missing?
No attention to the cause of the cancer
Remember 90% of cancers are
environmental in origin
No new drugs/biomarkers
in 25 years
despite all the funding and hype
No Integration of conventional and
Proven alternative treatments
Change Threatens financial
relationships Tx not patient driven
WHAT IS MISSING (2)
Conventional therapies are very destructive to an already weakened physical state
Synthetic drugs only have one molecular pathway
Plants have multi pathways eg Turmeric with 98 metabolic pathways
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Biomechanics of CancerInitiating factors -
hormones, genetics, lifestyle, toxins
incld.diet radiation, viruses bacteria
Promoting factors growth factors: VEGF EGF, P53
Oncongenes etc
Disruption of the extra cellular
matrix
Cell receptors and cell signalling
corrupted
Proliferation – hypoxia,
glycolytic shift, etc
GLYCOLYTIC SHIFT
“ CANCER HAS ONLY ONE PRIME CAUSE. IT IS THE REPLACEMENT OF NORMAL OXYGEN RESPIRATION OF THE BODY’S CELLS BY ANEROBIC OXYGEN DEFICIENT CELL RESPIRATION.”
Dr Otto Warburg 1931 Nobel Prize in Medicine
From normal to malignant
Induction of genetic instability Abnormal expression of genes Abnormal signal induction Abnormal cell to cell signalling Induction of angiogenesis Invasion and metastasis Immune ev/invasion ©2011
Plants to the Rescue
• Plants can inhibit every step of this process• Chemo and radiation only affect cell
replication – S phase • Conventional therapy is not cell selective good
and bad cells are killed further weakening the body
• Many plants target cells in the S phase when DNA is unravelling and where natural agents do their protective normalising work. ©2011
Some Herbs Some Actions• APOPTOSIS METHYL DONORS ANTI HYLURONIDASE HORMONAL MODULATORS• garlic / capsicum urtica gota kola Vitex
• Vit CDE vaccinium eccinachea urtica/ginsengP• Glycorrhiza• equisetium vaccinium• glycorriza /soy red clover/ humulus
• panax / scut quercitin flax/flaxseed• viscum/turmeric folate melatonin/prunella• Flavs/ selenium B12 Vit E medicago sativa• beta elemene ( ginger mint celery ) cimicifuga - serm
parthenolides • salix © 2011
Cancer has its weaknesses
Like the crab it is named after, cancer has key weaknesses
Hypoxia – feeding the cells
Cancer prefers an acid environment to an alkaline
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A medical herbalist approach (1)
• DIET• Let medicine be thy food and food thy
medicine – Hippocrates
• Addresses immediately two key weaknesses of cancer
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A medical herbalist approach(2)
• Address the causes:
LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT&
Uses proven plants & their biochemical pathways
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A Medical Herbalist approach(3)
Herbal Protocols include
Use of selected supplements
Use of compound teas
Use of tinctures ©2011
HERBAL RESOURCES
PERSONAL MEDICINE
Every supplement, tea and tincture is designed individually to treat the patient and their particular problems
Every compound is based on scientific evidence of plant properties and pathways
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Smoke and Mirrors
THERE IS NO MAGIC BULLET
there never will be as long as the prime causes are environmental & lifestyle
EVERY BODY IS DIFFERENT
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SAMPLE HERB
TURMERIC( Curcuma longa )
Evidence shows it has 98 metabolic pathways & effectively treats 14 different types of cancer
" Most efficacious cancer drug is a plant"
Dr B.B. Aggwal University of Texaswriting in a discussion on turmeric ( Curcuma longa )
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CAUTIONS
the compounds that I give do not come from OTC products.
Only registered herbalists may compound and use these products
It is best not to self treat as you may cause further problems
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The Happy Ending!
• Harry’s story:
• “ The doctors gave me 6 months – you gave me my life back “
Thank you for listening
©2011