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Red clover

Red clover

Red clover belongs to a family (the legumes) renowned for anti- cancer properties. It shares with its better-studied sisters-soy, lentils, and the Chinese herb astragalus- the ability to repair damaged DNA, turn off oncogenes, and reverse pre-cancer and in situ cancers. It is a widely used folk remedy against cancer. According to J. Hartwell, author of 'Plants Used Against Cancer', medical literature has reported and confirmed hundreds of cases of remission of cancer after consistent use of red clover. I personally know of several such cases. Homeopathic Trifolium (mother tincture) is specific against breast cancer.

 

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Ginger Compress

Ginger Compress

Easy, effective, inexpensive, pain-relieving, and anti-inflammatory
This recipe is from Susuns book Breast Cancer? Breast Health!

Ginger compresses are successfully used by many healers and women to reduce and eliminate breast lumps. Women who've dealt with many kinds of breast lumps tell me that ginger compresses reduced benign masses quickly But sometimes irritated cancerous ones. (It doesn't mean you have cancer if your skin gets irritated).

Grate 5 ounces/140 grams of fresh ginger root onto a clean piece of cloth. (I use an old cloth napkin, a handkerchief, a kitchen towel, or a clean diaper.)
Gather the ends of the cloth together and secure them with a piece of string or a rubber band.
Put the bundle into a pan with 2 quarts/2 litres water and heat to 158F/70C.
Boiling will destroy much of the value of the ginger, So if you don't have a thermometer, heat only until you see bubbles forming on the bottom of the pan.
Keep a low flame under the pot until the water turns a pale yellow, 5-15 minutes.
Pull the bundle out of the water, and squeeze or press it to extract all its liquid. (Add to pan.)

Soak a small towel in the hot ginger liquid. Wring it out. (This is hard to do; your hands will get red and hot.)
When you apply the hot wet towel, the breast skin will redden and there will be an intense sensation of heat, But you shouldn't be in pain.
Cover the compress with layers of towels to retain the heat. When It cools, remove it, soak it again in the hot ginger water, and reapply.
Continue until the skin gets very red and warm. Repeat morning and night.

If there is no active infection, the towel and ginger water can be used over and over again. If fresh ginger is not available, dried ginger may be used, But it will not be as effective.

Fresh turmeric may be substituted for fresh ginger, But It stains everything.

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Mammograms: Costs to Society

Mammograms: Costs to Society
excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way
by Susun Weed

Yearly screening mammograms aren't cost effective to society nor are they safe environmentally. The Southern Medical Journal reports that the cost effectiveness (defined as the number of dollars spent so one person can live one year longer) of mammograms for women under 55 is $82,000.19 A recent analysis found that it cost $195,000 to detect one breast cancer using screening mammograms.

Dr. Charles Wright of Vancouver General Hospital estimates that the cost of saving one life by mass screening is $1.25 million (Canadian).

The mammography industry could gross $1 billion per year if every woman aged 40-49 was screened yearly. Less than 10 percent of all breast cancers occur in women that age. Choosing screening mammograms means I choose to contribute to the stream of low-level radioactive waste leaving hospitals.

Will my mammogram increase my daughter's risk of developing breast cancer by increasing the amount of radioactivity in her environment?

What is the real cost of this choice?

Is there a less risky way to participate in screening mammography?

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, as well as the national health plans of England, Holland, Italy, and Sweden, recommend screening mammography no more than every two years and only after menopause.

Several studies show no advantage to yearly mammograms. Once every two or three years confers the same decrease in five-year mortality, with less radiation hazard to individuals and society, and at far less cost.

Mammograms distract us from the need for societal commitment to true prevention. Many of the cancers found by mammographic screening are in situ cancers. Women with in situ cancers rarely die from them. With or without early detection and treatment, 93 percent survive more than five years. When in situ breast cancers are found by mammogram, treated, and added to the statistical base, breast cancer cure rates and longevity statistics improve.

No wonder mammography is praised. It has done what decades of research into cures for breast cancer have failed to do: make it appear that there is some progress in stemming the tide of breast cancer. But finding and treating an ever-increasing number of breast cancers isn't real progress; committing to reducing chemical and radioactive pollution is.

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Ginger Compress

Ginger Compress
Easy, effective, inexpensive, pain-relieving, and anti-inflammatory
Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way.

Grate 5 ounces/140 grams of fresh ginger root onto a clean piece of cloth. (I use an old cloth napkin, a handkerchief, a kitchen towel, or a clean diaper.)
Gather the ends of the cloth together and secure them with a piece of string or a rubber band.
Put the bundle into a pan with 2 quarts/2 liters water and heat to 158°F/70 °C.
Boiling will destroy much of the value of the ginger, so if you don't have a thermometer, heat only until you see bubbles forming on the bottom of the pan.
Keep a low flame under the pot until the water turns a pale yellow, 5-15 minutes.
Pull the bundle out of the water, and squeeze or press it to extract all its liquid. (Add to pan.)
Soak a small towel in the hot ginger liquid. Wring it out. (This is hard to do; your hands will get red and hot.)
When you apply the hot wet towel, the .. skin will redden and there will be an intense sensation of heat, but you shouldn't be in pain.
Cover the compress with layers of towels to retain the heat.
When it cools, remove it, soak it again in the hot ginger water, and reapply.
Continue until the skin gets very red and warm. Repeat morning and night.
If there is no active infection, the towel and ginger water can be used over and over again.
If fresh ginger is not available, dried ginger may be used, but will not be as effective.
Fresh turmeric may be substituted for fresh ginger, but it stains everything.

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Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way.
www.wisewomanbookshop.com/product-page/breast-cancer-breast-health

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Five Easy Things you can do Now to help Prevent Breast Cancer.

Five Easy Things you can do Now to help Prevent Breast Cancer.

1. Be more active

Evidence continues to accumulate that a vigorous lifestyle is one of the best ways to cut breast cancer risk. A study of 20,624 Norwegian women found those who exercised or worked out regularly cut their breast cancer risk by 72%. (NEJM, 5/1/1997)

For breast health I walk every day, take a weekly yoga class, and do tai chi twice a week.

2. Eat more unrefined seed foods

All seeds provide phytoestrogens. Women who eat the most phytoestrogenic foods are four times less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those who eat the least. "No study has shown a degree of risk reduction similar to that found for phytoestrogens ..." (Lancet, 10/4/1997)

Whole grains such as wheat, rice, corn, kasha, millet, and quinoa are unrefined seed foods. Beans such as lentils, black beans, pinto beans, lima beans, and chickpeas are unrefined seed foods. Nuts including peanuts, walnuts, almonds, and pecans are unrefined seed foods. And edible seeds such as sesame, sunflower, and pumpkin are unrefined seed foods. Fruits and vegetables that are eaten with their seeds - such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi fruit, summer squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers - count as unrefined seed foods. Even seeds used as seasonings count, such as cumin, coriander, caraway, anise, and dill seeds.

For breast health, I have replaced all refined carbohydrates - including white rice and white/unbleached flour products such as pasta, bread, cookies, crackers, pretzels, bagels, donuts, and cakes - with whole grain products.

3. Eat less vegetable oil; increase animal fat, especially from dairy products

"Diets high in corn oil leave animals especially vulnerable to chemically induced cancers" say researchers. (Science News, 6/24/89; 10/2/99) Frightening as this statement is, it is not true only of corn oil but of all vegetable (or seed) oils including those made from soy, sesame, sunflower, cottonseed, flax, and hemp. ....

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Ginger compress

 

Easy, effective, inexpensive, pain-relieving, and anti-inflammatory

        Ginger compresses are successfully used by many healers and women to reduce and eliminate breast lumps. Women who've dealt with many kinds of breast lumps tell me That ginger compresses reduced benign masses quickly But sometimes irritated cancerous ones. (It doesn't mean you have cancer if your skin gets irritated).

        Grate 5 ounces/140 grams of fresh ginger root onto a clean piece of cloth. (I use an old cloth napkin, a handkerchief, a kitchen towel, or a clean diaper.) Gather the ends of the cloth together and secure them with a piece of string or a rubber band. Put the bundle into a pan with 2 quarts/2 litres water and heat to 158F/70C. Boiling will destroy much of the value of the ginger, So if you don't have a thermometer, heat only until you see bubbles forming on the bottom of the pan. Keep a low flame under the pot until the water turns a pale yellow, 5-15 minutes. Pull the bundle out of the water, and squeeze or press It to extract all its liquid. (Add to pan.)

        Soak a small towel in the hot ginger liquid. Wring It out. (This is hard to do; your hands will get red and hot.) When you apply the hot wet towel, the breast skin will redden and there will be an intense sensation of heat, But you shouldn't be in pain. Cover the compress with layers of towels to retain the heat. When It cools, remove It, soak It again in the hot ginger water, and reapply. Continue until the skin gets very red and warm. Repeat morning and night. If there is no active infection, the towel and ginger water can be used over and over again. If fresh ginger is not available, dried ginger may be used, But It will not be as effective. Fresh turmeric may be substituted for fresh ginger, But It stains everything.

        This recipe is from Susun Weed's Breast Cancer? Breast Health!

Anti-cancer Lifestyle

Anti-cancer Lifestyle

An anti-cancer lifestyle is not a rigid set of rules to follow, but a safe space to be filled with your favorite ways of nourishing health and discouraging cancer. Since cancer thrives in a too-ordered situation, relax and let chaos give a hand now and then in the execution of your plan. I include all the following elements in my anti-cancer lifestyle. Were I to be diagnosed with cancer, I would continue to do these things in addition to any other remedies I might choose.

* Stay in touch with my own daily and seasonal rhythms.
* Sleep in total darkness or moonlight; get into the sun daily.
* Eat one meal at the same time each day.
* Have emotional outlets.
* Choose friends who support me and my truth.
* Have artistic outlets.
* Receive lots of appreciation and approval (a.k.a. love).
* Exercise one hour three times a week.
* Get a massage once a month or more.
* Do my yoga practice once a week or more.
* Have sexual outlets.
* Take a quiet time of beingness daily.
* Make full use of all sources of joy available to me.
* Eat a Mediterranean-style diet of mostly organically grown foods including daily use of cabbage family plants, raw and cooked greens, whole grains, beans, sunflower seeds, soy products, olive oil, garlic, seasonal fresh fruit, seaweed, yogurt and cheese, herbal infusions, herbal vinegars, and antioxidant seasonings. Plus, at least four times a month, seafood, nuts, mushrooms, dried fruit, and eggs; and, less than four times a month, meat, alcohol, white sugar, and coffee.
* And I avoid: Vitamin/mineral supplements, chlorine, nitrates, tobacco, prescription hormones, TV, white flour, processed foods, and non-organic animal products.

Excerpt from
Breast Cancer? Breast Health the Wise Woman Way.
www.breasthealthcancerprevention.com

Can Foods Prevent Cancer?
Excerpt from Susun book
Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way

Absolutely, without a doubt, eating certain foods can prevent breast cancer. Analysis of 156 studies linking diet and cancer found extraordinarily consistent evidence that some foods actively protect cells from undergoing cancerous changes, especially breast, cervical, ovarian, and prostate cells. While these foods don't guarantee freedom from cancer, they are vital elements of an anti-cancer lifestyle.

The United States National Research Council states that 35-70 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths are related to diet and that 60 percent of the cancer incidence in women is related to diet. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and beans contain phytochemicals that are active against cancer initiation in many direct and indirect ways. They neutralize carcinogenic compounds. They capture and neutralize free radicals. They protect DNA from environmental damage. They prevent the activation of oncogenes. They nourish anti-cancer enzymes in the digestive tract and strengthen the immune system cells which search out and eliminate cancer cells.

If cancer has already begun to grow, phytochemicals can disrupt the processes necessary for the growth and spread of the tumor. They block metastasis by checking the growth of blood vessels to the tumor. Some foods can even reverse damage to the DNA and turn oncogenes off.

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Breast Cancer

Hello

My daughter has followed you for quite some time, she is a 3rd year naturopathic medical student at Bastyr University in San Diego, and suggested I contact you regarding red clover and estrogen positive breast cancer. I cannot find any information on the effects of red clover on breast cancer. I know it is a phytoestrogen herb, but my daughter thought it wasn't the same as the estrogen that is feeding my cancer. I have had three surgeries to try to remove the cancer, but unfortunately it has been unsuccessful. I am looking at a mastectomy next but am refusing to take tamoxifen for the next 5 years.
So, I was hoping red clover might be an alternative.

Thank you for your time
Kristin

 

Hello Kristin,

I would like you to call Blog talk Radio this evening to speak with Susun. Susun will be answering 90 minutes of health questions from 7:30-9:00 pm EST. Call 1-646-929-2463 . When calling in with a question make sure to press one to put your call in queue. There are also options for a private consultation with Susun. Let me know if you are interested in a private consultation and I can get you the information for that.

Red clover infusion is a good option for you. You can learn how to make it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ouRjEs_TyQ Susun will be able to go into detail on this with you.

Also, to learn more about red clover, other foods, herbs and treatments to help you on your journey check out Susun's book 'Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way' found here: http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.php?id=1000022&item=breast-cancer?-breast-health!-the-wise-woman-way​

Thank you for writing in and I hope we hear from you this evening and let me know if you have anymore questions for me.

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Kim
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Mammograms can't tell if there's cancer

Mammograms can't tell if there's cancer.

excerpt from Chapter Five of Breast Cancer? Breast Health! by Susun Weed
 Available at www.wisewomanbookshop.com

Neither diagnostic nor screening mammograms detect cancer. Mammograms can reveal areas of dense tissue in the breasts. These areas may be cancer, or may be associated with cancer, or may be normal tissue, but a mammogram can't tell.6 The only medically accepted way to tell is to do a biopsy. Over 80 percent of the biopsies done to follow up on a suspicious screening mammogram find no cancer.

Mammograms don't replace breast self-exams.

Women find their own breast cancers most of the time. (Ninety percent of the time according to one English study.7)

Monthly breast self-exam (or breast self-massage) provides early detection at lower cost, with no danger-and more pleasure-than yearly screening mammograms.

Most breast cancers (80 percent) are slow growing, taking between 42 and 300 days to double in size. A yearly mammogram could find these cancers 8-16 months before they could be felt, but this "early detection" does little to improve the already excellent longevity of women with slow-growing, non-metastasized breast cancers.

The 20 percent of breast cancers that are fast growing are the trouble-makers. They can double in size in 21 days. Monthly breast self-exams are much more likely to find these aggressive cancers than are yearly mammograms. (A 21-day doubling cancer will be visible on a mammogram only 6 weeks before it can be felt.) If you massage or examine your breasts even six times a year, you can take action on fast-growing lumps. If you rely on mammograms exclusively, the cancer could grow undetected for months.

In a recent look at 60,000 breast cancer diagnoses in the United States, 67 percent were found by the woman or her doctor -and over half of these were not visible on a mammogram-while 33 percent were discovered by mammogram. (This may seem like a substantial number of cancers found by mammography, but the majority of them were in situ cancers, a controversial type of cancer that may-but often does not-progress to invasive cancer.)

Mammographic screening increases risk of breast cancer mortality in premenopausal women.

A Canadian study of 90,000 women (published in Lancet, November 1992) showed a 36-52 percent increase in mortality from breast cancer in women 40-49 who had annual mammograms. 8, 9 The Swedish Malmo Screening Trial (as reported in The British Medical Journal, 1988) which also included tens of thousands of women, showed 29 percent greater mortality from breast cancer in women under 55 who were regularly screened with mammograms. (Studies of women 50-59 showed no difference in breast cancer mortality between women who did and women who didn't have regular screening mammograms.)

Critics of these studies claim that newer mammographic equipment uses less radiation. This belies the point that mammograms are inherently dangerous. Orthodox medicine tells me again and again to overlook the harm that it has done to women and promises a future where the machines will be better calibrated and safer. But what of the harm that's been, and is now, done?

Mammographic screening is not and never will be a safe way to find breast cancer. Although safer after menopause than before, mammography is never without risk entirely.

Why I haven't had a baseline mammogram.

The idea behind having a baseline mammogram-that there will be a norm to refer back to-is erroneous. Breast tissues are constantly changing as menstrual, ovulatory, pregnancy, lactational, and menopausal hormones change. Science, the constant straight line, meets woman, the ever-changing spiral. And younger breast tissue is especially sensitive to radiation. According to J. W. Gofman (M.D., Ph.D., authority on dangers of radiation exposure), a 35-year-old woman whose normal risk of developing breast cancer is 1 in 1500 increases it to 1 in 660 by exposing herself to the radiation of a baseline mammogram. The National Women's Health Network says baseline mammograms should be abolished.10

If you've already had a baseline mammogram and now feel worried, make yourself a soup of lentils (to restore damaged DNA to normalcy), seaweed (to remove radioactive isotopes), and carrots (to support your immune system). Season with miso and tamari (to stop the promotion of cancer cells), and thyme, rosemary, and garlic (to further strengthen the immune system). Breathe in, relax, don't worry.

 excerpt from Chapter Five of Breast Cancer? Breast Health! by Susun Weed
 Available at www.wisewomanbookshop.com