Cancer Cure?
Light In the Distance?
While all this was going on I, and my wife even more, were researching alternative methods of treating cancer in general, and this one in particular. There is a fantastic amount of information published in books and on the web, but a lot of it seems contradictory and precious little speaks specifically about squamous cell carcinoma.
There are many products and clinics claiming to help, but no one makes claims for cure. Some seem to have some fairly strong supporting anecdotal evidence. The clinics are very expensive, at least for me, so we kept looking.
I did try a number of things but nothing seemed to stop or even slow down the growth of the tumor, which is why I had decided to start the radiation.
My wife remembered seeing a movie at a film festival called, “Ayurveda: the Art of Being.” It was an European documentary about Ayruvedic practitioners in India. A number of the practitioners interviewed claimed they were getting 85% success against cancer, among other diseases.
We rented it from Videomatica, in Vancouver, (you can also rent it through NetFlix – www.netflix.com) and watched it. Ayurveda is traditional medicine that has been practiced for over 3,000 years in India. Compare that to the 150 or so years allopathic medicine has been practiced! The goal of Ayurveda is to establish and maintain the balance of life energies within the body, rather than focus on treating the symptoms. Rituals and dogma aside, the thousands of years of recorded observations of the action of plants, herbs, barks and refined metals has allowed the practitioners to devise effective remedies for many conditions. I figured they must have learned something in all that time, so we visited the only Ayurvedic health food store in town.
Fish Boats in Goa, India
At the store, we spoke to a man who had trained in India, and told us of a Doctor Prakash, an Ayurvedic practitioner there, that was getting tremendous success with cancer using Ayurvedic treatments. But he had no contact information, just his name.
More research on the internet came up with the name of his clinic and the city in which it was located. So, I sent off a letter with nothing more than his name, the clinic name, the city, state and country. I hoped, and prayed, that he was well enough known to postal people there.
After one chemo and 10 radiation sessions I was sick, tired, and weak. I was buoyed up by the prayers of hundreds of people and the faith God was giving me, so I was not depressed or losing hope. I just felt there had to be a better way.
On October 5 we received an email from Doctor Prakash in India! The letter had reached him! We praised God for this answer to our prayers.
I replied with a description of my situation and he responded on the 15th with his phone number and cell number. I called him and he advised me to finish the treatments to control the tumor and then I could come see him. He refused to make any promises, though.
I did more research and found that he had done a trial supervised by hospital physicians on leukemia patients in a New Delhi hospital. (http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2000/02/03/stories/0203000m.htm) It appears that 90% survived and were completely cured, so far as they could tell. Other articles reported good success with other cancers as well.
Those odds seemed a lot better than those I had been given. I decided not to wait.
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