| The Tao way of healing may help
cancer patients - supplementing the main methods of treatment such as surgery,
radiotherapy and chemotherapy (which may be used individually or in combination). |
IS THERE any hope for cancer patients?
The answer is YES. You are still
alive and kicking, so do something about it. However, the path to
a possible cure depends very much on the patient. It is a journey
fraught with sacrifices. |
| To try to heal yourself of cancer is to
treat your body, mind and spirit. In other words, it is the healing
of the total self. |
| The Tao way of healing is wholistic because
the body is connect with the mind which, in turn, is link with the spirit. |
How do you
embark on the journey of healing?
First, you must
give up a number of foods and drinks. Remember - we are what we eat. |
| Secondly, you must
change your lifestyle; ie, no more overeating, overdrinking, smoking,
oversleeping, overdancing, excessive sexual activities or late nights. |
| Thirdly, you must
change your attitude towards others. For example, learn to be grateful
and appreciative. |
Why?
The Tao way of healing believes that cancer can be caused by a stagnation
of chi
flow within
the body. When you are healthy,
the chi
flow (electromagnetic force) is smooth. |
What
causes chi to stagnate in the body?
According to acupuncturists, there are
four possible causes
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dietary imbalance
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external injury
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emotional imbalance; and
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trauma.
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What
is dietary imbalance?
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Eating foods that are difficult to digest
so that they accummulate in the body in the form of "mucus" (an acupuncture
term) and cause obstruction, resulting in chi stagnation.
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Eating cold foods and drinks, as well as raw
and frozen foods.
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Irregular eating habits
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Over eating and over drinking
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What
kind of emotional imbalance may lead to chi
stagnation?
Greed is the most common, and is found
in people who hoard money or who cannot stop eating or drinking. |
| Imaging a cancer cell dividing into two
and then into four and so on, just like money accumulating and earning
interest in the bank. |
| Change this attitude to one of a more
giving, sharing and charitable nature. It is not wrong to save money
but it's unhealthy to be too miserly. |
| Anger, fear, nervousness, anxiety, worry,
frustration and depression come next. These emotions cause you to
be tense, so that chi flow
is restricted and cannot flow smoothly. |
| Over the years, this may lead to chi
stagnation. Learn to relax. Take up the ancient Chinese Tao arts
of taiji, chi kung
or meditation. |
| Grief, due to the loss of a loved one,
represses the chi flow which may stagnate after some time.
This emotion is difficult to cope and overcome. |
| Of the four causes which may lead to chi
stagnation, dietary imbalance is the easiest to correct. |
| Sun Szu Mo wrote: "When
the illness is discovered, it should first be treated with food; medicine
should be prescribed only when food fails." |
Bad
Food Combination
Besides individual foods being difficult
to digest or tending to be "mucus-forming", the combination of different
foods in a meal matters a great deal, good. For example: |
Breakfast
1) Cold orange
juice followed by protien-rich eggs (hard-boiled or fried), bacon or ham,
and then by sugar-rich jam on toast, and ending with sugar-laced tea or
coffee with cold milk.
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The Tao sages believed that cold
orange juice combined with protein-rich foods such as eggs, bacon or ham
would cause the fat of the latter to coagulate in the body, making them
hard to digest.
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2) Sugared
muesli with cold milk, followed by cold orange juice and then sugared tea
or coffee, and finishing with cold fruit.
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The orange juice tends to curdle
the milk. Muesli eaten uncooked is difficult to digest and tends
to accumulate in the intestine.
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The presence of too much sugar,
dried fruit from the muesli and fresh raw fruit may provide an excellent
environment for fermentation in the bowels.
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It is not surprising, then, that
some people complain of gas and/or excruciating bowel pains after such
a breakfast.
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3) An
Asian breakfast of greasy fried noodles (with hardly any vegetables or
meat) followed by hot tea or coffee with plenty of sugar.
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This fat and flour combination is
slightly better than the first two, but still presents digestion.
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4) A sweet breakfast
of Kueh and coffee.
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This is just as bad because of the
sugar, flour and oil combination.
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Main meal
1)
White rice with vegetables and meat swimming in lard or oil, followed by
an ice-cold or just ice-cold water
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The ice-cold chendol already makes
difficult the digestion of coconut milk with flour. Combined with
more lard or oil, it may be worse.
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The combination of something cold
and something hot tends to cause coagulation in the body - a belief of
the Toaist sage.
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| 2) Meals with
lots of sauces are
difficult to digest because sauces are made of a combination of flour,
oil, sault and sometimes sugar. |
3) It
is customary to end a meal with ice-cold raw fruits, especially oranges,
due to the belief that sourness helps digestion. But it is just the
opposite.
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The Tao sages believed that if you
wish to take any fruit, you should do so an hour before a meal or an hour
after a meal. Fruit sugars are easily digested, while rice sugars
are more complex and take a longer time to digest.
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So, if the two types of sugars are
mixed together, the stomach will be upset and confused, leading to improper
indigestion. This may eventually result in the accumulation of "mucus"
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The Tao way of treating cancer is,
indeed, very unorthodox. But is not without logic, especially, if
cancer patients and their relatives it down and ponder over it.
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It all boils down to the fact that
we are what we eat, do and think.
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Bibliography :
1) The Tao Way of Long Life - The Chinese Art of Ch'ang Ming
by
Chee Soo.
Published by the Acquarian Press, Wellingborough,
Northamptonshire.
2) The Cancer Prevention Diet by Michio Kashi and Alex
Jack.
Published by St Martin's Press, New York |
