Despite its name, alternative medicine, treatment is often the first choice of cancer patients, especially those who have locally advanced or fear of surgery. Manifold very much, from drinking potions, massage, acupuncture, prayer, power in, until that is supernatural.
There are dozens, even hundreds of alternative treatment techniques. Each country, each region, even each community has its own technique. In general, alternative treatments can be divided into several broad categories:
There are dozens, even hundreds of alternative treatment techniques. Each country, each region, even each community has its own technique. In general, alternative treatments can be divided into several broad categories:
Traditional herbs
In general is to increase endurance to prevent and fight cancer cells, but there also can kill cancer cells directly, or prevent the spread of cancer.
In general is to increase endurance to prevent and fight cancer cells, but there also can kill cancer cells directly, or prevent the spread of cancer.
In Indonesia, the variety of traditional materials for treatment of cancer, such as crown of the gods, noni, fruit red, white turmeric, tread virgin, garlic, mistletoe tea, and so on. There are already packaged in the form of capsules, tablets, and syrup, there is still material in the form of fresh / dry which should be boiled first.
One thing you should remember before taking the traditional ingredients are, not all material is suitable for all types of cancer. White turmeric for example, was suitable for cancer of the mouth, esophagus, colon, breast, skin, but not yet proven suitable for other types of cancer. Soy-based product being suitable for breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon, and lung.
Environment in which the ingredients of plant life and how to treat it also affects a large enough at the level of effectiveness. For example garlic growing on the slopes of Mount Rinjani, Lombok, known to be effective for the treatment of cancer than white onions from other areas, because it contains higher selenium.
So you can not be arbitrary, as long as people obey the word. Find out what natural ingredients are best suited for your cancer, or better come to the expert or to a traditional medicine clinic in a hospital-leading hospitals, and ask for the most appropriate herbs for you. Drink regularly according to the dose and the recommended time period. Do not forget to consult with your doctor's schedule, so that the effect does not collide with the effects of medical drugs.
Physical Medicine
Included in this physical treatment is a traditional massage, reflexology, acupuncture, akupressur, the power in, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, cupping, and the like. Has not been medically proven treatment to cure the cancer directly, but acknowledged can reduce pain, create a sense of comfort, relieve stress, and improve quality of life / fitness, so that patients are better prepared to undergo medical treatment.
Not just small clinics that provide this treatment, the hospital now-large hospitals are also many who do so, with the supervision of expert doctors who studied in particular.
Psychic Treatment
According to the adherents of this treatment, a disease resulting from disruption of the balance of body, soul, mind, and one's spiritual life. Therefore this treatment aims to restore the balance, which in turn would make the organs of the body working normally, and restore health.
Examples of psychological therapy is treatment that is meditation, yoga, prayer, hypnotic, as if breathing, music therapy, aromatherapy, and so on. This activity is believed to strengthen the mental, reduce stress and anxiety, foster positive attitudes, and strengthen the will to live. Also can reduce the side effects of treatment, improve medical treatment effectiveness, and speed healing.
Various religions in the world have confidence in each of the Divine healing miracles. Adherents of Islam for instance, believe that prayer, and remembrance can cure many diseases that are considered medically incurable. Christian, Catholic, Hindu and other religions have their beliefs. Similarly, adherents of religions, beliefs, and even small communities in the villages.
While human reason has not been able to explain the occurrence of these miracles, some people are trying reading by theorizing that the peace of mind and a healthier spiritual conditions that improve physical health in general.
Diet and Nutrition
Diet and nutrition play an important role in efforts to prevent and inhibit cancer growth. Wrong diet (less fiber, too much fat, unbalanced compositions, many contain dyes / preservatives / artificial flavorings, or cooking the wrong way) is one of the triggers of cancer. Then the only way to fix it is to change the wrong diet into a healthy diet.
On the other hand, nutrients in foods and beverages can also be used to fight cancer in different ways. There are works by increasing the immune response, there are adverse effects that neutralize cancer-triggering substances, there is nothing preventing the gene mutation, one can restore the defective genes, one can prevent the occurrence of metastases (spread of cancer cells), even There is also a trigger cancer cells to commit suicide (apoptosis).
Therefore, regulating diet and proper nutrition is one thing to be done together with other cancer treatment efforts. Ask your doctor or a nutritionist about what foods you should avoid or otherwise you should eat to support your cancer treatment.
Vitamins, Minerals, Food Supplements
There are many other kinds of alternative treatments for cancer, especially those produced by pharmaceutical manufacturers and marketed as a vitamin or food supplements. In Indonesia we know the bee products like honey, royal jelly, propolis; well as shark fin, fish oil, chlorella, green tea, ginseng, and so forth that is claimed to cure cancer. Similarly, vitamin A and beta carotene, vitamins B, C, E, K which act as antioxidants to prevent the formation and spread of cancer cells.
Other
Cancer treatment clinics also have a variety of other treatment techniques that have not fully accepted the medical community, eg, chemotherapy herbal infusion of T-cell (derived from calf thymus), which it says could kill cancer cells, the use of certain drugs to rid the body of toxins and heavy metals sources of free radicals, and so on.
Meanwhile in many regions there are various treatment techniques supernatural seem plausible, but yet many try. For example to diagnose disease through a chicken, transfer the disease to animals / eggs / timber / fruit, and many others.
Although somewhat skeptical physicians of various types of alternative medicine, it does not hurt you to try. Doctors adhered to the treatment technique (west) which has been clinically tested, while various alternative treatments are generally derived from traditional medicine (east) used and proven effective for generations, but many have not been tested clinically. The decision remains in your hands. Yet not a few traditional medicines after clinically tested later adopted into modern medical drugs, such as chemotherapy drugs vincristine and vinblastine, which was taken from the leaf extract tread virgin.
It would be the maximum result if you choose alternative treatments carried out in conjunction with medical treatment, so they can support each other. The important thing you should perpegang on 4 Right and an alert: the right indication, the right drug, right dose, right patient, and alert to side effects. And of course, always consult your physician. (Edict Rahayu / rumahkanker.com)
