Some of these won’t exactly be what you are used to eating, but they will help your body rid its self of toxins caused by the chemotherapy drugs, booster your immune system and give you more energy. Chinese Kiwi, along with Greens from the Mustard Family (A large family of herbs, the Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), characterized by pungent juice and four-petaled flowers arranged in a cross and including important vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, radishes, and watercress.), will help negate the DNA damaging side effects of the Chemotherapy drugs. The article below has more of the science involved.

Here are some recipes from one of my sources:

Detoxifying Soup 1

Ingredients: ¼ cups each of shredded carrot and chopped celery, ½ cup chopped greens (preferable from the Mustard family), 4-6 cups water, 1-2 slices of ginger, 6-8nos. black pepper, ¼ tsp turmeric, 1 tsp cumin seeds, rock salt to taste.

Preparation:
1) Mix all ingredients together in a big pot and bring it to boil.
2) Simmer for about sixty minutes and remove from heat.
3)  Mash the ingredients, strain out and discard the solid.—or you can eat it.
4) Enjoy the warm soup.

Detoxifying Soup 2

Ingredients:  ¼ cup Basmati rice, ½ cup chopped greens (preferable from the mustard family), 6 to 8 cups water, ¼ cup each of grated carrot, chopped celery, diced fennel bulb, 1/8 tsp ground coriander and cumin, ½ tsp ground fennel seed, 1 tsp mined cilantro and salt to taste.

Preparation:
1) Wash rice thoroughly and drain.
2) In a heavy-bottomed pot, bring the water to a boil.
3) Add the vegetables, rice, cumin, coriander and fennel and stir well.
4) Cover the pot with a lid and simmer for sixty minutes.
5)  Sprinkle salt and mash the ingredients well, garnish with cilantro and serve.

Mixed vegetables in Almond Sauce

Ingredients: ½ cup of any vegetables (like green peas, carrots, green beans, parsnips, asparagus, beets), ½ cup of missed shredded tender greens, ½ cup of  Paneer cubes (optional), cumin seeds – 1 tsp, ¼ tsp of minced ginger, 1/8 tsp each of ground cinnamon, clove and cardamom, 1/8 tsp of turmeric, ¼ tsp of black pepper freshly ground, ¼ cup of fresh homemade yogurt, 20 nos. almonds soaked in lukewarm water and blanched, 4 cups water, 1 tsp cilantro chopped, 1 tbsp ghee and rock salt to taste.

Preparation:
1) Steam the vegetables for about 8-10 minutes
2) Grind yogurt, ginger and almonds to a smooth puree.
3) Heat ghee, add cumin seeds until the aroma is released.
4) Add greens and powdered spices and stir-fry for two to three minutes in medium flame, and then add water and bring to boil.
5) Fold in the sauce and steamed vegetables, sprinkle salt and cover with lid, simmer for about 8 minutes stirring occasionally.
6) Add Paneer cubes, stir and remove from heat. Garnish with cilantro and serve with plain rice.

Detoxifying Soup 3

Ingredients: ¼ cup each of Basmati Rice, grated carrot and diced beets, ½ a cup each of tender greens chopped and minced fresh ginger roots, one tbsp grated white daikon, 6 to 8 cups of water, 1/8 tsp each of black pepper, ground coriander and cumin, one tsp of  minced cilantro, salt to taste.

Preparation:
1) Wash the rice and drain.
2) Heat water in a heavy-bottomed pot, and bring to boil.
3) Add vegetables, rice, cumin, coriander and cumin and stir to mix.
4) Reduce the flame, cover with lid, and let simmer for sixty minutes.
5) Sprinkle salt and pepper and mash the ingredients with a ladle.
6) Garnish with cilantro and serve hot.

Sweet Potato Salad

Ingredients:
½ cup each of boiled sweet potato cut into small cubes, tender greens wilted and chopped, 1 tsp each of lemon juice, extra-virgin olive oil, ¼ tsp dry-roasted and coarsely ground cumin, one tsp of ground black pepper, 1tsp of minced cilantro and salt to taste.

Preparation:
1) Fluff up the lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, cumin and salt in a bowl.
2) Add the other ingredients and mix well and serve.

Herbal Remedies for Nausea

Herbs – There are plenty of natural remedies for nausea. One such effective remedy is ginger, which can be taken in the form of tea or capsule. Ginger has volatile oils that aid digestion, soothes the irritated linings, and tones muscles of digestive tract. Ginger also stimulates liver to produce bile which helps in fat digestion. To overcome motion sickness, the first dose of ginger should be taken about three to four hours before travel.

Peppermint tea or oil helps in easing spasms of digestive tract, and could be beneficial for nausea that occurs due to intestinal cramping. However, peppermint tea is a better choice for nausea during pregnancy, rather than peppermint oil, as the latter has a more powerful effect.

Golden seal is another remedy for nausea, if it is not caused due to pregnancy. It can be taken in the form of tea or pill, and the herb soothes liver and stomach, apart from enhancing digestion.

Aloe Vera juice helps in combating the stomach ache that accompanies nausea. One tablespoon of the juice can be diluted in six ounces of water and given once a day.

Chamomile tea also helps. One dose can be given with or in between the meals twice a day.

Ginger tea is also beneficial for stomachache, nausea and vomiting. Finally drink as much fluids as possible to prevent dehydration, but avoid caffeinated beverages.

Food Suggestions

Here are a few foods and directions on how to use them. These suggestions may seem a little like folk lore, but they are commonly used in other countries.

Asparagus:

Actions—clears Heat, detoxifies, promotes blood circulation, clears lungs

Conditions—constipation, cancer, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, bronchitis

Remedies: Breast Cancer; boil asparagus with dandelions; drink the liquid and apply the solids to the area.

Carrot:

Actions—clears Heat, detoxifies, strengthens all internal organs, benefits the eyes, relieves measles, lubricates the intestines, promotes digestion

Remedies: Cancer—to prevent, cook ½ stick carrot with Chinese black mushrooms and consume daily. Also drink carrot top tea.

Garlic:

Actions—anti-viral, anti-fungal, detoxifies meat and seafood, kills worms, removes stagnant food and stagnant Blood, reduces abscess

Conditions: Cancer, high blood cholesterol, infections, diarrhea, dysentery, vomiting, and coughting of blood.

Chinese Mushrooms, Shitake mushroom, Black Mushrooms (3 names for 1 shroom)

Actions—strengthens the stomach, promotes healing, lowers blood pressure, detoxifies, anti-tumor, lowers cholesterol (these are also in the pills I sent you)

Conditions—tumors, diabetes, hypertension, slow healing, hight blood pressure, high cholesterol

Remedies—Tumors, boil tea from black musrooms and drink 3 times a day, continuously. This can also be used a s a preventative to stomach and cervical cancer. Used post surgery, this remedy can prevent metastasis (spreading) of the tumor cells.

*Interesting one. Something to use those Halloween pumpkins for.

Pumpkin and Winter Squash

Breast Cancer: Charcoal the cap and grind to powder. Take 1 tsp of the powder in 1 shot of rice wine 2 times daily. The alcohol is a useful agent for increasing circulation and removing stagnancy. Tumors are considered to be some type of stagnant Blood, Chi, or Mucus.

Seaweed

Actions—softens hardenings, clears heat, detoxifies, benefits the thyroid gland, neutralizes radioactive material, benefits the lymphatic system, promotes diuresis, provides many minerals

Conditions—swollen lymph glands, goiters, cough, lung abscess with thick, yellow, odoriferous mucus, edema, beriberi, fibroid tumors, cystic breasts, nodules, lumps, cancer, low thyroid

Remedies—here are many varieties of seaweed that can be easily incorporated into soups, stir fry dishes, etc. A delicious and healthful appetizer can be made with soaked hiziki or arame (looks like thin black noodles), a little soy sauce, honey, and rice vinegar. The variety of seaweed that would be the best used is Nori.

Summary:

According to Chinese Medicine, cancer is an abnormal growth of tissue that results from some sort of stagnation of Chi (Qi), Blood, Mucus, or Body fluids. The stagnation can be caused by some external irritant such as cigarette smoke or chemicalized foods and strong emotions. When the body is irritated over a long period of time, it reacts to the irritant by growing to protect itself. However, at a certain point the cell growth becomes abnormal and uncontrollable and cancer cells result. Strong emotions lead to Chi stagnation which in turn can lead to stagnation of Blood, mucus or body fluids.

The Western approach to cancer is to kill the cancer cells with harsh chemicals, radiation, or surgery. However, these methods also harm the healthy cells. The Chinese approach to cancer is to support the body so that it can combat the cancer cells its self. The cancer is considered to be a toxin in the body, thus a detoxifying diet is also utilized. I have already discussed some of these recommendations above, but here is a general outline that might be easier for quick reference.

Recommendations:

Omega 3 and 6, Seaweed, shitake mushrooms, figs, beets, beet tops, papayas, mung beans, licorice (You can buy this at health food stores, it is a twig from a plant. It comes ground. Not the red chewy licorice that is candy), sea cucumbers, carrots, garlic, walnuts, litchi fruits, mulberries, asparagus, pumpkins, burdock, dandelion greens, white fungus, taro roots, pearl barley, grains, plenty of fresh and organic fruits and vegetables.

Remedies:

1. Boil together mung beans, pearl barley, azuki beans, and figs. This makes a delicious dessert that will aid appetite and sustain the energy level.
2. Make tea from dandelion, burdock, and chrysanthemum flowers; you many also add beat tops or carrot tops. Drink this as the regular beverage every day.
3. Always wash commercially grown fruits and vegetables in salt water to neutralize the chemicals.
4. Take garlic and seaweed, slightly stir fried in water.
5. Drink carrot and celery juice.
6. Make blender juice from a mixture of fresh vegetables and take WARM.

Avoid:

Meat. If you can’t handle a vegetarian diet, fresh caught (not farmed) fish, and dark turkey that is free of antibiotics, nitrates (sodium nitrate), and growth hormones especially (these are proven to aid in the production of cancer cells and the growth of tumors); avoid chicken, coffee, cinnamon, anise, pepper, dairy products, hot spicy/pungent food, high fat foods, cooked oils, chemical additives, moldy foods, second hand smoke (and smoking), constipation (take aloe vera gel for this, or hemp seed oil), and avoid all emotional stress and irritations as much as possible.

 

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