CANCER

June 22 – July 23

The symbol for Cancer is the Crab and it depicts very well many of the qualities of those born under its sign. Crabs have a very hard shell to protect their soft interior; this is true of both the animal and Cancerian sun signs.

Sensitive is a key word to bear in mind for these folk. Cancerians will pick up subtleties of mood, body language and tone of voice not always evident to the more boisterous signs. They are intuitive and easily hurt. Hence the need for a protective shell around them.

Another physical characteristic of the crab is their claws. If a crab grabs hold of you it is not an easy task to shake them loose – their grip is both strong and tenacious. Possessiveness, hoarding and living in the past can be a negative expressions of Cancerian energy, but on the positive this same energy is steadiness and wise husbandry of resources. It is all about balance, and letting of the old is a major spiritual lesson for this sign. Hopefully without the need to lose a ‘nipper’ in the process!

Crabs are quite shy, and scurry back into their shell or into their hole when they feel threatened. It is where they feel most comfortable and safe. Some crabs are quite adventurous – hermit crabs enjoy travelling across long distances and exploring new places – but they carry their home right along with them… Home is very important to crabs and Cancerians and a lack of a secure home will be a source of major stress.

Finally, crabs live in water – the element of the emotions – and in Cancer we see an exploration of the emotional life for the first time in the zodiac. Cancerians are in touch with their emotions and the emotions of others and make wonderful confidantes, counsellors and listeners. They will become the emotional touchstone for all their family, which will include treasured friends, neighbours and co-workers. Cancerians are the nurturers of the zodiac – often natural mothers and very comfortable keeping the home fires burning. If they reject a traditional wife / stay at home mother role, they will often choose a career that involves caring for others – nursing, hospitality, personal assistant, interior design, feng shui or counselling; something which enables them to make the living spaces of others ‘feel good’ or which entails the assisting others with their emotional or personal care. Of all the sun signs, this is the one which will find the men most comfortable with being a stay-at-home Dad.

What ‘Out of Balance’ Cancerian energy looks like

Moody, difficulty letting go, hypersensitive, worry, insecure, anxious, abandonment issues, rejection issues, living in the past, continuing negative family patterns, emotional burnout, hoarding, manipulative, pining, taking on others’ emotions, guilt, obsession,

giving too much to others.

What ‘Balanced’ Cancerian energy looks like

Nurturing, understanding, sensitive, considerate, kind, patient, intuitive, in touch with feelings, emotionally strong, secure, husband resources well, ‘earth mother’.

Cancer is ruled by the Moon, considered a feminine energy by most cultures both ancient and modern. The Moon in astrology is regarded as the ruler of our emotions, and the Moon is never the same two days running. For two weeks it is waxing from dark to full, then for two weeks it is waning from full back down to dark. It changes zodiac signs every two and a half days (the sun changes signs every 30 days or so). It is the moon that controls the tides on earth, exerting a force strong enough to pull massive amounts of water around the globe every six hours. Putting all of this together, this emotionally sensitive sign has its ruling planet in a constant state of change. Cancerians are often accused of being ‘moody’. Is it any wonder with such a potent and ever changing ruling planet? The solution – Peach-flowered Tea-tree – perfect for mood swings. It’s Doctrine of Signatures is of a flower constantly changing too, so it is a really case of like curing like.

Cancerians will often be drawn to roles which entail caring for others in some way, it is just part of their nature. It is therefore very important that they take care to nurture themselves (not just others). Alpine Mint Bush is the perfect flower to remind them to do so, and it is also the most appropriate remedy should they forget to and end up suffering from emotional burnout. It is a very nurturing, restorative essence on an emotional level.

Their emotional and psychic sensitivity can be both their greatest strength and their greatest weakness and there are some very good flowers to help ensure this remains a blessings rather than a curse. Regular doses of both Fringed Violet and Angelsword will cleanse unwanted and old psychic energies, and help maintain the integrity of the aura. In practical terms, this means Cancerians can be assured that what they are feeling is their own emotions, not that of others.

Illawarra Flame is very good for any feelings of rejection (which Cancerians will feel very deeply), while Tall Yellow Top is almost a constitutional remedy for any feelings of isolation, abandonment, disconnection from their ‘tribe’ or depression. As for the tendency to pine and brood, especially when separated from loved ones, Boronia is wonderful.

On a physical level, Cancer rules the stomach, breasts, uterus and ovaries. Crowea is a good supporting remedy for both stomach and uterus, She Oak for the ovaries, and Bottlebrush for the breasts.

Bottlebrush is a flower essence Cancerians can almost live on, because it helps one to let go – the spiritual lesson for this sign. Apart from that it is very good for facilitating the mother-child bond – crucial for this sign, to whom family is so important.

An out-of-balance Cancerian is prone to anxiety and worry, with Crowea the remedy of choice. If these emotions are left unaddressed over a period of time they filter down to create stomach problems. The mind –body connection is very evident with this sign, and illustrate really well how flower essences can be used very effectively as preventative medicines.

If you would like to know more, we run a One Day Seminar on Astrology and Australian Bush Flower Essences.

The Schedule is available here.

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Copyright Linn Wiggins.

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From the John Hopkins Cancer Institute

• Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit
• A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor.
• Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment.
• Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit.
• Learn to relax and enjoy life.
• Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
• Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level.
• Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

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From the John Hopkins Medical Institute.
This information is also being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Dioxins (found in plastic) are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.

Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.

Tips to minimise your exposure to the chemicals in plastic:

• Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
• No plastic containers in the freezer
• No plastic containers in the microwave – this especially applies to foods that contain fat. The combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
• Use tempered glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
• Such things as TV dinners, instant noodles and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in tempered glas
• Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass.
• Fast food restaurants are moving away from foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
• Plastic wrap is just as bad when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead

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From John Hopkins Cancer Research Institute
Italics and links additional information from The Herb Lady

An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

• Sugar. Avoid it.
• Sugar substitutes i.e. artificial sweeteners. These are made with Aspartame and it is harmful (it severely decreases the health of your nervous system). A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey, molasses, Stevia or Xylitol.
• Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.
• Pastuerised milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. Try raw cowsmilk, goats milk, rice milk or almond milk instead. By cutting off pastuerised milk, cancer cells are being starved.
• Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat, like chicken.
• Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer. If you eat meat, go for organic or home grown.
• A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans.
• Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
• Avoid coffee and black tea, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties.
• Water – best to drink purified Spring water, or filtered water, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
• Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
• Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
• Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells.
• Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s
  normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

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From the John Hopkins Cancer Research Centre:

• Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells
• In the process it also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
• Radiation while destroying cancer cells burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
• Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.
• However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumour destruction.
• When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
• Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.
• Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

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The following is from the John Hopkins Cancer Institute

• Every person has cancer cells in the body.
• These cancer  cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.
• When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
• Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime
• When the person’s immune system is strong, the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours
• When a person has cancer it indicates the person has nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors
• To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times a day and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system

Note from Linn

InfraRed Scanning is said to be the early detection method for cancer cells – it picks up abnormal heat patterns. This is often the first indication that cancer cells are clumping together. The heat produced from this process is evident before a tumour forms.

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By Dr Lu

The blood of healthy persons is more alkaline in nature, with a pH of about 7.35 to 7.45

Babies’ blood is also more alkaline than acidic

As adults mature their blood becomes usually more acidic

According to a study of 600 cancer patients, of their bodily fluid, 85% of the patients are acidic .

Therefore, how to maintain the a weakly acidic nature of our body is the first step for moving far away from diseases.

Acidic physical conditions manifested as some of the below:

1. Skin without luster
2. Athlete’s foot
3. Feeling tired even with very little exercise
4. Falling sleep the moment one gets on to public buses
5. Easily out of breath going up and down stairs
6. Overweight, and with lower stomach protruding,
7. Physical movement is slow and lethargic

Why does the body physical condition turn acidic?

1. Excessive intake of dairy acidic food

a) meat, dairy products, eggs, beef, ham, etc. are acidic food

b) taking too much acidic food will cause the blood to become acidic and viscous, making it difficult for it to flow to the end of blood vessels, leading to cold feet or knee, stiff shoulders and insomnia..

c) It is more suitable to have a diet which are primarily vegetables with algae.

2) Irregularity in the pace of life will cause the body physical condition to become acidic

a) Irregular pace in life will lead to mental and physical stress

b) According to statistics, people who sleep late are more likely to have cancer than normal persons, by as much as 5 times.

c) Human beings originally lead a life with regular tempo in this world, it is not possible to store up sleep or food and not possible to change the order of living by mixing up days and nights.

d) Human organs are controlled by the autonomic nerves, and during day time it is mainly sympathetic nerves activities, and at night it is mainly the parasympathetic nerves which are functioning. If this order is disturbed and reversed, then diseases will result.

3. Emotion over tensed

a) Civilised society brings stresses

b) Job related or mental stresses

c) A person suffers mental stress, when the stress is removed and the person relaxes, sometimes this may lead to death, referred to as the syndrome of imperfect adrenal cortex function.

4. Physical Stress

a) Before any operation it would be necessary to check to see if the renal cortex does function normally. If the adrenal cortex is lacking, or if the stress imposed by the operation exceeded the ability of adrenal cortex to cope, it could lead to death or other undesirable impacts.

b) If it noted that patient’s face is puffy, it would be necessary to enquire in detail the patient’s medical history and medication status. For patients taking adrenal cortical hormone, extra care should be exercised when administering acupuncture.

c) Stress due to physical labour or exercise in excess, whole night card games, driving etc. should be avoided as much as possible

Lastly, one should take care of oneself but should also be caring about others.

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From Research conducted by Dr Lu Geling, of Maijie Hospital

Under strong alkaline condition, cancerous cells will not be able to grow, or even to survive.

Actual case studies follow, please read patiently until the end and pass this on.

Even if you have read this before, you should reread it. Please take your time to complete this article, it will be helpful to your health.

More that 30 years ago, a Mr Zhang who worked in the public sales department of a Taipei Brewery, participated in the brewery overseas study selection examination, and passed with flying colours.

Before going overseas, during the physical examination at a public hospital, it was discovered that he had a tumour growth in his lung of the size of a child’s fist, and therefore was not able to go overseas to study.

The greatly disappointed Mr Zhang had always been suspicious that the diagnosis was wrong. So he went to another hospital for a check-up, the result confirmed that previous diagnosis was not in error.

For the youthful and healthy Mr Zhang to be stricken down with such terminal illness, in his despair, he rang his old classmate who at the time was Taidong County Government, Huangsun County Mayor’s secretary, Mr Wei.

Mr Weil rushed to Taipei during his rest day on a Sunday to see Mr Zhang.

Mr Zhang discussed with Mr Wei in details his despair and pessimism, and entrusted his friend regarding his affairs after his death.

Coincidentally, Mr Wei was a good friend of Dr Lu Geling, who was in-charge of the Maijie Hospital, 1945-55, and specialised in the clinical research into cancer cases. He immediately suggested that Mr Zhang see Dr Lu for treatment. At first, Mr Zhang said he preferred not to consult anymore doctors, so as not to add further to his misery.

But Mr Wei told him that he had telephoned Dr Lu before to seek his advice, and had already arranged an appointment. Mr Zhang felt obligated and went with Mr Wei to meet Dr Lu.

When Dr Lu met with Mr Zhang, Dr Lu said: ‘ Mr Wei is a friend and has introduced you and I to get to know each other. This is destiny. Thank you. Let me ask you, do you know why is cancer referred to as terminal illness?’

Both Mr Zhang and Mr Wei did not how to answer.

Dr Lu explained: ‘There are only two approaches taken by human to treat cancer to date. The first is to destroy the source of the disease. The second is the increase the capability to fight the disease.

But the strange thing is that cancer, whether we use Cobalt 60 or any other drug to destroy the cancer cells, before the cancer cells are killed, the good cells are destroyed first.

On the other hand, no matter we use what nutrients or supplements, before the good cells have a chance to absorb them, the cancer cells have taken them up and it simply speeds up the grow of cancer.

Therefore both approaches are doomed to failure, that is why cancer is terminal.’

Dr Lu continues: ‘Human being is most clever, they have successfully landed on the moon. But why is it no one ever question the above two approaches for treating cancer are nothing but self defeating dead-ends, try to seek out a third avenue?

When I was conducting clinical research in Majie Hospital , I had many opportunities to work with and being helped by many colleagues in the Hospital. I discovered that the blood tests of 100% of the cancer patients showed that the blood sample are acidic…

Those Buddhist monks and nuns who are long term vegetarians and live very close to Nature, their blood are prevalently strong alkaline and amongst them, there has yet to discover any cancer cases

Therefore, I boldly concluded that under strong alkaline conditions, cancer cells are not able to grow, or even to survive.

Mr Zhang, I would suggest that starting from now you reduce your intake of the acidic meaty dishes.

Take more of the alkaline food. In addition you can take green algae and soup made from water chestnuts with shell.

Modify your physical condition, and try seriously to have a regular life style which is close to Nature;

If you can manage to stay alive for five years, you should have no further problem. I wish you the best of luck.’

Mr Zhang follow Dr Lu’s suggestion and seriously alter his eating habits.

Every day, he ate green algae, drank chestnut soup, be optimistic and doing appropriate amount of exercise, and went back to the same public hospital for a check up. It was discovered that not only that the tumour did not increase in size, on the contrary it showed signs of shrinking, and surprised the hospital staff conducting the check-up as a miracle. Five years later, the tumour had shrunk to such a state as to be almost disappeared.

After almost 40 years, presently Mr Zhang’s health is totally normal, and he is living a very pleasant life.

Following Mr Zhang, a Mr Chen Tianshou, who was previously Head of the General Administration of the Taidong Provincial Hospital, was similarly diagnosed with lung cancer.

When Mr Wei heard of this, he told Mr Chen of the experience of Mr Zhang, and Mr Chen started to follow the instructions of Dr Lu to change his physical condition. The outcome was that he was able to recover fully from the cancer, just like Mr Zhang.

By this time, Mr Lu and his family had emigrated to the United States. After the two cases, he returned to Taiwan and met up with his friend Mr Wei.

Mr Wei told Dr Lu about the experiences of Mr Zhang and Mr Chen, and suggested that he let the two of them detail their experiences to Dr Lu in person, so that Dr Lu could publish a report on his self cure body conditioning method.

Dr Lu very humbly replied:

‘I am too old, besides, I do not have any clinical records of the outcomes. I would ask that you tell your friends and relatives, if they are agreeable, then please continue this experience and spread the words …

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You MUST have all breast lumps checked medically to make sure it is not cancer. This is true not matter what your age – more and more young women are being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Oestrogen dominance is one cause of benign (non cancerous) breast lumps and can be reversed naturally using various herbal medicines. For my free series of article on Oestrogen dominance, sign up to the mailing list on my website.

Sore, swollen or lumpy breasts pre-menstrually can also be quickly assisted using herbs, with Chaste Tree being one of the good, over the counter, herbs available. Herbalists also have stronger herbs that should only be used by those who are professionally qualified.Medically, fibrocystic (benign) lumps are viewed as sometimes preceding breast cancer.Naturopathically, they can also indicate lymphatic congestion. Consider going without a bra as much as possible – more on this in the next post in this section.

Breasts are full of lymphatic tissue and are designed to move around. Bras prevent your breasts from doing this and so stop this all important self cleansing mechanism. Many fibrocystic lumps disappear altogether if you don’t wear a bra for six months. Lightly stroking your fingers from sternum to armpit for several minutes a day also helps by promoting lymphatic drainage of your breasts. Fenugreek Tea has traditionally been used to help cleanse the lymphatics also. Bush Iris from Australian Bush Flower Essences energetically balances the lymphatics. Much more information on Bush Iris is shared during the Level 1 Australian Bush Flower Essences Workshop.

Breastfeeding your babies is another traditional way of reducing your risk of developing breast cancer. If you get mastitis and a lump remains afterwards, herbal medicine can nearly always remove it, even many years later. It is important that you do so, to reduce the risk of the trapped toxins providing fertile soil for cancer to take root in.

A toxic colon often underlies breast lumps. The Australian Bush Flower Essence Bottlebrush is excellent to energetically re-balance the colon and shift the emotional pattern of “holding on” that is often underlying a sluggish bowel. Much more information on Bottebrush is shared during the Level 1 Australian Bush Flower Essences Workshop.

A mammogram is obtained by squashing the breast flat to get an image. This is recommended annually for all women over fifty. Due to the known cancer causing potential of accumulative X-Rays, from a naturopathic viewpoint, it would seem wise to remove this radiation after each procedure. Double blind trials have shown “Electro” by Australian Bush Flower Essences to be effective in dramatically reducing radiation levels.

Old wives and folk medicine advise women to protect their breasts, due to an increased risk of cancer following trauma. Interestingly, young sufferers of breast cancer today often report a history of an injury to the affected breast at the cancer site. External application of arnica, calendula or comfrey in the form of an ointment or compress at the time of the injury, assist with complete healing from bruising (obvious and otherwise).

Due to the density of younger breast tissue, mammogram is not very effective at diagnosing bnormalities in women under fifty. The latest technology in breast screening is using a hand held infrared thermal scanner to detect “hot spots” in the breast during monthly self examination. Early cancers immediately
establish a blood supply so they can grow. This generates abnormal heat at the site that is detected by the thermal scanner, prompting it to beep. Further investigations can then be undertaken via ultrasound or mammogram. Another alternative further investigation is professional thermal imaging, a painless, non invasive, non radiation procedure that shows up abnormalities at their earliest stage. More information, including clinics throughout Australia and the USA, is available here.

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