The "What are you doing to treat it this time?" question . . .

 Last time when treating my cancer, I pretty much overhauled my life. I ate only organic whole foods (so nothing processed); I was pretty much vegetarian for most of four months; I exercised daily; I meditated and visualized the cancer burning up; I re-trained my mind not to go down dark rabbit holes (with a little success); I took handfuls of supplements and painted on iodine; I went to bed with castor oil packs; I did dry-brushing to stimulate lymph flow; I did ionic foot baths frequently.  There's probably more.

I will be doing some of those things. Or probably, I'll do most of them at some point, but not all at once. In the past several years, I've gotten interested in herbs, and have been making my own massage oils. Occasionally I've made salves for specific clients, as well. So it seems completely appropriate that my cancer treatment this time will include herbs -- the medicines God made when He created earth.

I came across a small book written by a German man named Rudolph Breuss called "The Breuss Cancer Cure." He wasn't a doctor. He always wanted to be but couldn't afford medical school, so he read everything he could get his hands on -- almost to the day he died in 1991, at the age of 92. He came up with a combination of herbs and root vegetable juice that healed tens of thousands of people in Europe in the 1950's thru the 1980's. Someone translated his work into English, and I came across it in a health food store in little ol' Bozeman, Montana.

Intrigued, I knew I had to try it, so I began a search for the herbs he prescribed. Some I already had, but several were completely unknown to me. (Stands to reason, as he would've been working with herbs that grow in Europe, not necessarily in the U.S.) On Etsy, I found a store that had nearly everything I needed, and in stock! The down-side was -- it was in Bulgaria.  I went ahead and ordered everything, and my herbs were on the way within hours.  Then they got stuck. In Customs. In Louisville, Kentucky. Round and round they went, being scanned as incoming, then being scanned as cleared, then incoming again. It would seem they've been on a merry-go-round in Kentucky, USA since September 12! If they ever do arrive, they'll probably be powder.

I found an American source for a few of the most important herbs, and they were here within days, so I decided to go ahead and get started.  I had blocked out three days at work because I knew the first few days of this regimen would be brutal, so I couldn't wait any longer.  Yesterday was Day 1. 

I'm basically doing a 42-day fast, but with a cup or two of root vegetable juice (strained to get out any sediment), and four different herbal teas. He doesn't say this, but it seems to me it will be giving my whole digestive tract a reset, as well.

Here's what I'll be drinking sipping for the next six weeks:

Kidney Tea  (contains horsetail, stinging nettle, knotgrass and St. Johnswort)
(1/4 cup cold tea sipped slowly, three times per day for three weeks only)

Root Vegetable Juice (max 2 cups/day)
- 3 parts beet root
- 1 part carrots
- 1 part celeriac (celery root)
- 1/3 part black radish
- an egg-sized piece of potato
These are juiced and strained thru a dish towel to remove all sediment. Sipped slowly, 1-2 cups/day.

Sage Tea (contains sage, St Johnswort, peppermint and lemon balm)
(as much as I want, sipped slowly)

Cranesbill Tea (herb Robert aka Geranium robertianum aka red cranesbill)
(slowly sip 1/2 cup cold tea per day)

Breast Cancer Tea (contains Silvery Lady's Mantle and White Dead Nettle)
(slowly sip 1/2 cup cold tea per day)

Because I don't have all the herbs yet, I've been able to make only the Sage tea and the juice. Both are quite tasty.

In addition, I can make an onion broth with a vegetable bouillon cube stirred in. Yummy!

With this regimen, he figures on starving the cancer while giving the body the minerals and nutrients it needs from the root vegetable juice. He says that *any* sediment feeds the cancer; hence, the careful straining thru cloth.

He stresses the point of sipping everything slowly, holding it in your mouth and mixing with saliva before swallowing. He doesn't say why this is important, but it brings to mind something I read years ago about how eating without chewing our food very well has health consequences, as it makes the stomach work harder and the food stays in the stomach longer (causing heartburn). Everything he prescribes is liquid, so that can hardly be a concern; but maybe there are other factors we don't know about?  (shrug)

I'm also intrigued with why he has a person drinking all the teas cold (I assume room temperature). In Chinese medicine, this would be to avoid bringing heat into the body when it's already over-warm from inflammation. No idea if that was in his thinking or not.

I can assure you this juicing/straining thing is messy. I can't imagine how I'll be able to do it when I go back to work in a few days, so when I found the exact Breuss juice ready-made in Switzerland, for sale on Amazon . . . well, it'll be here in a few days, and I'll let you know how it tastes. It's kind of expensive, but the amount of work and mess that goes into it makes it not so pricey, in my mind. Plus, I won't have to buy veggies (10 lbs of beets, 3-1/2 lbs of carrots, 3-1/2 lbs of celeriac, 1 lb of black radish, and a few potatoes per week) x 6 weeks = a lot of shopping!). I think the Amazon juice just gained a few more points in its favor ;-)

So that's what I'll be doing for the next six weeks. I figured I'd have a killer headache from caffeine withdrawal (and I did), but other than that, this seems very do-able to me. I mean, a person can do most anything for six weeks, right?  What I haven't determined yet is how I'll know if it worked.  We'll see.