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Specialty Committee for the Treatment of Tumors
The use of Acupuncture and Modern Techniques
In treating Tumor
Roni Sapir
Academic Dean of East West School of Classic Chinese Medicine.
President of the Israeli Association of Classic Chinese Medicine
Practitioners
Cancer facts
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No.1 killer in the West
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Considered as epidemic
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Usually diagnosed too late
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Can be defined
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Unknown etiology
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Can be treated but seldom cured
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Treatments harm the body systems
Types of
Treatments
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Chemotherapy
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Radiotherapy
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Nutrition and Nutritional supplements
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Chinese Medicine 每 Acupuncture, Materia Medica, Diet and Chi-Kong
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Combination of all or part of the above
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Other Methods such as Oxygen, Electromagnetism and heat therapy
Tumor Characteristics
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Uncontrolled Cell Growth
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Low ph 每 Cancer cell is more Acidic (less than 7.35 ph.)
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Cancer cell voltage is less than 40 millivolts in advanced stages,
compared to 70-90 in healthy cells.
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Cancer cell oxygen is less than 60.
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Oxygen can not enter the cancer cell
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Oxygen level in the blood of cancer patients is around 75-85 in advanced
stages compared to 98.
Treatment
disadvantages
Chemotherapy
Systemic, Non
specific, Subdues the immune system, Lowering white blood cells,
Lowering red blood cells, lowering hemoglobin, poisoning the body,
lowering oxygen level in the blood, subdues bone marrow, Causes extreme
fatigue, Loss of hair, Sickness, Diarrhea, Constipation and lowering of
vitality and hope.
Kills good cells
as well as cancer cells; there is no control on the amount and level of
destruction of cancer cells,
Statistically
5-10% does not survive the treatment.
Radiotherapy
Lowering of bone
marrow causes low red and white blood cells, Tiredness and Fatigue,
confusion, loss of appetite, Heat and burning sensation.
Works on a wide
area and has a bad effect on good healthy cells.
Has a bad effect
on the nervous system and on the reproductive system
Statistically
5-10% does not survive the treatment.
Nutrition and
Nutritional supplements
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Nutrition:
Difficult to take in and to absorb
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Supplements:
Costly and not proven to have beneficial properties.
Works on the whole body, but does not affect the tumor directly.
Chinese
Medicine
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Acupuncture-
Energetic Medicine can cause metastasis.
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Chinese Materia
Medica
每 Can boost the
body but can not penetrate the tumor
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Chi-Kong
每 Difficult to practice and can make the patient tired in the beginning
Treatments
Advantages
Chemotherapy
and Radiotherapy
Are the only
treatments beside operations used by conventional medicine.
These methods
are helpful on some types of tumors but even so these methods do not
cure cancer.
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Psychologically it gives the patient hope and feeling that he gets the
most advanced medicine.
Nutrition and
Nutritional supplements
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Nutrition 每
Boosts the body, important for survival, important balance of proteins,
fats and carbohydrates for maintaining good level of energy and Immune
system.
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Supplements 每
Same
as above, some can penetrate the cancer cell and raise P.H level to kill
the cancer cell
Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture
Activates
circulation of Chi and Blood, Releases stagnation and controls pain,
Invigorates the immune system by boosting the formation of white blood
cells, enhances the body＊s energy by raising red blood cells and the
hemoglobin level, Increases the oxygen blood level, Balances the whole
Body, Tones the Zang 每 Fu, Balances yin-yang, cold-hot,
deficiency-excess and interior-exterior
Chinese
Materia Medica
Toning Chi and
Blood, boosting the chi level of specific organs, eliminating poisons
from the body, Maintaining and treating the body between and in
conjunction with acupuncture and other methods of treatments, supporting
digestion and bowl movements, rebuilding body substances.
Chi-Kong
Activates the
body, moves chi-blood and body fluids, Increases oxygen level for more
vitality and general energy. Strengthens the whole body and keeps good
tension of the body.
General Ideas
and thoughts in the use of Chinese Medicine
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Cancer Tumor is differentiated into two groups:
1. Damp
and Cold / Cold Damp
2. Damp
and Heat / hot Damp
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It
is important to diagnosed the original cause which can be the Damp or
can be the Cold.
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In
pathology coldness can cause dampness and dampness can cause heat.
When we treat a
patient having conventional treatments we have to take into account the
influences and the side effects that the treatment is having on the
patient in Chinese Medicine terminology.
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For example a patient with damp cold or cold damp who is having
radiotherapy can present heat symptoms because of the heat nature of the
treatments. Of course it is false heat and should we cool the patient we
will do his pathology more harm than good.
Chinese
Medicine Etiology
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The most accurate diagnosis that can be done is according to the
patient＊s date of birth (Tian Gan Di Zi). This ancient method is the
only one that goes back to the patient＊s birth energy balance and
imbalance. All the experiences of life from this point of interaction
with heaven and earth energies only make the imbalance bigger or
smaller. It is a must to analyze the patient according to this method
before starting treatment of the patient.
Example
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A
patient born in the 1st half of 1979. his stem is Spleen in Earth which
gives a tendency to dampness in the body, his branch is Small intestine
which deals with absorbing post natal chi, his climatic influence is
Tai-Yin which increases the level of dampness in the body. This patient
has a born tendency to form dampness in the body, so the method of
treatment will be more Acupuncture to activate circulation of chi, to
transform damp and to raise chi by chi-kong. The treatment will vary if
the stagnation causes heat or if cold is present in the body.
Combination
of Treatments and points to consider
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99% of our patients are having a combined conventional and Chinese
treatment.
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This fact puts us in a difficult position as we have to take into
account the disadvantages and the bad influences of conventional
medicine.
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When translating these influences into Chinese Medicine Terminology we
deal with almost every disharmony that exists from the deepest level of
Jing that is being diminished by Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy up to the
level of Tai-Yang exterior energy that cannot resist any abnormal
changes and the interaction with external influences. As a result of
that the 8 extra channels are not functioning properly and this
influences the whole Zang-Fu system
The Treatment
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For treating a cancer patient we must look at the whole picture and take
into account all the details that I have referred to in this very short
presentation.
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From my point of view Chinese Medicine is a must for every cancer
patient as it is the only medicine known to me to be able to maintain
and to reinforce the patient self healing and to bring cure and health.
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When we come to build the principle, strategy and the detailed protocol
for each patient we have to look back to the nature of a typical tumor.
Understanding
the Tumor and the Way of Thinking
1.
Helping
the patient survive the conventional treatment and eliminating pain:
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Acupuncture
Points as:
St-36 (zusanli)-
Earth
point, Sea of nourishment, balancing the nervous system, boosting the
immune system, controlling pain and toning the Chi
Sp-10 (xuehai)-
Sea
of blood, building blood and yin, boosting renewal of red blood cellsw,
activating circulation of blood and chi.
Kid-9
(zhubin) 每 Point of yin wei mai, affects yuan chi, working on the
kidney chi.
T.H-9 (sidu)-
toning the spleen, gathering the chi from four directions to retransform
it in the spleen and transport it throughout the body. Boost the Whole
body chi.
2. Cancer
cell voltage is less than 40 millivolts
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A
normal cell has around 90 millivolts, so we see that the cancer cell
doesn't have enough voltage to generate energy. With Special methods we
have to increase the voltage in the cancer cell:
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Magnetic acupuncture needles in the area of the tumor as much as
possible, Heat pads or an electromagnetic lamp which together activates
chi in the cell.
3. Raising
Oxygen level
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As
we saw earlier the blood oxygen level in a cancer patient is very low.
Oxygen is vital for maintaining life and for the healing process of the
patient.
For quick
increase of oxygen we can inhale pure oxygen 每 that gives an immediate
boost of energy and/or doing Chi-Kong or any form of exercise everyday
for 40 minutes in open space. (by the sea is recommended as the level of
oxygen is higher)
4. P.H
balance
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As
we saw the Tumor can survive only in a very acidic environment ( less
than 7.35 P.H). In a more alkaline environment the cancer cell dies and
the tumor dissolves, so we need to penetrate the cancer cell membrane to
change its P.h to the level of 7.8 P.h. When we succeed in doing this
oxygen and other killing agents will be able to get into the cell and
destroy it.
The end and
its challenge
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I
hope that I succeeded in bringing you some of my thoughts and my
research work in the field for the last 10 years.
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I
hope that we will be able to take these ideas further and bring health
to so many people around the world.
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I
am sure that by joining together all the world experts of Chinese
Medicine we will be able to find the penetrating agent for a better
healthier world.
Thank you
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Thanks to the organizers of this meeting.
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Thanks to the World Federation of T.C.M Societies
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Thanks to all the participants that came from all over to join this
humanitarian act.
RONI SAPIR
Academic Dean of
the East West School of Classic Chinese Medicine.
President of The
Israeli Association of Classic Chinese Medicine Practitioners
roni@east-west.co.il
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