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Naturopathy and Leukemia?
I don’t have Leukemia but I am doing an Health on alternative medicine and western scientist medicine anchormencchosenchoosen Leukemia as my diease and naturopathy as my alternative medicine. I was wondering does anyone know how naturopathy claims to help with cancer and what it does. Plinformationnfomation will help me.
In the context of cancer, ‘alternative’ is just another way of saying ‘unproven’.
If an alternative medicine has been proven to work, it is no longer ‘alternative medicine’, it is just ‘medicine’.
There is no ‘alternative’ cancer treatment that has been proven to be effective against any cancer.
Naturopathy focuses on diet and on disproven therapies like homeopathy.
Honest naturopaths don’t claim that they can treat or cure cancer, but rather say that what they do is complementary to evidence-based medicine. But there are plenty of unscrupulous naturopaths who are eager to part desperate people from their cash in exchange for useless and dangerous advice and treatment.
For example, there is a regular contributor to the YA AltMed board who describes himself as a ‘naturopathic doctor’. He has advised cancer patients that they can cure their condition by means of ‘mind over matter’, even claiming to have cured himself that way. He has also assured cancer patients in the YA Cancer section that ‘Herbal and Mineral Science, Reiki, TCM, Ayurveda, Yoga, Ozone’ have more success with cancer than conventional treatments, including surgery
If he gives that advice online, presumably he gives the same advice to his clients, in exchange for money.
This site is an excellent resource if you want facts about alternative cancer treatments, and I always advise people to do a search on there before exploring unproven and possibly dangerous ‘treatments’:
http://www.quackwatch.org/
There’s no scientific evidence that cancer can be treated by any diet, and that includes the Budwig protocol mentioned above.
Johanna Budwig recommends a diet largely comprising flax seeds and cottage cheese, and claims this cures cancer.
Her supporters make much of the fact that she has been nominated six or seven times for a Nobel Prize for her work in this area; this means nothing of course, anyone can get nominated – my friend could nominate me for this answer.
There is no scientific evidence that any food, including cottage cheese, can affect the progress of cancer in any way.
People like Johanna Budwig make wild and unproven claims and exploit the desperation of vulnerable people.
Anyone who follows Johanna Budwig’s recommendations will be investing money, hope and, most dangerous of all, time they can ill-afford on something that is not effective, as well consuming quantities of not very enjoyable food.
What has usually happened with people who claim success with an alternative cancer treatment is that they have had conventional treatment too, and added the alternative. They then credit the improvement in their condition to the cottage cheese, or the water (homeopathy) or whatever the alternative was, rather than to the proven, evidence based treatment.
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