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A Two-Fold Dedication
I wish to dedicate this book firstly to the spirit of all you brave souls out there who are
prepared to stand up and take responsibility for, and control of, your own health and
that of your loved ones, and indeed your pets.
Since the days of Hippocrates great health explorers would try out new things, guess
where, on themselves first. Then on their loved ones and friends. Not first on others.
Not on animals. Not on the insane. Not on babies. Not on citizens of the third world.
Not on the military. But on themselves first. Physician, heal thyself (first) used to
be a basic principle of Hippocratic oath and practice.
I wish also to dedicate this book to my mum. She was the first person on whom I
used the black salve. She had developed secondary breast cancer, and had only 5
weeks to live. The primary tumor in her right breast was huge, and fungating. I had
had no experience whatsoever with this salve, but my brother had some in his first
aid kit. I applied the salve to the tumor, there was an observed change after 24 hours,
and the core (called the eschar, the dead tumor) came away 2 weeks later leaving a
huge hole where it had been. By the time she died from the metastases, just a few
weeks later, the breast had almost completely healed. She was 88.
I have learned a lot about the black salve since then. If Id known as much then as I
do now, it is possible she may still be alive today.
Acknowledgements
I wish to acknowledge the encouragement I have had over the years, from family,
friends and colleagues, my teachers and my students who have followed my academic
pursuits in the field of Health, and from my patients whose feedback has always been
so valuable.
Thank you for your kindness and grace.
Psalms 19:1
Table of Contents
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Disclaimer
A Two-Fold Dedication
Acknowledgements
My own Story
Observations
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Be Not Afraid
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Breast Applications
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Breast Cancer
Staging
Histopathology
Grade
Receptor Status
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Breast Screening
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Diagnosis : Biopsy
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Hallowed Turf?
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Prognosis
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A New Diagnostic?
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REACTIONS IN GENERAL
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Contraindications
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My Own Story
I am one of those with fair skin, and growing up in the 50s and 60s in sun-drenched
Sydney, I was very much the outdoors type, a regular at the best beaches in the
world, and recall getting myself sun-burned on many occasions. This could certainly
have predisposed my skin to damage, which along with numerous other potential
causative factors, would certainly have contributed at least to some degree of damage
to cellular DNA, and to the emergence of sun spots and skin cancers.
After that experience with my mother on her deathbed, I started applying the salve to
several lesions on my body that I had noticed. Several flaky patches yielded positive
results, but the most profound was such a patch on my calf muscle. For several years
I had occasionally been scratching away at this lesion, only for it to recur. I applied
the salve, there was an inflammatory reaction, and when the dead tissue came out 2
weeks or so later, it left a hole into which I could have popped a green pea! You could
look in and see capillaries, it was like looking into the body in the way we see under
water through a glass-bottomed boat. The margins appeared healthy. I kept the
wound hygienically clean, as the healing process continued for several more weeks
until this cavity eventually filled in.
I was so impressed, I came to refer to the salve as natures scalpel. I have applied
the salve to about 20 skin lesions, on all parts of my body, and needless to say, I keep
the salve close in my first aid kit, and apply it to anything that concerns me.
Observations
So, be aware, the following guidelines in this book are based on observations only,
intelligent and informed ones none-the-less, made by this author and many other
people, by ways of both personal usage of the black salve, as well as the use of the
salve in an entirely legal way by health care professionals to treat patients who have
presented with a suspect lesion or several lesions, either with or without a diagnosis.
Conscientious professionals ought to consider it important at least to recommend to
their patients to do two things in regards to any treatment one might wish to pursue,
whether they choose the medical, or an alternative treatment:1. Get a medical diagnosis in writing
2. After treatment, get a follow up check-up, and get it in writing.
Outcomes for patients presenting for treatment with a written medical diagnosis
(biopsy, imaging etc), serve only to test hypotheses that have been made, and are
continued to be made, as to the apparent cancer-cell specificity of the salve-induced
inflammatory response, and its effectiveness as demonstrated with post-salve
treatment observation and/or testing by the diagnosing doctor or some other medical
doctor.
However, many people dont bother with either, considering diagnosis and follow-up
as unnecessary; they consider they know enough about how the salve works now;
previous experience using the black salve might give one this confidence.
When Jesus the Master Physician healed people from what was considered
incurable leprosy, because He was not certified by the Establishment of His day
(the religio-political Judaic Council), He told His patients when He had cured them
Go, and show yourself first unto the priests2. In other words, dont take My word
for it, get it certified so you cop less flak!. For similar reasons today, His advice may
be pertinent.
I have also observed, (please note that no scientific study has been conducted on this
either), that many patients become such avid converts to the process and personal
users after being professionally guided through one or two treatments using the salve,
particularly so when it comes to treating skin cancers. I suspect this is because:
Mark 1:43,44
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3 Fear is in fact the opposite of love; the God of the Bible is a God who motivates by loving kindness
chesed (Hebrew) or grace (Grk). See C.S.Lewis Mere Christianity (1952)
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Be Not Afraid
So, to stand up for ourselves, for our children, for our loved ones, as wisdom
suggests is imperative from time to time, against the system of allopathic medicine,
even just for once, can seem like it takes a whole lot of courage.
When we receive a diagnosis Youve got Cancer, unless we take a step backwards,
a pause, we are immediately being corralled into the medical system of
treatment. By well-meaning doctors, to be sure. God bless them. We need to
know however, that we still do actually have the right to choose our own path, for
better or worse, but for how much longer, is a matter of guess.
We are still free to say, No, thank you, Im going to get some other opinions first.
At least, you want to think about things first, before making any decisions, yes?
Even just do nothing in haste, think about getting a second opinion, maybe a
second diagnosis, or a second point of view about treatment options.
Sadly today, in the 21st Century, choosing something as simple as a black salve to
treat your skin cancer, will evoke a wide range of responses, from your partner,
your family and friends, your doctor, ranging from a mild friction to downright
hostility and anger, and even threats of legal action.
Hence the dedication of this book, and it comes with the encouragement, Be not
afraid! Be strong! And stay strong!.
But enough of the chit-chat.
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Breast Applications
It is a widely held belief that treatment with the black salve appears to be effective in
this way not just for various skin cancers, but for a wide range of pre-diagnosed
cancers, for example mast cell carcinomas, carcinosarcoma (including Ewings),
various breast cancers including DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ, a common form of
breast cancer), adenocarcinomas such as Pagets disease of the breast, indeed, it
appears, many other cancerous (neoplastic) tumors and lesions, providing direct and
sometimes proximate application can be made.
So one day the salve may be demonstrated to be effective with any type of suspect (or
diagnosed) tumor when that mass is able to be palpated by a light touch (felt rather
easily), in other words, when the tumor is superficial rather than deep, or just
beneath the skin.
In the West, after skin cancers, breast cancers are the next most commonly diagnosed
cancers, and after lung cancer, is the second highest cancer killer of women4.
Breast cancer has been known since ancient Egyptian times (1600 BC). Tumors or
ulcers of the breast were cauterized, but it did not cure.
French and Scottish surgeons of the mid to late 18th century started removing lymph
nodes, breast tissue and underlying fascia and chest muscle to try to cure breast
cancer. Well, it wasnt their breasts!
In 1882, Dr Wm S. Halsted started performing mastectomies; but not on his breasts
either!
Since 1940, in the West, the incidence of breast cancer has risen by one to two
percent every year. Between 1973 and 1991, the incidence of breast cancer in females
over 65 rose nearly 40 percent in the United States.
Incidence of breast cancer is lowest in the less developed countries, and highest in the
more developed countries.
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Breast Cancers
There are several types of breast cancers, and these types are classified using different
schemata such as stage (TNM), pathology, grade, receptor status, DNA testing.
Staging
TNM is based on size of tumor (T), whether spread to axillia lymph nodes (N), and if
spread is elsewhere, ie metastasized (M)
Stage 0 : pre-malignant disease, or marker (sometimes called DCIS, ductal carcinoma
in situ)
Stages 1-3: called early cancer and potentially curable medically
Stage 4 : advanced and / or metastatic, and incurable medically.
Histopathology (microscopic tissue examination)
Most breast cancers derive from the skin (epithelium) lining the mammary ducts
or lobules.
Carcinoma in situ is proliferation of cancer cells limited to the epithelium
Invasive carcinoma has spread to the surrounding tissue.
Grade (Bloom-Richardson grade)
Measures grades of differentiation of tissue, where a high grade means poor
differentiation and the more cancerous with poorer prognosis
Receptor status
Has to do with whether the tumor presents with estrogen receptors (ER),
progesterone receptors (PR), and HER2/neu. Cells with none of these tend not to
become cancerous (triple negative). Cells with ER+ require estrogen for growth.
Generally HER2+ has worse prognosis (in statistical medical terms anyway).
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Breast Screening
Screening includes ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and genetic
screening.
Radiological exposures (mammograms), are widely recommended for women over
age 40 or 50, every 2 years, and have been almost mandatory for decades now.
But are they useful? And are they safe?
In 2009, the Cochrane collaboration concluded that mammograms reduce mortality
from breast cancer by 15%. But, they result in more unnecessary surgery, and
anxiety, and may do more harm than good5.
A lot of women I have interviewed have chosen simply not to undergo
mammography, they consider the risk to benefit ratio just too high.
5 Gotzsche PC, Nielson M (2003) Screening for breast cancer with mammography. Cochrane
Database Syst Rev (2)
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7 A false positive is where the test says youve got it when in real fact you havent; and a false
negative is when you are told you dont have it, but in fact you do. Lots of common pathology tests
are unreliable, and of course there is the capacity for involved human error, whether malicious or
ignorant, innocent mistake.
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Dr John W Gofman MD, PhD, has spent 30 years studying ionizing radiation.
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There may be some small benefits to mammography for older, non-fertile females,
but even this is contentious, especially for women b/w ages 40 559.
Infrared mammography, and thermal imaging (thermography10) are two new
modalities that might eventually replace radiation-based mammography as
prescribed preventative protocol.
See Medline (August 23, 2006). Breast Cancer Evaluation (topic 3287).
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Diagnosis
Is the lump benign, or cancerous?
Neither clinical breast examination, x-ray mammography, MRI or any other imaging
can diagnose if the lump is cancerous.
BIOPSY
Scientifically, the best way for anyone, including your doctor, to know for sure what
type of cancer it is, would be to take a biopsy (usually just a core sample of fluid or
tissue from the middle of the lesion), often taken with a special needle (fine needle
aspiration, or FNA11), and send the tissue sample to the laboratory for microscopic
cellular analysis.
Only a biopsy that extracts a sample of core tissue / fluid from the lump will
differentiate between benign and cancerous. Generally if the fluid is clear, it is
unlikely to be cancerous; but if bloody it can denote cancer. Examination in a
pathology laboratory is required however.
Sample tissue can also be taken by a core biopsy (takes just a sample), or excisional
biopsy (takes entire lump).
Biopsy can be more extensive, however, and can involve the removal of sentinel
lymph nodes just to see if the cancer has already spread. But who wants a perfectly
healthy lymph node cut out?
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specifically studied some 663 women with a view to answering the question does
biopsy cause dissemination of cancer cells?
The conclusion was, that it does! Not in every case, but in an alarmingly significant
number of cases.
I am not personally aware of any proper scientific trial that has adequately
demonstrated the safety of the biopsy procedure, or indeed the excision itself.
And yet biopsy is done in thousands of medical and hospital surgeries daily. It does
seem these concerns have been largely swept under the carpet, because many doctors
and politicians alike remain unaware of these concerns.
That has got to be a very major community public health concern, given that the
incidence of metastatic cancers (secondaries) is very much on the increase!
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Surgery
Includes lumpectomy, or mastectomy (take the whole breast), and with or without
sentinel lymph node removal.
The higher the stage treated, the more likely a combination therapy will be used, e.g.
surgery followed by chemotherapy, and sometimes radiation as well.
Breast cancers also have filamentous roots that can be disturbed by surgery,
perhaps in the same ways that excision can spread skin cancer cells as well.
Women have long been concerned that breast surgery actually can spread the cancer,
and hastens the onset of metastasis. We are now finding acknowledgements in the
literature14 that surgical excision actually increases cancer cell motility due to
increased wound fluid that presents as healthy cells become damaged by the scalpel.
One suspects the damaged tumor cell tissue is sucked into the lymphatic system,
leading to metastasis.
As noted elsewhere, one suspects that breast biopsy, especially core and excision
biopsy, also has the potential to spread the cancer too.
Medications (Drugs)
Mainly three types of groups of drugs used in addition to surgery: Hormone blocking therapy (blocks receptors e.g. tamoxifen, or blocks hormone
production itself using aromatase inhibitors); to down-regulate estrogen
expression
Chemotherapy (especially in non-estrogen based disease), but has seriously
harmful side effects, including damage to heart muscle.
Monoclonal antibodies, especially for HER2+ breast cancers.
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Radiation
Radiation is being used adjunctively with surgery, at the time of surgery more and
more, in the belief that it will mop up cells missed by surgery, and also to help
prevent potential surgery-induced metastasis.
Immunotherapeutics (biological therapies) is a more recent field of general cancer
research, in which scientists are attempting to understand more clearly just how the
bodys own immune system defenses are activated. Areas of interest 15 include
monoclonal antibodies, the actions of cytotoxic and helper T cells, various cytokines,
and vaccines.
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Hallowed Turf?
It is noteworthy that as far back as 30 years or so, tumors (especially skin cancers)
have demonstrated clear immunogenicity in response to black salve treatments, and
this observation has been noted in the literature. If only medical science had listened.
But then, what do quacks know anyway?
The ironic thing is that modern scientific research has only recently proven tumor
immunogenicity (over the past 10 years or so)!
When it comes to breast cancers, the medical fraternity seems to want to keep people
in the dark about options that might exist outside of their usual treatments. Or they
may not know about them. In countries where medical orthodoxy is entrenched, as in
Western countries, where there is so much money to be made from both diagnosis
and medical treatment, as limited and clumsy as their treatment options are, and
where laws protect such vested interests, such alternative knowledge and practice
tends to be "underground".
It is a shame that much of modern medicine is money-driven rather than patientfocused, and many good people within the medical field are themselves having the
wool pulled over their eyes, by vested interest, because this area is one in which the
alternative may prove to be so much more desirable than surgery etc.
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Prognosis
A lot of oncology has to do with prognosis, literally which means, fore-knowledge.
So the doctor pronounces, Based on (this or that).you have (say, 3 months) to live
etc. It is simply a best-guess survival prediction.
But, is it valuable?
Prognosis is based on statistics only, and so can not be of absolute significance to the
individual, only to a statistical group, because of all the bio-variables that come with
being homo sapien. You may be in the group (who have, say, Stage 4 cancer), but not
everyone dies who is in the group.
So why be told you are going to die if it is not necessarily so?
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Application to breast
Intro
Many women are partially if not totally against the idea of any invasive surgical
procedure of the breast at all. Full stop. Many women want to avoid breast surgery,
even just a biopsy, let alone lumpectomy (surgical removal of a lump), and most of
all, want to avoid removal of a breast (mastectomy), or indeed the breast and
underlying tissue and lymph nodes (radical mastectomy). It is generally suspected,
and recent literature is indeed suggestive, that surgical invasion of the breast can in
fact lead to the spread of the cancer. Indeed this may be just one downside of any
surgery on cancerous tissue.
Radiation therapy is also seen by many as not a safe procedure (there is evidence
radiation actually causes cancer!), and so many feel it does not offer a long term
solution.
And a lot of women do not want to take toxic drugs, which studies reveal might well
promote the spread of the cancer instead of healing, and can have other unpleasant
side effects such as permanent brain shrinkage!18.
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(whose founder Greg Caton still rots, unjustly and unlawfully, in a US gaol)
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It is a herbal based product, featuring two principal herbs that are said historically to
have pharmacologically demonstrated anti-cancer properties, Blood Root
(Sanguinaria canadensis) and Chaparral (Larrea mexicata)20.
These herbs when dried are compounded in simmering water with a zinc chloride
(ZnCl2) base, a small amount of DMSO (a carrier, a delivery system molecule), and
some glycerine (a humectant, to help to maintain the moisture of the salve). The
resultant black salve compound is aqueous (water-based), so if necessary moisture
can be restored simply by adding water.
The black salve has been classified chemically as an escharotic in the literature,
which literally means, it creates an eschar (a piece of dead tissue). In cases of skin
cancer treatment using the black salve, the belief is that the eschar is the dead tumor.
After treatment, the eschar will be dispelled (sloughed off) by natural body processes
over a short time (usually within 10 14 days even if the tumor is quite deep). It
rarely if ever requires debridement, or surgical removal; the closest some patients
come to this is to eventually pick it out with a fingernail! Usually it just comes away
in the shower when it is ready.
A Myth Dispelled
It is important to dispel a myth right here. In opposing literature21, detractors of
some black salves have suggested it is corrosive, that is, it works by corrosion, like it
burns into the skin, burns the cancer out. Maybe some black salves made in the
past were corrosive.
But the more recent black salves used, including Cansema, are definitely not
corrosive. The black salves I have seen used, and which we use now, does not, repeat
NOT, act by causing corrosion of the tissue. This black salve is non-corrosive. This
is not a claim, merely a statement of scientific fact.
It is true that this black salve can be applied safely to healthy skin tissue, even
sensitive skin, and even after prolonged (24 hrs, or even up to 48 hours) application
to healthy tissue, the most it will do might be to create a bit of redness (rubor), and
maybe mild itchiness, because it does attract blood and lymph to the area, which is
simply an inflammatory response22, that is the desired function of the salve after all.
20 Recent versions add Galangal root (Alpinia officinarium) or ginger root (Zingiber officinale), and
sometimes Graviola leaf (Annona muricata).
see the Quack Watch website as one example. Maybe they havent tested the same black salve used
currently. Otherwise they would be lying (hoping at least to discourage some people from this
alternative treatment).
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But it will not burn or corrode at all, and once the salve is removed these
symptoms will rapidly disappear.
So you critics out there had better get up to date testing done, and alter the
commentary in the scientific and popular magazines, and advise doctors so as to be
able to at least be of some help to patients if they want truthful advice and
knowledgeable assistance.
(eg Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed. 2004, Elsevier Saunder pub. Pp 47 86).
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it seems certain that the salve does not affect healthy tissue, only neo-plastic
(cancerous) cells.
So, how do the alternative herbal-based salves compare to the medical treatments
described above?
The comparisons are breath-taking.
Naturopathic clinics in some countries have been legally (and sometimes illegally24, it
must be said) using various black salves for the better part of a century now to treat
various cancers. Witnesses to these treatments have suggested that the herbs act
synergistically (together), to effect outcomes that none of the herbs in isolation seem
to be able to do.
Many patients present with a medical diagnosis (e.g. from a biopsy, for example).
The salve is applied
The cancer appears to die and get expelled.
The tissue heals up.
Follow up medical examinations (including biopsy) confirm that the cancer indeed
has gone.
Natures Scalpel
So, users of black salve, both professional and lay people alike, believe that when the
salve is applied sufficiently to the cancerous tumor, any and every cancer cell
associated with that lesion, those laterally and those deep, will be destroyed (lysis).
They believe this result can be confirmed by a subsequent pathology test (e.g. a
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biopsy, or scan), and further confirmed with observations over time in which there is
no recurrence of the lesion. So theyre not talking guess work or wishful thinking.
Observations of the tissue, that is left, if possible, seem to demonstrate clear marginal
healthy tissue, from which further healing ensues. In this respect, cancer cell
specificity is being demonstrated, only cancer cells will be destroyed, not the healthy
ones. Voila, natures scalpel is the effect.
2. Approx 10 days later. Notice the defined decavitation (approx 5mm deep), with clear margination.
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If the tumor does succumb to the treatment, the necrosed tumor will be subject to the
internal waste elimination systems such as the blood and lymph, as well as any that
might be expelled to the external environment. Our immune system cells, including
T cells, macrophage and other lymphocytes scavenge any dead tissue, and according
to the theory, eventually the tumor is eliminated from the body.
During this process, one can think in terms of assisting the bodys detoxification and
elimination systems, by doing raw foods, organic fresh fruit and salad vegetables. raw
vegetable juices, drinking 3 litres of water daily, and exercising (that will promote
lymphatic stimulation).
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A New Diagnostic?
Some might suggest that, for all practical purposes anyway, we have here a new
diagnostic, and not just a new treatment.
Follow the logic. In this theory, as has been held now for many years, it is postulated
that one of the qualities of the salve is that it acts only on cancerous cells, that is it is
cancer-cell specific, and it does not act on non-cancer cells. Thats the theory.
So, still within this theory then, if the tumor is cancerous, the salve will destroy it; but
if it is a harmless non-cancerous tumor or lump, nothing will happen. A new
diagnostic.
In that model, sure, the salve cant tell you just what type of cancer you have. It just
tells if youve got it or not. And gets rid of it, all in one application. Pretty cool, huh?
This is why some patients are choosing not to bother having a medical examination or
diagnosis at all, let alone a biopsy, given the perceived inherent risk they see of biopsy
actually spreading the cancer. They are saying, if the risk of simply knowing what
type of cancer I have is, that in the process I put my life at risk where the biopsy
might spread some cells into the blood and lymph, then hey, I do not want to know
what type Ive got anyway, full stop. Go play statistics with someone elses life. I just
want to get rid of it in the safest way.
We need to be clear here. We are not advocating any one approach. I myself have
recommended a medical diagnosis to some patients on a before and after basis, if
for no other reason than to gather some objective evidence as to the effectiveness of
the treatment itself. Get one before the treatment. Then get one when its all healed
up. But not if you consider the risk is too great, I understand that.
However, the parable still holds good, a man convinced against his will, is of the
same opinion still. Is your doctor like that? Is your family?
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The Salve
The salve may have been stored for a while (it lasts years in the fridge). It must be
moist (but not runny) before it is applied. Whilst there is a moisturizer in the salve,
in storage it can become a bit dry. One (or maybe a few more) drops of water may be
enough to restore sufficient moisture for an application.
leave a needle hole, and salve practitioners believe such a hole might provide a
second useful channel for the salve to access the lesion directly, and so you may want
to apply the salve as soon as possible after the biopsy, within an hour, before it heals
over.
Preparation
Ensure the whole area of the breast has been thoroughly cleaned (from any body oil,
or talc), maybe using rubbing alcohol, or just clean warm water.
Dry thoroughly, only so the band-aid/s or bandage covering will adhere properly to
the skin.
If the area is hairy (e.g. a male breast, etc), shave the area so as to allow a band-aid to
stick securely to the skin.
As mentioned above, some practitioners believe it is useful to prepare the area by
needle points; this involves taking a sterilized needle and carefully pricking the skin
(to b/w 2 3 mm deep) to assist in getting the salve in. This would be followed
again by an application of dilute H2O2 or rubbing alcohol to sterilise. However, this
procedure may be unnecessary, as the salve demonstrates quite adequate transdermal absorption.
You need to use enough salve to apply a thin layer, (somewhere between a smear and
a thin caking!), and apply over the lesion itself, or the breast tissue nearest to the
lesion, over an adequate area. More will not hurt, it is just unnecessary. And it does
not matter if the salve spreads out upon application.
The rule here is, however, it is better to use too much, rather than too little salve. Err
on the side of plenty.
REACTIONS IN GENERAL
What reactions might one expect whilst the salve is on the skin?
If the tumor had broken through the breast tissue, then you will see visible changes to
the lesion. It will have changed color, maybe turned grey in color.
Or, if the tumor was deep, and not visible to the naked eye, then you may experience
no symptoms at all, not even a slight tingling or itching which seems to be the most
common sensation associated with an application of the salve, and most likely due
simply to its mildly caustic zinc chloride base (ZnCl2).
Having no symptoms does not necessarily denote that nothing is happening. And
having a tingling may not mean that something is happening either. Evidence that
the tumor is being destroyed is based more reliably on observations made of the
tumor itself after the dressing is removed, and the residual salve has been rinsed off
after 24 hours, or only after a subsequent imaging.
Generally however, if there proves to be a reaction, whilst the salve is on the skin, and
starting anywhere from almost immediately up to several hours, symptoms can range
from a slight itchiness, tingling or even stinging sensation, to a mild burning
sensation, none of which is debilitating, maybe just a little uncomfortable.
However, depending on the site of application, the size of the tumor, and the
condition of the tumor to start with, then sometimes symptoms of pain and severe
discomfort can be experienced. In extreme cases there can be a strong throbbing
pain within the breast, and treatment can sometimes cause a headache. There can be
associated nausea.
There may even be localized or adjacent swelling for instance in adjacent lymph
nodes, or redness, and this can be noted even before the 24 hours is up. Applications
of the salve near to lymph nodes as exist in the armpits, can cause swelling in these
nodal regions as well (not necessarily a bad thing, when you really think about that!!
Hmm..)
If the salve is applied to a protruding lesion which is already open, or weeping,
pustular, or punctured (e.g. by biopsy or needle pricks), then there may be some
discomfort (stinging, or burning sensation).
Generally, however, any pain will decrease as the body sensitizes to it. If you feel it
necessary, use an OTC anodyne (ask the chemist / pharmacist), or even a prescribed
one if you think that you might need one.
After the salve has been removed these symptoms would be expected to diminish over
the next few days.
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Contraindications
Are there circumstances in which one ought not use the salve for breast cancer?
I do not currently know of any allergic responses. I did have a skin cancer patient
take himself to hospital because he did not quite understand what was happening to
him; the doctors there declared he had had an allergic reaction to the salve. But
they formed that opinion based merely on casual observation, without any prior
experience themselves with the salve, without resort to any literature, or even without
any scientific testing of that opinion, which would have differential diagnosis along
these lines if the hospital doctor had known about the way the salve works. True,
there are some similarities between histamine release in allergy and in inflammation.
But that was simply an incorrect diagnosis.
As stated earlier, what one observes appears to be a classic acute inflammatory
response, as described in any good text on physiology25.
I do not know of any absolute contraindications, but would welcome comment. As I
said above, we are all pioneers together.
25 (eg Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed. 2004, Elsevier Saunder pub. Pp 47
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Most likely the salve was not able to make significant contact with the tumor, or
The salve was not moist enough, or
It is possible the salve was not formulated correctly, or
It is also possible that you have a (rare) genetic defect in leukocyte (white blood cells, the
specific immune system cells) function, although by now you would probably have been so
diagnosed; or
Possibly you have an acquired immune defect such as can (but not always does) occur with
diabetes or leukemia. It doesnt mean that all diabetics or all leukemia sufferers have
leukocyte dysfunction, but you may be in a sub-group, or
There may be something else altogether as yet unknown.
There are other possibilities.
There may be no apparent tumor response. However it is possible also that there has
been asymptomatic activity deep down.
For example, I have applied the salve to moles on many occasions, and upon removal
of the salve, saw no visible response, indeed, nor was the patient aware of anything.
Only to the surprise of myself and the patient, to have the mole drop off within the
ensuing weeks. So it may have been working away under the surface and more at the
roots of the mole, without any symptoms or signs.
Testimony from women suggest a wide range of sensitivities to salve-induced
immunogenic responses, ranging from asymptomatic to dramatic.
However, if nothing appears to have happened, you may wish to apply the salve for a
second time, or even a third time. You cant hurt anything. For peace of mind.
If there is no visible reaction, then another possible deduction is that the original
diagnosis (if there was one) was wrong to start with, a false positive. As mentioned
above, some pathology diagnoses are shown to be unreliable and give false positives
and false negatives every day of the week, so it can happen to you too, although you
dont expect it to.
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The only way to confirm that conclusion, at least for the present, might be to allow
several weeks to pass , and then seek a follow up ultrasound, or MRI, (maybe even a
biopsy).
Ultimately, however, the only way you will know for really and truly, if it has gone or
not, is if it ever comes back or not.
Thats all anyone, even the most skilled oncologist, can offer you anyway.
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My own formulation uses several botanicals (herbs) in an organic Vitamin E cream, tincture of
zinc, aloe vera, with several essential oils and homoeopathic tinctures. I have used this healing
cream for the past 15 years now without change of formulation, both personally, and clinically,
with glowing reports all along.
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See any classic Physiology book on Wound Healing where the complex processes of healing are
discussed, eg Robbins and Cotran op. cit. Ch 3 .
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Some people encourage this final process of scab removal after a while, when it seems
right, by gentle rubbing with a facewasher in the shower, or teasing it off with a
fingernail or some such etc, which probably doesnt hurt, and somehow feels like the
natural thing to do. Underneath you expect to find intact, healthy skin tissue.
Deeper Tumors
If the tumor mass was not revealing on the surface, and there has been an
immunogenic response, then the internal lymphatics will get rid of the necrotitic
tissue. And to be drinking at least 3 litres of water daily.
An interesting observation, in interviewing women who have used the black salve to
treat themselves, have described the sensation, for instance with breast applications,
as if the salve was drawing the cancer towards itself. This has to be experienced to
be appreciated; patients with skin cancers have described the feelings in similar
ways.
It would be fatuous indeed for some detractor right now to be crying No it doesnt
just cos they dont like where this might be going. But we ask, Who the hell is
another to deny the experiences of the many? And yet you will read these
protestations in some detractive medical literature. Instead of detracting, they
should be listening more carefully. They might have learned something!!
When the tumor does succumb to the treatment, the necrosed tumor will be subject
to the internal waste elimination systems such as the blood and lymph, as well as any
that might be expelled to the external environment. Our immune system cells,
including T cells, macrophage and other lymphocytes scavenge any dead tissue, and
according to the theory, eventually the tumor is eliminated from the body.
Practitioners generally advise to be supportive of this internal cleansing process, and
to be taking some lymphatic decongestants, immune system and liver supportive
herbal medicine, and / or maybe some vitamins and minerals, so see your
naturopath.
Protocols have been developed specifically for this detoxification process.
During the healing process, one can think in terms of assisting the bodys
detoxification and elimination systems, by doing raw foods, organic fresh fruit and
salad vegetables, raw vegetable juices, drinking 3 litres of water daily, and exercising
so as to promote lymphatic stimulation.
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