Homeopathic Remedies Effective Against Melanoma?

Brazilian scientists have shown that potentised remedies were able to reduce and control the spread of melanoma tumours.

Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer. While it accounts for less than 5% of all skin cancer cases it is responsible for a large percentage of skin cancer deaths. It’s the fastest growing of all cancer groups and worldwide is increasing in incidence.

Surviving melanoma largely depends on how quickly it is detected and excised. The best chance of cure comes from the early surgical removal of thin tumours. Once the melanoma has spread (metastasised) or thickened, survival rates plummet.

Normal chemotherapeutic options are limited and not very successful with melanoma. They are also associated with significant side effects such as bone marrow damage, reduced blood quality, and pronounced nausea or vomiting.

But perhaps a better and more humane approach to this deadly disease is on the horizon.

Brazilian researchers have now shond that a complex (mixture) of homeopathic remedies was able to:

1. Prevent melanoma and bowel cancer cells from invading or sticking to the cells and tissues that surrounded them,
2. Improve the immune system’s ability to kill cancer cells,
3. Cause cancerous melanoma tumours to shrink or become dormant

This complex was tested repeatedly in both in vivo tests (using laboratory animals) and in in vitro tests using melanoma and colon cancer cells.

The potentised remedies included: Aconitum napellus; Arsenicum album; Asafoetida; Calcarea carbonica; Conium maculatum; Ipecacuanha; Phosphorus; Rhus toxicodendron; Silicea; Sulphur; and Thuja occidentalis.

To read a provisional pdf of this peer-reviewed research, click here

To read other research about homeopathy’s effect on breast cancer cells, click here

Homeopathy Plus Comment.

Homeopathy is a safe and non-toxic system of medicine but it does require serious study and application if it is to be practised well.

While this research has the potential of exciting changes for melanoma sufferers it would be misleading to think that one complex will produce the same encouraging results across all melanoma sufferers.

Using a complex in the treatment of serious and chronic conditions, such as cancer, is a ‘cookie cutter’ approach not suited to the diversity of human sufferering (or even animal suffering). Homeopathy still does its best work when treatment is tailored to the unique symptoms and responses of the individual – and frequently, in the case of melanoma and other cancers, remedies different to those listed in the studied complex will be needed.  A static complex also does not allow the prescriber to change the potency or remedy when the need arises, and unwanted remedies within the complex will eventually produce unnecessary aggravating effects.

But, the news is still good so if you wish to use homeopathy when cancer is present, for best results please consult a qualified homeopath with an interest in this area.

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