the use of acupuncture and modern techniques in the treatment of cancer

8/7/2019 The Use of Acupuncture and Modern Techniques in the treatment of Cancer

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The use of Acupuncture andThe use of Acupuncture andModern Techniques in treatingModern Techniques in treating

TumorTumor

Roni SapirAcademic Dean of East West School of Classic

Chinese Medicine.

President of The Israeli Association of Classic Chinese

Medicine Practitioners

Specialty Committee for the Treatment of Tumors


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Cancer facts

No.1 killer in the West

Considered as epidemic

Usually diagnosed too late Can be defined

Unknown etiology

Can be treated but seldom cured Treatments harm the body systems


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Types of Treatments

Chemotherapy

Radiotherapy

Nutrition and Nutritional supplements Chinese Medicine Acupuncture,

Materia Medica, Diet and Chi-Kong

Combination of all or part of the above Other Methods such as Oxygen,

Electromagnetism and heat therapy


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Tumor Characteristics

Uncontrolled Cell Growth

Low ph Cancer cell is more Acidic (lessthan 7.35 ph.)

Cancer cell voltage is less than 40 millivoltsin advanced stages, compared to 70-90 inhealthy cells.

Cancer cell oxygen is less than 60.

Oxygen can not enter the cancer cell Oxygen level in the blood of cancer patients

is around 75-85 in advanced stagescompared to 98.


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Treatment disadvantages

Systemic, Non specific, Subdues the

immune system, Lowering whiteblood cells, Lowering red bloodcells, lowering hemoglobin,poisoning the body, lowering oxygenlevel in the blood, subdues bonemarrow, Causes extreme fatigue,

ChemotherapyChemotherapy


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Radiotherapy

Lowering of bone marrow causes lowred and white blood cells, Tirednessand Fatigue, confusion, loss ofappetite, Heat and burning sensation.

Works on a wide area and has a badeffect on good healthy cells.

Has a bad effect on the nervous systemand on the reproductive system

Statistically 5-10% do not survive the

treatment.


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Nutrition and Nutritional

supplementsNutrition: Difficult to take in and to

absorb

Supplements: Costly and not provento have beneficial properties.

Works on the whole body, but does

not effect the tumor directly.


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Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture- Energetic Medicine can

cause metastasis.

Chinese Materia Medica Can boostthe body but can not penetrate the

tumor

Chi-Kong Difficult to practice and

can make the patient tired in the

beginning


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Treatments Advantages

Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy are:

the only treatments beside operationsused by conventional medicine.

These methods are helpful on sometypes of tumors but even so thesemethods does not cure cancer.

Psychologically it gives the patienthope and feeling that he gets the mostadvanced medicine.


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Nutrition and Nutritional

supplements Nutrition Boosts the body,

important for survival, importantbalance of proteins, fats andcarbohydrates for maintaining goodlevel of energy and Immune system.

Supplements Same as above, some

can penetrate the cancer cell andraise P.H level to kill the cancer cell.


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Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture Activates circulation of Chiand Blood, Releases stagnation andcontrols pain, Invigorates the immune

system by boosting the formation of whiteblood cells, enhances the bodys energyby raising red blood cells and thehemoglobin level, Increases the oxygen

blood level, Balances the whole Body,Tones the Zang Fu, Balances yin-yang,cold-hot, deficiency-excess and interior-exterior


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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 andbowl movements, rebuilding body

substances.


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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.


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General Ideas and thoughts in

the use of Chinese Medicine Cancer Tumor etiology is

differentiated into two groups:

1. Damp and Cold2. Cold Damp

It is important to diagnosed theoriginal cause which can be theDamp or can be the Cold.

In pathology coldness can causedampness and dampness can

cause heat.


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Treatment combination

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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Example of combined treatment

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 if we cool the

patient we will do his pathology moreharm than good.


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Chinese Medicine Etiology

The most accurate diagnosis that can bedone is according to the patients date ofbirth (Tian Gan Di Zi). This ancient method

is the only one that goes back to thepatients birth energy balance andimbalance. All the experiences of life fromthis point of interaction with heaven and

earth energies only make the imbalancebigger or smaller. It is a must to analyzethe patient according to this methodbefore starting treatment of the patient.


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Example

A patient born in the 1st half of 1979.his stem is Spleen in Earth which

gives a tendency to dampness inthe body, his branch is Smallintestine which deals withabsorbing post natal chi, his

climatic influence is Tai-Yin whichincreases the level of dampness inthe body.


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Example

This patient has a born tendency toform dampness in the body, so the

method of treatment will be moreAcupuncture to activate circulation ofchi, to transform damp and to raise chiby chi-kong. The treatment will vary if

the stagnation causes heat or if cold ispresent in the body.


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Combination of Treatments and

points to consider

99% of our patients are having a

combined conventional and Chinese

treatment.

This fact puts us in a difficult

position as we have to take into

account the disadvantages and the

bad influences of conventionalmedicine.


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Chinese medicine terminology

When translating these influencesinto Chinese Medicine Terminologywe deal with almost every

disharmony that exists.

The disharmonies can vary from thedeepest level of Jing that is being

diminished by Chemotherapy andRadiotherapy up to the level of Tai-Yang.


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Chinese medicine terminology

The level of Tai-Yang as an exteriorenergy, cannot resist any abnormalchanges and the interaction with

external influences.

As a result of that the 8 extrachannels are not functioning

properly and this influences thewhole Zang-Fu system


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The Treatment

For treating a cancer patient we mustlook at the whole picture and take intoaccount all the details that I have

referred to in this very shortpresentation.

From my point of view ChineseMedicine is a must for every cancerpatient as it is the only medicineknown to me to be able to maintainand to reinforce the patient selfhealing and to bring cure and health.


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The Treatment

When we come to build the principle,strategy and the detailed protocol for

each patient we have to look back tothe nature of a typical tumor.


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Understanding the Tumor and

The Way of Thinking

1. Helping the patient survive the

conventional treatment and

eliminating pain:2. Cancer cell voltage is less than 40

mill volts

3. Raising Oxygen level4. P.H Balance


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Helping the patient survive the conventional

treatment and eliminating pain:

Acupuncture Points as:

St-36 (zusanli)- Earth point, Sea of nourishment,balancing the nervous system, boosting the immunesystem, controlling pain and toning the Chi

Sp-10 (xuehai)- Sea of blood, building blood and yin,boosting renewal of red blood cells, activating circulationof blood and chi.

Kid-9 (zhubin) Point of yin wei mai, affects yuan chi,working on the kidney chi.

T.H-9 (sidu)- toning the spleen, gathering the chi fromfour directions to retransform it in the spleen andtransport it throughout the body. Boosting the whole

body chi.


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Cancer cell voltage is less than 40

mill volts

A normal cell has around 90 millivolts, so

we see that the cancer cell doesn't have

enough voltage to generate energy. By

using the following special methods weincrease the voltage in the cancer cell:

Using as many magnetic acupuncture

needles in the tumor area as possible,

Placing heat pads or an electromagneticlamp, which together activates chi in the

cell.


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Raising Oxygen level

As we saw earlier the blood oxygen levelin a cancer patient is very low. Oxygen isvital for maintaining life and for the

healing process of the patient. For quick increase of oxygen we can

inhale pure oxygen that gives animmediate boost of energy and/or doingChi-Kong or any form of exerciseeveryday for 40 minutes in open space.(the sea side is recommended as the levelof oxygen is higher there)


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P.H Balance

As we saw, the Tumor can survive only ina very acidic environment ( less than 7.35P.H.). In a more alkaline environment the

cancer cell dies and the tumor dissolves,so we need to penetrate the cancer cellmembrane to change its P.h. to the levelof 7.8 P.h. When we succeed in doing this

oxygen and other killing agents will beable to get into the cell and destroy it.


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The end and its challenge

I hope that I succeeded in bringing yousome of my thoughts and my researchwork in the field for the last 10 years.

I hope that we will be able to take theseideas further and bring health to so manypeople around the world.

I am sure that by joining together all the

world experts of Chinese Medicine we willbe able to find the penetrating agent for abetter healthier world.


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Thank you

Thanks to the organizers of this

meeting.

Thanks to the World Federation ofT.C.M Societies

Thanks to all the participants that

came from all over to join thishumanitarian act.


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RONI SAPIR

Academic Dean of the East West

School of Classic Chinese

Medicine.President of The Israeli Association

of Classic Chinese Medicine

[email protected]

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