Rob (Kentucky) on 10/30/2024

From the Book: Gunn's New Family Physician or, Home Book of Health; Forming a Complete Household Guide…, by John C. Gunn, Johnson H. Jordan, Charles S. Royce · 1867

The application of raw Cranberries, applied as a poultice to the sore, will cure this most inveterate disease. We know of many cures performed by the use of these berries, mashed and applied as a poultice. A lady of our acquaintance had a Cancer in her breast, which had become as large as a pullet's egg (smaller than regular chicken egg), and was an inch below the surface of the skin. In this case, it was an hereditary disease, and she regarded it as a death-warrant. She was persuaded, however, to try the Cranberries, and they effected a cure. The Cranberries were mashed in a mortar; spread on a cloth and laid on, changing the poultice three times a day. In two or three days it became so sore that it drew out pustules that filled like the Small-pox. This process was renewed with the same effect, until the whole was drawn away, the Cancer becoming softened and decreasing in size at every application, until it finally disappeared. The virtues of Cranberries are but imperfectly known. They are cooling and useful in removing inflammation, and have been known to cure an obstinate Sore Throat. We have never known them tried, but are persuaded they might be useful in Bronchitis. The Tuscaloosa Observer states that a Mr. Bell, who suffered for eight years with Cancer in the nose (Basal cell carcinoma), was entirely cured by using a poultice of the common Cranberry. It is so simple and innocent that every one afflicted with the disease should try it.

Why does it work?

Example: Cranberries for Prostate Cancer - Researchers started out with about 50,000 human prostate cancer cells in a petri dish and if you do nothing, within a day you're closer to 100,000, then 200,000 and then nearly 400,000 within 72 hours. But by adding just a tiny amount of raw cranberry juice, that exponential cancer growth can be blocked.

The reason they tested such tiny concentrations is that we only absorb a small fraction of the cranberry phytonutrients we eat into our bloodstream. Still, cranberries are cheap. If drug companies and supplement manufacturers are going to capitalize on this they needed to find cranberry's active ingredient.

Different fractions were tested against various types of cancer to find the magic bullet. Various fractions of phytonutrients inhibited colon cancer cell, prostate cancer, human breast, brain tumor, oral, and ovarian cancer cells proliferation about 15 percent, but nothing compared to the total extract of the whole fruit. There seems to be additive or synergistic anti-proliferative effects resulting from the combination of the various components compared to individual purified phytochemicals. So it's always better to eat the whole fruit.

How do you do that with cranberries, though? Although five percent of cranberries are sold fresh, the vast majority are consumed as processed products. To get the same amount of anthocyanin phytonutrients in a cup of fresh or frozen cranberries, you'd have to drink 16 cups of cranberry juice cocktail, eat seven cups of dried cranberries, or 26 cans of cranberry sauce!

The problem is that raw cranberries are so tart that folks may opt for the 7 cups of dried. In a taste test survey, consumers said they wouldn't mind eating dried cranberries every day, but the preference for raw cranberries sloped down toward maybe once a year. The problem is dried cranberries tend to come sweetened. Raw cranberries don't affect your blood sugar, but sweetened dried cranberries do—even the low sugar varieties.

What about cranberry “juice”? Cranberry cocktail is usually only about a quarter cranberry juice. The ruby red phytonutrients in cranberries and pure cranberry juice are powerful antioxidants, increasing the antioxidant capacity of our bloodstream within hours of consumption. But the high fructose corn syrup acts as a pro-oxidant, even with added vitamin C, canceling out some of the cranberry benefit.

In Australia, I've seen raw broccoli mashed up and used as a poultice for skin cancer so this is nothing new by Dr. J. Rozencwajg, NMD. Don't try to find it on Google because they are blocking everything in reguards to natural healing.

Replied By Rob (Kentucky) on 12/01/2024

THE COMING WOMAN. -- CANCER. (BREAST)

The Coming Woman or, The Royal Road to Physical Perfection, p. 344 by Eliza Barton Lyman · 1880

Cancer generally locates itself in the glandular system, and according to M. Banphieting, the eminent French scientist, is caused by a microscopic parasite or animalcule which he claims is always, upon close examination, found in cancers; consequently, if his theory be correct, whatever will tend to destroy these minute creatures will hasten a cure.

The diet has an important influence upon this disease. All articles of an inflammable nature should be avoided, such as an excessive use of salt and highly seasoned food. Pork or other fat meats should be dispensed with entirely, and a liberal use made of acid fruits of every description, especially lemons and oranges, also drinking freely of the various mineral waters. The avenues of purification must be kept open, the pores of the kin, the bowels, liver and kidneys. This can be accomplished without the aid of drugs, by proper diet and muscular exercise, together with a thorough course of bathing, employing the Turkish, vapor, and mineral baths, which as curative agents in all cases of blood disease stand preeminent, as has been demonstrated by the mineral baths of Germany, especially in cases of scrofula, erysipelas, and salt rheum, which are all members of one family.

In the case of cancer, the knife should never be resorted to, as the shock to the nervous system is very great, and in the removal of the tumor only the effect and not the cause is dealt with, the poison still remaining.

Some wonderful results have been obtained through what is known as the Thermal cure. The treatment consists of throwing upon the cancer a steady jet of heat, which effectually destroys the life, after which the dead flesh sloughs off, allowing the healthy flesh to heal. There are also certain drugs which by being externally applied will destroy the abnormal growth and in many instances save the life of the individual.

But the only permanent cure would be in building up the system and keeping the blood in a healthy condition, not through the aid of drugs, but through those avenues designed by nature for that purpose. All persons having a hereditary predisposition toward blood diseases of the cancer family should make daily use of stewed cranberries, during the season of this fruit.

In females, the mammary gland is most subject to these growths, arising, doubtless, from bruises, compressions, congested milk glands, etc. This gland should never be permitted to hang by its own weight, as such a position produces strangulation of the blood-vessels, tending to induce morbid growths. There is an intimate connection between the ovaries and the breast. Inflammation in the former produces, many times, painful hardening in the latter. Particularly is this true toward the latter part of the change of life, often giving rise to apprehensions of cancers and tumors, and by a sufficient amount of worrying over and squeezing, might be coaxed into such, but if undisturbed will gradually disappear, but where it continues beyond a reasonable time, hot applications, as hot as can be borne, should be applied to stimulate the absorbents and do away with the hardening and inflammation. Fomentation performs the same mission to the breast that it would to inflammation in any other part of the body.

It is claimed by many that hot cranberry poultices will destroy these diseased formations.

More people die from imaginary cancers than from real ones. Women especially are apt to torture every little itching papillæ or inflamed lymphatic gland into one of these terrors.