Natural Options to Cure Inoperable Lung Cancer

For some unfortunate people with lung cancer, traditional treatments fail and leave them without hope. Many search for alternative cancer treatments, which often focus on boosting the body to rid itself of cancer.

Immune Builders

• The immune system fights off disease and helps the body recover. Many of the treatments focus on building the system with fresh fruits and vegetables, eliminating sugar and animal products and using flaxseed oil.

Pancreatic Enzymes

• The pancreas cleanses the body of toxins with pancreatin, which digests proteins. Since cancer cells are proteins--rogue body cells--increasing the enzyme to digest them heals the body, according to Dr. William Donald Kelley and Dr. John Beard at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland.

Green Tea

• Green tea contains antioxidants and also inhibits the growth of tumors. ECGC (epigallocatechin gallate), the antioxidant in green tea, blocks the production of telomerase that keeps cancer cells alive.

Mushrooms

• MGN-3 (modified arabinoxylan rice bran) is a supplement made from three varieties of mushrooms combined with rice bran's outer shell. Dr. Kihachiro Takahara of the Sano Surgical Clinic in Japan found that it increases the survival rate of those with cancer. Japanese doctors also use other mushrooms for cancer.

Essiac Tea

• Essiac tea contains Indian rhubarb, burdock, sheep sorrel and slippery elm. Rene Caisse successfully treated many patients in the 1920s with tea made from an Ojibway Indian formula.

Budwig Diet

• Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German scientist, created a diet of flaxseed oil and quark, a German cottage cheese. The combination of the fatty acids and sulfurated proteins of the quark reduced and eliminated tumors.