The talk discusses cancer as an uncontrolled growth of cells that is largely preventable through lifestyle changes. Conventional treatments are criticized for being destructive without addressing causes. A medical herbalist's approach focuses on lifestyle, environmental causes, and using plants that target cancer's weaknesses through multiple biochemical pathways, without side effects. Specific herbs like turmeric are highlighted as effective against cancer through scientific evidence. Cautions are given about not self-treating and the need for individual herbal protocols.

1. Cancer Simplified & Demystified
A talk by Morwenna Given
Medical Herbalist
www.medicusherbis.com

2. Who am I?
 I am a Medical Herbalist trained in the UK
in hospital/clinic settings
 I focus on treating Cancer and pre Cancerous
conditions
 I believe the role of Plant Medicine in cancer can be
enormously effective without being invasive or having
latent side effects. It is validated by scientific evidence.
© 2011

3. What is Cancer?
,
Uncontrolled growth of cells.
Hippocrates & Nobel prize winners 1931 and 2008
 Cancer is a Preventable Disease that
Requires Major Lifestyle Changes
B.B Aggwal et al. MD Anderson Cancer Research Centre
Pharm Res. 2008 September; 25(9): 2097–2116.
Published online 2008 Jul 15. doi: 10.1007/s11095-008-9661-9.
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4. SOME STATISTICS
 90-95% OF CANCERS due to ENVIRONMENTAL
CAUSES
 Cancer in Ontario is increasing each year
CANCER IN ONTARIO: OVERVIEW A Statistical Report
 Types of cancer and mortality rates are
changing
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5. Conventional Approaches:
CUT
 “ the primary tumour suppresses
angiogenesis
…..removal causes a flare up in vessel neo
formation and thus enhanced metabolic activity
and metastasis”
Peeters et al Surgery 2005 Feb; 237(2): 246-9
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6. Conventional Approach (2)
• Burn
 Radiation is a known carcinogenic - Hiroshima
• Poison
 Kills indiscriminately especially in an already diseased
state
• Result:
An @80bn $ industry which would not survive in a normal competitive
environment
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7. Why does this approach not work?
IS THERE A BETTER WAY?
 Our bodies are a collection of atoms held together by
electrical bonds ( positive negative and neutral electrical
charges)
 Anything that disrupts those bonds causes dysbiosis
 Normally our bodies prevent this happening but in cancer
the body can’t repair itself as these mechanisms have
been subverted
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8. What is Missing?
No attention to the
cause of the cancer
Change Threatens Remember 90% of
financial cancers are
relationships Tx environmental in
not patient driven origin
No Integration of
No new
conventional and
drugs/biomarkers
Proven alternative
in 25 years
treatments
despite all the
funding and hype

9. WHAT IS MISSING (2)
 Conventional therapies are very destructive to
an already weakened physical state
 Synthetic drugs only have one molecular
pathway
 Plants have multi pathways eg Turmeric with 98
metabolic pathways
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10. Biomechanics of Cancer
Initiating factors -
hormones, genetics, lifestyle, toxins
incld.diet radiation, viruses bacteria
growth factors: Disruption of the
Promoting factors VEGF EGF, P53 extra cellular
Oncongenes etc matrix
Proliferation –
Cell receptors and cell signalling
corrupted hypoxia, glycolytic
shift, etc

11. GLYCOLYTIC SHIFT
“ CANCER HAS ONLY ONE PRIME CAUSE. IT IS
THE REPLACEMENT OF NORMAL OXYGEN
RESPIRATION OF THE BODY’S CELLS BY
ANEROBIC OXYGEN DEFICIENT CELL
RESPIRATION.”
 Dr Otto Warburg 1931 Nobel Prize in
Medicine

12.  From normal to malignant
 Induction of genetic instability
 Abnormal expression of genes
 Abnormal signal induction
 Abnormal cell to cell signalling
 Induction of angiogenesis
 Invasion and metastasis
 Immune ev/invasion
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13.  Plants to the Rescue
• Plants can inhibit every step of this process
• Chemo and radiation only affect cell
replication – S phase
• Conventional therapy is not cell selective good
and bad cells are killed further weakening the
body
• Many plants target cells in the S phase when
DNA is unravelling and where natural agents
do their protective normalising work. ©2011

14.  Some Herbs Some Actions
• APOPTOSIS METHYL DONORS ANTI HYLURONIDASE HORMONAL MODULATORS
• garlic / capsicum urtica gota kola Vitex
• Vit CDE vaccinium eccinachea urtica/ginsengP
• Glycorrhiza
• equisetium vaccinium
• glycorriza /soy
red clover/ humulus
• panax / scut quercitin flax/flaxseed
• viscum/turmeric folate melatonin/prunella
• Flavs/ selenium B12 Vit E medicago sativa
• beta elemene ( ginger mint celery ) cimicifuga - serm
parthenolides
• salix © 2011

15. Cancer has its weaknesses
 Like the crab it is named after, cancer has key
weaknesses
 Hypoxia – feeding the cells
 Cancer prefers an acid environment to an
alkaline
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16. A medical herbalist approach (1)
• DIET
• Let medicine be thy food and food thy
medicine – Hippocrates
• Addresses immediately two key weaknesses of
cancer
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17. A medical herbalist approach(2)
• Address the causes:
LIFESTYLE & PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT
&
Uses proven plants & their biochemical
pathways
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18. A Medical Herbalist approach(3)
 Herbal Protocols include
 Use of selected supplements
 Use of compound teas
 Use of tinctures
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19. HERBAL RESOURCES

20. PERSONAL MEDICINE
 Every supplement, tea and tincture is
designed individually to treat the patient and
their particular problems
 Every compound is based on scientific evidence of
plant properties and pathways
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21. Smoke and Mirrors
THERE IS NO MAGIC BULLET
there never will be as long as the prime
causes are environmental & lifestyle
EVERY BODY IS DIFFERENT
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22. SAMPLE HERB
 TURMERIC
( Curcuma longa )
Evidence shows it has 98 metabolic pathways &
effectively treats 14 different types of cancer
" Most efficacious cancer drug is a plant"
Dr B.B. Aggwal University of Texas
writing in a discussion on turmeric ( Curcuma longa )
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23. CAUTIONS
 the compounds that I give do not come from OTC
products.
Only registered herbalists may compound and
use these products
It is best not to self treat as you may cause
further problems
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24. The Happy Ending!
• Harry’s story:
• “ The doctors gave me 6 months –
you gave me my life back “
Thank you for listening
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