Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment [Hardcover]

Ingrid Naiman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

In the time when botanical pastes were popular, the success rate for cancer treatment was about 75-80%. In this fascinating book, the author demystifies the historic formulae and uses and provides honest insights into the pros and cons of one of the most reliable natural cancer treatments of past eras. She provides case histories and clear instructions that a highly motivated and careful individual can use clinically or in self-treatment.

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Editorial Reviews

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Review by Irene Alleger October, 1999 Cancer Salves is an extraordinary book; one of the most hopeful for the cancer patient, that I have read. I think if I were diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, one of the first things I would do is call for a consultation with this cancer counselor. --Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: The Revival of a Botanical Treatment for Cancer

Dr Ingrid Naiman s book, Cancer Salves, is the best work I've ever been honored to review. The book is simply beautiful, in presentation, scholarliness, and integrity. Dr Naiman has been awarded not one, but two honorary PhDs for her work. The book is a testament to that work. Cancer Salves is at once, a reference book, an historical narrative, and a guide to those whose options seem limited. A cancer diagnosis is a horrible scare, for most people. One s life is suddenly upside down and inside out, and even if the outcome is successful, life is never again the same. --Wellness Directory of Minnesota

Ingrid Naiman has done the world a service in researching and writing her book, Cancer Salves. Most books on unconventional cancer treatments are partisan in one way or another. Dr. Naiman's approach is temperate, scholarly, and wise. All patients considering the user of cancer salves, pastes, and poultices or related products should first read this book. --Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Ingrid Naiman received a B.A. in Asian Studies from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii in 1962 and an M.A. in Development Economics from Yale University in 1964. She worked in the late sixties for the Department of State in Vietnam and India before returning to her first loves, mysticism and meaning. She has made a lifelong study of ancient Greek, Tibetan, and Ayurvedic medicine and has received two honorary doctorates for her work in holistic medicine. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Seventh Ray Press; Collector's edition (March 1999)
• ISBN-10: 188283416X
• ISBN-13: 978-1882834167
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,224,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book while you still can!, December 6, 1999

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Bruce Boatner (Eagle, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment (Paperback)

When I heard of a woman who had pancreatic cancer and who had been sent home to die, but had managed to save herself with these salves (self-administered under the guidance of a Naturopath), I was incredulous. I was told she actually had the growths in jars and was always happy to share her story with others who might benefit.

I made a point of meeting the woman and found her the picture of health, running a vibrant business, working harder than any of the men under her employ. She showed me the jars containing some evil-looking growths. She showed me an unusual scar where the cancer had exited her side. She told me how much it had hurt and how hard it was to kick the morphine they had her on in the hospital. And she told me of other "terminals" who had survived.

I got to know this woman well and I trust her implicitly. When I got the book "Cancer Salves" and showed it to her, she was ecstatic. Somebody had finally gotten it in print! How brave!

The value of the internet is that you have access to information that would otherwise be banned. With the bad (pornography, etc.) comes the good - voices long silenced by the heavy hand of institutional authority - facts about effective cancer cures that have saved many lives. Search the web for the life history of Royal Raymond Rife. Get the video "Hoxsey - The Quack(?) Who Cured Cancer" (Also renamed "Hoxsey - How Healing Becomes A Crime").

Make up your own mind, however incredible it all may sound at first. And get this book while you still can! Many less-threatening items have been banned by the AMA/FDA. If one out of every four people in America will get cancer, this may save you or someone you love. Knowledge is power.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lifetime student & advocate of Alternative Medicine, March 1, 2005

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TCM - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment (Perfect Paperback)

Cancer Salves is a fabulous reference resource and a truly fascinating read. Dr. Naiman has accomplished quite a feat in this book. When I got my copy, I literally could not put it down and as I read more and more of it I became more and more in awe of the amount of research that obviously went into this less than one inch thick volume.

Throughout the book, Dr. Naiman has referenced her sources and outlined all the cautions that one must be cognizant of when embarking on any healing journey. Think of this book like the old Portuguese Pilot Books that were so highly valued as the only reliable navigational aids prior to the sextant. Like them, this book will aid you in navigating through the physical and spiritual journey that is healing. It tells tales of both success and failure, it gives further resources, points out pitfalls in science as well as philosophy--a truly epic ode to healing and the reform of our philosophy of health.

Although Cancer Salves is obviously and specifically focused on cancer, I found that the information provided on individual herbs is very useful generally and not just for cancer. The appendices, especially the suggested reading list, and the bibliography alone are worth the price of the book. Dr. Naiman's musings on the philosophy of health and healing will be echoing within me for some time to come.

Finally, I would like to add my own cautionary note: Do not attempt to put any of the programs outlined in Cancer Salves--or any other alternative medical resource--into practice unless you are prepared to take full and complete personal responsibility for your own health and healing. This book is a map, an atlas, a Pilot Book, not a guarantee. It gives you resources to make your own educated alternative medical decisions. What comes of your decisions is your own responsibility, just as it should be. I for one am very grateful to Dr. Naiman for this invaluable resource.

Shortly after I received the book, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Naiman. I was just as impressed by her knowledge, presence, and integrity as I was by her book.

41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gift to cancer patients and practitioners., October 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cancer Salves: A Botanical Approach to Treatment (Hardcover)

Dr. Naiman writes an amazing and giving book detailing the use, the formulas, and protocols for working with herbs to remove tumors. The reasearch on the book is scholarly and exhaustive; the prose style light and angelic. I read it in manuscript form and was so amazed by the book's generosity - the author even provides recipes for creating the salves - and its clairity that I bought a copy for my Naturopathic Doctor. He is equally impressed.

As a cancer patient I heard hints and whispers about the amazing salves, like blood root and the black and yellow salves, but could find no one truly versed in the art of making or using the salves. All of the practitioners I consulted knew of the existance of the salves but knew nothing of how to obtain them or the proper way to apply them. With this book, Dr. Naiman gives anyone who believes in alternative cancer treatments a virtual howitzer to use in the battle against this killer disease.

I paid nearly double the low Amazon.com price for each of the books I bought and believe that I got an incredible bargain. If you have cancer, if you love anyone who has this dread disease, or if you treat cancer patients, you need this book. The herbs are a gift from the earth. The use of them is our legacy from generations of countless healers from decades and centuries past. Certainly we owe Dr. Naiman a debt of gratitude for putting it all in our hands via her very readable and accessible book.