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Why cancer cells are formed and how to safely get rid of them is still being researched? However, in the meanwhile we continue to treat this unknown as best as we can. One of the most utilized treatment methods is chemotherapy. However, the chemotherapy treatment destroys good cells along with the bad cancer cells. Plus this treatment takes a toll on the patient by creating many unwanted side effects such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and loss of weight. To minimize these side effects, it is important that we assist the body with a diet suitable during the chemotherapy treatment.
During the treatment, Chemotherapy creates excessive toxins in the body. A healthy body does its best to flush out toxins but a body which is already weakened by cancer, is compromised in its ability to flush out excess toxins created due to chemotherapy. So during the chemotherapy, we need a specific diet that has to serve two purposes; first help the body to throw out the toxins, and second the diet itself must NOT create more toxins.
Another viewpoint on cancer from an Ayurveda natural medical system is that cancer is a result of all three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha (Air, Fire, and Earth energies) gone out of balance in our body. These imbalanced energies can be the cause of cancerous cell growth and increased toxins in the body. The problem is for the body to not know what to really do with these irregular cancer cells. In a healthy body these irregular cells are regularly destroyed and flushed out along with toxins. However, when the number of these cancerous cells increases, the body's natural ability to flush them out can not keep up with them. So also from Ayurvedic viewpoint, on one hand diet during chemotherapy must help flush the toxins, and on the other hand diet must not create more toxicity in the body.
While flushing the toxins can be accomplished with the diet, but it is not certain exactly how much the diet helps in preventing growth of new cancer cells. Surprisingly, in some cancer patients the growth stops and in some others it doesn't. Perhaps it is because physical factors are not the only ones influencing the growth of cancer cells, there are psychosomatic factors that are unique to each person, are also influencing the cancer manifestation.
Ayurveda Cancer Research in India found a following diet beneficial in reducing intensity of some of the side effects from chemotherapy:
-- Vegetarian diet based on bitter green vegetables
-- Grains low in starch
-- Use of ginger and mild spices
-- Bitter fruits no sweet fruits
-- Excluding meats, heavy oily fried foods, sugar rich foods, ice-cold drinks and alcohol
In addition they found the diet is not only beneficial during chemotherapy but also beneficial for few months after the chemotherapy procedure is finished. The reason to continue is simply to help body continue its detoxification. The diet guidelines provided here are specifically for during and for 4-6 months after the chemotherapy. As always a patient must consult and monitor their situation with their physician and consult with the Ayurvedic practitioner.
Why cancer cells are formed and how to safely get rid of them is still being researched? However, in the meanwhile we continue to treat this unknown as best as we can. One of the most utilized treatment methods is chemotherapy. However, the chemotherapy treatment destroys good cells along with the bad cancer cells. Plus this treatment takes a toll on the patient by creating many unwanted side effects such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and loss of weight. To minimize these side effects, it is important that we assist the body with a diet suitable during the chemotherapy treatment.
During the treatment, Chemotherapy creates excessive toxins in the body. A healthy body does its best to flush out toxins but a body which is already weakened by cancer, is compromised in its ability to flush out excess toxins created due to chemotherapy. So during the chemotherapy, we need a specific diet that has to serve two purposes; first help the body to throw out the toxins, and second the diet itself must NOT create more toxins.
Another viewpoint on cancer from an Ayurveda natural medical system is that cancer is a result of all three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha (Air, Fire, and Earth energies) gone out of balance in our body. These imbalanced energies can be the cause of cancerous cell growth and increased toxins in the body. The problem is for the body to not know what to really do with these irregular cancer cells. In a healthy body these irregular cells are regularly destroyed and flushed out along with toxins. However, when the number of these cancerous cells increases, the body's natural ability to flush them out can not keep up with them. So also from Ayurvedic viewpoint, on one hand diet during chemotherapy must help flush the toxins, and on the other hand diet must not create more toxicity in the body.
While flushing the toxins can be accomplished with the diet, but it is not certain exactly how much the diet helps in preventing growth of new cancer cells. Surprisingly, in some cancer patients the growth stops and in some others it doesn't. Perhaps it is because physical factors are not the only ones influencing the growth of cancer cells, there are psychosomatic factors that are unique to each person, are also influencing the cancer manifestation.
Ayurveda Cancer Research in India found a following diet beneficial in reducing intensity of some of the side effects from chemotherapy:
-- Vegetarian diet based on bitter green vegetables
-- Grains low in starch
-- Use of ginger and mild spices
-- Bitter fruits no sweet fruits
-- Excluding meats, heavy oily fried foods, sugar rich foods, ice-cold drinks and alcohol
In addition they found the diet is not only beneficial during chemotherapy but also beneficial for few months after the chemotherapy procedure is finished. The reason to continue is simply to help body continue its detoxification. The diet guidelines provided here are specifically for during and for 4-6 months after the chemotherapy. As always a patient must consult and monitor their situation with their physician and consult with the Ayurvedic practitioner.
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