emotions and stuff

Linda Clark's Get Well Naturally, continued: (p.223)

Emotions

Psychological tests given to 127 cancer patients, who did not yet know that they had cance,r revealed that emotions had apparently played a role in their illness. The official journal of the American Cancer Society reported, "The results were consistent with the observations of others who have described the cancer patient as unable to express his angry feelings and as covering them up with a facade of pleasantness." Yet the patients themselves did not seem to realize they possessed this trait. Involved in the psychological study were 34 patients with lung cancer, and 19 with cancer of prostate, as compared with 74 subjects who were healthy or had other diseases.

Lest this sound too far-fetched, Dr. Bernard Roizman, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, provides the explanation. Many people harbor a "sleeping" tendency to cancer. Under normal conditions symptoms do not appear. But when the body is subjected to an emotional upset, a physical disturbance of some type, or a generally run down condition, the sleeping cancer tendency may flare. Thus, emotonal as well as physical upsets may trigger cancer in some people.

Natural Immunity and Spontaneous Regression

Dr. Westin Price in his worldwide search for healthy people found no cancer except where people were eating civilized and refined foods, while Dr. Albert Schweitzer reported no cancer among the Africans he observed until civilized foods were introduced. The late Vilhjalmur Stefansson reported no evidence of cancer among the Eskimos until the introduction of civilized foods, and Sir Robert McCarison, M.D., found the Hunzas, who lived on natural foods, to be free of cancer.

Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, late director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, reported that some persons threw off cancer as easily as they did a common cold, whereas others were easy victims. The first definite proof that the human body possesses  a special defense system or immunity against cancer was found when cancer cells were injected into healthy volunteer prisoners, at Ohio State Penitentiary. The prisoners experienced only soreness similar to a smallpox vaccination. But when cancer cells were injected into volunteers already suffering from cancer at Memorial Hospital, New York City, instead of minor soreness, cancer flourished. Dr. Rhoad's belief as that the natural defenses of the body can be made more effective if they are given a chance.
Dr. Warren Cole and associates at the University of Illinois report that they found 55 cases out of 400 dating back to 1890 which fulfilled the requirements for true spontaneous regression, i.e. that the body, for some unknown reason cured itself.
Dr. Tiden C. Everson of the University of Illinois College of Medicine cites 130 documented cases of cancer classified as "probably examples of spontaneous regression." The New York Times, October 22, 1963 reported Dr. Everson's findings, says, "in some of the cases documented, it seemed that something happened on the inside of the patients body within a matter of weeks, sometimes almost overnight, that made conditions unfavorable to cancer.
A study, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (November 1961) conducted by Drs. Peter A. Herbut, Theodore T. Tsaltas, and William H. Kraemer, found an active agent in tumor-inhibitory principle (TIP) in the liver. The Journal stated, "It appears that the normal human liver produces an inhibitory principle which it imparts not only to the blood stream, but also to the bile."
An extract was made from the guinea pig muscle, spleen, kidney, heart, brain and liver. The researchers found TIP only in the liver.
One substance apparently to help the body develop immunity to cancer is found in shark liver. Dr. JOhn H. Helles, of the New England Institute for Medical research, which is sponsoring a shark hunt, explains, as reported in Medical World News (June 19, 1964), how the shark liver substance works.
The hard- to-come-by shark lipid is a potent stimulator of a number of the body's defense activities. Its most important property is its effect on animals with either viral or nonviral tumors.
"The lipid reduces or delays the incidence of tumors, retards tumor growth, increases the life-span of tumorous animals, shows metastasis, and brings about tumor regression.
More tests are needed, but the outlook appears hopeful.