Homeopathy & Cancer Complementary Healing

Many cancer patients seek advice to complement their allopathic treatment plans. With homeopathy and other complementary approaches we have much to offer. Also, one can be a part of one’s patient’s or family member’s ‘Dream Team,’ by finding appropriate homeopathic remedies, and other gentle therapies, that support the body’s efforts to heal itself from the inside out.

- Dr Amy Rothenberg

It was in the mid 1990s that I first saw Gene, a 60-year-old, retired postal worker, who presented with pancreatic cancer with metastasis [spread of cancer cells] to the liver and lymphocytic leukaemia [a type of blood cancer]. This was not good news for anyone. The fact that he was one month from retirement at the time of diagnosis was heart-breaking. He and his wife had been through a lot over the years and had been looking forward to this time of life. The pancreatic cancer presented some eleven months before with pain in the upper abdomen. Gene reported feeling heartburn; burping helped a tad. The pain radiated to the back, directly behind the place of pain. The pain was worse sitting up and worse from thinking about it. For years, Gene had terrific pains across the anterior abdomen — they were worse from eating peanuts, or potato chips, or other high-fat foods. He occasionally would still have those pains.

I do not know if it is true for all homeopaths, but it seems that during my earlier years of practice I saw many pregnant women and young children and lots of growing families. I still see these patients, but as my patient population has aged, I am seeing more patients with serious pathology and more patients that have, or have had, cancer. What is the role of the homeopath when a patient presents with a cancer diagnosis and what can we expect homeopathy and other natural medicines to do for a patient who has cancer, or has had cancer, in the past?