Eight Steps for A Woman Dancing With Cancer

by Susun Weed, Susan Weed's Wise Woman Center

1. Submit. Give up. Make room for the miracle.

2. Inform yourself. Listen to your intuition. Examine all the options, but only use what feels right to you.

3. Accept support. Surround yourself with loving friends, healing music, special colors, prayer and affirmation. Create a ceremony of healing/wholing and invite your supporters.

4. Annoint your breast(s) with healing herbal oils such as calendula, dandelion, or poke. Visualize healing energies suffusing your tissues.

5. Maximize the healthy qualities of your diet. Use organic olive oil and butter to the exclusion of other fats. Increase your use beans, especially lentils, and fermented foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut, miso, tamari, homemade wines and beers. Include immune building and anticancer herbs in your diet:

(1) Daily use of a nourishing infusion, especially red clover flower or burdock root or violet leaf infusions.
(2) Daily use of fresh herb vinegars, especially yellow dock, burdock , and dandelion root vinegars.
(3) Frequent use of a long-cooked soup containing seaweed (such as kombu or wakame), astragalus root, and medicinal mushrooms (reishi, shiitake, puffballs, etc.).

6. Increase you exercise level. Take a yoga or tai chi class weekly. Walk daily. Get a weekly massage. Pamper yourself with activity.

7. Use drugs (chemotherapy, tamoxifen, anesthesia, pain killers) as required but (1) consider a short trial of a powerful herb such as poke root before resorting to drugs and (2) always combine drug use with complimentary herbs. For instance, protect the liver with milk thistle seed tincture.

8. Use radiation and surgery as needed but (1) always combine with complimentary herbs and (2) be willing to set limits that you feel comfortable with, they can't take your lymph glands if you say "No."

© 2002 Susun Weed

Susun Weed has been living the simple life for more than 30 years as an herbalist, goatkeeper, homesteader, and feminist. In addition to being the author of four highly-acclaimed books on herbs and women's health, Susun lectures world-wide as the voice of the Wise Woman tradition, personally supervises 400 correspondence students, is editor-in-chief of Ash Tree Publishing, and directs the activities of the Wise Woman Center, where she trains apprentices (240 to date) in the shamanic arts, and plays with the fairies. Her four books Healing Wise, Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way, and Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Years are used by more than a million women, and have been translated into German and French. Visit the author's web site at http://www.susunweed.com.