RESEARCH NOTE:
Chinese Food Herbs Fight Cancer

To treat a disease, Western medicine first names it, then seeks a specific cure for it. It approaches each disease as a separate entity, with its own cause and cure. The Chinese Philosophy says, in contrast, that there are no specific diseases, only internal weaknesses - usually reversible - that manifest themselves in certain symptom patterns. Using the symptom pattern to identify the weakness, and by applying principles that replace the weakness with strength, we create conditions that allow these symptoms to subside - restoring balance.

In a Western scientific test of Chinese principles, researchers at the University of Texas tested Chinese herbs against cancer. Their report, published in the journal Cancer, said:

"This communication describes a remarkable augmentative effect by two Chinese medicinal herbs on T cell function. The extract from [the first herb] induced a restored function in nine of ten patients. The extract from [the second herb] likewise effected an immune restoration in nine of 13 cancer patients. This degree of immune restoration appears to be complete, since [it] approximates or even exceeds the [immune reaction] observed among normal healthy control subjects. Preliminary clinical trials with herbs (in China) indicated that they could promote a similar immune restoration in cancer patients."

(The report mistakenly called these "medicine herbs." They are what the Chinese call "system-specific food herbs," and they apply the Philosophy of Regeneration.)