Holistic Medicine The new hope for Cancer patients

       Cancer, a frightening disease that is always a top ranking cause of death for people around the world every year, has tormenting symptoms, harsh side effects of treatment and is very expensive to heal, which makes the disease seem incurable. Today we will introduce cancer to you in a new way, describing the new and hopful method of treatment called "Holistic Medicine". This is based on the experience of the Director of Integrative medicine department, Jirung Holistic medical center, Dr. Torsak Thippairoj M.D. a physiciam who gives precedence to qulity of life and treatment at the same time, instead of curing just to win over the diseases without concern of the side effects on the patient, family and society.
       What is Holistic Medicine?
       Holisfi and Integrative medicine is medication that gives priority to the whole body of a person rather than just specific parts or problems of that person. This is based on how human body is composed of web-like interconnections of internal physiological factors. Abnormilities which happen inside the body and show up in one part could be the cause of imbalances on other part. This is especially true with chronic diseases that progress over a long period of time. In most of these cases, imbalanced and damages from many system at the same time have been found. To treat this group of patients, it is necessary to look at the whole system that has been found in the entire system of that person instead of focusing only on the problem shown.
       How is it different from Conventional Medicine of Alternative Medicine?
       Conventional Medicine or mainstream practice has strongly emphasized the identification of a precise diagnosis and to treat that disease conventionally. This is effective for an instant problem or an acute attack which needs quick execution to suppress the symptoms and prevent the consequences of damage. Most of the treatment emphasizes medication, operamove, and prevent the normal processes of the body.
       As for those who are ailing with chronic diseases, we started to see that medication and other methods to suppress block, compress or force the normal processes of the body at any spot or many spots at the same time for long periods have caused new problem that we will have to fix again and again. The result of this kind of therapy for chronic diseases can only slow down the symtoms of the disease, but cannot stop the process of the disease and make the system back to normal ever again.
       We can see this trend happening around the world; chronic disease patients have started to search for new ways of therapy more and more. The most well-known therapy is Alternative Medicine, which is another kind of therapy that replaces Conventional Medicine by using herbs, acupuncture and th rapeutics. Most of this therapy is practiced on opinion or based on experience, which is different from Conventional Medicine which is based on evidence. However, we also see that many alternative therapies that have been proven and accepted broadly are also used in Conventional Medicine periodically.
       Holistic and Integrative medicine is considered a bridge linking these two opposite medical practices mentioned earlier, since the physicins still use evidence for the labs such as blood testing, urinalysis, saliva testing and stool examination to indentify imbalances in that person and specify the healing plan without limitations on either Conventional plan without limitations on either Conventional or Alternative medicine. The main purpose is to treat that person as whole body, not only focusing on the disease. For example, if we find out that a patient has a problem relaxing, a mind management method such as mediation in included in the treatment plan for the cancer patient along with a nutritional program to support the healing plan.
       How to treat cancer with Holistic medicine?
       Start with the physician's diagnosis to find imbalances and determine the condition of the disease, which may take at least one hour, followed by laboratory tests to extimate and confirm the earlier suspictions, and then set up the healing plan individually based on the information obtained. Normally, the healing plan has 2 procedures; Basic and Advanced.
       Basic procedure(repalce and remove)has the main principle of the replacement process which is to replace bad things with good things. This applies to essential elements the patient lacks, such as:
       -Foods(protein, fats, carbohydrates, fiber)
       -Vitamins, minerals, accessory or conditionally essential nutrients
       -Lights, water, air
       -Movement
       -Rhythm
       -Love, community, connection
       -Meaning, purpose
       For this purpose, it must go along with the removal process by removing bad things. This applies to worthless things found in the patient that disturbs the body system, such as:
       -Toxins (biologic, elemental, synthetic_
       -Allergens(food, mold, dust, animal products, pollens, chemicals)
       -Microbes(bacteria, yeast, parasites, prions)
       -Stress(physical, psychological)
       -Poor Diet and/or Nutritional Insufficiency
       The Advanced procedure (restor and regenerate) emphasizes disease control, strengthening and rebuilding what was damaged from the disease by integrating both Conventional and Alternative medicine treatment.
       Sample of Cancer treatment with the Advanced procedure in Holistic MedicineIn Conventional Medicine.
       There are limited options such as operation, radiation and chemotherapy, which have problems with side effects from the treatment, especially radiation and chemotherapy which affects the normal system of patients. That's why there are new options to control cancer which emphasize strengthening the patient's normal physiology with the smallest effect to the physical system. For example, adoptive immunotherapy is the method of cultivating blood cells to increase the killer T-Cell white bood cells that have a function of dealing with free radicals in the body directly, and then inject it back into the patient's body to strenghen the immune system. Wer found that this type of white blood cell is always suppressed as a result of cross talk between cancer and the patient's immune system. Sometimes, the Dendritic cells from the patient's blood are injected back into the palitent and act like antigen presenting cells, which will lead to creating effector cells that respond to cancer cells.
       In case the patient has a very weak condition either from the disease or from side effects of the treatment, and the blood cell quantity is very low, treatment with stem cells to restore the physical condition promptly could be an option.
       Physicians tend to use the options that strenghten the normal system of the body instead of destroying the disease without regard to the harsh side effects. However, to choose any streatment at any time, we must consider each patient's condition individually. There is no specific or fixed way for a healing plan.
       The result of healing.
       This way of healing gives the patient a higher quality of personal, family, and social life. In terms of disease control, we found that for patients with less severe conditions, we can have high expectations. but in patients with severe conditions, we found that they still have cancer, but it is not spreading or is slowly spreading. For example, let's consider a case of patient with cancer that has spread to the lungs and liver, which is considered the final phase. Normally, wer cannot expect survial over three years, but after treating with this way, that patient can survie for seven years and still be able to work like normal. However, the patient must follow the process strictly in nutrition, environment, and emotion. Many times we see that when patients take care of themselves less, rapid changes of the disease can occur.
       What is the most important thing to heal a cancer patient?
       Cancer is a chronic disease that forms over a long period, according to environment, behavior and generic factors. When the disease occurs, reversing the unbalancing process takes strong intentions, understanding and an attempt in life style modification. The key to success in healing this group of patients depends on the patients themselves. If the patient is weary and in despair of th treatment of of misunderstanding, the chance of success will be less. The physician is just an advisor, who gives advice of many options, but the person who actually does the treatment and sets the sucess of the healing is the patient himself, with support from family and friends.