Testicular cancer: holistic treatment |
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[ --- Nota bene: Unless stated otherwise all information listed on this page
was written and provided by a TC patient and not by a doctor. Although it was
collected with great attention it cannot and shall in no way replace your visit
to your local doctor! --- ]
First things first: In my opinion conventional
medical treatment is not sufficient to fully
cope with testicular cancer. It is a means to ease the burden
of the disease and often a starting point when people are confronted
with the diagnosis. Conventional treatment is important and I value
the options given by modern mass medicine very high,- to
be honest: I strongly believe I wouldn't have survived without it.
But I doubt that there will ever be a development vaguely describable
as healing without integrating the holistic aspects of treatment;
without complying to what disease in my opinion really means to
a human being; without listening, realizing and understanding the
hints; and without changing; but changing only afterwards.
I use the term holistic treatment to indicate that the concept
includes more than conventional medical therapies. It is
explicitely a superset of conventional treatment. It accepts
the options and chances offered by other streams of medical thinking,
other than scientific mainstream. The streams I am talking about
have a background of many generations and rely on long
experience and personal human insight. They are linked
to persons whose names are still remembered like (for me as a European)
Paracelsus, Rudolf Steiner, Hildegard von Bingen, Sebastian Kneipp;
and who are linked to ideas of unnumbered wise women and men of
all religions.
And most importantly the holistic concept focuses on additional
levels, on areas not directly relating to the human body, on aspects
of soul and spirit.
To sum it up, the underlying paradigm of holistic medicine
is different and much broader than its counterpart of the scientific
one. I have elaborated on this and explained my two main points
of criticism of the scientific medicine and the conventional cancer
treatment elsewhere.
Here it may be enough to note that disease and symptoms are help-
and meaningful; that it is part of a cancer patient's long journey
to more health to understand and to realize what is happening on
the level of the body. Realization, not change at
the first step is mandatory. Realization of what the body is forced
to live instead of the mind; as the patient's mind hasn't yet integrated
the underlying principle of the symptom.
Taking part in this journey and supporting it are the options offered
by holistic medicine. The following listing includes the
elements I as Marcus Döring am relying on. (Be sure also to
read my more detailled recommendations
for testicular cancer patients.) Of course, it's just a small subset
of what is possible and what may help other patients and is in no
particular order:
Remarkable and most important to me is that the listing focuses
on all three aspects of human being: the body as well as
the soul and the spirit.
It's been so different when my health team consisted just
of conventional doctors applying conventional methods at the very
beginning....
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