THE PHYSIOLOGY

More and more people are speaking out about remarkable results and even cures obtained from using this illegal treatment over a vast range of diseases, disorders and even terminal illnesses where pharmaceutical drugs have failed to improve, never mind cure. These people have been responsible in their use of the medicine, making healthy lifestyle and mindstyle choices as well as using Cannabis medicine to create these results. The fact is that by using Cannabis we are simply stimulating a natural system, the endocannabinoid system, that is already present in our bodies and always has been, and which is perfectly designed to produce these results under healthy conditions.

This system has simply been virtually shut down by a nutritionally depleted diet , poor hydration and poor oxygenation etc. In other words our consumption of C.R.A.P. - Carbonated Refined Artificial and Processed food and drinks - junk food/processed food/genetically modified food full of poison.

CANNABIS - THE MEDICINAL COMPONENTS

The medicinally active compounds of Cannabis called cannabinoids are located in a resin on the flowers (buds) produced by glandular trichomes. This resin also contains the terpenes, which give the plant its varying smells, and flavonoids which give varying tastes. In all cases the exact medicinal effects are far from fully investigated.

CANNABINOIDS

Over 111 different cannabinoids have been identified in the resin of the Cannabis plant to date. Hundreds of scientific studies, and thousands of peer reviewed articles on the endocannabinoid system and cannabinoids, have in the past four decades shown that Cannabis and Cannabis derivatives can successfully treat and/or cure a long list of illnesses including a variety of cancers. Some of these trials use synthetically produced or isolated compounds (mostly THC and CBD) for the most part unsuccessfully. Others use natural extracts or smoked Cannabis for the “entourage effect” which is impossible to engineer synthetically and which produces excellent results.

THE HUMAN ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM

The human body naturally produces endocannabinoids, its own version of the phytocannabinoids found in plants. Cannabinoid receptors are found throughout the body, especially in the nervous and immune systems. The endocannabinoid system is involved in a variety of physiological processes including appetite, pain-sensation, sleep, mood and memory.

Endocannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors respond to biological events—for example, endocannabinoid levels will rise in response to brain injury, strokes, nerve injuries and associated pain. Both plant cannabinoids (except Cannabidiol - CBD) and endocannabinoids bind to the body’s cannabinoid receptors. When this binding occurs, effects such as pain and stress relief, death of tumoral cells and many others result.

CANNABINOIDS AND CANCER

The main, psychoactive cannabinoid THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) has the following scientifically identified and researched properties relating to tumoural cells:

Anti-proliferative i.e. prevents cancer cells from reproducing by preventing mitosis in the tumour cells
Anti-angiogenic i.e. prevents the formation of new blood vessels needed by tumour to grow
Anti-metastatic i.e. blocks the ability of the cancer cells to spread, thus preventing the cancer from spreading to other organs
Apoptotic i.e. induces abnormal cancer cells to die off naturally without disturbing normal cells

T.H.C. DOES EXACTLY WHAT 'ANANDAMIDE', THE ENDOGENOUS CHEMICAL RESPONSIBLE FOR FEELING BLISS/JOY/HAPPINESS, DOES IN THE BODY INCLUDING THE ABOVE. IT IS LITERALLY ILLEGAL TO USE THIS PLANT TO BE HAPPY AND WELL!

TERPENOIDS AND FLAVONOIDS

The varying scents of Cannabis result from about 200 possible different terpenoids present in the plant. Terpenoids share a precursor with phytocannabinoids, and are the flavor and fragrance components of plants. Terpenoids are potent and affect animal and human behavior even when inhaled from ambient air.

Terpenoids display unique therapeutic effects that contribute to the effects of cannabis-based and herbal medicinal extracts. It is literally healthy to stop and smell the roses - or Cannabis in this case!

Recent studies on phytocannabinoid-terpenoid interaction, show that they work synergistically with respect to treating pain, inflammation, depression, anxiety, addiction, epilepsy, cancer, fungal and bacterial infections and many other conditions.

SUPPLEMENTARY TREATMENT PROTOCOLS

Most medical research foundations focus on developing pharmaceutical drugs which are known to result in possible remission as a best case scenario, and which have comparatively abysmal success rates. Very few focus on therapies which contradict American Medical Association “accepted” treatment protocols, mostly because corporations (including the big pharmaceutical companies) fund the entire medical industry from training to treatment facilities to medical aids to research – the very businessmen who stand to make trillions out of “accepted” treatments remaining unsuccessful enough to create repeat customers.

As a result, the work of people like Dr. Warburg, Dr. Budwig, Dr. Gerson, and many others whose success in treating cancer completely naturally, goes mostly unnoticed. These protocols are not difficult to follow and are often overlooked because of their simplicity. The fact remains that without the correct 'building blocks' no cell can repair itself. There are 75 - 100 trillion cells in each human body, and all of these cells are living organisms which require nutrition, oxygen and clean water to function, reproduce, repair etc. Furthermore, each cell in the human body has around a hundred thousand cell receptors and effectors on its surface. This is where the bio-chemical reactions take place which govern each cell's behaviour. S.A.C.C.R.A. Supplementary protocols take what works and include it as part of a wholistic wellness programme.

Numerous powerful natural healing remedies exist to treat cancer. You will find that some alternative cancer protocols will consist only of using a natural remedy/medicine. However, it is important to remember that while many of these remedies can be very effective, they should always be used as part of an entire lifestyle change and paradigm shift in consciousness. In fact, by failing to do this, we may be attempting to simply institute a ‘quick fix’ (albeit a natural one that is non-toxic) in the place of a conventional ‘quick-fix’ in the shape of chemotherapy and radiation. ‘Quick fixes’, while giving us short term results, can seldom offer us long term or permanent solutions because they fail to address and eliminate the primary causes of disease.

There are many all-natural cancer-prevention strategies, and research shows they may cut your risk in half and help in treating cancer. Consequently, by implementing multiple strategies, you can radically lower your risk of cancer as well as other chronic diseases, and increase your success with Cannabis oil. Some other well researched substances with similar effects are:

Co-Q10/Ubiquinol
Curcumin, the active agent in the spice turmeric
Capsaicin, the compound that makes hot peppers hot
Se-methylselenocysteine aka methylselenocysteine, found in garlic and broccoli
Ellagic acid, from pomegranates and other fruits

A recent study finds turmeric extract selectively and safely killing cancer stem cells in a way that chemo and radiation cannot. A ground-breaking study published in the journal Anticancer Research reveals one of the world’s most extensively researched and promising natural compounds for cancer treatment: the primary polyphenol in the ancient spice turmeric known as curcumin, has the ability to selectively target cancer stem cells, which are at the root of cancer malignancy, while having little to no toxicity on normal stem cells, which are essential for tissue regeneration and longevity.

Titled, “Curcumin and Cancer Stem Cells: Curcumin Has Asymmetrical Effects on Cancer and Normal Stem Cells,” the study describes the wide range of molecular mechanisms presently identified by which curcumin attacks cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are the minority sub-population of self-renewing cells within a tumor colony, and which alone are capable of producing all the other cells within a tumor, making them the most lethal, tumorigenic of all cells within most if not all cancers.

Because CSCs are resistant to chemotherapy, radiation, and may even be provoked towards increased invasiveness through surgical intervention, they are widely believed to be responsible for tumor recurrence and the failure of conventional treatment.

TURMERIC PASTE RECIPE

Turmeric paste is also popularly known as “GOLDEN PASTE” and the reason why is obvious. There are so many recipes available to make golden paste and one very good one is by Jill Moore of Turmeric User Group on Facebook.

What is needed for making golden paste

1/2 cup turmeric powder (125 mls)
1 cup water (250 mls)
1/2 cup water extra, if needed (125 mls)
1 1/2 teaspoons ground black pepper (7.5 mls)
70 ml cold pressed Olive or Coconut oil

Place turmeric and water in pan, stirring over gentle heat until you have a thick paste. This should take about 7 – 10 minutes and you may need to add additional water along the way (it seems to depend on the turmeric you have). Add the pepper and oil at the end of cooking. Stir vigorously to incorporate the oil and allow to cool. Store in sterilised glass jar and refrigerate. (To sterilise jar – place clean glass jar, without lid, on cold oven shelf, turn oven on to medium and heat for 10 minutes. Turn off and pop lid in, leave with jar to cool). Should keep for up to four weeks, refrigerated – best used within two.