What are inflammation and Cancer?

5-a-Day: this government recommendation falls far short of what we require. The teaching in medical schools is primarily on pharmaceuticals. At my final discharge meeting, this time with a hematologist I asked her if she'd received any tuition on nutrition. Her answer: "Oh, that's a different department." 

"All illness begins with inflammation" is one of the basic tenets in the ancient system of Ayurvedic medicine. And what if all inflammation begins with toxicity? 

The source of toxicity may be through radiation, bad or lack of nutrition, it may be introduced through the skin surface, the lungs, or just as significantly, through stress.

Because of toxicity, the body's system becomes unbalanced. Inflammation is due to the increased activity of the cells around the area of injury. They work hard in order to multiply, divide and replace their fallen comrades. Mothers feel the healthy heat of the rapidly multiplying cells of the baby in-utero. Thermography picks up the unhealthy presence of rapidly multiplying cancer cells. 

There is heat generated in this rapid multiplication of replacement cells. When the cells repair a breakdown in the organism because of the death of their co-workers, they have to sub-divide in order to do so. As they sub-divide, they not only generate heat, but after repeated division get smaller, weaker. When we persist in subjecting the body to unceasing attack by toxins — which are supporting and increasing this inflammatory process — the  cells are over-taxed, and at a critical point they revolt. 

You are now the enemy. Cells are revolting against a rotten government. They no longer take orders from the nervous system, they cut off the nerve supply. They become recidivist, primitive, monocellular entities, taking orders only from themselves. The nervous system is blocked, but they carry on being fed by the bloodstream. And the revolutionary group grows. Ungovernable by normal nerve stimuli, they multiply out of control.

There is all the information necessary in each one of your cells to produce a clone of your body, but because of the pressure being exerted on them by you, the host, they carry on in insularity, dividing through their self-motivated, primitive method of sugar dependent fermentation. No longer do they share in the vital economy of the body.

Now we are bad governors. Like idiots we attack the revolt, the cancer, like a foolish government attacks a rebellious people. We've seen the devastating results of this unintelligent approach with certain middle eastern governments which have attempted to convert people by poisoning them.

As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul, is a saying attributed to the hermetic philosopher Hermes Trismegistus. When emotions, ideas and impulses disagree, affecting body chemistry, or when other forms of toxicity are introduced into the body, it becomes the battlefield, and at its own level, microscopic examination reveals just as much devastation. 

We squirt things into our organism, killing it with treatment. We radiate it, laser it, but the one thing we don’t do is give up the bad government.

But then, grossly dissatisfied with the way things are going, the damage being done, if the treatment we give the body is too noxious, there can come a time when we are thrown back onto our own centre, the centre of higher intelligence. From this centre, we can start behaving ourselves better and the government improves. Diet, exercise, emotional patterns and habits change. With the absence of toxicity and the increase of nutrition, cancer cells abandon their takeover bid and once again begin to co-operate. 

When the focus is placed whole-heartedly on an intelligent solution to the problem, the universe opens up its ocean of possibilities. The person of religious persuasion might call it God showing the way. Another may call it cosmic ordering. It lies for me in the mystery of unfolding in the body, and in our intimate connection with the universal field of power which, with our help, works to bring us back to full health.