A Holistic Approach Of Treating Cancer

This is a case of Liza Jane from the Philippines, a widow, with children aged 6 and 10, and a cancer survivor. Here’s her story and how her doctor treat her Big C completely different from the scalpel and radiation.

It was December 1995, when Liza Jane suddenly developed a stomachache and suffered from diarrhea. An ultrasound test revealed a 3.5-cm tumor in her liver. Then a colonoscopy, lung X-ray, barium enema and CT scan revealed a bigger tumor, measuring 7.1 cm, near the colon. Two tumors simultaneously, Liza Jane was devastated and could not imagine herself dying and leaving two helpless young boys.

She was scheduled for operation, when she came to know Dr. Omar Arabia, a Filipino medical practitioner in holistic and complementary therapies, nutritional oncology, family health and biological medicine. She cancelled the operation, saying she wanted a non-invasive treatment.

The first thing Arabia did was to “reeducate” her on the doctor-patient relationship. The true meaning of the word “doctor”, Arabia said was “teacher”. Thus, part of the doctor’s task was to educate patients and encourage responsibility for one’s self.

Here’s the “lessons” Liza Jane had to learn under Dr. Arabia’s tutelage. One was the need to completely change her dietary habits. She used to eat meat, and consumed fats more than her body could burn them. And so Arabia taught Liza Jane to eat only fruits and vegetables, without salt and oil. Arabia required all his patients to shift to a plant-based diet consisting of nonprocessed food, fruits, raw vegetables or uncooked salad from organic products. These foods, Arabia attests, are devoid of the “dietary hazards” all meat and fish products supposedly contain. During the first three weeks of her diet, Liza Jane’s body trembled in hunger, she wallowed in self-pity and was extremely depressed.

The second “lesson” her doctor taught her was daily meditation and visualization. She was taught to focus on an intense “imaginary light” on her tumors to melt them away until what she saw would only be a clean, healthy liver and digestive system. All these she did with a cleansing “coffee enema” of locally sourced coffee, a process that Arabia describes as an “amazing” experience.

Liza Jane was asked to avoid stress as well. She was asked to detoxify emotionally and mentally and was urged to avoid harboring negative thoughts and emotions, as Arabia believed these thoughts poisoned minds and bodies.

Her new lifestyle and diet seemed worst for Liza Jane. She lost weight, about 30 pounds and her palms turned yellow as a result of drinking 13-15 glasses of apple-carrot juice every day. But deep inside, however, she felt stronger.

Liza Jane also found herself in support group, the Healing partners Foundation, consisting of her family, friends, and fellow cancer patients and survivors who adhere to holistic and complementary therapies.

Then Liza Jane feels normal again. Her test results are all normal but she still takes her coffee enemas, drinks apple-carrot juice, eats only vegetables, and meditates and prays. She remembers what Arabia told her early days of treatment : “Cancer cells are dying because they are deprived of the food they need to grow.”