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digestive system
stomach cancer
Nutrition

dietary guidelines

eating principles:
• alkaline fasting under supervision of physician, especially with carrot juice (see Fasting in materia medica)

therapeutic foods:
• foods that tonify the Stomach and Spleen, harmonize the Stomach and Spleen

fresh juices:
• carrot (Walker, 129.)
• carrot and spinach (Walker, 129.)

recommendations for all cancers:
• seaweeds, mushrooms (Chinese black, Shiitake) figs, beets, beet tops, papaya, mung beans, licorice, sea cucumbers, carrot, garlic, walnut, lychee fruit, mulberries, asparagus, pumpkin, burdock, dandelion greens, white fungus, taro roots, pearl barley, grains, fresh fruits and vegetables (Ni, 108-109.)

specific remedies:
• soup of black or ling zhi mushrooms and white fungus, three times daily. (Ni, 108-109.)
• boil together mung beans, pearl barley, adzuki beans, and figs (Ni, 108-109.)
• dandelion, burdock and chrysanthemum flower tea (Ni, 108-109.)

avoid:
• meat, chicken, coffee, cinnamon, anise, pepper, dairy products, spicy foods, high fat foods, smoking, constipation, stress


supplements

• Vitamin A (Stehr, 1985.)
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin E (Wagner, 1985.)
• Selenium
• Zinc
• Shark cartilage 2 g per kg body wt per day (Lane, 1992.)
• Maitake mushrooms: Research indicates that extracts from the fruiting body of Maitake showed antitumor action against allogenic and syngenic tumors by not only directly activating the various effector cells (macrophages, Natural Killer cells, cytotoxic T cells, etc.) to attack tumor cells, but also by potentiating the activities of various mediators including lymphokines and IL-1 to enhance cellular immune functions and to prevent a decrease of immune functions in the tumor-bearing host (Nanba H, et al. Chem Pharm Bull 1987,35:1162-1168; Yamada Y, et al. Chemotherapy 1990;38:790-796; Nanba H. J Naturopathic Med. 1(4):10-15.)

» drug-related therapeutics:
• Vitamins C and E for patients using adriamycin: antioxidants, specifically reduces cardiac toxicity of adriamycin (Doxorubicin) (Fujita, et al., 1982, 42: 309-316; Ellison, 1985; 37 (3): 112-113; Am Heart J, 1986; 111: 95.)

» drug interactions:
• Vitamins B1, B2, B3, Vitamin K and folic acid can become deficient in patients using chemotherapy due to consequent anorexia, damage to the digestive tract, and malabsorption (Dreizen, et al., 1990; 87 (1): 163-170)
Vitamin K has been found to potentiate various chemotherapeutic drugs in animals (Taper, et al., 1987; 40: 575-579.)
• Vitamin A and cancer chemotherapy, esp. fluorouracil (5-FU): vitamin A enhances antitumor effect in animals (Nakagawa, et al., 1985; 76: 887-894)


footnotes

Nanba H. Activity of Maitake D-fraction to Inhibit Carcinogenisis and Metastasis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. September 30, 1995:243-245.

Nanba H, Antitumor activity of orally administered D-fraction from Maitake mushroom(Grifola frondosa). J Naturopathic Med. 1(4):10-15.

Nanba H, Hamaguchi A, Kuroda H. The chemical structure of an antitumor polysaccharide in fruit bodies of Grifola frondosa (maitake). Chem Pharm Bull 1987,35:1162-1168.

Nanba H. Immunostimulant activity in in-vivo and anti-HIV activity in vitro of 3 branched b-1-6-glucans extracted from maitake mushrooms (Grifola frondosa). Abstract, VIII International Conference on AIDS, 1992.

Yamada Y, Nanba H, Kuroda H. Antitumor effect of orally administered extracts from fruit body of Grifola frondosa (maitake). Chemotherapy 1990;38:790-796.

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