How Ayahuasca Cures Cancer Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually
Ayahuasca has been used as a cure for cancer, but it is not a panacea. Ayahuasca is a sacred indigenous medicine that works to cure cancer on metabolic, biological, and spiritual levels, but you really get out of it what you’re willing to put into it. In other words, Ayahuasca is the right medicine for a cancer patient who is fully willing to take responsibility for their own health. This might sound discouraging, but in fact, the scientific research is quite encouraging. But Ayahuasca is not a drug. It’s a consciousness and it works best when people have arrived at a place where their pain is greater than their fear and their ready to believe that anything is possible despite what anyone else may have told them.
There’s quite a lot of compelling scientific research demonstrating that Ayahuasca is a cure for cancer, but science has limitations that we need to consider here. Specifically, when you’re working with the sacred medicines, Intention is the steering wheel that navigates the boat. In other words, you see not necessarily what you want to see, but what you’re willing to see. Scientific research limits the scope of what can be seen and as a result, it promotes a very limited view of what Ayahuasca can do. Despite this fact (and it is a fact that can be experienced first hand by those who take Ayahuasca), modern scientific research agrees with the idea that Ayahuasca can cure cancer – it just doesn’t understand how or why. There are compelling theories about why it works though. In this article, we draw from several alternative models of medicine, including old-style conventional medicine from the early 1900s to expand on some theories about why and how Ayahuasca cures cancer. We also discuss modern scientific theories about beta-carbolines as well as anecdotal reports of how Ayahuasca works to cure cancer on emotional and spiritual levels.
Click here to read more about Ayahuasca for diabetes and the connection between cancer and diabetes.
Politics
Ayahuasca is a prohibited substance in the United States where the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) has labeled it a Schedule 1 drug. However, people can still get the separate ingredients (at the time of this writing) to cook their own Ayahuasca at home.
While the recreational use of Ayahuasca has been prohibited (no one uses Ayahuasca “recreationally”), there are Brazilian-based churches in the states that have won the right to import and use Ayahuasca in their ceremonies. The SoulQuest Ayahuasca Church of Mother Earth is one of these, and there also are certain other retreat centers throughout the country that have managed to find a special kind of religious loophole in the law that makes it possible for them to administer Ayahuasca legally to patients as a religious sacrament.
Ayahuasca is legal in Brazil where it is being researched to learn more about its ability to cure cancer. One researcher, Eduardo E. Schenberg, believes that Ayahuasca’s healing properties deserve more attention from the scientific community. Of course, Ayahuasca is a sacred medicine that could destroy Big Pharma, so it’s unlikely that his outcry for more attention will be heard, but nonetheless, readers who interested in Ayahuasca for cancer should note that those who are studying this medicine for application as a natural cure for cancer, see it as an essential medicine for this disease.
Donald M. Topping, PhD published his story in 1998 to describe his experience using Ayahuasca to cure terminal cancer. Ayahuasca was his last hope and it ultimately led to a cure for him.
Detailed Introduction
Ayahuasca is an entheogenic brew made from several different possible combinations of herbs. The two most famous are Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis (Chacruna). Other plants other may be used instead of these two plant, but these are the iconic herbal combination that was originally used in tribal settings. Often, in many retreat settings, shaman will use cheaper or more accessible herbs in place of the Banisteriopsis caapi. People can still experience good results from the alternative herbs though. For example, Peganum harmala can be used in place of Banisteriopsis caapi. Peganum harmala contains harmine, one of the primary medicinal substances used to cure diabetes and also cancer, so this medicinal substance is still present even if your Ayahuascero chooses to make the brew using this particular alternative. But the basic combination treatment using Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis is much gentler in terms of the “trip” than using an alternative brew that contains a wide array of different ingredients (which could include Brugmansia or even DaturaI). That could be a pro or a con depending on your situation, but if you’re concerned about taking Ayahuasca for cancer and the kind of trip that you’ll have, the experience of working with Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis is often gentle – like going into a dream state that you can wake from periodically, as needed, to return to the real world.
Ayahuasca is an indigenous medicine used by the Incans and other tribal groups, and its name roughly translates as “vine of the soul”. The medicines used to make Ayahuasca grow naturally in the Amazon rainforest in South America and the brew has been used as a sacred indigenous medicine by tribal cultures who live there. To these cultures, Ayahuasca is a remedy for all manner of complaints, from physical ailments to mental disorders, emotional problems, and even spiritual dilemmas. It has been used recently in a documented case to find children who had gotten lost in the rainforest after a plane crash. More and more people today are taking the Ayahuasca brew to treat medical conditions and to access other, more spiritual states of mind in an effort to heal from disease and past traumas. My personal experience with Ayahuasca is that it is a medicine that you can work with to solve major life problems, overcome seemingly impossible relationship issues, and yes, also heal cancer, diabetes, and even autoimmune disease.
The first time I took Ayahuasca, I had had a fight with my then 18 year old daughter who had recently gotten married. She and I had never fought before and I knew that I was doing things to her that my parents had done to me, but I couldn’t seem to stop myself. It just so happened, that a curadera in our city was doing a retreat a few days after the fight began and she invited us to it. This trip set a completely new course for my life and my behavior. After the trip, I opened my eyes and I knew what I needed to do and what I needed to say to my daughter to resolve the fight. But I didn’t just have the words – I felt what I needed to do differently. The next day, I went to a temazcal. I was very weepy and messy as I was integrating the material from the Ayahuasca the night beofre and the woman sitting next to me asked if I had, in fact, taken the Ayahuasca. I said that I had and she said, “So your pain was greater than your fear, then?” I’d never thought of it that way, but this was absolutely a true statement for me.
Since that time, I’ve worked with many sacred medicines. I’ve facilitated for other people who have worked with sacred medicines too. Most people who work with these medicines have to reach the point where their pain is greater than their fear in order for their hearts to open so that they can do what’s necessary to heal.
Ayahuasca contains DMT, a substance that causes people to feel a profound sense of connection to other people and their surroundings along with other powerful internal experiences. Some people call these experiences “hallucinogenic”, but in fact, they’re very real, just not according to the consensus reality of earth. When you first start working with Ayahuasca, you don’t have to fully commit to a stance about whether or not what you see and experience on Ayahuasca is “real”, but over time, this is a plant-medicine that proves itself to people. It can show you what’s true and real if you really want to know. Sometimes truth conflicts with consensus reality, after all.
Traditionally, the Psychotria viridis plant provides the psychoactive DMT component of the Ayahuasca brew, though some shamans may substitute other DMT-containing plants like Mimosa tenuiflora (Tepezcohuite) or Diplopterys cabrerana (Chaliponga) in place of the Psychotria viridis. The Banisteriopsis caapi vine is an MAOI, or monoamine oxidase inhibitor, which allows the DMT to actually become active in the body; this particular vine is always present in the Ayahuasca brew and is considered as the primary plant that is referred to as Ayahuasca. Other powerful plant medicines like Justicia pectoralis, Brugmansia species plants, Nicotiana rustica (Mapache), or a Datura species plant may also be included in the Ayahuasca brew depending on the individual needs of the patient or group.
Ayahuasca is generally administered under the supervision and guidance of an experienced, specialized shaman/ayahuasquero. This person almost always takes the ayahuasca brew with the patient(s) so as to “travel” with them on their journey. This is especially true if the newbie is very new to working with Ayahuasca. Because the facilitator has worked with Ayahuasca many times, they’re familiar with the experiences that people can have while under the influence of this sacred indigenous medicine, and can offer support when needed. The Ayahuasca allows the facilitator to connect deeply on other planes of reality with the other people who have taken the brew.
Some shamans in South America may sing icaros, which are traditional songs intended to banish evil spirits, invite positive spirits, and guide the process of healing, or they may incorporate substances like incenses. In Mexico and in certain modern retreat settings, icaros are less common. Florida water, tobacco smoke, or drums can help guide the participants’ journey. Though the traditional setting involving icaros can be idyllic, it is also possible to work at home with Ayahuasca, or in any location that’s protected and calibrated for set and setting. Not everyone who wishes to take Ayahuasca can withstand travel to far-away, hard-to-reach places to do Ayahuasca, but this is a plant medicine that wants to work with people. It adapts itself very well to alternative places and times to help people overcome their most pressing problems.
A shaman is not necessary and sometimes is not even desirable for those who are trying to cure themselves of cancer or another serious disease. Ayahuasca is the mediator that can heal and it is the consciousness that knows the answer to difficult questions. You can take Ayahuasca and ask the plant what you want to know without the need for an intermediary. Some people wish to have an intermediary and a lot of people benefit from having a facilitator to help them get started working with this plant medicine, especially when major illness is involved. Most people in the modern world today are very “mind-heavy”–their logical left-brain is very cruel and judgmental and as a result, they feel scared of this medicine. Meanwhile their right-brain / felt-sense is in a place where it’s overloaded with trauma and stress and can’t move on until a medicine like Ayahuasca is administered. This fuels an inner conflict that can be hard to resolve until the left-brain receives the logical arguments to justify the use of Ayahuasca. An Ayahuasca facilitator can help people who are “mind-heavy” get past the left-brain and open up a safe container within which the plant medicine can speak and go to work on the right-brain / felt-sense of the body.
While most people prefer to take Ayahuasca with a shaman or a facilitator (either privately or as part of a group), some people do also choose to prepare their own Ayahuasca brew at home. As with any entheogenic or mind-altering substance, it’s wise to at the very least have a “sitter” available who can watch over you or a facilitator if you choose to administer this medicine at home, especially if it’s your first time. Ayahuasca integration therapy is also essential afterwards to move the felt-sense of what was experienced into the logical, narrative left-brain so that it becomes a part of the person’s conscious story-line. Basically, you need to talk to someone that you feel you can trust, who won’t use their own logical, left-brain to inflict a judgmental narrative on your newly formed openness. Lydian and I offer integrative therapy for Ayahuasca experiences.
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The Pancreas and Ayahuasca for Cancer
Cancer and diabetes are two sides of the same coin. Both cancer and diabetes are diseases of the pancreas. The pancreas, in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is the organ that deals with our sense of trust and safety. In other words, the pancreas is one of the main organs affected by trauma as trauma disrupts our sense that the world is a safe place. It’s important to understand the emotional components of cancer development because for many people, it can be hard, if not impossible, to overcome cancer if you don’t address the underlying trauma that causes cancer. Our cancer health-coaching clients over the years have all attested to the problem that treatment-resistant cancer seems to have its root in the emotions and the spirit. We tend to work primarily with terminal cancer health coaching and so that means that we work with people who have lost a lot of hope. Though it can be helpful to talk to someone about cures for cancer and the idea that cancer can be cured, it’s something very different to take a medicine like Ayahuasca and feel what it feels like to believe in curing one’s own cancer. The sacred medicines help us purge the fears and the lack of hope that has built up in the body as a result of the “logic of cancer” in conventional medicine so that we can re-experience hope as a deep belief in our innate ability to heal.
Ayahuasca allows us to put down the heavy stones of hopelessness…the bits of bad news that we’ve heard and experienced throughout our lives, especially since the diagnosis of cancer first occurred…so that we can breathe again. After carrying the heavy weight of fear on the heart and release stone after stone using Ayahuasca, a person can begin to feel hope again in the heart. The breath is easier. The weight is lighter. Working with the sacred medicines restores the sense that the body can heal itself – that humans were DESIGNED to overcome whatever has happened to them – and that, as humans, we were all meant to come to earth to heal something. We’re supposed to navigate the path for ourselves toward joy and healing. This is our destiny.
If you’ve arrived here and you’re reading about Ayahuasca for cancer, you’re probably ready to work with the medicines that were actually made to release trauma – the scary, awful, sad stories of our lives that don’t serve our well-being until we establish their meaning. Or you’re just curious about what Ayahuasca has to offer. Ayahuasca is special in that this sacred medicine can provide users with information that they didn’t know before in regard to healing. Ayahuasca can tell you directly what it is that you need in order to heal from your disease, be it a change in your life situation or a change in your diet. It can give you the names of herbs or medicines that will cure cancer if you’re open to receiving that kind of information. So Ayahuasca is definitely the right choice for anyone who has cancer. It targets the pancreas (as well as the liver and the gallbladder – organs that are directly connected to the pancreas via the common bile duct), it releases trauma, and it can tell you what you need in order to heal.
That being said, most people have to release certain aspects of their trauma in order to receive information about healing themselves or healing another person. Trauma might be viewed like a “bug in the code” that hijacks your natural healing abilities. I sometimes think of trauma as some event that causes the autonomic nervous system to “short circuit”. If you’re watching a movie, for example, and the movie “freezes” or pixelates, you might need to stop the movie or restart your Internet to get the movie to play again. In Mexico, I might need to switch my solar power to the grid – the electricity might be failing. In any case, you have to fix the problem at the root to continue watching the movie – to move forward with the storyline. This takes effort, often at a time when you’d rather sit on the couch and simply stare at a screen. Trauma, in fact, can cause us to relive really nightmarish scenes in the movie of our lives over and over again until we get up out of our seats to do whatever needs to be done to make those unconscious nightmares resolve and connect up with whatever comes next in our lives. When a person has cancer in today’s world, they often get hit again and again with treatments that are biologically traumatizing. They undergo terrifying surgeries that emotionally push the limits of what people can tolerate and not lose their minds. After surgery, people go in to talk to doctors about grim, tragic diagnoses and devastating news about lifespan or quality of life. People with cancer experience blow-after-blow after the diagnosis, but the fact is, for most people, cancer develops as a result of trauma overload that existed even before the diagnosis happened.
German New Medicine is a medical model that’s used to cure cancer and this model of medicine takes special note of the relationship between major trauma and the subsequent development of cancer which is noteworthy because few of the other cancer cure protocols do that. People who develop cancer have experienced a major trauma that has not been resolved or processed to a point where the event becomes meaningful (instead of traumatizing). Most people know exactly what the trauma was that they experienced that caused their cancer, yet it’s hard to find the cancer-trauma connection when you look for that information online. If you search your conscious mind (the only part of our minds that we can search), you also can’t find the trauma. It lives in the unconscious. Yet, trauma resolution and trauma release is not as hard as it seems. Once you recognize trauma as a root cause of cancer, you can begin to release it using trauma-informed therapies, especially sacred medicines like Ayahuasca. Our bodies were designed to release trauma naturally as humans even though sometimes we need help to start the process and get things moving. There are a number of trauma-release therapies that exist, including the likes of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing / EMDR, as well as craniosacral therapy, guided meditation or hypnotherapy (which can be done at home using the DreamLight.app). For a list of other powerful trauma-informed therapies, click here.
For an in-depth look at how trauma feels and how to heal trauma from one person’s perspective, click here.
Note that some people who are unsure about Ayahuasca for cancer, need to work first with something like EMDR, DreamLight.app, or craniosacral therapy to off-load some of the weight of their trauma first. As you work with the less-powerful trauma-release options to overcome the trauma that lives close to consciousness, near the surface, Ayahuasca and other trauma-releasing sacred medicines like psilocybin, seem far less scary. If you’re working to cure cancer, seek out trauma-informed therapies of all kinds – there are many to choose from as you make your decision about how to work with Ayahuasca for cancer. There are reasons why you should consider working with Ayahuasca to cure cancer from a physiological and biological perspective (because Ayahuasca can actually cure cancer) and we’ll discuss those reasons below in greater depth.
In any case, if you’re interested in Ayahuasca for cancer, be aware that this is a life-changing medicine. Often, people with cancer need more than one dose of it. Sometimes they need quite a lot more than 3 doses. It can be helpful, though it isn’t necessary, to have other family members or friends take Ayahuasca with you so that the Ayahuasca can speak to the other person about you and your condition (if you’re the person with the serious health or life issue). It is a very powerful thing to work with another person to cure a disease. This is also an argument for working with a facilitatory who is truly working on your behalf. Be aware that usually, people need to work with Ayahuasca over a period of time. Some people need to take Ayahuasca 30-50 times or more to work through their trauma fully and also restore health to the pancreas.
But let’s talk more about how Ayahuasca cures cancer based on scientifically proven facts and the biology of how this medicine works.
The Science Behind Why Ayahuasca Works to Cure Cancer
Scientific studies have demonstrated that Ayahuasca can, in fact, cure cancer. One study, for example, looked specifically at the use of Ayahuasca for colorectal cancer. Despite the use of toxic diagnostic tools in this study to observe some of the effects of Ayahuasca treatment, scientists were able to see that Ayahuasca kills cancer cells and at the same time, it also diminishes the proliferation of cancer cells. Anecdotal reports using Ayahuasca as a cure for stage 4 cancer exist too in addition to scientific research that studies how Ayahuasca works as a cure for cancer. Despite the effectiveness of Ayahuasca as a cure for cancer, doctors often have never heard of the brew and when their terminal cancer patients return to the clinic to validate that their cancer is indeed gone, physicians tend to shrug their shoulders in disinterest.
Can Ayahuasca cure cancer?
Ayahuasca is a powerful medicine for cancer because it works to heal both the pancreas and the trauma that has impacted the cancer patient on emotional and spiritual levels. Though studies have been done to demonstrate the biological effects of taking Ayahuasca for cancer, and though a number of anecdotal reports exist documenting the reality of Ayahuasca as a cancer cure, the spiritual and emotional healing is not scientifically quantifiable. Below, we’ll discuss several theories regarding why and how Ayahuasca cures cancer including a discussion of the emotional and spiritual aspects of this disease, which cannot be scientifically measured. Hard-core science-based thinkers can ignore the material about “soul-loss”, “sub-personalities and soul parts”, and the concept of “sending vital energies to other planes of reality”. These ideas can only be based on anecdotal reports of people explaining what it was like to “bring themselves back” from a death sentence (or from the realm of cancer-induced death sentences). In the first part of this discussion, we’ll draw from several different diseases as models of “soul loss”, including The Cell Danger Response according to a model developed by Dr. Robert Naviaux, or The Freeze or Play Dead Response according to a model developed by Dr. Stephen Porges.
In an effort to properly discuss the connection between science and spirit, mind and body, we’ve quilted together what exists in the scientific literature with anecdote and real-life stories as well as our own personal experiences with Ayahuasca and with healing trauma, but readers should know that a lot of scientific research has been done in regard to cancer, trauma, Ayahuasca, and how our organs react to and sometimes store trauma. When we write material like this, we draw from multiple models of medicine, not just conventional medicine.
Click here to learn more about how Ayahuasca works to cure cancer via its effects on the pancreas.
Cancer and Trauma: Basic Overview
Before we begin a discussion about the pancreas, we need to start by talking about trauma – what trauma is and how it affects the body. We’ve talked about trauma conceptually above, but now, let’s talk about it according to how trauma is defined and discussed by psychologists as a mind and body problem. Dr. Peter Levine is one of the leaders in the field of trauma-informed therapy. He was one of the first people to observe his patients having healing abreactions involving the release of trauma. One of his patients who had crippling anxiety was out for a walk with him one day in a natural setting before Dr. Levine had figured out what trauma is and how it hijacks the body to cause mental and physical illness. Suddenly, on this walk, something triggered the patient and the patient fell to the ground and had a “panic attack”. Dr. Levine supported his patient during this crisis and noticed that the patient was making movements (while huddled up on the ground) that looked a bit like running. The patient’s legs were pumping and the patient’s eyes were wide and wild as though they were in some kind of crisis and not in the present moment. The patient was experiencing an intense feeling of danger even while the natural setting was completely safe and peaceful. Dr. Levine didn’t try to stop his patient from having this experience and afterward, the patient seemed to have experienced a major release. After the event, the patient was ready to move forward in her sessions with Dr. Levine. She actually made progress toward overcoming the crippling anxiety that had prevented her from living her life as a normal person up to that moment. As a result, Dr. Levine began looking more closely at our “animal nature” and how, as humans, our bodies are designed to off-load trauma, but our minds (the logical, narrative left-brain) stop us from doing.
Dr. Levine noted that in the lower animals, when a traumatic event occurs, the animal will “shake off” the trauma. They will literally take a few moments after a situation that involved life-or-death and their bodies will shake violently to release either the energy of the fight-or-flight adrenaline surge or the parasympathetic “freeze” and “play dead” response that causes animals to become limp to appear as though they had died (for the purposes of escape in some situations) . The animal will get a distant look in their eyes during the process of “shaking”. Within a short time, the “trauma” and the fight-or-flight or freeze response will be shaken off and the animal resumes normal activity.
Click here to watch a video of a polar bear “shaking off trauma”.
But humans don’t often “shake it off”. Because we have a frontal lobe, humans are very aware of the rules about social behavior. When a human experiences a traumatic event, we don’t always turn inward to ask our bodies what the body needs in order to recover order and a sense of “okayness” following the event. In fact, we often observe our bodies and the needs of the body with dismay from the perspective of the “mind”. A person who is in a major car accident, may walk away from this trauma and try to control their shaking and trembling rather than just letting it happen, for example. Paramedics and EMTs are seldom trained to recognize the “post-trauma shake” for what it actually is. They don’t support the shaking as necessary to restore health (and prevent serious diseases like cancer or diabetes). Indeed, after women give birth, their bodies naturally shake violently as giving birth is, by nature, a matter of life-or-death (even in situations involving an “easy” birth). After giving birth, women begin trembling and the doctors tell them that this is “just hormones”, but that’s not true. It’s the body’s way of shaking off a traumatic event. A woman who isn’t able to shake with proper force or who tries to control the shaking using the mind might later develop postpartum depression, anxiety, or even psychosis. The body reconnects to the mental-logical mind through the shake – shaking is trauma integration. When the mind can accept the trembling as natural and time-limited, the body can then heal.
Screaming, running, crying, and other forms of “acting out” are related to the post-trauma shake. There are many situations in our personal and professional lives when we aren’t able to or permitted to act the way that we feel. This creates trauma-overload.
The suppression of our body’s natural reaction to trauma is what causes trauma to get stored inside the body. When trauma is stored in the body it lives in or around the autonomic nervous system. We arrange novel relationships with the traumatized parts of ourselves while pushing them away. In cancer, we form a “false placenta” to feed the lost, traumatized parts that we’ve sent away. In diabetes, we shut down parts of our cells and become partially “dormant” while parts of ourselves are away. In autism, children only partially “embodied” their energy such that they are half in and half out – they often negotiate a mind-heavy existence in adulthood after initially being in an almost exclusive “felt-sense” existence during childhood. When trauma is not properly released at the time when the traumatic event occurs, it exists as a powerful emotion that takes on the qualities of a personality. We call it a “sub-personality” to pay homage to the fact that everyone has a Core Self that is not damaged and in fact wise.
But we need to take this idea of trauma one step further and also acknowledge Bert Hellinger’s work with Constellations Theory. Hellinger noted that “interrupted love scripts or sequences” can be traumatizing too. In other words, if, for example, a child tries to show love to a parent but the parent is not able to tune in to the child for one reason or another, the child will experience the interrupted effort to show love as “traumatic”. This happens to us as adults too. As an adult, if you fall in love with someone who is not able to love you back properly, your body will experience this interruption as traumatic. The sadness and fear about interrupted love sequences can be paralyzing. Grief as the result of losing a loved one falls into this category, but depending on the circumstances surrounding the death of a loved one, the trauma may also involve fear and a lot of anger too. As such, in relationships, particularly close relationships, if our efforts to show love aren’t received for some reason by the object of our affections, this registers in the body as traumatic.
In fact, trauma can be caused by something that’s fairly mundane like a painful dental appointment. In this article, I discuss how I developed panic attacks in response to a dental appointment and how a sacred medicine called Sapito brought on the attacks. Many of the sacred medicines bring trauma to the surface. In other words, sacred medicines like Ayahuasca cause us to easily embody our pain so that, like Dr. Peter Levine’s patient, we can embody it and then release it. The embodiment of trauma might involve odd movements like shaking or trembling violently, the experience of powerful “stuck” emotions that are uncomfortable, purging, feverish heat that feels like burning from the inside, or chilling coldness. As you embody your trauma, it becomes integrated into your general sense of self – it becomes reconnected to the Core Self. Prior to integration, the logical left-brain will often have strong negative assessments of the “felt sense” of the trauma. This typically sounds like mental chatter with negative, judgmental overtones, but it can also look like “introjects” or mental representations of people that we know in real life who “talk to us negatively inside our heads”. Many people have powerful introjects (a concept that we’ve stolen from hypnotherapy) that they interact with daily. For example, a person may have a powerful introject of a parent who judges them as they clean the house or cook meals. Most people allow introjects to speak without consciously noticing the introject. Sacred medicines like Sapito or Ayahuasca allow the Core Self to consciously notice introjects as well as negative mental chatter and find resolution between the feelings and the thoughts about what happened. Sacred medicines allow us to feel what we need to feel, shake if we need to shake, vomit if we need to vomit, or feel feverish if we need to feel feverish, in order to release negative, traumatic experiences from the past.
Trauma almost always involves the sense that the world is not a safe place. The pancreas, as the organ in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that deals with our sense of trust or distrust, is at the forefront as the part of the body that manages and “holds” the problem of trauma. An expression of trauma overload might involve liver congestion (the liver holds anger), gallstones (the gallbladder manages curiosity as well as ancestral trauma), and pancreatic enzyme deficiencies or blockages or insulin resistance and cellular dormancy. While the pancreas deals with safety and trust, the liver holds anger, the kidneys hold fear, and the gallbladder holds ancestral trauma and our ability to be open and curious. These organs all work together, but below we’ll talk about the pancreas and how the pancreas manages cancer.
How Ayahuasca Cures Cancer: Trauma and the Pancreas
Dr. John Beard was an embryologist who noted that cancerous tumors look and behave identically to the trophoblast cells that are produced in the early stages of a pregnancy. Trophoblast cells are the cells that eventually form the placenta and umbilical cord that interfaces the growing fetus with its mother. Dr. Beard referred to cancerous tumors as “false placentas” because this is essentially what these cells are. For more information about Dr. Beard’s Trophoblast Theory of Cancer and his work with pancreatic enzymes to cure cancer, click here.
If one were inclined to consider the shamanic perspective that trauma can cause “soul loss” or the dissociation of the human psyche into “parts” or “sub-personalities – see Dr. Richard Schwartz’s “parts theory” for more information), Dr. Beard’s “false placentas” might be viewed as physical manifestations of soul parts that need to return to the Core Self and “integrate” back into the material body. The “false placentas” / cancer cells might be viewed as a physical manifestation of a person who has sent a lot of their life energy away and who is “feeding” these soul parts / energies that are no longer present inside the body.
If you’re new to the idea of trauma, trauma-release and how trauma overload impacts people’s lives, let’s start by considering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / PTSD. Most people are familiar with the language of PTSD and the idea of “flashbacks” and “triggers”. Classic PTSD has been portrayed many times in films and on TV where a person who has been exposed to a trauma suddenly is “triggered” by a real life object or event that then causes them to experience a “flashback”.
While most of us have seen dramatizations of PTSD in the form of flashbacks and triggers, fewer people are familiar with more profound manifestations of trauma in the form of Resignation Syndrome. Resignation Syndrome is something that has been documented most thoroughly in regard to refugee children in Sweden. These children and their families escaped severe trauma from war-torn countries. Many of them experienced additional trauma on the journey to gain refugee status in Sweden. Resignation Syndrome is something that has happened to some of these children after they established their lives in this new country and then the government of Sweden suddenly decided to send the family and the child back to the war-torn country.
Children with Resignation Syndrome slowly go into a state of coma after receiving the news that the family is being sent back to the war-torn country. You can imagine that the Swedish government invested a quantity of funds into trying to prove that these children were somehow “faking it”, but what actually happened was that the investigators into Resignation Syndrome proved that an emotional trauma can actually cause a person to “send their soul away” and have a physical response to emotionally devastating news.
Families whose children developed Resignation Syndrome that later received word that they could stay in Sweden permanently, would tell their comatose children this news and slowly, the child would come back to life and consciousness. Doctors and scientists who studied these children and who tried to disprove their comatose state found again and again that the children weren’t faking it. The children had feeding tubes and they were completely comatose and not arousable.
Indeed, when I worked in long-term care facilities in the United States, every now and then a patient would stop eating and go into a twilight state of consciousness where they would stop speaking and seem to be “not there”. The nurses would call this kind of patient behavior a “hunger strike”, but I spent hours in rooms with these people, force-feeding them high-nutrition drinks because by law, we were required to make sure every patient was fed every day. So I had a lot of time to really watch these people and interact with them in this state. It was confounding and it made me very curious. What was going on here? My fellow co-workers and I would speculate as to what was actually happening to these patients as we stood over them trying to feed them with a feeding tube. These people in the nursing homes were generally elderly and no scientists or doctors ever arrived with curiosity to study what was happening to them. Nonetheless, Resignation Syndrome is not something that only happens to refugee children in Sweden. As someone who worked in the medical field, I’ve seen it for years but I never had a name for it.
Dr. Robert Naviaux recognized similarities between Resignation Syndrome and Autism / ASD and he became one of the scientists who studied Resignation Syndrome. He worked with a substance called Suramin to cure autism in clinical trials. Suramin is a natural substance that comes from pine trees. It has been in use for nearly a century, so it’s a fairly safe medicine with lots of scientific studies demonstrating how to use it properly. It has the ability to awaken human cells that have gone dormant. According to this model, we might think of each human cell as a packet of our life-force or soul energy. In any case, Dr. Naviaux had great success at using Suramin as a cure for autism, though (not surprisingly) Suramin is still not approved by the FDA to use for this purpose. Click here to learn more about Suramin for autism.
If you’re wondering what all of this has to do with the biology of the pancreas, keep reading…
We might think about autism as a disorder that’s related to Resignation Syndrome along a spectrum that also includes PTSD, diabetes, and cancer. While PTSD involves momentary flashbacks (that seem like an eternity to the person experiencing them), Resignation Syndrome involves a persistent, if not permanent “flashback” involving a morestate of “sending oneself to another time or plane of reality”. Kids who have returned from this state of being describe feeling like they were “trapped in a glass cube filled with water that would break if they moved even a little bit”. Diabetes involves temporary states wherein cells go dormant at times when they’re supposed to be awake as insulin receptors become “unreceptive”. The Cell Danger Response might be conceptualized as cellular dormancy involving a lack of insulin receptivity at specific times of the day or night. Suramin is one of several medicines that can help cells “wake up”.
During healthy sleep, Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) instigates non-Rapid-Eye-Movement (non-REM) sleep and then Growth Hormone (GH) is released in response to GHRH. GH instigates REM sleep, the stage of sleep that involves dreaming and the processing of stress and trauma. During REM sleep, under the dominion of GH, the cells of the body go into a temporary state of insulin resistance. This is a recuperative insulin resistance that allows cells to rest and the soul and energy field of the body enters into an REM dream-state at this time. When insulin sensitivity returns to cells, insulin begins distributing nutrients once again to cells including glucose, fatty acids, and amino acids so that the cells that have been properly “de-stressed” and “de-traumatized” can begin doing maintenance on themselves. So insulin resistance actually has a function in the human body and diabetes can be a manifestation of insulin resistance in an amplified form. Cancer, in contrast to diabetes, PTSD, and Resignation Syndrome, involves a more persistent version of sending oneself away, but in cancer, the false placentas (most people call them “tumors”) act as an interface between soul parts / energies that exist elsewhere and the material body that is alive on this plane.
The pancreas, of course, is the organ that produces and secretes insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin is the primary hormone that ensures that our cells receive nutrients.
Dissociation is a key concept that we have to understand in order to work with trauma and bring it into the realm of a solvable problem. Dr. Richard Schwartz developed the model that involves the Core Self, as the part of us that is wise and that has a higher-level of knowing that then other parts that might dissociate from the Core. Dissociations of the Core Self can occur as a result of need. For example, a child or an adult may dissociate in order to create a sub-personality / soul part that deals with public speaking. Public speaking may be traumatic to a child or to an adult, necessitating dissociation in order to survive. The dissociated part / personality may be really good at public speaking and it may be able to really develop this skill, but this dissociated part may also be terrible at dealing with intimate relationships. If we “embody” a dissociated part of us and allow it to take over at an inappropriate time, issues in relationships can arise.
Some people dissociate by ruminating on the past. Other people dissociate by ruminating on or even looking forward to future events. For example, a few years ago, I homesteaded a property in Mexico with my husband, daughter, and son-in-law. I was in charge of making plans for how to build our houses ourselves. So I spent a lot of time creating hypothetical designs. Over time, I dissociated into design-making and after we started building the houses, I started getting migraine headaches. Some of these headaches were set-off by my need to go into “design-mode” with a pencil and paper when in fact, we were working outside doing hands-on construction. This is one example of how dissociation can cause physical symptoms of disease. One a part of you is dissociated from the Core, it can be “embodied” as a sub-personality that has its own emotions and it’s own inclinations about how to behave.
A very extreme example of dissociation is Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) / Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which involves the creation of distinct sub-personalities that don’t always know about each other. The primary difference between MPD / DID and a normal person with a normal psyche is the level of “integration” of each of the personalities. In MPD / DID, one or many personalities are well-hidden from the Core Self. People with MPD / DID experience periods of amnesia as a result. Different personalities may look differently in terms of how the facial muscles are tensed or relaxed. Different personalities may wear their hair differently or wear different clothes. But while this may seem really extreme, in fact, a normal psyche is built to withstand basic trauma through the same kind of dissociation that people experience when they have MPD / DID. In MPD / DID, one sub-personality may have diabetes while another sub-personality does not. So a person with DID / MPD may sometimes have diabetes and sometimes not. This is a fact, though it is not a well-publicized fact because it challenges our basic assumptions about medicine, disease, and the mind-body connection. If all human beings are configured with the same dissociative tendencies as someone with MPD / DID, then we all have the ability to sometimes be very sick and sometimes be okay. This takes us back to the discussion above about how “insulin resistance” is installed in human cells every night during REM sleep cycles. During REM sleep, the body is paralyzed and it doesn’t move, yet the brain goes into a brainwave pattern that resembles waking consciousness. “Insulin resistance” might be analogous to Resignation Syndrome, if the comatose state of Resignation Syndrome were temporary and only lasted through one round of REM sleep.
But we still need to wrap back around and talk about how the pancreas manages these problems. Obviously, the pancreas secretes insulin, and insulin opens up human cells to receive nutrition and fuel for survival. But there’s more…
We’ve established now that diabetes and insulin resistance is a temporary state that can happen naturally and end naturally. In those with MPD / DID, diabetes can be an oscillating state that comes and goes. But all of us are “dissociative”. Every human psyche is built to break into two or three or five pieces or more in response to stress and trauma. Dissociation is how we survive very difficult situations that make us do things we normally wouldn’t want to do. Dissociation helps us manage the hypocrisy of our lives.
We talked about the relationship between Growth Hormone (GH) and REM sleep, but also the relationship between insulin resistance and REM sleep. For those with cancer, insulin and pancreatic enzymes, both produced by the pancreas, are equally important. While a person with diabetes is mostly focused on insulin and insulin sensitivity, a person with cancer should be thinking more holistically about the pancreas because pancreatic enzymes and insulin both play an important role in this disease.
Dr. Beard used pancreatic enzymes to cure cancer with a 13% success rate using enzymes as a stand-alone medicine with no other form of treatment for terminal, stage 4 cancer patients who did not respond to treatment with other therapies. That’s a pretty high success rate given that chemotherapy medicines have only a 2-3% success rate at curing cancer as a stand-alone treatment and pancreatic enzymes were able to cure terminal cancer 13% of the time with no other treatments involved.
Pancreatic enzymes work as a cure for cancer because they were designed to not only digest food down to nutrient parts, but to also be absorbed back into the bloodstream at the end of every meal to circulate through the body and seek out cancer cells. In order to absorb pancreatic enzymes into the bloodstream following a meal you have to either take supplements or eat a diet that’s low in animal products and foods that require a lot of pancreatic enzymes for digestion. The China Study Diet is a diet that includes less than 5% animal products to literally “shut down” cancer growth. When pancreatic enzymes in the blood come into contact with cancer cells or tumors, they weaken cancer cells by eating away at the external sheath that protects cancer cells from the immune system. That’s just one reason why the pancreas should be supported after a cancer diagnosis. Pancreatic enzymes (when they are in excess of what we need for food digestion) digest cancer cells throughout the body. This is a relatively recent discovery, but one that is scientifically validated. When there are excess pancreatic enzymes leftover at the end of a meal, these enzymes are absorbed by the intestines, they circulate throughout the body and then return to the pancreas to be recycled and used again. This cuts down on the use of energy to produce new pancreatic enzymes, but it also allows the enzymes to act as an anticancer medicine on their route back to the pancreas from the intestines.
Click here to learn more about pancreatic enzyme therapy for cancer.
Without pancreatic enzymes to digest food down into its nutrient parts for absorption into the bloodstream, insulin would be worthless. Pancreatic enzymes digest food into nutrients and then the nutrients are absorbed into the blood. Once they’re in the blood, the next step is for insulin to take the fatty acids, amino acids, and sugars to feed cells so that our human cells can keep themselves healthy.
Most people don’t know that insulin helps move more than just sugars across the cell membrane. Insulin helps move all the major nutrients and even some medicines into cells so that our cells can be healthy. In some alternative therapies for cancer, doctors combine low-dose chemotherapy with insulin. In Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT), insulin is combined with low-dose chemo to take the medicine directly into cancer cells. As a substance that causes cells to “open wide and swallow”, insulin is often administered along with a “spoonful of sugar” (so to speak) to make it more effective as a Trojan Horse in the war against cancerous tumors. The Brandt Grape Cure is based on the concept that cancer cells “open wide” for sugars and if those sugars are attached to a medicine like amygdalin / vitamin B17 as another powerful natural cure for cancer, the medicine is more likely to hit the target and do what it needs to do.
Pancreatic enzymes from the pancreas digest food down to nutrient parts. The enzymes circulate in the bloodstream to find cells that are resistant to “opening up” – cells that are hidden in a way that makes them invisible to the immune system. But insulin is released into the bloodstream to carry the recently digested nutrients into cells. Insulin is the primary hormone in the body that deals with growth and maintenance of cells. Though it usually deals with nutrients to distribute them to cells in need, insulin can also be used to deliver medicines like chemotherapy or amygdalin to cells. Cancer might be viewed as a situation in which the body is severely malnourished, but the malnourishment might have taken shape for emotional, not just physical or nutritional reasons (remember that in Resignation Syndrome, the whole body and all of the cells go into a relative state of dormancy). The challenge is in getting the body and the mind to open up to receive nutrients as well as hope. Hope would be like emotional nutrition. As we talked about earlier in regard to the Resignation Syndrome children, hope can bring people back to life.
Cancer involves cells that are very resistant to opening up, but Ayahuasca can help with this process.
How to Test for Cancer at Home While Working with Ayahuasca
One little known fact that relates to this information about Trophoblasts and cancer is the fact that cancer can be diagnosed using an at-home pregnancy test. This fact relates to the “false placenta” Trophoblast Theory. Biopsies are rarely needed for cancer patients except in rare situations. PET scans, MRIs and all of the “high-tech” diagnostic procedures that also often require patients to consume or be exposed to some form of radioactivity (which is notoriously bad for healthy human cells) can be avoided using a simple at-home pregnancy test. It is the placenta, after all, that produces the human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) that’s tested for on a home pregnancy test. Pregnancy tests work as a way to diagnose cancer at home in all patients except a patient who is definitely pregnant or who might be pregnant. If the person taking the test is definitely not pregnant and the test shows a positive result, the person has cancer. This is because cancer cells are trophoblast cells, which are just like the trophoblast cells that produce hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) during the development of the placenta after an ovum is fertilized. If you are looking into using Ayahuasca as a cure for cancer, it’s good to have a way to monitor your own results, so it’s important to mention this here.
Supporting the Pancreas: Ayahuasca Dieta for Cancer Patients
In terms of an anticancer diet, when a person eats a balanced diet that includes animal products in fairly low proportions (less than 5%) in comparison to the rest of the diet, there are excess pancreatic enzymes leftover at the end of digestion that are absorbed into the bloodstream. These enzymes are absorbed by the last segment of the intestines and they go into the bloodstream where they are then able to travel throughout the entire body in search of cancerous tumors. If the pancreatic enzymes find cancerous tumors somewhere in the body, they eat away at the protective sheath so that they become exposed to the immune system for eradication. The enzymes then return to the pancreas to be reused at the next meal or snack. A person who wishes to work with Ayahuasca might consider following The China Study Diet or a modified version of the Gerson Diet prior to taking Ayahuasca. Coffee enemas can be especially important for cancer patients. In fact, they may reduce the need to purge during an Ayahuasca trip in patients who work with coffee enemas for a few weeks prior to taking the brew.
Ayahuasca for Cancer Overview
So, just to review:
- The pancreas is the organ at the core of a cancer diagnosis. When in excess following food digestion, pancreatic enzymes circulate in the bloodstream to eat away at the sheath that covers cancerous tumors to expose them to the immune system.
- Insulin delivers nutrients to cells, not just carbohydrates, but also fats and proteins too. If cells become “insulin-resistant” throughout the day when you are not in the midst of an REM sleep cycle this is a sign that you’ve sent parts of your energy away.
- Ayahuasca supports the pancreas by removing bile sludge and bile stones from the liver and gallbladder through a “purge”. The purge represents anger, which typically stands sentinel to guard the more fragile emotions like sadness and fear that occur as a result of severe trauma.
- On a physical level, Ayahuasca supports insulin sensitivity by opening up the common bile duct that connects the liver and gallbladder to the pancreas. Once the common bile duct is opened and clear, pancreatic enzymes flow more freely to digest nutrients.
- Ayahuasca supports the return of energies and soul parts that have been sent away. This might be likened to the return of insulin sensitivity to cells such that cells that were dormant and sick are restored to health and awakeness.
Ayahuasca works not just on the physical level to cure cancer by healing the pancreas. It also works on the emotional-spiritual level to release trauma that causes soul loss and a dissociation of the vital energy in the human body. People who are lucky enough to learn about Ayahuasca for cancer, often feel nervous about working with this sacred medicine, but Ayahuasca is kind. Though some people do in fact experience a purge (vomiting or diarrhea) after taking Ayahuasca, purging happens less often the more you work with this medicine. And patients who are concerned about Ayahuasca-induced vomiting should consider doing daily or twice-daily coffee enemas not only to prevent a major purge after taking Ayahuasca, but also to detoxify the body more efficiently so that it can heal more rapidly as you begin working with these medicines. Click here to learn more about coffee enemas for cancer.
Click here to learn more about amygdalin, a plant-derived substance with a 70-90% cancer cure rate.
If you are not currently eating an anti-cancer diet that is low in animal products, click here to learn more about The China Study Diet and how it works to cure or prevent cancer naturally.
Click here to learn more about the use of pancreatic enzymes to cure cancer.