Now, about some of the adjuncts to Kelly’s healing.  Let me stress here that had none of these substances or practices been used, she probably still would have recovered.  Perhaps a bit more slowly.  Perhaps a bit less comfortably.  Conversely, had Kelly treated her cancer with every herb, poultice and vitamin known to man but had neglected fasting and colonics, she might well have died.  It has been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine differences, similarities, and importances.  I want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful supporting practices.

Echinacea and chaparral leaves, red clover flowers, and fenugreek seeds are made into medicinal teas that I find very helpful in detoxification programs, because they all are aggressive blood or lymph cleansers and boost the immune response.  These same teas can be used to help the body throw off a cold, flu, or other acute illness but they have a much more powerful effect on a fasting body than on one that is eating.  Echinacea and chaparral are extraordinarily bitter and may be better accepted if ground up and encapsulated, or mixed with other teas with pleasant flavors such as peppermint or lemon grass.  These teas should be simmered until they are at the strongest concentration palatable, drinking three or four cups of this concentrate a day.  If you use echinacea, then chaparral probably isn’t necessary and visa versa.  Red clover is another blood cleanser, perhaps a little less effective but it has a pleasant, sweet taste and may be better accepted by the squeamish.

If there is lymphatic congestion I always include fenugreek seed tea brewed at the strength of approximately one tablespoon of seeds to a quart of water.  Expect the tea to be brown, thick and mucilaginous, with a reasonably pleasant taste reminiscent of maple syrup.

Kelly used poultices of clay and wheat grass pulp on her lumps, somewhat like the warm castor oil poultices I used on my mother’s arthritic deposits.  Poultices not only feel very comforting, but they have the effect of softening up deposits and tumors so that a detoxifying, fasting body is more able to re absorb them.  Poultices draw, pulling toxins out through the skin, unburdening the liver.  Clay (freshly-mixed potters clay I purchase from a potters’ guild), mixed with finely chopped or blended young wheat grass (in emergencies I’ve even used lawn grasses) makes excellent drawing poultices.  Without clay, I’ve also used vegetable poultices made of chopped or blended comfrey leaves, comfrey root, slightly cooked (barely wilted) cabbage leaves, slightly steamed onion or garlic (cooked just enough to soften it).  These are very effective to soften tumors, abscesses and ulcers.  Aloe poultices are good on burns.  Poultices should be thought of as helpful adjuncts to other, more powerful healing techniques and not as remedies all by themselves, except for minor skin problems.