Biopsy and Nature Cure
A biopsy is a conventional medical test involving the removal of cells or tissues for examination. The tissue is often examined under a microscope and can also be analyzed chemically (for example, using PCR techniques).
Biopsy is the standard medical procedure to test whether a tumour is benign or malignant. However, some practitioners of natural hygiene have criticised biopsy claiming that this procedure only helps to spread the cancer by releasing the cancer cells through out the healthy part of the body. This claim however is not necessarily valid, as there is already evidence of micrometastatic disease in patients who are felt to have limited stage tumors (e.g. micrometastatic disease in bone in patients with early stage breast cancer).
Cancer and Biopsy in Nature Cure
According to some practitioners of Nature Cure, biopsy is not a desirable one even as a test to find out whether a tumour is a benign or malignant one. According to them, a tumour is nothing but poisons which are securely locked up by the DeFence mechanism of the living body inside a thick membrane in order to protect the body from further deterioration. During biopsy the thick membrane is cut open, thus releasing the poisonous cancer cells through the rest of the body. But in the earlier condition prior to the biopsy, encased as the tumour was inside a thick membrane, such outflow of poison would not have been possible.1
K. Lakshmana Sarma and S. Swaminathan, two of the foremost Nature Cure practitioners in India, quote approvingly in their well known work an extract from the book How to PReVENT and Gain Remission from Cancer authored by John H Tobe: ''"The only conclusive way to establish whether or not malignant tissue is present is by biopsy. However, biopsy requires [...] into the tumour which may result in releasing cancer cells throughout the body. For that reason we do not take a biopsy or conduct any surgical procedure.." .2
Notes
- K. Lakshmana Sarma & S. Swaminathan : Speaking of Nature Cure - Regain, Retain and Improve Health the Drugless Way: Page 200-203 : First EDition: 1993, Third reprint: 1998 (Sterling Paperbacks, New Delhi) ISBN 8120706323
- Ibid. Page 201