Sask. Métis man uses traditional medicines to treat cancer

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A Métis man who opted to use Indigenous therapies for his terminal cancer instead of chemotherapy was initially turned down for followup care by a specialist, but the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency is now encouraging specialists to accept patients using traditional practices.

It all started when 61-year-old Ric Richardson, a business owner and university student in the northern Saskatchewan village of Green Lake, was diagnosed by a Saskatoon oncologist in February with Stage 4 lung cancer.

Richardson, who is also the village's mayor, was told he could begin chemotherapy in two weeks, but didn't.




"We live in our medicine cabinet — it's called the northern boreal forest," he said.

Richardson's cancer-fighting regimen focuses on drinking teas made from plants in the region, including dandelion root and balsam fir.

He also receives help from people in medicine circles elsewhere in the province, as well as in Alberta and in Haida Gwaii, B.C., where his cousins, who are also cancer survivors, send him medicines made by a local medicine man.

Richardson said that when he initially told the specialist he wanted to be treated the traditional way, the doctor interpreted that to mean he was refusing treatment.



The agency arranged for Richardson to meet with a third oncologist, planning it so he could have a CT scan, blood work and oncological determination done on the same day instead of the northern Saskatchewan resident having to make multiple trips for appointments in Saskatoon.

During that June 1 appointment, Richardson got some good news: The tumours had shrunk.

"Obviously we're on the right track and things are working well," he said.

"My energy level is high, I'm able to function in all of the aspects of my life, and so we are continuing to use the traditional route."

By being a living example of how traditional Indigenous medicines can be integrated into the modern system, Richardson said, "It gives me the opportunity to effect change that will help others."


http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/sask ... -1.4213395

[Queen K]

Yup. Use everything at ones disposal.

And plenty of people die from chemo and other cancer drugs. But if this man dies, they'll say, "see herbs don't work."

[zzontar]

Here's another native anti-cancer remedy that big pharma doesn't want you to know about.

http://www.healthfreedom.info/cancer%20essiac.htm

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