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Martin Goldstein D.V.M.
The Nature Of Animal Healing

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At the time, the best way we knew to boost the immune system was through fasting or high doses of intravenous vitamin C. As soon as a fast begins, the body stops expending its energy on digestion and uses it instead to begin cleansing itself of toxicity that may be inhibiting the immune system. Vitamin C was the most immuno-supportive natural supplement we had at hand, and we were mindful of the success that holistic veterinarian Wendell O. Belfield was having in arresting or reversing other degenerative diseases with megadoses of intravenous C. One of our first test cases was a twenty-four-pound poodle. It taught us a lot.
The poodle had been brought to our clinic with a bone tumor in the mouth. Twice the tumor had been excised by conventional surgery; twice it had grown back more aggressively than before. More radical surgery would mean removing part of the jaw that adjoined the tumor, and for this pet, that wasn't a good option. Cryosurgery could freeze the tumor even though it was in the bone, so that it held special promise for oral cancers in pets. Unfortunately in the case of the poodle, my brother had no better luck than the operating surgeon. The bone remained intact after each of two procedures, supported by intravenous vitamin C, but the tumor grew back. At that point, we had nothing to lose. We decided to put the poodle on a liquid fast of juices, broths, and distilled water--the same fast that we had undergone to such good effect on our own health.
After ten days of fasting, the tumor showed a slower growth rate. After fourteen days, it began to soften. During this time, we monitored the poodle's vital signs and they stayed excellent. She had great energy and color, and her spirits, too, appeared very high. Finally, on the sixteenth day, the tumor began to shrink and break apart. We felt we were witnessing a natural miracle. On an almost hourly basis, we gathered to observe the tumor diminishing. By Day 18, we thought, the tumor would be gone.
On the seventeenth day, the poodle died.
In the somber aftermath, we realized our mistake. Holistic as our intent was, we'd retained our focus, as conventionally trained veterinarians, on wiping out the symptom--the tumor--as quickly as possible, in this case at the expense of the dog's overall health. The cancer, in breaking up, had flooded the body with more toxicity than it could handle, especially since the rest of the body had been so cleansed from the fast. The liver, the body's primary detoxifier, had been overwhelmed. The dog hadn't died of cancer. She hadn't starved to death, either; even on the next to last day she was full of energy, and she still had good muscle mass on her body. She had died of a sudden overload of toxicity which her liver simply couldn't handle.
Clearly we should have stopped the fast the day before. The process of detoxification would have stopped or slowed along with it, relaxing the pressure of tumor breakdown and allowing the liver to "catch up." Perhaps the tumor would have grown back a bit, but so what? The fast could resume later, when the liver would be ready again to process more of the tumor's toxicity. Later, we would see that a march of two steps forward, one step back, mimics the body's own healing process: first a strong attack on the cancer cells, then a modest retreat to let the body regain its balance, then another attack. We had fixated on beating the tumor in the shortest possible time. But why? If overall there was progress--two steps forward, one step back--what did it matter if we took three years, rather than three weeks, to neutralize the threat? The body as a whole, we realized, had to be our guide. We could treat cancer only as quickly as the body allowed.
At the same time, we felt sure now that we were on the right course--away from radiation and chemotherapy. I hit on an analogy that's stayed with me, about a high school janitor. As long as the janitor works his regular night shift, the school remains clean. What happens if he gets sick and fails to show up for work? Soon students and teachers arriving in the morning will find the school filled with papers and debris. But the garbage has not "attacked" the school any more than cancer "attacks" a body. How does conventional medicine respond? By burning all the papers! Not only does that put the whole school building at risk, it fails to solve the problem. Soon enough, more papers and debris will collect. Far more useful to get the janitor well, and put him back to work.
The janitor, in this analogy, as you may have guessed, is the immune system.

 

 
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