The patient first discussed arrived late yesterday. The first picture, taken at about 6 PM shows the site after removal of the poultice.
As noted, it is bloodless and clean. The yellowish material around the edges of the crater is poultice powder that was difficult to remove without causing unnecessary pain to the patient. So long as the site is not jostled, it is not uncomfortable.
Her choice was to use more escharotic because she was afraid that one round perhaps didn't get the entire malignancy.

This was confirmed about an hour later when the second picture was taken. It clearly shows that more morbid material was percolating to the surface. We tried anesthetizing the treatment
(with a topical cream) site so that a further application of the
escharotic would not be painful. In fact, this method proved intolerably painful. We removed the escharotic almost immediately, applied another poultice, and made a fresh escharotic this morning with heavy amounts of white willow
bark. This proved to be entirely painless.

Due to the reaction last night to the escharotic, the need for
crisis management was tremendous. The pain was a shock, but the fear went deeper.
The fear, of course, was that there would be no way to remove the tumor that was bearable. This translated into, "I'm dying." We did a music therapy session late at night, until well after midnight. First, there was relaxation and a wonderful mixture of joy and sadness. The patient is newly married, very much in love with her husband who is devoted to her. That is the joy.
The sadness is that they both want more time to enjoy each other
and their lives. She saw a year of conventional treatments as stealing all their quality time. There was endless juicing: purchasing vegetables; scrubbing vegetables; juicing; drinking the juices; cleaning the juicer; coffee enemas, and guilt if she missed a single glass of juice or enema. Failure to conform to the protocol meant death. When she started the work with me,
the first thing I did was give her back several hours every day for herself by trimming the protocol. She looks and feels more alive. This treatment is challenging, but not nearly as time consuming as what she had been doing. She had been in hospitals much of the year, in one case for a full month. I got her back to her job where she can feel like she is living, not dying. She likes her work, but since she is a visible person, I won't say what it is. However, there are other things she wants to do that are more purposeful and creative. Treatment was robbing her of the time these pursuits would require. She is still juicing, but not the prescribed 13- 8 ounce glasses a day. She is being more normal without being careless.

In the latter part of the music therapy, she saw choices and the
ramifications of the choices, and she dialogued with her soul about issues and directions.

This morning, she was steady, focused, calm, and encouraged. What I am saying is that though there is here a method for removing the tumor, there is much more to the healing process than herbs and supplements.

Dr. Ingrid Naiman
SEVENTHRAY@MSN.COM