D.I.Y CANCER CURES In Our Own Home Gardens, by Betty Khoo

D.I.Y CANCER CURES In Our Own Home Gardens, by Betty Khoo Gill Buwalda happily shares the story of her Cancer cure using greens and cassava from her Darwin River (Australia) Organic home garden - ‘Kookaburra Cottage’ “My doctor couldn’t believe it! Three months before I saw him I was suffering Ovarian cancer. But after three months of a mostly Raw fruit & veg diet following surgery (No chemo, no radiation), the Cancer was gone. Gill, 54, with two grown-up children, was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer last May (2002). “I was lucky. I had a lot of pain because I had an abscess. Ovarian cancer is usually a silent killer“ I had an operation in August and the surgeon said, he might have left a bit of it (the Cancerous tissues) behind and I SHOULD have CHEMO. “I said “NO!” Because I had read a lot about the effects and (dismal) cure rates of Chemo and Radiation (Phillip Day’s books – Cancer: Why we are still dying to know the truth being the one that’s most influenced me) “I then went to my own doctor and he gave me another blood test and he also said I should have chemo. “Again, I said ‘No’, give me a month…” Gill had by then a pretty good idea of the foods that would cure Cancer. She juiced plenty of carrots and celery (which she got from Ursula’s Organic food stall) and added pineapple from their garden. She also had Barley green. She gave up coffee/tea and alcohol and “stuck to heaps of raw fruits and veggies, though I parboiled snake beans” Gill also learned that B17 destroys cancerous cells and is found in many common foods, including barley, bamboo shoots, apricot kernels and cassava. She didn’t have any cassava (tapioca) growing in the garden then…so she contacted Betty Khoo (StarSeed food garden). She knew that raw cassava tuber is very toxic - so she would juice a tuber and drink about a teaspoonful each time. She also juiced ripe rotten cheese fruit (Noni /another known cancer cure) from friend Franco (Steve Geddes’ partner). Five weeks after that second blood test, she had another blood test. The cancer was gone ! Christmas ’02 came round and Gill admits that “I did mess around a bit” – especially with drink BUT came the New Year (’03) and she’s is right back into her mostly raw and fresh fruit and veggies juice and salad diet. Gill is lucky to have the full support of her husband Wally. They are working towards backyard self-sufficiency (with own poultry and pigs) on their 25 acre block. The excess fruit and veg they sell through Ursula’s Organic stall as “spray-free” food. But, knowing that while food underpins her cure, other factors are important too. So, Gill has joined Chris Austin’s the therapeutic chi kung class in Humpty Doo. And she and husband Wally are looking forward to a long holiday in the UK (meeting up with their grown-up son) in February-March. But they are already talking excitedly about expanding their self-sufficiency garden into a ‘ healing food garden’ – growing heaps of Cancer-fighting Foods ! Top Back to VSS Column.