On January 1, 2003 physicians Dr. Hari Sharma and Dr. Rama Kant Mishra announced a new war against cancer, a war aimed at people rather than the disease. Their campaign, “A First Ever Cancer Defense Program for Physicians,” draws upon fresh scientific approaches that unite alternative and conventional medicine.
“We’re coming to realize that we’ve been training our guns on the wrong place,” asserts Dr. Han Sharma, worldrenowned cancer researcher, retired medical school professor, expert in alternative medicine, and author of four books including The Answer to Cancer (SelectBooks, 2002). “Cancer takes on so many forms. It’s not really a single disease but many. When you attack even one form, it tends to morph into others. There is a reason that our 50 years of war on cancer have not succeeded. The enemy, cancer, is wily, shifting, perplexing, practically impossible.”
Depressing statistics from the American Cancer Society show that 1 man in 2 and 1 woman in 3 will contract cancer in some form, some time in their lives. Physicians have been mobilized against cancer for decades, Drs. Sharma and Mishra acknowledge, but they have been warring against cancer itself, and it hasn’t worked. “We are now providing the blueprint for another plan of battle, a policy of Defense aimed at strengthening the person at such a profound level that cancer cannot start.”
Physicians have begun to turn to alternative medicine for fresh reinforcements in their battle against cancer, as evidenced by a Harvard study on “Advising patients who seek complementary and alternative medical therapies for cancer.” (Annals of Internal Medicine, Dec. 3, 2002.)
Much of the advice so far has been preliminary, as mainstream physicians try their wings in these new approaches not taught in medical schools until recently. “We are providing advanced advice here,” say the physicians. For instance, they say, recommendations from the American Cancer Society call for people to eat more fruits and vegetables. “In our program, we tell them which fruits and vegetables, in what quantities, and at what time of day for which people. Yet we show how doctors can provide such advice while keeping it all very simple.”
“Too much of Western medicine has relied on the ‘magic bullet’ approach,” explains Dr. Mishra. For instance, aware that tomatoes contain the anti-cancer ingredient lycopene, some physicians recommend that people eat as many tomatoes as possible morning, noon, and night. But, the doctors advise, such overdoses cause rashes and upset stomachs and negate the value of the lycopene.
In seeking a magic bullet, Western medicine in one sense has headed in the right direction, the doctors admit. “Researchers have been breaking down DNA to its chemical constituents and seeking chemical solutions that destroy cancer where it starts,” they say. Science in all fields, particularly physics, have been moving beyond the old test tube model to evaluate the finest particle and chemical levels of reality and beyond. ‘We offer guidance at that finest level, in the self-referral field of consciousness at the basis of life, where consciousness and the DNA interact,” they explain.
“Create strength from that most silent basis, where the chemicals of DNA emerge from the person’s own consciousness, and you create the kind of strength that is impervious to all disease, including that most relentless and challenging disease, cancer.”
Key to effective alternative medicines, says Sharma, is an approach used in Ayurveda called “land and seed theory” Create a land that is inhospitable to disease. Then, when the seeds of disease fall there, nothing happens. “Strengthen the person,” the doctors assert. “Then whether a person has a predisposition to cancer, has been exposed to environmental toxins, or for some other reason is at risk, you eliminate the conditions that allow the disease to break out.”
First fusillade in their people-centric war is their book, The Answer to Cancer, which they are sending out to 500 physicians who already have demonstrated initial understanding of its principles. The book presents simple techniques using increasingly familiar alternative approaches against cancer such as diet, exercise, yoga, meditation as a method for breaking addictions, sleep, and detoxification. “The difference from the panoply of alternative approaches,” say the doctors, “is our systematic, coordinated approach, based both on Western research and on intimate familiarity with the field of consciousness and how it manifests in DNA.” In other words, they say, not only do they show how to use herbs, diet, sleep, and yoga. They show how to use them correctly.
“Physicians are the ones to bring this message to the pubic,” Sharma concludes. “Where else do people look for health? This is a new way of thinking even for most of us as doctors, to ‘treat’ healthy people instead of battling disease in unhealthy people. We project profound benefits to the whole human race from the campaign we’re announcing today.”