Cancer patient healed through juice fasting

By Gina Dizon

SAGADA, Mountain Province -- Cancer patient Juan Lisweg has felt much better since he went on a 42-day juice fasting treatment here at Sagada’s St Theodore’s Hospital.“I can now urinate regularly and without back pains,” the 65-year-old Lisweg said.

A native of adjacent Besao town, but now resides at Tabuk, Kalinga, Lisweg had juice fasting for 10 days when he discovered he was able to urinate normally. “I had to tolerate the bitter juices of camote leaves to get healed”, he said. Lisweg did not take any other other medicine, except for vegetable and fruit juices.

Lisweg had been at the STH for two months now on a juice fasting treatment since Sept. 13, since he hopped from one hospital to another for a year. He left for home Nov. 17.

With abnormal urination and severe back pain, Lisweg went first for consultation at Tabuk Hospital.

He was not getting well so he went to Mandaluyong Hospital where medical personnel found him with 4th degree prostate cancer metastasized to the bones. He was transferred to Philippine General Hospital for more treatment to no avail.

At Bontoc General Hospital, medical staff told him he had to be castrated in order to save his life. The operation has a 50-50 chance of him surviving, he was told.

He opted not to and prayed that God will take care of everything if he was meant to join His maker. The question of whether to live or die changed, when Lisweg met Tom Coghill, STHS Manager of Integrative Medicine, who visited him at BGH.

Lisweg transferred to STHS and underwent juice fasting with the strict supervision of Coghill and Dr Clare Lalwet, STHS administrator.

“It is important also that you have to believe to get healed”, Lisweg said. “Believe also in God because he is the most powerful of all to make things happen.”

Already healed, Lisweg is happy to attend the wedding celebration of his two children in Baguio City, then he will be back again at his residence in Tabuk by January next year.

Dr Lalwet said they will be monitoring also the progress of Lisweg even if he is out of the hospital.

Juice fasting is part of STHS’ directions on integrative medicine. Closely akin to wellness and healing, integrative medicine looks at wholistic living from the kind of diet one takes to how one should raise nutritious and healthy food for well being and vitality.

This includes maintaining organically raised foods and having a healthy lifestyle- no fatty and processed foods and getting enough exercise.

The natural healing through juice fasting works through drinking juices extracted from fruits and vegetables.

For illnesses including hypertension and diabetes, one can go on juice fasting treatment for 30 days. STHS Integrative Medicine program recommends 42 days juice fasting for cancer patients.

“Fighting cancer through juice fasting lowers blood sugar thus weakening cancer cells. Taking in juice extracts also strengthens the immune system and cleanses the body through detoxification,” Coghill said.

Coghill from Great Britain, is author of five healing and fasting books, and owns a popular website on fasting.ws with 30,000 visitors a month.

Fasting allows the digestive system to rest and focus on healing. By taking in fruit and vegetable extracts, the body goes into fasting , the body breaks down fats, and dead and dying cells as fuel for the body’s energy.

For that pre-treatment diet, STHS’ juice fasting approach , cuts down intake of meat, sugar, white flour products and dairy and processed foods. The post treatment diet maintains the benefits gained through fasting. Juicing is recommended and maintenance of natural diet of fruits and vegetables.

For more information, you can visit http://sagadahospital.com or post your questions at sth.holistic@gmail.com. Or better, visit St. Theodore’s Hospital, Sagada Mountain Province.