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Ron Guba on Essential Oils and Skin Cancer by Robert Tisserand
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16. I want to thank you the Sun-Kissed salve. I have been using it at least twice a day, every day since I received it. I love the smell and silkiness of the salve. I will continue to use it and I am anxious to see the results when I return to the dermatologist on in 2 weeks. I had a spot on my nose that was burned off and having a hard time healing. I started applying the Sun-Kissed salve and within a couple of days there was great improvement and now is completely healed. I also have a spot on my back that was biopsied and determined to be basal cell carcinoma and I am also applying the salve to the area before I return for surgical removal in 2 weeks. (I'm praying it will be dramatically improved.) I will update you on the results. - Tina
18. Sun-Kissed is amazing. I have multiple 'solar keratoses' spots on my face, and within a week of using Sun-Kissed 4-5 times daily, they have all practically disappeared. To top off it's efficacy, it smells wonderful! - Cheryl
19. I'm impressed with the Sun-Kissed salve. I have been trying to deal with a few spots on my nose for years, and within a week of using Sun-Kissed 3x daily, they are gone! I love the aroma and plan to keep using it because it is obviously very supportive to healthy skin! - Linda20. I have been meaning to write to you about my results with the Curaderm cream [not a Hopewell product] for the skin cancer on my nose. Altogether it took about 10 weeks for complete healing. I had watched the videos on the Curaderm website and so I knew what to expect when the small hole became larger and larger as the cream killed the cancer cells layer by layer down deep. It was quite painful to wash the dead cells out of the wounds many times a day, put on new cream and then put medical tape over that. I was actually grateful that we had to wear masks during this whole time that I was putting medical tape on my face! I saw a plastic surgeon (booked beforehand by my doctor) partway through the treatment and he was quite rude to me and thought I was crazy to have tried something that I found online instead of letting him cut it out of my nose. But I had seen what surgery had done to the nose of a man in our church and I knew I didn’t want that! I am thankful to the Lord that I was able to treat this at home without surgery. It is completely healed with only a small dip left where the original hole had been for nine months before I started the treatment. Photos are avaialble if you email Linda at Hopewell. - Diana
21. I had a skin cancer area behind my left ear for at least 3 years. I'm a nurse, and I think that it was Basal Cell. My PCP referred me to a dermatologist, but having read up on treatments, I decided to use naturals, as I didn't want the toxic ointments or the scrapings that can also damage other ear structures. I started with Frankincense for several months with no noticeable improvement. I prayed and did a lot of reading. I decided to use Hopewell's Germ Buster blend, as several of the oils have cancer-fighting actions. I applied it for several months with no dilution. It kept it at bay, but it didn't decrease the size initially. I was hospitalized 6 times in 2022 for other issues and each time was without my Germ Buster. During my hospital stays, the lesion would grow until family brought it into me. Fast forward to Dec. 2022, I began using hand lotion as a carrier oil and the lesion began to quickly decrease in size. (For my kidney issues I take Sodium Bicarb which lowers the body PH, so this may also be a partial factor.) So, by Feb. 10, 2023 the lesion is totally gone. I still apply Germ Buster with lotion several times weekly and plan to continue to do so. - Michael
22. I have written down things that have come to my mind that I have done to be a healthier person and to further God's healing of my body from cancer. I will start with an overview of my situation before God's miracle. I would be delighted if my story could help someone else prevent this type of cancer.
In 2010, I noticed a red line coming up the center of my right thumbnail...but since I had been stacking firewood, I didn't think too much about it since I had hit it with wood. But as time passed, the line grew out with my nail instead of disappearing. I began showing it to various health professionals as I went to my yearly physicals, the chiropractor, etc....and it was unanimous!! Well, it isn't black, so it isn't cancer! If I had ONLY known then what was in store for me!
In the second year (2011), the red line was now the length of the nail and started rising up, and the doctors still weren't too worried; it wasn't black after all! The third year (2012) that ridge started breaking apart all the way down the nail, like a valley. Then, a weird, ugly growth started appearing out of my cuticle. Then I started wondering about cancer. I applied Black Salve to it. That was an experience in "HURT!!" It ate it down until it looked like a moon crater but quickly grew back. I reapplied the Black salve and took Black salve pills. The growth kept growing back quickly, and after three painful applications, I decided that was enough of that! Especially since that ugly growth just kept coming back. At my next physical, the doctor looked at my thumb and told me I needed a biopsy. The biopsy revealed it was Stage 2 Melanoma cancer. What a hard shock! Melanoma is a rare form of skin cancer. Only 3% of melanoma is found under a nail, and only 2-3% of THAT is non-pigmented. That was why the line down the nail wasn't black.
I was sent to Dr. Chaudry in Spokane, WA, a leading cancer doctor in the area, and he recommended surgery. The surgeon removed my right thumb just below the first joint and was quite confident that was the end of my cancer, but to be aware if I felt any hard lymph nodes in the future. I was thankful they were all so confident they got it all, and life was good!
But, less than a year later, I found hard lymph nodes under my right arm. Sigh. That is not good news. I had many lymph nodes removed, which was not an easy thing, and I was then told that I needed to be on the lookout for unusual headaches, pains, etc. But they were still pretty confident they had gotten it all - again! I kept on using herbal supplements and started changing over all my personal body care products to healthier versions. I had been making soap bars for years but added laundry soap, lotions, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. I tried very hard to stay away from chemicals and use natural products.
The Lord uses many things to point something out to his children at times. About 8-9 months after the lymph node surgery, I had blood in my urine, but not the normal pain of a kidney stone, so I ignored it for about 2 weeks. Finally, I went to the internal medicine doctor, and he found a very large, 7mm kidney stone, but not in the normal places. It was way down low in my abdomen where he also saw 5 abnormal masses. Diagnosis: Stage 4 metastasized melanoma. Finding of the kidney stone showed up the tumors. This time, Dr. Chaudry told me, on June 12, on my 49th birthday, no less, that I had less than 6 months to live without treatment and possibly 2 years with treatment, and I needed to start on the 'gateway' immunotherapy melanoma drug Yervoy immediately. He warned me the treatment was pretty brutal, and most patients couldn't take all 5 doses. In a bit of shock, we prayed about what to do, and it seemed like that was my only option, even though it would just prolong my life. I started the treatment on June 20, 2014, on our 27th Wedding Anniversary. What a way to mess up the important dates in our lives! After 2 doses, I refused any more. It was indeed brutal, and I began to lose weight rapidly. Dr Chaudry told me there was nothing else to try, and he didn't have much hope.
About this time, my Aunt Linda P. told me about using essential oils to help with cancer, and that idea intrigued me. I had heard of that before and used EO's here and there, but I just didn't know HOW to use them for health benefits. Aunt Linda told me where to look up Hopewell's information and in books, etc., and I read and learned how to use the God-given plant medicine. I began to use them heavily along with many herbal supplements. I was praying for the Lord to use SOMETHING to heal me if it was His will, and I knew I didn't have much time or strength left. She also explained about drinking alkaline water to help balance the body's pH even though we are on well water. She helped me find a good used Nikken water filter setup on Craigslist, so now I also drink good water!
About that time, a pen pal that I have had for many, many years, but have never met, told me about a cancer treatment place that was near her that she had heard great things about. I had seen the ads on TV for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, and they looked wonderful but expensive. I hadn't pursued it and didn't know anything about it. My pen pal knew I wasn't up to doing much for myself, so she took it upon herself to call the center and tell them about me. They immediately sent me an information packet. Again, it looked too nice and expensive, so I just set the information aside, but the Lord started working on me. I had been praying for help; maybe THIS was the help He was sending! If I had never at least called them, I might be waiting for obvious help while it was sitting under my nose!
So I called them. They were so nice over the phone. They specialize in hard-to-treat cancers, and I qualified on that count. Within a few hours, I heard back from them that they could work with my insurance, and they had plane tickets bought for my husband and me to fly from our home in Idaho down to Phoenix! I would be there Monday - Friday and get a 'second opinion' from them. They met us at the airport, drove us to the center in Goodyear, put us up in a local hotel and took good care of us! The center has a 25-acre organic garden in which they grow much of its produce and food, which showed me that some big institutions saw the importance of organic farming. They went over all my past health records and gave me tests to fill in more information they wanted. Then they called us in to meet with the main oncologist who would be treating me should I become a patient there.
Dr. Walter Quan, a world leader in melanoma treatment and research, was a wonderful man. He tried to put us at ease but also helped us to see the urgency of my situation. He had found an additional tumor in my abdomen and a possible one in my lung, and these weren't small tumors. This made a total of 5-6 tumors that they found. He felt there was a chance I could be helped, but he wouldn't make any promises. He DID have hope, though! He explained that I would fly down every 3 weeks for treatment that would be 5 days long. The newish treatment of InterLuken II was very effective but hard on the patient. Normally, it would be given to a patient in a hospital ER room since patients could die during it. But, he had devised a way to take the same amount of InterLuken II and break it up into small doses given over 3 days, then a day off, then more on the 5th day. I agreed to become a patient and began the treatment. What choice did I really have? I had to stop taking any EO internally and also many of my herbal supplements because they would interfere with how the treatment would affect me. Normal vitamins were fine, but I had to stop the Black Spanish Radish, Grapefruit Seed Extract, etc. This told me that some herbs are pretty powerful things! I had made up my own EO cancer blend and had been taking them in capsules, but I had to stop that, too. I could, however, keep using them topically. I made them up in a roll-on and am still using them now!
I took the Interluken II treatment for over a year. I can't remember how long exactly, but the tumors started shrinking, and some had disappeared! Praise the Lord! Eventually, though, the side effects of terrible joint pain and "weird-looking ulcers" in my stomach came along, and they had to stop that treatment. I had to start taking Omeprazole for the ulcers. The Lord once again has a path for me to take. A brand new melanoma drug had just been approved a month or two previously, showing remarkable promise, and that was now available to me! I started on Keytruda and did much better as far as joint pain. Eventually, there was only one small tumor left, and Dr Quan recommended that it be taken out surgically. That was a better risk than to keep infusing the Keytruda with its possible side effects. So, in March of 2016, I had a tumor 'seek and find' surgery. The surgeon had to look quite a while for it on my small intestines, but the Lord guided his hand, and he found it and removed it!
This past March, on my 30th trip to AZ, marked a full year of no more cancer! Dr. Quan told me I was a living miracle! Since then, Dr. Walter Quan has returned to academia and is again researching and teaching at a Californian University. At my last visit with him, I asked him what the things he felt were the most important to do to keep the "Big C' away and here is what he told me:
1) Walk ~ it is the best thing for the immune system
2) Eat right ~ no processed/sugary foods
3) Eat mushrooms like Shitake or the Triple Mushroom Complex tablets I am taking from Swanson's Vitamins
4) Take Vitamin C 1,000 MG every day
5) Have a positive mental attitude because, as the brain goes, so goes the body
6) Eat cruciferous veggies every day ~ or take the sulforaphane supplement
Dr. Tan has taken his place as my oncologist. I will go to AZ every 6 months for a total of 2 years for checkups, and then I will be checked once a year for an additional 3 or so years. I decided to ask Dr. Tan what things HE thought were important to keep healthy, and here is the one thing that he told me:
"The key to staying healthy is a healthy gut ~ use probiotics and eat yogurt."
He told me that the immunotherapy I had been on "taught" my immune cells to look for cancer, and they will now have a memory of it for quite some time. I can help immensely by taking good care of myself.
These are things the Lord has laid upon my heart that He wants me to do:
- Keep using natural everything as much as possible
- Keep using the EO's
- Keep giving Him the glory and praise for my healing
- Keep using herbal supplements to keep my immune system active and healthy
Here are a few things I am currently using/making/doing. Supplements that are over and above regular supplementation, and I purchase most of these from Swanson Vitamins. THis list changes from time to time:
- Raw Adrenal
- CoQ10 200 mg 3x's a week
- B complex
- Olive Leaf Extract
- Alfalfa
- Wheatgrass
- Barley grass
- Turmeric
- Ashwagandha
Here is the EO blend that I make up and use as a roll-on. Please let me know if this is a 'good" blend or not; I'd really appreciate your input.
Per roll-on applicator bottle with the bottle balance being jojoba oil:
15 drops Frankincense
15 drops Myrrh
10 drops Sandalwoods
10 drops Tangerine
10 drops Lemongrass
1 drop Cinnamon
10 drops Black Cumin
Now, when I make up my capsules I put 1 drop of each
Frankincense
Myrrh
Tumeric oil
Black cumin
with the balance of the capsule being a good quality Olive oil. I try to remember to take one of these capsules 4-5 times a week. Again, I'd really welcome any feedback you would have for me. I want to do it correctly. I'm unsure if I need to take these internally since I use them topically. I'm thinking this is just a good insurance policy.
I really like the deodorant recipe I came across. It is simple yet effective!
Deodorant That WORKS!! (at least for me!)
2 T coconut oil
3 T arrowroot powder
8 drops of EO of your choice, such as Tea Tree, Sweet Orange, and Ylang Ylang. I also use the Lymphatic Cleanse blend.
Additional therapies have been grounding to rid me of static electricity and listening to healing tones. One of the massage therapists at the center introduced me to Tuning Fork therapy, so I bought my own forks and use them at times as well. These give off healing tones as well. I have been amazed by what I learned through this long journey. The Lord WANTS us to be healed and has given us many things in His creation to facilitate that. One very helpful thing I have too is a gift from my sister, Susan P., another of your happy customers! She dug through the Bible and found dozens of verses about healing and took the time to print them out, decorate around them and put them in one of those old photo flip holders that used to be so popular. Each day, I can flip over a healing verse to read and meditate on! My family, friends, and church family sent up many prayers on my behalf; strangers I don't know or have not met, you included, bless your heart, sent up prayers for me. God heard their prayers and gifted me with health. Thank you, Lord, and to everyone who prayed for me!
In His Love, Mary Ann
Linda's Note: On September 16, 2022, Mary Ann let us know that she's been cancer-free for 5 years now. She recalled how the oncologist in Spokane gave her less than 6 months to live. "God is so good."