This study describes the approach, herbs, and diet used by a specific alternative therapist and 12 clients who are using or have used his approach. With this therapist's approach, the client is first released of the cancer through a "laying-on-hands" technique. The client is then asked to take certain herbs for nine weeks and eat a specified diet for a minimum of three months. Some clients continue to use conventional therapies while they take the herbs and comply with the diet. Clients who continue to use chemotherapy or radiation will need to continue the diet for a long time. This alternative approach is inexpensive and the clients studied were doing well.
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