Specialty Committee for the Treatment of Tumors

The use of Acupuncture and

Modern Techniques in treating
Tumor

Roni Sapir
Academic Dean of East West School of Classic
.Chinese Medicine
President of The Israeli Association of Classic Chinese
Medicine Practitioners
 Cancer facts
• No.1 killer in the West
• Considered as epidemic
• Usually diagnosed too late
• Can be defined
• Unknown etiology
• Can be treated but seldom cured
• Treatments harm the body systems
 Types of Treatments
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Nutrition and Nutritional supplements
• Chinese Medicine – Acupuncture,
Materia Medica, Diet and Chi-Kong
• Combination of all or part of the above
• Other Methods such as Oxygen,
Electromagnetism and heat therapy
 Tumor Characteristics
• Uncontrolled Cell Growth
• Low ph – Cancer cell is more Acidic (less than
7.35 ph.)
• Cancer cell voltage is less than 40 millivolts in
advanced stages, compared to 70-90 in healthy
cells.
• Cancer cell oxygen is less than 60.
• Oxygen can not enter the cancer cell
• Oxygen level in the blood of cancer patients is
around 75-85 in advanced stages compared to
98.
Treatment disadvantages

Chemotherapy
Systemic, Non specific, Subdues the
immune system, Lowering white
blood cells, Lowering red blood
cells, lowering hemoglobin,
poisoning the body, lowering oxygen
level in the blood, subdues bone
marrow, Causes extreme fatigue,
 Treatment disadvantages
• Loss of hair, Sickness, Diarrhea,
Constipation and lowering of
vitality and hope.
• Kills good cells as well as
cancer cells, there is no control
on the amount and level of
destruction of cancer cells,
• Statistically 5-10% do not
survive the treatment.
 Radiotherapy
• Lowering of bone marrow causes low red
and white blood cells, Tiredness and
Fatigue, confusion, loss of appetite, Heat
and burning sensation.
• Works on a wide area and has a bad effect
on good healthy cells.
• Has a bad effect on the nervous system
and on the reproductive system
• Statistically 5-10% do not survive the
treatment.
 Nutrition and Nutritional
supplements
Nutrition: Difficult to take in and to
absorb
Supplements: Costly and not proven
to have beneficial properties.
Works on the whole body, but does
not effect the tumor directly.
 Chinese Medicine
• Acupuncture- Energetic Medicine
can cause metastasis.
• Chinese Materia Medica – Can boost
the body but can not penetrate the
tumor
• Chi-Kong – Difficult to practice and
can make the patient tired in the
beginning
 Treatments Advantages
Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy are:
• the only treatments beside operations
used by conventional medicine.
These methods are helpful on some
types of tumors but even so these
methods does not cure cancer.
• Psychologically it gives the patient
hope and feeling that he gets the most
advanced medicine.
 Nutrition and Nutritional
supplements
• Nutrition – Boosts the body,
important for survival, important
balance of proteins, fats and
carbohydrates for maintaining good
level of energy and Immune system.
• Supplements – Same as above, some
can penetrate the cancer cell and
raise P.H level to kill the cancer cell.
 Chinese Medicine
• Acupuncture – Activates circulation of Chi
and Blood, Releases stagnation and
controls pain, Invigorates the immune
system by boosting the formation of white
blood cells, enhances the body’s energy by
raising red blood cells and the hemoglobin
level, Increases the oxygen blood level,
Balances the whole Body, Tones the Zang
– Fu, Balances yin-yang, cold-hot,
deficiency-excess and interior-exterior
 Chinese Materia Medica
• Toning Chi and Blood, boosting the
chi level of specific organs,
eliminating poisons from the body,
Maintaining and treating the body
between and in conjunction with
acupuncture and other methods of
treatments, supporting digestion and
bowl movements, rebuilding body
substances.
 Chi-Kong
• Activates the body, moves chi-blood
and body fluids, Increases oxygen
level for more vitality and general
energy. Strengthens the whole body
and keeps good tension of the body.
General Ideas and thoughts in
the use of Chinese Medicine
• Cancer Tumor etiology is differentiated
into two groups:
1. Damp and Cold
2. Cold Damp
• It is important to diagnosed the original
cause which can be the Damp or can be
the Cold.
• In pathology coldness can cause
dampness and dampness can cause
heat.
 Treatment combination
• When we treat a patient having
conventional treatments we have to
take into account the influences and
the side effects that the treatment is
having on the patient in Chinese
Medicine terminology.
Example of combined treatment
• For example a patient with damp cold
or cold damp who is having
radiotherapy can present heat
symptoms because of the heat
nature of the treatments. Of course it
is false heat and if we cool the
patient we will do his pathology more
harm than good.
Chinese Medicine Etiology
• The most accurate diagnosis that can be
done is according to the patient’s date of
birth (Tian Gan Di Zi). This ancient method
is the only one that goes back to the
patient’s birth energy balance and
imbalance. All the experiences of life from
this point of interaction with heaven and
earth energies only make the imbalance
bigger or smaller. It is a must to analyze
the patient according to this method
before starting treatment of the patient.
 Example

• A patient born in the 1st half of 1979.

his stem is Spleen in Earth which
gives a tendency to dampness in
the body, his branch is Small
intestine which deals with
absorbing post natal chi, his
climatic influence is Tai-Yin which
increases the level of dampness in
the body.
 Example

• This patient has a born tendency to

form dampness in the body, so the
method of treatment will be more
Acupuncture to activate circulation of
chi, to transform damp and to raise chi
by chi-kong. The treatment will vary if
the stagnation causes heat or if cold is
present in the body.
Combination of Treatments and
points to consider
• 99% of our patients are having a
combined conventional and Chinese
treatment.
• This fact puts us in a difficult
position as we have to take into
account the disadvantages and the
bad influences of conventional
medicine.
Chinese medicine terminology
• When translating these influences
into Chinese Medicine Terminology
we deal with almost every
disharmony that exists.
• The disharmonies can vary from the
deepest level of Jing that is being
diminished by Chemotherapy and
Radiotherapy up to the level of Tai-
Yang.
Chinese medicine terminology
• The level of Tai-Yang as an exterior
energy, cannot resist any abnormal
changes and the interaction with
external influences.
• As a result of that the 8 extra
channels are not functioning
properly and this influences the
whole Zang-Fu system
 The Treatment
• For treating a cancer patient we must
look at the whole picture and take into
account all the details that I have
referred to in this very short
presentation.
• From my point of view Chinese
Medicine is a must for every cancer
patient as it is the only medicine known
to me to be able to maintain and to
reinforce the patient self healing and to
bring cure and health.
 The Treatment

• When we come to build the principle,

strategy and the detailed protocol for
each patient we have to look back to
the nature of a typical tumor.
Understanding the Tumor and
The Way of Thinking
1. Helping the patient survive the
conventional treatment and eliminating
pain:
2. Cancer cell voltage is less than 40 mill
volts
3. Raising Oxygen level
4. P.H Balance
The end and it’s challenge
• I hope that I succeeded in bringing you
some of my thoughts and my research
work in the field for the last 10 years.
• I hope that we will be able to take these
ideas further and bring health to so many
people around the world.
• I am sure that by joining together all the
world experts of Chinese Medicine we will
be able to find the penetrating agent for a
better healthier world.
 Thank you

• Thanks to the organizers of this

meeting.
• Thanks to the World Federation of
T.C.M Societies
• Thanks to all the participants that
came from all over to join this
humanitarian act.
 RONI SAPIR
Academic Dean of the East West
School of Classic Chinese
.Medicine
President of The Israeli Association
of Classic Chinese Medicine
Practitioners
roni@east-west.co.il