飲食合併療法

(It would be really kind of you if you are bilingual and can translate this file into English for me.  Thanks!)  Thanks to Jan Yap who translated this file for me.  Chinese original follows.

And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it should be for food.  

Genesis 1: 29 (NKJV)

Recently, I read books recommended by my friends on food/diet therapy to supplement cancer therapy. Whether in USA, Japan or Taiwan, the 3 main cancer treatments are surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy not including diet. Even with successful treatment, the rate on relapse, spread of cancer and death are still very high within the 5 years survival rate (may varies for different type of cancer).  The main purpose of writing these books is to use/try food/diet therapy to improve the survival rate for cancer after surgery, which is to inhibit the spread of cancer and deterioration.

Of the books read, I found the well-written ones are: Wu Yong Zhi’s convincing “different from the natural regimen” and Dr Jiyang Gao Sui’s “Do this, the cancer will disappear” (knowing the limitations of their therapy, they encourage patient to accept surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy).  Dr Wu Yong Zhi was diagnosed with final stage lung cancer, which means that a cure or long-term remission is no longer likely for his lung cancer.  He tried food/diet therapy and survived for 30 years.  He has helped numerous people including high officials and kings.  The unique part of his food/diet therapy is that the food/diet therapy he recommends is based on the recipient’s blood type and cancer, rather than fits-all therapy.  I heard that Jiyang Gao Sui is the first doctor who formally track and documented his own clinical regimen which has a 66.3% success rate.  He not only tells you what to eat, what not to eat but also tells you the reason.  Although these therapies are slightly different, majority promote eating lots of fruit and vegetable, drinking juices, limiting red meat (not too much white meat) and seafood (except for some type of fishes)            with differing views on cereals and beans.  They are similar to Gerson Therapy which exists one hundred years ago.

One thing I learnt from these books is that surgery is only the beginning of my cancer treatment and not the end.  My future lifestyle will have an impact on the possibility of future relapse and deterioration.  However, my doctor disagrees, he said it is alright to eat anything – fried chicken, cola as food/diet therapy has no scientific basis and this is only my personal opinion; every person has cancerous cell and it become cancer when these cells mutate rapidly and never stop dividing resulting in perceptible to a point where modern instruments can detect these tumor.  I believe that the cancerous cells in my body had mutated and the extend of the growth requires external intervention (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) and I need to create an environment where my body can grow healthy cells and not cancerous one through these 3 aspects- food/diet therapy, exercise and relieve stress.

I did not actively seek for food/diet therapy, but it came to me.  After my wife and I made prayer request for my cancer illness, my friends were very concerned and in less than one week, information on cancer therapies flew in like avalanche.  I tried to read and digest as much as possible with my limited resources, I was completely lost. Initially I even tried a few less costly therapies (e.g. eating raw garlic which resulted in eating too much and having sleepless nights) and completely to no avail.

Subsequently, Sister Wang asked me to return to Taiwan for treatment.  I prayed and received confirmation from God.  I took my family home and without my notice, 3 weeks have passed.  Thinking back, this was a quick decision without any research.  In fact, this is what always happens when I follow God’s guidance.  Many details are not clear and we don’t know what to expect next.

In USA, En Ling recommends Dr Wu Yong Zhi’s food/diet therapy and Claudia recommends Gerson Therapy while Sister Wang had made preparation of these for me.  Dr Wu’s book has a lot of food which I have never heard of and do not know where to find them.  In Taiwan, Sister Wang had already gathered a team including a 71-year-old faithful English preacher to host and prepare these foods for us during my stay.  I ate lots of low salt no sugar fruits and vegetables and after 2 weeks, I began to have lesser constipation with more regular bowel movement.  Last Monday, I was weighted at the hospital and I was overjoyed that I gained 1 kilogram.  I tried food/ diet therapy back in USA and to no avail.  After God sent me back to Taiwan, there are people here to guide and show me how to do food/diet therapy which I can continue to follow in the future.

I realize that God really loves me.  I have doubt previously questioning why I was diagnose with cancer when doors are open for me to serve God with invitations to preach in big events after being at the House of Payer for 3 years doing prayer and translation work.  After reading these therapeutic books, I begin to realize that contrary to initial understanding, cancerous cells take several years to mutate and grow. I may have cancerous cells in my body for some time which grew with time. When I was willingly obey God to live a faithful life, God brought me to the House of Prayer – to deal with my eating habits, and learn from the Song of Solomon – to focus on my relationship with God more than ministry works.  Thus, I can changed my eating habits completely i.e. I no longer feel deprived without savory foods and simultaneously, change my lifestyle to be able to rest at His Feet without feeling restless.

Of course, battling with cancer is tough – on days when I go through chemotherapy, I am easily tired and takes a lot of effort to cheer myself, not to mention the side effects I’m having.  In all of this, it is important that I knows that God loves me and He will rescue me.  Thinking back of my past experience and revelation – which I’m unable to share with you here, He understand my problems and will deliberately lead me out of it.  In my last ministry, He led me to met Sister Wang who is very knowledgeable on cancer and her brother was healed from final stage cancer; Phoebe gave us Antrodia camphorate¹ (which we do not know what it was until we asked a biologist; many friends have came forward to prayer for us, gave generously and help us --- all these shows God’s grace.  If God’s intent is to torture me by having cancer, then why did He send so many people to help me deal with it?  with everything flow timely – this can only happened with the hand of God.

Indeed, God only need to wave His hand and I’m healed and I do not need to go through this whole process.  But consider, if I’m healed miraculously, I would not have changed my eating habits and lifestyle, and focus on ministry works etc.   He respects my free will and at the same time, wants to lead me to the right path.  What He is most concern of is not my cancer, my ministry, but my spiritual growth and maturity.  Cancer in itself is not scary, what is more scary are the despair, give up hope, thinking that one has been abandon by God when cancer strike.

Choosing food/ diet therapy, it do not means missing out on the delicacy of the world.  In contrast, I begin to taste the original favor of the food, forgoing Babylonian food and learn from Daniel.  I pray that God give me strength to persevere.

1 Antrodia camphorate– a parasitic fungus grow on Bull Camphor Tree (found only in Taiwan) is known to have strong liver protective and anti-cancer properties.

「神說：看哪，我將遍地上一切結種子的菜蔬和一切樹上所結有核的果子全賜給你們作食物。」（創1: 29）

最近讀了幾本朋友介紹我看關於癌症飲食合併療法的書，無論美國、日本或台灣，正規的癌症療法都只採取手術、化療、電療（放射性）三大療法，不納入飲食療法，從五年的生存率（每種癌症和期數的死亡率都不一樣）來看，即使癌症的治療可行並成功，但是在5年之内癌症復發、擴散、並死亡的機率還是非常高。這些書著作的目的，就是嘗試從飲食療法中，提高癌症在手術後的存活率，也就是抑制癌症的擴散和惡化。

我個人覺得寫得比較中肯（知道自己療法的有限，又鼓勵接受患者接受手術、化療和電療），又 具説服力的是吳永志醫生的《不一樣的自然養生法》，和濟陽高穗醫生的《這樣做，讓癌症消失》。吳永志醫生自己曾是肺癌末期，在醫學宣告他完全無治之後，自己摸索飲食療法，現在已又活了三十幾年，並助人無數，其中包括世界上的大官和國王，他的特色是按人的血型和各個癌症來建議食療，而不是以一概全。濟陽高穗是我讀到第一個正式追蹤和統計他自己臨床食物療法的醫生，其成功率是66.3%，他不但告訴你什麼能吃，什麼不能吃，還告訴你為什麼。這些療法雖然略有出入，但大多都是攝取極大量的蔬菜水果，喝極大量的蔬果汁，限制紅肉（白肉也不要太多）、限制海鮮（某些魚很好），至於穀類、豆類，各家看法不同，但都類似一百年前的葛森療法 (Gerson Therapy)。

我自己從這些書的一大領受是，動過手術只是癌症治療的開始，而不是治療的結束，我日後的生活習慣將大大影響我日後癌症的復發和惡化。不過，我的主治大夫完全不同意這點，他會說吃什麼都沒有關係，炸雞可樂都無妨，食料沒有科學根據，所以，這只能説是我個人現在的信念：每一個人身上其實都有癌細胞，只是它們經過突變，快速分裂，到一個地步，造成人可察覺，現代的儀器可以檢查得出來的腫瘤。我相信我身體的癌細胞經過突變，長大，需要做的，不只是外界的治療介入（手術、化療、電療），而是解決裏面的根本（改變體質），我能積極參與的，就是營造一個壯大健康細胞的環境，不適合癌細胞的生存，這包括食物療法、運動排汗、舒緩壓力這三大方面。

其實不是我在找食療，而是食療一直來找我。我和秀君請大家為我的癌症病情禱告之後，朋友們真的非常地熱心關愛我們，不到一個禮拜，好多關於癌症的資訊、療法和建議如同雪片般的飛來，我盡量看，盡量消化、一開始也照著幾個便宜簡單的方式去做（舉例：吃生大蒜，結果吃太多，整晚睡不好），完全不得要領，又要考慮自己的身體負荷、經濟能力、時間有限，真不知道何去何從。

後來，王姐請我回台灣接受治療，我禱告之後確定這是 神的帶領，我就帶著全家回來了，不知不覺已經回來三個星期了。現在回想起來，這個決定做的好快啊，而且有點傻傻的，其實我跟著 神的帶領常常都會這樣，確定是 神的帶領就做了，很多的細節其實沒有弄清楚，也根本不知道會發生什麼事情。

結果，在美國的惠玲建議我照吳永志醫生的食療法，Claudia 建議的Gerson Therapy，原來王姐也是要為我這樣做。吳永志醫生書上的很多菜名我更本沒聼過，也不知道去哪裏找，王姐在台灣已經預備好一個團隊幫我在預備住宿，預備這些食物，還有一位71歲信仰很好的英嬰傳道幫我們準備飯食。吃了她無糖少鹽少調味的大量蔬菜水果一、兩個星期之後，我的排泄開始變得好順暢，而且很定時，這星期一在醫院門診量體重，竟然還重了一公斤，真是太高興了。我在美國想做食療，但不得要領，被 神帶回台灣之後，有人幫我做，教我做，以後我也可以照著做。

我發現 神真的很愛我。我之前心裏面一個極大的疑問就是，為什麼我在禱告殿埋了3年，默默無聞地禱告、翻譯，好不容易服事的道路終於打開了，大場合的邀請開始來了，就發現自己患有癌症。我讀完這些食療的書之後，有一個很大的開啓，就是明白事實其實完全相反，癌症病灶的產生是長年累月的，我很可能好幾年前癌細胞就已經在我裏面有極小的雛形，慢慢長大，當我願意順服 神的帶領、過信心生活的時候， 神就帶領我到禱告室，一個對付我飲食習慣的地方，並且學習雅歌，重視和祂的關係勝過服事的果效。所以，我現在可以徹底地改變我的飲食習慣，而不會覺得不能吃口味重或精致的食物，就生不如死；並也可以改變我的生活方式，比較容易安靜坐在祂的腳前，不會沒有服事就渾身不對勁。

當然，對付癌症是辛苦的，注射完化療葯的那幾天很容易累，要花很大的力氣才喜樂的起來，還有其他的副作用。只是在這一切當中，明白 神對我的愛非常地重要，我知道 神不是沒事給我磨練一下，讓我痛苦，而是祂的心意是要搭救我。很多我過去的經歷和所領受的啓示，無法在此一一分享，但是回想起來，祂知道我身上有這個問題，一路上存心帶領我進入救贖。最後這一次的公開服事，祂就讓我及時認識王姐，她的弟弟也是癌症末期得醫治，她對癌症非常有心得；一開始也不知道Phoebe 送的紅樟芝（又稱牛樟芝）是什麼東西，後來詢問長庚的生化醫學，他們也非常推薦，是國寶級的產品；很多朋友挺身而出，為我們禱告、奉獻、幫忙，一路上看到 神許許多多的恩典。若是我得癌症的目的，是因為祂存心要磨煉我，那為什麼又不斷地興起這麼多的人幫助我，使容易我面對呢？而且，時間上安排得可以說是再好不過了，只有 神的手可以這麼精密。

的確， 神只要揮一揮祂的手，我就可以完全得醫治，根本不需要這些過程；但是試想，我若隨便得著醫治，之後我很可能會仍然繼續隨便吃東西，很晚才睡覺，運動不夠，重視服事勝過祂等等。祂尊重我的自由意志，同時要帶我走入正途。祂最最在乎的，不是我的病，不是我的服事，而是我這個人長大成熟。癌症其實不是最可怕的，最可怕的是，當一個人發現自己有癌症之後，絕望，放棄，以為 神不再愛他們。

選擇食療，我並不會因此失去了人間的美味，而是反而開始品嘗到食物的原味，不吃巴比倫的食物，學學但以理也很好，求 神給我力量能堅持下去。