Essential Oils for Breast Cancer

From a member:  I have a question in reference to breast cancer. What oils would you suggest to start using?

Thanks for the great question!  I have several different suggestions based on how the person is choosing to deal with the cancer.   

If she is planning to use the oils as a compliment to chemotherapy, I would suggest she use a blend of frankincense, Terebenthine pine, orange, and grapefruit essential oils, diluted to 50% with black seed oil.   (Some people might choose lemongrass as one of the oils if there is lymph gland involvement).   This should be applied over the whole breast area, and under the arms if there is any indication of cancer in that area. 

She might also desire oils for pain relief, for boosting the immune system, or for helping her sleep.  Applying essential oils in baths, footbaths, and as a spinal compress can provide very helpful support.  

If the person is using the oils as a compliment to radiation treatments, the above oils (minus the lemongrass, and with lavender and everlasting added) should be blended to a 25% dilution with aloe vera gel (75%).  She will  need to shake the blend well before applying it to the whole breast area.   It will really support the skin in healing the condition that can result from the radiation.  It will also help to relieve local pain.

In both of the above scenarios, the treatment goal is going to be one of suppressing the cancer, or burning away the cancer with radiation.  Neither of these choices will do anything to address the original cause of the cancer in the first place.  Follow up treatments with essential oil compresses on the spine on a bi-weekly basis, and taking flower essences to help change emotional patterns, would be of great assistance in changing the patterns of origination.    

For a person who does not choose to use chemo or radiation, and wants to heal breast cancer naturally, I would recommend that she find a natural health care professional who has experience in healing this condition for support.  

She will need to make many changes, and to deal with lifestyle choices, dietary choices, and emotional habits as well as using herbal and essential oil support.  Despite the fact that cancer appears to come out of nowhere at times, it is actually a degenerative condition that is acquired over time.  Diet, exercise, stress, emotional and spiritual issues all contribute to the development of any degenerative disease.  They must all be dealt with in order to truly heal this condition--and not just suppress it. 

She may want to use a clay based herbal salve that will assist in drawing out toxicity and necrotic tissue from the breast.  This requires a great deal of fortitude and commitment to the natural way, as it can be unsettling when the skin begins to open, and blood, fluid, and dark tissue ooze out of an open sore.  If you have the stomach for it, it can be effective.  It does require internal herbal support, as well as applying the paste on a daily basis, then following with a healing salve later in the treatment.  

If she is interested in going this route, I would recommend a book titled, Cancer Salves  by  Ingrid Naiman.  She outlines a very effective treatment for healing breast cancer, and other types of cancer, using salves.  

Again--this should not be undertaken unless you have support from a professional health care provider!

In my own experience, cancer can certainly be healed through the use of salves.  Here are 2 recipes I have used in the past for this purpose:

Cancer Healing Plaster 
(for drawing out toxicity and necrotic tissue)
2 T. Pascalite clay
1 T. Moroccan Rhassoul clay
1 T. comfrey root powder
1/2 t. Turmeric CO2 extract
Add water, or Devil's club hydrosol, to form a paste.  

Other substances may be added, if more escharotic strength is desired.  These include Golden seal, Poke root, Blood root, May apple, and Sheep sorrel.  Paste may be stored in refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Shea Butter Cancer Salve
(for relieving pain, and healing the tissue)
1 ounce (2 T.) unrefined Shea Butter
8 to 10 drops Rose otto essential oil
25 drops Terebenthine pine essential oil  (OR 1 T. melted Pinon Pine pitch)
Melt the shea butter in a small pan dedicated to herbal use.  It will not be useable again for cooking food!  Use low heat.

Remove from heat as soon as shea butter (and pitch--if using it) has liquified.  Allow it to cool to room temperature, then add the essential oils.  When salve begins to solidify, stir well.  Cover and use it within a couple of weeks.

How to use the above remedies:

• Healing Plaster:  Apply topically to the area above or around tumor or cyst.  Leave it on until it dries and peels off.  Continue to apply it on a daily basis, for one to three weeks, until tissue is open and draining consistently. 
• Cancer Salve:  Apply daily, about 8 to 12 hours apart from the time you are applying the Plaster.  Apply over the area, then cover with sterile gauze or a cloth.  Continue to apply it until all necrotic tissue is gone and the open sore is filled with healthy pink tissue, and is beginning to heal.  At this point, the draining will stop on its own.
• Use to treat tumors, benign or malignant growths, boils that refuse to open, anything that you would lance to drain.  Can be used for breast cancer, deep cancers, or cancers near the surface.
• This form of treatment was used by our Native American forefathers, until around the 1870's when it was declared "illegal".  For more information on this history, see the book Cancer Salves above.