Good Mornings Readers,

As we all know, we are in October, and October is known as the “Pink month”, breast cancer prevention and awareness month.

Therefore, today I will talk a bit about breast cancer formation from a Chinese Medicine emotional point of view, and also, how we can in fact, prevent this disease, once that Western Medicine doesn’t offer in fact a prevention, but an early diagnosis.

In Chinese Medicine, the tumor appearing, being it benign or malignant is related, to a bad Spleen functioning. The Spleen has the function of removing inner humidity, thus, when it fails, this humidity is stuck in the body, creating masses that may occupy any place on the body.

This way, we may experience ovarian cyst, uterine myoma, breast tumor, among other common problems, such as synovial cysts, nasal secretions, located fat, excess vaginal mucus, edemas, etc.

But what can explain the fact that humidity is more serious in one person, forming malignant tumors while in others just causing liquid retention?

The answer to that is related to how strong the inner energy of this person is, and how emotionally balanced she is.

The Spleen is weakened in the presence of obsessive thoughts, anxiety, intellectual activity excess and the lack of purpose and comprehension of yourself.

Thus, people that live with tormented thoughts, never give their mind a time to rest, work excessively abusing intellectual capacity, will have a higher chance of developing serious health problems.

On top of that, emotional problems consume vital essence, located in the Kidneys. When the essence is attacked, all the organism is affected, not working in a proper manner, lacking energy, in general for all organs.

Kidney and Spleen work together. Have the function of producing blood and dispatching it to the Heart, so that it can circulate. When Spleen sank in bad emotional energies, it gets weakened, thus weakening also Kidney and as a result the blood quality is worsened. The blood anchors the mind. The bad quality blood loses control over the mind who still spreads obsessions, anxiety and mental exhaustion.

Thus, if a person lives her whole life trying to avoid that tumors appear, she needs to use all resource arsenal that can avoid the inner humidity accumulation, such as:

• Meditate: helps calming the thoughts.
• Avoid foods that produce humidity (milk, derivatives, farinaceous and white sugar): this way, avoiding that Spleen gets overloaded.
• Do physical activity (in a moderate way): physical activities promote “good yang”, that means, energy that makes fluid move, avoids them to be stalled, which creates masses. When there is already a mass formation “good yang” shall help to dilute them.
• Using acupuncture points, such as: SP3, SP3, ST40 – help strengthening the Spleen and removing humidity in case it has already been formed.
• Using auriculotherapy points, such as: Spleen, Metabolism, Endocrine Glands, Tension, Anxiety – help not only reducing inner humidity, but also on what refers to the psychic, bring calmness to the mind, allowing a good function of the Spleen.
• If needed, do psychosomatic therapy: when someone can’t handle with their feelings, doesn’t find a way of knowing him/herself, she/he lives in anxiety, worried, on top of acupuncture and therapy diet a good therapist may help on the auto comprehension process so that the Spleen is always strong.

Clearly, there are diverse types of cancer and we shouldn’t ignore the genetic factors to them associated. However, even having a genetic factor, we can control it through good lifestyle and habits, as said above, the chances of getting sick will be lowered.

There are also other organ imbalances that may affect Spleen fuction. But, we can discuss that in another post, okay, everybody?

I hope that you liked it!

A big tight hug!

Profa. Fernanda Mara