Thread: My dog had cancer, now he doesn't

Earlier this year my dog Boof was limping and not looking too well at all.
Under his front right foot there was a lump of meat sticking out through the skin. It looked a bit like he had cut himself and it had swollen up badly, so off to the Vet he went.

The news was not good. He was diagnosed with an advanced tumor between the pads on his foot, and Pancreas cancer.
Because of his age, 12 yrs. the vets opinion was that he would not handle radiation and chemo very well, and he would have to have his foot amputated.
He advised us to take him home and enjoy what time he had until it got too painful, then bring him back to put him down. All he offered was anti inflammatory pills which might slow it down.

We took him home and started him on the pills. His condition worsened quickly.
I remembered that when I was researching a natural cure for skin cancers (which I use myself) I read couple of cases of people using Black Salve (Bloodroot) to treat internal cancer and it had worked for them. My wife & I talked it over and decided that we had little to loose by trying it at this stage, so we started him on twice a day doses, and an application to his foot every second day.

A week went by and there was no improvement. I felt that something was wrong. This tuff had worked so well on my own skin cancers every time. Back to the internet for answers. After many hours of research, I stumbled on a small article about Black Salve which suggested that the use of anti inflammatory medication would reduce or stop the action of bloodroot, because bloodroots action was to cause inflammation of the cancerous tissue.

Armed with this new information, we ceased the anti inflammatory pills immediately, and continued on with the bloodroot. During this new research I had read about the fact that cancer cells do not like an oxygen rich environment (or an alkaline one) so we decided to bathe his foot in 6% hydrogen Peroxide every second day when dressing & re-applying the bloodroot to his tumor.

For the next few days, the tumor on his foot seemed to stop growing. By this time his foot was swollen to about 25% larger than his other foot, and he could not put weight on it.

By two weeks after stopping the A/I pills, the bloodroot had started to reduce the tumor size on his foot. What was happening inside him with his Pancreas, we had no way of knowing. The tumor was coming off a layer at a time, each time we re-dressed his foot. It was slowly getting smaller.

By the end of about 8 weeks, he was walking around on his foot, the tumor had completely gone.
We decided to take him back to the vet to show him the foot, and to have him re-examine him for the internal tumor.

The vet was stunned. Where the foot tumor was, all that remained was 'Residual thickening' of the surrounding tissue, and better yet, there was no sign of the Pancreas tumor. So stunned was the vet that he did not charge us for the visit. He recommended that we continue a maintenance dose for a time, so we have cut him down to once a day internal dose.

There is very little information out there about the use of Black Salve internally, so we were literally flying in the dark with regard to what amount to give him, how often to give it, etc. I am in no way recommending that anyone use this treatment. I am only posting this as a sharing of an experience that we had, and what brought it about. Hopefully it will lead to others doing their own research.

Boof weighs approximately 35Kg. The dosage we gave him was about half the size of a green pea, put into a capsule and given immediately prior to food. This was twice daily. At some stage, probably halfway through the treatment, we also introduced Hydrogen Peroxide to his drinking water. We are still doing this.

It is a month since he was given the all clear by the vet, and he is running around like nothing was ever wrong.

If you want to read about my experience with Black Salve & skin cancer, see my posting in Health Issues forum ( Woodwork Forums > NOT WOODWORK - MY OTHER LOVES > HEALTH ISSUES)