Alternate Explanations Associated with Finding a Lump in Your Breast

In the late 1970s in Rogers Park my mother wandered in Sherwin's Health Food Store. She had received a test result that she had a lump in her breast. the doctors wanted to operate. My mom was born in Trinidad and Tobago. No one in our family ever heard of breast cancer. People would typically walk into the store and talk about a health problem. Sherwin would open up " Back To Eden" written by Jethro Kloss. He would find the proper herbal reference to your ailment and go over to his bulk herb section and scoop out the herb recommended and instruct you on how to use it. My mom told Sherwin about the lump in her breast. Sherwin asked her a series of questions. He asked her if she knew if she was pregnant. My mom had just lost a baby 3 months prior. Sherwin agreed that he never heard of an incidence of family history involving breast cancer with her background. He suspected it was a lump of hardened breast milk from after her miscarriage. He had seen this occur with women and recommended my mother purchase a poultice mixture of powdered Mexican clay mud and an herb called Pau De Arco. He instructed her to mix it in warm water enough to roll a handful and pack the warm mixture thick over the area with the lump on her breast. The next morning the dried milk had liquefied and drew out of her breast. My mother felt no lump. She revisited her doctor and the doctor ran the same diagnostic tests again. No lump was discovered. 40 years later. My mom has never been diagnosed with cancer. Using alternative medicine to safely troubleshoot her concerns saved her from surgery.

Since this has occurred over the years I have had several clients call me with finding a breast lump concerns. I go through a series of questions with them to use alternative medicine to locate potential solutions.

Question number one, were you pregnant? In most cases the answer has been yes with a response of either having a miscarriage, abortion or they delivered a baby that was given up for adoption or they lost patience for breast feeding. If there is a lump that exists in this case it may be due to hormonal changes or hardened breast milk that feels like a small lump.

Question number two, tell me about your menstrual cycle? If you are 1-2 weeks before your cycle or just ending your cycle, chances are this lump may be due to hormonal changes. Typically there is a clumping or lumping of breast tissue just during PMS and shortly after your cycle ends.

Question number three, do you ingest a great deal of caffeine or products that are high in caffeine including chocolate? Women who have diets high in caffeine will notice little tiny lumps nearer the armpit base area of where the armpit and breast connect. Caffeine can create dehydration clumping in the lymph nodes that feels like tiny lumps or knots in that area. It can also create enhanced and heightened sensitivity in this area where it can feel tender and swollen. Caffeine is rooted in alternative health as a diuretic. It can pull a great deal of water out of your body leaving you feeling dehydrated. Dehydration can lead to feeling lumpy under your chin, under your arms and in your groin lymph nodes. Also in the area behind your knee. Eliminating caffeine from diet and drinking water when you are thirsty can alleviate this issue.

When you have a lump that is not related to cancer. Warm poultices can be used to help draw out the issue through your skin. Warm poultices can be made from Aztec Mud. They can include herbs like Pau De Arco or even Epsom salts with Activated Charcoal.

If tolerated warm Epsom salt bath* or bathing with a mud mask applied over the area to be left soaked on in the tub, can also help reduce lumps.

Heat Saunas or moist saunas to allow the skin to completely respire over a 15 minute session with breaks can also be used.

The premise of the article is mainly written for safely troubleshooting a lump or clumpy feeling of cells. Alternative health does not harbor all solutions. With such various modalities of treating and diagnosing cancer, oftentimes a second or even medical third opinion has become necessary to completely rule out any other possibility. I cannot tell you the countless times I have had clients tell me about being mis-diagnosed with cancer.
There is also the other side of the coin, which is dismissing a lump that may be cancer.

I gave a great deal of thought about writing this article, so not to anger those who have battled and endured breast cancer. This article was written to provide alternative options and reasons to troubleshoot a lump formation that has resulted that is not cancerous.

* Do not soak in an Epsom salt bath if you have high blood pressure, or if you are diabetic.