The following outline covers the therapeutic categories most often recommended in western herbal practice.

Overview of popular herbal protocols:

Diets:

• Live foods (purifying diet): wheat grass juice, carrot juice, raw fruits, vegetables; avoid cooked foods
• Macrobiotic diet: brown rice, millet, other grains, vegetables, mostly cooked; avoid raw foods, sugar Building diet: fish, chicken (20%), whole grains (40%), lightly cooked vegetables (30%), concentrated foods--dairy, nuts, seeds (5%), comfort foods (5%)

• Red clover compound
• Essiac
• Hoxey formula

• Enderlein therapy
• Mistletoe, poke, venoms, carnivora
• Compound Q

• Laetrile (vit. B-17)
• Chaparral
• Sanguinaria

Reishi
Shiitake
Maitake
Trametes
Astragalus (spleen tonic)
Ligustrum

Sanguinaria
Chaparral
Euphorbia
Castor oil
Poke oil

1. Macro or building diet
2. Protein-shock therapy
3. Host immune modulators

1. Diet: live foods, purifying, then macro
2. Blood purifiers: red clover combo
3. Protein-shock therapy
3. Herbal Chemotherapy
4. Host immune modulators (with caution)

• sugar
• Xanthine-containing beverages, foods
• pesticides, food additives, estrogenic foods, alcoholic beverages, electromagnetic radiation, etc.

• Lithospermum & Oyster Shell (T.K. (blood tonic), Oyster shell, Astragalus (tonify spleen), Lithospermum (dispel blood heat), Peony (blood tonic), Rhubarb, Licorice, Cnidium (blood tonic), Cimicifuga, Lonicera (dispel heat poisoning)]
• T.K. 16 herb combo
• W.T.T.C.
• Major 6 herb combo: ginseng, pinellia, jujube, atractylodes, citrus, licorice, hoelen, ginger. (tonic formula)