Introduction: Melanoma is a tumor from malignant transformation of melanocytes (that comes from neural crest and they usually occur in the skin but can arise in another location migrated from neural crest such as brain and gastrointestinal tract).

Purpose: the purpose of this study is to show that patient with melanoma has energy deficiency in the five internal organs(Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs and Kidney) according to traditional Chinese medicine’s reasoning and formation of internal Heat and the treatment of this condition prior to onset of the melanoma formation or after this development can be a preventive or complementary treatment of Western medicine’s approach. 

Methods: through one case report of patient with anxiety symptoms, she had a past history of treatment of malignant melanoma in the right upper limb that was removed by surgery 10 years ago. I did her internal organs measurement using a crystal-pendulum through radiesthesia procedure. These organs are responsible for the production of energy to keep our immune system in a balance state and the deficiency of them can cause an immune deficiency state, predisposing them to development of diverse cancer and non-cancer disease.

Results: all internal massive organs were in the lowest level of energy. The treatment started using Chinese dietary counseling, auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting, systemic acupuncture and replenishment of these organs using highly diluted medications according to the theory created by me entitled Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements based on Traditional Chinese Medicine (according to Arndt Schultz law, they are considered the best choice of medications in this kind of energy deficient population) and crystal-based medications.

Conclusion: the conclusion of this study is that patients with melanoma have energy deficiency in the internal five massive organs responsible for the production of energy for our immune system and the treatment of this condition, replenishing it using highly diluted medications and rebalancing them associating with Chinese dietary counseling, auricular and systemic acupuncture is of paramount importance to treat the root of the problem and not just treating the symptom.

Melanoma is a tumor derived by the melanocyte’s malignant transformation. Melanocytes are derived from the neural crest and for this reason, they can also appear in another location rather the skin such as in the brain or gastrointestinal tract. [1]

There are some causes for formation of melanoma,according to Western medicine, that are: [1]

Family history: positive in 5 to 10 % of the cases [1].

Characteristics such as fair or red hair, blue eyes, pale complexion, reactivity to sun light, when easily sunburned, dysplastic melanocytic nevi, immuno suppressive states [1].

Another risk factor could be the exposure to sun over the lifetime. There is evidence that people who uses sunscreen has higher risks to develop melanoma (that blocks UVB but not UVA) making them to have more exposition to sun compared to the other persons [1].

Live in low attitude, number of sunburns and the use of tanning beds are all risks for increasing chance to have melanoma [1].

lower socio-economic may be linked to more advance disease because they have decrease melanoma risks perception and disease knowledge [1].

The treatment includes wide local surgery excision and biopsy of sentinel lymph node and are considered early stage melanoma definitive treatment [1].

In this article, I will demonstrate the other point of view that Western medicine is not looking in the treatment of patients with melanoma, that are the energy alterations before materializing in the disease itself [1, 2].

For this end, I will combine the reasoning used by traditional Chinese medicine (that exists for more than 5000 years), following Hippocrates(c. 460 bce – c. 375 bce) thoughts that said that “it is important to consider other ancient medical traditions prior to the knowledge we have nowadays” [3].

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that patients with melanoma diagnosis have energy deficiency in the five internal massive organs(Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidney, Liver) of the Five Elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the treatment of this condition, rebalancing and replenishing them are of major importance to treat the cause of formation of malignancy in this patient (because cancer in traditional Chinese medicine comes from energy deficiency and formation of internal Fire).

To write this article, I used thoughts from Western medicine and also, from traditional Chinese medicine searching for articles in both kinds of medicine indexed in PubMed. Also, I used one case report of white female patient with recent diagnosis of melanoma in many parts of her body and I will show to you what she had in the background of this diagnosis, in the energy point of view.

The case reported in this article is a 69-years-old female patient that went to my clinic to treat her fatigue and anxiety symptoms in 2022. She was my patient 15 years ago, due to some problems in the emotional problems and she did some acupuncture sessions at that time and after disappeared for many years. I asked her why she did not return to continue her acupuncture sessions and she said that she had so many problems during all these periods.

She told me that she had melanoma diagnosed 10 years ago and need to do surgery to take out her tumor. In the beginning of her symptoms she said that the tumor was like a hard alteration of about 0.5 cm and it was increasing in size. For this reason, she went to a doctor to show if there was the necessity to take out that lesion and because of the increase in size in a small time, the doctor decided to take out the lesion. But the tumor had the same color of her body (that is extremely white).

For the surprise of her, the result of the biopsy was that it was a malignant melanoma. She told me that it was appearing in another part of the body, with the same consistence (hard) and she is still in investigation if the other lesions could have the potential to be melanoma also.

At that time, she did many other laboratory and radiological exams (X- ray and tomography) to see if there is metastasis of this tumor but all exams were normal.

She was in taking medications to control blood pressure such as propranolol (due to mitral valve and also because of panic syndrome) for more than 10 years Since her childhood, she likes to take sun bath and usually she had spots in her skin, that she needs to go to the dermatologist to treat her condition because her father also had history of skin cancer.

Her parents also have white color of the skin being the mother from Czechoslovakia and the father from Romania.

She also told me that her husband was suffering from Alzheimer disease and pass away last year (2021) and she was suffering a lot with his death (they lived together for 47 years).

Before I start her treatment this year, after performing her physical examination, I suggested her to measure her internal massive organs energy (Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs and Kidney), using a radiesthesia procedure (putting a crystal-pendulum in front of each chakras’ energy centers).

The results of her radiesthesia procedure were that all her internal 5 massive organs (that corresponds to the chakras’ energy centers) were in the lowest level of energy, rated one out of eight, including the seventh chakra (spiritual chakra).

The treatment consisted in changing her dietary habits avoiding some kinds of foods such as the ingestion of dairy products, raw foods, Cold water and sweets (to avoid Spleen and Pancreas energy deficiency, responsible for absorption of nutrients and formation of Blood).

The second group of drinks that I orientate her was to avoid the ingestion of coffee, soft drinks and matte tea (because these kinds of drinks can induce the reduction in the energy of Kidney or second chakra) that are responsible for the production of Yin and Yang energy, important to keep our youth, teeth, bone, hearing process, reproduction and sexual function.These energies are important because they are responsible to keep our health inharmony, because all organs and systems necessitate these energies in adequate amount for their proper functioning and the reduced of one or both energies of Yin and Yang can lead to a varied of disease formation.

The third group of foods that I orientate her was to avoid the ingestion of fried foods, eggs, coconut,alcoholic beverages, chocolate, honey, melted cheese (because the ingestion of this kinds of foods can induce more energy disharmony of Liver and Gallbladder meridian and creating the formation of more internal Fire or Heat (that are responsible for the cancer formation in the energy point of view, according to traditional Chinese medicine).The explanations of why it is important to avoid these kinds of foods in this pathology will be explained in the discussion section of this article.

The second step used in her treatment was the use of auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting and systemic acupuncture, with intention to balance the internal energy,responsible for the production of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood and taking out the Heat. The explanations and reasons to do this kind of therapy will be explained in the discussion section of this article.

The last step in her treatment was the use of highly diluted medication (homeopathy medications according to the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine) to replenish the energy of the five internal massive organs, responsible for the production of internal energy and keep health to all organs, systems and glands (that were in the lowest level of energy, as I showed in the radiesthesia procedure). The decrease in these energies was responsible for the formation any kind of cancer, in this case, for the melanoma formation, in the energy point of view.

The medications used in this treatment were: Sulphur, Calcareancarbonic, Silica, Natrummuriaticum, Phosphorus. The dose and the mode of how were prescribed these medications will be shown in the discussion section.

In this article, I want to demonstrate that the mode that the medicine is using to treat all kinds of disease, in this case, patients with melanoma malignant tumor, it is a localized mode, treating only what they can see by the naked eye. As I said in the introduction section, I will use thoughts from ancient medical traditions, as said by Hippocrates (c. 460 bce – c. 375 bce), “foolish the doctor who despises the acknowledge acquire by the ancients” [3].

In the past, there exists other kinds of medicine in other cultures such as in Egypt, India, China, etc. and what all have in common, are the use of more natural ways to treat and cure the disease [4].

According to Hippocrates (c. 460 BCE – c. 375 BCE), “natural forces within us are the true healers of the disease”. Using this phrase from Hippocrates, I had a great experience in the last years, treating patients with malignant cancer, only rebalancing and replenishing the energy of the internal five massive organs using traditional Chinese medicine’s reasoning and also, combining idea from Ayurvedic medicine, to treat all kinds of chronic disease, including patients with cancer [3].

But the focus of all my treatments were not the disease itself,but focusing to treat the patient wholistically and not just the symptoms[2, 5].

All the reasoning used by myself until nowadays, were based on one specific patient that I treated in 2006 and I will briefly tell you his history and how were the evolution after this case [6].

He was a 70-years-old male patient with history of leg pain for the last six months with no improvement of his condition for the last 6 months, only using eye drops. He went to my clinicin Brazil, searching for another kind of treatment for his leg pain. His Chinese medicine’s diagnosis was Kidney Yang deficiency, and I treated his energy imbalances and not just the symptoms that he was presenting at that moment (leg pain). After 10 acupuncture sessions and changing his dietary aspects,following Chinese dietary counseling, his leg pain improved and also, improved from another condition that he was not aware, that was high-intraocular pressure, that he was treating for the last 40 years, with no improvement of his condition. For the first time of his life, his intra-ocular pressure reduces from 40 to 17 mmHg [6].

This history of this patient became the cornerstone of all my treatments that was based on rebalancing the internal energy of the patient, and not just treating the symptoms (in that case-leg pain). This different view point will be showed through the metaphor of the tree, in the Figure 1, demonstrating which level of diagnosis and treatment the two kinds of medicine are using nowadays [6].

In this tree, you can see the part of the tree that is under the earth and the part above the earth. This last part is what Western medicine is focusing in their diagnosis and treatment, that is the “materialized energy”, visible by the naked eyes. In this part, the trunk and branches represent the different medicals specialties (each branch) and the leaves represents the symptoms and diseases treated by each medical specialty [2, 5, 6].

But the part on the root of this tree is not recognized by Western medicine,because of the alterations made after Flexner report in 1910, when they only consider what it is scientific, what they can prove by radiological or laboratory exams [4].

This part (energy) exists in the human being as said by Capra (1975) in his book entitled Tao of Physics, when he is saying about the duality between the two kinds of medicine (Western and traditional Chinese medicine). They are opposite but complementary. So, I usually describe this energy part of the human being, the energy alterations in the root of this tree, leading to all clinical manifestations in the leaf level, as I showed in the Figure 1. The two theories that is basing all reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine is the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements theory,showed in the Figures 2, 3 and 6 [7].

In traditional Chinese medicine, they understand that all clinical manifestation is not localized in the leaf level of the tree but on the root of this same tree and also, it can suffer the influences of the external pathogenic factors, showed in the Figure 1. Also, the formation of one disease can come from different energy imbalances in the root of the tree (the different combinations between Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood) as I am showing in the article wrote by myself (2021) entitled Energy Alterations

and Chakras’ Energy Deficiencies and Propensity to SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Also, one energy imbalance can generate different disease in the leaf level, showed in the book written by Ouyang Bing, Gu Zhen (1996) entitled Essentials of Traditional Chinese Medicine[9].

To Yin and Yang flow inside the body, there is the necessity of having two more forces,that are Blood and Qi, as I am showing in the Figure 4 [2, 5].

When there is deficiency of one energy or a combination of energy deficiencies between them, there is the formation of internal Fire, generating the manifestation of diverse clinical emotional of physical symptoms, such as anxiety, panic syndrome, diabetes, hypertension, community and hospital infections, all kinds of cancer, etc., as you can see in the Figure 5 [2, 5, 6, 10, 11].

The second theory in Traditional Chinese Medicine is the Five Elements theory,also located in the root of the tree, invisible by the naked eye, showed in the Figure 6 [5].

In this theory, they are saying that all internal massive organs have an energy function and they are all interconnected by the energy flow, in the generation cycle, showed in the Figure 7 [5].

This perspective is different from Western medicine, that think that all organs works independently and separately and one organ do not influence the function of another organ.This mode of thinking came from Galen (ca. 129 ca. 217), a Greek physician that was born 500 years after Hippocrates (460 bce - 375 bce), and all his thoughts is influencing the Western medicine nowadays, mainly the discover in the anatomy of the human being [2, 5].

According to the article that I wrote in 2020, entitled Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Element based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, I began to write this theory in 2015, when I began my homeopathy course in Brazil because usually when the patient has disharmony or deficiency in the five internal massive organs in traditional Chinese medicine, they use Chinese herbs to treat the patient’s condition. But as I live in Brazil, the use of this kind of therapy is not so easy, because these medications are more expensive and the population that I have in Brazil (considered a third world country) is based on poor population and for this reason, I wrote another theory where I could combine the well-established reasoning in traditional Chinese medicine, that exists for more than 5 thousand years, but using a Western medication, that is homeopathy created by Hahnemann (1755 -1843) [12].

Through this theory, all clinical manifestation of majority of disease, came from energy imbalances in the root of the tree and not caused by the affected organ. In the article I wrote (2020) entitled The Importance of Treating Energy Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, I demonstrated through three cases reports that all patients that have cancer diagnose have energy deficiency in the five internal massive organs and the treatment of that conditionre balancing and replenishing

these energy,was important to treat the cancer itself or being a complementary treatment reducing the size of metastasis or reducing the propensity to have metastasis, as I am showing in the article entitled How Can We Give Hope for Cancer Patients to Cure This Disease? and in another article also wrote by myself (2021) entitled Can we cure our patients in palliative care? [13-15].

In this case of specific patient with diagnosis of melanoma, this kind of malignant cancer has an energy deficiency in the root of this tree, that caused the formation of cancer in the leaf level. For this reason, I am emphasizing the necessity of studying the energy alteration in all cancer patients and not just treating the leaf (that are the clinical manifestations itself). As I told in the beginning of the discussion section, all clinical manifestations I the leaf level is caused by energy imbalances in the root level of the tree [13].

The first measurement in all my treatment is to change the dietary aspects of the patient and following Hippocrates (c. 460 bce – c. 375 bce) recommendation, he said “make your food your medicine and your medicine your food”. So, the dietary aspects of this patient have the intention to balance again the internal five massive organs in traditional Chinese medicine to do not maintaining the energy alterations that were causing the disease formation. All foods were studied according to their energy property and not by their constituents (amount of protein, lipids, carbs or vitamins). The dietary orientations were according to each energy present in each food to treat the energy imbalances of the patient of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood [2, 13].

The second important factor contributing to energy imbalances in the root are the emotions, as you can see in the Figure 8 [16].

In the case of this patient reported in this article, she was felling very sad because of the death of her husband. If you look at the Figure 8, the internal massive organ that can imbalances with sadness is the Lung meridian, responsible for the hair and skin. But the Lung is an organ responsible for the hair and skin and for this reason,the emotional aspects of this patient could be one of the causes of energy alteration leading to more predisposition to have cancer in the skin [16].

You can see in this Figure 8, that each emotion can imbalance each internal organ and for this reason, in traditional Chinese medicine, they say that all kinds of disease came from emotions[16].

The second tool used in her treatment was auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting and systemic acupuncture, as I am showing in the Figure 9 and 10. In traditional Chinese medicine, the ear corresponds to an inverted fetus and all organs are represented in the ear and it is like a micro cosmos. In this case, I used auricular points represented by the five elements, that are Kidney (number 7), Liver (number 5), Spleen (number 8), Lungs (number11), Heart (number10), showed in the Figure 9 [2, 13].

Both procedures have the intention of balance the internal five massive organs (Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs and Kidney) and treating all this energy imbalances, it was possible to treat all the patient’s condition at the same time. This study was presented in the Acupuncture Research Conference, that was held in 2015 in Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA and it was based on the case of glaucoma’s’ patients that improved his intra-ocular pressure after treating his leg pain condition, only rebalancing the internal energy of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood using Chinese dietary counseling and auricular and systemic acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting [2, 5, 6, 13].

The last step in all my treatment, in this case, to treat this patient with melanoma and other symptoms (fatigue and anxiety) was to replenish the internal five massive organs (Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidney, Liver) using homeopathy medications, as I am showing in the Table 1 [2, 5, 6, 13].

The mode of intake them were described in the article also wrote by myself (2022) Energy Alterations in Patients with Chronic Dissecting Aortic Aneurysms and what are the Clinical Measurements to Prevent Worsening the Dissection? [17].

If this patient reported in this article do not treat this energy deficiency condition, using all these tools reported in this article and do not replenish the energy of the five internal massive organs, she would have more propensity to have relapses of this same tumor in any site of the body or the formation of another tumor in any part of her body, as I am showing in the article written by myself (2020)entitled The Importance of Treating

Energy Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer [13].

The reason I need to use highly diluted medications, instead of highly concentrated medications are based on one law created by two German researchers. This law, calledArndt Schultz Law (Figure 11), they say that the use of any kind of highly concentrated medications can harm the vital energy and the use of highly diluted medications can increase this vital energy and it is this effect that we need to have in our patients nowadays [18].

These kinds of therapy were not directed with the intention to treat the melanoma itself but it has the intention to treat the patient and not the disease. As I showed in her clinical case, she went to my clinicto treat the fatigue and anxiety symptoms(also caused by energy deficiency state and formation of internal Heat). As said by Hippocrates (c. 460 bce – c. 375 bce), “it is far more important to know which kind of person has the disease than to know which kind of disease the patient has”. So, in this article, I am showing the necessity to know which is the real cause the disease formation, in this case, melanoma development, but only emphasizing the necessity of treating the root (that is the patient) and not just the symptoms (the melanoma, anxiety, fatigue) because all clinical manifestations has the same energy imbalances, that are in the root and not just treating the symptoms, as I am showing the different aspects in the treatment of patients with dementia, in the article wrote by myself(2021) entitled Energy Alterations and Chakras’ Energy Deficiencies in Dementia Patients [19].

In the case of this patient reported in this article,she was using chronically highly concentrated medications for more than 10 years (propranolol) to treat hypertension and the clinical manifestation of panic syndrome and in this article, I would like to emphasize the necessity of reducing the intake chronically of any type of highly concentrated medications, to keep our vital energy strong, because one of the causes of cancer formation is energy deficiency and formation of internal Fire, as you can see in the article written by myself (2020) entitled The Importance of Treating Energy Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer [13].

The last step used in her treatment has the intention of replenish the energy of the five internal massive organs because these organs have an important energy function and each organ is responsible for one external sensorial organ, as I am showing in the Table 2 [2, 19].

You can see that all manifestation that this patient was having came from energy imbalances in the root of the tree, and the evolution to cancer only depends on how long the patient was having energy deficiency and disharmony, without treating it, as I am showing in the Table 3 [13].

In this table, the formation of disease is divided in five phases, where the first three phases are characterized by energy alterations but the laboratorial exams are still normal. It is in this first three phases that we need to act, to prevent the formation of any chronic disease and the development of cancer, as I am demonstrating in the article entitled What Are the Markers That Predict the Development of Having Cancer in the Future Without Laboratory or Radiological Tests? [20].

This energy alteration is not exclusively to patients with melanoma or cancer but in the research that I did in my clinic in Brazil, during 2015 to2020, I studied a 1000 patient’s internal five massive organs energy, that

corresponds to the chakra’s energy centers in Ayurvedic medicine, as showed in the article written by Chase (2018) entitled The Geometry of Emotions: Using Chakra Acupuncture and 5-Phase Theory to Describe Personality Archetypes for Clinical Use [8, 21].

In this research, I demonstrate that 90% of all my patients were in the lowest level of energy, in all internal massive organs (or from chakra one to six). In this group, 80% had energy only in the seventh chakra, and 20% had no energy in the seventh chakra. The results of this research I can show in the Table 4[8, 21].

In the article that I wrote (2021) entitled Are We Vaccinating Immuno competent or Immuno compromised People for COVID-19? I am showing that due to this energy deficiency state presented by our patients nowadays(and this could be caused by the influences if the electromagnetic waves due to modernization of the telecommunication after the implementation of the 5G technology), the rate of immune compromised patients is underestimated because all these energy alterations cannot be visible by naked eyes and also, cannot be demonstrated by laboratory exams, due to the alterations caused by energy alterations can only be demonstrated in laboratory exams after 5 or more years of energy imbalances or deficiencies [2, 5, 22].

So, in this article, I want to show that the majority of the population in this world are considered a high-risk patient to develop some cancer in the future and not only older patients are having this propensity but also, babies, children,adolescents, young adults or older patients. The treatment of the energy imbalances and replenishing the energy of the internal five massive organs (Heart, Spleen, Lungs, Kidney and Liver) is of paramountimportance to reduce the propensity to develop this disease and other chronic disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, myocardial infarction, strokes, any type of cancer, auto-immune disease as I am showing in many articles written by myself, one of them entitled The Importance of Treating Energy Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment ChakrasReplenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer [13].

The use of any type of highly concentrated medications nowadays can reduce even more this vital energy, that is demonstrated very low, in the majority of our population and for this reason, the use of this type of medication should be avoided to prevent the formation of any kind of chronic disease and any kind of cancer, as I am showing in the article wrote by myself entitled How can we prevent the formation of metastasis in cancer patients? In process of publication and presented in the 8th World Summit on Cancer Science and Oncology, held during March 16, 2021 [23].

In my presentation in this webinar, I said that, not only the use of high concentrated medications can induce the formation of cancer in the futurebut the use of any type of metallic implants inside the body, as I am showing in the article also wrote by myself (2021) entitled How is the Mechanism of Immunodeficiency Caused by Metallic Implants and What Can they Cause when Inside the Patient's Body? [24].

So, to finalize this article, I would like to say that, the recommendation of using surgery in Western medicine to treat this patient’s condition is only treating the leaf level of the tree, showed in the Figure 1. But the energy alterations that generated the disease was not treated until she went to my clinic to treat another clinical condition (that have the same energy imbalances). So, to understand in the deepest level what could be happening in melanoma patients’, we need to integrate the reasoning used by Western medicine and also, by traditional Chinese medicine, as I am showing in the metaphor of Yin and Yang, showed in the Figure 12 [13-15].