Former hairdresser charges cancer patients $2,000 for holistic healing

Researchers continue to gain a better understanding of cancer, especially with the release in early May of a UK study that suggests the fatal ailment is man-made. However, finding a cure remains elusive.

That is why the Australian Medical Association is accusing a former hairdresser of selling false hope by claiming she could cure cancer by using holistic healing, and charging $2,000 for the treatment. Courier Mail reports that the Cancer Council is pushing the country’s health authorities to investigate Lynnie Nichols.

Nichols offers cancer patients who are terminally ill a seven-day detox package in Bali for $2,000. For those who could not travel or afford the retreat package, the woman offers emotional healing over Skype for $200.

Whatever mode of treatment the patients select, Nichols advises them not to undergo chemotherapy which is allegedly poisonous. For the fee she is charging, the former hairdresser claims she had performed instant miracles wherein after a two-hour therapy session, which helps the sick people get in touch with their emotions, their cancer is gone.

She cites that case of a woman suffering from colon cancer who was allegedly cured four weeks after she saw a pole of white light come down and hit her on the stomach.

At a retreat centre in Sunshine Coast where Nichols would open in June, she would offer two emotional healing workshops, reports Daily Mail. The first involves a body-cleansing workshop and the second a vibration healing workshop with crystals. For cancer patients, she recommends water fasting, juice fasting and enemas, rather than chemotherapy which Nichols says is manslaughter.

She used to run the Mt Ninderry Healing Retreat in Montville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where a seven-day retreat package costs $2,500.

Dr Chris Zappala, president of AMA Queensland, points out there is no evidence that emotional healing cures cancer. “To suggest she can cure cancer, take payment for it and dissuade people from evidence-based medical treatments is travesty,” he says.