Defeat Cancer (34 page)

Vitamin D has many beneficial effects upon the body. Its influence upon calcium metabolism strengthens bones and muscles. It also has positive effects upon the immune system and cellular metabolism, and many studies have shown it to be very helpful for preventing cancer. Therefore, we recommend Vitamin D as part of our cancer prevention and treatment protocol.

Selenium is an essential trace element that’s an integral part of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which is involved in important
metabolic processes and helps the body to detoxify by destroying free radicals. Selenium is also important for maintaining an intact immune system. We use selenium in both tablet and intravenous form as an adjunct cancer treatment for our patients, because replenishing the body’s stores of selenium strengthens the immune system and prevents the recurrence of tumors. It also effectively reduces the side effects of radiation or chemotherapy, and improves the effectiveness of cytostatic drugs (which inhibit cancer cell growth and multiplication).

Vitamin C is found in different concentrations in the organs, with the highest amounts being found in the liver, adrenal glands, eye lenses, brain, and immune cells. Vitamin C is involved in a variety of metabolic processes in the body. It’s essential for strengthening and activating the immune, hormonal, and nervous systems, for regulating fat metabolism and detoxification, and for the formation and functioning of the bones and connective tissues. Vitamin C is an important antioxidant for the human body. It helps wounds to heal faster, plays a decisive role in inflammatory diseases and helps to counteract the negative effects of radiation exposure.

Much research has been done since the 1990s on the beneficial immune-boosting and cytotoxic (cancer-killing) effects of intravenous Vitamin C. Medline, one of the key medical databanks, shows that there have been around 8,000 publications that have focused on Vitamin C since 1990. These studies have led to the development of high-dose Vitamin C therapy for the treatment of cancer, and increasing numbers of physicians and alternative practitioners have been using it for this purpose with excellent results. In general, IV treatments are useful because the body’s need for Vitamin C can be much higher than what it can absorb via the gastrointestinal tract. Additionally, many illnesses, including cancer, reduce the intestinal lining’s ability to absorb Vitamin C. As a result, sometimes a therapeutically
effective level of Vitamin C can only be achieved through injections or intravenous infusions.

Auto-hormone therapy was developed by Erwin Schliephake, a renowned professor of physical therapy at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Schliephake discovered that flooding the brain with short waves (which are a certain type of electrical energy), led to measurable changes of hormone levels in the blood. In 1934, he succeeded in curing a patient of a brain tumor by using “short-wave flooding.” His method was later researched and perfected. He describes the method and numerous cases of successful tumor treatment in his book,
Short-Wave Therapy: The Medical Uses of Electrical High Frequencies.

Treatment involves flooding the vegetative centers of the interbrain with electrical waves, including the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, which are responsible for regulating hormonal balance in the body. This is done using two capacitor places (called “Schiephake electrodes”), which increase blood flow to the brain and warm its tissue. The result is apparent normalization of the endocrine system, which is often impaired by disease. Because the vegetative centers are also closely connected to the immune system, the immune system is also positively affected by AHT.

In addition to thymus, we use spleen and other organ serums to support the body and immune system. We use mistletoe for its cytotoxic (anti-cancer) and immune-supportive effects, as well as a homeopathic remedy called Horvi, which contains extracts made from snakes. These extracts are proteins that function as enzymes within the cancer cell. They support the regeneration of the malfunctioning cell, so that it no longer behaves like a cancer cell, but instead, a normal cell.

We do other treatments at our clinic. For instance, we give all of our cancer patients brewer’s yeast, which alters tumor metabolism so that tumor cells start behaving more like normal cells. We also have a machine called the HiToP® 182, which is used to treat pain and revitalize the entire body. Other treatments include magnetic field and chromo (color) therapy, hypnotherapy, intestinal cleansing, and various physical therapies.

Conventional treatment methods, such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy, have been improving in recent years. When used in a carefully targeted way, their use is thoroughly justified. It’s certainly wrong to reject them as a matter of principle, merely because a patient prefers to be treated with biological or natural medicine. Biological therapy must not be seen as an alternative to conventional therapy, but instead must complement all of the other conceivable and familiar forms of treatment. Conventional treatments must form the basis of any type of cancer therapy protocol, but in the majority of cases, and by itself, they are insufficient to effectively halt tumor growth. At the same time, it’s important to note that conventional treatments, particularly chemotherapy, are often overvalued by many orthodox clinicians and administered too frequently when their use is inappropriate.

Conventional treatments are overused because some doctors are poorly educated and over- or underestimate the effects and side effects of treatment. They also display an uncritical acceptance of research study results that have been prematurely published. Furthermore, they lack an understanding of the value of meaningful palliative cancer therapy because they are stuck in the autistic grip of a scientifically-oriented, quantified way of thinking, and also view themselves as the only real healing doctors.

It’s extremely important to apply strict diagnostic criteria when using conventional treatment methods and integrate them meaningfully and individually into the therapeutic approach. This obviously requires appropriate experience on the part of the doctor, who must be as knowledgeable about orthodox medicine as biological healing methods. As a rule, all conventional treatments negatively affect the patient’s immune system. The worst of these effects is caused by radiation, which is why strict limitations must be placed on its use. On the other hand, we know that low-dose chemotherapy, when administered, for example, in an IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy) format, can be effective. In some circumstances, chemotherapy can even help to improve the patient’s immune condition, as paradoxical as this may sound.

When patients first come to our clinic, we take their medical history, perform a physical exam and do tests, which may include an echocardiogram, blood tests, ultrasound and lung-function check. We then usually start by giving them intravenous vitamin and detoxification infusions at least twice a week, for about three weeks. The IV’s contain high doses of Vitamin C, selenium, B vitamins, magnesium, and potassium. During this time, we also do other therapies, such as ozone and oxygen, and physical therapies like magnetic field, brain light and color therapy; reflexology and electrotherapy.

We also give them injections to stimulate the immune system, which we administer at the same time as their vitamin and mineral IVs. We do hyperthermia and other strong immune-stimulating therapies only after they have received nutrient and detoxification IVs for a few weeks, but we also continue with the nutritional IVs after they start the immune therapies. We don’t start them on treatments such as hyperthermia right away, because they usually need to be built up and detoxified first, especially if they have done conventional treatments prior to coming to our clinic. If utilized too early, strong immune-stimulating treatments such as hyperthermia and fever therapy can cause them to release too many toxins at the
outset of their treatment program. We also want to support the liver and other detoxification organs, so that the body is better prepared to receive the immune-stimulating treatments. Throughout their entire stay at our clinic, we offer our patients various psychological therapies, such as talk therapy, meditation, art therapy, and yoga, since psychological care is a very important part of a holistic treatment program (this is discussed in further detail below).

Patients stay at our clinic for approximately six to eight weeks, and are given a maintenance therapy program to do after they leave. After six months to a year, we recommend that they come back for a follow-up treatment/visit with us.

Because our treatments are individualized, our follow-up treatments are different for every patient. We might recommend that one continue doing fever therapy at home with his or her doctor. For another, we might recommend hyperthermia or Vitamin C infusions.

“You take the lead,” said the soul to the body, “for ‘he’ won’t listen to me.” “All right,” replied the body, “I’ll fall ill, then ‘he’ will have time for you.”

—Author unknown

Taking care of our patients’ mental and emotional health needs is an important component of our holistic therapy plan, because almost all diseases have mental causes and/or effects behind them, which our patients often don’t perceive because they don’t pay attention to their souls. At our clinic, we have a psychologist, an art therapist and other practitioners who work to improve our patients’ mental health by teaching them yoga, meditation, and relaxation therapies, and by offering them counseling and the opportunity to paint and work with clay. Like our other treatments, our patients don’t all do the same therapies. We might recommend painting therapy to one and talk therapy to another, for example. Some of
these therapies are described in more detail in the following sections.

We know from experience that cancer patients are often isolated because neither relatives nor doctors are willing to talk with them openly about their diseases. It’s imperative for us to be honest and open while talking with our patients about what they are going through. Only in this way is it possible for us to provide them with a way of living positively and purposefully with, and in spite of, their diseases. Doing this can also relieve their feelings of isolation.

The cause of our patients’ mental stress isn’t limited to cancer. It frequently has its origins in their childhoods, marriages, or occupations. Often, their needs and feelings have been inhibited and repressed to the point that their mental states have now become determined not by themselves, but instead by others. As a result, they suffer from depression, feelings of guilt or being overburdened, and despair—all elements of severe mental stress, which are often unconscious, but which have paralyzed their immune systems and caused disease.

Medical doctors like Bernie Siegel, Simonton, and many others, have impressively pointed out the connection between mental disorders and tumor development. Doctors or psychotherapists can only make suggestions to their patients about how to heal these disorders, but it’s ultimately up to patients to take those suggestions and use them. Part of psychotherapy involves informing patients about what they need to do to change their lives. Support groups can be a good first contact point for this.

The purpose of mental health therapy isn’t to dig up problems. We have arranged our programs in such a way that they provide our patients with simple hints and techniques that they can use which will better enable them to deal with their diseases.

Even if patients are firmly convinced that mental problems don’t play a role in their diseases, we invite them to take advantage of the various range of psychotherapeutic treatments that we offer at our clinic, because they might “break new ground” in their thinking, in a way that would end up enriching their lives.

Another mental health therapy that we offer is painting classes, in which our patients paint pictures and then talk about what they have painted with a therapist. Through their paintings, therapists can discern whether patients have aggression, or are experiencing emotions such as terror or shock, because their emotions are expressed through their art. We can’t solve their problems, but we can help to identify them so that they can resolve them. Painting also enables patients to become far more aware and conscious of nature and the outside world. It helps them to rediscover the joy of creating art and using colors, and in doing so, alleviates their stress, helps them to abandon exaggerated pretensions, and overcome inhibitions. Being a mirror of the soul, painting also contributes to self-knowledge. Through it, patients can express their innermost selves, which is healing for the body. Additionally, no previous experience is required to do this kind of therapy. Everybody can do it. Our patients enjoy doing art therapy and are generally very happy when they leave our clinic with a package of paintings that they have created.

This therapy was founded and developed in 1972 by Professor Heinz Deuser, a German art therapist. Today, it’s used in a variety of therapeutic settings. Clay Field Therapy is a powerful tactile medium that can profoundly evoke, structure, and transform a person’s life story. All of our life experiences, especially those that involve touching and being touched, are stored in the memory of our hands. By working with clay, patients can retrace how they learned to “grasp” the world, and if they wish, rewrite the script of their relationship with it. As a material, clay also strengthens their
relationship with the earth and with themselves. CFT enables them to develop more self-confidence, as it stimulates clarifying and healing processes.