Document Anthroposophical Medicine in the field of Science and Research, published by Association Anthrosana Spain-patients for a health system expanded-anthroposophic mistletoe can read about the “There is neither ready anthroposophical healing plant for one that has been so well-researched as this.
The mistletoe extract drugs have become the most prescribed of all those in Oncology. Its prescription is not unique for anthroposophic doctors also apply equally colleagues traditional and complementary medical. There are many studies with mistletoe extracts from pre-clinical research and more than 60 clinical studies on the implementation of in total 5 registered, and anthroposophic preparations made from this plant. They are Abnoba Viscum, Helixor, Iscador, and Iscucin Isorel. The results of these studies is essentially positive. viscum Under a particular therapy improves quality of life, and partly prolongs survival, even those free of disease. ”
Today, in addition to countless studies in laboratory and animal, numerous human studies that have addressed the mistletoe but despite that has found an improved survival and/or the quality of life of patients -no side effects-Spanish oncologists do not propose to use it. The argument is “the lack of conclusive studies, prospective randomized placebo controlled double blind”. To which the Anthroposophical Medicine responds with four arguments also could be valid, in general, for all natural products with anticancer properties:
1) It is difficult to distribute to cancer patients according to the principle of chance in two groups. In a life threatening situation such as cancer almost nobody wants to risk falling by chance in the control group not receiving the medication to try but only a placebo.
2) prepared based on the mistletoe no prescription required and therefore, can be purchased at any time at pharmacies. So there is no 100% certainty that a patient is not administering any product based on the mistletoe simultaneously to conventional treatment. If so be that in the case of improvement, it is quantified in favor of chemotherapy without taking into account the effects of mistletoe because patients often do not inform their doctor the use of natural products, homeopathic or herbal taken simultaneously to conventional products.
3) Double-blind trials are inconsistent with mistletoe preparations because they are usually applied by subcutaneous injection and the patient learns about it. Also in the injection sites reddens the skin, often itchy and is sometimes hard for a few days. Effects are impossible to achieve with a pseudo-medication. Thus, as the doctor that the patient learn the first sight of who has received the correct medication and who placebo. Therefore it is impossible to do a double-blind mistletoe. And,
credit to: Antonio F. Wall
Tags: cancer treatment, clinical validity, mistletoe, natural cancer treatment
