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Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (II)
4) controlled studies, randomized prospectively made are expensive and complicated. The research is funded or mistletoe just what was never publicly funded. The funding of existing trials was achieved mainly by contributions from the producers of this drug. And these laboratories, for its small size, have-not unlike the large multinational pharmaceutical-huge research budgets to make possible the kind of studies required by the official Oncology.
In addition, oncologists have preferred to give up a first-order therapeutic tool compatible with conventional treatments and ignore the scientific literature that explains the use of mistletoe is translated into improved survival, a substantial improvement in the quality of life and greater tolerance to cytotoxic treatments. Read the rest of this entry »
Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (I)
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. Read the rest of this entry »