Cancer Treatment and Health Care » mistletoe for cancer treatment http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com Presenting latest information about cancer and health care Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cancer Treatment Using Mistletoe – Clinical Validity (II) http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:00:06 +0000 mzPOTTER http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/?p=210 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.In 2001 the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine published the results of a study entitled Viscum Album in Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Investigation Epidemiology Viscum album was made for 30 years more than 35,000 residents of Heidelberg (Germany). We first chose a group of 5,000 patients who had cancer, and among them, the researchers chose more than 300 pairs of participants with the same type and stage of disease. And members of one group were given mistletoe extract in addition to conventional treatment. Well, after comparing the survival time of those who added it was found that mistletoe extract treatment lived 40% more than those who did not. “Such long-term study of high quality and scientifically rigorous is costly and difficult as this information is especially valuable-manifest David Riley, MD, Director of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the leading publication on CAM – . More and more data from basic science and clinical evidence of the efficacy of mistletoe which is the drug most common cancer in Germany. ”

Five months later the same journal published another study: Use of Iscador, an extract of European mistletoe (Viscum album), in cancer treatment: prospective nonrandomized and randomized matched-pair studies nested within a cohort study. And it was written: “Although Iscador is considered an alternative therapy for cancer is the most commonly used oncological drug in Germany.” The same authors sought to determine whether treatment with Iscador prolonged the survival time in patients with carcinoma of the colon, rectum, stomach, breast cancer, with or without distant metastases or axillary-and bronchogenic carcinoma, small cell and non-small – and explore possible synergies between Iscador treatment and psychosomatic effects. They concluded that Iscador provides a survival prolongation of clinically relevant cancer patients while improving their own psychosomatic state.

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]]> http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/cancer-treatment-using-mistletoe-clinical-validity-ii.htm/feed 0 Mistletoe for Cancer Treatment (II) http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/mistletoe-for-cancer-treatment-ii.htm http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/mistletoe-for-cancer-treatment-ii.htm#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:28 +0000 mzPOTTER http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/?p=190 Mistletoe (Viscum album): MAGIC PLANT

We have all heard at one time on the properties of mistletoe. The white mistletoe, league or visco (Viscum album) is a plant semiparasit articulated in stems and evergreen. It belongs to the Santalaceae family and has male and female flowers. It is a plant that can grow to three feet and grow over the branches of various trees, mainly deciduous, like apple or poplar-but also on some varieties of pine trees which gives different characteristics. As the fruit is a berry-toxic, small white and pink.

The mistletoe was the magic plant of the Druids and Celtic but Central had already been used medicinally by the ancient Greeks. And according to its supporters used to treat epilepsy, infertility, menopausal symptoms, nervous tension, asthma, hypertension, headache, dermatitis… and cancer.Modern interest in mistletoe as a cancer treatment resurfaced early last century. Around 1900 Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, began using the herb Viscum album as cancer by detecting the product improved the resistance of patients and increased their energy to fight the disease. Being Ita Wegman in 1920 when a German doctor, Iscador introduced the first product of mistletoe as a treatment for cancer.

Anthroposophical Medicine is the only complementary medicine whose principles require to be exercised exclusively by doctors and was recognized as “significant” by the Council of Europe in 1999. Currently practiced in hospitals in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Britain and Brazil. And he has training centers and drug laboratories in different countries of Europe, USA, Russia, South Africa, Egypt and Australia. Moreover, social security covers its costs in Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, Finland and Switzerland. It has a wide variety of non-invasive therapies and 75% of homeopathic medicines are in development but there are some differences from that of other products of this type.

It added that currently the mistletoe, health rescued by Medicine Anthroposophical even has its own web space within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) U.S.. “The mistletoe, a plant semiparásita, has an interest as a potential anticancer agent, can be read on the page because NCI-derived extracts have shown that it kills cancer cells in vitro and stimulates the immune system cells both in vitro and in vivo. Two components of mistletoe, namely viscotoxin and lectins, may be responsible for these effects.”

The viscotoxin are small proteins that exhibit activity to cause cell death and stimulate immune system activity. Lectins, meanwhile, are complex molecules composed of two proteins and carbohydrates can bind to the outside of cells and induce biochemical changes in them. “Having the ability of mistletoe to stimulate the immune system, says the NCI, has been classified as biological response modifier. The biological response modifiers are a diverse group of biological molecules that have been used individually or in combination with other agents to treat cancer or to lessen the side effects of anticancer drugs.

Mistletoe, as we said, has extensive distribution in Europe. Especially in Germany, Switzerland and Austria where both homeopathy and anthroposophical medicine are accepted and disseminated. So there available extracts are marketed under a variety of names including those of Iscador, Eurixor, Helixor, Isorel, Iscucin, Plenosol and Anaboba Viscum. Some extracts are marketed in more than one name but all products are prepared from Loranthaceae Viscum album (European mistletoe). In Spain the Iscador-product produced by Swiss-Weleda can be found in pharmacies and homeopathic medicine under the trade name of VAF (fermented Viscum album).

Moreover, commercial products can be subdivided according to host tree species. For example, Iscador, an aqueous extract from fermented European mistletoe is prepared as a homeopathic remedy sold as-IscadorM (apple), IscadorP (pine), IscadorQ (oak) and IscadorU (the elms ). Mistletoe extracts are usually administered by subcutaneous although other routes are described as oral and intrapleural. And the total duration of treatment varies considerably between cases.

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]]> http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/mistletoe-for-cancer-treatment-ii.htm/feed 0 Mistletoe for Cancer Treatment (I) http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/mistletoe-for-cancer-treatment-i.htm http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/mistletoe-for-cancer-treatment-i.htm#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:50 +0000 mzPOTTER http://www.hogsbreathphuket.com/?p=188 The Druids considered the mistletoe as a magical plant… and they were probably right. The U.S. National Cancer Institute, for example, admits that this is a plant of great interest in cancer treatment as it not only causes death by apoptosis in cancer cells but also stimulates the immune system. A faculty that is blamed on two of its components: vixcotoxinas and lectins.

And that explains why in some European countries already-used as monotherapy or as adjunct-to treat cancer and/or to decrease the side effects of chemotherapy. Over 30 clinical studies endorse their properties.

Rarely someone who has overcome cancer by natural methods have the opportunity to tell in the media because they are engaged in relentless censorship to defend the existing system. Opposite happens with popular celebrities or those patients who claim to be satisfied or to have recovered with conventional treatments: immediately found a niche in the media to speak well of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The same thing happens here in the paradise of the official Oncology: USA. Hence in 2001 the popular and internationally known Larry King Show, generated controversy nationwide, with second part included in 2005-which still endures. Larry King interviewed Suzanne Somers then, very popular woman in America who began as a television actress and ended up becoming an entrepreneur at the center of a real empire with all kinds of fashion products, diet, beauty and physical exercise, She is the author of books on health supermillionaire sales.

Ombudsman natural procedures for weight loss had been charged by a magazine to visit a cosmetic surgery clinic in flagrant contradiction with what he preaches. The scandal and morbidity were served. Suzanne Somers was then revealed a very different truth: I had breast cancer, had undergone surgery and his visit to the center had nothing to do with improving its shape but with the application of restorative techniques in the affected area. And in the midst of the interview came the surprise.

Suzanne admitted that he had resigned to chemotherapy and was treated with Iscador, a homeopathic product characteristics derived from mistletoe. A Question of King stressed that it was an individual decision that no one wanted to move and pledged to attend the program when they met five years of treatment.

However, just four years later, in April 2005 – Somers returned to the program. “There is no sign of the disease, said. So here I am, with all my controversial decisions. (…) I decided to build. I opted for keeping hormonal balance with bioidentical hormones. And along with my doctor, Dr. Khalsa, a great doctor in Beverly Hills, holistic physician who practices Western medicine and Eastern-researched what to do.

Thus we find Iscador, a product of Anthroposophical Medicine by Rudolf Steiner that used clinically since 1920 with the same results as chemotherapy but without the side effects. ”

Iscador, preparation obtained from the European mistletoe is widely known in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where they use up to 60% of those who use natural products as monotherapy or to supplement their conventional treatments.

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