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Interesting website. I have just ordered his book on virtual

medicine. Here is what he says about fever therapy:

HYPERTHERMIC OR FEVER THERAPY FOR CANCER

by Dr -Mumby

So often in the science of healing we come around to the fact that

Nature knows best and if we just leave well alone, we can do the most

good. So it is that high fever is often a very beneficial response to

disease and doctors are wrong to fight it with medicines like aspirin

and paracetomol. Biological enzyme systems, and that includes those

acting as part of the defence process, work best at around 1030F, at

which level they are around 10 times more active than at 98.40F

(370C). Thus fever actually helps the immune system fight efficiently

and we should be very chary indeed about interfering. Otherwise we

get a disease which has never properly resolved the natural way and

can go on for years smouldering away.

The new discipline of electro-acupuncture shows us how often

childhood diseases, such as measles, just hang up in time and then

haunt us later as damaged immune systems. Cancer, let me remind you,

is very much a disease of weakened immunity. Yet scientific studies

show that where measles has been allowed to progress naturally and

resolve itself, the children actually emerge as healthier than those

kids treated heavily by intervention.

Probably the only time a fever should be blocked is in the case of

febrile convulsions. Fits are always bad and should be held in check.

But we can always sponge the child down! Sometimes the simple

remedies make the most sense.

An exciting new anti-cancer alternative treatment is to deliberately

create a fever. When I say new, this approach has been around for

over 100 years but has been promptly dumped in favour of noxious and

expensive chemo-therapy. We are just rediscovering how valuable this

ingenious therapy can be. We call it hyperthermia (as opposed to

hypothermia). US natural medicine clinics such as the Dr.

Atkins Center in New York report marvellously exciting results.

It is based on a simple and easily verifiable scientific FACT: that

a temperature of 1080F kills cancer cells but not normal human tissue

cells. All we need is some way to raise the body's temperature and we

create a selectively negative environment for the renegade cancer

cells, which can be mopped up by the immune system. Most of us would

consider 108F a bit high. But even at 103- 1040F the advantage still

manifests.

COLEY'S TOXINS TREATMENT

Hyperthermia as a general treatment was suggested long ago. French

doctor Hyperthermia as a treatment specifically for cancer was

first proposed by nineteenth Century US physician Dr. Coley,

M.D. He used very toxic bacteria waste products from Streptococcus

pyogenes to generate the high temperature. The results were very

encouraging and the treatment still, rightly, bears the name of

Coley=s toxins therapy. It isn=t pleasant, by any means, and the

patient feels just as you would expect: feverish, chills, shaking,

muscle aches and even nausea. But it passes, and is considerably less

unpleasant than chemo-therapy!

VISCUM FEVER THERAPY

I prefer to use a slightly different approach but with the same

general aim in mind. This is arrived at on a separate but parallel

track to Coley's essentially allopathic idea. It is the use of

homeopathic Viscum or potentized mistletoe preparations. I use Viscum

compositum from HEEL-GMbH in Germany.

The BIG advantage, to my mind, over Coley's toxin therapy is that

even if you don=t get the unpleasant fever, you are still doing an

immense amount of good against the cancer (see below), whereas

bacterial toxins have little else to offer beyond raising the

temperature.

Because of the essentially low-dose composition of the homeopathic

medication, we can give it in a sustained way, pushing the defences

until they get mobilized. This is seen by the onset of the patient's

own curative fever, which is a sure sign that the body is fighting

back (another important medical principle which drug-handy doctors

seem to overlook).

This fever is so valuable that I do not give even bio-logical or

herbal remedies to counter it but try to pour the fuel on somewhat

and get it higher! The exact details vary from patient to patient and

need not concern us here. But by alternating with another very

powerful immune stimulant Echinacea comp. Forte (a fortified

homeopathic preparation, not the common herbal drops you may buy at

the health shop or pharmacy), we can generally stoke up the fire

quite well. It's one of those odd moments for a doctor when the

patient feeling rough is what we want.

VISCUM AND OTHER INGREDIENTS

Viscum comp. also contains two other active ingredients which are

important. The first is adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP), which is there

to bring cell metabolism back into line. Cancer cells misbehave and

if they can be persuaded to act more like normal cells, then we are

getting somewhere. ATP stimulates hormonal and cell membrane activity

right inside the cell itself.

Mercury iodide is also included, which has strongly anti-viral

properties. Quite simply, almost all switched-on doctors today

believe that many (but not all) cancers are mediated by viruses, such

as the papilloma virus. Remember viruses are bits of DNA bad news

creating mischief, like alien genes, as I've seen them called. It's a

small step for them to get locked into cellular DNA and when that

goes wrong...why that's all cancer is, really: unruly DNA leading to

loss of cell integrity and runaway multiplication.

One further detail, mercury is administered as the iodide because

that stimulates the thyroid gland (homeopathically) and speeds up the

metabolic process. But it goes deeper than this; there is some

unknown cross-over between thyroid disorder and cancers. Thyroid

malfunction comes up time and time again with malignancy. I can't

explain it, but somebody will, some day soon. Certainly thyroid

function bears importantly on the performance of the immune system,

so it makes plenty of sense.

HYPERTHERMIC TECHNOLOGY

Finally, the idea of hyperthermia as a treatment has been taken into

the technological domain. A number of cancer centres now are offering

treatment based on perfusing the tumour itself with high temperature

solutions. With some tumours, such as a breast cancer, it may be

possible to isolate the blood supply of the growth and connect it to

micro-tubing which supplies heated liquid direct to the cancer cells.

This avoids the need to heat up the whole body, with its consequent

dangers.

Failing that, a limb can be perfused. Some centres carry out whole-

body hyperthermia. Statistics seem to suggest that the best results

can be obtained by combining hyperthermic technology with

conventional radiation at far lower (and therefore safer) doses.

Alternatively, hyperthermia may be induced by focussed microwave

appliances, this heated wires or implanted radio electrodes.

There are few side effects, the obvious one being burns and blisters

Which tumour patients can be treated? Dr. Fritz Schellander MD, a UK

holistic specialist, makes the following recommendations:

Patients with inoperable tumours

After a successful operation to reduce the risk of a relapse

Patients in an advanced state with multiple metastases

Patients with a high risk of relapse

Patients with a minimal tumour burden who refuse an operation

As a support measure for chemotherapy and or radiation

What other conditions can be treated with hyperthermia?

Chronic inflammatory conditions such as ulcerative colitis and

Crohn's disease

Rheumatic conditions

Bronchial asthma

Chronic and recurrent viral infections

Conditions requiring detoxification

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