OT but he is a supporter of LDN

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I get this newsletter from Dr.Cowan and this one is very interesting as he mentions this new autoimmune/cancer treatment. He is based here in San Francisco if anyone is interested.

Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 17:40:10 -0400From: drcowan@...To: bevkean777@...Subject: May 2010 Newsletter

Fourfold Healing Newsletter May 2010

Hello Everyone,

In this newsletter we have some hellos & good-byes within our staff, upcoming events, office updates from Sabine, and an introduction to an exciting new medicine I'm now giving to cancer, AIDS, and some autoimmune patients called Viscum Schwenk. This mistletoe remedy is created in Rudolf Steiner's precise way. As you will discover, it also requires a different economic structure to keep it available. Please continue reading to find out more about this unique medicine!

Best,

Tom Cowan

Upcoming Events

Dr. Cowan will be speaking at the Calistoga Institute for the "Surprising New Science of Heart Health" Symposium May 14th-May 16th. The symposium is $290 without accommodations (more with lodging) and includes meals. Use discount code "" to get $50 off. Please click on the Calistoga Institute link above for more information and to register!

Sally Fallon will be visiting the Bay Area to do a talk on "Nourishing Traditional Diets for Healthy Babies" Saturday, June 12 in Marin. $22 recommended donation-no one turned away for lack of funds. Advanced purchase is recommended since it could sell out. Visit Pediatric Alternatives for more information!

Gratitude

This week we are seeing a changing of the guard in our office. Hamilton-Roth, who has been with Dr. Cowan almost from his start here in SF, is stepping down as our one day per week receptionist. She has been a trusted friend, dependable assistant, and listening ear to many patients. It has been wonderful to have 's positive energy and helpfulness greeting us every Monday. She has used her nursing expertise and depth of food knowledge to guide many of you through your dietary and medicine changes. Undoubtedly, will soon find new and more creative ways to help those embarking on the healing paths encompassing the work of the Weston Price foundation, GAPS and natural healing in general. All of us here at Chenery Street, also want to give a warm goodbye to Dara Crawford. Although she has been here the shortest amount of time, her cheerfulness and enthusiasm has moved us all. As Dara carries on to new motherhood and an exiting new business, we temper our sadness with the knowledge that Dara's life is changing in new and interesting ways. As we welcome Sierra and to our practice, we note the loss of two very lovely people. All the best to our dear friends, and Dara.

Office Updates: by Sabine

Before going into office details, I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to all of you out there who supported me and my partner, , to get to Germany for cancer treatment. I am very truly grateful. He responded quite well to the therapies, and although still has a way to go, he is doing so much better. If you would like to read details on our experience, please visit my blog. has just started Viscum Schwenk this week and says he has a really good feeling about it (must be all that great energy that goes into making it!). Tom mentioned it has record of a least one person with follicular lymphoma being cured by it. I'm curious and feeling hopeful.

I know that some of you have wondered where I've been since I'm not at the front desk anymore, but I can assure you that I'm still here. I've just been hiding in the back sorting out accounts, updating our systems, and managing the office. My intention since my return from Germany has been to build a firm foundation where we can grow and expand our services. For patients, I'm currently working on making information accessible, and better stock of our medicines so we can minimize delays. We are also now carrying butter oil capsules and fermented cod liver capsules to make getting everything from one place easier. We have discounted most of our supplements to 5%-20% off retail as a courtesy to all of our patients. With our new accounting system, we can now email patients sales receipts, which makes us a little greener in saving paper and energy. If you don't have an email on file and want to join in, let us know and we will happily set this up for you. Our website has been updated and organized for smooth navigation, so for those of you who may have been having trouble sorting through Dr. Cowan's newsletters and articles in the past, I hope you can now find everything a lot more easily! I've also created many resource pages for food, medicines, and helpful links for support and recipes, which can all be accessed through the "Resources" & "New Patient" tabs. For those of you who haven't visited our site in a while, our "Contact" page also now provides links to communicateyour needs to us through email. Lion and Sierra Delgado both will be available every work day to assist you with any orders or administrative requests. Lastly, I want to thank all the patients who have been understanding and willing to participate in making our daily operations run smoothly by following our requested approaches. Your cooperation helps us grow! There are still many changes and prospects for the future--my shift in position, our new staff, & Viscum Schwenk are clearly some of them to start. We will keep you in the loop!

Best Wishes,

Sabine.

VISCUM SCHWENK Rudolf Steiner's Cancer Remedy: by Cowan

An Introduction

As many of you know, I have been associated for about 30 years with Anthroposophical medicine, which was founded in the early part of the 20th Century by Rudolf Steiner, the father of biodynamic agriculture, Waldorf schools, Eurythmy (a form of movement), and many other endeavors. Arguably his crowning achievement in the practical sense was the introduction of the plant misletloe (Latin: viscum album) for use as a cancer medicine. Six "brands" of mistletoe are now used as cancer medicine, and the most common and popular is iscador (called iscar in the United States). Iscador is probably the most successful natural medicine in current use, as judged by the amount that is used and its widespread distribution. It is estimated that half a million patients worldwide use some form of mistletoe as part of their comprehensive cancer regimen. No other natural cancer medicine has been as well researched or had as many positive studies as the various mistletoe preparations.

Rudolf Steiner on Mistletoe

In the early 1920s, Steiner pointed out the remarkable similarities of the life habits of mistletoe and cancer: mistletoe is a primitive, undifferentiated (between roots, stem and leaves), ancient plant that invades its host (the various trees on which it grows), and grows without regard to seasons, temperature or seemingly any outer conditions. It is relentless, invasive, undifferentiated growth until it comes to an "agreement" with the tree and comes to establish a harmonious relationship with the tree that is beneficial to both. Steiner pointed out that not only is mistletoe cancer growing in nature, but it also shows the patient the way to establish this harmonious relationship with the cancer, thus rendering it harmless. Modern studies of the various mistletoe preparations show that they raise the temperature of cancer patients, help them to establish healthy rhythms, stimulate and modulate the immune response, and selectively kill cancer cells while leaving non-cancerous cells unharmed. Steiner predicted that in time and by following the detailed, complex instructions he laid out for the processing of the mistletoe into a medicine, the mistletoe preparation would make the surgeon's knife a thing of the past. Clearly, this has not yet come to pass.

Development of Viscum Schwenk

Sometime in the mid-20th Century, as Anthroposophical cancer doctors were realizing that iscador was a special cancer medicine but that it was not replacing the surgeon's knife, efforts began to improve the formulation to make it more exacting to Steiner's instructions. One of the lead doctors, Leroi, began to work with a man named Theodor Schwenk, who was renowned for his work purifying and "enlivening" water. By working with the flow and movement of water, he was able to greatly enhance a variety of living systems and ended up inventing what is known today as the flow form, widely used throughout the world for its esthetic and water-purification properties. With the help of a small group of doctors interested in mistletoe and flow-form questions, Leroi and Schwenk spent more than 20 years creating the techniques to process mistletoe into a medicine exactly as outlined by Steiner. The 20-year research phase was followed by another 20 years of work with patients to improve its effectiveness in actual patient care.

Modern Use

For the last decade, a small group of doctors in Europe has been using this new medicine, called Viscum Schwenk, as its primary cancer and auto-immune disease treatment. Protocols, guidelines and instructions have been slowly worked out, with the understanding that this medicine's use is complex enough to require of the doctor a real connection to the whole of Anthroposophical medicine. This is no mass-produced medicine, but arguably it is Rudolf Steiner's primary gift and inspiration to the field of medicine. Schwenk, who probably knew more about potentization research and the energy dynamics of physical substance than anyone else, claimed that in following Steiner's description, he actually cooperated in the creation of a type of substance that had never existed before. The details of this are complex, but the possibilities and insights are profound.

Many patients in Europe have been treated with Viscum Schwenk, and the doctors I have spoken to say it is the most helpful medicine they use; patients feel better, have less pain, sleep better, have a better quality and quantity of life and, in some cases, experience a lessening of their tumor burden. For these reasons, it seems the time is right for me to offer this medicine to my patients, occasionally as a stand-alone medicine, but more often in conjunction with their other treatments, such as conventional iscador, low-dose naltrexone, surgery, pancreatic enzymes, hormones or whatever else seems right for the patient.

Why This Medicine is By Donation

This letter serves to briefly introduce my readers and patients to the existence of this therapy, but also to speak about its unique economic requirement. Steiner talked often about the need to change many of our economic realities. He insisted that patients should be given their needed therapies regardless of their ability to pay. We are not selling health, we are giving gifts from the natural world to help the human being who is ailing and scared. Steiner, in general, spoke about the need for what we might call today a gift economy and actually gave detailed instructions as to what this might look like. Since the beginning, Viscum Schwenk, befitting its unique place in Anthroposophical medicine, was not to be "sold" to any patient. It has only been given without charge to those who ask for it and receive it. I would like to continue this practice.

Our Plan

Currently, Viscum Schwenk is made by one pharmacy in Germany, using the strict guidelines developed by Schwenk. It is packaged in multi-dose ampules of various potencies and types to be given as subcutaneous injections (like regular iscador) every day with occasional pauses, depending on the situation. The pharmacy makes this available to physicians to purchase, and currently the cost of a month's medicine for each patient is about $100 dollars. We would like to start a program in which I will purchase enough medicine for about 10 patients for one month each. We will establish a separate "viscum fund" account to which anyone can contribute, whether patients who receive the medicine or anyone who simply wants to support this project. As the fund grows, more of the medicine will be purchased and more patients will be treated. If no donations come into the fund, eventually we would stop its use. If a huge overflow of funds comes in, we would use the extra money to do the same with another medicine I use, probably either strodival or perhaps low-dose naltrexone. The goal is to treat those in need, regardless of ability to pay.

Stimulated by this unique medicine and in conjunction with the spirit of our CSH plan, hopefully we can begin to loosen big money's grip on medicine so that it is freely given to those in need, creating a community of care in which all may prosper.

DONATION OPTIONS

One-time donations: Can be pledged through PayPal (yellow donate button), mail a check to the address below, or call us with a debit or credit card. You can also email us if you have a card on file already.

Monthly donations: Call or email our office to set up a monthly amount you would like to donate. With just a small amount per month from everyone, we most likely will be able to sustain this program and add more to it!

Patients receiving viscum, please also share this donation request with people in your circle who would be willing to help keep your medicine in stock!

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Cowan, MD

Viscum Schwenk Fund

661 Chenery St.

San Francisco, CA

94131

415-334-1010

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