"Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease," said the great ancient physician Parmenides (500 B.C.). Dr. Hypocrates and Avicennes used this technique as well as modern giants of biological medicine in Europe, such as the French Nobel Prize winner, Dr. A. Lwoff and famous German cancer specialists like Dr Zabel, director of the cancer clinic Ringberg-Klinik, Dr. Josef Issels, who has used this technique to artificially induced fever in their battle against cancer and Dr. Douwes, recognized as one of the world's experts on hyperthermia and electrolytic therapies for cancer. These therapies are unique, safe and effective methods that are part of the protocol therapies at Klinik St. Georg.
Whole-body hyperthermia therapy has been attracting a great deal of attention due to its potential applications in the treatment of malignant tumors such as cancer, viral infections such as AIDS, and allergosis such as rheumatism, asthma, etc. Particularly with regard to cancer treatment, efficacy has been obtained by heating a deep part of the human body at 42°C for a time period of 60 minutes, depending on the tissue. The technical modalities can vary from micro wave heating, radiofrequency heating to using a far-infrared heating system (RHD 2001,7500 (Enthermics Medical Systems), far-infrared heating system (DAIUGIN, Micro-Carbon Fiber) and a near-infrared heating system (IRATHERM 1000, Von Ardenne Inst), fever creating bacteria (Coley's bacteria) and viruses (BCG), and, among other methods like getting buried in hot sand and therapeutic bathes, although this method like all of the others can be dangerous and must be accomplished under the supervision of a health practitioner.
A healthy organism reacts to encroaching disorders with regulated increases in temperature, progressing in acute cases to high fever that initiates an enhanced immunogenic response. Accordingly, an artificially induced fever surge in body temperature can sustainably, as opposed to allopathically, stimulate blocked powers of self-healing, even in cases of chronic and malign processes .
In addition, the controlled, selective increase in body temperature affects the regulations in the organism as a whole, as well as countering symptoms, promotes reparative and regenerative processes in each individual cell and in the entire matrix, particularly in bradytrophic tissue, expedites the flux of medicinal substances to the site of action, relieves tension in even the deepest, most inaccessible muscular layers, is thoroughly substantiated and is measurable and controllable in use. Other uses can be for non-articular rheumatism, fibromyalgia; post-accident treatments, degenerative diseases, arthrosis, chronic inflammation (broncho-pulmonary, intestinal, urogenital), carcinosis (additive, as immunostimulation and to boost the effectiveness of standard therapies).
Dr. A. Lwoff, famous French bacteriologist, has demonstrated in repeated scientific experiments that fever is indeed a "great medicine," and that it can help to cure many "incurable diseases". In biological clinics in Europe, artificially induced fever has been used successfully to treat such conditions as rheumatic diseases, skin disorders, insomnia, arthritis - and cancer. Dr. Josef Issels has said:
"Artificially induced fever has the greatest potential in the treatment of many diseases, including cancer."
Not too long ago, Americans have figured out how to use the 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system to target via hyperthermia tumors. A prototype was recently installed at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina. This can be electronically focused to target the three-dimensional shape, size, and location of the tumor and provide a dynamic form of control over the heat delivery. However, hyperthermia application is not well promoted in the US, a patient must go either to China or to Europe for this therapy. In East Germany, among other clinics and Institutes, the Manfred von Ardenne Institute's scientists worked out the physics of delivering heat to tumors.
AT THE JUS COGENS-ESSENIA CENTER, WE USE MODERATE HYPERTHERMIA BY COMBINING FAR INFRA RED THERAPY WITH THERAPEUTIC BATHES, HOT TOWEL FRICTION, WITH SOME HYDRO-THERAPY A LA KNEIPP (COLD AND HOT WATER) AND OTHER HOLISTIC TECHNIQUES
Although fever induced with vaccines (BCG) or anti-fever drugs or bacteria can have a beneficial effect by "waking up" and stimulating the body's natural defensive and immunological mechanism, there is less stress on the body if fever is induced with mild temperature. Professor Bull, at the University of Texas, reported interesting results showing that the anti-cancer effect obtained from a treatment at 40°C for six hours was the same as that obtained from a treatment at 42°C for 60 minutes. As compared to the treatment using an extreme temperature, the treatment using a mild temperature is much safer and easier to achieve.
In many hyperthermia clinics, intravenous anesthesia and other infusions are achieved through an indwelling needle on the forearm. Electrocardiogram, blood pressure, respiration rate, degree of oxygen saturation, etc., are monitored using a centralized monitor (SpaceLabs Medical Co.). Body-surface temperature is monitored at three places (chest, abdomen and groin) and body internal temperature is measured at the rectum and esophagus to an accuracy of 0.01°C. In order to avoid any burning injury, wetting is continued for the whole body during treatment.
CANCER AND HYPERTHERMIA
"In the tissue culture the cancer cell will be damaged by a temperature of 39° C. and dies at 42° C.; the normal cell will be damaged by 43° C. and dies at 46-47° C." Professor Lambert
Hyperthermia undermines cancer by removing accumulations of stored toxic chemicals that cause cancer in the first place, by improving circulation so that tissues are both nourished with oxygen and flushed of acidic metabolic wastes and by weakening or even killing cancer cells that have a lower tolerance for heat than healthy cells. This makes regular hyperthermia an excellent addition to a healthy cancer-preventing lifestyle and a useful part of a comprehensive program to remove cancer. Hyperthermia to detoxify the body is most effective if used together with exercise and enhanced nutrition including, but not limited to natural chelators (See link) and aromatherapy.
If one put the search term "thermotherapy" (a more precise term for hyperthermia) and "cancer" into the PubMed article database, about 8,500 articles surface. Of these, 158 refer to randomized clinical trials. These can be sampled to see the potential power of adjuvant hyperthermia. For example, in Guangzhou, China, interventional radiologists added hyperthermia to other therapies in the treatment of primary liver cancer. The three-year survival with the standard treatment was 23 percent. But when hyperthermia was added it was 51 percent (Lu 2008).
Above: Tiny tubes are implanted in cancer cells and then heated with near infra red light
Nanotechnology using heat has been harnessed to eliminate cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.
The technique works by inserting microscopic synthetic rods called carbon nano tubules into cancer cells. When the rods are exposed to near-infra red light from a laser they heat up, killing the cell, while cells without rods are left unscathed.
Details of the Stanford University work are published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researcher Dr Hongjie Dai said:
"One of the longstanding problems in medicine is how to cure cancer without harming normal body tissue. Standard chemotherapy destroys cancer cells and normal cells alike. That's why patients often lose their hair and suffer numerous other side effects. For us, the Holy Grail would be finding a way to selectively kill cancer cells and not damage healthy ones."
The carbon nanotubules used by the Stanford team are only half the width of a DNA molecule, and thousands can easily fit inside a typical cell.
Under normal circumstances near-infra red light passes through the body harmlessly.
But the Stanford team found that if they placed a solution of carbon nanotubules under a near-infra red laser beam, the solution heated up to about 70C in two minutes.
They then placed the tubules inside cells, and found they were quickly destroyed by the heat generated by the laser beam.
Dr Dai said: "It's actually quite simple and amazing. We're using an intrinsic property of nanotubes to develop a weapon that kills cancer."
The next step was to find a way to introduce the nantubules into cancer cells, but not healthy cells.
The researchers did this by taking advantage of the fact that, unlike normal cells, the surface of cancer cells is covered with receptors for a vitamin known as folate.
They coated the nanotubules with folate molecules, making it easy for them to pass into cancer cells, but unable to bind with their healthy cousins.
Exposure to the laser duly killed off the diseased cells, but left the healthy ones untouched.
The researchers believe it should be possible to refine the technique still further, for instance by attaching an antibody to a nanotubule to target a particular kind of cancer cell. They have already started work on tailoring the technique to target lymphoma in mice. Dr Emma Knight, of the charity Cancer Research UK, said:
"Nanotechnology has a lot to offer biomedical science, and the results of this paper suggest yet another way in which it may help in the fight against cancer.
"However, this work is still at a very early stage. The researchers have shown that near-infra red light can cause nanotubes to produce heat that can kill cancer cells.
"But their work so far has focused on cells that have been grown in culture in the laboratory. "Further research will be crucial to see whether these effects can be reproduced in the more complex environment of a tumour and, ultimately, the human body." (Source)
AMONG MANY OTHERS, THREE PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT HYPERTHERMIA WORKS
"For many patients, battling cancer has also meant fighting constant pain, or relying on strong narcotics like demerol or morphine derivatives. Hyperthermia is an excellent alternative to the use of these addictive drugs. Not only it is an effective cancer treatment, but it often dramatically reduces pain which allows for better quality of life. Subsequently, this enables many people to devote more energy to their fight against cancer." - Valley Cancer Institute
In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), where the authors reported using sound waves to heat animal and human tumors by 5º to 9.5º C. They were able to "eradicate" animal cancers without destroying normal tissue. They reported: "Radiofrequency therapy produced tissue necrosis or substantial regression of cancer in 21 patients" (LeVeen 1976). When ultrasound waves were directed at a malignant lung, the tumor was superheated to 106 to 107º F, but the healthy tissue was cooled by normal blood circulation and protected from harm (New York Times, Jan. 7, 1997).
Coley's toxins produce a fever as high as 104°F. Doctors who do not attempt to reduce the fever with antipyretics have much better results than doctors who reduce the fever. Bacterial toxins contain polysaccharides, as do some mushrooms. Polysaccharides can inhibit the growth of tumors in animals. Coley's toxins also contain lipopolysaccharide, renamed tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The modern name for Coley's toxins is Mixed Bacterial Vaccine (MBV). In a German study, advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients receiving MBV had a 93% remission rate, compared to 29% for controls receiving chemotherapy. Coley's Toxins were removed from the American Cancer Society's "unproven methods" list in 1975, but are still not generally available". Dr. Ralph W. Moss, The cancer industry pages 123-124, 160.
CONCLUSION
Heat therapy is an ancient and effective technique to promote good health, prevent disease, and treat many conditions. Whether you bury yourself in desert sand, sit in the sun, soak in warm water, or experience a fever during illness, raising body temperature and increasing sweating will purify the body, cleanse the skin, relax the body, improve circulation, stimulate the immune system, and weaken or kill cancer cells. A relatively long (45 - 90 minutes) moderatly high temperature (about 108°F / 42°C) heat therapy session is most effective. But this should be done under medical guidance, as complications can occur. And other holistic techniques can help to potentiate the beneficial hyperthermic impact. Thus, if one decides to self-heal, the temperature of the water and of the patient, and the patient's pulse, should be checked periodically. And controled. Accidents can happen. But so can healing.
REFERENCES AND STUDIES
Hyperthermia is one of the oldest and most establishedd holistic medical approach supported by thousands of articles published in peer reviewed journals. But mostly European. Hereinafter, a few sources and references.
North American Hyperthermia Society
630-571-2904
www.thermaltherapy.org
European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO)
http://www.esho.info/