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Anthroposophic Cancer Treatments: Integrative Oncology

HELIXOR ® Mistletoe therapy is an integral part of integrative oncology, and is used as a complementary cancer treatment and truly works amazingly.  I see patients’ cancer numbers drop significantly, and patients across the board get support from their oncologist.  Mistletoe can be used alone, or in conjunction with traditional cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

Mistletoe is known to lessen symptoms of traditional treatments, increase body temperature, (cancer patients internal temperature is cold), improves a patient’s sleep-wake cycles, and across the board, patients report an increased sense of well being.

Helixor ® Mistletoe Therapy is Based on Over 40 Years of Mistletoe Research And Therapeutic Use

Mistletoe increases macrophage activation, TNF-a, IL-1, IL-8 and eosinophilia.  It increases your immune response, increases phagocytosis activity of granulocytes.  It increases T-Helper cells and your natural killer cells.  It is antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antinociceptive as well.  Mistletoe provides stress protection as well as immunoprotection.

Mistletoe therapy causes immunomodulation by causing a local reaction at the injection site, which triggers B cells to activate from the lectin antibodies.  T- cells, GM-CSF, IL-1, IL-6 and TNF-a, granulocytes, NK cells, monocytes and macrophages and IFN-y to activate.  This creates tumor cell cytotoxicity, Neuroendocrine effects and DNA stabilization.

Basically, you get a local inflammatory reaction at the injection site, your body has a temperature reaction, which improves internal warming.  You then have an increase in leukocytes (Neutrophils, eosinophils and lymphocytes), you have an acute peritumoral or around the tumor inflammatory reaction, where the reaction encases the tumor and destroys cancer cells.

Mistletoe therapy is used for:

  • All malignant tumors, and also with concomitant disorders of the hematopoietic system.
  • Relapse prevention both before and after surgery
  • Defined precancerous conditions such as cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, chronic Hep B and C, Ulcerative colitis and intestinal polyps.
  • Benign tumors such as uterine myomas, endometriosis, and brain tumors.

Types of Helixor® Mistletoe

There are three main types of Helixor® Mistletoe — Helixor® A, Helixor® M, Helixor® P. Type is based on 3 main categories or questions:

What are the patient’s specific details?

  • How sensitive is the patient
  • Allergies
  • Planned or ongoing chemotherapy or radiation
  • Reduced general condition.

What Type of tumor does the patient have?

  • Breast Obese/postmenopausal
  • Breast Slim patient/premenopausal
  • Bladder
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Gynecological
  • Head and neck
  • Kidney cancer
  • Lung
  • Prostate
  • Sarcoma
  • Skin cancer
  • Testicular cancer
  • And More.

Is there a need for a change of mistletoe Type?

  • Is chemo or radiation completed, and is the patient’s reaction insufficient?
  • Are there repeated excessive local reactions?

Helleborus Niger products come from Helixor ® Heilmittel GmbH. These products have been used and registered  in Germany since 1994. Known for their cancer cell cytotoxicity and anti-inflammatory properties, but are used for other conditions as well.

  • Immunomodulation
  • Cytotoxic and growth -inhibiting effects

Historic use of Helleborus Niger dates back to 1500-1000 BC, to treat conditions such as:

  • Psychiatric illness
  • Gynecological Remedy
  • Gout and Joint Disease
  • Topical treatment of skin diseases and venereal diseases
  • Treatment of head and neck ailments
  • Stroke, Dementia and Epilepsy
  • Cancers
  • Mental illness
  • Mental clarity-Enhancing cognitive function.