Cancer Treatment

In addition to providing helpful information for cancer patients and carers/relatives etc. concerning complementary treatments (also called adjuvants or nutriceuticals), we are working with the London-based cancer charity, Yes To Life, to get the best of these into the UK’s NHS (National Health Service). This is not without precedent. Some nutriceuticals, such as mistletoe (used extensively […]

Everyone knows that exercise is required to maintain a healthy body, but few people are aware of the extensive research demonstrating a specific preventative link between exercise, cancer, and other illnesses. There is no doubt that regular exercise gives you more energy, makes you feel better, lowers your stress levels, and helps prevent ill health.

A herbal formula used by a Canadian nurse, Rene Caisse (1887–1978) has developed something of a worldwide cult status. The formula is said to have originated with a Native American herbalist in Northern Ontario, who successfully treated an English woman for breast cancer towards the end of the nineteenth century. A limited scientific trial failed

Mistletoe Mistletoe is a traditional remedy and panacea dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks and the Druids. Nowadays it is the most widely used cancer drug in Germany, where it was introduced as a cancer treatment in 1917 by Rudolph Steiner, founder of anthroposophy. Since the 1960s, there have been at least

Many foods, especially fruits and vegetables, contain substances that help to prevent the formation of cancers or actively attack existing cancers. This seems to be one of the purposes of food and is a part of the economy of nature. For cancer prevention, a diet containing high-quality fruits and vegetables is essential. Ideally, fruit and

A number of mushrooms and fungi have been shown in various studies to contain substances (mostly complex polysaccharides) that stimulate the body’s immune system (particularly its T-cell lymphocytes, macrophages, and natural killer cells) to destroy cancer cells, lessen the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and combat viral infections. In some instances, tumors have

As manufacturers and vendors of nutritional products are quick to point out, benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) or enlargement is common in men over 50, and prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers. Addressing this market and making use of traditional herbal knowledge as well as research into herbal phytochemicals, vitamin and supplement manufacturers have