Page 105Coley’s Toxins Treatment
Hyperthermia as a treatment specifically for cancer was first proposed by
nineteenth Century US physician Dr. William 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 Fever 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
A slight variation on fever therapy I like and have used a lot combines a
mild fever therapy with the properties of viscum related above. 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.