Page 87Latterly (well, 1990s), Dr. Patrick Kingsley, who I regard as a mentor in this
domain, taught me the use of Abnoba’s viscum range.
Abnoba suggest different host trees for different cancers:
So, for example, the apple tree (Malus) is said to be good for breast cancer; oak
(Quercus) is used for the gastrointestinal tract and the male sex organs; ash
(Frexini) has a high concentration of viscotoxins and lectins in Viscum album,
Fraxini can be recommended for the treatment of metastatic tumour diseases.
Dr. Kingsley reported to me a remarkable case of recovery. A man with multiple
melanoma had presented as a bowel blockage, caused by a melanoma the size
of a baseball in his gut. After resection the patient started on Viscum, injected
into one of the skin lesions; it began to shrink steadily after each shot. It quickly
disappeared and Dr. Kinsley had to choose another site for injection. There were
scores of these skin lesions but the interesting thing that happened was that,
although the shots were only to one site each time, soon ALL of them started to
recede at once. Eventually, they all disappeared.
To conclude, I found one reasonably well done conventional trial for Abnoba
Quercus in the Journal of Oncology, vol 21, no 3, 2004, which said it didn’t
work. This was on a bunch of cases resistant to all other therapy, so not quite a
fair trial! Still, we must acknowledge they tested it (and they chose the correct
varietal).
Perhaps the advisory from Abnoba is critical: the selection of the host tree by
your doctor, however, also depends very substantially on the treatment plan and
above all on the individual disease. In individual cases it may occur that in the
treatment of breast cancer that mistletoe from the pine tree (Pini) or Viscum
album Abietis (fir tree) is used instead of the frequently employed “Mali” species
(apple tree). This is done in order to make the body react in a different way to
the different compositions of the ingredients.
OTHER NAMES: Mistletoe, True Mistletoe, All-Heal, Heal-All, Holy Wood, Golden
Bough, Druid’s Weed, Witches’ Broom, Wood of the Holy Cross, Devil’s Fugue,
Birdlime, Lignum Sanctae Crucis, Omnia Sanantem.
Host trees include apple, pear, poplar, linden and oak. It is usually found high on
the tree, especially on soft-barked apple, willow and poplar trees.
Viscum blooms from February to May with greenish or yellow flowers. The fruit
is a small, round, transparent white berry with a black seed in viscous pulp. The