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rides found in grains, potatoes, sweet potatoes, ease of civilization” hypothesis? Rudolf Steiner
sweet milk and a few other foods. The diet also was the first to describe Iscador, but he was by no
avoids the exogenous opiates: casomorphins and means the first to describe the theory of Iscador.
gluteomorphins found in grains and unfermented Twenty-five hundred years ago Hippocrates said,
dairy products. The GAPS diet mirrors the pre- “Give me a medicine that can produce a fever
civilized diet of 60-70 percent animal foods, and I can cure any disease.”
with fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts as sort of The way that I explain this to my patients
“vitamin pill” supplement. The strategy is to get is to note that the job of the doctor is to distin-
rid of toxic opiates, heal the gut, stimulate the guish between the therapy and the illness. What
production of healthy endorphins, and normal- I mean by that is if you get a splinter in your
ize the immune response. A significant number finger, and then your body makes pus to get the
of people with autoimmune disease and cancer splinter out, is the pus the therapy or the disease?
have a positive response to this combination. We know that pus indicates infection and the
presence of microorganisms, and we learned in
ISCADOR medical school that doctors should kill the pus.
The next modality in my approach to cancer But I don’t think it is that far of a stretch to see
treatment is mistletoe therapy, otherwise known that if you have a splinter in your finger, the pus
as Iscador. This is the backbone of anthroposoph- is the therapy for the splinter. If you don’t take
ical medical therapy and I’m a trained anthropo- the splinter out, the pus will do it for you. If you
sophical physician. This philosophy is associated mistakenly think that the pus is the disease and
with Waldorf schools and biodynamic farming, you destroy the pus, the splinter will stay and
started by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920s. your body will attempt this process again. If you
The mistletoe plant is made into a number of destroy the pus again, your body might repeat
different cancer preparations, but the original one this process three or four more times. Then you
formulated by Rudolf Steiner is called Iscador. have a chronic infection as the body keeps trying
The formulation involves an extremely compli- to remove the splinter. Eventually it will either
cated pharmaceutical process using winter and succeed, or it will encapsulate the splinter, which
summer sap from the Viscum album plant and is a tumor, a new growth. It is not a cancerous
mixing it in a gold-plated centrifuge rotated at tumor but a benign cystic tumor of the splinter.
the exact speed of the earth. It is an amazing The understanding that the pus is the therapy
process. allows you to predict what is going to happen in
You may be surprised to learn that Iscador the future.
is the most prescribed cancer medicine in the Now think of this example. Joe Bloke is a
world. At a conference I attended a few years ago, smoker. In other words, he puts a bunch of splin-
a German oncologist quoted 400,000 registered ters in his lungs every day. Twice a year Joe gets
cancer patients in Germany, 310,000 of whom cough, fever, mucus—all to get the splinters out
take some kind of mistletoe preparation. (Unfor- of his lungs. I prefer to say “cough, fever, mu-
tunately, European doctors usually prescribe it in cus” rather than “bronchitis” because the word
conjunction with conventional therapy.) You may “bronchitis” separates you from the reality of You may be
have heard that the celebrity Suzanne Somers is the situation. His body is producing an inflam- surprised to
an ardent proponent of Iscador, which has played matory response—it is making a mucus-pus-
a big part in her successful treatment of her breast fever response to cleanse his lungs of splinters. learn that
cancer, along with a low-carbohydrate diet and If Joe goes to a doctor who makes the mistake Iscador is
hormones. of thinking that the response is the problem, he the most
I’ve been treating cancer patients with Isca- will give drugs to stop the bronchitis—which is
dor for twenty-five years or so, and almost every actually the medicine. So Joe will be left with prescribed
patient I see is prescribed the diet that I have the splinters. That scenario will happen twice a cancer
described, along with Iscador and LDN. That is year for thirty years and then Joe has a big bag medicine in
the mainstay of my therapeutic protocol. of splinters in his lungs, and we call that lung
How does it fit in with our “cancer is a dis- cancer. the world.

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