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We know that epidemiologically every cul- Toxins from sepsis, you have an activation of
ture that has embarked on aggressive prevention the immune response but no side effects. This
of infectious disease with vaccines and antibiotic response is demonstrated when you inject the
treatment has seen infectious diseases diminish, Iscador, because the body temperature increases,
but deaths from cancer increase. Every single and you see actual signs of an inflammatory
one. This paradox is not unknown to the medical response. This inflammatory response digests
profession. the tumor.
William Coley was a surgeon in New York Then you can help the dead material out of
City at the end of the nineteenth century and the body with coffee enemas, hot baths and so
the inventor of a cancer therapy called Coley’s on. This is one of the most effective therapies for
Toxins, which was basically just rotting meat. all solid tumor cancers.
Coley knew of the apparent relationship between
infection and cancer regression. His protocol was ASSAULT ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
to inject terminally ill cancer patients with an If you look at this process you might wonder
agent to make them get really sick and produce how we got into this mess of so many people
a fever. Somewhere between 20-40 percent of with a diminished cell-mediated inflammatory
the terminally ill cancer patients who received response. A cell-mediated inflammatory re-
this treatment, especially with combinations of sponse—the part that we call “being sick”—is
Streptococcus and Serratia, went into remission. the activation of the white blood cells. Whenever
The treatment produced high fevers for a week, a we have a normal infection like chicken pox, two
lot of mucus, and a lot of what we call sickness. arms of our immune system get activated. First
It is also undeniably true that the thing we call is the humoral immune response, or antibody-
sickness is the immune response. The bacteria based response in the B cells, which make anti-
and the viruses don’t actually make us sick. They bodies to remember what happened. Second is a
trigger an immune response and the symptoms cell-mediated activation, where the white blood
which we deem as unpleasant—fever, mucus cells chew up the invader and spit it out through
and so on—those are the response to the foreign fever, mucus, rash, achiness and sweating—all
situation. With Coley’s Toxins, 20-40 percent of those things we call being sick. That is what
these patients, as written up by the New York happens with every naturally occurring infec-
Academy of Sciences, went into remission. tion. Is there something that we are doing that
Unfortunately, another 20-40 percent died is somehow turning on the humoral immunity
from sepsis; that is, from the therapy, and another and deactivating the cell-mediated immunity?
20 percent or so had no response. It was a toxic A vaccine is a specific attempt to activate
therapy, or you might say a last ditch effort, but a humoral response—antibodies—and to de-
the point remains that the fevers and the pus and activate the cell-mediated response. Why do I
the mucus—and the interleukin-2 and the inter- say that? If you get sick with fever, rash, mucus,
feron and all these tumor necrosis factors and after you had a vaccine, then that would be a
The incidence natural killer cells that constitute our immune bad vaccine. No one would want that vaccine.
of cancer has response—that is the therapy for cancer. As Hip- The whole point of a vaccine is to deactivate the

skyrocketed pocrates said, give me a medicine that produces cell-mediated response so you don’t feel sick, but
a fever, that provokes an immune response, and to activate the humoral response.
with the I can cure any disease. This is exactly the same immune situation
introduction Rudolf Steiner was asked how Iscador works that you see with cancer and auto-immune dis-

of vaccines in the body. He replied that it simulates a bacte- ease. The cell-mediated response is the only way
rial infection. You get the warmth, the interferon, your body expels microorganisms and foreign
and with the the interleukin-2 response, the natural killer cell proteins, and that response gets shut down with
suppression of response; you get everything you would get from vaccinations. Everyone who is vaccinated ends
the acute sick an infection except the bacterial infection and up with an over-stimulated humoral antibody
the sepsis, which are the toxic parts. So instead system and an under-stimulated cell-mediated
response. of 20-40 percent of patients dying from Coley’s system. Add to that the use of fever-suppressing

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