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10/01/2007: "Some Like It Hot"
The Egyptians treated tumors with heat back in 5,000 BC. The great ancient physician Parmenides said, "Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.” Nobel Prize Winners, Dr. A. Lwoff, Dr. Werner Zabel, and Dr. Josef Issels, recommend and use fever therapies extensively. Dr. Josef Issels, one of the leading cancer specialists in the world, has said, "Artificially induced fever has the greatest potential in the treatment of many diseases, including cancer." It seems that Hyperthermia hits cancer cells in three ways:
1. Removing accumulations of stored toxic chemicals that cause cancer
2. Improving circulation so that tissues are both nourished with oxygen and flushed of acidic metabolic wastes
3. Weakening or even killing cancer cells that have a lower tolerance for heat than healthy cells.
Famous cancer specialist Dr. Werner Zabel told this following true story, which illustrates the cancer-preventive and cancer-healing effect of artificially induced fever:
“Not far from Rome, Italy, there were huge swampy areas called the Pontine Swamps. These swamps were excellent breeding grounds for malaria mosquitoes, and the whole area was affected by malaria. Then, by government action, the Pontine Swamps were drained and dried out. As a result malaria completely disappeared. But Italian medical researchers made a remarkable observation. While earlier the whole malaria-infected area was completely free from cancer, now, one generation later, it had the same prevalence of cancer as the rest of Italy. The scientists concluded that the frequent fever attacks common in malaria stimulated the body's own defenses so that cancer could not develop.”
Not only is this then an effective cancer treatment, but also it often reduces pain that allows for better quality of life. In my case, it eases nerve pain that shoots down my arms. I try and take a hot bath each night. If you lay submerged for 45 minutes or so, the body temperature rises to that of the tub’s water. A bath at around 100 to 103 degrees will be sufficient to simulate a body fever that will help increase circulation and fight the cancer cells.