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I found the first part of the book as an ebook, so I only scanned the remaining pages, hence two parts to it.Book DescriptionPublication Date: August 1, 2001 | ISBN-10: 193005176X | ISBN-13: 978-1930051768In recent months, the plant-based cancer therapy Iscador has been gaining increased media attention. But Iscador has been known for its therapeutic benefits for over eighty years. As early as 1917, Rudolf Steiner suggested using injections of mistletoe extract for the treatment of cancer. His recommendations were taken up and put to clinical use by Ita Wegman, MD, a Dutch physician. Dr. Wegman, who founded a clinic that later became the Lukas clinic, also first developed Iscador in 1917.In this book, Christine Murphy gathers together some of the work of doctors and clinicians who have been using Iscador today. Dr. Richard Wagner, a German physician, answers many of the questions about Iscador asked him by his patients during his many years of practice as an oncologist in general practice, treating cancer patients with both conventional and alternative therapies. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a medical doctor specializing in cancer, offers an overview of the terms, procedures, and different approaches to cancer.Editorial ReviewsFrom Publishers WeeklyIscador, a plant-based cancer remedy, is a most widely recognized cancer medicine in Switzerland and Germany. In Iscador: Mistletoe in Cancer Therapy, editor Christine Murphy (Practical Home Care Medicine) has compiled writings by doctors and clinicians (some from Lilipoh, a holistic medicine journal Murphy edits) who use Iscador, which is never prescribed on its own, but in combination with various alternative and conventional treatments. Despite recent attention, some readers will be skeptical, since Iscador isn’t as widely known in the U.S. as in Europe, and the book has a New Agey-looking flowery cover. But they might want to keep an open mind; Iscador is more often prescribed by oncologists and other conventional doctors than by practitioners of “alternative” medicine.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalMistletoe has been used medicinally for centuries for an array of ailments. During the 1920s, Rudolph Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, advocated its use as a cancer preventive. Iscador, as the mistletoe preparation is known, is a licensed drug in Germany and Switzerland, where over half of all cancer patients use it or one of its variations as part of their treatment. Yet it has only recently become known here, in part because actress Suzanne Somers used it to treat her breast cancer. A compilation of mostly previously published works by physicians and clinicians, this work acts as a primer on Iscador, integrative cancer treatment, and anthroposophical medicine. Murphy, who also edits the anthroposophical medicine journal Lilipoh, explains the process of making Iscador and provides an extensive resource section that cancer patients may find especially useful. Because this is the only English-language book on Iscador for the lay reader, it would make a good addition to hospital consumer health collections and larger public library health collections. Valeria Long, Grand Valley State Univ. Lib. at the Van Andel Inst., Grand Rapids, MICopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.