The basic theory behind cell therapy was stated best by Paracelsus, a
16th-century physician who wrote: "Heart heals the heart, lung heals lung, spleen
heals spleen; like cures like." Paracelsus and many other early physicians
believed that the best way to treat illness was to use living tissue to rebuild and
revitalize ailing or aging tissue. Modern orthodox medicine lost sight of this
method, so it now uses chemicals to interrupt or override living processes.
While chemicals and drugs work only until they are broken down by the body's
metabolic processes, cell therapy has a long-term effect, because it stimulates
the body's own healing and revitalizing powers.
Doctors who practice cell therapy believe that cell therapy acts like an organ
transplant and actually makes the old cells to "act younger." This biological
"lesson" is not quickly forgotten by the cells.
In Europe, the effectiveness of cell therapy is widely accepted. In West
Germany, for example, more than 5,000 German physicians regularly administer
cell therapy injections. A great proportion of those injections are funded by the
West German social security system. Several million patients the world over
have received cell therapy injections since the mid-1950's.
Swiss physician Paul Niehans discovered the beneficial effects of live cell
therapy quite by accident. In 1931, Niehans was summoned by a colleague who
had accidentally removed a patient's parathyroid glands during the course of
thyroid surgery. So vital are these glands to life that there was little chance that
the woman could survive the day without them. A successful transplant was the
only chance the surgeon had of saving her. So Niehans, who had a reputation
for therapeutically transplanting organs and glands, was called in.
On his way to the hospital, Niehans stopped off at the abattoir, where the
animals he used in his revitalization experiments were slaughtered. He obtained
fresh parathyroid glands from a steer and proceeded to the hospital, fully
intending to perform a parathyroid transplant.
However, when Niehans arrived, one look at the patient- who was violently
convulsing -told him that there was simply not enough time to perform the
operation. The woman would not survive long enough.
But Niehans had an idea. He used a surgical knife to slice the steer's parathyroid
glands into finer and finer pieces, taking care not to mash the individual cells. He
then mixed the pieces in a saline solution and loaded it into a large hypodermic
needle. To the shock and dismay of his colleagues, Niehans injected the mixture
into the fatally ill woman.
Immediately, her convulsions ceased. Her condition improved- and continued
improving. To everyone's surprise, including Niehan's, she recovered. Niehans
wrote, many years later, "I thought the effect would be short-lived, just like the
effect of an injection of hormones, and that I should have to repeat the injection.
But to my great surprise, the injection of fresh cells not only failed to provoke a
reaction but the effect lasted, and longer than any synthetic hormone, any
implant or any surgical graft."
Longer indeed. The woman went on to live another 30 years, well into her 90s.
Thus was born cell therapy. At his Clinique La Prairie in Montreaux,
Switzerland, Dr. Niehans went on to administer live cell injections to thousands
and thousands of patients, including many of the crowned heads, presidents,
Pope Pius XII, and several Hollywood stars.
Reprinted with permission, FOREVER YOUNG
E. Michael Molnar, M.D. 1985, p.p. 79-91