Krebs Anhang Melanoma
[Joe Rozencwajg]
What is this natural, topical remedy?
Brassica Oleracea var Botrytis = Broccoli. Family of Brassicacea,
formerly known as Cruciferacea or Mustards, family of cabbages, cauliflower,
Brussels Sprouts.
According to John Boik, the Brassica family contains those
carcinogenesis inhibitors specific to the cruciferous plants:
Agents that block carcinogen
activation: Aromatic isothicyanates and Glucosinolates (glucobrassin,
glucotropaeolin)
Agents that increase
carcinogen detoxification: Aromatic isothiocyanates
Agents blocking the action of
tumour promoters: Aromatic isothiocyanates,
Dithiolethiones, Indoles, Phenols
Supressing agents: Aromatic
isothiocyanates
Indole 3 Carbinol (I3C) causes
apoptosis and prevents spread (3)
I3C and Genistein increase the
amount of BRCA 1 & 2 in cells preventing the transmission of damaged
genetic material in next cellular generation (genetic relative deficiency).
Sulforaphane inside the broccoli
cells inhibits the oxidizing enzymes that damages DNA (New Scientist)
Sulforaphane is the most studied and best known broccoli-specific agent,
also found in all the other Cruciferacae. The mechanisms of action are diverse
and well studied. Even though many of those imply internal use of broccoli, I
decided to use it locally so that an extremely high concentration could be
achieved. Sulforaphane is an organosulfur substance that has anti-cancer, and
antimicrobial properties in. The enzyme myrosinase transforms glucoraphanin, a
glucosinolate, into sulforaphane upon damage to the plant, akin to the
appearance of allicin when garlic is crushed. Young sprouts are particularly
rich in glucoraphanin and can be used instead of the vegetable. I have actually
started recommending using the sprouts as they are available year long and are
easier to prepare than
the florets.
Vegetables (Cruciferacae) induce enzymes of xenobiotic metabolism and
thereby accelerates the metabolic disposal of xenobiotics. Induction of phase
II detoxication enzymes, such as quinone reductase and glutathione
S-transferases in rodent tissues affords protection against carcinogens and
other toxic compounds. Sulforaphane is the most potent inducer, and the
presence
of oxygen on sulfur enhances potency. “Sulforaphane and its sulfide and
sulfone analogues induced both quinone reductase and glutathione transferase
activities in several mouse tissues.
The induction of detoxication enzymes by sulforaphane may be a
significant component of the anticarcinogenic action of broccoli.”. It also
induces apoptosis, “suicide” of cancer cells. And it has been shown to act on
telomerase activity, which is an essential component of aging and cancer
induction.
One study used local broccoli extract, but this was done with boiling
and chemical extraction, making it a pharmaceutical substance rather than a
natural one:
“Topical application of sulforaphane-rich extracts of 3-day-old broccoli
sprouts up-regulated phase 2 enzymes in the mouse and human skin, protected
against UVR-induced inflammation and oedema in mice, and reduced susceptibility
to erythema arising from narrow-band 311-nm UVR in humans. In six human
subjects (three males and three females, 28–53 years of age), the mean
reduction in erythema across six doses of UVR (300–800 mJ/cm2 in 100
mJ/cm2increments) was 37.7% (range 8.37–78.1%; P = 0.025). This protection
against a carcinogen in humans is catalytic
and long lasting.”
It also works by down-regulating the DNA methylation of genes
controlling cancer occurrence, sulforaphane acting as HDAC or histone
deacetylase, an epigenetic mechanism.
There are many studies that have investigated the mechanism of action of
sulforaphane.
There is no doubt whatsoever that this is a potent tool in the treatment
(and prevention) of all cancers.
Discussion
The purpose of using a topical application, as mentioned above, is to
achieve a very high concentration of active components at the tumour location
that would otherwise not be possible or practical. Even though those skin
cancers are seen as local events, it is absolutely essential in my opinion to
add the general approaches of lifestyle and nutritional changes, homeopathic
and herbal general treatments according to every practitioner’s knowledge. The
presence of a cancer, even caused by a clear local injury, means that the
immune defence system has been overcome or bypassed; it has
to be restored to normal to avoid recurrences or the appearance of
deeper, more aggressive pathologies. This method as presented here involves the
patient in his treatment 100% as he fully controls what he is doing; it is also
simple, cheap and effective while being pain free and not aggressive towards
normal tissues. This fits perfectly with my personal philosophy of “Power to
the people”.
We used the florets of the broccoli, but now have switched to the
sprouts. Both contain the highest concentration of active substances, the
sprouts being the most effective. The original recommendation was to juice them
so that the cells are broken and the maximal amount of sulforaphane is
produced. Some juicers cannot manage the small florets or the sprouts and many
patients
do not have a juicer or cannot afford to buy one. One patient solved
this problem by using a mortar and pestle until the plant was reduced to an
extremely wet pulp with a pasty, mushy, consistence:
it worked very well and has worked well with other patients. Once the
juice is extracted, if using a juicer, it is mixed with the dry pulp until a
wet, almost dripping, “mush” is created. This is so that all the active
substances are available. We tried to use the juice with gauze or cotton balls
instead of the dry pulp; the activity was reduced to almost nil. I attribute
this to adsorption on the gauze/cotton fibres. The “mush” is generously put on
the lesion and covered with a cling film (saran wrap, glad wrap) that prevents
the liquid from escaping and increases the local concentration.
It is then covered in any practical way possible, depending on the
location of the BCC. Ideally, this should be changed every few hours to ensure
a permanent saturation in active components.
This of course is not always possible. Leaving it overnight and changing
the dressing during the night if waking up is a practical and effective method.
The juice or mush has to be prepared fresh every time. Keeping it in the fridge
is tempting; the activity of the preparation diminishes in time and might not
be effective after a few hours, hence the need to change the application as
often as practical with freshly prepared broccoli. The plant itself does not
need to be freshly picked (active substances are mainly intracellular) or be
organic: plain, cheap supermarket broccoli works very
well. If the lesion seems to burrow into the skin or to be covered with
a thick layer that prevents contact with the juice, a short application of a
slice of fresh garlic or some crushed one will solve that problem. Care should
be taken not to leave the garlic too long as it has blistering properties (that
is why we use it in this indication) and can cause pain. The good news is that
it has also local anti-cancer properties and its use will not slow the
treatment.
The different and multiple actions of the active components are active
only on cancer cells and leave the normal tissues totally unharmed, and
unstained. This very selective destruction allows the normal tissues to replace
the dead cancerous cells “on the go” and prevents any scarring. There should be
no pain and no bleeding unless the cancer cells have invaded locally a nerve or
a vessel.
If any local pain appears, it will resolve without any interference and
so far I have not received any report saying otherwise or needing any type of
intervention. In one single case of scalp BCCs
in a gentleman in his sixties following multiple sunburns in adolescence
and adulthood, the first application of broccoli gave the expected results.
After the emergence of new lesions and repeated treatment, two phenomena
emerged: first, the whole area became red and inflamed while the BCCs were quickly
destroyed and replaced by ulcers, leading to the need to stop the treatment
after about a week, followed by a full healing; second was the appearance of
small BCCs in the same area during the treatment, which disappeared within a
few days. The patient being otherwise completely healthy and with a very strong
immune system, I interpret the reactions as a systemic assault of the immune
system on the cancer cells that became recognisable as being pathological once
weakened by the treatment. At the same time, the CSCs were stimulated (unproved
assumption), started multiplying and were immediately destroyed by the
combination of the local treatment and the immune defences. An experimental
application of the broccoli on other spots not suspect of harbouring CSCs did
not produce any reaction. This emphasizes the need for simultaneous
immune-stimulant treatment as well as general core homeopathic treatment, which
was the case for this patient.
Bleeding is controlled by local pressure, as no major vessel should be
involved. This is an important difference and advantage over “black salves”,
the escharotic treatments, the local chemotherapy, the local radiotherapy and
of course surgery: all of them are not selective, destroy all the cells
indiscriminately, are often painful and leave scars that are sometimes
mutilating. For the same reasons, this treatment does not work on benign, non
cancerous lesions (tried) and on warts (tried). Once a treatment has been
started, it is recommended to continue until at least 3-4 weeks after the
visible
or palpable lesion has disappeared, to insure each and every single
cancerous cell has been destroyed. This time is a “guesstimate” of course, but
also a safety measure. Last but certainly not least, it is simple and cheap, no
special skills are needed except some help at the beginning to learn how to
dress the spot when in an awkward location. And it cannot be patented, although
I have seen some (expensive) creams and ointments containing broccoli extract:
I challenge the real activity and the concentration of those preparations.
Inevitably, some lesions will be resistant to the topical treatment.
Within the same line of reasoning, but without any clinical concrete results
yet, I have suggested to replace the broccoli with either green tea or
turmeric. The green tea could be a tea bag barely wetted so that no drinking
tea is made but wet enough to have the fluid slowly escape; the turmeric should
be of excellent quality
(which is always a problem) and made into a paste. That paste should be
oily as curcumin, the active ingredient of turmeric, is lipid-soluble and will
be more available if oil or fat is used. I suggest the use of coconut oil as it
also has some anti-cancer properties; the drawback is that it becomes liquid at
body temperature and might spill out of the local dressing. One option is also
to rotate those three different plants so that as many active ingredients as
possible are put into contact with the tumour.
Extending this practice to locally reachable lesions, I can imagine, but
have not yet had the opportunity to do so, using this method for cervical
cancers or lower rectal cancers. One theoretical advantage is that the active
ingredients would also be absorbed using the same lymphatic and venous pathways
that metastases use, allowing for their treatment with high local
concentration, in parallel with a general treatment. A direct herbal treatment
towards liver metastases or even liver cancer, bypassing the digestive system
via the portal system, is also an extension of this method.
For the time being, I would not mix those three different herbs in one
single “poultice” as I do not have any idea whether the ingredients would
react, precipitate, become inactive or on the opposite would potentiate each
other. I will leave this research to phytopharmacologists who have access to
laboratory equipment.
Conclusion
A natural topical treatment for some skin cancers has been presented. It
is simple, cheap, effective, based on research and scientific experimentation,
painless and non-mutilating, and is deprived of side-effects. It totally
involves the patient in his own care and in case of failure does not in any way
prevent the application of other treatments. It should be the first choice, but
also accompanied
by a general, deeper treatment. It was not tested on any skin melanoma.
[Lueder Jachens]
Malignant melanoma from the anthroposophical point of view (Original
title: Neurodermitis im Kindesalter)
The physiological crossing phenomena of epidermal symbionts (melanocysts
and Langerhans cells) relate to important delimiting functions of the organism.
A connection exists between melanoma development and sunlight, with the
light representing the sum total of sensory impressions gained from the
surrounding world. The particular characteristics
of a melanoma relate to the patient’s specific individual nature.
Melanoma, a sense organ developing in the wrong place, relates to the eye.
Crossing the conscious will with the light taken in from
outside (light-soul process) as a mission for our civilization provides
the background for melanoma as a disease of our time. Apart from resection, the
most important measure for prevention and
treatment of melanoma is treatment with Viscum
album.
The incidence of malignant melanoma has shown a steep increase in the
white population worldwide over the last 40 years; it is the tumour with the
highest rate of increase. Even on its own this fact
makes melanoma a disease of our time. A closer look at the
characteristics of this skin condition suggests that it has something to do
with our modern lifestyle, and indeed with the spirit of our age.
Below, the physiology of epidermal symbionts (melanocytes and
Langerhans’ cells), characteristics of melanoma and the character of the
melanoma patient will be considered in some detail to arrive
at the essential image of malignant melanoma and at treatment.
Physiology of epidermal symbionts
With melanoma the malignant tumour of pigment cells (melanocytes), it is
helpful to make a closer study of their origin and physiology. Melanocytes are
of neuroectodermal origin; from the 8th week
of pregnancy, their precursors (melanoblasts) migrate through the
mesenchyme dorsoventrally from the neural crest. Their route corresponds to the
Blaschko lines, the paticular form of which is partly
determined by longitudinal growth of the embryo. In about the 12th
week, the melanoblasts have reached the dermis and now colonize the basal layer
in the epidermis. Here they live in community
with the keratinocytes, hence the term “epidermal symbiont”.
The fully differentiated melanocytes are positioned directly on the
basal membrane and thus below the cell nuclei of the lowest keratinocyte layer
in the basal layer.
Seen from above, the isolated melanocytes are in approximately hexagonal
relative positions, one melanocyte providing pigment for 36 keratinocytes
(functional epidermal melanin unit).
Being a symbiontic dendritic cell, the melanocyte has numerous branches
(dendrites) for “filling up” “its” keratinocytes with melanin. The
keratinocytes put the melanin on the side that faces the light,
to act like a sunscreen in protecting the nucleus from UV radiation.
1,000–2,000 melanocytes thus come to lie in a square millimetre of skin.
The weight of all melanocytes together in a human being is c. 1.5 g. What we
see here is a powerful and penetrating ordering
form principle. On the other hand, matter principles take hold of the
melanocyte once melanin production starts; “the melanocyte must be seen as a unicellular
gland, as it were”
Summing up, we may say that the boundary function which the organism as
a whole assigns to melanocytes in the skin consists in responding to bright
sunlight from without with material substance
from within (the blackness of melanin). Light, on the other hand, is a
vehicle for cosmic form principles. The situation is immediately apparent in
the wrinkles caused by chronic light damage –
the form principles of sunlight draw lines and furrows in the skin. Form
principle from without thus activates matter within.
With melanoma it is important to look at Langerhans’ cells as well as
melanocytes, as immunological processes play an important role in that
condition.
Langerhans’ cells are also epidermal symbionts; from the 4th
embryonic month they reach the epidermis via the blood, forming the most
peripheral outpost of the immune system in the prickle cell layer.
Following contact with an antigen from outside, they leave the epidermis
and migrate via the afferent lymph to a lymph node where they initiate the
specific immune response.
With Langerhans’ cells, the boundary function of the organism thus
consists in responding to a substance from outside (e. g. viral or bacterial
antigens, contact allergens) by passing on information (light) to the inner
organism. It is only secondarily and later in time that matter is set in motion
from inside in the T cell-mediated immune response (contact eczema as an
allergic reaction of the delayed type).
Comparison of melanocytes and Langerhans’ cells in terms of
threefoldness in the organism as a whole shows that by origin the melanocyte is
a nerve cell which as a “unicellular gland” is given metabolic function.
Langerhans’ cells derive from bone marrow and are blood cells given sensory
function in the skin. The polar opposite characteristics can be summarized as
follows:
Delimitation by crossing Ontogenesis and function of melanocyte and
Langerhans’ cell repeatedly show the phenomenon of crossing. The direction of
migration at the embryonic stage is parallel to the embryo’s surface and from
dorsal to ventral for melanocytes. It is crossed by the precursors of
Langerhans’ cells moving centrifugally from bone marrow to prickly cell layer.
A second crossing comes because of the difference in change of origin and
function.
The melanocyte was a nerve cell and is then involved in anabolism; the
Langerhans’ cell was a blood cell -blood is representative of metabolism- and
gains sensory function. Finally the difference
in the way the two kinds of cells perform their delimiting function may
also be seen imaginatively as a cross - the melanocyte responds to light from
without with matter from inside; the Langerhans’ cell responds to matter from
outside with light directed inwards.
The crossing phenomenon is well known in neuroanatomy and
neurophysiology. With sensations in the body, in the eyes and inner ear
projected contralaterally in the cerebrum, the relevant nerve tracts must
cross.
What do such crossings signify? “Due to them, sensations enter into a
sphere which is separate from their area of origin. It is a sphere of higher
consciousness ...
With the crossing, sensations connect with the human life of thought and
ideas at the fields of projection, a life which on its part relates to these
projections, but is not part of them”. The crossing of nerve tracts must thus
be seen in conjunction with the human potential for rising from conscious
awareness to self awareness.
Another aspect to the significance of the crossing is found if we
consider the E (German E, sounds like “ay”) in eurythmy therapy. “The E fixes
the I in the ether body”.
“We create the E by crossing the limbs, a point of contact arises. This
contact makes us perceive our own body. In the E, the arms cross, you close
yourself off from the surrounding world.
The sensation is: The world has done something to me. Touching myself in
this gesture, I can keep myself upright in the face of this.” In sensory
perception, the soul is given up to the outside world;
with the E, one faces it in self awareness. “We must make left and right
intersect if we are to have an I.” Crossing the limbs when doing the
eurythmy-therapy E we strengthen the basis for experience of self.
For the human form, the crossing is a specific form of movement, in the
central nervous system we have the “E gesture in organic fixation”, a
neuroanatomical fact as those nerve tracts cross. With the
epidermal symbionts, on the other hand, the crossing phenomena are at a
purely functional level, and thus deep down in the unconscious, in the sphere
where astral body and ether body work together.
They are connected with the I-organization and are ultimately created by
it. The I effects the integrity of the human body; it watches over foreign and
native. This function of the I has failed in the case of malignant melanoma,
and the crossing situations we mentioned effect decompensation.
Characteristics of malignant melanoma
Below, characteristic phenomena of malignant melanoma will be described
which we consider to be important pointers to the nature of this form of
neoplasia. The aim is not to present the full picture;
this may be found in textbooks.
First let us consider the kind of individual who tends to develop
melanoma. The tumour is seen mainly in white-skinned people. In a talk with
workmen, R.S. spoke of white skin as reflecting the light and heat of the sun
from the body surface, rather like a snow-clad surface does in winter. Light
and heat are not taken in from outside but have to be generated inside. As a re
Migration in 3rd embryonic month from neural crest to basal
layer
Nerve cell becomes unicellular gland
Light from outside matter from inside
Langerhans’ cell
Migration from 4th embryonic month from bone marrow to
prickle cell layer
Blood cell becomes cell with sensory function
Matter from outside light (information) to inside
In the case of melanocytic naevi, the melanocytes are called naevus
cells; these also derive from the neural crest, but are aggregated in nests.
Naevus cells are spindle or star-shaped and may produce melanin in different
ways. These naevi are congenital or acquired after birth.
The term junction naevus is used when the naevus cells are in the region
of transition from epidermis to corium in the epidermis.
If there are naevus cell nests in the epidermis and the corium, the
naevus is a compound one. Dermal naevi are skin-coloured nodules, with the
naevus cell nests exclusively in the corium.
When a melanocytic naevus loses its form principle, a dysplastic naevus
with macroscopic signs develops with incident-light microscopic and
histological signs of atypical changes. The macroscopic
signs show a diameter > 5 mm, asymmetry, irregular pigmentation and
irregular margins. The above pigmentation phenomena in the skin thus range from
normal tanning, which shows great, ordering form principles, to the dysplastic
naevus where emancipation of the cellular principle is to the fore; this can be
shown in diagrammatic form
Taking the above results from studies together with the pigmentation
phenomena, we can say in general terms that a skin with numerous melanocytic
naevi indicates exposure to external factors.
Exposure to the sun is only one of these; easy of access, it has been
studied intensively. An analogy for the origin of melanocytic naevi would be a
tray evenly spread with gravel. Some impact causes the stones to cluster. With
actinic lentigines and melanocytic naevi as skin “imperfections”, the
melanocytes indicate regression of the ordering form principle; they are like
degenerative phenomena in the benign range.
The study where statistical means were used to show melanoma risk
factors in the German-speaking countries (16) offers further interesting
information:
• Particular occupations or branches of industry do not change the risk.
• In occupations with exposition to sun the risk is definitely
increased.
• Blue-collar workers have a reduced risk; clerical workers a slightly
elevated risk; qualified white-collar workers a greatly increased risk; the
highest risk was found among the self-employed.
This fits in with the observation that malignant melanomas occur
particularly in middle age (age meridian of 53 years). This is the time when
people face many demands from and obligations to their surroundings which have
the potential to cumulate in stress. The family has been established, the
children are at school or university; a house has been built and must still be
paid for.
At work, responsibility has been assumed; the individual is at the peak
of his professional career. He has an honorary post or two. The higher
incidence of melanoma at this age indicates that factors other than sun
exposure are also involved; they may be subsumed under the title “foreign form
principles from outside”
A disposition for melanoma may also be partly genetic in origin, with c.
10% of all melanomas showing increased incidence in families. R.S. and Ita
Wegman generally ascribed hereditary dispositions to the I-organization being unable to integrate normally in the organism
as a whole. Another characteristic melanoma phenomenon is association with
other tumours.
It is not uncommon for melanoma patients to develop further primary
melanomas. “Multiple melanomas are particularly frequent in patients with
dysplastic naevus cell naevi”. The incidence of
non-melanocytic tumours in melanoma patients does not go beyond the
general level, though breast cancer is the most frequent second tumour in other
organ systems. 651 women among 9034 melanoma patients developed a second
tumour, in 104 of them breast cancer. This is interesting if we consider that
the mammary gland is an organ of the subcutis and breast cancer therefore a
tumor of the skin in the wider sense.
Malignant melanoma and breast cancer are both tumours of the skin as an
organ, except that the latter derives from the skin’s deepest and the former
from its uppermost layer. Melanoma and breast cancer have other things in
common, too. Late metastases 10 or more years after surgical removal of the
primary tumour
Benign phenomena of skin pigmentation.
Equilibrium between the organism’s own form principles from within and
foreign form principles from outside form principle - order normal tanephelids
lentigo
simplex
lentigo
senilis
melanocytic
naevi
dysplastic
naevi
cellular
principle
- own aims is one of these, and the specific personality of patients
also shows similarities.
A patient’s observation that a naevus has grown has been statistically
identified as a sign of risk. Even the vague statement that a blemish has
changed or is itching, or that “something is not right” with it, should be
taken seriously. The skin as organ of the I-organization and of conscious
awareness makes it possible for a tumour process to rise from the darkness of
subconscious organic life into the twilight of dream-like bodily sensation,
metaphorically knocking on the door of daytime consciousness.
The natural location of melanocytes determines the site where the
melanoma begins to grow. This is the basal layer, the vital stratum in the
epidermis. A special feature seen only with melanoma and no other tumour is
that growth is exclusively planar for years, spreading horizontally and only
intraepidermally (60 -75% of melanomas). This reflects the form principle to
which they are initially still subject and which keeps them in the epidermis.
Growth in the vertical direction is secondary, causing a nodule to develop.
Significantly, primary melanomas may also occur in other organs with surface
boundaries - the mucosa, the chorion in the eye and the meninges.
Finally let us consider the special features of metastazation with
melanoma. Progressive metastazation goes from skin metastases in the immediate
vicinity of the primary tumour (satellite metastases) via skin metastases
(usually subcutaneous) along the route from primary tumour to the nearest lymph
node (transit metastases) to regional lymph node metastases and finally
haematogenic metastazation. The latter does remarkably often affect regions
where the organism is in contact with the outside world skin, lungs, liver,
brain. Organs with boundary surfaces may also be affected - heart,lung,
tonsils, duodenum, small intestine, kidneys. It is interesting to note that
melanoma metastases are always melanotic in the neurosensory system and often
amelanotic in metabolism and limbs.
The melanoma patient’s personality
Following the evolution of cancer in different patients, the physician
will again and again come to the burning question: Are there particular
features which one sees more frequently in cancer patients? Do certain
personality and biographical characteristics suggest such a thing as a “cancer
psyche”? Is there a specific melanoma-patient personality? In the author’s
opinion, the words of R.S. in two lectures he gave provide a definite answer to
this. In Prague in 1911 he challenged his audience to look “everywhere in the
organism for material processes which correspond to everything that happens in
the soul”. It is a matter of really finding “such correspondences between
psychic processes and physiological processes in the organism”. He went on to
say that in this sense, thinking goes hand in hand with salts forming, feeling
with the modification of swollen conditions, and the unconscious will with the
generation of heat. Steiner’s challenge to look at both psychic and
physiological aspects can be transformed and extended into looking for the way
a pathological organic process correlates with processes in the psyche. A start
has been made with neurodermatitis and psoriasis. The question arose as to how
it is possible to find markedly polar and relatively reliable correspondences
between the physical situation with two skin conditions and the inner life of
the people who have those conditions. The reason is that the skin is near and
dear to us in mind and spirit.
Following Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas said that the soul is the “principle
for existence” and the “ground and basis for life”, its “configuring form” and
“reality”. According to him, the form principle comes from the soul sphere, and
“the more noble a form, the more is it able to govern bodily matter”. Every
physician can see the noble nature of the human skin; we can conclude from this
that it is particularly closely connected with the soul.
R.S. gave a detailed description of how the human spirit, the I, lives
in the soul. Referring to the skin, he said: “In human beings, it is
particularly the organs in the periphery which the I penetrates fully, giving
them their configuration”. We may thus call the skin an organ of the I or self.
This is the reason why pathological processes in the skin can be specifically
and reliably found also at the level of soul and spirit.
From a lecture R.S. 1924, describing the interaction between astral body
and ether body in man, we gain further insight for our question. The astral
body has the tendency to make human beings ill.
The ether body develops life in them; the astral body reduces it. Human
feeling is based on the constant to and fro in an unstable equilibrium between
etheric and astral. Inflammatory changes occur when the astral body is too powerful;
proliferation results when the ether body is too powerful. Considering the
above-mentioned connection between feeling on the one hand and interaction of
astral body and ether body on the other,
R.S. said: “The human life of feeling is simply mirroring the life of
the disease in the soul. - An unstable equilibrium exists all the time in our
perfectly normal life of feeling between proliferations and inflammatory processes.”
This insight can provide a rational basis for perceiving the melanoma patient’s
personality. Human beings only perceive things for which they are conceptually
prepared. Such work to gain insight must therefore be done. A physician who
does not think that there is a “cancer psyche” and melanoma personality will
also be unable to see these in his patients. R.S. concluded: “This makes it
possible that in the human life of feeling we are able altogether to see
extraordinarily much of what disease processes represent. If one can observe
such things a long time before physical diagnosis of the disease is possible,
it is possible to establish the future illness from the fact that the life of
feeling is no longer functioning properly. The illness is but an abnormal life
of feeling ... And essentially it is simply not possible to develop a feeling
for making a diagnosis unless one has a good eye for the inner life of human
beings.”
The basic situation of melanoma patients, in body and soul, is
characterized as the danger of losing the balance between outer light and inner
light. The boundary between inner and outer cannot be maintained in body and
soul, and ultimately foreign principles enter into the organism. It is not
surprising, then, to find the following personality traits with marked
frequency in melanoma patients. They are pleasant, correct in behaviour, adapted
and over adapted to the social environment, and easily guided by their
physician. In a dermatological unit, physicians and nurses will often remember
melanoma patients for a long time because they were so pleasant. Following the death
of a melanoma patient, the author repeatedly heard nurses say: “It always
strikes the wrong people.” Other characteristics are being emotionally
thin-skinned, sensitive, with a rich inner life.
These patients do not use their elbows, psychologically speaking; one
will even find a tendency to be proverbially “blue-eyed” on occasion. Above, we
considered the constellation of powers behind blue eyes in the physical sense -
the blood having less impulse power to drive “blackness” to the periphery and as
far as the eyes. This physical cum etheric situation is easily “translated”
into soul terms in that the proverbially blue-eyed tend to protect themselves
less, are less likely to reflect much on measures they’ll take on entering into
a particular situation. In this sense, its is quite alien to these patients to
“plot and scheme” to the detriment of others.
The pigmented skin might be the physical correlate of “putting up a
screen”. Being open to the world means that melanoma patients are often
prepared to listen to the concerns voiced by others, and also have a heart for
the problems of other nations. They will sometimes be intensely involved
socially and even take on more honorary positions than they are able to cope
with.
The story of Thomas A. Dooley (born 1927) who died of malignant melanoma
in 1961 may serve as an example for the specific inner leanings of melanoma
patients.
Dooley was a citizen of the U.S. of Irish origin. In 1954 (at the age of
27!) a physician in the US Navy was sent to supervise the evacuation of
refugees from communist N. Vietnam to free S. Vietnam, and prevent epidemics
from developing. He set up a tented camp for 15,000 refugees, with all sanitary
installations and the necessary administrative arrangements; later on there
were
3 camps for a total of 30,000 refugees. He worked 14 or 15 hours a day,
seeing patients and operating. When on leave he went on lecture tours of North
America, collecting money for MEDICO,
an organization he had established in 1958.
This became one of the most significant humanitarian aid organizations
in the 20th century. Dooley wrote a detailed report on his work in
Indochina. Details of his personal experiences taken from this are given below.
His constant fear was that he might be suddenly posted elsewhere and
that his successor, however able, might not feel for the refugees and their
troubles as he did. He and his colleagues always suffered the torment of
feeling inadequate, unable to smooth things over even superficially. There was
nowhere for them to go to escape from the unimaginable misery around them. A
free afternoon would bring a kind of guilt feeling, spoiling their pleasure in
the brief respite. Between the end of August 1954 and mid-May 1955 he lost a
third of his body weight. Daily routine went on uninterruptedly, in spite of
several bouts of malaria, infection with four different kinds of worms, and a
very unpleasant skin eruption. The constant drain on his energies and nerves
did not worry him. The moral conflicts were much harder to bear. His conscience
drove him to do more and more to prevent himself from falling into doubt and
despair. A kind of being-at-school complex of never doing enough tormented him.
They were always taken from one extreme to another.
Now and then they would feel relaxed and well for a few hours, but then
they would realize, with sudden shock and pain, that they were living on the
edge of hell. A colleague called Peter kept telling him not to take things to
heart so much. Dooley was often torn between going to see a patient in the
mountains whom no one else was able to treat, or leaving that man to himself
and performing his duties in the hospital.
Peter would tell him to stay where he belonged, and that he could not be
everywhere at once. He would reply that he could not let the man die; it was a
moral responsibility.
In the late summer of 1959, Dooley fell off his bicycle and lacerated
the right chest wall. Soon after this, a malignant melanoma with regional lymph
node involvement developed in that side.
It was surgically removed in September 1959. Dooley died 17 months later
from the sequels of metastazation.
In dermatological practice you will again and again see patients who are
capable of great empathy. This is particularly evident in the above example.
The empathy must, however, be encompassed by the I. It must be given order and
form, a clearly defined place in the individual’s personality and biography, so
that it does not lead to giving oneself up completely. With melanoma patients
there is a danger of excessive empathy endangering the boundaries of the
psyche. Foreign principles can then break in.
The essential nature of malignant melanoma
The whole periphery of the human organism is predestined to be sense
organ. The great variety of sense organ is due to the fact that each particular
sense organ serves perception of a particular sensory quality. “The skin really
makes the human being as a whole into a sense organ”. The skin is, however,
only made to perceive a particular sensory quality and far from all of them,
e.g. not light. It is the eye made for the light.
R.S. used the eye, the “most radical sensory organization”, as an
example for describing the development of a sense organ. “It is really created
half from outside; it is integrated into the organism.
The organism on its part ... leaves free the eye cavity. The eye is
placed in this. This indicates that the development of the eye mainly involves
processes from outside the human being. The human being merely receives it.
With a sense organ as striking as the eye we can say that a foreign body is
integrated into the human organism”. R.S. made a blackboard sketch of this
He then considered the way the four bodies relate to each other in the
eye. “Everything placed in there, and in the case of the eye it actually is
still partly etheric and not merely physical, is encompassed by the astral body
and the I-organization which in the eye are actually as far as possible
emancipated from the physical and the etheric.” In the central human being,
e.g. in the internal organs or in muscle, the four bodies are intimately brought
together. “With the eye, the situation is that I and astral body are closely
bound together, and in the same way the other two are intensively bound up with
each other. A loose affinity exists between ether body and astral body. This
situation exists only in the eye”.
R.S. also sketched this.
In another lecture, given to members of the medical profession, R.S.
described how sense organs can “only develop in the right way through the
warmth and air organism in that the fluid organism and the solid organism act
against it, and we have a resultant of components. This means that it is
necessary for us to look at the relationship between physical organism, in so
far as it comes to repression in metabolism, for instance, and the sculpting
organism, in so far as this comes to expression in the neurosensory system. We
must consider, as it were, how metabolism lets something ray out, with matter
taken in a radial direction, and how the matter is the sculpted in the organs
by the principle brought to it from the neurosensory system”. This can be shown
in schematic form.
It should be noted in this context that sunlight belongs at the top in
as it moves etherically through the air organism. The “resultant of components”
we are here concerned with has been described elsewhere by R.S. as “cross-over
relationship” and “relationship in the growth of powers”. When melanoma
develops, the relationship of component powers is changed due to excessive
sunlight and other impressions from the human environment. In his lectures,
R.S. would often speak of a tumour being a sense organ developing in the wrong
place. In the case of malignant melanoma and the role which sunlight plays in
its genesis, one immediately thinks of a relationship to the eye. Using
Steiner’s idea of the tumour as a dislocated sensory process we can thus say
that malignant melanoma
is a pathological tendency in the organism to create an eye in the skin.
Pathologist Peter Ries of Hamelin, Germany, pointed out that there is a
morphological similarity between the pupil of the eye with its surrounding iris
and the superficially spreading melanoma
with central regression. In both cases, pigmented cellular structures
lie radially around a hole!
For greater understanding of the processes which in the case of
malignant melanoma lead to a sense organ developing in the wrong place, let us
take a closer look at some aspects of the organism’s way of dealing with light.
R.S. spoke of human beings being able to produce “original light” in their
organism. “This inner light production goes to meet the influence of external
light. With regard
to the upper human being we are made in such a way that external light
and inner light act against each other in interplay, and the very essence of
our organization rests on the fact that where these two, external light and
inner light, are meant to work together, we are able to prevent them from
merging, keeping them apart, so that they only act on one another but do not
unite. As we face external light, be it through the eye, be it through the
skin, a screen is set up everywhere in the human being between the inner,
original oOrganization of eye.
Developmental process (based on a drawing by R.S.).
Development of sense organ.
I - in warmth organism
astral body - body in air organism
ether body – in fluid organism physical body
physical body - in solid organism
– sculpted form metabolic system
– radial form of matter light in us and the light that influences us
from outside.”
(Figures 1 and 2 reflect this.)
We may therefore sum up and round off. The eye is the specific sense
organ for light; here external light is permitted to overcome the body’s
boundary and, though outside world, continue on
into the inner organism.
R.S. also referred to sense organs as “bays” ext. the organism from the
outside world.
The human skin reacts to light by producing pigment; as we have seen, it
takes in light only in the qualitative sense and not in the physical sense,
which the eye does. In the light metabolism of the human organism, the
generation of inner light is stimulated by external light. Inner light, being
light ether, is content of the ether body. The light ether lives in the air
organism and it is through this that the astral body incarnates.
A stream of light pours into the inner human being via the upper human
being, when external light (= light ether) has been taken in as quality by the
sense organs and the skin. In the upper human being, light creates thought:
“Thought arises from light. Thought weaves in the light”. In the lower human
being the form principle active in the light ether lets boundaries develop,
fully forming
out the whole human being down to the level of individual organs.
Considering the relationship between light and human existence in the
physical body as well as in soul and spirit, and the role which sunlight plays
in melanoma development, the question arises if people relate to light in a
particular way today. An answer may be found from anthroposophy as a whole in
so far as it makes it clear to modern people that it is now necessary for human
beings to oppose the centripetal stream of incoming sensory impressions, of
light, with inner activity and the will to gain insight, which move
centrifugally. R.S.: “We must grow aware of a much more subtle relationship to
the outside world, which means that with regard to our ether body, something is
happening which must come more and more to conscious awareness, similar to the
breathing process. In breathing, we inhale fresh oxygen and exhale useless
carbon dioxide air.
A similar process exists in our sensory perceptions. - We ... must
develop the subtle aspects in dealing with the world so that as we take that
world in we have not only sensory perception but also something which is of the
spirit. - World thoughts influence us from without, and the human will acts
from inside to outside. – We must come to feel how the will acts through the
eyes, and how the activity of the senses does indeed merge into our passivity,
so that world thoughts cross with human will.
—We must ... if we make light the general representative of sensory
perception, rise to the thought that light has soul”. Everything coming to us,
to our senses, from the human environment is light.
R.S. spoke of a “light-soul process” characteristic of the Michaelic
age, with the soul passing through cosmic space on the wings of light.
There seems to be an evident connection between the crossing of world
thoughts and human will which R.S. said was the mission of our present
civilization, and the crossing phenomenon seen with epidermal symbionts.
The connection may be considered to lie in the fact that a wisdom
reveals itself in the phenomena of those symbionts which lies dormant deep down
in the unconscious human organism, waiting to be brought to light of day in
that process of civilization.
The words R.S. gave as spoken by Michael, the spirit of our age, about
modern humanity point to this:
“The power of the spirit sun shines on their souls; the Christ is at
work; but they are not able to heed this. Power of the spiritual soul is active
in the body; it does not yet want to come to the soul ”.
This power of the spiritual soul unfolds in the light-soul process as
human beings compel their will towards perception, to deliver the world thought
from the sense-perceptible world.
One example of the many such efforts being made in our present
civilization is Goethean natural science. If people fail, however, to connect
the will with sensory perception, so that the power of the spiritual soul is
not elevated in the body, then that soul will cause morbidity. We are thus able
to see a light-soul process not brought to realization as a possible cause for
development of malignant tumours and especially melanomas.
Feeling plays an important role when world thoughts cross with the human
will consciously brought into play on the soul’s boundary. From the midst of
feeling comes the individual relationship between thoughts from without and
will from within, a relationship which is different for everyone. Developing a
feeling for both spheres we develop the ability to find always the right
measure.
In the case of Thomas A. Dooley it is evident that a feeling for his own
needs and the necessity for protecting himself were not adequately met. The
needs of others around him touched him too deeply, on the other hand.
R.S. described the conditions for life in soul and spirit in the present
Michaelic age in more detail, saying that anything which has developed in the
past, God’s work, must only influence the human I from the environment. Freedom
in human inner life must be developed in our time but is only guaranteed if the
impulse from the human environment, from nature, the work of divine spirits,
extends to the I and does not influence the ether body and the physical body.
Sunlight is the influence of something evolved in the past; a tendency for
melanoma develops if we allow it to act on our physical body and ether body and
not at all or too little on the I.
The world thought in sunlight must only influence the conscious human
will; this is a condition with the light-soul process, a process which demands
freedom in human inner life.
In the lecture where he described the crossing of the world thought with
the human will in the light-soul process, R.S. gave an example for will
activity. This is the fading after-image when the eye has perceived something.
This after-image is an objective fact in the world ether. It is
interesting to note that patients undergoing chemotherapy lose the ability to
see complementary colours in the after-image. This reveals the nature of
chemotherapy.
The connections established between sunlight and melanoma development
show that with melanoma, the tumour process is in two phases. In the first
phase, foreign principles from the human environment irrupt into the organism;
this is a dynamic process with no physical correlate. In the second phase we
get the catastrophe of form due to emancipation of the cellular principle; the
tumour process becomes physical. In the first phase the healthy relationship
between the four bodies in the skin is upset by sunburn, especially in
childhood and youth. I and astral body live in the light of the senses; this
gains too much power in its centripetal activity.
It overcomes the body’s boundary, irrupts into the organism and creates
a bay
R.S. went into more detail in a lecture given to members of the medical
profession. “I-organization and astral organization getting too powerful in the
neurosensory organism someone drive this whole organization into the organization
of metabolism and limbs”. This leads to the beginnings of a sense organ in the
wrong place and to carcinoma. Applied to melanoma this means that the higher
bodies are too strongly active in the light, damaging the melanocytes which are
an element in metabolism (“unicellular gland”) in a functional sense that goes
beyond the physical. This describes the process immediately as sunburn develops;
a later sequel is loosening of the connecting between higher and lower bodies,
as described for the physiological condition in the eye. This pathologically
loosened the connection between the four bodies is the cause of the increased
melanoma risk. It persists for decades with no symptoms. It needs biographical
crises, professional overwork and strokes of destiny that are too much for the
delicate soul and constitution to bring on phase 2, with the tumour process
becoming manifest. The loosening of the bond between higher and lower bodies
then causes the connection between the body’s own form principle and the matter
principle to be broken in the melanocyte. The cellular principle, in which the
physical body is active, loses its power to maintain form, a power subject to
the impulses of the higher bodies.
A dynamic fact, fills up with melanoma cells and can now be measured as
a vertical tumour diameter (Breslow index). (The etheric bay will, however,
always be greater in dimension that the tumour itself, comparable to a crystal
and the lustre around it.)
Interestingly, Dr Dooley had a laceration preceding the melanoma. In
dermatological practice, one hears patients say again and again that the
melanoma was preceded by a mechanical trauma. R.S. also gave “mechanical
insult”, “prolonged exposure to high temperatures or a burn” as examples of
triggers for a “tendency to develop a sense organ” in the wrong place and thus
tumour development. He spoke of a breast being struck as the origin of breast
cancer. This means a centripetal action from outside towards the inner
organism, “which makes the astral body appear most powerfully in the site,
whereas it is normally absorbed by the ether body. When the astral body
suddenly shows itself in the site, it appears ... in a glow of light, as if
burning. When it shows itself
like this we have a tendency to develop a sensory effect in the site, a
carcinoma develops”.
Hyperergic phenomena such as rhinitis and allergic conjunctivitis,
urticaria, polymorphic light dermatitis, eosinophilia, penicillin and iodine
allergy are common in the history leading up to melanoma. When a member of the
audience in R.S.’s discussions with workmen asked him about hayfever, being a
sufferer, the answer was: “No one whose whole body has a disposition from the
beginning to develop hardening of the arteries is likely to get hayfever, for
hayfever is the very opposite of hardening of the arteries. ... Your hayfever
is a kind of valve to prevent sclerosis”. Sclerosis and tumour are cold
conditions; hyperergia is a warm, inflammatory process with emphasis on blood
impulses and may therefore be considered an attempt at self healing if there is
a tumour disposition.
This is what R.S. meant by “valve”. The author is aware that many
aspects of malignant melanoma (personality, developing a sense organ in the
wrong place) also apply to any other tumour process.
Unlike practically all other tumours, melanoma has the special feature
that the phenomena are superficial in the truest sense of the word and
therefore apparent.
Melanoma truly is “no marginal phenomenon in oncology, nor a special
case, however interesting medically, but in many respects absolutely exemplary
for cancer growth in general”(50), in the terms of both natural science and the
anthroposophical philosophy of man. With any tumour you have patients who have
none of the relevant risk factors. Melanoma patients who have avoided the sun
all their life, being fair-skinned, may also have no stress in their occupational
or private lives.
Patients like these may make physicians think that one does not get the
number of melanoma patients among the part of the Central European population
who are exposed to intensive UV radiation on the shores of the Mediterranean or
even in Far Eastern countries which one would expect.
Development of melanoma,
phase 1. foreign form
principle
in sunlight
body’s own
form
principles
Fig. 8
proportion of melanoma cases (with regard e. g. to absence of UV
exposure) are found in parts of the population who handle themselves and their
environment with great awareness; placed outside the risk group in compensation,
as it were. R.S. spoke of “certain disease potentials covering whole broad
territories”;
considering it possible that a disease may manifest if not in one place
then in another within a large population if the times demand it. The question
is, therefore, if there are perhaps melanoma patients who, being sensitive and
having fine minds, take on the tumour tendency of an age on behalf of others,
as it were. Considering that R.S. asked us to grasp carcinoma as a sense organ
in the wrong place, Christa-Johanna Bub-Jachens posed the question in this
journal two years ago: What does a carcinoma as a sense organ sense? Her
answer: “Might it not be the case that the carcinoma perceives the
materialistic outside world, the materialistic emergency state of today? As the
eye is created by the light for the light, so carcinoma as catastrophe of form
may be created by materialism as a spiritual catastrophe. In that case,
carcinoma would be a kind of image of humanity’s spiritual need, its function
being to perceive this need”. Surely this applies particularly in the case of
malignant melanoma.Prevention and treatment
If there is a melanoma disposition, one preventive measure is to avoid
too much sunlight. A watchful eye must also be kept on all other influences and
demands coming from outside in everyday life and the biography, lest the right
measure be exceeded. Sunscreen preparations are generally assumed to prevent
epithelial skin tumours; but a number of epidemiological studies in recent
years have cast some doubt on this.
According to them, the fact that the epidermis can no longer produce natural
photoprotection when sunscreen has been applied is a negative aspect. Patients
should therefore be advised to use textiles to keep off the sun and common
sense in gaining a tan, observing the right measure and necessary time.
Endogenous protection can consist in efforts to do justice to the light,
the sensory impressions and all demands that life brings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
said that heaven is the eyes’ daily bread.
We may add the words of Angelus Silesius: “Bread alone does not feed us;
what feeds us in the bread is God’s eternal word, is life and is spirit.” This
spirit which confers life is the “world thinking”, the world thought which
needs effort of human will to deliver it from sensory impressions. This “will
of humanity”(45), which must work on the sensory impressions, makes human
beings more resistant to the irruption of foreign principles. If a patient asks
how he can protect himself from the sun on a journey to Greece, we can say,
therefore, that he should take along a good book on Greek temples and his
diary. Melanoma prevention in this sense consists in perceiving the
architectural idea of the Greek temple in the dazzling sun and working through
what one has seen by putting it in one’s diary at night.
The first measure when macroscopic and incident light microscopic
diagnosis suggest the possibility of primary malignant melanoma is surgery.
Major studies done in the early 1990s have shown that a large safety margin
with surgical removal and general anaesthesia offer no advantages. Today’s recommended
safety margins are so small that it is often possible to have daysurgery and
local anaesthesia. Aggressive oncological treatments for metastasizing
malignant melanoma continue to be unsatisfactory as they do not extend life at
all, yet seriously reduce quality of life. Only interferon has given some
results, often with severe side effects.
In the natural world we find the process corresponding to malignant
melanoma development in mistletoe (Viscum alba).
Mistletoe grows like a parasite on trees, separating itself from the
forces of the earth and moving closer to the imponderable light and warmth
which stream to the earth from the cosmos.
This gives mistletoe a phosphor-like action with a tendency to flower
and fruit development and this addresses itself directly to the “bay”. The
plant is therefore in a position to compensate the inadequate activity of the
higher bodies in the warmth, light and air organism directed towards the fluid
and solid organism. The many unusual characteristics of mistletoe, which
emancipates itself from the normal laws of plant life, also make it medicinal.
The rhythm of its life through the seasons is the inverse of that of
other plants. It flowers and fruits in winter when (at least on broad-leaved
trees) it is exposed to the winter sun once the leaves have dropped in autumn.
On the other hand the foliage protects mistletoe from the summer sun.
Pine has an inner connection with light and warmth qualities.
Mistletoe grown on it (Viscum pini) is suitable for
treating melanoma. The best results in mistletoe therapy for melanoma have been
seen with pine-grown mistletoe.
If there is a disposition (numerous naevi, dysplastic naevi, family
history), it is advisable to give a prophylactic course of Iscador P in spring and
autumn. Prescribe Series 0, one ampoule s.c. under
the abdominal skin every second day in the morning, with 14 days
interval after the first series. If surgery is required or a primary melanoma
has been removed, inject one ampoule of Iscador P every second day (or 3x
weekly), following
Series 0 with Series 1 and continuing the latter without interruption.
If metastases develop, mistletoe treatment can be intensified by giving it i.v.
-Iscador P, 1 mg- 20 mg, increasing with caution, in 250 ml of saline once a
week over a period of c. 2 hours. Intolerance reactions are uncommon with this
slow i.v. infusion.
Mistletoe treatment helps with the evolution of neoplastic disease and
also benefits the patient’s general condition. Its comprehensive action, also
on the psyche, is illustrated by the words of a patient who seven years after
surgical removal of three primary melanomas developed a metastatic breast
tumour. Asked what mistletoe treatment meant to her she said: “Mistletoe makes
me feel positive about life; it stops me from drowning in misery. It maintains
my humanity, so that I came well through chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I was
able to live a normal life at work and in caring for my family, and overcome
the whole crisis of tumour disease using mistletoe preparations from different
manufacturers (Iscador, Helixor, Abnoba Viscum, Iscucin)!”
The many good results seen in anthroposophical hospitals and practices
have recently been confirmed in a study run as a multicentre, comparative,
epidemiological cohort study at Freiburg University Dermatological Hospital.
738 patients with malignant melanoma who had a high risk (Breslow index >
1.5 mm +/o. regional lymph node involvement) were followed up for at least 3
years.
381 patients treated with Iscador P were compared with 357 patients who
did not have mistletoe treatment. The result is that prophylactic longterm
mistletoe treatment following surgical removal of melanomas reduces the risk of
dying of melanoma and improves the chances of tumour-free survival.
Metal therapy given in addition to mistletoe treatment can be helpful. Aurum
met. prep. D10 (10x) trit. is recommended to mediate between inner and
outer, above and below. Antimony in form of Stibium met. prep.
D6 (6x) trit. or i.v. (10 ml once a week) stimulates boundary development and
makes the organism “more compact”. Ferrum met. prep. D6 (6x)
trit. strengthens the powers people need to face impressions coming from
outside. Other medicines may complement the treatment. Quartz will on the one
hand act to set limits, to configure, and on the other clear the organism’s
periphery for the reception of sensory stimuli.
It is given by mouth in medium-high potency or s.c. (Quartz D60 = 60x)
every 6–8 weeks if one wants the emphasis on configuration. Formica gives the
power to bring back everything which threatens to drop out of the sphere of
life as a whole. Red ant (Formica rufa) can be used by mouth in low dilution or
as Formica D3 Formica D15 aa given s.c.
The liver as an internal organ is filled with principles taken wholly
from the foreign world outside man. Exaggerating, we may call it a tumour in
the physiological sphere. The liver of every melanoma patient therefore needs
treatment to generally strengthen its function, using Hepatodoron tablets or Vitis
comp. tablets. External applications to help the I-organization to intervene in
the organism’s periphery are Solum oil massage or rubs (Wala) and
oil-dispersion baths.
Eurythmy therapy is a great help in gradually transforming the melanoma
patient’s special and one-sided aspects of the inner life, which are usually
almost at conscious level, and his special constitutional nature.
As we have seen above, E is the most important vowel.
As to consonants, B helps to create boundary and inner space, G to
practise resistance. To conclude this paper on malignant melanoma let us
consider a verse given by
R.S. which can be a guide for melanoma patients, their physicians,
therapists and nurses.
Light of the sun shines on darkness of matter;
thus the spirit’s all-healing nature shines on soul’s darkness in my human
existence.
When I reflect on its great power in real
warmth of heart, its lustre fills me with its spirit-noontide-power.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum