WHAT IS CELL THERAPY ?

The basic theory behind cell therapy was stated best by paracelsus ,a 16th-centery 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 power.
Doctors who practice cell therapy believe the 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 vita 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 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 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 women 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 of patients ,including many of the crowned heads , presidents ,Pope Pius XII ,and several Hollywood stars.