Although the reason cell therapy promotes curing is not fully understood, its practice has been successful with a number of health conditions.

  Dr. Niehans noticed in his practice  that cancer rarely developed in the over one thousand women he treated for menopausal difficulties with ovarian follicular cells taken from sheep. The rate of  deaths from cancer  for Dr. Niehans' patients was 4 percent, whereas the internatiional average was 25.  In the 1960s Dr. Stephan carried out a similar survey of his own patients and found the same 4 percent rate. Although these documented facts do not constitute a scientific study, these results suggest the need for further research.

  Dr. Niehans considered cancer to be an immunological problem. He believed that cell injections from cancer-resistant animals could increase resistance to cancer in humans, and even cause regression of cancer cells in certain cases. This theory is gaining support due to several recent research projects that show that RNA from healthy cells injected into cancerous tissues retards cancer growth and reduces malignancy.

  Dr. Niehans used cell therapy to stimulate the regeneration of underdeveloped, diseased, and age-damaged organs. He was very successful at treating sexual dysfunction and discovered that sexual vitality could be rehabilitated through his therapy. His basic aim was "to give more years to life" and to "make all the organs struck by old age capable once more of functioning properly."  Dr. Stephan also uses cell therapy to treat male impotence. He has had great success with a combination treatment he developed consisting of erectile tissue and cells from the testicle, prostate, the pituitary gland, diencephalon (the area of the brain that includes the thalamus and hypothalamus), and the neurovascular system. A trial experiment using Dr. Stephan's protocol was conducted on thirty-five hundred people who had volunteered for help with sexual revitalization. The study found a 76 percent success rate among the patients, who ranged from twenty-two to seventy-six years old.

  Dr. Stephan has used cell therapy in the treatment of more than thirty thousand patients. Among the conditions he has treated are arthritis, heart and circulatory problems, menopause, painful menstruation, and infertility and sterility. Dr. Stephan's treatments have also been successful against cystitis, prostrate problems, herpes, lung and bronchial problems, and premature aging. He has also treated children with Down syndrome (a type of mental retardation) using Therapeutic Immunology and Bio-Nutritional therapy.

  Coordinator of the Program for Studies of Alternative Medicines and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico Hector E. Solorzano, has researched cell therapy as a treatment for cancer, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, Down syndrome, autoimmune diseases, and certain infant disorders. He tells about a child who underwent an extremely difficult birth. At eighteen months, he could not hold his head up, nor could he crawl or concentrate on objects around him. Within two weeks of cell therapy treatment, he could hold his head up normally. In three weeks his attention span was normal, and after three months of therapy he behaved as any normal child of his age.

  Franz Schmid, M.D., of Aschaffenberg, Germany, reports on extensive studies with cell therapy in a wide range of diseases. In one study, seventy-two patients with arteriosclerosis were treated with a mixture of placenta, liver, and testes. Fifty-eight of them showed marked improvement with a lowering of cholesterol levels and improvement in walking distance. In another study, one year after cell therapy, five of nine patients had improved EKG (electrocardiogram) readings and the remaining four were free of complaints.

  For skin problems, particularly burns and scars, Dr. Schmid reports of the use of a recently developed topical cream prepared with cell extracts. In one case, a young child with second and third degree burns from a gas explosion showed almost complete curing within nineteen days. Eighteen months later, no scarring was visible. Certain skin problems may require cell therapy to be given intravenously. Hepatitis is another disease successfully treated by cell therapy. Dr. Allen recalls a patient with hepatitis who refused hospitalization. After about four weeks of conventional treatment at home, little progress was observed. Blood and liver profile tests were done and he was then injected with liver cells. Within thirty-six hours he became almost clinically normal. Fluid buildup in the abdomen and yellowing [of the skin] had disappeared. Repeat blood tests were all within normal limits. Today the patient remains well, with normal blood test values.

 

  Peter Stephan, M.D., of the Stephan Clinic in London, England, foresees cell therapy becoming more widely used to treat AIDS. He believes  that the answer to the AIDS problem lies not with a specific vaccine or specific treatment, but with a therapy that improves the natural function of the total immune system. In cell therapy, this is realized by injecting new cells of the spleen, bone marrow, and lymph, together with those of the thymus. The injections improve the efficiency of these cell groups and thus increase the body's own ability to fight infection. This approach applies not only to AIDS but to other viral infections, since viruses have the ability to change form. A healthy immune system is able to adapt to this change by producing a whole range of antibodies to attack any viral form. Keeping up such health lies in the enhancement of the body's natural functions, not in overdosing it with unnatural chemicals.