Medicines and Therapies

Last update: 23.10.2018

The following therapy procedures are used within the framework of integrative patient treatment in Anthroposophic Medicine: medicinal therapy, nursing and external applications, body therapy, eurythmy therapy, art therapy and psychotherapy. They are selected for specific indications and complement each other. The diagnosis on the basis of the patient’s fourfold constitution determines the general need for therapy, which is then implemented through the selected therapeutic procedures and evaluated and adjusted during the course of the treatment.

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Case series: Topical application of Viscum album extract in keratinocyte carcinomas shows remissions 
A retrospective case series examined the safety and clinical effects of topical application of 10% lipophilic Viscum album extract (VALE) in individual cases of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and actinic keratosis (AK). The study population consisted of 55 patients with 74 skin lesions. Risk factors, concomitant therapies and diseases, adverse drug reactions to VALE and other relevant information were documented. As a result, the clinical response rate was 78% for cSCC, 70% for BCC and 71% for AK. The complete remission rates for individual lesions were 56% for cSCC, 35% for BCC and 15% for AK. Overall, the results suggest that VALE is a safe and tolerable extract, and complete and partial remissions of ceratinocyte carcinomas were observed with its use. The article is published in Complementary Medicine Research
https://doi.org/10.1159/000537979.


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