Self-healing / Spontaneous Remission

Compiled 3,500 papers from 800+ medical journals on cancer and other diseases ‘curing themselves’ — the largest self-healing literature collection.

Two surgeons reviewed 1900–1964 literature and confirmed 176 cases of spontaneous cancer regression, mostly kidney cancer, melanoma and neuroblastoma.

Surgeon Coley noticed sarcomas regress after erysipelas infection and used bacterial toxins to induce high fever against cancer, with some long remissions — the root of modern immunotherapy.

180 knee-arthritis patients randomised to arthroscopic surgery or a skin-incision-only ‘sham’; two years later pain and function improved equally.

Pooling 15 trials of 1,082 patients, ~35% had ‘significant relief’ from placebo, making placebo controls the drug-trial standard.

A 16-year-old boy with whole-body horny skin, misdiagnosed as warts, got hypnotic suggestion and his left arm’s skin shed to normal within a week, then his whole body — later found to be an incurable congenital disease.

After 8 weeks of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), subjects had stronger left-prefrontal activation and significantly higher flu-vaccine antibody titres than controls.

3-month intensive retreat meditators had significantly higher telomerase activity than controls, linked to increased sense of purpose.

The church runs a standing medical body vetting pilgrims’ recovery claims; of ~7,000 ‘unexplained’ claims over 160+ years, only 70 were officially declared ‘miracles’ (the 70th in 2018).

As in the Cryokinesis entry: trainees could actively activate the sympathetic system and suppress endotoxin inflammation.

Painter Guolin said she cured her own cancer by ‘walking exercises’ and promoted it to patients, making it one of China’s most popular anti-cancer qigong.