'Dangerous' cancer claims made by Cheltenham spiritual healer
A SPIRITUAL healer who claims she can treat cancer by using a special diet has been attacked by medical experts, who say she is giving "dangerous advice".
Dr Corascendea Cathar, 62, who has no medical qualifications, claims her Dhaxem healing can combat tumours.
-

Spiritual treatment: Dr Corascendea Cathar promotes her work through a website, left
The Prestbury woman, who has a doctorate in sociology and philosophy, had offered to treat cancer using a special diet including cabbage juice.
And she insisted her treatment could help after claiming it had cured her dogs.
Business Cards From Only £10.95 Delivered www.myprint-247.co.uk
View detailsOur heavyweight cards have FREE UV silk coating, FREE next day delivery & VAT included. Choose from 1000's of pre-designed templates or upload your own artwork. Orders dispatched within 24hrs.
Terms: Visit our site for more products: Business Cards, Compliment Slips, Letterheads, Leaflets, Postcards, Posters & much more. All items are free next day delivery. www.myprint-247.co.uk
Contact: 01858 468192
Valid until: Friday, May 31 2013
Dr Cathar, of New Barn Avenue, charged £280 per session and issued patients with a £90 dietary menu – including vegetable juice and a herbal mixture.
Slovakian-born Dr Cathar, who changed her name from Dagmar Ebster-Grosz, was exposed by an undercover BBC investigation.
Former cancer patient Chris Geiger, from North Somerset, secretly filmed a two-hour appointment with her.
Mr Geiger, who was treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma when in his 20s, claimed he had experienced a relapse and was looking for treatment.
In the appointment, Dr Cathar gave dietary advice and told him: "If you want to stop cancer, you have to get high doses of quality calcium."
Dr Cathar claimed to have added 10 years onto the life of a terminal cancer patient.
The diet recommended cabbage juice "as it beats cancer" and a herbal mixture which Cancer Research UK has said holds no benefits for sufferers.
Dr Cathar, who claims to have healed her own dog, Sophie, of cancer, told Mr Geiger that only he could heal his disease but said he needed to live a "pure" life.
Mr Geiger – who had not experienced a relapse – said he was furious by her claims.
He said: "I just so hope that people aren't taken for it and that she stops what she is doing immediately."
Dr Cathar has now removed details of her treatments and her price list from her website, which describes cancer as an "experience" rather than a "tragedy".
An article on her website encourages cancer patients to recognise their "spirit guides" as they will help beat the disease.
It states: "Cancer starts in the Soul, prior to incarnation, and its purpose is to heal the Soul.
"Embracing the experience and taking a positive stance is the only constructive way forward. The way in which cancer affects the person will depend on what each Soul needs to derive from the experience."
Professor Chris Bunce, from the charity Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, warned Dr Cathar's patients would be vulnerable.
He said: " I think it's dangerous. You've got to remember the people she's talking to are scared and frightened. You know this kind of thing goes on but to actually see it happening is quite scary."
But Dr Cathar, who also works as a translator, said she believed she helped patients.
"As a spiritual healer, I believe that cancer is connected to the soul and to the life content of a sufferer," she said.
"A number of people I met as a healer remain my personal friends. That includes three people with cancer, in one case considered terminal, and they are still well and alive today.
"All three of these people live pure lives, and they do not know malice, or hate. This is at least as relevant, as their diets."




Comments
by WitnessPerson
Sunday, January 27 2013, 9:21AM
“Judas: Prior to 1949, with Chinese medicine having been around for thousands of years, Chinese average lifespan was less than 50. That's because the medicine didn't work.
Today, due to the adoption of proper medicine (i.e. that provided with scientific research), the figure is still in the low 70s, but vastly better than it once was. The UK life expectancy is currently about 80.
Where your daughter's eczema disappeared after going to the "doctor" in Soho, how do you know if the eczema was cured by the therapy provided or whether it simply cleared up through any other mechanism? Like drinking tea. Or driving under plenty of bridges?
Fortunately, real medicine doesn't operate on the basis of what people thought thousands of years ago - mainly because such people were ignorant and were just guessing at things.
Incidentally, nice conflation of heliocentricity, which was an empirically observed phenomenon, with woo, as if that's some scientific theory that we just don't understand.”
by Judas
Sunday, January 20 2013, 2:46PM
“I have been walking round Prestbury park for years and although I try to avoid her (I think she is a bit eccentric), and yes, I have walked around the field with her on several occasions, I believe she is harmless.
I know one of her neighbours had a staffie knocked down by a car on the Prestbury Road. The staffie was terrified of going to certain parts of the park The owner didn't know what to do. Dagmar helped him by treating the dog (without charge). The staffie has recovered.
The BMA have regularly condemned Chinese medicine even to the extent of calling it dangerous. We must remember, Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years before Western medicine. Are we saying that we should disregard it because Western doctors do not understand it? It's similar to the church executing people who believed the earth circled the sun, rather than the sun orbiting the Earth.
I have had first hand experience with Chinese doctors when treating my daughter for eczema. Western doctors tried for 2 years without any success. The doctor who we visited in Soho treated her and my estimate is that 90-95 of the eczema went within 3-4 weeks. And may I add, no side effects and re-occurrence. But western medicine dismiss this treatment. Before anyone accuses the treatment as being a placebo, she was pre primary school age.
My thoughts are, what the BMA do not understand, they will discredit alternative treatment.”
by NonExistent
Friday, January 18 2013, 1:37PM
“I haven't read all the comments, I didn't see anyone supporting alternative medicine, or at least the majority of you close minded and ignorant people, but frankly I haven't got the time to read them all, I have more important things to do however, one of them being this.
Anyone who is following this article, or just browsing at the comments should check out a documentary named "Dying to have known" http://tinyurl.com/ak82fdf
Its free to watch right here.
http://tinyurl.com/67qpb6l
Its an method of treating cancer that uses a common sense mixture of healthy living, healthy eating,and healthy thinking. The Government say you should eat your 5 a day to keep you healthy.
If you have never tried the therapy, you shouldn't be commenting at all here. I'm normally one who keeps his opinions to himself, or at least if someone is going to hear it then everyone will and It wont be typed up on the internet, but all of this really upset me and I think there needs to be a little bit of awareness. Otherwise cancer patients are not going to try these alternative methods, and lets sort of face it, if you have cancer you are expecting death sooner than most, so there is nothing wrong with trying everything you can. Chemotherapy and other drugs haven't worked in the past very effectively, and they probably never will. There is no money to be made in the curing cancer. But there is a truck load of money to be made in the business of treating it, because patients need to come back time and time again to buy it.
The documentary I have listed is about Gerson Therapy and its effects on cancer cells, It incredibly interesting, and is worth a look if your and ignorant close minded individual. Hell its even worth it if your not”
by bonzaharris1
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 7:31PM
“She is as barking as the dogs she claims to have cured !!”
by 16Terri
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 7:26PM
“I once knew an alternative therapist who believed she could cure herself of her cancer. She died. Sadly, she may have lived or at least lived longer had she had conventional medical treatment.”
by FreeRadical1
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 6:10PM
“That's an old photo; she looked WAY older on the telly.
I suspect that she may actually believe her own nonsense - many 'alternative therapists' clearly do.”
by MistyBuff
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 12:06PM
“@ Alfredo, I said ''therapies'' and ''by''. I can see myself handing out certificates willy~nilly today... Would you like one? Dr. M. Buff (Fraud and charlatan with a penchant for made up titles).”
by lordigaga
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 11:56AM
“wow, if she is 62, i want some of it”
by QwertyOS
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 11:16AM
“I have had experience of these ``quacks``, I saw through them a mile away, but some people in a desperate state cannot see the wood for the trees. When you, or your in my case, your nearest and dearest are diagnosed as terminal by at least two top consultants then you are resigned to your fate.
However, if you have the money and means you will take any chance, and I mean ANY chance to try and beat the odds no matter how slim.
So called healers like this should literally be put in the stocks and pelted, or in a civilised society be charged with fraud. They prey on the most desperate of individuals who have nothing left but hope and prayer.
But before anyone criticises people who pay for these services, but put yourself in their position first.”
by Alfredo_
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 10:57AM
“@MistyBuff - if complementary medicine worked it'd just be called "medicine"! "Brought on my stress as much as anything" - hilarious.”