Fever therapy: A treatment in which abnormal elevations in body temperature are used to treat disease. Fever therapy was done in the past but is rarely, if ever, used today.
Fever Therapy: Restoring Regulatory Mechanisms A Powerful Immune Enhancement

An Overview by Ilse Marie Issels

Fever therapy, or pyretotherapy, is the induction of fever under clinical conditions for therapeutical purposes. Clinical research suggests that fever is one of the body’s most effective means to restore its complex regulatory, repair and defense mechanisms.

Historically, Greek physicians of the antiquity used the curative effects of fever to treat a variety of diseases, including syphilis, tuberculosis, and others. However, modern linear-mechanistic thinking regards fever as a symptom of illness which has to be fought and suppressed. Fever is not recognized and therapeutically used any more as the (desirable) symptom of the body’s fight against bacterial, viral, or other invaders, and self-generated dangers to health.

There are many ways of raising the body’s temperature. The most well known natural means are hot baths, steam baths, saunas, among others. The rise in body temperature achieved by these means is, however, not understood as fever. Neither is hyperthermia (originating from the Greek language “hyper” meaning “higher” or “excess” and “thermia” meaning “heat”) called fever therapy. In hyperthermia treatment “excess heat” is directed to parts of the body or the whole body by the use of devices (e.g. microwave or ultra short wave).

Hyperthermia has become an adjunct weapon in the treatment of various cancers, as cancer cells are more sensitive to heat than healthy cells. It works by heat destruction, as well as by stimulating the immune system through heat-shock proteins that present on the surface of heat-treated cancer cells.

The raising of the body’s temperature through the above mentioned means is artificially provoked from the outside, and may be called a “passive” fever. The term fever therapy applies when the body’s “temperature control center” in the tuber cinereum of the mid brain is irritated by certain stimuli and induced to autonomically develop a febrile reaction: “active” fever.

Special herbal preparations such as mistletoe lectins, among others, biological autologous preparations (from the patient’s own body tissues and fluids), biological homologous preparations, or mixed bacterial vaccines have been successfully used to induce fever.

William B. Coley, who was the Attending Bone Surgeon at Memorial Hospital, now Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, from 1893 to 1936, pioneered fever therapy in cancer treatment. He observed that several sarcoma patients, and especially one patient suffering from recurrent inoperable sarcoma of the neck, experienced tumor remission after developing erysipelas, a superficial streptococcal infection of the skin accompanied by high fever.
Dr Nisar Ahmed gorar uses special medicine to induce fever which may combat a range of diseases including auto immune diseases, atherosclerotic doseases, blood coagulatory diseases, hepatitis, kidney failure, cancer, tumurs and reduction of free radicals and chelation of heavy metals.