The night I received the devastating diagnosis of Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer, a couple of months after my 43rd birthday, I was in an ICU, just about gaining consciousness from a debulking surgery that lasted about nine hours. It was surreal. The implications of the diagnosis did not sink in. I just realised I had a long struggle ahead of me.
Six months later, having recovered from the surgery and undergone six cycles of gruelling chemotherapy sessions, I met Dr Zubin Marolia at his unassuming but always welcoming clinic. I came to know about him through a teacher at the Waldorf School in which my five-year-old daughter was going to. By then I had researched about the healing powers of Mistletoe in cancer patients—the most used alternative form of therapy for cancer patients in the world, originating in Europe.
I had never taken homeopathy medicines for a sustained period of time before I met Dr Marolia. In the introductory session, he was thorough, sensitive to the my trauma and struggle, full of questions and curiosity to understand my body and mind, patiently understanding my case history of illnesses, discomforts and stresses. He explained to me what mistletoe was, and how it works in cancer. I was in remission then, and he put me on a regimen of homeopathy medicines and mistletoe subcutaneous injections so that recurrence can be avoided. This combination of homeopathy and mistletoe was the only treatment I was on for 1 year and 5 months that I was in remission. In May 2019, I had a recurrence, but this time it was much less in scale and severity than the first time. I have Dr Marolia to thank for that.
In fact, leading up to the surgery, Dr Marolia prescribed and himself administered mistletoe by IV besides the subcutaneous injection. It had a great impact on my rising CA 125 levels—a blood marker that rises rapidly in ovarian cancer patients. At that time my CA 125 revels had risen to 600 from 13 just two months before that. A week after the IV, my CA 125 level was less than 300! At this time, mistletoe helped arrest the growth and spread of the recurring cancer in my peritoneum.
After another major surgery, four more cycles of less gruelling chemotherapy cycles and then going on a Parp Inhibitor drug as a maintenance, I went back on Dr Marolia’s prescription of a more potent variety of mistletoe injections, along with an IV every month and homeopathy medicines.
The mistletoe has helped me stay active, feel energetic and alert and had kept cancer and any other common illnesses like the flu away. I am in remission, maintaining good blood levels—-all the parameters are clear. I work as a screenplay writer and columnist, take care of my eight-year-old daughter, and cook every day now during the pandemic, do yoga regularly, go for walks and manage to get a good night’s sleep.
Most importantly, I have found a doctor and guide in Dr Marolia. Even after three years, every time I visit him at his clinic for my regular consultations, he is thorough, always upbeat, focussed and patient with my questions.
I will always continue being his patient because now I believe in the power of the kind of holistic healing that Dr Marolia practises. He has counselled me and family members, and I feel healed.
Hope his new venture Enlifen has a wide reach and can help many more in fighting their fights and healing their bodies, minds and souls.
Sanjukta Sharma