auto (self) -hemo (blood) - therapy Learn why bloodletting reigned as the supreme therapy throughout the history of medicine, and how the mechanism of autohemotherapy may be at least partly responsible for its purported beneficial effects. View modern trends involving the use of bone-marrow and stem-cells, and how these "state-of-the-art" therapies intimately relate to autohemotherapy. Review the history of cancer therapy and the striking reliance on autogenous (self-generated) methods, and share in the wonder as to why the safest and surest approach -- the autogeneous one -- is not more widely used in medicine. Begin to comprehend how many forms of therapy may in actuality owe their effectiveness to the simple phenomenon of enabling the body to do what it must to some extent do every day in order to survive -- to heal itself.