In what can be seen as a true Christmas miracle, a woman suffering from cancer has shared how the mistletoe saved her life after she refused to get into any conventional treatment methods.

Joan van Holsteijn put all her trust in the healing properties of this winter romance plant, while simultaneously saying no to potentially live saving chemotherapy sessions. A treatment with mistletoe injections appealed more to her, and that is the path she picked.

Amazingly, the plant helped, and the tumors which once plagued her legs and now gone. Mrs. Holsteijn is now well on her road to recovery.

"I owe my life to mistletoe. I feel so grateful and well and healthy. I've got my life back, all thanks to the plant. I have never had it in the house before but this year I've got a sprig of mistletoe at my front door. I want everyone to know about it", shared 53 year old Mrs van Holsteijn, from Milltimber in Aberdeenshire.

After the woman sought medical advice after an egg sized, painful lump developed on her leg, doctors told her that it was non-Hodgkins lymphoma and said that chemotherapy was the way to go. But the Camphill special needs school therapist refused and decided to try her own thing, which worked, much to the amazement of her doctors, and the lady herself.