Chronic Lyme disease
When antibiotics helped for a while and then did not: whole-body hyperthermia at 41.6 °C, co-infection testing, a 2–5 week inpatient programme. More than 12,000 Lyme patients since 1995.
See the Lyme programme →
Integrative medicine hospital · Bad Aibling, Bavaria · since 1991
A Hospital for Chronic Lyme, Long COVID, Cancer and Chronic Fatigue
A 70-bed hospital for chronic Lyme disease, Long COVID, cancer and chronic fatigue. We measure first, then treat with a combination of therapies, inpatient, under physician supervision. Patients from more than 60 countries come for the same reason: the treatment plan is written from their own findings.
- 1991Founded in Bad Aibling
- 70Beds, one site
- 12,000+Lyme patients since 1995
- 30,000+Whole-body hyperthermia sessions
Is this you?
Most patients arrive with a folder.
Years of findings that do not fit together. Courses of antibiotics that helped for a while. A specialist who ran out of ideas, and a sentence somewhere in the file: “You will have to live with it.” That sentence describes the limits of a method. It does not describe you.
If that is your folder, this is how we read it: not as a label, but as a set of measurements. What is out of balance, measurably, and what can be done about it, inpatient, with the therapies a hospital can combine.
How we work
Diagnose first. Then combine. Then stay.
In-house laboratory
Immune profile, infection markers, microcirculation and mitochondrial testing before any therapy is chosen. The results are the plan. This is functional medicine practised inside a hospital: the work-up first, the programme from its findings.
One coordinated plan
Hyperthermia, apheresis, immune therapy, detoxification and rehabilitation are planned together by one team, not booked one at a time.
A real hospital
70 beds, nursing around the clock, stays of one to five weeks, monitoring every day. Not a clinic you visit between flights.
Six programmes
Conditions we treat
Each programme starts with the same question: what, measurably, is out of balance?
Long COVID / Post-COVID
When the fatigue, brain fog and breathlessness have outlasted every normal test result: microcirculation and microclot diagnostics, H.E.L.P. apheresis, a 2–3 week programme.
See the Long COVID programme →Integrative oncology
When you want the tumour treated and the rest of you looked after: hyperthermia, low-dose chemotherapy with insulin (IPT), photodynamic and immune therapy, alongside or after conventional oncology.
See the integrative oncology programme →Chronic fatigue (ME/CFS)
When “everything is normal” and you still cannot get through a day: mitochondrial function testing, immune profile, then a plan built around energy metabolism, IHHT and NAD+.
See the chronic fatigue programme →Longevity medicine
When you want to know where you stand before anything goes wrong: preventive diagnostics, hormone status, detoxification and gut restoration, with a plan you take home.
See the longevity programme →Men’s health
When prostate symptoms or falling testosterone are being managed rather than examined: prostate hyperthermia, hormone diagnostics and treatment, urinary function, under one physician.
See the men’s health programme →
Since 1991
Founded by a physician who did not accept “nothing more can be done”
Friedrich Douwes M.D. (1945–2022) opened St. George Hospital in Bad Aibling in 1991 and brought whole-body hyperthermia into everyday clinical use in Germany. In 1995, while treating a cancer patient, he observed its effect on a Borrelia infection; the Lyme programme grew from that observation.
His son Julian Douwes M.D. leads the hospital today as Chief Medical Officer and writes its treatment protocols. Martin Rößner M.D., Chief Physician for internal medicine and oncology, leads the clinical day.
“Medicine should never stop at managing symptoms. Our mission has always been to understand why a patient is ill, to find the root causes, and to activate the body’s own extraordinary capacity for healing. That is what integrative medicine means to us.”
Friedrich Douwes M.D. (1945–2022)
Founder of St. George Hospital
Therapies
What a hospital can combine
Each therapy is chosen from your findings and planned together with the others. The pages below say what each one does, who it is for and what the evidence is.
Whole-body hyperthermia
Body temperature raised to about 41.6 °C for several hours under sedation and continuous monitoring. More than 30,000 sessions to date.
H.E.L.P. apheresis
Extracorporeal blood filtration that removes lipoproteins, fibrinogen and inflammatory proteins; used in Long COVID as an individual, off-label treatment attempt.
Immune therapy
Thymus peptides, mistletoe and dendritic cell preparations, selected from the immune profile and monitored with repeat testing.
Detoxification
Chelation, ozone, colon hydrotherapy and infusion protocols, chosen after heavy-metal and toxin testing rather than as a package.
IPT low-dose chemotherapy
Chemotherapy at a fraction of the standard dose, given together with insulin. Used within integrative oncology, not as a replacement for guideline treatment.
Photodynamic therapy
A light-sensitising compound activated by laser or UV light; used in oncology and in the Lyme co-infection module.
Coming from the United States
Patients come from more than 60 countries. Here is what that involves.
- A video consultation in English before you travel. A physician has read your findings beforehand, so the call is about whether a stay makes sense for you.
- A patient coordinator who writes to your home physician, prepares the invitation letter if you need one and stays your contact before, during and after the stay.
- Munich Airport (MUC) is about 60 minutes away, with direct flights from several US hubs. We arrange the transfer.
- Treatment is self-pay. You receive an itemised invoice with diagnoses and procedure descriptions that you can submit to a US insurer for out-of-network review. We cannot promise reimbursement.
- Rooms and local accommodation for a companion.
Request a consultation
A video consultation in English before you travel. A physician reviews your findings first; we reply by email within one business day (Mon–Fri).
Mon–Thu 08:00–17:00, Fri 08:00–14:00 (CET/CEST)+49 8061 398-0info@clinicum-stgeorg.de
St. George Hospital is a specialist hospital, not an emergency department. In a medical emergency in Germany, dial 112.