Alternative Cancer Remedies - Vance Ferrell PDF
Alternative Cancer Remedies - Vance Ferrell PDF
Alternative Cancer Remedies - Vance Ferrell PDF
Vance Farrell
Warning: These alternate methods are not approved by the National Institutes of Health.
This book has been prepared for medical researchers and students of medical history.
It should not be used as a self-help guide to cancer therapy.
Consult your physician.
Pilgrims Books
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Alternative Cancer Remedies:
Facts for Historians
and Medical Researchers
by Vance Ferrell
Published by Pilgrims Books
Beersheba Springs, TN 37305 USA
Printed in the United States of America
Cover and Text Copyright 1998
by Pilgrims Books
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John 2
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall
bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness
away from thee.
Exodus 23:25
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the
Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight,
and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee,
which I have brought upon the Egyptians: For I am the
Lord that healeth thee.
Exodus 15:26
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases.
Psalm 103:3
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God
in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
1 Corinthians 6:20
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 6:19
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are.
1 Corinthians 3:17
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Contents
Important: Read This First
Organs of Elimination
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Interesting Statements
Radiation
Other Chemicals
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Types of Cancer
Protein
Meat
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Cooking
Fasting
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Vitamins
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Minerals
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Preventing Cancer
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Amino Acids
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Other Nutrients
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Good Foods
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Problem Foods
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Dairy Products
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INTRODUCTORY FACTS
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Supplementary Information
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Minerals
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Vitamins
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Nutrition
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Important notice
Cancer is a life-threatening disease. The information in this book was not
intended for use by non-professional readers in treating cancer.
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Pancreatic enzymes
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Factor in urine
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Contents
changes
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Immuno-augmentative therapy:
Factor extract from mouse blood
(address)
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Other Research
Other Factors
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Photoluminescence: irradiating a
portion of the blood with ultraviolet light
Research
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Contents
What is the Best Approach?
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Introduction
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Surgery
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Chemotherapy
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Conclusion
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Local tests
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Bibliography
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Organizations
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Test Sources
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Supply Sources
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BIBLE PROMISES
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Therapies
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Radiation
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ABBREVIATIONS
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Interesting Statements
My dear Kepler, what do you say of the
leading philosophers here, to whom I have
offered a thousand times of my own accord
to show my studies, but who, with the lazy obstinacy of a serpent who has eaten his fill, have
never consented to look at the planets or moon,
or telescope? Verily, just as serpents close their
eyes, so do men close their eyes to the light of
truth.Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Letter to
Johannes Kepler, c. 1630.
As long as providers make their income and
fame largely by delivering rescue medicine, they
will have less economic interest in prevention.
Paul Mencel, M.D., in Medical Costs, Moral
Choices.
It is more important to know what sort of
person has a disease, than to know what sort of
disease a person has.Hippocrates (460-377
B.C.)
To regain health once it has been lost we
need to begin to reverse some, and ideally all, of
those processes which may be negatively impacting us, and over which we have some degree of
control.Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O.
Unless we put medical freedom into the
Constitution, the time will come when medicine
will organize into an undercover dictatorship . .
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men
and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws
are un-American and despotic and have no place
in a republic . . the Constitution of this republic
should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.Benjamin
Rush, M.D., Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Physician to George Washington,
from The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush.
A search of the Medlars Data Base at the
National Library of Medicine shows that, since
1966, three have been 12,896 studies on vitamin C, of which 5,546 deal with humans, and
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Introduction
TYPES OF CANCER
Skin cancers are far more common. Everyone should be aware of the signs:
Look for a tumor or lump under the skin,
resembling a wart or an ulceration that never
heals; moles that change color or size; flat sores;
and lesions that look like moles.
Here are the five official warning signs
of skin cancer:
1. An open sore that bleeds, crusts over, and
will not heal properly.
2. A reddish, irritated spot that is usually on
the chest, shoulder, arm, or leg. It may itch, hurt,
or cause no discomfort at all.
3. A smooth growth with an elevated border
and a center indentation. As it becomes bigger,
tiny blood vessels develop on the surface.
4. A shiny scar-like area that may be white,
yellow, or waxy with a shiny, taut appearance.
5. An enlarging, irregular, angry appearing
lesion on the face, lips, or ears.
Here is a description of one of the more com-
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nipple, and cannot be detected by a self-examination. Cancer cells have migrated to the nipple.
The symptoms are itching, redness, and soreness of the nipple. This form of cancer only occurs when a different form of cancer is present
elsewhere in breast tissue.
Inflammatory carcinomais a different
type. The skin thickens and turns red. The breast
becomes extremely tender and appears infected
with something. The lymphatic, and blood, vessels have become clogged because of a tumor.
This type of cancer spreads very rapidly. Professionals recommend a biopsy; but, if you choose
not to do so, you must be planning to go on an
intense natural remedies cleansing to eliminate
the problem. Whatever you do, you had better
set to work and do it.
FACTS ABOUT MAMMOGRAMS
Introduction
LeukemiaPaleness, fatigue, weight loss, repeated infections, easy bruising, bone and joint
pain, nosebleeds.
Mouth and throatA chronic ulcer of the
mouth, tongue, or throat that does not heal.
StomachIndigestion and pain after eating,
weight loss.
LaryngealPersistent cough, hoarse throat.
LymphomaEnlarged, rubbery lymph
nodes; itching; night sweats; unexplained fever
and/or weight loss.
ProstateWeak or interrupted urine flow;
continuous pain in the lower back, pelvis, and/
or upper back.
Cervical and uterineBleeding between
menstrual periods, unusual discharge, painful
menstrual periods, heavy periods.
EndometrialBleeding between periods,
unusual discharge, painful menstrual periods,
heavy periods.
OvarianOften no obvious symptoms until
it is in its later stages of development.
TesticularLump(s), enlargement of a testicle, thickening of the scrotum, sudden collection of fluid in the scrotum, pain or discomfort
in a testicle or in the scrotum, mild ache in the
lower abdomen or groin, enlargement or tenderness of the breasts.
RECENT CANCER STATISTICS
Godliness is profitable unto all things; having promise of the life that now is, and of that
which is to come.1 Timothy 4:8.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
. . Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head
with oil; my cup runneth over.Psalm 23:1,
5.
There is no want to them that fear Him . .
They that seek the Lord shall not want any good
thing.Psalm 34:9-10.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His
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for mortality costs. Over half of the direct medical costs are due to treatment of breast ($6 billion), lung ($5 billion), and prostate ($5 billion)
cancers. The cost of cancer screenings, including mammograms, Pap smears, and colorectal
exams adds another $3 to $4 billion to overall
cancer costs . .
Who gets cancer? Anyone. Since incidence
rises with age, most cases affect adults in midlife or older. Among children ages 0-14, cancer
causes more deaths in the U.S. than any other
disease. In the 1980s, there were over 4.5 million cancer deaths, almost 9 million new cancer cases, and some 12 million people under
medical care for cancer.
Lifetime risk refers to the probability that
an individual, over the course of a lifetime, will
develop cancer or die from it. In the U.S., men
have a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of developing cancer,
and for women the risk is 1 in 3 . . Smokers
have a 10-fold relative risk of developing lung
cancer compared with nonsmokers. This means
that smokers are about 10 times more likely to
develop lung cancer (or have a 900% increased
risk) than nonsmokers . .
How many new cases will there be this year?
About 1,359,150 new cancers will be diagnosed.
This estimate does not include carcinoma, in
situ, basal, and squamous cell skin cancers.
The incidence of these skin cancers is estimated
to be over 800,000 cases annually . .
How many people will die? This year about
554,740 will die of cancermore than 1,500
people a day. One of every four deaths in the
U.S. is from cancer . .
At this time, the most frequent sites of cancer deaths among men are lung, prostate, and
colon and rectum cancer. None of the others
are as anywhere near as large. In women, it is
lung, breast, and colon and rectum.ACS,
Cancer Facts and Figures: 1996.
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Part One
Special Preventive Factors
INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE
Cancer is a systemic disease, affecting the entire body. Because it is caused by a variety of conditions in the entire person, it cannot be prevented
(or adequately treated) by specifics. An entire
change in ones way of life is required.
Do not feel awed by the vast amount of data
given below. Read it again and againand start
making changes. And keep making more changes!
Killer cells are mentioned occasionally. These
are natural body cells which target cancer cells
and destroy them. Certain nutrients help them do
their work.
SPECIAL RISK FACTORS
Venereal disease can lead to breast, cervical, uterine, and prostate cancer.
Avoid contact with sick pets. Actually, you
would be wise to not have any dogs or cats inside
the home.
The following can also lead to cancer: too
much sunlight (skin cancer); mechanical, physical, or chemical irritation; prolonged irritation
of warts, pimples, or sores (skin cancer); and
radiation (leukemia).
The clothes should have no constricting
bands and should keep the neck, head, arms,
legs, and feet warm. As many layers of clothing
should be worn on the extremities as are worn on
the trunk. This is especially important in cancer
of the breast or skin.
A biopsy is a thin slice of tissue, taken to
examine it for possible carcinoma (cancer). But,
when the slice is made, the cancer (if any) stored
in that area, can immediately begin spreading
throughout the body.
X-rays, radium, and other forms of radiation therapy, along with chemotherapy. It weakens the body, intensifies the toxicity and weakened
conditions initially producing the cancer. The cancer generally returns within 6 to 12 months in
greatly strengthened form.
Here is a brief list of some of the significant
factors leading to cancer: Chemical additives in
food, refined and fragmented food, use of nicotine and/or alcohol, a heavy protein diet, excessive use of dairy products, commercial oils and
fats (especially when heated and reheated), all
grease, hydrogenated oil (added to many foods),
diethylstilbestrol, hormones, contraceptives,
nitrates (often added to food), medicinal drugs,
hard drugs, monosodium glutamate (in food and
tobacco), refined sugars, saccharin and other
artificial sweeteners, biopsies and other forms
of surgery, pollutants (occupational and environmental), X-rays and radium exposure, cosmetics, detergents and soaps, water (chlorinated, fluoridated, or contaminated), and aluminum.
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GENERAL
Stress is also considered a significant factor. More and more research indicates that, as
Dr. H.F. Dunbar says, only certain types of people
succumb to cancer.
Two Soviet researchers (Serov and Troskin)
demonstrated that negative emotions reduce the
white blood count in an alarming manner, hindering a major body defense against disease.
Researchers at the Rochester Medical Center in New York have found that people are more
likely to contract cancer if, more than others, they
have a harder time dealing with severe emotional
conflicts and stresses; have uncontrolled anxieties and worries; experience traumatic emotional experiences or losses; and have strong
feelings of loneliness, inadequacy, hopelessness, and desperation. It may not be that such
negative attitudes cause the cancer, but they keep
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Still other researchers have found other aspects of this Type C (cancer-prone) personality.
The main aspect they have noted is loss, either loss of a loved one or loss of hope. Many cancer patients feel a profound sense of helplessness
and despair, particularly about the meaning of their
existence. Frequently, they need peace with God.
A second characteristic is the suppression,
or repression, of emotions.
The third factor is loneliness. Such people
tend not to have close friends (H. Dreher, Your Defense Against Cancer, 1988, 246-247).
All three factors could be nicely resolved if
such individuals would come to God and find in
Him the encouragement, the forgiveness, and
strength they need to meet lifes difficulties.
DEEP BREATHING AND EXERCISE
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cooking.
Be very careful that you rinse all the soap off
your dishes and pots, or you will have added an
additional chemical food additive to your next
meal.
OTHER CHEMICALS
Our actual daily protein requirement is 2030 grams a day, but many eat over 100 a day. Almonds, well-chewed, are a good protein source
for those recovering from cancer. Brewers yeast
is also.
Proteins should be in the form of seeds and
nuts. Almonds are excellent, so are sesame and
sunflower seeds. Chew them well. Eat 10 raw almonds daily. They are high in laetrile, an anti-cancer agent (although not as high as apricot seeds).
Do not eat peanuts. Limit, but do not eliminate soybean products. Soybeans contain enzyme
inhibitors, so are not the best until you are well.
Eat all concentrated protein at only two
meals (breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner).
Do not eat them at the third meal. In this way there
are no proteins being digested for a 15-hour period, and the pancreatic enzymes are able to focus their attention on digesting cancer cells present
in everyone.
Overeating on protein leaves no extra pancreatic enzymes to digest cancer cells throughout
the body.
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Do not eat animal protein. Never eat luncheon meats, hot dogs, or smoked or cured meats.
Restrict consumption of dairy products.
Milk and milk products are harmful, so they
should be avoided. Milk contains a growth hormone for growing calves large in a few weeks and
months. It will stimulate tumor growth. The pasteurization of milk destroys the phosphatase enzyme needed for assimilation, and many allergies
and digestive problems result. Calves fed on pasteurized milk die of heart attacks in 8 months; yet
we still give it to our children.
The synthetic vitamin D added to milk is
one of the most toxic food additives known. Some
of it unites with undigested calcium, forming calcified deposits which can be focal points for developing tumors.
Those with cancer should not use milk, with
the possible exception of two tablespoons of yo-
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gurt daily.
Eggs can cause cancer. Many chickens die of
carcinoma (cancer). It is known that the cancer
germ can pass from the chicken into the egg.
FATS AND RANCID OIL
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An epidemiological study of 21 countries revealed that high-sugar intake is a major risk factor toward breast cancer.
Artificial sweeteners are cancer-causing
drugs.
Do not use China tea (the regular tea you
buy in the grocery store); it contains tannic acid.
Only use herbal teas.
Some natural-remedy cancer therapists say
never use tomatoes at all, if you have cancer. There
is something about tomatoes that tend to aggravate the situation for those with active cancer.
Others say that those with cancer can eat
tomatoes by themselves, not with other foods.
Some say it is all right to make a meal of them if
you wisheaten alone. Some say they can be eaten
with freshly baked zwieback (bread which has then
been toasted in the oven until it is hard and chewy).
Probably the best decision is avoid tomatoes entirely if you have a malignancy.
Do not take supplemental iron tablets. The
body tries to withhold iron from cancer cells, because the inorganic iron helps the cancer grow.
People with excess iron levels in the blood tend to
have an increased risk of developing cancer, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Excess iron suppresses the cancer-killing function
of the macrophages and interfers with T- and Bcell activity. The richest source of good iron is
blackstrap molasses.
Cancer thrives on glucose. They produce a
3- to 5-fold increase in glucose uptake compared
to healthy cells. Studies of cancer patients revealed
that they tended to eat more sugar than healthy
people. It was also found that high-sugar intake
increases the likelihood of breast cancer.
Simple sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose
[white sugar]) honey, and orange juice significantly
impaired the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria, but starch ingestion did not have this effect.
However, you still need simple sugars, so eat them
in moderation.
GOOD FOODS
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pressure.
Legumes and seed foods (such as soybeans)
have protease inhibitors (PI). These tend to protect the seeds from being digested. As such, they
were thought to be a problem. But recently it has
been discovered that they tend to reduce tumor
growth. The National Cancer Institute think that
some of these substances (isoflavones and
phytoestrogens) have potent anti-cancer properties. However, eating a lot of beans is not something you will want to do at home! Too much protein helps feed the cancer cells.
Certain other foods show an ability to slow
tumor growth in some way. This includes apples,
apricots, barley, citrus fruit, cranberries, fiber,
figs, ginger, spinach, and seaweed.
There are a variety of digestive enzymes.
Take them with a meal, to improve digestion, or
on an empty stomach, if the need is to help fight
cancer (first thing in the morning; an hour before
breakfast; or the last thing at night, at least two
hours after supper.)
Rice bran, pressure cooked, is rich in
tocotrienols (2-3 tablespoons a day).
Aloe vera extract (or, better, fresh aloe vera
leaves) contains the active immune stimulant, ace
mannan.
Scientists have found that the active culture
of bacteria in yogurt (lactobacillus) can fortify
the immune system. In both humans and animals,
yogurt in the diet tripled the internal production
of interferon, a powerful chemical compound used
by the immune system against cancer cells. It also
slows the level of natural killer cells. Yogurt slows
the growth of tumor cells in the gastro-intestinal
tract while improving the ability of the immune
system to destroy active tumor cells. It also helps
block the production of carcinogenic agents in the
colon. Women eating yogurt were found to have
less breast cancer. It is well-known that milk is
one of the worst allergenic foods, and can carry
disease germs from the cows. So you would do
well to obtain lactobacillus cultures from healthfood stores rather than eating yogurt.
Other intestinal microflora products can
be used instead of yogurt (which can be allergenic
and contain cow diseases). Some broad spectrum
products contain lactobacillus, bifidus, streptococcus faecium. Others contain only lactobacillus, which is milk- and yogurt-free.
FASTING
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gently needs good nourishment, as well as cleansing; it should not be given fasts. For further information on this, see the Gerson Therapy, later in
this book.
But, as a cancer preventive, occasional fasting
is helpful. Cancer prevention is the theme of the
entire Part One section of this book.
Fasts on fruit and vegetable juices of 1 to
3 days can be taken. If under the care of someone
who knows what to do, and you are not thin, a
longer fast may be undertaken.
Go on a fresh fruit diet for several days. If
the patient is thin, after a few days of fruit diet,
give him an alkaline nourishing diet. This would
consist of vegetable broth (simmer thick potato
peelings, carrots, and beets; strain; drink the water on top), mashed half-inch thick potato peelings, brown rice, carrots, greens of all kinds,
red cabbage, parsley, and other vegetables.
Eating good food treats malnutrition, and
many people develop cancer because of a lack of
the protective, nourishing food needed to resist it.
There is a theory that you can starve cancer
to death. This has been proven untrue. Cancer
does better in a malnourished body. One study
revealed that pure malnutrition (cachexia) is responsible for at least 22% and up to 75% of all
cancer deaths.
VITAMINS
IMPORTANT: Throughout this study, when dosage amounts used in research are given, the
amounts are always for per day (mg per day, etc.).
G means grams, not grains.
IMPORTANT: According to the literature surveyed, when overdosage was possible, this was indicated. (See vitamins A, B6, niacin, selenium, cysteine, arginine.) Of course, vitamin D overdose can
also be toxic, but it is not listed here as an anticancer factor. For a variety of reasons, beware of
taking much, if any, iron supplements.
IMPORTANT: Fish oils have also been recommended in the literature as possible anti-cancer
agents. But we do not list them here for three reasons: Large amounts must be consumed to be beneficial. Fish oil has a known history of damaging
the muscle of the heart. Some forms inhibit blood
clotting
Take the supplements which seem distasteful
and hard to swallow; and put them in fruit or other
drink, and swallow them all together. If necessary,
briefly whiz the mixture in a blender.
When possible, chew the tablets. Break open
the capsules and pour the powder onto your food
or into a spoon. Crack liquid capsules in your
mouth and spit out the capsule. Do not crack vitamin C in your mouththe acidity can hurt your
teeth. Just swallow it whole.
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cerous tissue. Take up to 1,000 units a day. Vitamins C and E help the body inhibit the activity of
the enzyme, hyaluronidase, found in cancerous tissue.
A lack of beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A),
vitamin E, and B complex in lung tissue may be
related to lung cancer.
Injections of vitamin E, beta-carotene,
canthaxanthin (a carotenoid), and algae extract
dramatically bolstered levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha, and reversed hamster buccal pouch tumors.
Human prostatic cancer cells in vitro were
markedly reduced when vitamin E was added. It
helps protect against bowel cancer (Journal of the
National Cancer Institute, 73, 1984).
Vitamin F is the essential fatty acid. Add 1
tablespoon of cold-pressed vegetable oil to each
food meal (not juice-only meals). Wheat germ oil
and flaxseed oil are the best. Corn oil and soy oil
are second best. Safflower oil is not so good. Make
sure the oil is fresh and kept refrigerated when
not in use. Never use cottonseed oil (it can cause
blindness), hydrogenated oils, lard, greases, or animal products. The oil in the nuts is good, if the
nuts are fresh.
Vitamin K helps protect the body against
certain cancer-causing substances. Take it with vitamin C, to increase its cancer-reducing strength.
Quercetin (one of the bioflavonoids which,
together, are called vitamin P) increased the cellkill rate in cancer cells which were exposed to hyperthermia (heat therapy) with no negative effect
on normal healthy cells.
Quercetin reduced cancers in animals exposed to two carcinogens.
MINERALS
A Cancer Control Convention, meeting in Japan, reported that the trace mineral, germanium,
in the diet is a significant factor in preventing and
eliminating cancer.
One cancer researcher, who studied in-depth
into cancer remedies over the past 150 years, declared that every effective anti-cancer formula
(Glyoxylide, which is the Koch treatment; the
Hoxsey herbs; Hypotonic therapy; laetrile; the
Gerson method; Krebiozen; and Carcalon) involves
extra amounts of potassium. This is very important.
Be sure to include a significantly higher intake of potassium. Potassium deficiency is considered by Gerson, Scott, and others as a primary
contributing cause of cancer.
Potassium foods include almonds, apples,
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cer reduction. But it slightly alters the pH of cancer cells, rendering them more vulnerable to immune attack.
OTHER NUTRIENTS
Several studies confirm that arginine reduces tumors and tumor formation. It increases
T-cell function, stimulates the thymus and thyroid,
and enhances activity of killer cells, as well as
interleukin-2 receptors and general immune improvements.
At therapeutic levels (above 5 g) of arginine,
growth of certain viruses may be activated.
Methionine reduces the intake of mercury,
which is a cancer-causing agent.
Malnourished cancer patients improve when
branched chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine) are given. Protein and albumin
synthesis are heightened.
PREVENTING CANCER
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day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thee from
all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall
preserve thy going out and thy coming in, for this
time forth, and even for evermore.Psalm 121:1,
2, 4-8.
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made
heaven and earth.Psalm 124:8.
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people, from
henceforth even for ever.Psalm 125:2.
Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and
thy foot shall not stumble.Proverbs 3:23.
But whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell
safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.Proverbs 1:33.
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling
place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a
cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a
defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a
shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a
place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and
from rain.Isaiah 4:5-6.
He shall dwell on high: his place of defence
shall be the munitions of rocks.Isaiah 33:16.
When thou passest through the waters, I will
be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall
not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the
fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the
flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God,
the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.Isaiah 43:23.
I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
Isaiah 27:3.
For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall
of fire round about, and will be the glory in the
midst of her.Zechariah 2:5.
And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall
lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I
will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall
the sword go through your land.Leviticus 26:6.
The Lord will give strength onto His people;
the Lord will bless His people with peace.Psalm
29:11.
Peace shall be upon Israel.Psalm 125:5.
Great peace have they which love Thy law,
and nothing shall offend them.Psalm 119:165.
He maketh peace in thy borders.Psalm
147:14.
Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou
also hast wrought all our works in us.Isaiah
26:12.
My people shall dwell in a peaceable habita-
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Your body is made up of millions of tiny cells. Cancer is just a group of cells which do not grow normally,
but instead reproduce themselves wildly and erratically. Calcium is known to be important in cell division. Any substance which releases calcium from cells
causes the cells to divide. Therefore, researchers suspect that a lack of calcium intake in the diet may help
trigger this abnormal cell division.
A rare disease, parathyroid gland cancer, appears
to be caused by hypercalcemiaan excess of calcium
in the body. The parathyroid regulates calcium metabolism and hyperthyroidism. However, normal people will
not have a problem with hypercalcemiabut, instead,
with too little calcium intake.
Dr. Willard A. Krehl, M.D., a University of Iowa
nutritionist, says that a lack of magnesium will lead to
chronic exhaustion and, in some cases, may result in
enlargement of the prostate and perhaps a form of cancer.
PHOSPHOROUS
Phosphorous may be important in cancer prevention; for investigators have discovered that phosphorous is more easily lost from cancer cells than
from normal cells.
Phosphorous is the one mineral which is found
in all foods and, generally, is adequately supplied to
the body. However, in cases of diarrhea, phosphorous (as well as calcium) can be excreted in excessive amounts from the body. In addition, there must
be enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach for phosphorous to be absorbed.
MAGNESIUM
Dr. P. Bois, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Montreal, Canada,
reported, in April 1968, to the Federation of American
Societies for Experimental Biology, meeting in Atlantic
City, that a deficiency in magnesium might be, what he
called, a basic cause of human cancer.
In research done at Montreal, Dr. Bois demonstrated that merely eliminating magnesium from the
diet of rats would trigger tumor growth in them within
an average of 64 days. This was considered surprising, since rats rarely develop cancer spontaneously. Of
special interest, the cancer began in the thymus gland,
and later went to other parts of the body, eventually
resulting in lymphoid leukemia.
Dr. Bois noted that, if the diet is high in fats or
lipids, the person may need more magnesium than he
ordinarily would.
It has been theorized that a lack of magnesium
may result in low calcium and phosphorous levels, leading to a malignant condition.
In an article in Nature, Bois stated his theory that
lack of magnesium in the diet may result in migration
of the mineral from the nucleus of the cell to its outer
portions, triggering chromosomal changes, followed by
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In her book, Human Nutrition: Report No. 2, Benefits from Nutrition Research, C. Edith Weir, Ph.D.,
mentions the importance of iodine in the diet:
There is recent evidence, March 1970, that dietary
iodine deficiency may contribute to breast cancer, at
least in rats. Demographic studies reveal that human
breast cancer incidence is high in iodine-deficient areas.
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AMINS
VITAMINS
Symposium chairperson, Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.,
director of the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research
at the University of Colorado, addressed a gathering of
top nutrition researchers who met at Denver in June
1983. He said this:
The role of dietary factors in the treatment and
prevention of cancer is becoming increasingly evident.
It represents a whole new frontier of cancer research.
The keynote speaker at the meeting, Linus Pauling,
Ph.D., said this:
I think that someday historians may say that the
major anti-cancer advance in the last quarter of this
century was the recognition of the value of vitamins
and nutrition in prevention and treatment.
Scientist after scientist stood to his feet to present
detailed research reports to the gathered assembly. In
most instances, they spoke of research with vitamins
A, C, or Ehow well patients had responded and a
number of the cancers eliminated, simply by giving them
one or the other of those three vitamins. Rarely were
all three, or even two given; yet the resultswith only
vitamins A, C, or E given alone were still outstanding.
For example, Maurice M. Black, M.D., of New York Medical College, and his colleagues gave vitamin A to patients with various cancers and saw the patients respond, with some of the patients recovering. Then he
switched to only giving vitamin E, and saw essentially
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A surprising quantity of data is available on a possible link between vitamin A and cancer.
When certain carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)
are added to cultures of prostate tissue from mice, their
usual damage to the cells can be prevented by adding
vitamin A at the same time. In addition, the vitamin
can even reverse the damage when it is added to the
culture after the carcinogen has begun its destruction.
The same has been done with cancers of epithelial tissue (skin, lining of the mouth, internal passages, and
hollow organs). Both human and mouse cancer can be
made to regress under vitamin A treatment.
Scientists have been studying into this vitamin A/
cancer relationship for years. For example, Thomas H.
Maugh II, Ph.D., in an article in Science (December
27, 1974), entitled Vitamin A: Potential Protection from
Carcinogens, reviewed a number of these experimental findings.
In addition, cells may be protected after exposure
to a carcinogen by the action of vitamin A. Dr. Maugh
discusses this, and the discovery was documented at a
workshop sponsored by the National Cancer Institute
and Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. In his article, Dr. Maugh
goes as far as to suggest that it might be possible for
the vitamins to mediate a return to normalcy of the
person having cancer, in spite of the fact that the cancer has damaged the system somewhat.
In all of this, keep in mind that large, excessive
doses of vitamin A can be toxic. All oil-soluble vitamins (A, D, K, etc.) should only be taken in rather small
amounts. Yet it appears vital that they be taken into the
body!
Dr. Maugh suggests that orthodox cancer therapy
deals only with destroying malignant cells after they
have been formed, but that vitamin A may help ward
off cancereven before it is known to exist in the body.
This waiting period (before cancer is discovered to
exist in the body, known as preneoplasia, is a lengthy
oneoften 20 years or more in the case of human cells.
It is known that, during this waiting period, some cells
are damaged. But it is also known that some of these
damaged cells revert to good health again. Maugh suggests that vitamin A intake may be part of the cause of
that reversal. As he puts it: Vitamin A can produce
regressions in squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas [certain epithelial tumors] in mice and humans.
It has been suggested that vitamin A inhibits the
chemical conversion of some harmful substances, entering the body, to an active carcinogen. Maugh speculated that vitamin A may weaken the attachment of a
carcinogen to the cells genetic materialthe nucleic
acid, DNA, which contains the genes. Since genetic disturbance is believed to be involved in the cells loss of
control over proliferation, such a weakening would help
the cell revert to health. He noted that various carcinogens bind much more tightly to DNA in cultures
derived from animals made deficient in vitamin A.
There is also the possibility that vitamin A compounds somehow stimulate the immune system to be
more effective in countering malignancy. For some reason, certain white blood cells (those leukocytes which
have passed through and been treated by the thymus
gland) have an increased ability to recognize cancerous cells as a foreign body, and seek to destroy them.
A number of drugs have an anti-tumor effect because they stimulate this immune response. Vitamin A
has been shown to increase the anti-tumor action of
such drugs 100-fold, according to Dr. Maugh.
Thus turns our attention to the thymus gland, and
we learn that vitamin A may boost the immune reaction against tumors by protecting the integrity and size
of the thymus itself. It appears, in some way, to
strengthen that gland. In experimental animals, this
small gland (located in the chest) shrinks in size as
tumors develop (after a tumor-virus is injected), according to Dr. Martin Zisblatt and colleagues
(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 1973).
When those animals are subsequently given large
doses of vitamin A, the tumors diminish in size and
the thymus reverts toward normal size. Zisblatt, et.
al., commented: Vitamin A appears not to be working
directly as a selectively anti-tumor compound, but,
rather, it appears to affect the process of rejection of
the tumor.
Thus, it may appear that a strong immune reaction to reject tumor cells depends on a healthy thymus, and that, in turn, depends on adequate intake of
vitamin A.
At a scientific meeting, held in Denver, Colorado,
in June 1983, Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., M.D., associate
professor of medicine at the University of Arizona in
Tucson, reported on his investigations.
In one of those investigations, Dr. Meyskens gave
13-cis retinoic acid [a derivative of vitamin A] to 105
patients with various advanced cancers. At the time,
none of the people were getting any other anti-cancer
therapy.
He soon discovered that some cancer types didnt
respond to the nutrient but that the epithelial varietiesthose involving the cellular coverings of tissues
did. In fact, 25 percent of patients with one kind of
epithelial cancer actually showed signs of tumor shrinkage. And in advanced cancers of any variety, thats a
pretty good record.Prevention, October 1983, 78.
Beta-carotene (also called pro-vitamin A) is found
only in green and yellow vegetables; whereas vitamin A
is found only in meat and dairy products. When foods
containing carotene are eaten, the carotene is changed
by the liver into vitamin A. Oddly enough, it is safer to
eat foods with carotene than foods with vitamin A. This
is because too much vitamin A can have a toxic effect
on the body. You can never get too much carotene. The
liver is in charge of changing as much carotene as the
body needs into vitamin A, if you are getting enough
carotene in your diet.
What is one of the richest natural sources of betacarotene? Fresh carrot juice.
We await further research into this important field.
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PABA (P
ARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)
(PARA-AMINOBENZOIC
Para-aminobenzoic Acid is another of the B complex family of vitamins. It has been found that placing
it on the skin before going out in the sun is an excellent
way to provide a safe sunscreen, to shield the skin from
ultraviolet rays which could lead to skin cancer.
A Harvard team of researchers, reporting in the
New England Journal of Medicine (June 26, 1969),
showed that PABA in a solution of ethyl alcohol is the
most effective sunscreen available. A single application
can protect a person for 24 hours. No commercial product was found to provide as good protection.
It actually enters into a safe chemical reaction with
the skin, even after bathing or swimming. It is also
invisible, odorless, and colorless. While it does not prevent burning, it aids tanning. But it can stain bathing
suits. Test results on animals revealed that it afforded
virtually complete protection against sun-induced skin
cancer.
CHOLINE
Choline is another B vitamin. Among other qualities of this important vitamin, choline inhibits cancer
growth in animals. In a paper published in the Annals
of the New York Academy of Science entitled, Carcinogenic effects associated with diets deficient in choline
and related nutrients, R.W. Engel and others reported
on dietary experiments with rats. In one trial, 14 out of
18 rats developed cancers on the choline-deficient diet
while none who received a supplement of 0.2 percent
developed such tumors.
D.H. Copeland and W.D. Salmon reported, in the
American Journal of Pathology for September 1946,
on a test diet given to rats for 16 months. It consisted
of peanut meal, casein, sucrose, lard and salt, plus
vitamins A and E, calcium, and vitamins of the B complexwith the exception of choline. Nineteen of the rats,
selected as controls, were fed the same diet, plus the
choline.
Fourteen of the rats who received no choline died
from choline deficiency early in the experiment. After
several months of reasonably good health, the others
began having serious problems. Included were serious
liver damage and tumors. Thirty percent of the rats
who survived longer than eight months had symptoms
of adenocarcinoma, a certain type of cancer. When their
lungs were examined, those eight-month-or-longer rats
showed definite evidence of lung cancer. Three of the
rats developed growths next to the spine, which caused
paralysis. In addition, the authors explained that the
accumulation of fat in the livers of the animals and the
behavior of the cells generally was much the same as
that in animals who develop cancer as the result of
being exposed to a cancer-producing substance. But
no such substance was used in the experiment. The
rats developed the cancerous growths simply because
one B vitamin was lacking in their diet: choline. They
found that 58 percent of the animals without choline
developed tumors. Of the control group, who received
ample amount of choline, none showed any evidence
of disease.
In the September 7, 1947, edition of the New York
Academy of Science, a number of researchers to reported a similar research project, using choline, with
similar results.
BIOTIN
NUTRITION
There are other nutritional factors, as well as general lifestyle principles which should be considered.
There is a wealth of folk culture discoveries in regard
to lifestyle factors which prevent cancer and help fight
it when it strikes.
Here is a brief survey of some of the findings of
common folk. It is not complete, but will afford you an
idea of what is involved. These are principles worked
out in the process of preventing and overcoming cancer.
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During World War I, in Denmark, when food shortages caused the Danish government to forbid the milling of grains, nutrition was so improved that the death
rate fell 34 percent. This included a reduction in cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart and kidney diseases.
Hal Higdon, in Kiwanis Magazine (August 1959),
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Research scientists had earlier linked colon cancer with both low-fiber and high-fiber fat diets. But, in
1983, Bandaru S. Reddy, Ph.D., head of the department of nutritional biochemistry at Naylor Dana Institute for Disease Prevention (Valhalla, New York), reported on his advanced studies into this matter. According to Reddy, eating a lot of fat and very little fiber
increases bile acids in the colon, and abnormal high
levels of these acids promote tumors there. Using ingeniously devised experiments, he found that, both in
rats and humans, those with the highest bile excretion
had the most colon cancer. More bile acids developed
more colon cancer. But, when low amounts of fat and
high amounts of fiber were in the diet, the amount of
bile acids in the bowel was greatly reduced.
Refined foods contribute to cancer formation because they tend to have little fiber. Why, since fiber is
indigestible, is it so important in preventing cancer?
First, fiber in food adds bulk and volume to the stools.
This, in turn, aids elimination by providing the muscles
of the bowel something to push against. Fiber thus helps
prevent constipation and increase, what scientists term,
transit timethe speed at which digested food passes
out of the body. Why? because the longer the food remains in the bowel, the more it putrefies.
There is a second reason why fiber is so helpful. It
is now known that fiber in the bowel actually absorbs
some carcinogens, so they are eliminated instead of
being assimilated by the body.
In addition to fiber, there is also pectin. Prune juice
looks clear and decidedly unfibrous, yet it is high in
pectin, which is a veritable vacuum cleaner for the
bowel. It picks up bad things and takes them out of the
bowel. So a small amount of prune juice in the diet is
very good.
FREE RADICALS
Hydrogenated oil (also called trans fat) is vegetable oil with hydrogen added to it. This deadens and
preserves the oil. If still more molecules of hydrogen
are added, the oil is hardened into a grease, called
margarine.
The Lancet is a British medical journal. In the
march 6, 1971, issue, appeared an article, entitled The
Incidence of Cancer in Men on a Diet High on Polyunsaturated Fat, by M.L. Pearce and Seymour Dayton:
In an eight-year controlled clinical trial of a diet
high in polyunsaturated vegetable oils and low in saturated fat and cholesterol in preventing complications
of atherosclerosis, 846 men were assigned randomly
to a conventional diet or to one similar in all respects
except for a substitution of vegetable oils for saturated
fat. Fatal atherosclerotic events were more common in
the control group. However, total mortality was similar in the two groups: 178 controls versus 174 experiments, demonstrating an excess of non-atherosclerotic
deaths in the experimental group. This was accounted
for by a greater incidence of fatal carcinomas in the
experimental group. Thirty one of 174 deaths in the
experimental group were due to cancer, as opposed to
17 of 178 deaths in the control group.
In plain English, all the men were put on a regular
diet, with a large amount of fat. One group was given
meat fat; the control group was given hydrogenated fat.
The meat fat group had more strokes and heart attacks, and the hydrogenated fat group had more deaths
from cancer.
It would have been preferable if the men were all
placed on a low-fat diet, which consisted only of nonhydrogenated, cold-pressed oiland not very much of
it.
White rats were fed liberally with heated, hydrogenated fats and the control group was given a similar
amount of unprocessed fats. All rats in the hydrogenated fat group developed tumors or cancers, but none
of the others did. A similar experiment, done with lard,
had the same result.
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bestrol during early pregnancy appears to have enhanced the risk of vaginal adenocarcinoma developing
years later in the offspring exposed.
The birth control tablet, commonly known as the
pill, contains estrogen. However, the main estrogen used
in the pill is a synthetic chemical substance known as
diethylstilbestrol (DES). In addition, two other estrogens are also used in the pill.
Cancer-causing properties of estrogens have been
known, at least, since 1936. Various researchers have
clearly established that these hormones could cause
adenomas or malignant growth.
It is estimated that, at the present time, there are
about 75,000,000 women throughout the world on the
pill.
It was stated, at the 1970 U.S. Senate hearings,
that more than 50 dangerous side effects can result
from taking birth control pills.
NITRITES
Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It enters the atmosphere from nuclear tests, and then falls
to the earth in rainfall. It has been found in aquifers
and water supplies in various parts of the Northern
Hemisphere. Tritium is produced naturally in the atmosphere by cosmic ray bombardment, but scientists
have concluded that the buildup of it originated from
hydrogen bomb tests conducted from 1962 onward.
Dr. Gordon Stewart, of the U.S. Geological Survey,
has reported a marked increase in tritium in both
coastal and inland waters. When it combines with oxygen, it can go anywhere regular water can go.
Dr. Dieudonne J. Mewissen, of the Pritzker School
of Medicine, in a University of Chicago news release on
March 23, 1971, noted that the tiny amounts of tritium, found in radioactive water, causes tumors in mice.
It is believed that the upward trend in cancer, since the
early 1960s, is at least partly due to tritium contamination of our drinking water.
To complicate the problem, controlled release of
radioactive liquids has occurred at several Atomic Energy Commission centers in the U.S. For a number of
years, it was even legal. Add to this the many accidental leakages.
Tritium, like cesium-137, strontium 90, and other
radioactive substances, is contaminating the planet. It
is thought that such contaminates are sources of carcinoma.
Dr. Mewissens report reveals that tritium, in
amounts at least 50 times less than the so-called safe
level recommended by the AEC, increased the incidence
of tumors in laboratory mice. His conclusions resulted
from a seven-year study begun in Belgium, and concluded at the Chicago school.
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Part Two
Specific Systems of Treatment
In this section, medical researchers ought to
be able to find a sizeable amount of earlier cancer
research. Many worthwhile discoveries were made.
It is the hope of the present writer that this information may prove to be the beginning of the breakthrough findings by medical experts in our time,
that will settle the matterso the people can be
finally, officially, told about practical methods of
cancer control and remission.
There is a great need to provide simple, practical, remedies which common folk can use at
home. Most people cannot afford expensive hospital bills.
EARLIER HISTORY
OF CANCER RESEARCH AND THERAPY
As in every other field, cancer research is
not only dependent upon a long-range strategy
in this case centered upon patient investigation
of the carcinogenic mechanismbut is also affected by chance, the accidental observation,
or the unanticipated simplifying principle which
is likely to be more decisive. It is impossible to
tell, yet each is complementary to the other, and
both are essential in the advancement of the
knowledge of the cancer cell.Alexander
Haddow, The Biochemistry of Cancer, in Annual Review of Biochemistry, Vol. 24, 689.
Dr. Blake, of New York City, applied a powdered mixture of herbs, mixed as a salve, to the
cancerous area. The growth would generally be
gone within 3 weeks.
After the first few days, the treatment produced
a discharge from the malignancy, which continued flowing until the cancer was entirely gone.
Throughout this time, the patient was not confined
to bed, but carried on his regular activities.
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Over the years, cancer researchers have generally searched for a single causal factor. Yet a variety of causes can eventually produce cancer.
WHITES THEORY OF DISEASE
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Ministry of Healing, 127 [cf. 126-130].
Dr. Ozias was a small-town physician in Nevada, Missouri. Gradually, he came to the conclusion that cancer was a nutritional problem. So he
began prescribing natural foods, simply prepared. As a result, he had many recoveries. In
addition to a simple diet, he also gave something
which he would not disclose, which is believed to
have been an herbal mixture.
He became so well-known for his cancer successes that he built a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, to which many people came for help.
Ozias said that cancer was the result of soft
city living and devitalized store-bought food.
In 1922, he wrote the American Medical Association and offered to treat 100 cases, free of charge
in his hospital, and disclose his formula so all physicians could have access to itif the results of
his work were published in the AMA Journal. The
AMA did not answer. Instead, he was repeatedly
taken to court on a variety of charges. Each time,
the case was withdrawn before it went to court.
The AMA knew they could not win in court. He
finally retired to his home in Nevada, Missouri,
and practiced quietly until his death in the mid
1940s.
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JOHN BEARD, M.D., 1911
Note to researchers: Beards theory was the first to focus
on enzyme scarcity as a cause of cancer. Because he reported
such a remarkable rate of success in treating cancer, his work
needs to be clinically verified today.
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Working Summary: The Glover Therapy consists of a serum from horse blood. It is no longer available.
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THOMAS J. GLOVER, M.D., c. 1918
Note to researchers: It is clear from the striking case of T.J.
Glover, as well as Stanleys research, that intensive research
should be done into possible microorganism involvement in the
cancer process.
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This is the first mention, in this brief historical overview, of a person who was not a medical
doctor.
About the year 1905, a man named Evans in
Cardigan, Wales, put together some herbs that
people had used for years and gave it to one of
his sons who had cancer. After that success, he
and his sons gave it to neighbors, and their cancers went into remission. Each time, they knelt
and prayed earnestly for the Lords blessing.
Prayer is powerful, especially when combined with
simple, natural remedies.
By 1907, there had been enough success that
the British Medical Journal printed two scathing
attacks on the family and their efforts to help
people.
Rees Evans, one of the sons, had been treating cancer since 1919. Attacked by the medical
societies, he requested an investigation in 1924.
When asked for the names of 20 patients, he
gave 30 names and addresses. The committee later
reported that it could not find any of them. In response, Evans announced that they had not tried
to locate them, and a number had reported the
fact to him.
The battle in England continued for years, and
is far too lengthy to include here.
Here is a description of one individuals experience with the Evans treatment:
Shortly after receiving a blow to her breast, a
woman discovered a growth. After receiving no
worthwhile help from a cancer specialist, she went
to Evans. He told her that it might be healed in
about 12 weeks; so then she agreed to a series of
treatments. Using a soft brush, he applied a liquid, made from his herbal mixture, to her breast.
This brought sensations of penetration, burning
and pulling; yet this was relatively painless. A new
application of the liquid was made six days a week,
and the growth gradually rose to the surface and
became hard and black. A lettuce leaf placed over
the tumor turned black.
On the twelfth week, the roots of the cancer
came out, leaving a crater underneath. Evans then
treated that with another herbal solution. Gradually, this also healed, leaving only a small scar.
When she showed her healed breast to the physician she had earlier gone to, he involuntarily exclaimed, Miraculous! But, in order to keep the
medical association from turning on him, the physician later denied that the malignancy, which he
had earlier diagnosed as such, had ever been can-
Skin cancers were ignored, because the committee said they were rodent ulcers and not real
malignancies.
Evidence of success in healing rodent ulcers throws no light on whether the same
method will be useful in the treatment of cancers in general.
As to the herbs themselves, in one brief paragraph their possible value was declared worthless.
Samples of the materials used by Mr. Rees
Evans in treatment were analyzed and tested
in experiments on animals. The committee was
advised by the leading experts that the results
obtained did not provide any indication for recommending further experiments.
The report concluded that those of Evans patients who died did indeed die of cancer; and those
who did not die, never had cancer!
(Evans, like other practitioners of alternative
cancer remedies, primarily worked with those who
had been cut, chemicaled, or burned, and were so
weakened they sought out Evans as a last resort.)
The report was signed by four leading British
medical dignitaries, including the president of the
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pally meat and fat intake.Dr. Gio B. Gori, speaking before Senator McGoverns Select Committee
on Nutrition and Human Needs, 1972.
Testifying before that same committee, Dr.
Arthur Upton declared that up to 50 percent of
all cases of cancer are caused by diet. Add to
that those caused by smoking and exposure to
carcinogens, and we have nearly 80 percent.
This means that most cancer cases could be
prevented.
From 1970 onward, there has been an increasing number of research studies which have concluded that a meat diet is a primary cause of cancer. For example, in a study of Seventh-day
Adventists, a group that is traditionally vegetarian, death rates were about one half of those
seen in the general population (R.L. Phillips,
Role of Lifestyle and Dietary Habits in Risk of
Cancer Among Seventh-day Adventists, Cancer
Research, 35(supp.):3513-22, 1975).
When Chinese women moved to America,
their rate of breast cancers greatly increased.
Men who eat milk, eggs, or dairy products daily,
have a 3.6-times higher risk of fatal prostrate
cancer. Populations around the world with the
lowest meat consumption have low rates of colon cancer.
One study found that vegetarians obtain
more essential nutrients from their diets and
absorb those nutrients more efficiently than do
non-vegetarians (P. Millet, American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition, 50:718-27, 1989).
A massive study, called the China Project,
was reported in 1990. Headed by T.C. Campbell
of Cornell University, this research found that Chinese eat one third less protein than Americans
(64 gm/day vs. 91 gm/day). But only 7 percent
of the Chinese protein comes from animal
sources, compared with 70 percent for Americans (4gm/day vs. 64 gm/day). The Chinese had
far lower cancer rates. The research findings are
contained in the book, J. Chen, T.C. Campbell,
et. al., Diet, Lifestyle and Mortality in China:
A Study of the Characteristics of 65 Countries,
1990.
Here are other major findings of this study:
Eating large amounts of fiber will protect against
colon cancer. Childhood diets high in protein,
fat, calories, and calcium promote early growth,
but produce higher breast cancer rates later in
life among women. Consuming high amounts
of protein can lead to cancer and other degenerative diseases.
Another study revealed that a vegetarian diet
not only lowers the levels of known carcinogens, like saturated fats and excess protein, but
a vegetarian diet apparently alters the way tumor cells process fatand thereby prevents the
runaway growth that characterizes fatal cancers.
This may partly explain why vegetarian diets
help slow or stop the growth of established cancers (Eduardo Siguel, Nutrition and Cancer
4(4):285-91, 1983).
Medical doctors advise their heart patients to
change their diets; they need to tell their cancer
patients to do it also.
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HARRY M. HOXSEY, N.D., 1920
Note to Researchers: Testing on the Hoxsey formula should
be carried out. Surely, there must be some value here! It was
used with apparent success on so many people.
Working Summary: The Hoxsey treatment consisted of nine
herbs, plus potassium iodide. Fortunately, we know both the
original and the modified formulas. A Hoxsey clinic exists today
in Mexico.
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man race . .
They slay their patients as guiltily as if they
knifed them in the heart, and they stay within
the letter of the law . .Morris Fishbein, American Eagle, quoted in Harry Hoxsey, You Dont
Have to Die.
Harry Hoxseys formula included Red clover, Burdock root, Barberry bark, Licorice root,
Buckthorn bark, Prickly ash, poke berries and
root, Stillingia root, Cascara amarga, Potassium
iodide, zinc chloride, and antimony trisulfide.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) had been
used by the Lake Superior Indians to treat cancer.
Physicians, using bloodroot paste in the 1960s,
healed cancers of the nose, external ear, and other
organs (Cancer Chronicles, August 1990). Buckthorn contains aloe-emodin, which tests reveal has
anti-cancer properties. Cascara also has aloe-emodin. Barberry has anti-tumor effects. The OTA report, within the last ten years (see Alternative Remedies and Congress, at the front of this book),
noted that components of prickly ash (chelerythrine and nitidine) and of stillingia (gnidilatidin)
have shown positive anti-tumor activity in test animals.
The major component of the internal tonic was
potassium iodide. The actual proportions and
methods of extractions were kept secret (Harry
Hoxsey, You Dont Have to Die, 1956).
Patients taking the tonics were cautioned
to avoid tomatoes, alcohol, processed flour, and
vinegar, because of their ability to negate the tonics
effect. The Hoxsey formula was most successful
against lymphoma, melanoma, and skin cancer.
In 1968, the Hoxsey method was placed on
the ACS Unproven Methods List. Today, Hoxseys
work is carried on at the Hoxsey Clinic in Tijuana,
Mexico, which estimates that 80% of the patients
are significantly helped.
In 1963, Mildred Nelson, Hoxseys chief nurse,
opened the Bio-Medical Center in Tijuana, Mexico,
which still offers the Hoxsey treatment. Here is
the formula used by Nelson at her clinic:
Red clover (Trifolium pratense)
Burdock root (Arctium lappa)
Barberry bark (Berberis vulgaris)
Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Buckthorn bark (Rhamnus purshiana)
Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanium)
Chaparral (Larrea tridentata)
Stillingia root (Stillingia sylvatica)
Cascara amarga (Picramnia antidesma)
Potassium iodide
Nelson substituted chaparral for poke, which
was in the original formula. We do not know
whether she still includes zinc chloride and antimony trisulfide in her revised formula. We also do
not know the proportions of each ingredient in
the total formula. (It is well to note that it is now
known that pau darco contains the same cancer-
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The following excerpt was taken from the chapter on Cancer in Dr. Alice Chases 1959 book,
Nutrition and Health.
In view of the fact that she had a high rate of
success with a wide variety of infections and diseases over a period of forty years, Chase spoke
with authority about such subjects; for she had
worked with them for years.
Dr. Chases work, as a practicing physician,
continued from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s.
She was also acquainted with Dr. Duncan Bulkleys
cancer program, which is discussed elsewhere in
this present historical overview.
Here is this excerpt from her book:
The body cannot be affected by cancer when
it is healthy. The body must be saturated with uneliminated excretions within the cells before it is
susceptible to this disease.
Cancer is not a local disease at first. When
any organ or tissue manifests cancer signs, the
entire body is a sewer full of wastes. How do those
wastes saturate the body cells and fluids?
In cancer the body is hypersaturated with retained catabolic wastes within the cells. One reason for the special susceptibility of some organs
to cancer is the fact that these particular organs
are permeated with relatively large blood and
lymph supplies. When a highly vascular organ is
saturated with unexcreted wastes, it may manifest signs of cancer.
The breast, the thyroid gland, the prostate
gland, the uterus, and other structures that are
highly vascular are often found to be cancerous.
When any body organ manifests cancer signs and
symptoms, the entire body is affected by the same
poisons, and these will eventually kill the sufferer.
For this reason, X-ray treatments, radium treatments, and other medical weapons, in addition
to extreme and radical surgery, prove futile.
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the century.
Dr. Warburg won the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine in 1931 for his discovery of a
respiratory enzyme. One of his most controversial theories concerned the nature of cancer cell
metabolism, that is, the way in which cells obtained their energy.
Warburg was the only person to ever win the
Nobel prize twice in his own field. (One of the only
other persons to win the Nobel prize twice, Linus
Pauling, also did research into alternate cancer
therapy and is discussed later in this book.)
Normally, human cells obtain their energy
through respiration. Each of the vast millions of
cells in the body takes in oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide and water. This is a complex, but
highly efficient, way of generating energy.
But there is another, far more primitive and
wasteful way of generating energy: fermentation.
Simple life forms, such as bacteria, use this
method. This is why milk sours and yeast makes
bread to rise.
But there are times when our human cells also
use fermentation to produce energy. One occurs
when the muscles or brain require a quick burst
of energy.
Another occurrenceand this is the heart of
his theoryis when cancer cells begin functioning. According to Warburg, all cancer cells live
by fermenting sugar in what are essentially airless (called anaerobic) reactions.
Warburg maintained that if a person could
find a way to stop this fermentation, he could
stop the cancer.
He developed this theory in 1930, a year before he received the Nobel prize for different research.
Other scientists have since proven that cancer becomes more resistant to therapy as the
tumor mass becomes more acidic and anaerobic.
Warburgs theories provided the foundation
for ozone and hydrogen peroxide therapies,
which are given intravenously, orally, and rectally. While the efficacy of these therapies is
controversial, experts caution against drinking
hydrogen peroxide, since it is such a potent freeradical generator.
You will recall that, 10 years before Warburgs
theory, Koch began using Glyoxylide, an oxygen
catalyst, in his work.
Later, we will learn about the research work
of Joseph Gold who, in 1968, published a paper
on oxygen therapy. Revici also used oxygen injections. The use of hydrogen peroxide is based on
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oxygenation.
(For more on oxygen therapy in its various
forms, see pages 53-55, 103-105.)
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Patients by the thousands flocked to the CoffeyHumber Cancer Clinic in San Francisco, to receive
the Coffey-Humber extract, as it came to be
known.
A branch was opened in Los Angeles; and, in
1931, a wealthy widow of a railroad magnate, living on Long Island, offered to give her mansion as
a third clinic in the chain. This would open the
entire East Coast to the new anti-cancer method.
This resulted in a storm of opposition and protests. On one side were the common masses, plus
wealthy patrons and fabulously rich railroad executives who sided with their boys. On the other
was the New York City Welfare Board that, for some
mysterious reason, saw fit to deny the people of
New York the opportunity to obtain help.
The application was denied. Later that same
year (1931), Dr. Rowland H. Harris reported in
the Journal of the AMA that he had investigated
the extract and found it to be worthless, and even
harmful. He said that, in some instances, it accelerated the growth of tumors.
Fired with anger, Dr. R.W. Starr, director of the
Los Angeles Coffey-Humber Cancer Clinic, declared that Harris was giving a false report.
The anger and accusations continued. Dr.
Balfour, a Mayo Clinic surgeon, was quoted by
Time magazine as saying that cancer is curable if
[surgically] removed while it is a local disease.
Cures by advertised serums, extracts, etc., are
myths.
Shortly afterward, Dr. Garland, a radiologist,
stated that he was well-acquainted with the extract, that it relieved no pain, and he had seen the
patients die like flies.
In March 1936, Coffey and Humber published
their results, to date: 7,513 presumably hopeless
cancer patients. Of these, 3,872 died before they
could receive 30 injections (the minimum needed
for a fair test). Of the 3,641 which received the full
treatments, 1,040 recovered from cancer, which
is about one-fourth. Of these, about 10% lived four
or more years.
(It should again be noted here that the CoffeyHumber treatment neither included nor required
any changes in diet or lifestyle. Without such
changes, serums, extracts, etc., outstanding, longterm results could not be produced.)
In his report, Coffey also noted a statement by
a well-known pathologist, Ewing, who said that
not 5% of cancer patients recovered after receiving surgery or radiation.
In 1944, Dr. Coffey died. In later years, Dr.
Humber decided to stop using the extract.
Oddly enough, the method never received any
kind of scientific investigation by its opponents.
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I have been asked many times what my cancer cure is. Here it is in a nutshell: correct food,
herbs, water, fresh air, massage, sunshine, exercise, and rest.
Red clover blossoms should be gathered, made
into tea, and drunk freely, abundantly. Place a
handful of blossoms in a quart of water, let in come
to a boil, and then simmer for 15 minutes. Then
let it set until cool enough to drink.
Other anti-cancer herbs included: violet leaves,
agrimony, ground ivy, burdock root, yellow dock
root, blue violet (whole plant), goldenseal root, gum
myrrh, echinacea, aloes, blue flag, gravel root,
bloodroot, dandelion root, African cayenne, chickweed, rockrose, and Oregon grape.
Kloss complete program is given on pages 452464 of his famous book.
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Note to researchers: Revicis sterol and fatty acid lipid research should be re-examined, along with the minerals (potassium, calcium, copper, and oxygen) which he administered.
Working Summary: Revici was a pioneer both in a concern
about fatty acids in the diet, and in the use of potassium and
selenium. His program is still available today.
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Dr. Lawrence was a British scientist who carried on medical research during World War II. In
the course of his work, he discovered that there
was a factor in urine which seemed to have antitumor activity in animals. His work has since been
continued and refined by other scientists elsewhere
in the world. The research of both Danopoulos
and Stanislaw Burzynski will be considered later
in this book.
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ROBERT E. LINCOLN, M.D., 1940s
Note to researchers: Lincolns theory of parasitic viruses
which feed on, and destroy, cancer-causing microorganisms is a
fascinating one, and deserves careful laboratory research.
Working Summary: Lincoln was unique in his concept that
there are viruses which eat cancer cells. But, if we enlarge the
concept somewhat to include the findings of pleomorphism (discussed later in this book), this could occur.
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Dr. Wachtel, of New York City, was a vigorous opponent of the virus theory of cancer. Instead, he believed that cancer was caused by
certain pathological changes in the metabolism,
resulting from some normally harmless factors
which, under certain circumstances, tend to induce the development of cancer.
Frankly, that summary (derived from Wachtels
1954 book, The Role of the Pituitary in Cancer),
could apply to about anything. A primary question here would be What were those circumstances? Part One of this present book clearly
outlines a wide variety of circumstances, in diet
and way of life, which have since been shown to
greatly increase or lessen the likelihood of cancer.
But, as the title of Wachtels book suggests, he
thought that factors related to the pituitary were
key causative agents in producing or preventing cancer.
Noting that some species of animals are very
cancer-resistant while others are quite susceptible,
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of medical equipment in their possession. No microscopes, nothing. If they had the equipment, they
would not have known how to use it.
The very fact, that they accomplished as much
as they did, reveals yet again that there are many
avenues to success, when it comes to dealing with
cancer.
Casting about for an idea, the couple went to
her (Lazenbys) Pittsburgh home, took some pots
and pans down into the basement. They found a
sack of whole wheat and hauled it over to the tubs.
Why whole wheat? Why not? Whats the difference? Its as good as anything else to start with.
What they came up with was an enzymatic
product derived from processed whole-wheat
grain. They called it Mucorhicin. With a name
like that, how could they fail?
(It probably had lots of vitamins and minerals
in it also, something cancer patients would be lacking in.)
They then tried their formula on guinea pigs
which they thought might have cancer. Whether or
not they did, it seemed they looked all right after
the treatment. So Mucorhicin worked after all!
Next, they needed to find some people with
cancer. Since Mrs. Lazenby worked at a hospital,
she slipped some of her formula into the orange
juice she gave to three cancer patients who were
bedridden and pronounced hopeless,
According to Mr. Drosnes, all three seemed to
improve somewhat in symptoms, appetite, and energy, but then they died.
Later they were permitted to treat patients who
had been discharged and sent home to die. The
two drove to their homes twice a day to give them
their extract, which they drank in fruit juice.
There were some dramatic, if only temporary,
remissions. Occasionally a recovery occurred.
Then Dr. Paul A. Murray, a Pittsburg physician became interested in what they were doing,
and offered to help them. In 1948, a clinic was set
up in the basement of a Catholic Church. Later,
Dr. Joseph Wilson joined the team.
That same year, the two laypeople were arrested for practicing medicine without a license.
But the case was set aside, since the clinic was
under medical direction.
The arrest brought publicity! Immediately,
people all over greater Pittsburg sought the clinic
for help, and medically affiliated organizations began opposing them.
But the Drosnes-Lazenby Clinic had staunch
friends among former patients and their relatives.
The treatment had often been given free.
At the urging of the Pittsburg City Council, an
investigation was demanded. A medical doctor
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STEVEN DUROVIC, M.D.,
ANDREW C. IVY, M.D., 1949
Note to researchers: The fungus, Actinomyces bovis (lumpy
jaw) should be extracted from horses, and tested on animals
and human volunteers with terminal cancer.
Working Summary: Not only was Durovic able to extract a
cancer-fighting agent from horses, but later, without being told
how to do it, Ivy did it also. Indeed, Ivy found he could extract
the serum from healthy horses! This is a technique which could
easily be revived.
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Drs. Erf and Miller of Jefferson Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia, in an article in
GP (the journal of the American Academy of General Practice) for April 1957, set forth a new theory
of the origin of cancer.
After considerable research work, they concluded that cancer cells are cells which have
not matured. If the proper materials are present,
every human cell will fully mature and do the
function it is designed to do.
But if maturant substances are not present, these immature cells will continue to grow
and divideall the while remaining immature.
For example, in pernicious anemia, there are
many immature red blood cells. Therefore, the patient can die from a lack of mature red blood cells.
Vitamin B12 solves the problem, enabling the cells
to properly mature.
In leukemia and myeloma, two forms of cancer, there is an abnormal production of immature
red blood cells invading the bone marrow, liver,
lymph, lungs, kidneys, etc. They take up room,
but do not do what red blood cells are supposed
to do.
These physicians wrote that, both in B12 deficiency and in cancer, under a microscope increasingly immature red blood cells are seen. They believed that proper nutrition would enable all cells
to mature properly.
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LAWRENCE BURTON, Ph.D., 1959
Note to researchers: Burton developed, what he called,
immuno-Augmentive Therapy, by injecting various blood products into cancer patients to stimulate the immune system. Isolating the fractions of blood serum could be a special hurdle in
seeking to replicate his work. But it should be attempted anyway. The interaction of tumor antibodies (IgG gamma globulin,
plus related IgA and IgM proteins), with de-blocking factors (such
as alpha-2-macroglobulin) and tumor complement, could provide a needed breakthrough.
Working Summary: Burtons formula is indeed intriguing.
He claimed to only use four blood proteins to produce cancer
remission. His clinic is still operating today in the Bahamas.
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Dr. Denham Harman carried out landmark research into free radicals into the late 1950s; and,
in 1962, he began releasing his findings to the
scholarly world. He had discovered that free radicals are implicated in both the formation of
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Naessens believes, as do many other scientists, that some cells in the body develop cancerous characteristics everyday. If the immune
system can overcome them, they are eliminated.
Naessens theorizes that the fermentative metabolism of cancer cells requires high levels of nitrogen. He says those cells are cancer traps, and
that, as those cells are forming, they emit a substance, which he calls the K factor, which protects them from the immune system.
The 714X is a derivative of camphor, with
an extra nitrogen molecule attached, and must
be injected into the lymphatic area in the groin.
Vaporizing at body temperature, it is absorbed
by the lymph nodesand supplies the needed
nitrogen to keep the immune system strong. Although most doctors and nurses do not know
how to give this injection, Naessens teaches his
patients how to do it at home.
In May 1989, Naessens underwent a criminal
trial by the Quebec Medical Corporation of Physicians, but was acquitted. The problem was that
Naessens had such a large number of documented
recoveries and witnesses in abundance, the jury
refused to convict him of any crime.
Today his formula is still available in Canada,
Mexico, and western Europe.
On June 8-9, 1991, an international symposium on Gaston Naessens work was held. Over
150 scientists from many professional fields converged in the small town of Sherbrooke, Quebec,
Canada. This awakened the interest of still more
physicians around the world, who began using
714X on their cancer patients. (See C. Bird, The
Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens.)
It appears that there are all kinds of successful cancer remedies, waiting for investigation by
scientific researchers.
On June 24, 1993, U.S. Congressman Berkley
Bedell, of Iowa, defended Naessens treatment before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. He attributes his
recovery from prostate cancer to 714X.
Here is information on the dosage of 714X:
A daily injection of the serum must be made
daily via the lymphatic system. It is best to give
it into the right inguinal lymph node. The injection must be given very slowly, at a rate of
0.5 ml in 15-20 minutes.
Three series of 21 injections are given, with
a 3-day rest between series (21 days, rest 3 days,
21 days, rest 3 days, 21 days). Following this,
booster shots are given from time to time, according to the need of the patient.
Here is the 21-day formula: First day - 0.10
ml / second day - 0.20 ml / third day - 0.30 ml /
fourth day - 0.40 ml / fifth to twenty-first day -
0.50 ml.
714XCentre dOrthobiologie, Somatidienne
de lEstrie (C.O.S.E.), 5270 Fontaine, Rock Forest, Quebec J1N 3B6, Canada Ph: (819) 564-7883
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H. RAY EVERS, M.D., 1960s
Note to researchers: Individual aspects of the Evers therapy
have been said to show some success in treating cancer. What
would happen if these various aspects could be combined in a
testing situation?
Working Summary: Evers eclectic approach borrowed a
variety of techniques from others; he apparently developed nothing new.
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for cancer!
Using this formula, the Janker Clinic in Germany was able to obtain full or partial remission in 70% of the 76,000 patients it has treated
since 1936.
For some reason, the FDA banned A-mulsin.
The NCI was uninterested in it, and the ACS said
it was determined to keep the Janker technique
out of the United States.
In the early spring of 1976, just before an Esquire article was to be published on the Janker
method, the National Cancer Institute suddenly
announced clinical trials were about to begin on a
vitamin A-like compound. It turned out to be, not
vitamin A nor carrot juice, but a synthetic variant
manufactured by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant,
Hoffmann-La Roche. Testing began in 1978, but
not much came of it.
In the 1960s, Drs. Santa Maria and Bianchi,
two Italian researchers, concluded a number of
research studies which demonstrated that vitamin A had the ability to prevent cancer in cell
and organ cultures, as well as in chemically induced cancers in animals.
Since then, many subsequent studies have confirmed their ground-breaking work. But, gradually, it has been discovered that beta-carotene
is even more powerful as an anti-cancer agent.
Here is the story.
Nearly 90% of all cancers affect the epithelial cells. These cells line the skin, gastro-intestinal tract, all body openings, and thin tissues throughout the body. Beta-carotene aids
the body in preventing and eliminating these
cancers.
Vitamin A and beta-carotene are chemically
related. All the vitamin A comes from animal
sources (meat, eggs, milk, cheese), and all the
beta-carotene comes from fruits and vegetables.
Beta-carotene is also called pro-vitamin A, because it can be made into it. Actually, beta-carotene is just two molecules of vitamin A linked
together! When the body needs more vitamin
A, enzymes in the intestines split a molecule of
beta-carotene in half.
There is also another difference: Vitamin A
is oil-soluble and can be toxic in large amounts
or if too much is stored up by the liver. But
beta-carotene is water-soluble and no known
overdose toxicity exists.
Vitamin A is also known as retinol, and its
many analogs are called retinoids. Beta-carotene
is but one of several carotenoidsbut it is the
most abundant and demonstrates the highest
biological activity of any of them.
The first mention of vitamin A as a protection
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he devised in 1964.
Because the tumor was close to the surface,
he could tell by its size how it was doing. First, at
his mothers suggestion, he adopted a healthy,
vegetarian diet. This greatly helped. Then, he
went on raw foods, and that helped even more.
Then he took digestive enzymes, and found that
large doses of pancreatic enzymes helped even
more.
Having solved his own problem, he began telling his dental patients about itand more people
were helped. But he found that some could not
tolerate a total raw food diet.
The cancer method formulated by Dr. Kelley
parallels the Gerson program in a number of ways.
It is very possible that he used a variation of that
approach.
Kelley placed an emphasis on fresh fruits and
vegetables, plus liver detoxification via coffee
enemas.
But Kelley had two aspects which Gerson
lacked, or at least, does not emphasize: sizeable
amounts of raw meat in certain diets and excess
amounts of almonds each day:
Raw almonds are a very good source of protein and should be used as directed 10 almonds
at breakfast and 10 almonds at lunch! William Kelley, One Answer to Cancer, 11.
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To the simple diet, Gonzalez adds high levels of nutritional supplementation with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, glandular substances, digestive and pancreatic enzymes, and
various detoxification procedures. He also recommends regular fasting, colonic irrigation
(high enemas), and coffee enemas.
When Robert W. Maver, a Mutual Life Insurance executive, learned about the program, he
urged that research be done. Maver said the program could save the life insurance industry millions of dollars. But nothing was done about his
recommendation.
Kelleys Nutritional-Metabolic Therapy
Nicholas Gonzales, M.D., 737 Park Avenue, New
York, NY 10021 Ph: (212) 535-3993
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LINUS PAULING, Ph.D.,
AND EWAN CAMERON, M.D., 1966
Note to researchers: Definitive, mega-dose testing of vitamin C on cancer patients needs to be carried out. The Cameron
testing clearly revealed that the addition of ascorbic acid, alone,
lengthened life and even eliminated pain in terminally ill patients.
Working Summary: In a lecture in central California in the
mid-1960s, Adele Davis announced that vitamin C would cure
every disease. Perhaps she was right.
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Back in the United States, the two researchers were told that their findings could not be accepted until animal research work had been done
first. Although this would require years of work,
Pauling agreed to it; but, when he applied for grant
money, his request was refused.
Five times Pauling, author of more than 400
scientific papers, requested funds; each time to
be turned down. The final notation said, Based
on evaluation of scientific merit of this application disapproval must be recommended.
Since Pauling and Camerons initial studies, a
number of other physicians elsewhere have begun
quietly prescribing megadoses of vitamin C, along
with other nutrients in the treatment of cancer.
One was H.L. Newbold, M.D., of New York City.
For skin cancers, he uses a combination of about
15 grams of vitamin C a day by mouth, along
with vitamin C ointment applied to the surface
of the tumor itself, five or six times a day. He
does not always have success, but then he focuses
primarily on vitamin C; whereas there are a broad
number of nutritional, environmental, and lifestyle
factors which should also be included.
In treating other kinds of cancer, Newbold
increases the dosage as high as he can. He says
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The Finnish study, carried out under the direction of Dr. Knekt, was the largest in size and
scope ever undertaken in regard to vitamin E. Conducted from 1966 to 1972 on 62,440 adults, it
produced highly significant results, aided by careful follow-ups of the patients over the next six to
ten years. (See American Journal of Epidemiology, 127(1): 28-41, 1988; and International Journal of Epidemiology, 17(2):281-86, 1988.)
Vitamin E has anti-cancer effects because it
is a lipid antioxidant and a free-radical scavenger. (In addition, other studies have disclosed
that antioxidants block the action of common
carcinogens.)
It is also the most important fat-soluble antioxidant in the human body. But it only becomes a clear-cut anti-cancer agent, when used
with vitamin C and selenium. In combination
with them, it is particularly effective against
certain cancers, especially breast, lung, and
prostate. It is also useful against skin, liver,
colon, mouth, and stomach cancer.
Vitamin E prevents the formation of certain
cancer- causing chemicals (such as nitro samines) in the body, helps to change newly
formed cancer cells back to normal cells, and
strengthens the bodys immune system.
Vitamin E greatly enhances the performance
of the immune system.
The official name for the vitamin is tocopherol. There are seven naturally occurring tocopherols, of which alpha-tocopherol is the
most abundant and the most biologically active.
It is now known that, not only does vitamin
E and selenium work together in fighting cancer, but selenium so enhances its effects that it
reduces the bodys need for the vitamin.
Even though vitamin E is fat-soluble, taking megadoses of the vitamin do not seem to
produce abnormalities.
The RDA for vitamin E is 30 IU daily, but
most research indicates that up to 800 IU a day
is completely safe.
The best absorbed form is mycelized E. This
is a liquid form of the vitamin that comes in 1ounce dropper bottles.
The natural form of vitamin E (toco pherolswith ol, is far better than the synthetic form (tocopherylswith yl). Look on
the bottle before you buy it. Yet the synthetic
type (also called the dl- form of the vitamin) is
used in most studies! This is odd, since the natural form is so much more effective. In fact, it is
30% more biologically active.
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including cancer.
It is theorized that part of the reason NDGA is
so powerful is because it destroys free radicals
in the body, and they tend to produce tumor
formation.
NDGA appears to be less useful for breast cancer than for certain others.
At low doses, NDGA can actually stimulate
cancer growth (!), and higher doses begin to
produce tumor regression.
There is a report of a woman who took 15
chaparral tablets a day to eliminate breast cancer,
and was later admitted to a hospital for liver damage. She recovered completely from the liver damage. The FDA says there have been four reported
cases of liver toxicity from it. Details of the cases
are not known.
Chaparral can cause nausea, vomiting, and
abdominal pain.
So questions remain about chaparral. But it
has apparently been used effectively for years in
combination with other herbs, in the revised
Hoxsey formula, as well as others. It is also part
of the Jason Winters formula.
(Also see Pau darco, which contains the same
active chemical, yet is safer to take: page 81.)
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JOSEPH GOLD, M.D., 1968
Note to researchers: How does hydrazine sulfate work to
block enzymes, thus enabling cancer cells to be shrunk? Careful
field testing of hydrazine sulfate on advanced malignancy cases
needs to be done. In connection with this, study the reports of
the Syracuse Cancer Research Institutes, in the 1970s, and the
human clinical testing which occurred at UCLA in Los Angeles
shortly afterward.
Working Summary: Gold did something clever: He just
blocked a single liver enzyme from workingand that caused
the cancer to die from starvation! The substance he used is still
available.
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207, 1968).
Golds theory was the antithesis of accepted
medical principles. Surgery and radiation had
ruled for decades; but, in the 1950s, high-priced
cancer drugs entered the picture more than ever
before. By the late 1960s, it was becoming obvious to thoughtful practitioners and researchers
that the physical damage by chemical toxicity was
as great as that caused by surgical cutting and
radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy was keyed to placing high toxicitypoison, if you willat the site of the cancer,
in order to kill it. But, in the process, the entire
system was greatly weakened, sometimes without
recovering.
In contrast, Gold suggested that, instead of
trying to kill the cancer cell, we need only block
its ability to injure other cells.
Gold had studied the work of Otto Warburg,
and his theory of the nature of cancer cell metabolism. According to Warburg, all cancer cells
live by fermenting sugar in what are essentially
airless (anaerobic) reactions. Find a way of stopping this fermentation, and you will be able to stop
the cancer.
Later, in the 1950s, Dr. Dean Burk and associates at the National Cancer Institute had delved
into Warburgs contribution. Burk won a scientific prize for demonstrating that Warburg was
correct in his views about cancer ferments. (However, it was also discovered that, although rarely,
cancer cells do use oxygen respiration; and, occasionally, some normal cells have fermenting mechanisms.)
For a short time, oxalic acid (which blocked
fermentation) was tried as a cancer remedy, but it
failed. Like regular chemotherapy, it was so toxic
that it injured regular cells as much as cancer cells.
With all this information in hand, Joseph Gold
went beyond either Warburg or Burk. He developed an enlarged theory:
A primary cause of death from cancer is the
weight loss and debilitation which occurs. The
medical name for this is cachexia. But why does
it occur? If it could somehow to interrupted, the
disease could be brought under control.
But what causes cachexia? Why is the cancer patient reduced to skin and bones while his
tumor grows vigorously? Orthodox medical
theory had no answer to this. Here was Golds
theory:
Cachexia is the result of cancers ability to
recycle its wastes. But it does this by overloading the body with the task of trying to discharge those wastes. The resultant energy drain
results in emaciation.
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Dr. Hajito has spent over 20 years administering mistletoe to cancer patients, with remarkable
success. Here is the mistletoe story:
European mistletoe (Viscum album) has
been used to treat sicknesses for as long as anyone can remember. About 2,000 years ago, Pliny
the Elder said mistletoe was a remedy for malignancies. It has been used ever since. Actually, the plant is unusual in that it lives on trees,
taking water and minerals from them, yet returning sugar to the host tree!
Dr. Hajito of the Lucas Clinic Laboratory of
Immunology in Arlesheim, Switzerland, has come
to the conclusion that mistletoe does two things
in the body at the same time: It inhibits tumor
growth while stimulating the immune system. In
support of his work, Hajito has written many reports in scientific journals.
A number of researchers and physicians
have worked with the substance, but generally
in the form of Iscador. This is the trade name
for the oldest and most widely used mistletoe
preparation. Manufactured by Weleda AG (a German and Swiss chemical company), Iscador is used
more in Europe than on any other continent. It is
used a lot in Britain.
The entire plant is ground up and made into
a watery extract. Next it is fermented with the
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Iscador is given in a series of 10 to 14 injections before surgery, at the rate of one dose a
day (normally given in the morning when body
temperature is rising). The purpose is to strengthen the immune system, prevent metastasis, and
promote better recovery. It is also used as a follow-up treatment after surgery or radiation treatment for several years, in gradually decreasing
dosages.
It is believed that Iscador could have serious side effects if taken in excess. But Hijito
and others have noted that it is nontoxic in the
dosages normally given.
Both the leaves and berries of the mistletoe
contain poisonous compounds (viscotoxins), so it
is urged that individuals not make their own preparations at home. It would be a good research
project to figure out how earlier peoples treated
themselves with the plant, when it is so poisonous.
Often considered poisonous. Unconfirmed
reports of deaths have been attributed to eating the berries.Stephen Foster, Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants, 296.
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That may have been one of the earliest positions on a microorganism-causation of cancer.
Back then, germs could refer either to bacteria
or viruses. The closer distinctions we use today,
were not commonplace then.
Throughout this brief historical overview, we
have noted that Rife, Naessens, Enderlain, Coley,
Stanislaw, Glover, Lincoln, Durovic, and Gregory
all believed that cancer was caused by a microorganism.
In 1907, James Ewing, M.D., medical director of Memorial Hospital in New York City, listed
38 different kinds of protozoa, molds, bacilli, and
spirochetes, which were possible causes of cancer. Some even thought that parasites might be
the cause.
But, by 1910, according to Michael Shimkin,
M.D., in a 1976 NCI publication, scientific consensus was for a noninfectious nature of cancer.
(M. Shimkin, Contrary to Nature, 176.)
Yet historical facts are not quite so neatly contained. Throughout most of the 20th century, as
in the centuries before, many experienced physicians and researchers believed that cancer was
caused by a germ of some kind.
As we found earlier in this historical review, in
the first part of the century William Coley searched
for a mixed bacterial toxin which could destroy
cancer germs.
Until it is settled beyond the shadow of a
doubt that cancer is not due to a microorganism, we believe that every effort should be made
to stimulate to the utmost cancer research along
these lines rather than to attempt to hinder or
to discredit it.William Coley, American Journal of Surgery, October 1926.
By the early 1950s, her ideas were gaining favor with many scientists, and she received grants
from a number of foundations to carry on her research. She did much basic work at this time. It
was decided that the organism in question was
part of the Actinomycetales order, a family of
germs (ibid.).
The famed researcher, Robert Koch (18431910) had laid down four postulates which must
be met in order to establish the microbial origin
of any disease. Livingston and her associates said
they had succeeded in achieving each one:
1. The organism must be present in every case
of the disease which is examined.
2. The organism can be cultivated outside the
host animal in an artificial medium.
3. Inoculation of this culture into a susceptible animal will produce the disease in it.
4. The germ can be obtained from the inoculated animal and cultivated once again.
By this time, in addition to her other work,
Livingston was caring for 20-30 cancer patients
daily at the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark. She
obtained blood from them and injected it into
guinea pigs. By doing this, the incidence of cancer
among guinea pigs could be increased from the
natural rate of 1 in 500,000 to 1 in 4. According
to Livingston, the cancer microbe crossed the
species line. This could mean, for example, that
eating cancerous meat could induce cancer in
the one eating it.
Livingston named this cancer-causing microbe
Progenitor cryptocides (meaning the hidden ancestral killer), and declared that animals could
catch it from man, and that man could catch it
from animalsespecially by eating the contami-
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physicians.
In 1972, one of her associates, Dr. Owen
Wheeler, asked her to treat him solely by immunization. He completely recovered and, when
Livingstons husband (Dr. A.M. Livingston) died,
she married Wheeler.
In 1970, working at the University of San Diego, she showed that the cancer microbe produced an antibiotic (actinomycin) as well as
toxic material which increased the frequency
of cancer in mice.
Using a dark-field microscope, she was able
to describe the entire life cycle of this complicated,
ever-changing germ. (It was at this time that she
named the microbe.)
That same year, Livingston made a remarkable discovery: Progenitor cryptocides was able
to produce a human hormone. Never before, had
a germ of any kind been known to manufacture a
human hormone! Further research into this particular one (human choriogonadotrophin; HCG)
revealed that it has long been known to be present
in greater amounts in cancer patients. HCG is a
human growth hormone!
(That recalls to mind the research of Dr.
Wachtel, who noted that injections of an extract of
the human anterior lobe of the pituitary, which
produces growth hormones, would significantly increase the size of cancer tissue.)
Oddly enough, HCG is present in human sperm
and is needed for growth from the very beginning
of human life.
Two years later, researchers at Princeton University confirmed that HCG could be made by a
bacteria (H. Cohen and A. Strampp, Bacterial
Synthesis of a Substance Similar to Huan Chorionic Gonadotrophin, Proceedings of the Society
for Experimental Biology and Medicines, July
1976).
In 1978, it was confirmed again, this time by
H.F. Acevedo of the W.H. Singer Memorial Research
Institute in Pittsburg, that Progenitor cryptocides
produced that human growth hormone. Acevedo
felt that a number of other bacteria in cancer patients also produced HCG as well. Commenting
on Livingstons findings, Acevedo wrote:
The impact of these findings in the fields of
oncology, bacteriology, epidemiology, genetics
and molecular biology is so great that a detailed
description will be beyond the scope of this communication . . It is apparent that his phenomenon exposes the need for a new approach to
the analysis as well as to our current concepts
of cancer.Hernan F. Acevedo, Cancer 41:121729, 1978.
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Fruits
Mangoes
Grapes
Avocados
Pears
Oranges, with the white underpeel and pulps
Apples, whole with the seeds
Strawberries
Fruit Blossoms and Leaves as Tea
Peach Flowers
Strawberry Leaves
Cherry Flowers
Apple Blossoms
Vegetables
Pea shoots
Lima Beans
Potatoes
Peas, Dwarf
Yams
Sweet Potatoes
Asparagus
Tomatoes
Onions
Spinach
Root Vegetables
All root vegetables, especially Carrots
Seeds and Nuts
Seeds and Nuts of all Kinds
Leafy vegetables
Mature Greens
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F. JOSEPH MONTAGNA, 1970s
Note to researchers: Double-blind tests should be conducted
on Montagnas herbal formula, in order to ascertain its possible
value. If his formula can actually inhibit cancer, it could save
lives at a low expense.
Working Summary: Montagna put together 22 herbs and
began treating disease with them. Apparently he had success,
for attempts were made to stop his work.
In the mid-1970s, F. Joseph Montagna of Portland, Oregon, developed an herbal formula which,
he claimed, produced about an 80% success
against cancer. But we have no information on how
long such remission generally lasted.
It would be well for medical researchers to
check out his claims and see if they are worth anything.
Here, in his own words, was Montagnas formula:
A. BASIC INGREDIENTS:
1. Chaparral leaves. Dissolves malignant
tumors.
2. Bloodroot. Purifies and cleanses bloodstream.
3. Red clover blossoms. Antidote to can-
Keep in mind that Montagna, like many others, remained with a single treatment; in this case
an herbal mixture. If broad changes were also
made in nutrition and living, much more could be
accomplished by his program. The need to cleanse
the body of the broken-down cancer tissue would
be crucial to pain relief and healing.
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GERHARD N. SCHRAUZER, Ph.D., 1976
Note to researchers: What is the exact nature of the means
whereby selenium protects a person against cancer? How can it
be better utilized by the medical profession in treating in situ
malignancies?
Working Summary: Notice that selenium is effective only
as a cancer preventive. It is an important nutrient.
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mor proliferation will rapidly increase. Therefore do not stop taking it!
An epidemiologist, Raymond Shamberger,
listed cancer rates in the states and major cities
of America. Then he listed them again, according
to the amount of selenium available in the diet.
The two matched inversely. The more selenium in
the diet, the lower the levels of cancer (Archives of Environmental Health, 31:231-35,
1976).
In another study, this one of W.C. Willet, the
serum selenium levels and risk of cancer, of over
10,000 men and women, were evaluated. Those
with the lowest selenium levels had twice the risk
of developing cancer (Lancet, 2(8342):130-33,
1983).
Similar research of the 24 regions of China
were done, with approximately the same results.
It should be noted here that glutathione peroxidase is one of the most important antioxidant enzymes in our immune system. This enzyme protects the body against the destructive
effects of hydroxyl free radicals,yet glutathione peroxidase is selenium dependent. If
there is a lack of that vital trace mineral in the
tissues, this crucial enzyme will not be produced.
This enzyme is also an important anti-cancer factor.
It should also be mentioned that selenium and
selenium-containing compounds tend to bind
with heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium,
etc.) and carry them out of the body. Research
studies reveal that exposure to even low levels of
those metals can seriously deplete selenium and
eliminate its anti-cancer power.
What would be the proper dosage amounts
for selenium?
One study in China reported that a daily dose
of 500 mcg of selenium over a period of several
years is safe for healthy adults. Higher dosages
for normal people could be toxic, but are necessary in the treatment of cancer.
Schrauzer reported that dosages of 2,000 to
5,000 mcg per day will produce toxic symptoms
after several months. Yet, since these symptoms
(nausea, weakness, and discoloration of the fingernails) are hardly ever overlooked, no instances
of fatalities resulting from excess selenium have
ever been reported.
Robert C. Donaldson was a St. Louis oncologist who decided to carry out research into the
dosage amounts for selenium. In doing so, he made
an important discovery: In most of his patients,
the giving of normal doses of selenium (the
amount healthy people should take as maintenance doses) did not produce much of an in-
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for over 40 years, discovered that hydrogen peroxide was a safe, effective, antimicorbial, antiviral agent. Without his discovery, we might not
know of this remedy today (although the substance
had been used to treat infections back in the
1920s).
Unfortunately, Rosenow died, in 1966, before
his discovery could be published. But he had explained it to a priest, named Wilhelm, who was a
chemistry teacher. Wilhelm determined to promote
hydrogen peroxide. Throughout the 1970s, he tried
to get pharmaceutical companies to do research
on it, but the substance was a common, inexpensive item which could not be patentedand thus
had no commercial value to them.
Then, in the winter of 1982, he met Walter
(Wally) Grotz. Following an earlier auto accident,
Wally had developed a severe, crippling, and very
painful arthritis. He despaired of life. Then his wife
encouraged him to take a warm Caribbean cruise,
in the hope that it might help.
On the ship, he met Wilhelm, who urged him
to take hydrogen peroxide for his arthritis. Although he only took small amounts, within a few
months his arthritis was gone. Immediately, Grotz
set to work; he must convince the world that hydrogen peroxide was the great answer to mankinds
problems.
What is hydrogen peroxide? It is a very
simple compound, with the chemical formula
H2O2. All it consists of is a molecule of water,
plus an added atom of oxygen. It is found
throughout nature, in plants and animals.
Every cell in your body makes it. Every plant
cell makes it also. When ozone in the sky mixes
with moisture in the air, it forms hydrogen peroxide, which comes down in rain or snow. It is
in fresh fruits and vegetables. Plants take it in
with the rainwater they absorb; they also make
it via photosynthesis. It is rich in mothers
milkand especially so in colostrum (the first
milk secreted after birth).
The generation of H2O2 in cellular processes
seems to be purposeful, and H2O2 cannot be
dismissed as a mere undesirable by-product . .
The capacity for generation of H2O2 is not found
to be widespread in a variety of organisms and
in the organelles of the cells.T.H. Oliver and
B.C. Cantab, Lancet, 1:432-33, 1920.
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markable adjunct to other cancer treatments, but is only available at a few alternate cancer clinics.
You will recall earlier mention of J.H. Lawrence, Ph.D., a British scientist during World War
II, who claimed that something in urine seemed to
have anti-tumor activity in animals.
Then there was Dr. Danopoulos, who, in the
1950s, discovered that purified urea could help
reduce cancer masses.
Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D., expanded
on this theory of urine derivatives; and, in the
1980s, he theorized that certain substances could
inhibit the growth of tumor cells, without disturbing normal cells. After isolating them from
human urine, he is said to have later synthesized these compounds in the laboratory.
A graduate of the Lublin Medical Academy in
Poland, his treatment is based on the theory
that the body has a parallel biochemical defense
system independent of the immune system. He
calls it the biochemical defense system (BDS),
and says it is completely different than in the
immune system.
It is a reprogramming of defective cells. Its
no longer killing of the cells, but changing the
program inside the defective cell, which means
that the cell will begin functioning normally.
Stanislaw Burzynski, Antineoplastons, Lecture delivered at World Foundation Research
Congress, October 7, 1990.
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Dr. Asai synthesized Germanium-132 (Ge132) in Japan in 1967, but it was not until the
1980s that it was extensively researched and used.
While searching for better ways to mine and use
coal, he discovered fossilized plants in the coal
deposits. Analyzing them, he found substantial
amounts of germanium.
Having heard something about Russian research into its remarkable healing properties, Asai
decided, when he retired in 1969, to spend the
rest of his life researching into this trace mineral.
He found that it was true that the substance
had unusual powers, yet it cost too much to extract from natural plant sources, in the quantities
needed to treat cancer. So Asai developed a method
for producing an organic germanium-132, which
was chemically identical to the form extracted from
plants. The chemical name for this substance is
bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide.
It is of special interest that many of the most
important healing herbs contain significant
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and breast.
Obtaining omega-3 in your diet inhibits
arachidonic acid, provides the needed nutritional help, and offsets the disadvantages of an
overbalance of omega-6.
Do you want to solve the lack of omega-3 lack
in your life? This chart will tell you how to do so:
OMEGA-3
OMEGA-6
Almond
0
26
Avocado
0
10
Canola
10
24
Corn
0
60
Olive
0
8
Peanut
0
30
Safflower
0
79
Sesame
0
41
Soy
8
50
Sunflower
0
69
Flaxseed
58-60
18-20
EPA and DHA are two factors in omega-3, but
become rancid more quickly than the omega-3 in
flaxseed. EPA and DHA are found in fish oils.
Udo Erasmus, author of Fats and Oils, declares that the only safe form of omega-3 is flaxseed. Erasmus says it is impossible to produce
safe (non-rancid) nutritional supplements of EPA
and DHA. Flaxseed oil, which is less saturated than
EPA and DHA, is all we have available to usyet it
is excellent.
Heat, light, and oxygen will all rapidly cause
flaxseed oil to become rancid. Here is how to
use it: Purchase it only in black, opaque plastic
bottles, and only from a health-food store which
keeps it refrigerated. Take it home and keep it
home; and pour some into a smaller, clean jar
(such as a pint Kerr jar), and place that in the
refrigerator. Put the larger container in the freezer.
Never use it in cooking or baking. When you
are ready to use it at mealtime, take the small jar
from the refrigerator and pour a little on your food
or, better, into a spoon and put it into your mouth
along with some food. Then return the jar to the
refrigerator. Flaxseed oil is somewhat thick, but
has a remarkably nutty, nice flavor.
Taking basic antioxidants with that meal (vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and selenium)
will help protect the body against internal lipid
peroxidation.
There are no side effects, other than possible rancidity effects, which are slight.
Here is dosage information:
For normal maintenance, take 1 or 2 tablespoons of flaxseed oil each day at mealtime.
For cancer therapy, take 1 tablespoon of flaxseed oil, twice daily at mealtime. For an outpatient maintenance dose, 1 tablespoon daily at the
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About one-fifth of the air you breathe is oxygen in its two-atom form (O2). Ozone (O3) contains
three oxygen atoms and is a less stable form. Because of the added oxygen molecule, it more
quickly enters into reactions in the body to oxidize other chemicals. During this process, the extra oxygen molecule breaks away, leaving a normal O2 molecule. This increases the oxygen content of the blood or tissues. For this reason, ozone
therapy involves both oxygenation therapy and oxidation therapy.
Careful laboratory research by Dr. F. Sweet and
his associates has shone that human lung, breast,
and uterine cancer cells are inhibited by ozone
(F. Sweet, M. Ka, and S. Lee, Ozone Selectively
Inhibits Growth of Cancer Cells, Science, 2009
(72) 931, 1990). Yet ozone therapy, as an alternative remedy for cancer, is still in its formative
stages. We should not place reliance on it yet.
Jonathan Wright, M.D., of Kent, Washington,
finds ozone very effective against a number of diseases, when combined with dietary changes and
high doses of intravenous ascorbate (a form of vitamin C). He says that vitamin C must be given
with any oxidative therapy, in order to prevent
uncontrolled oxidation which is detrimental to
the body.
It should be noted that ozone therapy is not
used in the treatment of cancer, as much as it
is used for other diseased conditions (such as
inflammatory infections, arterial circulatory problems, allergic diseases, arthritis, hepatitis, herpes
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OTHER RESEARCH
Note to researchers: Each of these alternative remedial
agents should be carefully investigated in both laboratory and
field test settings.
In addition to other alternative cancer research and claims, a number of other therapies have also appeared.
A crucial pattern, frequently observed in some,
is that claims are made that success will be obtained by taking one substance (taxol, etc.) or a
narrowed diet (macrobiotics, etc.). But such a program cannot provide the best likelihood of success.
Actually, programs which require a wide
change from an unhealthful to more healthful diet
and way of lifeproduce the most favorable results. Why gamble on something narrowed, when
you can have something broader?
Maitakethis is a mushroom from the Orient, which contains a substance that prevents carcinogenesis and inhibits the growth of cancerous
tumors. It also helps the body adapt to the stress
of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.
Shiitake and reishi mushrooms have valuable immune-boosting and anti-tumor properties. It is of
interest that the Gerson Institute, and certain other
cancer therapists, have said not to eat fungus if
you have cancer; this is what mushrooms are.
MayappleOne example was the mayapple
(Podophyllum peltatum). The Penobscot Indians
long used this plant as a folk remedy for cancer. It
was even mentioned in an 1849 medical book. But
was then forgotten for over a century.
In more recent decades, NCIs Jonathan
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alternative remedial facilities in the world, provides this supplement formula for cancer patients.
It would probably work equally well for those intent on avoiding cancer to begin with:
The dosages of nutritional supplements used
in most of the alternative cancer therapies are
much higher than the RDA levels. However, as
mentioned above, these levels of supplementation
rarely produce harmful side effects.
There is continuing controversy over dosage
levels of nutritional supplements; and health professionals involved with alternative therapies recommend different levels, according to their approach. The following are ranges of nutritional
supplementation that I feel confident in recommending to adult cancer patients I have worked
with:
Vitamin C1,00 to 2,000 mg with each meal.
Vitamin E400 IU twice daily.
Beta-carotene25,000 to 50,000 IU with
each meal.
Selenium100 mcg at each meal.
Organic germanium100 to 300 mg daily.
Omega-3 fatty acid (flaxseed oil)1 to 2 tablespoons daily.Ross Pelton, Ph.D., and Lee
Overholser, Ph.D., Alternatives in Cancer
Therapy, 109-110 (1994).
HYPERTHERMIA (HEAT THERAPY)
Note to researchers: Hyperthermia treatments should be
given to cancer patients in a testing situation. There are definite
cases of recoveries from this method, which always requires
monitoring by a skilled attendant.
In his book, Back to Eden, Jethro Kloss mentions a man who had been bitten by a mad dog.
Deciding to end it all, the man took an extremely
hot steam bath. But, instead of dying, the rabies
was entirely destroyed. Whether or not the story
is accurate, it points up a truth.
You will recall Coleys toxins, consisting of dangerous strep bacteria (erysipelas; streptococcus
pyogenes), which he used to produce a fever which
burned out the malignancy.
Then there was Robert Koch, who at first used
strep germs, and later tissue thrombin, to accomplish the task more efficiently and safely.
We have also noted that the Gerson Institute
has discovered that laetrile raises the temperature
around the tumor 4-5o F. That small amount is a
great help in weakening the cancer cells.
It now known that cancer cells cannot take as
much heat as normal cells can.
It is on this basis that hyperthermia (also called
fever treatments) are given.
Cancer cells are more vulnerable to heat than
Current medical literature contains many references to the use of hyperthermia as an adjunct
cancer treatment.
Hyperthermia modifies cell membranes in
such a way as to protect healthy cells and make
tumor cells more susceptible to other means of
destroying them, such as herbs, etc.
Hyperthermia heats cancer cells, thus weakening them, since malignant cells do not tolerate
elevated temperatures as well as normal cells.
Hyperthermia stimulates the immune system. White cell counts drop immediately following treatment, but rise within a few hours. Not
only do the number of white cells increase, but
their ability to destroy target cells appears to increase as well.
As a result of whole body hyperthermia, there
is a marked increase in the production of
interleukin-1. This is a compound produced by
the body in response to infection, inflammation,
or other immunologic challenges.
Increased body temperature plays a positive
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role in the healing process of the body. The metabolic rate is increased 100% for every 10 degrees
centigrade rise in temperature.
In this book, we will pay more detailed attention to hyperthermia procedure than to any
other single item, since it may be done at home
yet can be dangerous if not done properly. Consult your physician!
A person using this therapy must have a
helper and follow the instructions, below, carefully! If you practice hyperthermia at home, you
should consult your physician. Douglass Lewis,
N.D., cautions patients to be careful to monitor
their temperature and not let it go above 102o
F., measured orally.
Here, briefly, is the hyperthermia formula,
as used at the Gerson Clinicand taught to helpers to use on patients after they return home:
HYPERTHERMIA FORMULA
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ADDITIONAL AREAS
FOR EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
Note to researchers: Here are a number of additional topics requiring additional cancer research.
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23:25.
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing
which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and
unto thy house.Deuteronomy 26:11.
A little that a righteous man hath, is better
than the riches of many wicked.Psalm 37:16.
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and
He addeth no sorrow with it.Proverbs 10:22.
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than
great treasure and trouble therewith.Proverbs
15:16.
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Laetrile Therapy
Part Three
Laetrile Therapy
Ancient Chinese substances, of the family in
which laetrile is found, were used medically. Emperor Shen Nung listed kernel preparations as being useful against tumors.
Herbert Summa has written that the Egyptians,
in the time of the pharaohs, also used those seeds
for special purposes.
The Romans had a medicinal preparation
called agua amygdalarum amarum (bitter almond water). It was used as a medicine for centuries. The word amygdalin comes from the
Greek amygdale. Celsus, Scribonius Largus,
Galen, Pliny the Elder, Marcellus Empiricus, and
Avicenna all used preparations containing amygdalin to treat tumors. The same is true of the medieval pharmacopoeia (Bruce Halstead, M.D.,
Amygdalin Therapy, 1977).
Laetrile is as commonplace in plants as is glucose; you eat it all the time. The substance exists
in various amounts in at least 1,200 foodstuffs.
But one of the richest sources is apricot seeds (usually called apricot pits or kernels). Another
source are bitter almonds. The seeds contain
amygdalin and prunasin, which are the two betacyanogenetic glucosides (BCG) of special medical interest. These BCGs are also called nitrilosides, although sometimes the word is applied
only to amygdalin.
These are enzymes, and amygdalin is also a
vitamin; therefore it has been given the name, Vitamin B17. The other name for this, laetrile, comes
from the scientific description of the chemical nature of this substance: LAEvo-mandeloniTRILE.
But, for the technically minded, the name laetrile is derived from a compound which is a levo
(left-moving)-mandelopitrile-betaglucouronoside.
Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., who coined the terms,
laetrile, nitriloside, and vitamin B17, defines the
nitilosides as water-soluble, essentially nontoxic,
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worked closely with his father in his research work.
In 1918, Krebs, Sr., discovered an antibiotic
mold which was successful in respiratory diseases.
But, upon learning that the AMA did not like what
he had done (it was 10 years before Alexander
Flemings discovery of penicillin), he withdrew
from membership in the AMA and never returned.
During the Prohibition in the 1920s, Krebs,
Sr., accepted some business, analyzing whiskey
smuggled on ships into San Francisco. The smugglers were worried that it might contain wood alcohol (isopropyl alcohol), which is deadly. So Krebs
accepted the job of analyzing it, to be sure it was
grain alcohol (ethyl alcohol).
This got him interested in what kind of enzyme in the wooden barrels caused certain taste
changes in the liquor. He found that mold on the
barrel produced enzymes which affected the taste.
Released into alcohol, they worked on the raw
whiskey. The aging process took a long time, because only a small amount of mold was released
at a time.
Dr. Charles Gurchot, a pharmacologist who
worked with Krebs, Sr., for years in the pursuit of
the enzymatic control of cancer, later recalled,
This was the cataclysmic event. Dr. Krebs told
me, When I saw that enzyme doing all that digesting, it occurred to me it could be useful in cancer.
This ideathat some type of enzyme might
be able to digest cancer cellsbecome something of an obsession. In the early 1920s, Krebs,
Sr., started searching for rats with cancers. Finding them, he would inject them with the enzyme
and see what happened. Sometimes the tumor disappeared. Krebs, Sr., was sure he was on to something.
But then his initial batch of enzymes ran out,
and subsequent batches were not effective in eliminating tumors. So Krebs, Sr., made another crucial decisionwhich was a glorious mistake! He
wanted to find a source of oak enzyme, and he
thought to himself, the oak belongs to the rose
family, so I need to obtain the extract of a plant in
that family.
Now, the oak does not belong to the rose family; Krebs was a better chemist than botanist. But,
just about that time, it turned out that the Washoe
Indian girl who he had earlier adopted married a
young, wealthy man from the Hawaiian Islands.
They bought an apricot orchard, across the Bay
in Oakland.
Now Krebs, Sr., had a source of a member of
the rose family (apricots, peaches, almonds, etc.,
are in that family). His error had led him to the
richest source of amygdalin (laetrile) in the Western world. Yet, at this time, he knew nothing about
it.
So Krebs, Sr., made an extract from the apricot kernelsand found it worked even better
than ever in eliminating cancer in rats.
At that time, the process (which he greatly improved later) consisted of removing the oil from
the seeds, grinding them up in water, filtering the
mixture, precipitating the filtrate with alcohol, drying the precipitate, redissolving it, then injecting
it.
Krebs, Sr., was certain that he was extracting
enzyme substances from the apricot pit. Among
these substances, he tentatively identified emulsin,
amygdalase, prunase, pectinase, and others. At
the time, he thought emulsin was the active ingredient.
By this time, he was purchasing mice with specially inbred tendencies to cancer. Most of the time,
the mice were healed, but sometimes they suddenly died. Krebs did not yet realize what was causing the mice to suddenly die and how to solve the
problem. It was not until later that, in solving this,
he was able to better purify the extract.
In 1928 or 1929, Krebs gave the injections to
humansand found a consistent pattern of pain
reduction and other good signs. But he kept trying to devise a way to produce a purer extract.
Gurchot later recalled that, of the first 25 or
so patients, there were no toxic effects, other than
occasional complaints of feeling chilly or crawling of ants in the tumor area. In nearly all cases,
the tumor either was reduced or completely disappeared.
At about the same time, several other physicians started working with him, and injecting the
substance in their San Francisco area clinics.
Then one day, without telling Krebs, Sr.,
Gurchot prepared a batch of extract with all the
enzymes killed. When Krebs, Sir., said it worked
fine, Gurchot told him all the enzymes were dead.
Immediately, Krebs knew that the presence of live
enzymes was not a factor.
The team worked into the 1940s before they
figured out the nature of the active ingredient.
At this point we will jump ahead to the late
1930s. By that time, there were several physicians
throughout the world using Krebs method, including Dr. James Ewing, in New York City.
All the while, young Ernst Krebs, Jr., had been
growing up, helping in the lab, cleaning up, and
learning how to do research work. Obtaining a
bachelors degree in bacteriology at the University
of Illinois, he went on to obtain a masters in pharmacology, and a doctorate in anatomy.
In 1938, young Krebs found John Beards
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destroy cancer, did not prove to be correct. Second, it does not appear that Beards theory of the
trophoblast, although evidence indicates it to be
true, was needed to bring the laetrile through to a
useful method of treatment. The only factors in
common seemed to be that both were keyed to
enzymes as being involved in the treatment of cancer. But beta glycosidases and rhodanese are quite
different than Beards pancreatic enzyme.
In 1977, the publishers of one of the most
popular dictionaries in the world contacted the
McNaughton Foundation, and asked them to define the meaning of the word, laetrile. Here is
the definition they provided:
Laetrile(Lay-eh-tril)
Basic Ingredients: An organic aglycone or
non-sugar protein combined with a cyanide
group and carbohydrate in glycosidic linkage
to form a single tightly bound molecule.
Chemical formula: Since laetrile is a collective name for a group of chemically related
compounds, the generic name for which is
nitriloside, it cannot be given a specific chemical formula. A well-known analogy is digitalis
which represents a general group of chemically
related compounds to which no specific formula
can be assigned.
Etymology: Originally used as a shortened
term for a laevo-rotatory glycuronic nitrile. Its
meaning has been expanded to represent a
shortened term for any laevo-rotatory glucosidic or glucuronic chemical compound containing an aglycone and a tightly bound (CN)
grouping.McNaughton Foundation.
That definition will help the medical researchers who use this present book. It is questionable
if it helped the poor folk who were trying to revise
their dictionary.
The next step for Krebs, Jr., was to further
refine the extract until what it amounted to was
purified amygdalin. Only then could the cyanide
remain safely bound in its compound until it
reached the hydrolytic enzymes, which would
break it apart at the cancer sites.
The process for extracting the laetrile from
the apricot pits is not a secret. Here is the
formula:
The first step in the present production,
which is from natural materials, is to grind the
apricot seed or kernel; then it is defatted with a
cold solvent, such as ether, hexachlorine, or
other such substance, and the solvent is driven
from the remaining ground pulp, and a completely fat free powder which is partially soluble
in water is left.
The laetrile (amygdalin) in this powder as
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well as the sugars are also soluble in alcohol,
and laetrile happens to be selectively soluble in
boiling alcohol (about 40 times greater than cold
alcohol). The fat free powder is then added to
boiling alcohol where laetrile is extracted from
the powder and then the materials are filtered.
The filtrate that remains is put in a freezing
cabinet, or refrigerator or cold room, where the
temperature is brought down to about 10 degrees Centigrade. The crystals of laetrile precipitate or fall to the bottom of the flask because in cold alcohol the material is insoluble.
Now these crystals are recovered and the
process of recrystallization is repeated a number of times, depending on whether the material is to be used for oral purposes or for injection.
When the chemicals are dried the first time,
they have a chemical purity of about 99.7 or
99.8 percent pure. For oral purposes, it is repeated twice.Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., address
to the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, 1974.
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followed; yet sometimes it was prolonged far beyond the expected time.
By 1952, Krebs, Sr.s, two sons, Ernst T. Krebs,
Jr., Ph.D., and Byron Krebs, M.D., had greatly improved the processing of laetrile. The extract was
being prepared better, and the theory clearly established.
Within a couple years, physicians in various
parts of the United States, England, Belgium, Italy,
the Philippines, and Japan were giving laetrile. It
was soon discovered that dosages up to 400 mg
could be given with no harmful effects, and that
intravenous injections accomplished far more
than intramuscular ones.
Beginning in November 1952, the laetrile treatment battles began, initially with the California
Cancer Commission and later with various federal agencies.
Laetrile is one of the naturally occurring substances that cannot be patented, making it a
true orphan drug. No drug company is interested in committing money to research laetriles
potential.R. Pelton and L. Overholser, Alternatives in Cancer Therapy, 160.
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and far freer from the horrible pains accompanying the orthodox procedures.
(A related fact was that those patients who
had earlier received chemotherapy, radiation,
or surgerywere far less likely to respond well
to laetrile. Their bodies had been too greatly
weakened.)
Following massive intravenous laetrile injections, patients were sent home with laetrile tablets and strict orders to remain on them for the
remainder of their lives.
It is an extremely important fact, which to
their sorrow many recovered cancer patients
have learned, too late,is that when a person
contracts cancer, and recovery appears to be
made;if he thereafter relaxes his efforts to eat
and live carefully, the cancer will very often return and renewed treatments will not be effective in remitting the cancer, as had occurred
earlier! This is a solemn fact to be kept in
mind.
Dr. Dean Burk, one of the founders of the National Cancer Institute, was world famous for his
research work and writings, and served for many
years as head of its cytology department. He was
also famous for being a maverick within the Cancer Establishment. He disliked bureaucracy, red
tape, professional fudging, and was quite blunt in
speaking out when he ran into such problems.
Challenged by Andrew McNaughton (a wealthy
individual who had befriended the laetrile cause)
to test laetrile, Burk did so. Among the tests Burk
conducted was this one: He put a quantity of live
cancer cells into a Warburk flask with laetrile
and the enzyme, beta glucosidase. He then
stained the cancer cells with tryptan blue and
placed them under a microscope where, he reported to McNaughton, he could see the cancer cells dying off like flies.
As a result, Burk became a staunch defender
of laetrile. (1) It was Dean Burk who, digging into
records, discovered that although the FDA banned
bitter almonds in this country, the agencys own
publications listed extracts of bitter almonds as
an approved substance for general use.
(2) It was Burk who also established that laetrile, as vitamin B17, was a valid vitamin and therefore not subject to the FDA regulations on new
drugs.
(3) Burk also determined that laetrile could
be taken orally. This research was later confirmed
by Dr. Nieper in Germany. This discovery greatly
helped patients keep on a maintenance dosage at
home.
In February 1971, state agents arrested Krebs,
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Jr., along with four others, on a variety of state
health-law violations.
On September 1, 1971, the FDA announced
that its blue-ribbon panel had found no acceptable evidence of therapeutic effect to justify clinical trials of laetrile. It appeared that laetrile, like
all its forerunner alternative therapies, was doomed
to extinction in America.
John A. Richardson, M.D., lived and practiced
medicine in Albany, California, just across the Bay
from San Francisco. In the 1960s, he contacted
Dr. Krebs, Jr.; and, after many talks with him, he
began giving laetrile to his terminal cancer patients.
Success brought many more cancer patients.
I was totally unprepared for my first visit to
the Richardson Clinic. As a nurse, I had spent
considerable time on cancer wards and I knew
what to expect: the awful odor of decaying flesh
and the sallow faces of forlorn patients who have
been condemned to a sub-human existence as
they await their inevitable fate.
No one likes to be in the presence of death
and, because there is so little that orthodox
medicine can do other than mask the pain with
mind-dulling drugs, the doctor and nurse often avoid the terminal cancer patient as much
as is ethically acceptable. Examinations are
brief. Conversation is kept to a minimum.
Where possible, the patient is assigned to staff
subordinates. Cancer wards and cancer clinics
all are pretty much the same: impersonal,
smelly, and depressing.
It was to my amazement, therefore, to discover that the Richardson Clinic did not fit this
morbid pattern. The first thing that struck me
was that the patients awaiting treatment were
engaged in animated conversation. They were
talking, not only about their illness but about
their children and grandchildren, about the
cross-country sightseeing trip they were planning just as soon as they felt strong enough,
and of their ultimate return to work. These
people were not preoccupied with death; they
were planning for life!
Then I noticed the attitude of the staff. They
actually enjoyed being with the patients and
spent considerable time with each. They derived
genuine satisfaction from learning of the improvement over the previous visit. Their jokes
with the patients were not those strained little
condescending attempts to be cheerful in the
face of tragedy but rather the genuine outbursts
of people who were finding fun in their work.
And, finally, I suddenly became aware that
the air was completely free from the fetid smell
associated with growing cancer.
A middle-aged man stepped from the clinic
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The court order, allowing Americans to bring
laetrile into the U.S. and even to have it mailed
to them, was signed by Judge Luther Bohanon
on April 8, 1977.
Lawyers for the FDA quickly asked Judge
Bohanon to amend his court order, so that it would
stipulate that American cancer patients could obtain laetrile only upon affidavits signed by their
doctors saying that they were only a few weeks or
a few months away from death. Judge Bohanon
rejected the appeal.
The FDA then announced that it would continue to oppose laetrile regardless of what happened in its favor in the courts of the land or the
state legislatures of the country.
By the end of 1977, more than a dozen state
legislatures had legalized, within their borders,
the administration and prescription of laetrile
by physicians to their patients and the right of
others to obtain it by mail from places selling
it, so they could take it at home.
But certain federal agencies were unrelenting.
Laetrile had become the hottest issue in terms of
states rights since the Civil Warfor threats had
been made to send in federal agents to shut down
laetrile production facilities and arrest anyone trafficking in laetrile in any way whatsoever.
The question becomes: If a state legislature
cannot determine the laws applicable within its
own borders, then what was the sense of having
a state legislature in the first place?
Then in November 1977, the California Court
of Appeals reversed the decision of a lower
court, in the conviction of four people charged
with conspiracy to sell laetrile and one physician (James Privatera) who was charged with
using the substance in the treatment of his cancer patients.
Next, in 1978, a federal court ruled that laetrile (amygdalin) is exempt from the new drug
requirements of the FDA; and that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and his
subordinates in the Food and Drug Administration are hereby permanently enjoined and restrained from interfering with the use of laetrile
(amygdalin) for the care or treatment of cancer
by a person who is, or believes he is, suffering
from the disease.
The same order also prohibited interference
with the importation and introduction into interstate commerce of laetrile on the basis of
any alleged new drug status. The HEW and
FDA were, finally, prohibited from interfering
with any licensed medical practitioner in administering laetrile (amygdalin) in the care or
treatment of his cancer patients.
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An FDA appeal, to delay enforcement of this
ruling until the case could be heard by the 10th
Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, was denied on
December 24, 1978.
By the end of the 1970s, some 17 states
had legalized the use of laetrile. A number of
other states were considering the matter.
By 1978, it was estimated that 50,000-100,000
cancer patients were taking over 1 million grams
of laetrile a month (Charles Moertel, A Trial of
laetrile Now, editorial, New England Journal of
Medicine, January 26, 1978).
In June 1979, the Supreme Court handed
down its decision. Prior to that decision, cancer patients were able to receive laetrile legally
from their physicians under an affidavit system
set up by federal circuit judge, Luther Bohanon.
The main practical effect of the decision, by
the high court, was to remand the case to the
Circuit Court of Appeals for review. Thus, the
affidavit system still remained in effect.
As result of all the ongoing legal activity, physicians, researchers, and common citizens were
able to purchase, use, and ship laetrile. In addition to the two clinics in Tijuana, Mexico, which
treated cancer with laetrile (the Contreras Clinic
and Clinica Cydel), there are two laetrile processing plants which purify and shipped out the substances to those desiring it.
Between the 1970s and the mid-1990s, 70,000
people had used laetrile to treat cancer.
At the present time, about 21 states allow
the use of laetrile in cancer treatment while
other states have revoked medical licenses for
doing so.
The McNaughton Foundation has published
a Physicians Handbook of Vitamin B 17 Therapy, which summarizes the various methods
of administering laetrile. Here they are:
Laetrile is available in tablet form, for
maintenance therapy.
Laetrile solutions have been used as nighttime retention enemas, and have been instilled
directly into the intestines through an already
existing colostomy.
Gauze-soaked solutions of laetrile (or a
water-soluble salve) have been placed on open
skin lesions.
Injections are put directly into the tumors!
The tumor wall should not be penetrated. Instead, the injections are placed into the artery
above the tumor site. This provides maximum
concentration of laetrile in the tumor. Intra-arterial injections should only be done in a hospital setting by qualified personnel!
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A table listing various tumor sites and the suggested arterial routes of administration is given in
the book.
Here is information on the book:
McNaughton Foundation, Physicians Handbook of Vitamin B17 Therapy, Sausalito, Calif:
Science Press International, 1975.
Summarizing all the research and clinical
treatment, it appears that laetrile is more effective with early-stage cancers than with terminally ill patients, although it will quickly reduce pain in all of them. It is most effective
when used with other factors, especially nutritional ones.
Laetrile and Shark CatilageHospital Earnesto
Contreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19,
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-801850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795
(Rest of U.S.A.)
Laetrile: Richardson ClinicJohn A.
Richardson, M.D., clinic in Albany, California
Laetrile: Contreras ClinicHospital Earnesto
Contreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19,
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-801850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795
(Rest of U.S.A.)
Laetrile: Navarro ClinicManuel D. Navarro,
M.D., 3553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace
Santa Mesa, Manila 2806 Philippines
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SUPPLEMENT LAETRILE DIETS
LAETRILE FOODS
If an individual cannot easily purchase apricot kernels at his health-food store or laetrile
tablets by mail, there are other foodstuffs which
also contain laetrile (vitamin B17).
The following list will provide you with the
primary foods which have laetrile and the approximate amount each has. The range is as follows:
High - 500 mg nitriloside per 100 grams of
food. (Those which are high are in bold type.)
Medium - Above 100 mg per 100 grams of food.
Low - Below 100 mg per 100 grams of food.
FRUITS WHICH ARE HIGHWild blackberry,
choke cherry, wild crabapple, Swedish (lignon)
cranberry.
FRUITS WHICH ARE MEDIUM TO HIGHElderberry.
FRUITS WHICH ARE MEDIUMBoysenberry,
currant, gooseberry, huckleberry, loganberry, mulberry, quince, raspberry.
FRUITS WHICH ARE LOWDomestic blackberry, market cranberry.
SEEDS WHICH ARE HIGHApple seed, apricot seed, cherry seed, nectarine seed, peach
seed, pear seed, plum seed, prune seed.
SEEDS WHICH ARE MEDIUMSquash seed.
BEANS WHICH ARE HIGHFava.
BEANS WHICH ARE MEDIUM TO HIGHMung
beans.
BEANS WHICH ARE MEDIUMLentils, Burma
Lima beans.
BEANS WHICH ARE LOW TO MEDIUMBlackeyed peas, garbanzos, kidney beans.
BEANS WHICH ARE LOWBlack beans, green
peas, U.S. lima beans, shell peas.
TUBERS WHICH ARE HIGHCassava.
TUBERS WHICH ARE LOWSweet potato, yams.
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NUTS WHICH ARE HIGH (raw only)Bitter al-
mond.
adamia.
NUTS WHICH ARE LOW (raw)Cashew.
SPOUTS WHICH ARE MEDIUMAlfalfa, bamboo,
Dr. John Richardson has learned that the administration of laetrile alone is not adequate to
keep cancer from returning soon. Here is the diet
which, over a period of years, he gradually worked
out. It is routinely prescribed at the Richardson
Clinic for all his cancer patients.
Here is the diet and laetrile therapy prescribed by Dr. Richardson:
1. THE DIETPrincipally fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and grains. All animal protein, including dairy products, is excluded.
2. TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, and COFFEE are
not to be used.
3. LAETRILE (Vitamin B17) INJECTIONS
First month: I.V. injections, 6-9 gms or more;
1 per day for 20 days.
Second month: I.V. or I.M. injections, 3 gms;
3 per week for 4 weeks.
Third month: I.V. or I.M. injections, 3 gms;
2 per week for 4 weeks.
Fourth to Eighteenth Month: I.V. or I.M. injections, 3 gms; 1 per week for one to one and a
half years or longer.
4. LAETRILE (Vitamin B17) TABLETSOne
to four 500 mg. tablets are taken on the days
the patient is not receiving an injection of laetrile. Two tablets per day is the usual dosage
during the first year. Most patients will continue
taking tablets for the rest of their lives. Some
will use 100 mg tablets and supplement with
apricot kernels. The kernel must be taken at a
different time during the day than laetrile tablets.
5. PANCREATIC ENZYME TABLETSTwo
to four tablets, four times daily.
6. VITAMIN B15 (PANGAMIC ACID)50 mg,
three times daily.
7. VITAMIN C750 mg to 2,000 mg daily.
8. AMINO ACID TABLETS (Ag/Pro) Three
to nine tablets daily, to compensate for reduced
intake of animal protein.
9. CHELATED MINERALSDosage depends upon the type and extent of deficiency
revealed by hair analysis.
10. THERAPEUTIC VITAMINS AND MINER-
Enzymes are usually added to the regimen, following the theory of Krebs, Jr. (1970), and Beard
(1911), that the pancreatic enzymes (trypsin and
Chymotrypsin) are intrinsic anti-cancer factors.
To free these enzymes to kill cancer cells, laetrilists
advise their patients to eat only small amounts of
animal protein or, better yet, none at all. They advise them to eat large amounts of fresh fruits and
vegetables.
THE KOWAN DIET
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Dr. Kowans recommendations, above, are excellent. You will find it of interest to compare it
with the diet prescribed by Dr. Contreras:
THE CONTRERAS DIET
The laetrile diet of Ernesto Contreras also forbids such items as alcohol, coffee, soft drinks,
white bread, ice cream, butter, canned and prepared foods while encouraging the use of health
foods such as whole grains, herb teas, and honey.
Here, in detail, is the Contreras diet, which
he requires of each cancer patient. After a relatively short time at the Contreras Clinic in
Tijuana, they return home to continue on laetrile and the following dietary program:
BeveragesChamomile tea, clear tea, mint
tea. Forbidden: alcohol, cocoa, coffee, milk, soft
drinks.
BreadRye bread, soya bread, whole-wheat
or bran muffins, whole-wheat bread. Forbidden:
all white bread.
CerealsBuckwheat, cornmeal, cracked
wheat, millet, oatmeal, sesame, fine ground grits.
Forbidden: all other. Refined and bleached flour.
CheeseCottage cheese only in limited quan-
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white sugar.
VegetablesRaw or freshly cooked: artichokes, asparagus, carrots, cauliflower, celery,
chives, corn, endives, green onions, spinach,
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green peas, green pepper, leeks, lentils, lima
beans, potatoes, radishes, tomatoes, wax beans,
yams, eggplant, squash. Any vegetable listed under salads. Forbidden: all canned vegetables.
Proverbs 12:21.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge
of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made
plain.Proverbs 15:19.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He
shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.Psalm 55:22.
In whom we have boldness and access with
confidence, by faith of Him.Ephesians 3:12.
The Lord is my strength and song.Exodus 15:2.
I know the thoughts I think toward you,
saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of
evil, to give you an expected end.Jeremiah
29:11.
A just man falleth seven times, and riseth
up again.Proverbs 24:16.
The Lord is good unto them that wait for
Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.Lamentations 3:25.
Ye shall serve the Lord your God . . and I
will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus 23:25.
The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord
will give grace and glory: no good thing will He
withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11.
The Lord preserveth the simple: I was
brought low, and He helped me.Psalm 116:6.
In God I will praise His word . . In God I
have put my trust: I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me.Psalm 56:10-11.
Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye
be established; believe His prophets, so shall
ye prosper.2 Chronicles 20:20.
Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one
mind, live in peace; and the God of love and
peace shall be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11.
To do good and to communicate forget not:
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews 13:16.
If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted
according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.2 Corinthians 8:12.
But know that the Lord hath set apart him
that is godly for Himself: the Lord will hear when
I call unto Him.Psalm 4:3.
We are saved by hope.Romans 8:24.
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Part Four
Essiac Therapy
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RENE CAISSE, R.N., 1922
Note to researchers: Now, after more than 50 years of mystery, the Essiac formula is known. Research work on this formula should be carried out, so official approval can be obtained.
Working Summary: Essiac consisted of a carefully worked
out formulation of several herbs, which both attacked the cancer and helped expel it from the body. Fortunately, we have both
the formula and how to prepare and take it.
There are three people who have made it possible for Essiac to be available today. Here is this
incredible story.
The first of the three was Rene Caisse. She is
one of the few people in this brief history of cancer remedies who was not a medical doctor. She
was a Canadian registered nurse who was born in
Bracebridge, Ontario, in 1888. Briefly married (her
husband died shortly after their marriage), she retained her maiden name for the rest of her life. A
kindly lady, she could be quite stubborn when necessary and had a strong distrust of medical and
government intrusion.
In 1922, Caisse was 33 years old and head
nurse at the Sisters of Providence Hospital in
Haileybury, Ontario, Canada. One evening she noticed an elderly woman patient who had a strangely
scarred breast. When she inquired as to the cause,
the lady told her that, more than 20 years earlier,
she had come from England to join her husband
who was working as a prospector in northern
Ontario. Shortly after arriving, a hardened mass
appeared on her breast.
The area where they were camping was inhabited by Ojibwa Indians (also known as Chippewa).
Learning of her problem, an old Indian native doctor (medicine man) said it was really no problem,
for their tribe regularly healed these tumors with
an herbal mixture. The kindly Indian offered to
help her, but she and her husband said they would
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Within 24 hours the bleeding had stopped; and,
after several treatments, the growth began reducing in size and the large holes in his chin began to
heal.
Based on what was happening to these cancer
patients, many of whom were terminal, eight physicians and medical professionals signed a petition in 1926 and sent it to the Department of National Health and Welfare in Ottawa, requesting
that Caisse be given facilities to do research work
on her herbal formula.
In response, they sent two investigating doctors with papers empowering them to have her
arrested. But, when they arrived, they found she
was working with nine of the most eminent physicians in Toronto, who told them of her work.
Stunned, one investigator gave her cancerous
mice (inoculated with deadly Rous Sarcoma) to
experiment onand she kept them alive for 52
days, longer than any other method known to
medical science.
Caisse kept helping people who came to her.
Most of the time, they had been diagnosed as having advanced, inoperable cancers.
A battle began which lasted 50 years until her
death at the age of 90 in the fall of 1978, after
falling and breaking her hip. She had outlived most
of her opponents.
Rene was threatened with arrest a dozen times;
yet doctors, who had been referring patients to
her, always came to her rescue. She never took
any money for administering the treatment, only
donations; and she lived very modestly. Many gave
her only a dollar or two for the help they received.
News of what she was doing gradually spread. As
you might expect, the public was very favorable to
her work.
In 1932, the first major newspaper article appeared in the Toronto Star. Entitled, Bracebridge
Girl Makes Notable Discovery Against Cancer.
This brought her work to the attention of many
more people.
That same year, Dr. A.F. Bastedo, of Bracebridge (her hometown, located 170 kilometers
north of Toronto, with a population of only about
9,000), let Caisse treat one of his patients who
had terminal bowel cancer. When the patient recovered, Bastedo was so impressed, he convinced
the town council to make the British Lion Hotel,
which had been repossessed for back taxes, available to Rene for a clinic.
Rene Caisse now had an entire hotel to use,
free of charge. Soon patients were arriving from
around the world. The King of England wrote her
a letter of encouragement.
Then a personal tragedy confronted her: Renes
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own mother was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. But the tea brought a full recovery, and she
lived another 18 years till the age of 90.
Thousands of signatures were gathered by
friends and sent to Dr. J.A. Faulkner, provincial
Minister of Health, imploring the government to
support her work. The petition was ignored.
Then nine medical doctors submitted another
one. Upon receiving it, Faulkner conferred with
Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin. Banting was interested. He had first heard
about Essiac ten years earlier in 1925, when a
woman treated with it no longer needed insulin.
Her diabetic condition had disappeared! Checking into it, Banting had concluded that Essiac had
somehow stimulated the pancreas to function normally, thereby healing the diabetes.
But when the matter was again brought to his
attention by Faulkner in 1935, she was invited to
the Banting Institute in Toronto, to work under
his supervision.
Caisses supporters urged her to accept this
outstanding offer; but, because it included stopping her care of cancer patients and working on
mice, she said she turned down the offer. She
would have to leave Bracebridge for a time, and
this she refused to do. Her patients needed her
help, and would die if she left.
In 1936, a large number of physicians again
put their signatures on a petition for the Ottawa
Department of Health and Welfare to give her an
opportunity to demonstrate her method, so it could
be officially approved. Once again, it was turned
down.
At this juncture, let us cite two examples of
what Rene Caisse was doing at Bracebridge, which
she considered too important to abandon for
mouse studies:
Tony Baziuk was a CNR engine watchman with
lip cancer. It was so swollen after radium treatments in London, Ontario, that he could see it over
the end of his nose. The pain was excruciating.
Fellow workers collected enough to pay Tonys
way to Bracebridge. One injection of Essiac and
Tony felt immediate relief. In six months he was
back on the job, and lived 40 more years.
May Henderson went to Bracebridge, in 1937,
with tumors in both breasts. Doctors told her she
must have a double mastectomy immediately. Then
they found a tumor the size of a grapefruit in her
uterus.
Too weak to move, she had a horror of surgery; so her physician, Dr. J.A. McInnis, told her
she was hopeless and sent her to Caisse. Describing the experience later in 1977, May said:
My color was a muddy yellow, my hair thin, my
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eyes, ordinarily blue, were gray and stony. I hemorrhaged so badly I thought I would die, and
couldnt stand up for any length of time.quoted
in Richard Thomas, The Essiac Report, 19.
Within three months after beginning Essiac injections, May was back at work.
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across Canada deluged the desks of the Premier
and the Minister of Health.
Under incredible public pressure, Premier
Hepburn and Health Minister Kirby publicly announced that Caisse could continue her work, and
would not be charged under the new Kirby law.
She consented.
The war continued. On one side were the protests of the public; on the other side, a driving
concern to shut down Caisses clinic. The next year
(August 1938) the government set up a commission of six physicians, with expertise in the treatment of cancer, to investigate her claimed cancer
cures.
All this was somewhat ironic, since the formula had been curing cancer in Canada longer
than there had been a Canada.
Drs. W.C. Wallace and T.H. Callahan were sent
to Bracebridge to interview her patients, and received glowing reports.
Three members of Parliament (Duckworth,
Armstrong, and Summerville) strongly urged enactment of a bill to permit Caisse to treat cancer.
Caisse brought not 10, 20, or even 30 Essiactreated patientsbut 380 of them! They all
claimed to have been cured, and there was medical documentation to support it. The commission
heard 49 of them
Here are just two of those 49 testimonies:
After treatment by Nurse Caisse, Im working
everyday. I milk five cows, night and morning. Im
right off the farm and have boarders and all in the
house, and I have to do it all myself. I owe my life
to Miss Caisse and I hope you will do something
for her.Elizabeth Stewart, op. cit., 28.
My cancer had spread after radium treatments
until my arm had swelled to double its size, and
turned black. I went down from 150 pounds to 90
pounds, and then entered St. Michaels to have my
arm amputated, but changed my mind on the eve
of the operation and went to Bracebridge instead.
After four months on the Essiac treatment my arm
has returned to normal, and I have gained 60
pounds.Annie Bonar, ibid.
After hearing the 49 testimonies, the committee admitted that Essiac may have helped some of
them. But most of the time, the commission concluded her patients either did not know what they
were talking about, never had cancer (had earlier
been misdiagnosed), or that some standard method
had really remitted the cancer.
In spite of all this evidence, the commission
rejected the request for permission to give Essiac
to cancer patients. In its official December 1939
report, the commission declared that, of all the
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testimonies and piles of records submitted, where
diagnosis had been by biopsy, there had been only
one recovery by Essiac.
For example, Mrs. Annie Bonar (quoted above)
was said to have been cured by the earlier radium
treatments, not by a tea made from plants!
It is my opinion that the hearing of my case
before the Cancer Commission was one of the greatest farces ever perpetrated in the history of man.
Over 380 patients came to be heard and the Commission limited the hearing to 49 patients. Then
in their report they stated that I had only taken 49
patients to be heard, that X-ray reports were not
acceptable as a diagnosis, and that the 49 doctors
had made wrong or mistaken diagnoses. It is a sad
state of affairs if doctors can diagnose an affliction
as cancer and send patients home with a few
months at most to live, if they are not sure.Rene
Caisse, op. cit., 31.
For several years she continued giving the treatments, always without charge, and never knowing
when she would be arrested. In 1942, close to a
nervous breakdown, she closed down the clinic.
In 1948, when her husband died, she returned to
Bracebridge, but little is known of her activities
until 1959. It was widely believed that she was
still treating patients, and the government dared
not arrest her.
Throughout the years when she was treating
people, when asked about her income she would
laugh, I never had $100 I could call my own!
She would accept fruits, vegetables, eggs, or whatever the people would bring her in payment for
her help. She never turned away anyone who had
no money.
When asked why she kept the formula secret,
she replied that as long as the government and
the medical groups did not have it, they could not
forbid others to use it. She refused to reveal the
formula to the Canadian Government, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York,
or the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Marylandjust to name a few.
She said she would not tell them the formula
until they publicly admitted that it could cure cancer. This they refused to do. So the stalemate continued on down to the time of her death.
I want to know that suffering humanity will benefit by it. When I can be given that assurance, I am
willing to disclose my [herbal] formula, but I have
got to know that it is going to get to suffering humanity.Rene Caisse, op. cit., 30.
There are three individuals who made it possible for people today to have Essiac. The first was
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tion with the herbs, giving them to some patients,
and continually refining the proportions to be given
for optimum results. As he progressed, he shared
his discoveries with Caisse. He also told her of
other conditions which he found to be helped by
Essiac. The formula was a phenomenal detoxifier,
cleaning the body so a variety of advanced degeneracies and debilities could be alleviated.
In the summer of 1978, Homemakers, one of
Canadas largest magazines, published a story on
Rene Caisse and her work. Rene was swamped
with requests for help. Newspapers across Canada
picked up the story. Letters poured in.
One of those who read the Homemakers story
was David Fingard, the vice-president of Resperin,
a Canadian corporation said to have pharmaceutical interests. Fingard determined that he would
do the impossible: convince Caisse to turn over
the formula to him. Repeatedly, he made offers,
which she turned down. But he kept offering new,
revised offers. Finally, he offered to treat poor cancer patients free, if she would turn over the formula.
On the morning of October 26, 1977, Caisse,
Brusch, and Fingard signed a contract giving his
firm the formula. Although Brusch was somewhat
doubtful, yet Caisse, knowing she was nearing the
end of her life decided to go ahead with it. She
had signed over the rights to her secret formula,
for the sum of one dollar, to a Canadian manufacturing firm. Resperin was organized by a physician, Matthew Dymond, who wanted to save Essiac
from extinction. He told her that he would use it
to help humanity, and she trusted him.
With the passing of time, Bruschs fears were
found to be true.
Resperin kept the secret formula in Toronto;
but, in order to carry on their work, they said it
was necessary to share the formula with the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare. This angered Caisse, who felt that the men had betrayed
her.
But Brusch began checking into the matter and
learned still more.
On one hand, the medical establishment was
up to its old tricks. Only two hospitals were permitted to dispense Essiac. Physicians at those hospitals refused to give Essiac in the larger amounts
needed to accomplish anything worthwhile. The
clinical testing was limited to private physicians,
and they were required to fill out extremely lengthy
forms for each person they wanted to give Essiac
to. So few physicians would bother to use it very
much. The physicians said they must give it in
combination with various drugs. On and on went
the merry-go-round.
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Rene Caisse was heartbroken. She blamed
Resperin for the problems. Bitterly disappointed,
she died on December 26, 1978, a week after being operated on for a broken hip.
But Charles Brusch still had the formula. He
continued investigating, and he learned still more.
In early 1980, he learned why he had been
kept totally in the dark about Resperins work with
Essiac, even though the contract called for him to
be regularly consulted. Since Brusch was in New
York State, not Canada, he hired a private investigator to check things out. This is what was discovered:
Resperin was not even a viable corporation at
the time of the Homemakers article. It had
sold some respiratory products, but little was
known about them. The impressive board of consultants were merely friends of David Fingard.
Fingard was a trained chemist, but his specialty was unknown. Essiac was being formulated
in the kitchen of Dr. Matthew Dymond, the only
other Resperin employee. Both men were now in
their 70s, and too frail to accomplish much.
The general inaction of Resperin and in the
hospitals provided the Department of Health and
Welfare with the excuse it was looking for. On April
9, 1981, the Health Protection Branch (an interesting name) issued an official statement condemning Essiac as essentially worthless. The hospital
testing, it declared, had not helped anyone.
On August 30, 1982, Resperins permit for testing of Essiac was rescinded. Knowing the public
was to be outraged, the government was ready.
They issued a statement that, under the Emergency
Drug Release Act, any physician could obtain
Essiac for his cancer patients.
But such extensive paperwork was required
for each case, that the local physicians could not
use it. Among other things, the complete past
medical history of the patient must be written out
and submitted, with copies of all tests, X-rays, etc.
Resperin had been effectively stopped, and
Fingard and Dymond retired into silence. Essiac
could not be gotten to the people.
Now enters the third person who, with Rene
Caisse and Dr. Charles Brusch, would bring Essiac
to the people.
Before her death, Caisse, brokenhearted over
the state of affairs, shared the four-herb basic formula with some friends. Gradually others learned
about it. But Dr. Brusch continued to have the complete formula. Only the four basic herbs in the original formula had been divulged to Resperin. Why
the complete formula had not been shared is a
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Alexander, from both medical interests and the general public. Learning where she lived, people would
mob her home. She became an expert at sorting
out the legal red tape, so patients could obtain
Essiac from their physicians via the Emergency
Drug Release Act. Yet the complications were so
serious that only a few could be helped.
The pressure continued from 1984 onward.
Then, in early 1988, Elaine got an idea. Simple
enough, it would cut through all the red tape and
bring Essiac to the people at last!
The answer was to be found, for example, in a
letter from Dr. A. Klein, at the Health Protection
Branch of the federal government.
Relevant Factors:
Essiac has always been classified as a drug because the Resperin Corporation has made drug
claims for this infusion.
According to the Food and Drug Act, a substance
is a drug when it is a substance or a mixture of
substances sold or represented for use in the diagnosis, treatment, investigation or prevention of a
disease, disorder, abnormal physical state, or the
symptoms thereof, etc.
Essiac has always been represented to be a
cure for cancer; therefore, it is a drug due to the
claim.
Suggested Response:
Essiac appears to be entirely nontoxic.
From the evidence to date Essiac has only a
placebo or a phychological effect on cancer patients.
If Essiac were to be sold in health food stores,
the implied claims for this substance could be considered fraudulent, and would also constitute a
health hazard with regard to self-diagnosis and selftreatment of cancer.Briefing Information on
Essiac, A. Klein, M.D., Health Protection Branch,
Department of Health and Welfare, Ontario,
March 17, 1988.
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pot and strainer.
(8) Do the second straining: Strain the filtered
liquid back into the first pot, using the strainer
and a clean cotten cloth across the mouth of the
strainer.
(9) Use the funnel to immediately pour the
hot liquid into sterilized bottles, being careful to
tighten the caps securely. Allow the bottles to cool.
Then tighten the caps again.
(10) If possible, store in a cool place until
opened. Upon opening a jar, keep refrigerated, but
not frozen.
(11) Essiac contains no preservatives so, if
mold forms in a bottle, immediately discard the
contents.
(12) Sediment on the bottom of the jars is from
the herbs and is normal.
Directions for use:
Essiac is easy to take and does not taste bad.
Brew the tea and store it in bottles in the refrigerator. Drink it at least one hour before mealtime.
(1) If you have cancer, drink two fluid ounces
three times a day. Do this for at least 12 consecutive weeks, without interruption.
(2) If you have diabetes, drink two ounces twice
a day.
(3) For general health maintenance, drink two
two-ounce cups twice a day for two weeks, then
one a day thereafter.
Directions for normal use:
(1) Shake the bottle of Essiac.
(2) Take 4 tablespoons (2 oz.) twice a day. It
can be taken cold or heated slightly (do not microwave).
(3) Take it in the morning upon arising. One
hour before eating is best.
(4) Take it again at bedtime on an empty stomach, at least 2 hours after eating.
(5) In severe cases, also take 2 oz. before the
noon meal.
If you have severe stomach problems, dilute
Essiac with an equal amount of distilled water.
Directions for use as a preventive:
(1) Shake the bottle of Essiac.
(2) Take 4 tablespoons (2 oz.). It can be taken
cold or heated slightly (do not microwave).
(3) Take it at bedtime on an empty stomach,
at least 2 hours after eating.
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under the brand name, FlorEssence; they are
both in ready-to-take liquid form and formulated
dry herbs for home steeping. It is sold simply as
an herbal cleansing tea. No other physiological
claims are made for it. The herbs are said to have
been grown under entirely organic conditions.
The proportions of the formula remain a
closely guarded secret, but the full list of herbs in
the improved FlorEssence product is known. Any
physician or researcher who administered the
herbs over a period of time could ascertain the
ideal proportion of the eight herbs.
These herbs are as follows:
The original four herbsThe original four
herbs, as given by the Objibwa Indian doctor,
have been listed above. They are sheep sorrel,
burdock root, slippery elm bark, rhubarb root
(also called Turkey rhubarb root). These four
herbs have been discussed at length in the
preceeding two pages, and will be discussed in
even more detail later in this book (Part Five:
Herbal Preparations).
The additional four herbsWorking closely
with a Kansas herbalist, Dr. Brusch found that the
addition of certain other herbs potentiated (improved) the successful outcome of administering
Essiac to cancer patients. We do not know what
the proportions of these four additional herbs
were, but the context of all the discussion about
Bruschs findings would indicate the basic four
herbs were probably in the largest proportion.
Here are these additional four herbs: watercress, blessed thistle, red clover, and kelp. Here
is a brief overview of each of them:
Watercress is called a light herbal tonic,
which not only tones up the system but also provides some nourishment. It aids in rebuilding and
retoning the body. It is said to be an excellent blood
tonic and purifier, and richer in iodine than most
plants found within the continent. For this reason, it improves the action of the thyroid.
Blessed Thistle improves digestion and circulation and strengthens the heart. It is useful for
all liver, lung, and kidney problems, and strengthens the brain and memory. Blessed thistle should
not be taken alone or in large amounts during pregnancy.
Red clover is an excellent blood purifier when
used alone or in combination with other blood purifiers (such as yellow dock, dandelion root, sassafras, etc.). For many years it has been known as
a powerful cancer remedy. Only the tops (blossoms) are used.
Kelp is the fourth of Dr. Bruschs potentiators. Kelp is a general term for seaweed. Nutritionists recognize that California kelp may be good
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Researchers will appreciate the fact that, regardless of where they may live, if FlorEssence
is not available at local health-food stores, here
are some addresses which might be helpful in
locating FlorEssence:
Flora Manufacturing Company is headquartered in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
Salus Haus is the international headquarters,
and is located in Munich, Germany.
Here are three addresses in the United States:
P.A.H. Products, P.O. Box 2665, Mission, KS
66201 / 800-318-2666.
Sawnson Products, P.O. Box 2803, Fargo, ND
58102 / 701-277-1662.
L&H Vitamins, 37-10 Crescent St., Long Island City, NY 11101 / 718-937-7400.
The above addresses are for the improved
eight-herb formula. Here is an address for the
earlier four-herb formula:
Caisses Herbal Tea, obtainable from Camas
Prairie Products, Trout Lake, WA 98650. It contains organic burdock root, sheep sorrel, slippery
elm bark, and turkey rhubarb.
STATEMENT BY RENE CAISSE
tient was not compelled to resort to opiates or narcotics in increasing doses, as usually is the case.
My decoction is increasing doses, as usually is the
case. My decoction is a nontoxic drink made from
herbs which are of definite benefit for cancer.
I have felt that once the cancer becomes active,
traveling as it does along the line of least resistance . . insidiously, on its relentless course, any
destructive agency applied to the human body can
only do more harm (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery).
I have found that no matter where the malignancy may be in the human body, surgery would
be much more successful after the treatment of
my herbal remedy, followed by continued treatment
over a period of time; then there would be no recurrence of the tumor. In the case of breast cancer,
the primary growth will usually invade the mammary gland of the opposite breast or the auxilla
(armpit), or both. My treatment, I found, reduces
the secondary growth into the primary mass, enlarging it for a time. When it became localized, it
was encapsulated and could then be removed without danger of recurrence. In one instance, a patient with breast cancer was instructed by her doctor to take my treatment before undergoing surgery; however after a brief treatment the cancer
had completely disappeared, with no recurrence.
Most importantly, and this was verified in animal tests conducted at the Brusch Medical Center
and other laboratories, it was discovered that one
of the most dramatic effects of taking this remedy
was its affinity for drawing all the cancer cells,
which had spread, back to the original sight, at
which point the tumor would first harden, then
later it would soften until it vanished altogether or,
more realistically, the tumor would decrease in size
to where it could then be surgically removed with
minimum complications.
In certain cases and at certain stages of the disease, the cancer would act as if it were coming to a
head, similar to an abscess. It would then break
down and slough away. These people all reported
that when the mass breaks, it isnt like puss but
like a cottage cheese substance that comes away.
Still other types will enlarge until the mass is localized, then loosen and reduce in size until there
is nothing left, having been absorbed into and carried off by the blood stream and body waste.
Other observations Ive made over my years of
practice: The treatment allowed patients to sleep
in greater comfort than they had in the past, and
the increased appetite and weight, diminished pain,
decreased tumor size, and longer life span were
all attested to by doctors in attendance. Dr. Banting,
who examined case after case, was especially impressed with the effect of the treatment on the pancreas and possibly other sluggish glands which it
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seemed to restore to activity. Other doctors who
examined my patients discovered the treatment had
a special effect on the liver. After taking blood
counts they found hemoglobin and white cell platelets had returned to normal.
My treatment, given to people in health, is helpful in that it is a blood purifier and will do its work
before there is any chance of the malignant cells
invading the body.Undated statement by Rene
Caisse.
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when the level of toxins in the body becomes
too high, cancer begins to grow in order to protect the body from death. The cancerous tumor
actually filters the toxins out of the blood; but,
as soon as the tumor is removed, the toxins
come back because the cause of the poisoning
has not changed.
The solution is to increase the general nutrition, stop putting those toxins into the body, and
set to work, systematically, to rid the body of the
toxins it has. The Gerson therapy is ideally suited
to this task.
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Part Five
The Gerson Therapy
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MAX GERSON, M.D., 1928
It is an intriguing fact that, with the sole exception of the laetrile battle headed by Dr. John
Richardson, the physicians who left the United
States were the most successful in administering
alternative therapies over a long-term basis. The
medical doctors who fled included Dr. Lawrence
Burton, who went to the Bahamas; Dr. William
Koch, who went to Brazil; and Dr. Steven Durovic,
who returned to Argentina.
Then there were those who carried on a successful practice, entirely outside the United States.
Included here were Dr. Robert Bell, in Scotland;
the physicians, in Canada, who used Essiac for
years; Dr. Ernesto Contreras, in Mexico; as well
Dr. Manuel Navarro, in the Philippines; Dr. Ettore
Gudetti, in Italy; Dr. Hans Nieper, in Germany; Dr.
Shigeaki Sakai, in Japan; the Jankers Clinic, in
Germany; and many others.
We can add to those clinics which have been
successful outside America, the Gerson Institute
in northwestern Mexico. Behind that hospital is
an interesting story.
It is especially interesting because the Gerson
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Then he tried eating apples onlyraw, cooked,
bakedand that was a great help. Slowly he added
other things, till eventually he had totally eliminated his migraines.
So he told his migraine patients about his diet.
He called it his migraine diet. When they returned, they would tell him theirs was gone too.
But one said it had also eliminated his lupus
(lupus vulgaris, or tuberculosis of the skin).
Gersen knew the man could not have had lupus
since it is incurable, but the patient showed him
his medical records. The year was 1922.
It was obvious to Gerson that the medical
theory, that there is but one medicine for each disease, was incorrect. As he later stated it, the great
truth was this: Nourish the body and it will do
the healing.
So Max treated some other lupus patients, and
their problem vanished also. But patients came
back with the news that their other problems had
disappeared as well. The careful dietary program
he devised was successful in treating asthma and
other allergies; diseases of the intestinal tract, liver,
and pancreas; tuberculosis; arthritis; heart disease, skin conditions, and on and on! Some of his
most striking successes were in liver and gallbladder diseases.
In Germany at that time, trains often had private compartments, each one seating six. One day,
as a train was about to pull out from the station, a
man entered one of the compartments. The only
other person there was a distinguished-appearing
gentleman who said nothing. As the train got underway, the man started chattering to no one in
particular. The gentleman tried to ignore him.
Soon the man jovially got on the subject of
health, and the gentleman wished he could get to
his destination a little quicker.
Then, opening his shirt slightly, the man said,
And you know, I had this lupus, right here on my
chest. And this doctor, he cured it. Now its gone!
At this, the gentleman jumped up, lunged at
the man, reached for his shirt and said, Let me
see that!
The gentleman was Ferdinand Sauerbruch,
M.D., one of Europes leading skin and tuberculosis doctors. He well-knew that lupus cannot be
cured!
Obtaining Gersons name and address from
the man, Sauerbruch contacted Gerson as soon
as he reached his office. A friendship was started,
and Sauerbruch, impressed with his humility and
sincerity, arranged a test using Gersons remarkable diet on 450 incurable lupus patients.
But after a week or so, it was obviously a fail-
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ure. Sauerbruch did not think it would come to
this; he had hoped against hope. So he penned a
letter to his friend Gerson and, then, slowly walked
back across the hospital grounds after posting the
note.
He was on his way to cancel the test; but, on
the way, met a woman carrying two large trays full
of meat, gravy, sugary foods, and all the trimmings.
Asking her what she was doing, she replied airily:
Oh, the people over in this building are starving,
so were sneaking food in to make them happy.
They have a crazy doctor!
Sauerbruch quickly set guards to keep the diet
the way Gerson had prescribed it, and then wrote
a second letter informing Gerson the test was still
in progress.
Result: 446 of 450 incurable patients (99%)
recovered. Lupus had been shown to be curable
by diet therapy.
But Gerson still had not tried his therapy on
cancer patients. Even in Germany, physicians were
careful about trying out new cancer remedies.
When a couple of cancer victims came to him, he
turned them down. But one day, a lady called him
to her home, but would not tell him what was
wrong with her. Arriving, she told him she had
cancer and pled for him to help her. She was in
bed, weakened, and in terrible condition. He told
her he could not do so. Please, she said, just write
out your dietary formula, and I will sign a paper
not holding you responsible for what happens.
Gerson did so and left. It was obvious she was too
weak to even follow the directions.
All alone, the sick woman struggled to follow
the programand recovered totally from cancer.
Learning of this, Gerson began treating other
cancer patients. The year was 1928. Of his first
12 cases, 7 responded favorably, remaining symptom free for seven and a half years.
(Some of these facts we know because of testimony presented by him and others at the July 13, 1946, senate hearings, conducted by Claude
Pepper of Florida.)
Gerson also treated Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his
wife, and daughter for various health problems.
Gerson saved Mrs. Helene Schweitzer from hopeless lung tuberculosis in 1931; and, several years
later, he healed their daughter of a rare, serious
incurable erupting skin condition that defied diagnosis.
Dr. Schweitzer himself came to Gerson at the
age of 75, depressed and weary with advanced diabetes. In five weeks, Dr. Schweitzer had cut his
insulin dosage in half, and in ten was completely
off of it. Healed, and with new energy, he returned
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AMA hopefully dismissed the Gersons unprecedented Senate presentation with the words, Fortunately for the American people this presentation received little, if any, newpaper publicity.
In its January 8, 1949, issue, the Journal
wrote, There is no scientific evidence whatsoever
to indicate that modifications in the dietary intake
of food or other nutritional essentials are of any
specific value in the control of cancer.
During his lifetime, Gerson wrote 51 articles,
published in medical journals. (All of his publications are listed at the back of S.J. Haughts book,
Has Dr. Max Gerson a True Cancer Cure?) But,
for the most part, Gerson worked alone. Other physicians generally feared to help him or duplicate
his work, for fear of reprisal.
Eventually, Gersons medical privileges at
Gotham Hospital were revoked, and he was unable to find an affiliation with any other hospital
in the city. In 1953 his malpractice insurance was
discontinued. One $100,000 malpractice lawsuit
would have wiped him out. Because the larger
number of those who sought him had advanced
cancers, some of them died. Yet their relatives knew
that they died with dignity, free from pain and
brain-numbing narcotics.
Gersons needs were simple. Patients were
shocked to learn that he would generally charge
$25 for the first visit, and $5 or $10 for subsequent visits. (They had earlier been told he charged
high fees, $1,000 or $2,000 for each visit.)
Refusing to stop his work, Gerson treated patients at his own facilities. In October 1954 at the
age of 73, he wrote his former patient and close
friend, Albert Schweitzer,
Those who say they would like to help, often tell me they cannot. They regret not being
able to assist me for fear of losing their position in hospitals and laboratories. I have long
abandoned thoughts of attaining any kind of
recognition, nonetheless I continue on my
way.Journal of the Gerson Institute, Fall
1981, 16.
Some of his best-documented, recovered patients died, when they were urged back by their
former physicians for examination, and then told
they must have surgery or radiationwhen they
were totally free of cancer symptoms or evidence.
On two occasions Gerson became violently ill
after being served coffee by a group supposedly
supporting him. Later laboratory tests showed unusually high levels of arsenic in his urine.
Some of Gersons best case histories mysteriously disappeared from his files. In 1956, the
manuscript and all of its copies for Gersons al-
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most completed book (A Cancer Therapy: Results
of Fifty Cases) were stolen and never recovered.
Separating himself from that group, Gerson,
now quite aged, raced against time to completely
rewrite the book. In 1958, the book was published.
On March 4 of that same year, he was finally
suspended for two years from the New York Medical Society. At a meeting of the New York Academy
of Medicine, the surgeons, radiologists, and physicians condemned a colleague who was living by
Hippocrates dictum: Above all, do no harm.
Gerson died a year later (March 8, 1959),
shortly after he fell down the stairs in his house.
He was 78 years old.
Upon Gersons death, Albert Schweitzer, the
Nobel prize-winning physician and missionary, and
a patient of Gersons, made this statement:
I see in him one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine . . Many
of his basic ideas have been adopted without
having his name connected with them. Yet he
has achieved more than seemed possible under adverse conditions. He leaves a legacy which
commands attention and which will assure him
his due place. Those whom he cured will now
attest to the truth of his ideas.Albert
Schweitzer, M.D., Ph.D., quoted in S.J. Haught,
Has Max Gerson a True Cancer Cure? 1962.
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The primary Gerson treatment center is Hospital Meridien, Lava #2971, Secc. Costa Hermosa,
Playas de Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP22240. Phone:
011-52-66-801358. Fax: 011-52-66-801831. Web:
[email protected].
Hospital Meridien is 30 minutes south of
downtown San Diego.
A recently opened U.S. treatment center is the
Gerson Center at Sedona, 78 Canyon Diablo,
Sedona, AZ 86351. Phone or write the Bonita, California, office, above. GCS, the Sedona facility, is
located 100 miles north of Phoenix and 28 miles
south of Flagstaff, near Sedona, a small town of
8,000.
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SUPPLEMENT
THE GERSON THERAPY
INTRODUCTION
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send toxins from the shrinking cancer tissue, and
elsewhere, to the liver which ejects it through the
gallbladder into the intestines. But such a great
mass of toxins are being transported at this critical time, the liver is overloaded and needs help.
If this liver and bowel cleansing does not continually take place, the patient will often continue
to weaken, and the pain will intensify. It is dangerous not to cleanse the liver!
The enemas quickly reverse the situation, resulting in a remarkable lessening of pain and a
general sense of improvement.
With the liver relieved of its burden, it increases
in health, even amid the cleansing program which
requires hard work on its part.
In addition, there is other added supplementation from various substances such as pepsin,
potassium, Lugols solution (a powerful source of
supplementary iodine), niacin, pancreatin, and thyroid extracts. These stimulate various organ functions, especially the liver and thyroid.
(At the Senate hearings, Gerson said that he
added iodine to his program because he found it
counteracted the neoplastic [cancer-inducing] effects of certain hormones.)
Gersons program is high in raw, unprocessed
plant food, low in fat, and emphasizes potassiumrich foods. It also includes vitamin and mineral
supplementation, especially high doses of vitamin
C.
Gerson believed part of the problem was the
oversalting of food by Western Civilization. The
ratio of potassium to sodium needed to be corrected. He found that cancer patients generally had
an excess of sodium, far outweighing the potassium in their bodies. Sodium acts as a poison in
the body, inhibiting enzymes. In contrast, potassium is an enzyme activator. (By the way, do not
brush your teeth with soda! It is sodium and is
absorbed right through the walls of the mouth.)
The modern American diet reverses the normal 4 to 1 (potassium to sodium) ratio to our current 16-fold deterioration in this crucial balance
of electrolytes. All your cells are bathed in a salty
ocean water, with higher concentrations of potassium inside the cells.
Birger Jansson, Ph.D., of the University of
Texas, found that patients with a higher sodium
to potassium ratio in their diets were the ones most
likely to have cancer. Stephen Thompson, Ph.D.,
at the University of California, San Diego, found
that increasing the sodium content of the diet
would accelerate the rate at which metastasis of
colon cancer in animals occurred.
The potassium-rich foods revitalize the body,
so that it rids the body of malignancies; and the
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enemas aid the liver and bowels in eliminating the
cast-off dead cancer cells. The Gerson therapy requires intensive detoxification with continuous enemas, which must also remove necrotic cancer tissue.
Gerson said he lost some patients in his earlier years, because he was unaware of the need to
remove dead tissue. Autopsies later proved that
some died, not from their cancers, but from the
serious intoxication caused by the bodys attempt
to absorb dead cancer tissue.
Another problem he found was that, in the later
stages of cancer when the liver has been decidedly
weakened, some vitamins (given through supplements) can induce a regrowth of cancer tissue, despite improved outlook from stimulated metabolism. He especially found that the administration
of calcium to boys and girls with osteosarcoma,
although showing remarkable results at first, were
later followed by a rapid and incurable regrowth
of cancers 10-14 days later.
Of course, the body receives a large intake of
vitamins and minerals through the Gerson diet,
but that is never a problem.
Gersons most tragic loss occurred in 1942,
when 25 of 31 patients who had been symptomfree for several months, were influenced by physicians to go on, what was then called the Huggins
therapy, which was the administration of hormones of the opposite sex. Although they felt much
better after a few weeks on these hormones, their
cancers suddenly became worse and Gerson was
unable to save them. Max really cared for people,
and this disaster so crushed him that he almost
gave up his medical practice. He sorrowed deeply
over the death of anyone.
One of the 25 was the 16-year-old son of John
Gunther, the well-known author of Inside Europe, John, Jr., was showing remarkable improvement, but his other physicians were determined
that he be also placed on the hormones.
Years after Max Gersons death, when the
Gerson Institute was established, it continued on
with Gersons methods. When laetrile appeared,
the Gerson Institute was quick to recognize its
value and incorporate it into the program.
Charlotte Gerson says that the cancer patients
who have the most difficult time recovering on the
program are the ones who have been operated on
or have received radiation or chemotherapy treatments.
Here are several items which the Gerson Institute has found to be absolutely forbidden, in
order to provide proper recovery from cancer:
Water with fluoride, chlorine, chemicals, wa-
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The following two statements will provide researchers with a better idea of the success rate of
the Gerson therapyand the difficulties:
By application of these principles, the
Gerson therapy is able to achieve almost routine recovery90% or betterfrom early to intermediate cancer. When cancer becomes incurable by orthodox methods (i.e., involves the liver
or pancreas or is metastasized inside the body),
about 50% recoveries can be achieved by the
Gerson method.
Norman Fritz gives laetrile as an example
of other good nontoxic therapies. It has a good
short-term responserelief from pain, remission of malignancy, improvement in appetite
and sense of well-being or increase in strength
in 70% or 80% of cancer cases. The long-term
recovery rate, however, is about 15% or less. In
most cases degeneration progresses to where
the laetrile is no longer sufficient. In some cases
other nontoxic therapies may be constructively
combined with the Gerson therapy.
The other big advantage of the Gerson
therapy is that it usually heals the body of all
the degenerative diseases rather than just healing cancer. Many cancer patients are suffering
from other degenerative conditions alsoarthritis, heart conditions, diabetes, etc.Cancer
News Journal, 1983 Update.
Of the many, many cases which could be described, here was one among several where the
patient had do everything by himself:
Fifteen years ago, at age 70, Earl Taylor of
Cairo, Illinois, was sent home to die by his doctor. Earl had prostate cancer which was spreading extensively as a large mass in the groin, in
spite of the harmones his doctor had been giving him. His doctor told him to get his affairs in
order, as there was nothing that could be done
to save him.
Earl had read about Dr. Gerson and the
Gerson Therapy in Prevention magazine. He
contacted Dr. Gersons daughter in New York.
She sent him Dr. Gersons book, A Cancer
Therapy results of 50 cases. Earl had completed the sixth grade as a boy and spent all of
his life working in a junk yard. He called Dr.
Gersons daughter again and told her that he
couldnt understand the book. She suggested
that he just follow the treatment outlined on
page 235 in the book (page 236 in the latest
edition, now gives an hourly schedule).
Earl said it was the hardest thing he ever
did in his life. His wife had died years before,
so he was all alone. (The institute tells people
they should have help with the therapy, to have
the best chance of winning.)
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Earl was in pain, and the easiest thing to do
was to stay in bed; but, he thought, If I do that,
Ill just die. So he forced himself out of bed, to
grind and press the hourly raw juices and to do
the rest of the therapy. Soon the pain was gone.
In a month his doctor could no longer feel any
of the large mass.
In a few months he felt well enough to go
each day to help his friend, Gwinn Dunbar, who
was dying of cancer spread through both lungs.
Both patients recovered on the Gerson therapy
and are still alive 15 years after being hopeless.Journal of the Gerson Institute and the
Gerson Therapy, Fall, 1981, 5.
Here is a second comment on Earl, which clarifies his case still more:
Earl Taylor, 85, Metastasized prostate cancer. Prostate cancer diagnosed by biopsy, 1963.
Treated with female hormones. In 1966, mass
spreading to groin, much pain, told to go home
and get his affairs in order. At age 70, started
Gerson therapy. In one month, mass no longer
palpable by physician. In 1980, accident caused
rib fracture. Bon scan showed no sign of cancer. Remains in good condition, still working
part time at 85.Op. cit., 4.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
AS WE GO TO PRESS
The present author has completed a simple, systematic presentation of the Gerson Therapy.
For the first time, every aspect is
organized in easy-to-locate categories. You will now be able to
quickly find what you are looking
for.
Entitled, The Gerson Therapy
for Those Dying of Cancer, this 44page book clearly outlines the entire, basic procedure.
Max Gersons book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, now outdated, was somewhat
disorganized since it was done in patchwork after
his original manuscript was stolen, and only
shortly before his death. For those who obtain a
copy of the book, the practical information on how
to carry on the therapy, as he outlined in the back
in 1956-1957, will be found on pages 187-248;
with a concise summary on pages 235-248.
The first 185 pages of Cancer Therapy had
interesting information. Here are some examples:
The rare incidence of malignant tumors in
countries where garlic is used in greater amounts
. . cannot be explained. I have seen two cancers
of the breast disappear with the use of Fenugreek seed tea in large amounts, combined with
a saltless vegetarian diet. Two others were cured
after the patients drank green leaf juice only
for six to eight months.A Cancer Therapy,
96.
A person who stays on the program (as it is
given today) will, in a years time, take in 1,800
pound of carrots, 1,300 pounds of apples, 145
heads of red cabbage, 400 heads of lettuce, and
125 pounds of green peppers.Op. cit., 143.
Gerson discovered that, in both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, the thyroid does not
have enough iodine!
In both, the iodine content is decreased in
the thyroid, in hyperthyroidism even up to 1/
10th of the normal. The difference is that blood
iodine is markedly elevated in most cases of
hyperthyroidism, which it is decreased in hypothyroidismOp. cit., 115.
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Mild Fever TreatmentThe patient is immersed in water above body temperature, and kept
there for a time. This induces a mild fever. Laetrile is injected just prior to the bath, and this
increases the temperature at the tumor site. Normal healthy tissue can easily withstand temperatures up to 104o F., but tumor tissue cannot.
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rily of a brief summary of a somewhat technical 15-page, December 1990, report by Gar
Hildenbrand, now on pages 20-34 of the latest (4th) edition of The Gerson Primer.
Cancer has been a mystery for thousands of
years. We are now coming closer to an understanding of cause, nature, and remedy. Here is a brief
overview.
Every living creature is made up of cells. Within
each cell are hundreds of complicated structures,
and thousands of activities and interactions.
Cell pathology is the study of what happens
when a living cell becomes damaged in some way.
A new field of biophysics research explains what
happens when our cells are injured or hurt.
The cellular damage may be caused by oxygen
starvation, trauma, poisoning, etc., but the effects
are always the same.
As you may know, potassium and sodium are
continually in a balancing act within the body. Potassium is primarily in the cells, and sodium is
primarily in the blood.
When cell damage occurs, first, the cell loses
potassium. Second, the damaged cell, is willing to
accept sodium. Third, the cell begins swelling with
an excess of water. The result is cellular edema.
When this happens, the cell can no longer produce enough energy. And what is the source of that
energy?
Free energy is primarily produced by ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This is a chemical compound produced by the burning of sugar through
oxidation. ATP has the ability to be broken in the
process of making energy, and then reform and be
broken again and again. The compound consists
of a linking of three phosphate bonds, linked to
an adenosine protein molecule. It is the phosphate
which produces the energy.
Nearly all energy produced in your body comes
from ATP. Without it, life would immediately cease.
But when the cell becomes swollen with water, the energy-producing process is crippledbecause the mitochondria are flooded. These are
shaped like small circular batteries, and that is
what they are! They contain the ATP; and, because
they have their own DNA and RNA, are able to
produce ATP whenever the signal arrives to do so.
But when the mitochondria are watersoaked, they
cease functioning properly. If the situation is not
reversed, they soon stop entirely.
As the body becomes filled with toxins, drugs,
heavy metals, and excess food wastes, more and
more cells are damaged and begin filling with water. Eventually degenerative diseases occur.
The Gerson therapy works to remove sodium
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freely. Thus, under normal conditions, all the water in the cell is controlled. It cannot leave the cell
and no other water can enter without permission.
Yet this organizing function only occurs when
potassium is in the cell. When potassium leaves
the damaged cell, this water structure is lost and
the cell begins swelling with water as sodium enters.
Many of the findings in this article were determined by Freeman W. Cope, M.D., a biophysicist
physician who, working with Raymond Damadian,
M.D., invented the magnetic imager (which can
take the equivalent of X-rays, yet without harmful
radiation).
Gilbert Ning Ling, Ph.D., another biophysicist
researcher, discovered that every molecule of ATP
in the cell will have 20 association sites for potassium to attach to. Lings research led Dr. Cope
to search for some medical therapy, somewhere
in the world, which might be already using high
potassium, low sodium diets to correct cell imbalances and restore health. He found it in the
Gerson therapy.
Let us look again inside those cell batteries.
The mitochondria take sugar given them by other
cellular components, and burn it. In a marvelous
way, doing so produces ATP, the bodys energy molecules. The ATP helps the potassium to bind to
those association sites, and the potassium structures the water and controls how much of it is in
the cell.
All this means that, when you have been injured, are sick, or have degenerate problems of
any kind, you need to expel the excess sodium (by
heavy salt and sodium product restriction) and
greatly increase your intake of potassium foods.
And if you want to remain in good health, you
ought to remain on, very nearly, that same diet.
Now, when you permit your body to become
damaged, the cell no longer operates properly. The
potassium leaves and sodium and excess water
begins entering. Several things immediately begin
happening: Not enough oxygen reaches the cell.
The protein and lipid structures within the cell
become disorganized. ATP is no longer adequately
made, and normal cellular operations break down.
What ATP sites remain now accept either potassium or sodium (both have the same chemical
valence), and trouble is ahead.
But actually, the cell prefers potassium. So
when you eat a low sodium and high potassium
diet, the damaged conditions in your body begin
correcting themselves more quickly.
Ling made the intriguing discovery that when
potassium begins binding again at one ATP site
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the other sites are triggered to begin accepting potassium again also! This greatly speeds up the restoration processif the potassium-sodium ratio
is fairly good, and there is enough potassium in
the system.
When the cell flips back to a high potassium
load, interactive cellular activity returns to normal, the water content normalizes, and everything
begins working right again.
At this point, we have found the formula
for good health and healing to be low sodium,
high potassium, and high iodine.
It is an intriguing fact that, when a person is
placed on a high potassium, low sodium diet for
the first time, large amounts of sodium begin to
be excreted into the urine. This is because he
had been storing up sodium for years while all the
time losing essential potassium! Whatever might
be his condition (asthma, arthritis, etc.), he begins making improvements as sodium leaves the
damaged cells.
Gerson wanted to increase this effect, and he
found that, by heavily restricting protein intake
for a time,even more of the sodium was excreted!
So we need to restrict sodium (a person always obtains enough in natural food) and increase
potassium intake. Yet the protein foods need to be
reduced also.
Gerson would severely restrict his patients
protein intake for about the first six to eight weeks,
in order to help the sodium leave the cells. He
found that, for some reason, the sodium seemed
to be trapped in the body with the protein. Somehow the two were hooked together. Lings later
work verified that fact.
However, there is a problem with protein. On
one hand, extreme protein restriction can only be
continued for a rather short time. This is because
a certain intake is needed to help the immunity
system function properly. Science has long known
that protein is necessary for good immunity, but
has not known how much.
Unfortunately, several earlier researchers, such
as Voit, declared that high-protein diets were the
best. For decades since then, the 20th century diet
of the Western World has been geared to that error. But an excess of protein increases disease and
reduces lifespan.
Robert Good, M.D., director of Sloan Kettering
Institute for a number of years, did extensive work
into protein and human needs. He found that a
heavily protein-restricted diet for a short time
actually stimulates cellular immunity! Dr. Alice
Chase and Dr. L.D. Bulkley would have been
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Unfortunately, Dr. Good lost favor at SloanKettering in the 1970s, when he suggested in print
that high protein diets might cause cancer and
heart disease. So he went to the University of South
Florida, in Tampa, to continue his research.
In a book written in German, published in the
1930s, Gerson first reported on the same kind of
changes that Good found 40 year later. Gerson
had found that his protein-restricted patients
showed increased white cell counts, plus increased
lymphocyte activity and nonspecific immune activity.
At this juncture, our formula for health and
healing is up to five points: reduced sodium,
increased potassium, increased iodine, reduced calories, and reduced protein.
On a high potassium, low sodium diet, all the
cells in your better do better, and damaged ones
are greatly helped. Cellular water quantity and
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structure improves.
Increasing the iodine intake (and do not try to
get it from iodized salt!) increases ATP production, so you have more energy. Thyroxin from the
thyroid signals the cell batteries (the mitochondria) to make more ATP and get it to working
harder. In addition, some of the idodine goes directly to the cells and stimulates them.
Restricting the protein intake causes large
numbers of T-lymphocytes to be made. These then
wander around the body searching for bad things
to gobble upincluding cancer cells. T-lymphocytes have the capability of penetrating tumors and,
if there is enough of them, destroying the tumors.
They do this by ingesting them. Then resultant
waste is carried to the liver where these toxic particles must be sent out in the bile through the gallbladder, into bowel for evacuation.
The cancer tumor needs lots of sugar and protein, but it does not know how to handle protein
properly. In the morass of water around the tumor, the waste protein builds up and produces
toxic results on nearby cells. As they weaken, cancer extends into them.
A sphere of damaged tissue (called a sodium
ring) several times the volume of the tumor, will
surround a typical melanoma. That entire tissue
area is in poor shape: It is waterlogged, clogged
with metabolic waste from the tumor, has poor
immunity, lacks electrical resistance, has poor
blood circulation, and inadequate drainage. It is
remarkably like a clogged sewer.
It is for such reasons that cancer patients, in
the very late stages, emit such strong odors. Tumors have poor waste disposal facilities, and the
body keeps filling with waste products.
Depending on the extent of the tumors, when
the Gerson therapy is applied, that sodium ring
will disappear within weeks. This is because of
the intense tumor attack, waste removal, and rebuilding nutrition the patient is given.
At this juncture, it would be well to mention the problem of waste removal.
Max Gerson had a problem when it came to
waste disposal. His nutritional program produced
such excellent effects in rebuilding cells and destroying tumorsthat an immense amount of
waste material was being sent over to the liver for
disposal.
But Gerson found that the liver could not
handle the load. The body was trying to cast off a
great deal of toxic waste, and the liver was on the
verge of collapsing under the load. We will let Dr.
Gerson explain the problem and the only efficient
way he was able to solve it. Today, the Gerson In-
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stitute still has not found a better way:
These ripe [cancer] cells take it up so fast
and they perhaps grow a little faster but they
soak in more with great greedas much as they
cantogether with a little bit of sodium, probably. But then there isnt much sodium left [in
the cell, as a result of the Gerson program]. So
then these cells pick up potassium and oxidizing enzymes and die by themselves. You have
to realize that cancer cells live essentially on
fermentation but potassium and oxidizing enzymes introduce oxidation. And that is the point
at which we can kill cancer cells, because we
take away the conditions which they need to
continue to live.
But now we have to deal with a mass of dead
cells in the body, in the blood streamand they
have to be eliminated wherever they may be.
And that is not so easy! The ripe [cancer] cells,
the mature cells are very abnormal. These are
much more easily killed than the other cells
which are unripe, not yet mature, and not so
well developed. And there are other cancer cells
in lymph vessels. These are clogged at both ends
by cancer cells. No blood and no lymph can
reach them. There are cancer cells in the glands.
They are hidden there, protected from regular
circulation. So it isnt easy to reach these. At
first it is only the big mass which is killed. But
this dead mass now has to be absorbed wherever it isperhaps in the uterus, perhaps in
the kidney, or in the lung, or in the brainthis
has to be absorbed. This absorption is only
possible through the blood stream. I call this
parenteral digestion. Enteral digestion is in
the intestinal tract. Parenteral digestion takes
place outside of the digestive tract, through the
blood stream. It becomes important then to continually carry on detoxification day and night
in order to bring the parenteral digestion to the
highest point, even to a hyperfunction. How
can this [expelling of waste by the body] be
done? . .
First, we gave some different enemas. I
found out that the best enema is the coffee enema, as it was first used by Prof. O.A. Meyer in
Goettingen. This idea occurred to him when . .
he observed that the bile ducts were opened and
more bile could flow. I felt that this was very
important and I worked out coffee enemas. We
took three heaping tablespoons of ground coffee for one quart of water, let boil for three minutes, then simmer 10 to 20 minutes, and then
gave it at body temperature.
The patients reported that this was doing
them good. The pain disappeared even though
in order to carry through the detoxification, we
had to take away all sedation. [!] I realized that
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son wants to have anything to do with; yet, if dying of cancer, he would do well to consider it. In
such a crisis, it becomes an emergency need.
In the years since Gersons death, informational has come to light on how coffee enemas help
the body rid itself of those terrible toxic substances.
First, a coffee enema can dilate the bile ducts
better than any other known substance, because
of palmitates in the coffee. Experiments on rats
with these palmitate acid salts produced strong
ejection of bile by the liver.
Second, research at the University of Minnesota has revealed that coffee stimulates an enzyme
system in the liver. Called glutathione-S-transferase, it is able to remove a large variety of
electrophiles from the bloodstream. The more
common name for electrophiles is free radicals.
These are charged particles which damage cell
membranes if not eliminated as soon as possible.
The free radicals are adsorbed by the glutathioneS-transferase, which makes them inert.
The above-named enzyme also triggers the enzyme system in the liver which is responsible for
eliminating free radicals (called the ligandine enzymes), to increase in activity up to 700% above
normal. No other substance but coffee can trigger
such intense activity.
These various poisons are made into bile salts
which are ejected vigorously from the liver.
The water in the enema stimulates the visceral
nervous system, producing peristalsis. This helps
the small intestines rush the waste products to
the large bowel, where they are carried out of the
body.
So, in summary, the basic aspects of the Gerson therapy are greatly improved and increased
nutrition; restricted sodium, protein, and calorie
intake; increased potassium and iodine intake;
elimination of free radicals from the bloodstream;
and cleansing of the bloodstream, liver, and intestines.
The result is that the sodium ring around the
tumors disappears, the tumor is penetrated by
potassium, the tumor is eaten by the T-lymphocytes, the toxic waste is taken out of the body, and
the entire system is nutritionally rebuilt.
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Part Six
Herbal Preparations
In this section, we will bring together a
varied collection of data on herbs, as they relate to cancer. It ought to provide worthwhile
help to ongoing medical research.
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THE TOP FIVE HERBAL FORMULAS
LISTED BY FORMULA
Later in this chapter, we will list forty-eight
anti-cancer herbs. But it is well to be able to
work with proven herbal formulas for cancer.
Here are the top four:
1 - THE ESSIAC HERBAL FORMULA
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HOXSEY
Burdock root
Sheep Sorrel
Turkey rhubarb root
Slippery elm bark
Burdock root
SANTILLO
KLOSS
MONTAGNA
Burdock
Sorrel
Burdock root
Slippery elm
Red clover [and Winters]
Barberry bark
Licorice root
Buckthorn bark
Prickly ash
Chaparral [and Winters]
Stillingia root
Cascara amarga
Red clover
Licorice root
Buckthorn bark
Licorice
Prickley ash
Chaparral leaves
Chaparral
Bloodroot
Echinacea
Dandelion root
Blue violet leaves
Sanicle
Ginger
Blood root
Echinacea
Dandelion root
Blue violet leaves
Rock rose
Yellow dock
Goldenseal root
Chickweed
Cleavers
Coral
Virgins bower
Willow
Wood Sage
Poplar
Poke root
Comfrey
Blue flag
Gum myrrh
Aloes (Aloe vera?)
Gravel root
Cayenne, African
Agrimony
Oregon grape
Bloodroot
Echinacea
Dandelion root
Blue violet leaves
Goldenseal root
Cleavers
Poke
Comfrey leaves
Cayenne
Agrimony
Ginseng root
Parsley
Garlic
Gotu kola
Periwinkle
Sassafras
Ground Ivy
Here is a frequency count on the most frequently listed herbs in the above chart:
Five times: Red clover
Four times: Burdock root, chaparral.
Three times: Licorice root, bloodroot, echinacea, dandelion root, blue violet leaves.
Two times: Sorrel, slippery elm, buckthorn bark, prickly ash, goldenseal,
cleavers, poke root, comfrey, African cayenne, agrimony.
One time: All the rest.
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46 SPECIAL HERBS
LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
Here are two of the three herbs in the Jason Winters herbal formula (see page 101 for
more information on Jason Winters and his
formula):
Obtainable in packages at some health-food
stores, the herbal mixture lists red clover, special spice, Indian sage. As you can see, part of
the formula remains a secret.
4 - THE MONTAGNA HERBAL FORMULA
5 - MONO FORMULAS
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Rock parsley)
Pau darco (Tabeluia)
Periwinkle, tropical (Catharanthus roseus,
Vinca rosea)
Poke root (Phytolacca decandra)
Poplar (This could be one of four different
species of poplar, all of which are used as
herbal remedies: Populus tremuloides,
Populus balsamifera, Populus candicans, or
Populus nigra)
Prickly Ash (Xanthoxyhum americanum)
Red clover blossoms (Trifolium pratense, red
clover tops)
Rock rose (Helianthemum candense, Sun rose,
Frostweed)
Sanicle (This could be one of two herbal remedies: American sanicle - Sanicula
marilandica or European sanicle - Sanicula
europaea)
Sassafras (Sassafras officinale)
Slippery elm (Ulmus fulva)
Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Stillingia root (Stillingia sylvatica)
Turkish rhubarb root (or use common rhubarb;
Rheum palmatum).
Virgins bower (Clematis virginiana)
Willow (Salix alba, White willow)
Wood sage (The author could not locate this one
in the herb books.)
Yellow dock root (Rumex crispus)
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QUALITIES DESIRED
IN A CANCER HERBAL FORMULA
Medical researchers, unacquainted with
the field, will appreciate knowing that, in designing an anti-cancer herbal compound, the
best herbal formula for cancer should have
these qualities:
The following herbal listing is, with few exceptions, drawn from the above listing of the herbs
included in the best cancer forumulas. Carefully
examining the information which follows will help
you understand the attributes of each of those
herbs.
1 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should attack and destroy cancer tissue. Of the herbs listed
in the above formulas, here are the ones which
destroy tumors.
DISCUTIENTSThese are herbs which dissolve and remove tumors and abnormal growths.
They can be used as poultices, fomentations, and/
or taken internally.
Burdock root
Chaparral
Garlic
2 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should attack and destroy bacteria and viruses.
Since there is good reason to believe that cancer may be a bacteria or virus, the formula should
include an herb which is antibiotic; that is, which
inhibits the growth of, and destroys, viruses and
bacteria, and strengthens the bodys immune system.
ANTIBIOTICSThese are herbs which inhibit
the growth of, and destroy, viruses and bacteria,
and strengthen the bodys immune system.
Chaparral
Garlic
Echinacea
Goldenseal
Also helpful would be an herb which prevented
the growth of more bacteria during the cleansing
process.
ANTISEPTICSThese herbs prevent the
growth of bacteria.
Barberry
Garlic
Echinacea
Goldenseal
3 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should
purify the blood, in order to help rid the body of
toxins, in general, and also portions of the cancer
tissue as it is being absorbed into the blood stream.
Here are herbs, in the above list, which do this:
ALTERATIVESThese are herbs which purify the blood. They usually do this by cleaning
out the spleen, liver, kidneys, and bowels. As a
rule, these herbs are best used for a lengthy period of time, so that the detoxification will not occur too rapidly and overwhelm the bodys abilities
to discharge those toxins. Of course, nutrition must
be corrected at the same time that alternative herbs
are taken.
Barberry
Goldenseal
Gotu kola
Burdock root
Cayenne
Licorice root
Chaparral
Oregon grape root
Chickweed
Poke root
Cleavers
Prickley ash
Comfrey
Red clover tops
Dandelion
Rhubarb
Echinacea
Sassafras
Garlic
Yellow dock
Ginseng
4 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should help
clean out the liver. This is crucial, since the blood
stream sends the toxins from the broken-down
tumor to the liver to be ejected. When the cleansing occurs too fast (which can easily happen if the
Herbal Preparations
diet and herbal formula is correct), the liver can
become overloadedand stop functioning. This
is called hepatic coma, and death results.
CHOLAGOGUESThese herbs help open the
bile ducts and promote the flow of bile, thus aiding the liver in cleaning itself out.
Barberry
Goldenseal
Cayenne
Yellow dock
Dandelion
Note: The Gerson Institute has found that coffee enemas are far and away the most powerful,
yet safe, means of emptying the bile ducts and thus
cleaning out the liver. But it must only be done
when high levels of nutrients and vitamin and
mineral replacement is being made!
It would be helpful if, at the same time, the
liver could be strengthened. But this may not be
crucial.
HEPATICSThese are herbs which strengthen, tone, and stimulate the secretive functions
of the liver.
Aloe vera
Barberry
5 - It would also be helpful to strengthen
the organs of elimination.
LIVER TONICSThese herbs increase the
energy of the liver.
Barberry
Cleavers
Buckthorn bark Mistletoe
GALLBLADDER TONICSThe following
herbs strengthen the gallbladder.
Goldenseal
Oregon grape root
KIDNEY TOPICSThese herbs strengthen the
kidneys so they can work better.
Burdock root
Mistletoe
Cleavers
INTESTINAL TONICSThese herbs energize
the gastro-intestinal tract.
Barberry
Goldenseal
Cascara sagrada Rhubarb
6 - Additional flushing of toxins is also
needed during the cleansing process.
LYMPHATICSThese herbs stimulate and
cleanse the lymphatic system.
Chaparral
Oregon grape root
Dandelion
Poke root
Echinacea
Yellow dock
Garlic
ANTI-CATARRHALSThese herbs help rid
the body of catarrh.
Bayberry
Garlic
Cayenne
Ginger
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Comfrey
7 - During the cleansing process, it would
be well to help soothe the gastro-intestinal tract.
MUCILAGESThese are herbs which tend to
soothe inflamed parts. Slippery elm is the best of
them.
Chickweed
Slippery elm
Comfrey
8 - It might be helpful if an herb could be
included which relieved pain during the recovery process. Yet it is now known that cancer never
causes pain! It is not the tumor but the toxic overload in the later stages which produces the pain!
As soon as the toxins are being reduced, by elimination through the bowels and kidneys, the pain
which cancer patients are experiencing lessens and
stops. The Gerson Institute has found that, when
pain occurs, coffee enemas flush out the liver and
the pain subsides. They also use chamomile to
lessen gastro-intestinal pains.
NERVINESThese herbs help relieve pain (yet
are unlikely to stop cancer pain since it is caused
by a toxic overload).
Chamomile
Mistletoe
Gravel root
Wood betony
ANODYNESThe following herbs relieve pain.
They do this by decreasing the excitability of the
nerves and nerve centers. Anti-spasmodic (antiparalysis) herbs are quite similar in function.
Echinacea
White willow
SUMMARY
It is of interest that, in the above listings, certain herbs, known to have anti-cancer properties,
are continually repeated. They are:
Burdock root
Echinacea
Barberry
Also repeated frequently are chaparral, goldenseal, mistletoe, dandelion, etc.
In addition, the four Essiac herbs are all there:
Burdock root
Sorrel
Rhubarb root
Slippery elm bark
Working from the above analysis, it would
seem that Essiac, possibly with the addition of
Echinacea and Barberry (please note: Large doses
of barberry are harmful!), could provide the basic herbal formula. Yet it must be kept in mind
that, if too many herbs were added to Essiac,
the balance it already has might be lost. (For
another analysis of Essiac, please turn to pages
57 to 61.)
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SORRELRumex acetosella L.
Same as sheep sorrel, sourgrass. Sorrel helps
flush out toxins through the bowels and kidneys. But it also has anti-tumor properties.
Astringent, diuretic, laxative. Sorrel root has
astringent properties, and a decoction made
from it has been used for hemorrhage . . A tea
made from the leaves and stem is diuretic and
may be helpful for gravel and stones. For mouth
and throat ulcers, a tea made from leaves and
flowers and taken with honey has been recommended. Sorrel leaves are sometimes used like
spinach, particularly for spring cure. Externally, a tea made from the herb can be used as
a wash or fomentation to treat skin diseases
and problems. Caution: Consuming large quantities of sorrel can irritate the kidneys and produce mild to severe poisoning.Lust, 359-360.
Diuretic, antiscorbutic, refrigerant, vermifuge . . It kills putrefaction in the blood, expels
worms, and is warming to the heart . . A tea
from the flowers is good in internal ulcers and
black jaundice; also scurvy, scrofula, and all
skin diseases. A poultice is excellent for cancer, boils, and tumors.Kloss, 315.
Leaf tea of this common European alien traditionally used for fevers, inflammation, scurvy.
Fresh leaves considered cooling, diuretic; leaves
poulticed (after roasting) for tumors, wens (sebaceous cysts); folk cancer remedy . . Warning:
May cause poisoning in large doses, due to high
oxalic acid and tannin content.Foster, 214.
RHUBARBRheum palmatum.
Rhubarb stimulates the bile ducts, so the
liver can flush. It is excellent as a mild laxative
for children or very sick people. It also relieves
stomach troubles, and cleans the bowels. Also
a good blood cleanser.
Common names: Turkey rhubarb, China
rhubarb. Medicinal properties: Vulnerary, tonic,
stomachic, purgative, was atringent, aperient.
Rhubarb is an old-time remedy, very useful
Herbal Preparations
for diarrhea and dysentery in adults and children. An excellent laxative for infants, as it is
very mild and tonic. Excellent to increase the
muscular action of the bowels. Excellent for use
in stomach troubles. Will relieve headache. It
stimulates the gall-ducts, thereby causing the
ejection of bilious materials. Excellent for
scrofulous children with distended abdomens.
Good for the liver. Cleans and tones the bowels.Kloss, 304.
Astringent, laxative, stomachic; alterative,
silagogue. Body parts affected: stomach and intestines . .
Rhubarb is both a laxative and astringent.
Its dual properties make it a good herb for both
diarrhea and constipation. It stimulates the
walls of the colon and the secretory glands of
the stomach and intestines. In small amounts,
rhubarb is an excellent digestive tonic. Judge
the amount on your own. 30 grains given every
2 or 3 hours has stopped diarrhea and hemorrhages in adults. Larger amounts will produce
a laxative effect. If you do not desire a laxative
effect, cut back on the dosage and it will act as
a good tonic and blood cleanser.
Finley Ellingwood, M.D., states in the American Materia Medica, It is the laxative for debilitated patients, or for patients recovering from
prostrating disease. Given to a nursing mother,
like aloe, it relaxes the infants bowels, and in
some cases it is desirable to administer it to
the mother for this purpose.
Rhubarb is used to treat chronic blood diseases. The dosage for a general digestive tonic
and blood cleanser is one teaspoon of the tincture three times daily or one to three capsules
three times daily. Note: Do not use over prolonged periods as it tends to aggravate any tendency toward chronic constipation. Do not use
during pregnancy.Santillo, 167-168.
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ins and pushes them out of the bowels.
Echinacea, especially, would make an excellent addition to the four herbs in Essiac. Yet, even
though it is a powerful anti-tumor agent, the Essiac
herbal formula, just as it is, keeps a nice balance
between some cancer fighting and much cleansing of the toxins from its breakdown. That is extremely important, since it is generally the toxic
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Plains Indians are said to have used Echinacea for more medicinal purposes than any
other plant group. Root (chewed or in tea) used
for snakebites, spider bites, cancers, toothaches, burns, hard-to-heal sores and wounds,
flu, and colds. Science confirms many traditional uses, plus cortisone-like activity; also
insecticidal, bactericidal, and immunostimulant
activities. Considered a nonspecfiic immune
system stimulant. More than 200 pharmaceutical preparations are made from Echinacea
plants in W. Germany, including extracts, salves,
and tinctures, used in wounds, herpes sores,
canker sores, throat infections, preventive for
influenza, colds. A folk remedy for brown recluse spider bites.Foster, 200.
There are nonpoisonous herbs that can purify the blood and kill malignant growths internally or externally, leaving no bad after effects.
Cancer will not survive in a system when the blood
stream is pure. Always take herb teas an hour before drinking fruit juice.
Here is a useful herbal formula: Mix together
as many of the following powdered herbs as possible (all if you can get them): Chaparral, red clover, echinacea, violet leaves, burdock root, licorice root, bloodroot, dandelion root, sanicle,
buckthorn bark, and ginger. Place the mixture
in 00 (double ought) capsules. Take 2 capsules 4
to 6 times daily. Along with this, garlic, carrot juice,
and beet juice could be taken daily. Fluid is needed
to neutralize and flush out the poisons.
Dr. Hans Neiper, a German cancer specialist, uses carnivora, a South American plant.
Here is another anti-cancer herbal combination: Red root, flaxseed, yellow dock, sanicle,
witch hazel, tansy, wood sage, white oak bark,
rock rose, mullein, hops, mugwort, elder, coltsfoot.
This is a herbal tea to take internally: chaparral tea (especially for skin cancer), apricot
seeds, garlic, red clover blossom tea, burdock,
echinacea, black walnut, ginseng, goldenseal,
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MORE HERBAL HELP
In addition to those named earlier (Essiac,
Hoxsey, Winters, and Montagna), here are still
more anti-cancer herbs and formulas. These
should provide a field day for researchers:
As mentioned in the historical section,
mistletoe, pau darco, and chaparral each have
received acclaim for success in, at times, remitting cancer. Of these, pau darco is superior to
HERB TEAS
Herbal Preparations
pau darco, suma, aloe vera, dandelion root, and
violet.
Here is a chaparral formula: Each day 4
chaparral tablets (15 grain) and 9 red clover combination tablets.
Sassafras, red clover, chickweed, and burdock root are good teas to drink, to cleanse the
blood.
The Red Clover Combination (sold by
Natures Way) is similar to Harry Hoxeys formula
which he used for years. Take 4 tablets a day.
Australian tee tree oil (tea tree or
melaleuca) is an anti-fungal agent used to treat
the common fungal infections coating the mouth,
as well as cancer sites. Taking 3-5 drops of
melaleuca oil (ti-tree oil), 3 times a day, in a swallow of water or juice, helps destroy fungus in the
blood. Cancer thrives on fungus in the blood, and
melaleuca is anti-fungal. It is said that many fatal
infections in cancer patients are caused by fungus.
Periwinkle (Vinca Major, Vinca minor) is reported by British physicians to contain a substance
called vinblastine sulphate, which has produced
good results against choriocarcinoma and
Hodgkins disease. Additional research is being
conducted for other types of cancer, including lung
cancer. The leaves are used.
Siberian Ginseng is an adaptogen, which
helps to rectify abnormal cellular metabolism (24 g dried root or 10-20 ml [2.5-5 teaspoon] tincture).
Ginkgo biloba dramatically improves peripheral circulation, and may slow cancer through oxygenation (120 mg).
Milk thistle is a potent liver protector and
detoxifier (70-210 mg in tablet form).
Other anti-cancer herbs include henna,
horehound, juniper berries, mezereon, and
Solomons seal.
Michael Tierra, in the section on Cancer in
his book The Way of Herbs, provides this Pure
Blood Formula: 25% echinacea, 25% chaparral, 10% astragalus, 10% American ginseng, 6%
red clover blossoms, 6% grifola, 4% fu ling (poria cocos), 4% licorice, 4% cayenne, 3% cascara sagrada, 3% kelp. Grifola is not defined or
even mentioned anywhere else in that book.
Do not forget the special plant formula, mentioned earlier in this book under comfrey: 5 parts
comfrey root, 17 parts comfrey leaves, 7 parts
comfrey blossoms, 10 parts red clover, 2 parts
myrrh gum, 6-8 parts yucca, 9 parts chaparral,
5-6 parts wormwood, 1 part goldenseal, 2 parts
licorice, 1 part argillaceous earth (redmond clay,
dolomite, etc.).
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If a patient cannot be outdoors, place him in
a room with sunshine coming through the windows. It should be properly ventilated at all times.
He should exercise as much as he can indoors,
breathing deeply as he does it.
For the weak patient who is unable to exercise out-of-doors, a daily massage is essential. After about ten days, the rubs may be reduced to
one or more weekly.
If he is not thin, give him frequent sweat
baths, followed by salt glows (rubbing his arms,
trunk, and legs with cloth mittens dipped in salt).
This helps eliminate more poisons. Place a towel,
wrung out of cold water, around the neck to keep
the head cool. Change it frequently during the
sweat bath. If he has heart trouble, place an ice
bag over the heart.
If he is strong enough, give him a cold, damp
towel rub every morning. Alternately placing hot
and cold packs on the liver, stomach, spleen, and
spine will also help. (Also place it over the abdomen, if the problem is in the bowels or pelvis.)
Also place an herbal liniment over the affected area
and on the back.
Queen of the meadow is an antiseptic used
to treat disease of the uterus and cancer of the
womb.
Here is an herbal formula used by one herbalist for malignancies: pumpkin seeds, mandrake,
comfrey, violet, culvers root, cascara sagrada,
witch hazel, mullein, and slippery elm.
To make the herbal liniment, mix 2 ounces
powdered myrrh, one ounce powdered goldenseal,
ounce cayenne pepper, 1 quart rubbing alcohol
(70% strength). After mixing, let stand for 7 days;
shake well every day; decant off the top liquid (without disturbing the sediment beneath); and bottle
the liquid.
Blue violet (Viola odorata) is used internally and externally for tumors and other malignant growths. Blue violet seems to be able to reach
places only the blood and lymphatic fluids penetrate. The flowers and leaves are used.
Here is an herbal formula to help cleanse
the blood. It has been recommended for cancer by
an experienced herbalist:
Burdock - blood purifier, promotes kidney
function, to clear the blood of harmful acids.
Yellow dock - nutritive tonic very high in iron,
nourishes the liver and spleen.
Chaparral - cleans deep into the muscles and
tissue walls; cleans system of toxic wastes.
Dandelion - helps liver to detoxify poisons,
blood purifier and cleanser, rich in vitamins and minerals.
Barberry - promotes bile in the liver to clean
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Part Seven
Putting it All Together
SORTING OUT THE SYSTEMS
This chapter represents the opinion of the
author as to what may possibly be the best
method for medical researchers to produce regression of malignancies. That does not mean
it is actually the best, nor that anyone other
than a medical expert should use it. Read
again the warnings, given at the beginning of
this book, against self-therapy.
This book is particularly written for researchers; and, throughout it, the need for additional
research has been indicated, along with a wealth
of fields of study which need to be explored or
expanded on.
But research into individual herbs, chemicals,
or extracts is not really the full solution to the cancer problem. It is obvious that an overall change
in ones way of life is required in order to experience fullest success in ridding the cancer curse
from the body.
Researchers, I appeal to you: Carry out testing on broad areas of change, not just microcosms here and there! We are past that point.
There is enough nutritional, and other, data in
hand, to formulate a very effective overall program!
However, so much information has been included in this book, that it can appear quite daunting to put it together into a carefully balanced, systematic whole. So, in this section we will overview
and summarize many of the areas, covering the
best of the findings.
First, let us categorize the cancer therapies discussed in Parts Two to Four:
CHEMICALS
ment.
Revici used chemicals to correct lipid/fatty
acids and pH balance.
Sheridan used a chemical to inhibit cancer
respiration.
Blumer used chelation chemicals.
Naessens used chemicals for leukemia. He
also injected a camphor nitrogen compound into the lymph system.
Gold used hydrazine sulphate
Livingston used a vaccine to kill cancer
bacteria, along with nutrition and lifestyle
changes.
Rosenow used hydrogen peroxide.
ANTIBIOTICS
Lincoln used parasitic viruses (bacteriophages) to feed on, and destroy, cancercausing microorganisms.
GLANDULAR EXTRACTS
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whole wheat.
Krebs, Sr., Krebs, Jr., Richardson, Evers,
and others used a purified extract from
apricot kernels. Richardson, Kowan, and
Contreras added major nutritional
changes.
CAREFUL DIET
Some researchers have developed a wide-ranging anti-cancer program. This would include
Bulkley, Chase, Kloss, Evers, some laetrile physicians, and the Gerson Institute.
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WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH?
There are so many cancer treatment methods,
that it almost bewilders the mind. A researcher
might wonder where to start, what to do.
Certain principles need to be kept in mind:
1 - Use no method which is poisonous.
2 - Use substances and techniques which
people can use at home.
3 - Use a rounded approach which covers
all needed aspects.
4 - Use a method which has shown itself,
for years, to be a proven method.
It is too late to spend time experimenting
with new things, all the while that people are
dying all over the world! There are enough methods which have been shown to work; let us focus on the best of them.
Researchers, some of your patients will prefer to avoid all the problems and just continue
on as they arebut continuing to do whatever
they have done in the past is what gave them
the cancer!
Some will want to obtain orthodox therapy.
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(3) - Of very great importance, it provides a
means of accelerating the discharge of toxins
from the body, toxins stirred up by the entire
program and the gradual dissolution of the cancer sitethrough special enemas, and castor
oil.
It is this thorough approach which is so crucial. It is not enough to kill the tumor; it must
be removed from the body. It is not enough to
do both; the entire body must be nourished back
to a strong, healthy condition.
The cancer tissue must be attacked, reduced,
and dissolvedwithout injuring surrounding normal tissue.
The cancer patient generally dies from liver
overload (hepatic coma), not from the cancer. So
much toxins have been sent to the liver to be processed and discharged out through the bowels, that
the liver collapses under the burden. Vigorous measures to discharge the toxins from the liver, through
the bile, must be carried out.
The blood stream, organs, and tissues must
be built up, and major diet and lifesytle changes
must be madeor the cancer will later return.
The Gerson therapy also makes use of other
worthwhile methods, as well: iodine, oxygen, potassium, heat therapy, laetrile, Essiac, Pau darco,
and selective vitamin therapy.
Health researchers, the people need education; they need instruction, so they can henceforth care for themselves and help still others.
There simply are not enough physicians available for all the people suffering from disease.
In addition, the costs of medical treatment in
the hospitals keeps skyrocketing, due to hightech equipment and high-priced drugs and surgery. The only solution is to teach the people
how to take care of themselves.
Clinicians, you would need to instruct each
patient to order a copy of A Gerson Primer, by the
staff of the Gerson Institute (currently $19.95).
Also helpful is A Cancer Therapy, by Max Gerson
(currently $19.95). In the latter book, tell him to
read 187-248 and 391-422; and explain that the
actual program is summarized on 235-248.
In the Primer, the patient will find the entire
program, including information not found in Cancer Therapy (such as more detailed instruction
on how to do the program at home).
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WHAT WOULD I DO IF I HAD CANCER?
This present book has so much information
on the subject, that it is difficult to know where to
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obtain thorough help somewhere! The dietetic
problems at Gerson are better than letting people
cut me up or fill me with chemical poisons.
I am also deeply impressed by the fact that
the Gerson Clinic has a better long-term survival record than the laetrile clinics.
By application of these principles, the
Gerson Therapy is able to achieve almost routine recovery90% or betterfrom early to intermediate cancer. When cancer becomes incurable by orthodox methods (i.e., involves the liver
or pancreas or is metastasized inside the body),
about 50% recoveries can be achieved by the
Gerson method.
Norman Fritz gives laetrile as an example
of other good nontoxic therapies. It has a good
short-term responserelief from pain, remission of malignancy, improvement in appetite
and sense of well-being or increase in strength
in 70% or 80% of cancer cases. The long-term
recovery rate, however, is about 15% or less. In
most cases degeneration progresses to where
the laetrile is no longer sufficient. In some cases
other nontoxic therapies may be constructively
combined with the Gerson Therapy.
The other big advantage of the Gerson
Therapy is that it usually heals the body of all
the degenerative diseases rather than just healing cancer. Many cancer patients are suffering
from other degenerative conditions alsoarthritis, heart conditions, diabetes, etc.Cancer
News Journal, 1983 Update.
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caused by the need to flush out toxins! The
Gerson enemas remarkably stop those pains,
because it flushes out those accumulating poisons. Individuals with an advanced tumor have
died because they did not remain on the special
Gerson enemas, which so rapidly flush toxins out
of the liver.
Well, what is the Gerson faster-flushing
method? It involves the use of coffee enemas.
These cause signals to go to the bile ducts, and
they open up wide. The toxins from the dissolving tumors are sent through the bloodstream to
the liver to be discharged through the gallbladder into the bowel. But the liver can only work
so fast. A toxic overload of the liver causes toxins to back up throughout the body and pain is
felt. Too much overload and the liver stops functioningand this is called hepatic coma.
People die, not from cancer, but either from
hepatic coma or from cachexia, which is general
starvation also due to toxic overload in the liver.
Therefore, it is obviously of extreme importance that the body and the liver be cleansed of
those toxins, which are being cast off by the system! It is a life and death matter.
The Gerson faster-flush method uses:
Coffee enemas, for the most rapid flushing
of the liver.
Additional nutrients to replace minerals and
vitamins lost from the liver during this time. Unfortunately, that includes liver extract.
Because a faster flush is in progress, castor oil is needed to help clean bile out of the stomach and help push the liver-ejected toxins out of
the bowels.
Chamomile tea and peppermint tea are also
helpful.
Perhaps my condition is such that I do not
need the faster-flush. But if I am in pain and
deteriorating, I had best carefully rethink my
situation.
In addition to whatever level of the Gerson
therapy I might go on, I can also do some other
things which will in no wise interfere with the
therapy, but actually help improve the situation. I can take:
The Essiac formula. That is the only herb
formula I would take, unless I chose to add a
little echinacea (and possibly a very small amount
of barberry) to it (see pp. 161-165). After writing this book, I have the most respect for
Essiac and the Gerson therapy. They have
the longest and best track records.
Vitamin C.
Laetrile.
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Pau darco. This contains the same cancerfighting chemical that is in chaparral, but without
the side effects of chaparral.
Fever therapy. Details are given in the Gerson
Primer, 11 (4th edition; p. 13 in the 3rd); I must
read it carefully before attempting to do this!
Poultices, etc., over surface, or near-surface,
tumors.
I can also take certain vitamin supplements; but, if I have cancer, certain other ones
should be avoidedsince they excite the already
overworked liver too much.
Niacin is excellent.
Vitamin C, of course, is also.
According to Gerson, I must avoid the use of
Vitamins A, E, most B complex, and B6. However, niacin (B3) is especially useful. Both A and
E are picked up by the cancer cells and energize
those cells. (In contrast, pro-vitamin A, which is
beta-carotene is excellent to use.)
I must recognize that, once I begin the program, I may have to remain on portions of it for
the remainder of my life. There is the very real
danger that a later relapse could be irreversible,
and death would follow. This does happen!
I may eventually reduce the number of juices
taken daily, and drop the enemas, etc. But I must
remain on the preventive points listed in Part One
of this book.
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Additional Information
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Part Eight
Additional Information
THE AUTHORIZED TREATMENTS
Since this book is primarily written to
medical researchers, it is well to clarify another reason for the great urgency in your
conducting cancer research. The avenues for
treatment, at present, are not good!
In this brief chapter, it will be shown that, unfortunately, even the officially authorized (often referred to as the orthodox) treatments for cancer
are themselves seriously flawed!
Medical researchers, we need your help, in
developingand convincingthe medical establishment in America to use better methods
of dealing with this most terrible of diseases!
It is frequently said that the orthodox cancer
treatments are cures. In the American Cancer
Societys book, Unproven Methods of Cancer Management, updated periodically, the reader is told:
Unfortunately, many patients with curable
cancer leave the care of competent physicians
to be treated with a worthless unproven remedy until a cure by accepted methods of treatment becomes impossible.American Cancer
Society, Unproven Methods of Cancer Management, 1971 Edition, 1.
able modern curative methods (surgery or radiation) would thereby be delayed potentially
until such time as metastasis had occurred and
the cancer therefore might no longer be curable.California State Health and Safety
Code, Section 10400.1.
Metastasis does have significant risks, because it requires cutting through the protective wall keeping the cancer bottled up. When
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body where the radiation treatment focused may
have been burned out, but the surrounding tissue has tended to have cancer induced into it!
Energy from the ultraviolet rays of sunlight,
and ionizing radiations from X-rays, radium,
and other radioactive materials encountered in
industry and in the general environment cause
a variety of cancers. The pioneer workers with
radium and X-rays developed cancers of the
skin. Even now, radiologists and others exposed
to high total doses of ionizing radiation are more
likely to develop leukemia than persons not so
exposed. Uranium miners have been found to
have a higher than normal incidence of lung
cancer.Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, 764.
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early detection, there are four or five new cancers produced by these X-rays . . In my view
this entire matter has become so serious that
the NCI would be better off putting the money
allotted for future screenings into a trust fund
for the victims of the program who will develop
cancer in ten to fifteen years time.Erwin
Bross, M.D., National Inquirer, November 30,
1976, 49.
That article was written because Dr. Bross, director of biostatistics at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute of Cancer Research, called for an immediate stoppage to chest X-rays. He charged that
the ACS and NCI had ignored the objections of
scientists,so they could obtain government
grants of $54 million to carry out the screening.
Yet cancer radiation treatments are far worse!
X-rays cause cancer; they do not cure it. Radiation therapy helps no one. The following statement is from the report of the National Surgical
Adjuvant Breast Project:
From the data available it would seem that
the use of post-operative irradiation has provided no discernible advantage to patients so
treated in terms of increasing the proportion
who were free of disease for as long as five
years.B. Fisher, et., al., Postoperative Radiotherapy and the Treatment of Breast Cancer; Results of the NSABP Clinical Trials, Annals of Surgery, October 1970.
Dr. Phillip Rubin, Chief of the Division of Radiotherapy at the University of Rochester Medical
School, summarized their analysis of the value of
radiation therapy for cancer in these words:
The clinical evidence and statistical data in
numerous reviews are cited to illustrate that
no increase in survival has been achieved by
the addition of irraditation.Phillip Rubin,
The Controversial Status of Radiation
Therapy in Lung Cancer, Speech delivered to
the Sixth National Cancer Conference, sponsored by the ACS and the NCI, Denver, Colorado, September 18-20, 1968.
In the chapter on Mutations in his book, Origin of Life (Volume Two of the three-book Evolution Disproved Series), the present author wrote
an article, entitled Evolutionists Paradise (pp.
424-427). It recounts the stories of the Chernobyl
meltdown (April 27, 1990) and the Hiroshima
nuclear blast (August 6, 1945). In both instances,
large amounts of radiation were released. Predict-
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Indeed, Dr. George Friou declared that the formation of new cancer cells is not unusual, but
are normally overcome by the immune system,
before they develop into a recognizable malignancy. But, in order to do that, the immune
system must not be in a shattered state. (George
J. Friou, M.D., Relationship of Malignancy, Autoimmunity, and Immunological Disease, Annals
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130.
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more dangerous! The quicker they apply the
cut, burn, and poison, the quicker you will die.
Six years later, Dr. Jones must have retired,
for then he really told it straight. Read this and
burn it into your memory:
You see, it is not the cancer that kills the
victim. Its the breakdown of the defense mechanism that eventually brings death.
With every cancer patient who keeps in
excellant physical shape and boosts his health
to build up his natural resistance, theres a high
chance that the body will find its own defense
against cancer. He may have many good years
left in good health. He shouldnt squander them
by being made into a hopeless invalid through
radical intervention which has zero chance of
extending his life.Hardin Jones, Ph.D.,
quoted in Midnight, September 1, 1975.
It is utter nonsense to claim that catching
cancer symptoms early enough will increase the
patients chances of survival. Not one medical
scientist or study has proven that in any way . .
My studies have proved conclusively that
untreated cancer victims actually live up to four
times longer than treated individuals.Hardin
B. Jones, Ph.D., quoted in Daniel S. Greenberg,
Cancer: Now the Bad News, Private Practice,
May 1975, 68.
CONCLUSION
Research scientists, the proven cures of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy do not exist.
We need your help. Give us something better,
something based on better living, which will give
us longer living.
We have spent billions, multiplied over and
over again, on cancer research and treatment.
The money spent has accomplished nothing.
There is no such thing as a fight against cancer. Every year, the number of people dying of
cancer increases.
1900 - 62 per thousand.
1910 - 76.2 per thousand.
1933 - 105 per thousand.
1948 - 143 per thousand.
1976 - 171 per thousand.
1995 - 237 per thousand.
A typical edition of the book, Unproven Methods, published by the American Cancer Society,
lists 58 unproven methods of treating cancer. By
this is meant that these 58 methods have not been
tested by the ACS, SKI, or NIH, and shown to be
worthwhile.
On that annotated list only about 10 were examined. Some were given a cursory examination
and the notation of no investigation.
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LOCAL TESTS
You will want to purchase the book, Gerson
Primer, from the Gerson Institute, and then turn
to the chapter on testing. It will explain in some
detail how to interpret lab tests which you can
have done locally.
Gerson InstituteFor most people, the U.S.
address and phone number will be easier to
work with: Gerson Institute, P.O. Box 430,
Bonita, California 91908. Phone: 619-5857600 or 619-267-1150. Fax: 619-367-6441.
Automated voice information 24 hrs/day: 1888-4-GERSON.
Web: www.hospital-meridien.com/meridien
Email: [email protected]
You may wish to take one or both of the
following two tests. One does not have to take
both tests. Generally the first, the urine test is
quite adequate to provide the needed information.
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Beard (no relation to John Beard), formerly of
Yale and Chicago Medical School, devised a test
which quickly showed the presence of HCGH
in a urine specimenbut also measured the
quantity. Thus it could gauge the extent of any
cancerous action in the persons bodybefore
that person could otherwise know he had cancer! The test proved to be 95% accurate. It was
called the Beard Anthrone Test for Cancer. Although developed in the U.S., it was banned.
In Manila, Manuel D. Navarro, M.D., of the
Santo Tomas University Medical School, made
modifications to the test and raised its accuracy in extended tests to 97% (actually 97% to
100%). He reported on its success in 42 cases in
the July-August issue of the Santo Tomas Journal of Medicine. This test is commonly known as
the Philippine Urinalysis Test for Cancer.
Navarro found the test could forecast cancer up to two years before it could be detected
by present medical techniques.
This quantitative urinalysis is now available
in the Philippines and other countries, to determine the amount of human chorionic gonadotropin hormone in the urine. This hormone is present in all types of cancer, including leukemia; and the directions for taking the
sample, partial processing, and mailing are not
too difficult for the average person. This test is
banned in the United States, but individuals have
the right to take it by mail.
Dr. Nararros method was exhibited at the International Cancer Congress in Tokyo, but our government (NIH), the ACS, and the SKI showed little
interest.
It is believed by some that, if a person had
advance warning of the onset of the disease, he
might take time to think through his treatment
options, along with ways to possibly improve
his diet and way of life. But, learning later that
he has the problem, he is more likely to panic and
accept surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.
Here is the formula for the Philippine Test.
The following information comes from a booklet, published by the International Health
Council:
Do not send a sample from a patient who is
pregnant, is using birth control pills or estrogen or other female hormones, is using toxic
chemotherapy, is showing more than 100 mg
of albumin or a moderate amount of blood, is
bedridden, has lost a lot of weight, had intercourse within 12 hours, or has a badly depleted
liver. It takes one month to clear hormones or
toxic chemotherapy from the system, so an accurate reading can be made.
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A. Urine Sample Processing:
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International Interpretation
Units
0
doubtful
30-50
faintly positive
200-409
moderately positive
500-700
definitely positive
1,000-3,000
definitely positive
4,000
definitely positive
5,000
definitely positive
6,000
definitely positive
8,000-15,000
markedly positive
20,000-40,000 heavy positive
60,000-100,000 very heavy positive
over 200,000
excessively positive
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with plain, water dry with tissue, clean with alcohol or acetone, and try again.
b <
c >
(6. Allow blood smear to air dry thoroughly,
but do not heat or blow on it.
(7. Fix the smear by immersing in pure
methol alcohol for 5 minutes and let air dry
thoroughly. After fixing and drying, cover the
smear with the second slide for protection.
(8. Sandwich slides carefully between two
thick pieces of cardboard. Scotch tape the
edges; write name and address on the cardboard cover; enclose age, date, date of previous test, and money order in an envelope,
marked Hand Stamp. Mail (not registered or
special) to: Laboratorio Del Mar, P. O. Box 3973,
San Ysidro, California 92073.
Interpretation of report: M Monocytes
(damaged) 0%-49%, normal; over 50%, Positive
malignancy. N Neutrophyls (damaged) 0%-19%,
normal; over 20% Positive malignancy. L Lymphocytes (small competent), body resistance
Poor: 1%-10%, Fair: 11%-25%, Good: Above
25%.International Health Council, A Program for the Prevention and Detection of PreCancer, 10-12.
TEST ADDRESSES
URINE TESTSAir mail the sample to:
Manuel D. Navarro, M.D.
3553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace
Santa Mesa, Manila 2806
Philippines
BLOOD TESTSMark handstamp and mail
the sample (not registered nor special) to:
Laboratorio Del Mar
P.O. Box 3973
San Ysidro, California 92073
GERSON BLOOD TESTSBlood tests for
patients on the Gerson therapy, are sent to:
Gerson physician (caring for you)
c/o Hospital Baja California
Chula Vista, CA 91912
Fax direct dial from U.S.: 011-52-66-80-29-08
Fax from other countries: 52-66-80-29-08
If any of the above addresses goes out of business, current addresses of testing services could
be obtained either from the Gerson Institute (address given immediately above) or from one of the
laetrile or other alternative therapy clinics. Those
addresses are listed under Therapies at the back
of this book.
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GLOSSARY
Ab-dom-i-no-per-i-ne'al re-sec'tionThe large
bowel is cut above the cancer and the open
end brought out of the abdomen. The tumor
and all the bowel from the tumor to the anus
is removed and the anus sewn shut. The
patient then has bowel movements from an
opening on his abdomen.
Ad-e-no-ac-an-tho'maAdenocarcinoma in
which some cells have undergone squamous
metaplasia. A cancer cell that looks scalelike under a microscope.
Ad-e-no-car-cin-o'maA malignant adenoma
arising from epithelium of a glandular organ.
A cancer which has its origin in the covering
of an internal or external surface of the body.
Ad-e-no'ma-tousPertaining to adenomas.
Pertaining to tumors arising from coverings
of an internal or external surface of the body.
Ad-e-nop'a-thySwelling and morbid change in
lymph nodes, glandular disease, swollen
glands.
Al'ky-lat-ing a'gent1. A substance which
introduces an alkyl radical into a compound
in place of a hydrogen atom. 2. A chemotherapeutic agent capable of destroying
human cells (cancer and non-cancer cells) at
all stages in the cells life cycle.
An-a-plast'ticPertaining to anaplasia. The
change of a cell to a more primitive type,
often associated with cancer.
Car-ci-no'maAn epithelial cell growth or
malignant tumor, enclosed in connective
tissue, and tending to infiltrate and give rise
to metastases. Cancer.
Cer'vi-cal1. Of, pertaining to, or in the region
of the neck. 2. Pertaining to the cervix of an
organ, as the cervix uteri.
Cer'vi-cal ver'te-braeFirst seven bones of the
spinal column.
Coli'tisInflammation of the colon.
Co-los'to-myIncision of the colon for the
purpose of making a more or less permanent
fistula between the bowel and the abdominal
wall. A surgical procedure after which the
patient has bowel movements from a hole in
the abdomen.
Co-ni-za'tionExcision of a cone of tissue, as of
the mucous membrane of the cervix. The
purpose of removing the cone of tissue is to
see if the tissue is cancerous.
cu-ret'tingsMaterial surgically scraped from a
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root, origin, or original. 3. Radical surgery is
that surgery in which large amounts of tissue
or bone are removed.
RadsRad is an abbreviation for a radiationabsorbed dose. It is the unit of measure used
in calculating how much radiation a body
part will receive.
Re'nalPertaining to the kidney. 2. Shaped like
a kidney.
Re-tic'u-lo-cyteA red blood cell containing a
network of granules or filaments representing an immature stage in development.
Re-tic'u-lumA network formed by cells or
connective tissues between cells.
Rhab-do-myo-sar-co'maCancer arising from
muscle tissue which appears rod-shaped
under a microscope.
Sar-co'maCancer arising from underlying
tissue: muscle, bone, and other connective
tissue. May affect the bones, bladder, kidneys, liver, lungs, parotids, and spleen.
Scir'rhousHard, like a scirrhus. A hard
cancerous tumor caused by overgrowth of
fibrous tissue.
Si'tus (in si-tu)In situ means in position or in
place. Cancer in situ refers to a small cancer
which has not yet eaten nearby tissue.
Squa'mousScale-like.
Ste-no'sisConstriction or narrowing of a
passage or orifice. Stenosis can be caused by
the hard fibrous scar tissue which can be
formed following radiation.
Tho-ra'cicPertaining to the chest or thorax.
Trans-u-re'thralPertaining to an operation
performed through the urethra.
Tu-me-fac'tionA swelling. Act of swelling or
the state of being swollen. 3. A tumor. (The
word tumefaction is used frequently in place
of the word, cancer, or malignant tumefaction.)
U're-terOne of two tubes carrying urine from
the kidneys to the bladder.
Ze'ro-gramA type of X-ray. This special X-ray
shows all tissue in bas-relief.
Ze-ro-mam'mo-gramA type of X-ray of the
breast.
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ORGANIZATIONS
The following organizations are especially active on the political front, and are also clearinghouses, able to provide you with information on
places where alternative treatment may be obtained. There is a wealth of data available here!
Alliance for Alternative Medicine. P.O. Box 59,
Liberty Lake, WA 99019 Ph: 509-255-9246.
A political action group for freedom of choice
in medicine. Also provides information about
alternative treatment centers and support
groups.
Arlin J. Brown Information Center. P.O. Box
251, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 Ph: (703) 7529511
A clearinghouse for information regarding
alternative cancer therapies. Information
available upon request.
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Cancer Control Society. 2043 North Berendo
Street, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Ph: (213)
663-7801
Provides listings and information on alterative cancer treatment centers and patients
who have recovered from various cancers
using alternative therapies. Particular emphasis on metabolic therapies. Also sponsors an annual convention showcasing 40-50
alternative practitioners who treat cancer.
The CCS publishes a magazineCancer
Control Journalwith news and features on
alternate therapies. It maintains the Cancer
Book House with books and reprints on
nutrition, cancer, and other related diseases. Price list available on request.
Foundation for Advancement in Cancer
Therapy. P.O. Box 1242, Old Chelsea Station,
New York, NY 10113 Ph: (212) 741-2790.
A clearinghouse for information regarding
alternative cancer therapies, emphasizing
nutritional and metabolic approaches.
International Association for Cancer Victors
and Friends. 7740 West Manchester Avenue
Suite 110, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 Ph:
(310) 822-5032. Provides information and
listings on alternative cancer treatment
centers and patients who have recovered
from cancer using alternative methods.
Focus is on cancer treatments and scientific
research conducted around the world.
People Against Cancer. P.O. Box 10, Otho, Iowa
50569 Ph: (515) 972-4444
A nonprofit grassroots membership organization dedicated to cancer prevention and
medical freedom of choice. Provides counseling and information on alternative cancer
treatments.
World Research Foundation. 15300 Ventura
Boulevard, Suite 405, Sherman Oaks, CA
91403 Ph: (818) 907-5483
Large research library of alternative medicine. Library is open to the public. Provides
a computer search and printout of specific
health issues for a nominal fee.
Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer
Therapy, Inc., 146 Main Street, Suite 408,
Los Altos, CA 94022
The Committee for Freedom of Choice in
cancer is a nonprofit organization, subsisting
on contributions from its committees and
friends. The committees main activity has
been to lobby for the legalization of laetrile.
Publishes The Choice.
International Association of Cancer Victims
and Friends. 7740 Manchester Avenue,
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Suite 110, Playa del Rey, CA 90291 Ph:
(213) 822-5032
Publishers of the Cancer News Journal, a
laymans journal for laymen and professionals. The IACVF describes itself as a charitable, educational, nonprofit organization
that serves as a clearinghouse for the accumulation of material on nontoxic cancer
therapies and other related topics for laymen
and professionals. As a lay organization we
cannot prescribe, only provide enlightenment
on the current status of various cancer
therapies, approaches to prevention, and
research achievements.
National Health Federation. P.O. Box 688, 212
West Foothill Boulevard, Monrovia, CA
91016 Ph: (213) 357-2181
The National Health Federation is Americas
largest organized non-commercial health
consumer group. It is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1955. Its members believe
that health freedoms are inherently guaranteed to us as human beings, and our right to
them as Americans is implied in the words
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . .
The NHF opposes monopoly and compulsion
in things related to health where the safety
and welfare of others are not concerned . .
The NHF publishes the National Health
Federation Bulletin and Public Scrutiny.
Second Opinion. P.O. Box 548, Bronx, NY
10468
Second Opinion is the voice of rank-and-file
employees of Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center. It presents news and opinions of the Center and the cancer field from
the employees point of view . . In cancer, we
believe in putting prevention first; making
research relevant to human diseases; an
open-minded policy toward new and unorthodox methods; making the best treatment
available to all people; taking the profits out
of cancer.
Cancer Federation. P.O. Box 52109, Riverside,
CA 92517 Ph: (714) 682-7989.
CanHelp. 3111 Paradise Bay Road, Port Ludlow,
WA 98365 Ph: (206) 437-2291
National Self-Help Clearinghouse, 25 West
43rd Street, Room 620, New York, NY 10036
Nutrition Education Association, Inc., 3647
Glen Haven, Houston, Texas 77025 Ph:
(713) 665-2946
Patient Advocates for Advanced Cancer
Treatments, Inc. (PAACT), 1143 Parmelee
NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Ph: (616) 4531477
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Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine, 1180 Walnut Avenue, Chula Vista, CA
92011 Ph: 800-227-4473
International Academy of Nutrition and
Prevention Medicine. P.O. Box 18433,
Asheville, NC 28814 Ph: (704) 258-3243
International Association of Cancer Victors &
Friends. 7740 W. Manchester Ave. No. 110,
Playa del Rey, CA 90293 Ph: (213) 822-5032
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. 440 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
91945. Ph: (415) 327-4064
Orthomolecular Project Cure. 5910 North
Central Expressway, Suite 760, Dallas, Texas
75206 Ph: (214) 891-6111, Legal Issues.
Syracuse Cancer Research Institute, Inc.
Presidential Plaza, 600 East Genesee Street,
Syracuse, NY 13202 Ph: (315) 472-6616,
Hydrazine sulfate.
Ann Wigmore Foundation. 196 Commonwealth
Ave., Boston, MA 02116 Ph: (617) 267-9424,
Nutrition.
International Health Council. 15328 Edolyn
Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44111
For additional information on orthodox treatments, and reasons why alternative therapies are
not accepted, contact one or more of the following: They will explain it to you.
American Cancer Society. 777 Third Avenue,
New York, NY 10017 Ph: 202-371-2900 Ph:
(212) 371-2900
American Medical Association. 535 North
Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Ph:
(312) 751-6000
Food and Drug Administration. 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20852 Ph: (202) 2451144
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 1275
York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Ph: (212)
794-7000
National Cancer Institute. 9000 Rockville Pike,
Bethesda, MD 20012 Ph: (301) 496-6641
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THERAPIES
Listed here are all of the alternative therapy clinics and hospitals mentioned throughout the book, plus some additional ones. Patients at nearly every one are treated under
the supervision of M.D.s.
Laetrile: Contreras ClinicHospital Earnesto
Contreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19,
Tijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-801850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795
(Rest of U.S.A.).
Laetrile: Navarro ClinicManuel D. Navarro,
M.D., 3553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace
Santa Mesa, Manila 2806 Philippines.
Laetrile: Richardson ClinicJohn A.
Richardson, M.D., Clinic in Albany, California.
Gerson TherapyFor most people, the U.S.
address and phone number will be easier to
work with: Gerson Institute, P.O. Box 430,
Bonita, California 91908. Phone: 619-5857600 or 619-267-1150. Fax: 619-367-6441.
Automated voice information 24 hrs/day: 1888-4-GERSON.Web: www.hospital-meridien.com/meridien
Email: [email protected].
Gerson Institute: MexicoThe primary Gerson
treatment center is Hospital Meridien, Lava
#2971, Secc. Costa Hermosa, Playas de
Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP22240. Phone:
011-52-66-801358. Fax: 011-52-66-801831.
Web: [email protected]. Hospital Meridien
is 30 minutes south of downtown San Diego.
Gerson Institute: ArizonaA recently opened
U.S. treatment center is the Gerson Center at
Sedona, 78 Canyon Diablo, Sedona, AZ
86351. Phone or write the Bonita, California,
office, above. GCS, the Sedona facility, is
located 100 miles north of Phoenix, and 28
miles south of Flagstaff, near Sedona, a
small town of 8,000
Hospital Santa Monicac/o Dr. Ross Pelton,
P.O. Box 81365, San Diego, 92138-1365
(The hospital is located in Tijuana, Mexico.)
Hoxsey TherapyBio-Medical Center, P.O. Box
727, 615 General Ferreira, Colonia Juarez
Tijuana, Mexico 22000
Ph: 011-52-66-84-9011 / 011-52-66-849081 011-52-66-84-9082 / 011-52-66-849376
Antineoplaston TherapyBurzynski Clinic,
6221 Corporate Drive, Houston, TX 77036
Ph: 713-777-8233
Chelation TherapyAmerican College of Advancement of Medicine, 23121 Verdugo
Drive, Suite 204, Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Ph: 714-583-7666; 800-532-3688
714XC.O.S.E., Inc., 5270 Fontaine, Rock
Forest, Quebec, Canada J1N3B6 Ph: 819564-7883
Syracuse Cancer Research InstitutePresidential Plaza, 600 East Genesee Street, Syra-
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cuse, NY 13202 Ph: (315) 472-6616
Immuno-Augmentative Therapy CenterP.O.
Box F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph:
(809) 352-7455
IAT Patients Support GroupMr. Frank
Wiewel, P.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50569-0010
Ph: (515) 972-4444
Issels Whole Body TherapyAkbar Clinc,
4000 East 3rd Street, Panama City, FL
32404 Ph: (904) 763-7689
Kelleys Nutritional Metabolic Therapy
Nicholas Gonzales, M.D., 737 Park Avenue,
New York, NY 10021 Ph: (212) 535-3993
Revici TherapyEmanuel Revici, M.D., 26 East
36th Street, New York, 10016 Ph: (212) 6850111
Livingston TherapyLivingston Foundation
Medical Center, 3232 Duke Street, San Diego
CA 92110 Ph: (619) 224-3515 [By State
order, Livingston no longer gives the special
injection.]
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SUPPLY SOURCES
SUBSTANCES AVAILABLE AT MOST HEALTH
FOOD STORESVitamin C, vitamin E,
beta-carotene, omega-3 (flaxseed oil), germanium-132, chaparral, pau darco,
SUBSTANCES WHICH MAY BE PURCHASED
FROM OVERSEAS MAIL-ORDER COMPANIES, OR FROM MEXICAN CLINICS
USING ITHydrazine sulfate, clodronate,
isoprinosine, urea (urea may also be purchased inexpensively in the U.S.)
ANTINEOPLASTONSThe Burzynski Clinic,
6221 Corporate Drive, Houston, TX 77036
ESSIACP.A.H. Products, P.O. Box 2665,
Mission, KS 66201 / 800-318-2666
Sawnson Products, P.O. Box 2803, Fargo, ND
58102 / 701-277-1662
L&H Vitamins, 37-10 Crescent St., Long Island
City, NY 11101 / 718-937-7400
HOXSEY TREATMENTThe Bio-Medical
Center, P.O. Box 727, 615 General Ferreira,
Colonia Juarez, Tijuana, Mexico 22000, Ph:
011-52-66-84-9011
HYDROGEN PEROXIDEInternational BioOxidative Medicine Foundation, P.O. Box
13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205 Ph:
(405) 478-4266, or / Hospital Santa Monica,
4100 Bonita Road, Bonita, CA 91910 Ph:
(800) 359-6547 / (619) 428-1147
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IMMUNO-AUGMENTATIVE THERAPY
Immuno-Augmentative Therapy Centre, P.O.
Box F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph:
(809) 352-7455, or / People Against Cancer,
P.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50569-0010 Ph: (515)
972-4444
LAETRILEHospital Ernesto Contreras, 494
Calle Primera, Suite 904, San Ysidro, CA
92173 Ph: (800) 326-1850
LIVINGSTON-WHEELER THERAPY
Livingston Foundation Medical Center, 3232
Duke Street, San Diego, CA 92110 Ph: (619)
224-3515
KELLEY PROGRAMDr. Nicholas Gonzales,
737 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021 Ph:
(212) 535-3993
MISTLETOEPhysicians Association for
Anthroposophical Medicine, P.O. Box 269,
Kimberton, PA 19442
714XCentre dOrthobiologie, Somatidienne de
lEstrie (C.O.S.E.), 5270 Fontaine, Rock
Forest, Quebec J1N 3B6, Canada Ph: (819)
564-7883
SHARK CARTILAGECartilade, from Cartilage
Technologies, Inc., 222 Grace Church St.,
Suite 204-A, Port Chester, NY 10573-5155
Ph: (914) 939-9000, or / Allergy Research
Group, 400 Preda St., San Leandro, CA
94577 Ph: (800) 545-9960.
VITAMIN C (bulk)Bronsons P.O. Box 628,
LaCanada, CA 91012-0628 Ph: (800) 2353200
The remainder of this supply listing are
Gerson supply sources. Those on the
Gerson therapy may obtain some of
these items at lower prices, if they so
notify the vender:
GERSON SUPPLIESThe various items used
by outpatients, which cannot be obtained
locally, are obtained as follows:
GERSON Rx PRESCRIPTIONS AND SUPPLIESSTAT, S.A., Apartado Postal 2392,
Tijuana BCN, Mexico Ph: 011-526-680-1103
GERSON SUPPLIESBaja Hosp. Services, P.O.
Box 3535, Chula Vista, CA 91911 Ph: 619425-1557. Here are examples of what is
meant by supplies: Lugols [iodine] solution, potassium compound, potassium
gluconate, acidoll [HCl], niacin, flaxseed oil,
castile soap, enema buckets, food mill, etc.
Some of these supplies (such as Lugols)
would be difficult to obtain elsewhere.
ORGANIC FOODSGerson emphasizes eating,
if at all possible, organically grown fruits and
vegetables. In order to learn whether this is
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TEST SOURCES
URINE TESTSAir mail the sample to:
Manuel D. Navarro, M.D.
3553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace
Santa Mesa, Manila 2806
Philippines
BLOOD TESTSMark handstamp and mail
the sample (not registered nor special) to:
Laboratorio Del Mar
P.O. Box 3973
San Ysidro, California 92073
Blood tests for patients on the Gerson therapy,
are sent to:
The Gerson physician caring for them
c/o Hospital Baja California
Chula Vista, CA 91912
Fax direct dial from U.S.: 011-52-66-80-29-08
Fax from other countries: 52-66-80-29-08
WATER TESTSIf you can afford to pay up to
$200 to test your drinking water, here are
the addresses: National Testing Laboratories, 8151 Wilson Mills Rd., Cleveland, OH
44143 Ph: (800) 458-3330 / Water Test, 33
S. Commercial St., Manchester, NH 03101
Ph: (800) 426-8378 / Water Testing Laboratories, 4600 Kutztown Rd., Temple, PA
19560 Ph: (800) 433-6595. You especially
want to beware of lead, radon, nitrate,
fluorides, and chlorine.
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Indexes
Part Nine
Indexes
RESEARCHER INDEX
(TO PART TWO TO FIVE)
This book would not be possible without
the exhaustingly careful research of many
men and women over the years.
The key laboratory and clinical cancer researchers mentioned in Parts Two to Five of
this book are listed here, along with beginning of the primary article in which they were
mentioned.
Only eight of the 80 experts, who developed the alternative cancer control methods
discussed in Parts Two to Five, do not have
doctoral degrees.
Asai, Kuzuhiko, Ph.D., 106
Beale, Samuel, M.D., 76
Beard, John, M.D., 50, 118, 181
Bell, Robert, M.D., 48
Blake, T.T., M.D., 45
Blumer, Walter, M.D., 79
Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, MD., 47
Burton, Lawrence, Ph.D., 77
Burzynski, Stanislaw, M.D., 105
Caisse, Rene, R.N., 130
Cameron, Ewan, M.D., 86
Chase, Alice, M.D., 59
Coffey, Walter B., M.D., 64
Coley, William B., M.D., 46
Contrares, Ernesto, M.D., 128
Danopoulos, Evangelos D., M.D., 76
Douglass, William Campbell, M.D., 106
Drosnes, Phillip, 71
Durovic, Steven, M.D., 72
Erf, L.A., M.D., 77
Evans, Rees, 52
Evers, H. Ray, M.D., 82
Farr, Mr., 90
Fell, J. Weldon, M.D. 45
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Richardson, John A., M.D., 117
Rosenow, Edward, M.D., 103
Ross, R.W. Forbes, M.D., 50
Santi, Orlando dei, M.D., 81
Schrauzer, Grehard N., Ph.D. 99
Sheridan, James, Ph.D., 68
Shigeaki, Sakai, M.D., 122
Siris, E.S., M.D., 101
Smart, Charles R., M.D., 90
Sweet, F., M.D., 108
Wachtel, Henry K., M.D., 70
Warburg, Otto, M.D., 63
White, E.G., 49
Wigmore, Ann, 84
Winters, Jason, 100
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PREVENTIVE INDEX
(TO PART ONE)
This is an index to Part One (pp. 16-43) of
this book, which deals with preventative measures.
THINGS TO AVOID
Aerosol products, 20
Aflatoxins, 20
Air, polluted, 17
Alcohol, 17, 23, 39
Aluminum cookware, 19, 39
Amines, 20
Amphetamines, 20
Aniline dyes, 20
Antibiotics, 20
Antihistamines, 20
Anxieties and worries, uncontrolled, 17
Artificial colors, 19
Artificial flavors, 19
Artificial odors, 19
Artificial sweeteners, 23
Asbestos, 20
Aspirin, 20, 39
Atromids, 20
Attitudes, negative, 17
Automobile exhausts, 20
Benzidines, 20
BHT food additive, 19
Biopsies, 17
Birth control pills, 20, 42
Butazolidin, 20
Body fat, excess, 22
Bread, fruit, 24
Bread, sourdough, 24
Bread, sugared, 24
Butter, 39
Cadmium, 20
Caffeine, 23, 39
Candy, 23
Cane sugar products, 23
Cake, 23
Canned foods, 23
Carbon monoxide, 20
Chemical irritation, 17
Chemicals, 20
Chemotherapy, 17
Chemical additives to food, 17
Cesium-137, 42
China tea (regular tea), 23, 39
Chlorinated water, 17, 39
Clothing, synthetic, 39
Chocolate, 23
Chromates, 20
City living, 17, 20, 39
Cleaning compounds, 20
Cleaning waxes, 20
Coal tar dyes, 19
Coffee, 22
Condiments, 39
Contraceptives, 16, 17
Constricting bands of clothing, 17
Cosmetics, 19, 20, 39
Cottonseed oil, 40
Cyclamates, 19
DES food additive, 19, 41-42
Deodorants, 39
Detergents, 17, 39
Dairy products, 21
Diary products, excessive use of, 17
Devitalized food, 21
Diethylstilbestrol, 17, 41-42
Drugs, 40
Dyes of any kind, 39
Eggs, 22
Emotional conflicts, severe, 17
Emotions, negative, 17
Environmental polutants, 17
Estrogen, 39, 42
Exhaustion, continual 17
Eye shadow, 39
Fats, 23
Fats, heated, 22
Fats, commercial, 17, 40-41
Female hormones, 20
Fertilizer, chemical, 39
Fish, 19
Indexes
Fluoridated water, 17, 39, 42
Free radicals, 40
Fresh paints, 20
Fried foods, 22, 23
Fruit and vegetables eaten together, 24
Garden pesticides, 20
Germicides, 39
Germ killers, 39
Glucose, 23
Gravies, commercial, 39
Grease, 17, 21, 40
Hair sprays, 20, 39
Hard drugs, 17
Herbicides, 20
Hexachlorophene soap, 20
High-fat diet, 22
Hopelessness, feeling of, 17
Hormones, 17, 20
Hydrogenated oil, 17, 21, 39, 40
Ice cream, 23
Iodine 131, 20
Inadequacy, strong sense of, 17
Insecticide strips, 20
Iron, supplemental tablets, 23, 40
Jelly, 23
Junk foods, 23
Lonliness, strong feelings of, 17
Losses, emotional, 17
Manure, crops raised in fresh, 39
Margarine, 21, 39
Mascara, 39
Meat, 19, 21, 39, 41
Mechanical irritation, 17
Medicinal drugs, 17, 20
Methotrexate, 30
Microwave ovens, 20, 39
Milk and milk products, 21
Mineral oil, 39
Moderation, eat in, 39
Monosodium glutamate, 17, 39
Mothballs, 20
Moth crystals, 20
Mouth washes, 39
MSG food additive, 19
Naphthalenes, 20
Nickel, 20
Nicotine, 17
Nitrogen dioxide, 20
Nitrates in food, 17, 19, 42
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Nitrites in food, 42
Nitrosamines, 19, 42
Occupational polutants, 17
Oil added to cooking, 22
Oil, cold-pressed, 39
Oil, cottonseed, 40
Oil, saturated, 39
Oils, commercial, 17
Overeating, 23
Overwork, continual, 17
Partly spoiled food, 22
Penicillin, 20
Perfumes, 39
Pesticides, 20, 39
Phosphate fertilizers, 20
Photochemical pollutants, 20
Physical irritation, 17
Pickeled foods, 39
Pickles, 23
Pie, 23
Pollutants, 17
Power lines, high power, 39
Presamine, 20
Preservatives, 39
Prostiglandins, 39
Protein foods, high, 22
Protein diet, heavy, 21, 22
Protein foods, spoiled, 22
Processed foods, 21, 23, 39
Radiation, 17, 20
Radiation therapy, 17
Radioactive materials, 20
Radium, 17
Rancid oils, 22
Saccharin, 17, 42
Salt, 23, 41
Salted foods, 23, 39
Saturated fat, 21, 40
Sauces, commercial, 39
Shampoos, 39
Shellfish, 20
Sick pets, 17
Sk-Promine, 20
Smoked foods, 23, 39
Smokeless tobacco, 23
Soaps, too much, 17, 39
Soft drinks, 19, 23
Sodium benzoate, 39
Solid shortening, 21
Spices, 39
Starches, heavy, 22
Street drugs, 17
Stress, 17
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Stress, mental, 17
Strontium 90, 20, 42
Sulphured foods, 39
Sugar, cane, 23
Sugared foods, 21, 39
Sugar, refined, 17
Sunlight, too much if on a trans-fat diet, 17, 2021
Surgery, 17, 45, 54
Sweeteners, artificial, 17, 23, 42
Tannic acid, 23
Tapazole, 20
Tainted food, 23
Television, 20
Television radiation, 17
Tetracycline, 20
Tobacco, 23
Tobacco, smokeless, 23
Toothpaste or powder, 39
Tofranil, 20
Tomatoes, caution about, 23, 66
Trans-fat, 21, 40
Tritium, 42
Type C personality, 18
Unrefrigerated seeds, flour, 22
Unrefrigerated wheat germ, oil, 22
Uric acid, 21
Vegetable oil, too much, 21
Vegetables and fruit eaten together, 24
Venereal disease, 17
Vitamin D, synthetic, 21
Wart, pimple, or sore irritation, 17
Water, recycled, 39
Wheat germ, not fresh (rancid), 22
Worry, 17
X-rays, 17, 20
THINGS TO INCLUDE
Abscisic acid, 24
Air, obtain plenty of fresh, 18
Alfalfa sprouts, 23
Aloe vera, 25
Alpha linolenic acid, 30
Amino acids, branched chain, 30
Amygdalin, 27
Anti-radiation screen over computer, 39
Apple juice, fresh 24
Apples, 25
Apricot kernels, 27
Apricots, 25
Arginine, 30
Barley, 25
Bedroom, sunshine in during the day, 19
Bedroom, properly ventilated, 19
Beet juice, fresh, 24
Beta-carotene, 26-27, 28, 40
Bible, reading in daily, 17
Bioflavonoids, 24
Biotin, 38
Blackstrap molasses, 24, 25
Blue-green algae, 30
Bowel movement, daily, 19
Brewers yeast, 27, 29
Broccoli, 24
Broth, potassium, 29
Brussels sprouts, 24
Cabbage juice, fresh, 24
Calcium, 29, 33
Canthaxanthin, 28
Carotinoidssee Beta-carotene
Carrot and apple juice, 24
Carrot juice, fresh, 24
Celery juice, 24
Cesium, 30
Cherries, black, 24
Chewing food well, 22
Chlorophyll, 30
Choline, 38
Chromium, 30
Citrus fruits, 25, 27
Cleansing foods, 22
Climate, warm and unpolluted, 17
Constipation, relieve, 19
Cooked food, not over 25%, 23
Copper, 33
CoQ10 (co-enzyme Q10), 30
Country living, 39
Cranberries, 25
Cruciferous vegetables, 24
Currants, black, 24
Cabbage, 24
Cauliflower, 24
Cysteine, 30
Deep breathing, 18
Diet, simple, 22
Digestive enzymes, 25
Dressing, simple vegetable and lemon, 39
Eliminative organs, keep them active, 19
Exercise out of doors, 17, 18, 39
Extremities, keep warm, 17
Fiber, dietary, 25, 40
Indexes
Figs, soaked, 25
Flaxseed oil, 24
Folic acid, 27
Food (brewers) yeast, 29
Food, good and nourishing, 17
Fried food, 22
Fruit diet, fresh, 26
Fruit, 24
Fruit, lightly cooked or steamed, 24
Fruit, salt-free frozen, 24
Gamma linolenic acid, 30
Garden, vegetable and fruit, 25
Garlic, 25
Germanium, 28, 30
Ginger, 25
Glassware or stainless steel for cooking, 20
Glutathione, 30
Grape juice, fresh, 24
Green foods, 24
Green leafy vegetables, 24
Green powder, 24
Honey, 24
Hydrochloric acid, adequate, 16, 21
Indoles in vegetables, 24
Inositol, 37
Iodine, 29, 33
Isoflavones, 25
Isoleucine, 30
Lactobacillus, 25
Laetrile, 27
Lecithin, 24
Legumes, 25
Lemon juice squeezed over greens, 25
Lemon juice, fresh unsugared, 24
Leucine, 30
Linoleic acid, 30
Linolenic acid, 30
Magnesium, 29, 33
Maple syrup, pure, 24
Methionine, 30
Massage, daily if weak, 17
Mushrooms, Reishi, Shiitake, and Maitake, 25
N-acetylcysteine, 30
Negative ions, from outdoor air, 19
Niacinamide, 27, 37
Niacine, 27
Nitroloside, 27
Oil, flaxseed, 24
Oil, wheat germ, 24
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Omega-3 fatty acids, 24
Orange juice, fresh, 24
PABA, 38
Pangamic acid, 27
Pantothenic acid, 27
Para-aminobenzoic acid, 38
Pectin, 40
Phosphorous, 33
Phytoestrogens, 25
Phytosterols, 24
Potassium, 28-29
Potassium broth, 29
Prayer, daily, 17
Protein, 21
Prunes, soaked, 25
Purpose, maintaining a strong sense of, 18
Pyridoxine, 37-38
Pyridoxal, 27
Quercetin, 28
Raisins, soaked, 25
Raw foods, emphasize, 24
Regularity in daily schedule, 17
Rest, adequate, 17
Riboflavin, 27, 37
Rye flour, 24
Seaweed, 25
Selenium, 29, 40
Shower, daily, 39
Sodium, 29
Sodium linoleate, 30
Spinach, 25
Sprouts, cook slightly (but alfalfa raw), 23
Stainless steel or glassware for cooking, 20
Sunshine, 17
Sunlight, if on a low-fat diet, 21
Seed foods, 25
Protease inhibitors, 25
Rice bran, 25
Potato peeling broth, 26
Rice, brown, 26
Trace minerals, 29
Trust in God, strong sense of, 18
Type C personality, 18
Type F personality, 18
Type H personality, 18
Valine, 30
Vegetable broth, 26
Vegetables, dark green best, 24
Vegetable juices, darker, 24
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Vegetables, lightly cooked or steamed, 24
Vegetables, salt-free frozen, 24
Walking, lots of outdoor, 17, 18, 39
Water, distilled, 24, 39
Water, drink enough, 19
Water, measure to reduce in cooking, 23
Water, pure, 17, 39
Water, spring, 24
Wheat germ oil, 24
Whole-grain products, 24, 39, 40
Whole-wheat flour, 24
Worthwhile work to do, have, 14
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Zinc, 30
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THERAPY INDEX
(TO PARTS TWO TO FIVE)
Page numbers refers to articles in Parts Two
to Five which deal with the topic. Numbers in
bold italics refer to source locations.
Adrenal cortex, 64-66, cf. 143-157
Anablast, 81-82
Antibiotic, 69-70
Antineoplastons, 106, 188
Antioxidants, 80
Antivin, 70
Autumn crocus, 109
Bacteriophages, 68-69
Baths, 66
Beta-carotene, 83-85, cf. 143-157
Biological theory of ionization, 109-110
Breathing, deep, 66
Camphor nitrogen, 81
Cancel, 68
Carcalon (Krebiozen), 72-76
Cartilage, 82, 102, 189
Catalase, 114
Cats claw, 109
Chaparral, 90-92
Chelation, 80, 188
Chemicals, 49
Clodronate, 101-102
Creosote bush, 90
Coffee enemas, 86
Comfrey, 48
Copper, 67
DHEA, 109
DMSO, 105
Enemas, 54
Entelev, 68
Essiac, 131-142, 158
Exercise, 114
Fever therapy, 46-47, 53-55, 102-103, 111-113,
151
Flaxseed oil, 190
Fruits and vegetables, 47-48, 48-49, 50-51, 5963, 66, 85, 111, 127-129, cf. 143-157
Fu Zheng, 109
Garlic, 109
Germanium-132, 106-107
Gerson therapy, 142-156, 188, 189
Gingsen, 109
Glyoxylide, 53-55
Goldenseal root powder, 45-46
Heat therapy, 111
Herbal formulas (some unknown), 48, 56-58,
99, 101, 153
Horse blood serum, 51-52
Horse serum, 72-76
Hoxsey treatment, 56-58, 158-160, 189
Humber-Coffey extract, 64-66
Hydrazine sulphate, 91-94
Hydrogen peroxide, 103-105, 189
Hyperbaric oxygen, 64, 82-83, 151
Hyperthermia, 46-47, 53-55, 102-103, 111-113,
151
Immuno-augmentative therapy, 77-79, 189
Insulin, 76-77, 188
Issels therapy, 102-103, 189
Juice diet, 59-63, 69, 143-157, 191
Kelleys therapy, 85-86, 189
Koch treatment, 53-55
Kombucha, 109
Krebiozen, 72-76
Laetrile, 117, 139, 151, 188
Live cell therapy, 151
Livingston vaccine, 95, 189
Macrobiotics, 100
Maitake, 108
Mayapple, 109
Maytansine, 109
Mistletoe, European, 94-95, 189
Nigella sativa, 103
Nitrogen, 81-82
197
Indexes
Non-meat diet, 48, 55
Nutrition, 45, 48, 55, 59, 66, 69, 77, 82, 85, 96,
101, 102, 127-129, 111, 143
Omega-3 (flaxseed oil), 107, 143-156, 190
Organic foods, 103,189
Oxygen, 53-55, 63, 64, 66, 103-104, 104-105,
Ozone, 64, 108, 151, 190
Pancreatic enzymes, 51, 151
Parasitic viruses, 68-69
Periwinkle, 109
Photoluminescence, 105
Poly-ZYM-023, 109
Pituitary extract, posterior, 70-71
Potassium, 50, 66-68, 127-129, 152
Prayer, 52-53
Reishi, 109
Tahebo, 151
Relaxation, 95-99
Revici therapy, 66, 189
Taxol, 109
Tissue thrombin, 53-55
Selenium, 66-68, 99-101
714X, 81-82, 189
Shark cartilage, 102, 189
Shiitake, 109
Ultraviolet light, 105
Urea, 77
Urine factor, 68
Wheat seed extract, 71-72
Wheat grass extract, 84
Wigmore therapy, 84, 188
Wobe mugos, 151 (cf. 51)
Vitamin A, 82-84
Vitamin B17, 117-129
Vitamin C, 72, 80
Vitamin E, 89-90
Vitamin-mineral supplements, 85, 110
seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him. Psalm 126:56.
Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord,
that delighteth greatly in His commandments.
Psalm 112:1.
If a man love Me, he will keep My words:
and My Father will love him, and We will come
unto him, and make Our abode with him.
John 14:23.
The only major killing disease . . whose rates are sharply rising.
Cancer is now the only major killing disease in the industrialized world whose rates are
sharply rising. Just by way of quantitative contrast, mortality from AIDS, another eminently
preventable disease, although highly alarming
if not catastrophic, is relatively low. About
30,000 cases, more than half already fatal, have
been reported since 1981 when the disease was
first detected; additionally, it is estimated that
2-3 times as many Americans suffer from advanced symptoms of the AIDS-related complex
which often progresses to frank AIDS. Rapidly
increasing numbers of cases, totaling some
270,000 are projected by 1991. In contrast,
there have been major reductions in deaths
from cardiovascular disease, still the number
one killer in the U.S., probably because of a
recent decline in smoking and attention to diet
and exercise.
With over 900,000 new cases and 450,000
U.S. deaths last year, cancer has now reached
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