--------------------------------------- 1 Alternative Cancer Remedies Facts for Historians and Medical Researchers BY VANCE FERRELL Nearly four hundred

preventive factors Over fifty cancer treatment methods Based on the findings of eighty cancer researchers The three primary methods used today Over fifty special herbs The four leading herbal formulas Anti-cancer organizations and clinics Sources of supplies - and much more 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 hist ory. It should not be used as a self-help guide to cancer therapy. Consult your physician. Pilgrims Books

--------------------------------------- 2 PB-281 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 God s. 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

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--------------------------------------- 3 3 Contents Important: Read This First 8Organs of Elimination 19 Alternative Remedies and CongressChemical Food Additives 19 10 Other Chemicals 20 Interesting Statements 12Radiation 20 What about Sunlight? 20 INTRODUCTORY FACTS Protein 21 Meat 21 Types of Cancer 13Dairy Products 21 Signs of Cysts and Polyps 13 Signs of Skin Cancers 13Fats and Rancid Oil 22 Diet and Nutrition 22 Signs of Breast Cancer 14Cooking 23 Facts about Mammograms 14 Signs of Other Cancers 14Problem Foods 23 Good Foods 23 Recent Cancer Statistics 15Fasting 25 Vitamins 26 PART ONE: SPECIALMinerals 28 PREVENTIVE FACTORSOther Nutrients 30 Introduction to Part One 16Amino Acids 30 Preventing Cancer 30 Special Risk Factors 16Claiming Bible Promises 31 Miscellaneous 17 General 17Supplementary Information 32 Minerals 33 Worry, Depression, and Stress 17Vitamins 33 Sorrow of the Heart 18 Deep Breathing and Exercise 18Nutrition 38 - 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.

--------------------------------------- 4 4 Alternative Cancer Remedies PART TWO: SPECIALWilliam Frederich Koch, M.D., 1920 53 SYSTEMS OF TREATMENT Fever therapy via tissue thrombin / Glyoxylide: chemical injection, to change toxins into antitoxins by Earlier History of Cancer Research and oxidizing them; plus very strict Therapy 44

diet William Lambe, M.D., 1809 45 Mikkel Hindhede, M.D., 1920 55 Fruits, vegetables, and pure water Abundant research reveals that a T.T. Blake, M.D., 1858 45 non-meat diet is one of the best Salve made of a mixture of herbs,ways to avoid cancer topically applied Harry M. Hoxsey, N.D., 1920 56 J. Weldon Fell, M.D., 1858 45Herbal formula (herbs listed; adPuccoon root (goldenseal) powder,dress) zinc chloride Supplement: The Hoxsey Formula John Pattison, M.D., 1858 45 58 Hydrastis canadensis (goldenseal) Alice Chase, M.D., 1920s 59 root powder, water, zinc chloride Juice, followed by careful diet, plus William B. Coley, M.D., 1888 46 enemas, etc. Fever therapy (hyperthermia) trigSupplement: The Chase Therapy 59 gered by a dangerous disease Otto Warburg, M.D., 1930 63 Lucius Duncan Bulkley, M.D., 1890 (Theory only: oxidation; [cf. Koch, 47 Gold, also Revici] Careful, nourishing diet Supplement: Oxygen Therapy 64 Supplement: The Bulkley Meal Schedule 47Walter B. Coffey, M.D.; John D. Humber, M.D., 1930 64 The Lancet Comfrey Treatment, 1896 Humber-Coffee extract: adrenal 48 cortex extract from sheep Powdered comfrey root infusion / comfrey and herb formulaJethro Kloss, N.D., 1930s 66 Fruit and vegetable juices, broth, Robert Bell, M.D., 1896 48 diet; plus enemas, baths, deep Careful vegetarian diet, avoidance of breathing. constipation Emanuel Revici, M.D., c. 1940 66 E.G. White, 1905 49 Chemicals to correct lipid/fatty acids Causal factors: meat eating, imand pH imbalance; plus potasproper clothing, masturbation sium, selenium, copper, and R.W. Forbes Ross M.D., 1905 50oxygen (address) Potassium citrate, phosphate, and James Sheridan, Ph.D., 1942 67 iodide Cancel (Entelev): chemical, to inhibit Charles Othello Ozias M.D., c. 1910cancer respiration

50 J.H. Lawrence, M.D., Early 1940s 68 Simply prepared natural food, plus a Factor in urine herbal mixture Robert Lincoln, M.D., 1940s 68 John Beard, M.D., 1911 50 Parasitic viruses (bacteriophages) to Pancreatic enzymes feed on and destroy cancer Thomas J. Glover M.D., c. 1918 51microorganisms Serum from horse blood John E. Gregory, M.D., 1945 69 Rees Evans, 1919 52Antivin: antibiotic to kill cancer Herbal formulas, and prayermicrooganism, also major diet

--------------------------------------- 5 5 Contents changesDrinking freshly juiced young wheat grass (address) Henry K. Wachtel, MD., c. 1946 70 Posterior pituitary extract: energizesWilliam D. Kelley, D.D.S., 1964 body to fight cancerFresh fruits and vegetables, including almonds; coffee enemas; Phillip Drosnes and Lillian Lazenby, c. 1946 71chiropractic; vitamin-mineral Extract from fresh whole wheat,supplements; also raw meat (address) taken immediately Steven Durovic, M.D., Andrew C. Ivy,Linus Pauling, Ph.D., and Ewan Cameron, M.D., 1966 86 M.D., 1949 72Vitamin C (oral, injection, topical, Krebiozen: growth-control extractintravenous); nutrition and from horse serum (Carcalon) lifestyle changes (address) Samuel Beale, M.D., Serge A. Koroljow,P. Knekt, M.D., 1966 89 M.D., 1950s 76 Insulin injectionsVitamin E: prevents formation of certain cancer-causing chemiEvangelos D. Danopoulos, M.D., 1957cals 76 Mr. Farr, Charles R. Smart, M.D., and Urea: It disrupts the water matrixH.H. Hogle, M.D., 1967 90 around the cancer cell, interferingChaparral (creosote bush): Dry leaf with its growthand stem tea inhibits glucose L.A. Erf, M.D., B.J. Miller, M.D., 1957utilization by cancer cells 77Joseph Gold, M.D., 1968, 91 Theory that cancer is immature cellsHydrazine sulphate (purified, not and preventable by proper nutritionindustrial grade) to block (in liver) lactic acid conversion to glucose Lawrence Burton, Ph.D., 1959 77(address) Immuno-augmentative therapy: Tibor Hajito, M.D., 1968 94 Factor extract from mouse bloodEuropean mistletoe inhibits cell (address)production and protein synthesis

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Walter Blumer, M.D., 1961 79within cancer cells Chelation therapy helps reduce theVirginia Livingston, M.D., 1969 95 likelihood of cancerLivingston injected vaccine, to kill Denham Harman, Ph.D., 1962 80bacteria, plus nutrition and life Free radicals are a cause of cancerchanges, including relaxation Orlando dei Santi, M.D., 1960s 80(address) / Abscisic acid in foods F. Joseph Montagna, 1970s 98 Pau d arco interfers with cellular energy within cancer cellsMontagna s 8 primary, and 14 secondary, herbs (formula listed) Gaston Naessens, M.D., 1950s 81 Anablast: treatment for leukemia /Gerhard N. Schrauzer, Ph.D., 1976 714X: camphor nitrogen com-99 pound injected into the lymphaticSelenium: a trace mineral protecting system (address)against a variety of carcinogens H. Ray Evers, M.D., 1960s 82Michio Kushi, 1978 100 Nutrition; hyperbaric oxygen; KochMacrobiotics: An unbalanced diet is vaccination; antioxidant chela-better than the average Western tion; laetrile; shark cartilage; etc.diet. H.L. Newbold, M.D., 1960s 82Jason Winters, 1980 100 Vitamin A and beta-carotene3 herbs (2 listed; 1 secret) Ann Wigmore, 1960s 84E.S. Siris, M.D., 1980 101

--------------------------------------- 6 6 Alternative Cancer Remedies Clodronate: a type of calcium whichResearch 114 produces bone-cancer remission (address) PART THREE: THE LAETRILE I. William Lane, Ph.D., 1980s, 102 Shark cartilage: keeps tumors fromTHERAPY developing their own blood supply (address) Ernst T. Krebs, Sr., M.D., Ernst T. Josef Issels, M.D., 1980s 102 Krebs, Jr., Ph.D., John A. Major nutritional (especially organic Richardson, M.D., 1947 116 foods) and lifestyle changes; Laetrile: amygdalin enzyme from amalgam out; oxygen therapy; apricot kernels. Richardson, fever therapy; vaccines / Nigella Kowan, and Contreras added sativa seed (address) major nutritional changes (adEdward Rosenow, M.D., 1980s 103 dress) Hydrogen peroxide: floods body Supplement: Laetrile Diets 126 tissues with extra oxygen (address)Laetrile Foods 126 William Campbell Douglass, M.D.,The Richardson Diet 1980s 105 The Kowan Diet 127 Photoluminescence: irradiating a

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portion of the blood with ultravio-The Contreras Diet 128 let light Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., 1980s 105 PART FOUR: ESSIAC Antineoplastons: substances synthesized from human urine (address)THERAPY Kuzuhiko Asai, Ph.D., 1980s 106 Germanium-132: increases severalRene Caisse, R.N., 1922 130 body functions against cancer Essiac: four herbs plus four others (address) Rashida Karmali, M.D., 1987 107 Supplement: The Essiac Formula Omega-3: protects against cancer 137 and fights it when it arrives (adThe Original Essiac Formula dress) 137 F. Sweet, M.D., 1990 108 Ozone therapy is beginning to beThe Improved Essiac Formula discovered.139 Statement by Rene Caisse Other Research 108140 Other Factors 110 Dietetic and Lifestyle Factors PART FIVE: THE GERSON 110 THERAPY Nutritional Supplements 110 Hyperthermia (Heat Therapy) Max Gerson, M.D., 1928 142 110 Strict juice and nutritional therapy, Breast and Skin Applicationsplus coffee enemas, potassium 112iodide, etc. Pleomorphism 113 Supplement: The Gerson Therapy Additional Areas for Exploratory

--------------------------------------- 7 7Contents 146What is the Best Approach? 168 Introduction 146What Would I Do If I Had Cancer? The Gerson Books 149169 The Gerson Adjuvant Treatments 150PART EIGHT: ADDITIONAL The Inside Story: How Cancer IsINFORMATION Eliminated 151 The Authorized Treatments 175 PART SIX: HERBALSurgery 175 PREPARATIONS Radiation 176 Chemotherapy 178 The Five Top Herbal Formulas 157Conclusion 179 The Essiac Formula 157 Tests for Cancer 180

The Hoxsey Formula 157Local tests 180 Comparative Herbal Chart The Beard-Navarro Test 180 158The Pre-Cancer Blood Test 182 The Winters Formula 159 Test Addresses 183 The Montagna Formula 159 The Mono Formulas 159Glossary 183 Bibliography 185 Forty-six Special Herbs Listed Alphabetically 159Organizations 186 Therapies 188 Qualities Desired in a Cancer Herbal Formula 160Supply Sources 189 Analysis of the Four Herbs inTest Sources 190 Essiac 162 More Herbal Help 164 PART NINE: INDEXES PART SEVEN: PUTTING IT ALLResearcher Index (to Part Two to TOGETHERFive) 191 Preventive Index (to Part One) 192 Sorting Out the Systems 167Therapy Index (to Part Two to Five) 196 BIBLE PROMISESin Him, and He shall bring it to pass. The Lord God is a sun and shield: the LordPsalm 37:5. will give grace and glory: no good thing will He I will cry unto God most high; un to God, withhold from them that walk uprightly. that performeth all things for me. Psalm Psalm 84:11.57:2. Surely I know that it shall be well with He that followeth after righteousness and them that fear God, which fear before Him. mercy findeth life, righteousness, and Ecclesiastes 8:12.honor. Proverbs 21:21. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also

--------------------------------------- 8 8 Alternative Cancer Remedies Important: Read This First There is no such thing as a cancer cure.eryday, she poured half a cup of vegetab le oil There never has been one, there never willonto her salads. be one. A cure means there is certaintyJust little things, like not enough magnesi um that the disease is gone.and too much oil; but it all adds up. Then why was this book written? It was The cancer problem, its length, its depth, prepared to help scientists and researchers its recoverability, is part of a person s way of devise ways to move us closer to solutions life. to the cancer problem. What does this book do? It leads the reBut there are remedies for cancer! Theresearcher to lots of problems, and points t hem are lots of them! Purported remedies of all kinds.toward many helpful factors. I t also provides

You will find a remarkable number described ineveryone else with ideas to help p revent canfair detail in this book. Why are they providedcer in the first place. here? So medical investigators can wanderThe many formulas (methods used in the through the halls of this labyrinth of possi-past to eliminate cancer) are provi ded to help bilities and, hopefully, someday provide ussimplify the researchers work. For the s ame reawith official government approval of a tech-son, lists of addresses of various a lternative cannique that really does accomplish the task.cer organizations are given at the ba ck, so researchers can find sources of supplies and adThere is no cure for cancer. It is larger than ditional formulas. Through those addresses, they any remedy. It is the result of a way of life, serican also locate physicians, primarily outside of ous deficiencies which can vary for each person, America, who are regularly working with altera variety of environmental food poisons. native remedies. Rather than fighting one anNo remedy can be devised which solves all other, let us get our heads together and solve the problems. No claimed system of treatment these problems! in this book (over 50 are listed in Part Two) includes all the preventive factors (of which overBut this book will also be fasci nating to two hundred are listed in Part One).historians and students of medical lore. The There is no place where you can buy the com-amount of controversy and downright wa r plete system. There is no package containingwhich has taken place in the cancer field is them. There is no doctor dispensing them.unbelievable. It is a fascinating subje ct. The cancer problem is the result of the total Are any of these treatments successful? That life of an individual; and each individual has is a question to be pondered by the students of flaws, needs, and problems unlike those of anyhistory and solved by the medical researchers one else. for whom this book was particularly written for. We recently heard of a nationally known individual who privately tried all types of naturalIn PART ONE of this book you wi ll find an diets, etc., but it was not until he added magne-extensive listing of informatio n which earlier sium, in still larger amounts, that he had remis-research has shown, in laborato ry and clinision from cancer. Yet magnesium is only onecal studies, to be preventive and redu ction of dozens of possible factors! Everyone is differ-factors. ent!In PART TWO are the remedial systems, Then there is the Christian mother who, en-each one frequently claiming to be th e answer countering cancer, became something of an ex-to cancer. Are they really cures? H ardly. By far pert in vitamins, minerals, juices, and greenthe greater number are narrowed pro grams: A

drinks. Yet she died. We later learned that, ev-single chemical, a combination o f three or four

--------------------------------------- 9 9 Read This first herbs, or a special procedure is touted as thethe nation, work hard, and make it more prosfinal solution. Yet the narrowed therapies gener-perous. ally do not provide long-term recoveries.It is the fervent wish of the author, t hat this The problem is that the systems in Partwill help many maintain good health for a longer Two generally omit the factors listed in Partperiod of time. One. In addition, most of the systems ignore Vance Ferrell the best of the other systems. As a result the patient s entire way of life is not radically altered. Yet, in research laboratories, men and women continue to search for that single magicABBREVIATIONS bullet which will wipe out the malignant plague. Certain abbreviations appear in this We plead with the researchers, physi-book: cians, and cancer organizations to finally startACS = The American Cancer Societ y putting the pieces in the remedy puzzle to-FDA = The Food and Drug Administratio n gether! The solution is not in just finding moreNCI = The National Cancer Instit ute pieces. Let us bring together the abundance ofNIH = The National Institutes of Health SKI = The Sloan-Kettering Institute for Canfacts that we already have. It is the belief ofcer Research the present writer that the researcher will findAMA = American Medical Associati on many of those factors in this book.OTA =Office of Technology Assessment WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TREATOther less frequent abbreviations inYOURSELF! You are to be advised that a va-clude: AAAS = The American Association for the riety of governmental agencies recommendAdvancement of Science against your attempting to do this.CCS = The California Cancer Society Having said that, although this is not aHEW = The U.S. Department of Health, Edu self-help recovery book, it can, with greatcation, and Welfare (which more recen tly has profit, be used as a means of prevention. Youbeen split into other departments) will find the nutritional and lifestyle informa-MSKCC = The Memorial Sloan-Kette ring tion in Part One to be of special value.Cancer Center Carefully read through its pages, reread themUSDA = The U.S. Department of Agric ulture and glean out ideas which you can use to im-USDHHS = The U.S. Department of Heal th prove your health! Efforts to improve yourand Human Services physical health and stamina are recommendedNAS = The National Academy of Science s

by every government agency in the land. They want strong, healthy citizens who can strengthen Caution: The information presented in these chapters is not to be used in any manner in the non-professional treatment of cancer, nor should people with cancer attempt to undertake any of these methods. The material which follows is meant solely as a first step in the education process concerning cancer.

--------------------------------------- 10 10 Alternative Cancer Remedies Alternative Remedies and Congress Later, in Part Two of this book, you willthe reasons for the study in these word s: read about more than fifty alternative treat- To thousands of patients, mainstream medicine s role in cancer treatment is not suffiments for cancer. cient . . The attractiveness of unconventional Over the years, the ongoing battle over cancer treatments may stem in part from the them has sometimes led to congressional acknowledged inadequacies of current medihearings. But one such case resulted in a cally accepted treatments, and from the too frelaw by the U.S. Congress, mandating that quent inattention of mainstream medical reresearch studies be undertaken to verify exsearch and practice, to the wider dimensions isting alternative methods of treating can-of a cancer patient s concerns. Office of Techcer or produce new ones.nology Assessment, Congress of the United States, Unconventional Cancer Treatments, This law resulted from two facts which, in September 1990. the course of years, had become very obvious: In the request, John Dingell, chairman of the First, the orthodox methods of treating canU.S. House of Representatives Committee on Encer (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) rarely ergy and Commerce, asked that the following extend life more than one to three years. points be covered in the OTA study: Second, when alternative methods have been The types of uncoventional cancer treatproposed, many of which seem to produce rements most available to Americans. markable success, they have generally been How people gain access to unconventional hounded to death by the major cancer organizatherapies. tions. Costs and means of payment. Here is how the law came about: Profiles of typical users of unconventional In July 1985, the National Cancer Institute treatments. and certain other U.S. agencies managed to get Legal issues.

the Bahamian Health Department to close Dr. The potential for increasing our knowledge Lawrence Burton s Immuno-Augmentative about the efficiency and safety of these cancer Therapy (IAT) Centre, located in Freeport, Grand treatments. Bahama Island. When that happened, a large number ofThe OTA study began in 1986 and continwealthy cancer victims, who had been takingued for four years. Throughout that e ntire time, treatment at Burton s hospital, were aroused tocharges of bias, conflicts of inter est, and covera white-hot anger. They demanded that the U.S.ups were hurled back and forth by various inCongress take action. Guy Molinari, a New Yorkterests. congressional representative, with the help of 38Finally, in 1990, the 312-page report was reother representatives, moved on Congress to re-leased to Congress. The Associate d Press headquest the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)lined the story, Federal Study Urg es Testing of to investigate Burton s IAT.Unconventional Cancer Treatments. But opAlthough the original request was for the test-ponents denounced it as bad scienc e and biing of IAT, it was later expanded into a full-scaleased research. evaluation of alternative cancer remedies. ThisThe OTA report called on Congress to proinvestigation resulted in the longest, most expen-vide funds for research into a lternative cancer sive, and most controversial study that OTA evermethods. Based on that report, t he National Canproduced.cer Institute, which receives the largest portion John Gibbons, OTA director, summarizedof government funds, was told by Congress to

--------------------------------------- 11 11 Alternative Remedies and Congress begin such an investigation.and succeeded in obtaining what no one else in More than a year later, Congress learned thatAmerica had been able to accomplish . They the NCI had ignored the directive. So, on No-wanted to easily purchase AIDS drug s, not othvember 22, 1991, Congress passed a law creat-erwise available in the U.S., by ma il from overing the Office of Alternative Medicine as a branchseas. within the National Institutes of Health.On July 20, 1988, during a speech at th e The budget set aside for the first year of theTenth National Lesbian and Gay Hea lth Confernew Office of Alternative Medicine was $2 mil-ence and AIDS Forum, Frank Young, the adminlion. That was not large (the NIH receives overistrator of the Food and Drug Adm inistration, $3 billion annually), but it clearly revealed theannounced a major change in FDA policy. intent of Congress.Henceforth, Americans could import small

All this was the result of intense lobbying, byquantities of drugs and other alt ernative medicitizens, and hard work spearheaded by earnest,cal substances from foreign count ries for perdedicated congressmen, led by Guy Molinari,sonal use. John Dingell, and Tom Harkin.This was a major breakthrough. Individuals would be permitted to import through their Before concluding this brief chapter, itpersonal baggage small quantities (up to a is well to note another significant eventthree-month s supply) of medicines they h ad which occurred in Washington, D.C. in re-purchased while traveling abroad. In ad dition, cent years.those persons who had serious medical conditions could import a three-month s supply For decades, thousands of Americans hadof such items through the mails. to travel to foreign countries, to obtain alterna-Young said the new policy had been made tive medical treatment or supplies for a varietyspecifically to help AIDS patie nts, but that it of life-threatening diseases, including cancer.would apply to drugs and other su bstances Upon their return to America, their supplies,sought by Americans with any diseas e. drugs, etc., were, if found, seized and confis-So it is now legal for cancer pat ients to cated. Shipments made through the mail wereimport up to a three-month supply of any of treated in the same manner. But, when AIDS came along, the gay com-the alternative cancer therapies from a f ormunity exerted tremendous political pressure eign country. Humanity cries out for a solution to the cancer problem. At the present time, $100 billion is being spent, worldwide, on cancer therapy every year. Researchers are needed to solve this problem for us. This book has been written so that researchers will provide us with usable, government-approved remedies which actually work.

--------------------------------------- 12 12 Alternative Cancer Remedies Interesting Statements My dear Kepler, what do you say of the7,043 studies on vitamin E, of which 3,205 deal leading philosophers here, to whom I havewith humans. offered a thousand times of my own accord In total [of all the studies on vitamins ], three to show my studies, but who, with the lazy ob-probably have been more than 75,00 0 studies stinacy of a serpent who has eaten his fill, haveon nutrients now being consumed as dietary

never consented to look at the planets or moon,supplements. Many of the studies provide the or telescope? Verily, just as serpents close theirkind of evidence that would pe rsuade anyone. eyes, so do men close their eyes to the light ofSaul Kent, President, Life Exten sion Foundatruth. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Letter totion. Johannes Kepler, c. 1630. I am personally convinced that many of As long as providers make their income andthese scientists and practitioners are not quacks fame largely by delivering rescue medicine, they. . but really are good scientists working on good will have less economic interest in prevention. scientific theories. Unfortunately, we have a soPaul Mencel, M.D., in Medical Costs, Moralciety and a system which says that any body doChoices.ing anything new or different is a quack. Berkeley Bedell, former Iowa congressman and It is more important to know what sort of Member of the National Institutes of Health Alperson has a disease, than to know what sort of ternative Medicine Evaluation Panel. disease a person has. Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) The art of healing comes from nature and not from the physician. Therefore the physician To regain health once it has been lost we must start from nature with an open mind. need to begin to reverse some, and ideally all, of Paracelsus (1493-1541). those processes which may be negatively impacting us, and over which we have some degree of After the initiation of the cancer p rocess, the control. Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O.disease will often lie undetected for many years. American Institute for Cancer ReUnless we put medical freedom into the search. Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship . . Sixty percent of all cancers in women and To restrict the art of healing to one class of men40 percent of all cancers in m en may be due to and deny equal privileges to others will consti-dietary and nutritional factors. Na tional Acadtute the Bastille of medical science. All such lawsemy of Sciences. are un-American and despotic and have no place Environmental toxicity is one of the most in a republic . . the Constitution of this republic important areas of cancer causation and cancer should make special privilege for medical freeprevention, and it is yet to receive adequate recdom as well as religious freedom. Benjamin ognition from the cancer research establishRush, M.D., Signer of the Declaration of Indement. Samuel Epstein, M.D. pendence, Physician to George Washington, from The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush. The essential premise of alternative medi cine is that healthy bodies do not develop canA search of the Medlars Data Base at the

cer, and that cancer is a reflection of the body as National Library of Medicine shows that, since a whole, rather than a localized disease in one 1966, three have been 12,896 studies on vitaparticular part of the body. Ernesto Contreras, min C, of which 5,546 deal with humans, and M.D.

--------------------------------------- 13 13 Introduction TYPES OF CANCER5 - Myelomas. These are also rare tumors, Cancer is a terrible disease. This yearand begin in the plasma cells in the bone marrow. alone, over half a million Americans will die from it. One out of every three persons will develop cancer in their lifetime. Through-SIGNS OF CYSTS AND POLYPS out the industrialized world, the figures are Here are several generalized signs of just as bleak.cysts and polyps. These, of course, are not Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled definitive. growth and spread of abnormal cells. If theIn the nose Chronic difficulty in breat hing spread is not controlled, it can result in death. Every cell in the body is able to become can-through the nose. cerous; and, everyday, many cells in your bodyIn the colon Bleeding or a mucous dr ainage from the rectum are common symptoms. become cancerous. But, normally, your immuneIn the bladder Blood in the urine. system, at work in a body strengthened by good nutrition and good living habits, overcomes thoseIn the cervix A heavy watery, blo ody, dismalignant cells and eliminates them.charge from the vagina; bleeding may occur a fter intercourse, between periods, and after menoAlthough there are over a hundred dif-pause. ferent types of cancer, all of them generally fall under just five categories:SIGNS OF SKIN CANCER 1 - Carcinomas. These are the most comSkin cancers are far more common. Evmon types of cancer. These are tumors whicheryone should be aware of the signs: originate in body tissues and cover a surface or line internal organs. Such malignancies includeLook for a tumor or lump under th e skin, skin, breast, lung, and intestinal cancers.resembling a wart or an ulceration th at never 2 - Lymphomas. These are cancers of theheals; moles that change color or size; f lat sores; lymph system, which consists of a series ofand lesions that look like moles. glands which filter out impurities from the body. Lymph glands are found in the neck, armpits,Here are the five official warning s igns of skin cancer: spleen, and groin. In the United States, the most common forms are Hodgkin s disease and non-1. An open sore that bleeds, crusts ove

r, and Hodgkin s lymphomas. In central Africa,will not heal properly. Burkitt s lymphoma (which is rare in the U.S.) is2. A reddish, irritated spot that is usually on the chest, shoulder, arm, or leg. It may itch, hurt, common. 3 - Leukemias. These are cancers whichor cause no discomfort at all. originate in the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph3. A smooth growth with an elevat ed border nodes. They are not solid tumors, but produceand a center indentation. As it bec omes bigger, tiny blood vessels develop on the surface. an excess of white blood cells. 4 - Sarcomas. These originate in connective4. A shiny scar-like area that may be white, tissue and muscles; they attack bones, muscles,yellow, or waxy with a shiny, tau t appearance. cartilage, or the lymph system. They are the rar-5. An enlarging, irregular, angr y appearing lesion on the face, lips, or ears. est of the malignant tumors and also the most deadly.Here is a description of one of the more com-

--------------------------------------- 14 14Alternative Cancer Remedies mon types of skin cancer: large flat, tan or brown,nipple, and cannot be detecte d by a self-examispots with a darker black or brown area dottednation. Cancer cells have migrated to the nipple. on its surface. The edges may, or may not, beThe symptoms are itching, redness, and soreclearly defined. The spot may appear mottled.ness of the nipple. This form of ca ncer only ocMoles should also be watched, especiallycurs when a different form of cancer is present those that change in size or color, are irregularlyelsewhere in breast tissue. shaped, have ridges around the edges, widen,Inflammatory carcinoma is a different bleed, itch, or seem to be continually irritatedtype. The skin thickens and turn s red. The breast by clothing.becomes extremely tender and appears infected Here are still more identifiers of skin can-with something. The lymphatic, and b lood, vescer the so-called A-B-C-D checklist :sels have become clogged because of a tumor. Asymmetry: Both sides of the mole shouldThis type of cancer spreads very rapidly . Profesbe shaped similarly. If the overall shape is ir-sionals recommend a biopsy; but, if you choose regular, then it might be skin cancer.not to do so, you must be planning to go o n an Border: The edges of moles should beintense natural remedies cleansing to elimin ate smooth, not blurred or ragged.the problem. Whatever you do, you had better Color: It should be tan, brown, and darkset to work and do it. brown if it is normal. If it is red, white, blue, or black, it is not.FACTS ABOUT MAMMOGRAMS Diameter: Any mole that is larger than inch in diameter, or whose diameter seems to be in-Identification of breast cancer is

imporcreasing, should be treated with suspicion.tant. The best method of identificati on is Spots which are dry, red, and scaly (mostpersonal breast examination. Here is wh y: frequently found on the face, neck, or backs of(1) Mammography is an X-ray techn ique, and hands) may be actinic (solar) keratosis. TheseX-rays can cause cancer. The breas t is known to are lesions which result from years of overexpo-be highly sensitive to radiation . (2) Mammograsure to the sun. They can be precancerous. Laterphy provides false tumor reports between 5-15% they may become hard to the touch and grayishof the time (A.B. Miller, War on Bre ast Cancer or brown in color.Screening, Cancer Forum, March 1988). False positive results cause women to be exposed to SIGNS OF BREAST CANCERadditional radiation, possibly leading to unnecessary surgery. (3) Mammography can fail to deHere are special warning indications oftect advanced cancers less than 2 cm in d iambreast cancer:eter. Yet a tumor can be felt manually when it Lump(s), thickening, and other physicalreaches 1 cm (approximately -inch). With t rainchanges in the breast; itching, redness, and/oring, women can detect even smalle r tumors. (4) soreness of the nipples not associated withEarly detection, through self-examina tion, is the breast-feeding.safest and best. (5) A new method is transilluIn the most common types Lumps aremination via infrared light scanning. This metho d firm, do not go away, and are generally pain free.has no radiation, but it may n ot be available loLumps which do not move around may be ma-cally. lignant or may not be. In another type There is itching, redness,SIGNS OF OTHER CANCERS and soreness of the nipple. In yet a third type The breast becomes ex-Here are signs of thirteen other cancers : tremely tender and appears infected with some-Lung A persistent cough, sputum with thing.blood, chest pain. These three are explained in more detail be-Colon Rectal bleeding, blood in the st ool, low.and changes in bowel habits (such as persistent There are several different types of breastdiarrhea and /or constipation). cancer. Most of them are similar, producingBladder and kidney Blood in the urine, pain lumps described above. But a few are different:and burning with urination, incre ased frequency Paget s disease of the nipple affects theof urination.

--------------------------------------- 15 Introduction15 Leukemia Paleness, fatigue, weight loss, re-for mortality costs. Over half of the direct medipeated infections, easy bruising, bone and jointcal costs are due to treatment o f breast ($6 bil-

lion), lung ($5 billion), and prostate ($5 billion) pain, nosebleeds. Mouth and throat A chronic ulcer of thecancers. The cost of cancer screenings, inc luding mammograms, Pap smears, and colorectal mouth, tongue, or throat that does not heal. exams adds another $3 to $4 billion to overall Stomach Indigestion and pain after eating,cancer costs . . weight loss. Who gets cancer? Anyone. Since incidence Laryngeal Persistent cough, hoarse throat.rises with age, most cases affect adults in midLymphoma Enlarged, rubbery lymphlife or older. Among children ages 0-14, cancer nodes; itching; night sweats; unexplained fevercauses more deaths in the U.S. th an any other and/or weight loss.disease. In the 1980s, there were over 4.5 milProstate Weak or interrupted urine flow;lion cancer deaths, almost 9 million new c ancontinuous pain in the lower back, pelvis, and/cer cases, and some 12 million pe ople under or upper back.medical care for cancer. Lifetime risk refers to the probability that Cervical and uterine Bleeding between menstrual periods, unusual discharge, painfulan individual, over the course of a lifetime, will develop cancer or die from it. In the U.S., men menstrual periods, heavy periods. have a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of developing cancer, Endometrial Bleeding between periods,and for women the risk is 1 in 3 . . Smokers unusual discharge, painful menstrual periods, have a 10-fold relative risk of developing lung heavy periods.cancer compared with nonsmokers. This means Ovarian Often no obvious symptoms untilthat smokers are about 10 times more likely to it is in its later stages of development.develop lung cancer (or have a 900% inc reased Testicular Lump(s), enlargement of a tes-risk) than nonsmokers . . ticle, thickening of the scrotum, sudden collec- How many new cases will there be this year? About 1,359,150 new cancers will be diagnosed. tion of fluid in the scrotum, pain or discomfort in a testicle or in the scrotum, mild ache in theThis estimate does not include carcinoma, in situ, basal, and squamous cell skin cancers. lower abdomen or groin, enlargement or tenderThe incidence of these skin cancers is estimated ness of the breasts.to be over 800,000 cases annually . . How many people will die? This year about RECENT CANCER STATISTICS554,740 will die of cancer more than 1,500 Here are some cancer statistics for thepeople a day. One of every four deaths in the U.S. is from cancer . . latest reporting year, from the official 1996 At this time, the most frequent sites of canACS report:cer deaths among men are lung, prostate, and The financial costs of cancer are great bothcolon and rectum cancer. None of the others for the individual and for society as a whole. are as anywhere near as large. In women, it is The National Cancer Institute estimates overalllung, breast, and colon and rectu

m. ACS, costs for cancer at $104 billion; $35 billion for Cancer Facts and Figures: 1996. direct medical costs, $12 billion for morbidity costs (cost of lost productivity), and $57 billion BIBLE PROMISESrighteousness; and all these things shall be Godliness is profitable unto all things; hav-added unto you. Matthew 6:33. ing promise of the life that now is, and of that My God shall supply all your need , accordwhich is to come. 1 Timothy 4:8.ing to His riches in glory, by Christ Jesus. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not wantPhilippians 4:19. . . Thou preparest a table before me in the pres- Godliness with contentment is gr eat gain . . ence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my headWho giveth us richly all things to e njoy. 1 Timowith oil; my cup runneth over. Psalm 23:1,thy 6:6, 17. 5. Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord There is no want to them that fear Him . .your God hath commanded you, that ye ma y live, They that seek the Lord shall not want any goodand that it may be well with you, and that ye thing. Psalm 34:9-10.may prolong your days in the land ye shall posSeek ye first the kingdom of God, and Hissess. Deuteronomy 5:33.

--------------------------------------- 16 16Alternative Cancer Remedies - Part One Special Preventive Factors INTRODUCTION TO PART ONEEstrogens and oral contraceptives have been linked This is the only section in this book whichto breast and uterine cancer. There a ppears to be is written for practical use by everyone. Thisa link between sugar intake in old er women and breast cancer. section explains a large number of factors needed to prevent cancer from occurring. ThatStomach Pernicious anemia; lack of hy drochloric acid and dietary fiber; high-fat diet; chronic is something we can all do! The later sections,gastritis; stomach polyps. which concern the treatment of cancer, were written for historians and especially cancerColon Lack of dietary fiber and calcium; polyps; family history of colon cancer; continued conresearchers. stipation and/or diarrhea; a buildup of toxins in Cancer is a systemic disease, affecting the en-the colon; a high-fat diet. tire body. Because it is caused by a variety of con-Leukemia Hereditary factors, r adiation exditions in the entire person, it cannot be preventedposure, chronic viral infect ions. (or adequately treated) by specifics. An entireCervical and uterine More than 5 co mplete change in one s way of life is required.pregnancies, first intercourse before age 18, a hisDo not feel awed by the vast amount of datatory of gonorrhea or genital warts, m ultiple sex given below. Read it again and again and startpartners, and infertility.

making changes. And keep making more changes!Ovarian Not having had children and h ighKiller cells are mentioned occasionally. Thesefat diet. are natural body cells which target cancer cellsLaryngeal Heavy smoking and alcoho l conand destroy them. Certain nutrients help them dosumption. their work.Lymphoma Hereditary factors and immune system dysfunction. Some cases are linked to a viral cause. SPECIAL RISK FACTORSMouth and throat Use of chewing tobacco; Here are the special risk factors for eachsmoking; irritants inside the mouth, s uch as a broof the fifteen main types of cancer:ken or sharp tooth, or ill-fitting or broken denSkin Exposure to the sun, especially fortures; excessive alcohol intake. those who have fair skin; history of moles (malig-Endometrial Never having been pr egnant, being past menopause, family history of cancer, nant or otherwise); moles on the feet or in areas irritated by clothing; scars from severe burns anddiabetes, obesity, hypertensio n. Bladder and kidney Exposure to certain scars or sores that won t heal; family history of skin cancer.chemicals, such as benzidines, aniline dyes, naphthalenes; smoking; excessive consumption of cafLung Smoking; exposure to asbestos, chro-feine and/or artificial sweeteners; histo ry of schismates, nickel, or radioactive materials; history of tuberculosis; chronic bronchitis; exposure to cer-tosomiasis (a tropical disease ); frequent urinary tract infections. tain chemicals, such as pesticides and herbicides. Breast First childbirth after age 35, havingTesticular Undescended testicle. Prostate Recurring prostate infection; history no children, family history of cancer, high alcoholof venereal disease; diet hig h in animal fat; high and/or caffeine intake, high-fat diet, and diabetes. intake of milk, meat, and/or coffee; use of male

--------------------------------------- 17 Special Preventive Factors17 hormone (testosterone) in treatment of impotence;GENERAL vasectomy; being over age 50. Jethro Kloss said that his cancer cure was correct food, herbs, water, fresh air, massage, sunshine, exercise, and rest. Yet some famous SPECIAL PREVENTIVE FACTORSmedical dictionaries say nothing about diet in cancer treatment, except to keep the diet under 2,000 MISCELLANEOUScalories. The truth is there is a close relationship Venereal disease can lead to breast, cervi-between the food we eat and what happ ens in our bodies. cal, uterine, and prostate cancer. Meals, bedtime, periods of study, etc. should Avoid contact with sick pets. Actually, you would be wise to not have any dogs or cats insidebe according to a regular sched ule. Avoid noise, the home.smog, television, worry, stress, and confusion.

The following can also lead to cancer: tooDo some reading everyday. Reading in G od s Word, accompanied by simple trustful prayer much sunlight (skin cancer); mechanical, physi-brings healing to heart, soul, an d body. cal, or chemical irritation; prolonged irritation Dr. Josef Issels cancer clinic, in Germany, of warts, pimples, or sores (skin cancer); and radiation (leukemia).is an example of a well-rounded program. In addiThe clothes should have no constrictingtion to other things mentioned in this bo ok, he bands and should keep the neck, head, arms,prescribes plenty of rest, complete f reedom from worries and mental stress, and plenty of fresh, legs, and feet warm. As many layers of clothingpure air day and night. To the de gree the patient should be worn on the extremities as are worn on the trunk. This is especially important in canceris strong enough for it, and as he improves, there of the breast or skin.is lots of exercise and walking. A biopsy is a thin slice of tissue, taken to Some, in a position to do so, may wi sh to move to a warm, unpolluted climate (any left?) examine it for possible carcinoma (cancer). But,where fresh air and sunshine is continually availwhen the slice is made, the cancer (if any) stored in that area, can immediately begin spreadingable. Build up the system with good food, exerthroughout the body.cise, and rest. X-rays, radium, and other forms of radia- Continual overwork and exhaustion can l ay the groundwork for the development of cancer. tion therapy, along with chemotherapy. It weak- City living, with its hurry, nois e, confuens the body, intensifies the toxicity and weakened conditions initially producing the cancer. The can-sion, and air and water pollu tion can also procer generally returns within 6 to 12 months invide the inferior living condition s which lead to greatly strengthened form.malignant conditions. Here is a brief list of some of the significant factors leading to cancer: Chemical additives inWORRY, DEPRESSION, AND STRESS food, refined and fragmented food, use of nico- Stress is also considered a signi ficant factine and/or alcohol, a heavy protein diet, excessive use of dairy products, commercial oils andtor. More and more research indic ates that, as fats (especially when heated and reheated), allDr. H.F. Dunbar says, only certain types of people succumb to cancer. grease, hydrogenated oil (added to many foods), Two Soviet researchers (Serov and Troskin) diethylstilbestrol, hormones, contraceptives,demonstrated that negative emotions reduce the nitrates (often added to food), medicinal drugs, hard drugs, monosodium glutamate (in food andwhite blood count in an alarming ma nner, hintobacco), refined sugars, saccharin and otherdering a major body defense against disease. Researchers at the Rochester Medical Cen-

artificial sweeteners, biopsies and other formster in New York have found that p eople are more of surgery, pollutants (occupational and envi-likely to contract cancer if, more than others, they ronmental), X-rays and radium exposure, cosmetics, detergents and soaps, water (chlori-have a harder time dealing with seve re emotional nated, fluoridated, or contaminated), and alu-conflicts and stresses; have uncon trolled anxieties and worries; experience traumatic emominum.tional 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

--------------------------------------- 18 18Alternative Cancer Remedies the person from resisting and conquering it.ness and hopelessness. Type C people are highly Maintain a strong sense of purpose. Findprone to cancer. something to do with yourself. In one church Type H persons also have the same di fficulwhich the author once pastored, a woman bed-ties named above, but they react qui te different to ridden for years before her death would phonesuch problems. Instead of feeling h opeless and people at random, encourage and pray with them.helpless, they become angry and f rustrated. Type Between calls, she would pray for them. She wasH people tend to develop heart di sease. a radiant sunbeam. Type F persons learn how to roll with the A strong trust in God and peace in Him ispunches. They are free of fears and wor ries, for the solution. Man innately knows that he cannotthey give them into God s hands to care for. Alsolve his own problems; he needs God! Only inthough they encounter problems as o thers do, they Him can we find the strength and courage to presstrust in God, recognize their o wn limitations and, forward. Only then can we be genuinely happywhen difficulties arise, keep moving forward cheeramid life s problems.fully. This type tends to die of other causes, such Read God s Inspired Word the Bible as accidents. They tend not to die of cancer or everyday, and be happy, contented, thankful,heart or circulatory problems. and helpful to others. This is a powerful inducer These people are not living und er stress, with to healthful conditions in the body.aroused hormonal flow, such as types 1 and 2 personalities have. They are at peace with life. They accept what has to be, change whatever they can SORROW OF THE HEARTchange; and, with God s help, they keep cheerfully As far back as the second century A.D., theon their way, helping others as they go. Greek physician, Galen, noted that melancholic women were more likely than others to develop Still other researchers have found other ascancer.pects of this Type C (cancer-prone) personality.

The main aspect they have noted is loss, eiToday, the effect of emotions and stress (or rather the attitude toward stress) is recognizedther loss of a loved one or loss of hope. Many caneven more. Over the past 75 years a number ofcer patients feel a profound sense of helplessness studies have linked stress to susceptibility to can-and despair, particularly ab out the meaning of their existence. Frequently, they need peace with God. cer (R. Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology, 1981). Strong stress in a child can also lead to it (B.L. A second characteristic is the suppression, Bloom, et. al., Psychological Bulletin, 85, No. 4,or repression, of emotions. The third factor is loneliness. Such people 1978). Adults who had recently lost a loved one or were widowed, divorced, or separated have thetend not to have close friends ( H. Dreher, Your Dehighest cancer rates (B.L. Ernster, Journal of thefense Against Cancer, 1988, 24 6-247). National Cancer Institute, 63, No. 3, 1979). All three factors could be nicely re solved if such individuals would come to God and find in Ronald Grossarth-Maticek, M.D., a EuroHim the encouragement, the forgiveness, and pean researcher, spent 20 years working along astrength they need to meet life s d ifficulties. line of study which has been rejected by orthodox medicine. His concept is called Creative NoDEEP BREATHING AND EXERCISE vation Behavior Therapy, and it concerns people with certain personalities; that is, having certain Cancer is less prevalent in p hysically active mental-emotional attitudes of a person that ispeople; so exercise is important. Obtain plenty of exercise. Fresh air has remost likely to contract cancer. Grossarth-Maticek is a Yugoslavian oncolo-markable healing, strengthening proper ties. God gist (cancer specialist) who used mortality data ingave it to us for a purpose. Let it cleanse the lungs, purify your blood, and tone up your organs. Heidelberg, Germany. Do deep breathing exercises. Take 20 deep People who view life in a certain way are more prone to develop cancer.breaths, hold each one for several seconds, and Type C persons are unable to solve prob-then slowly exhale. Exhale to full compr ession, and then inhale again. Do this several times a day lems in relationships with other persons, situations, and goals. When relationships are crushed,always outdoors. This, along wi th outdoor walkcircumstances go sour, or goals become una-ing, will help clean the lungs. chievable, these people react by sinking into a Soviet scientists demonstrated th at a complex link exists between cancer and not breathing depression, characterized as feelings of helpless-

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deeply enough or breathing stale air too much.pushing about 1-2 inches. Be gentl e and slow! This One researcher in the Western world said thatnot only helps reduce constipation, but increases forced deep breathing, out of doors, at least 3 timesmuscle tone. a day to the point of dizziness, will help furnish an ample supply of oxygen.CHEMICAL FOOD ADDITIVES It is well-known that cancer cannot live in an oxygen-rich environment. Coal tar dyes are highly carcinogenic. All (Many researchers seem not to be aware ofartificial colors, flavors, and odors a re made from the negative ion factor. Breathing deeply out-of-coal tar. You will find them in all soft drinks, cosdoors supplies both oxygen and negative ions tometics, and many medicines. Foods which have bright colors, strong flavors, or odors often have the body. Negative ions provide a much-needed electric charge by the nerves.)coal tar in them. (The FDA lists thousands of apIf at all possible, sleep in a room that re-proved food additives. The more natu ral and unprocessed the food is, the less likely it is to have ceives sunlight during the day. It has been scientifically proven that patients rooms on the northadditives. Junk foods are the worst.) side of a building have more disease germs on the Research has shown that cyclama tes, an arfloor and furnishings.tificial sweetener, will in later years cause cancer The bedroom should be properly ventilatedof the stomach and other digestive orga ns. Ditto at all times.for saccharin. Food additives like MSG, BHT, BHA, DES, and others are poisons. Read the labels carefully. ORGANS OF ELIMINATION Keep in mind that many harmful food additives Keep the eliminative organs active. Theare not listed on the labels because the FDA confive primary ones are the lungs, the skin, the liver,siders them to be Generally Regarded as Safe. the kidneys, and the bowels. Add to this a sixth:Those chemicals you will find i n the FDA GRAS the lymphatic system. Add to that a seventh: theList. But that does not mean the y are safe! immune system, working together with the white Diethylstilbestrol (Des) has been shown by blood cells, the T-cells, and vitamin C. (Vitamin Ethe FDA to cause cancer of th e uterus, breast, and also purifies and detoxifies, but it carries on thisother reproductive organs. T his is an artificial sex function in the liver.)hormone widely used in food production. DangerThe first step is to cleanse the blood by re-ous residues of stilbestrol are in 85% of all the lieving constipation, making all the organs ofmeat sold in the United States. Th is is the main elimination active, and keeping them active. Takereason why 15 countries around the world now herbal laxatives or enemas.refuse to import American meat; 21 nations have A daily bowel movement is essential, evena total ban on the use of stilbestrol i n food proif an enema or colonic is required. All foods whichduction or processing. ferment in the bowel should be avoided. Absolutely Nitrosamines cause cancer of t

he liver, stomno meat or fish!ach, brain, bladder, kidneys, and several other orBowel movements need to be completegans. Dr. William Lijinski, of the University of Neevacuations, even if enemas are necessary. Thebraska, says they are perfect carci nogens. When cleansing program is releasing so many toxins, itchemical preservatives and colo r enhancers are is important that they be flushed out. Enough wa-ingested, they cause the body t o produce nitroter must be drunk everyday.samines. Another source is nitrates and nitrites, If necessary, keep the bowels clean withwhich are heavily added to meat during p rocessherbal laxatives or enemas. When the body ising. Runoff of nitrates and nitrites , from fields toxic, the bowels become sluggish; waste mattersprayed with chemical fertilizers , get into aquifers is reabsorbed by the blood and lymphatic system,and wells; and, when people drin k the water, it which is circulated throughout the body and storedcan lead to cancer. in tumors or other trash sites. It is best that you Yes, aluminum cookware is a t ype of food not use these over a long period of time.additive! Throw it all away. It is poiso nous to your Many aspects of cancer therapy, includingbody. It is outlawed in Sweden; outlaw it in your chemo and radiation therapy, pain killers, andkitchen. Aluminum is a poison, and also a relasedatives, reduce muscular contractions in the in-tively soft metal. Particles o f it gradually melt into testines, resulting in constipation. Sometimesthe food you are cooking. That is why it remains physical assistance is needed. Using the flat sideso shiny inside! of your fist, gently massage with rocking motions, Use only stainless steel or gl assware for

--------------------------------------- 20 20Alternative Cancer Remedies cooking. The taking of birth control pills, estrogen, Be very careful that you rinse all the soap offand other female hormones is dama ging to the your dishes and pots, or you will have added anbody. A later result can be cance r. One anti-cancer additional chemical food additive to your nextphysician (Gerson) found that the on ly cancer pameal.tients he could not recover were those who were taking hormones or who had damaged livers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported (May OTHER CHEMICALS1972) that pregnant women who take hormones Avoid chemicals such as hair sprays, allcan result in cancer in their daughters when they other aerosol products, fresh paints, garden pes-enter their teens. The rate of leukemia is highest ticides, cleaning compounds and waxes, insecin affluent areas, where medical help can be afticide strips, mothballs and crystals, etc. Any-forded and lowest among poorer p eople.

thing unnatural. City living is depressing. It is also unhealthDr. Max Gerson would not allow his cancer ful. The carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, patients to dye their hair while recovering fromozone, and other photochemical p ollutants in cancer.city smog definitely cause cancer of the lungs. Smog Old-fashioned soap is all you need to disin-is somewhat present in rural areas, but the thickfect, but when hexachlorophene is added to thatest in the cities where it is esp ecially produced. soap, the soap becomes more deadly. Widely used Automobile exhausts and phosphate ferin maternity and other hospital wards, as well astilizers produce cadmium. This trace mineral is in cosmetics and deodorants, hex is a powerfulvery toxic in larger amounts and pro duces varicancer producer.ous diseases, including cancer. Cadmium is conChemicals encourage the formation of freecentrated in animal livers and shellfis h. Avoid both radicals in the body, which may lead to cancer. Doof them. not be around, or use, chemicals. The body has to work to throw off the chemicals, when it should be attacking the cancer cells.RADIATION Exposure to certain chemicals, such as ben- Radiation is a cause of leukemia. zidines, aniline dyes, and naphthalenes, tends You may be thin and need an electr ic blanto promote development of bladder and kidneyket. But avoid them if you can. Ther e is the possicancer.bility that they might impose an electrical current Exposure to asbestos, nickel, chromates,on the body. That can happen the easiest if your pesticides, herbicides, and radioactive materi-skin is sweaty and directly next to the blanket. als induces lung cancer.Research also indicates that it is change in the Aflatoxins (found especially in peanuts andcurrents from blankets which may be t he most soy sauce) must be avoided.deleterious. Avoid amines (which are in cheese, meat, X-rays, even diagnostic ones (the types used and unrefrigerated foods).by dentists and physicians), can lead to later leuAntibiotics predispose to cancer. This wouldkemia or other cancers. include tetracycline, penicillin, aspirin, diuretics, Strontium 90 and Iodine 131 are radioacimmunosuppressants, Azolid, Butazolidin,tive element fallouts from distant nucle ar bomb Presamine, Tofranil, Sk-Promine, Tapazole, Meth-tests. Both are especially found in milk products. otrexate, antihistamines, amphetamines, Atro-The first causes bone cancer and le ukemia; the mids, etc.second causes thyroid cancer. Aspirin inhibits lymphocytes (white blood Stay eight or more feet from television sets. cells) which are crucially needed in immunologi-Because of possible leakage, do not use microcal defenses.wave ovens. No medicinal drugs ever healed anything; it is nature which heals. Drugs are given to shock the body into healing itself. A poison is introduced,WHAT ABOUT SUNLIGHT? Nearly all physicians and nutritionists agree and this rouses the body to a supreme effort to

throw off the poison. The result is generally a weak-today that sunlight is harm ful, even dangerous. ening of body organs, a transfer of the site of dis-But is this really true? ease to a different location, and sometimes a It is not easy to arrive at clear-c ut answers smothering of symptoms till a later, more deadly,in this debate, but certain facts should be menform emerges.tioned:

--------------------------------------- 21 Special Preventive Factors21 First, some sunlight on your skin is extremely Make sure you have enough hydrochl oric important as a purifying agent. An entire book hasacid, so the protein you do ea t is being properly been written about the physical benefits of obtain-absorbed. ing some sunlight, on your body. Second, you need some sunlight in order toMEAT obtain enough vitamin D for your bones. The oils just below the surface layers of skin are irradi- Avoid meat in all forms. It is dead matter; ated by sunlight, and vitamin D is produced.low in minerals; and produces uric a cid in excess, Third, the author of that special book, Sun-which is a waste product. The incide nce of cancer light, by Zane Kime, M.D., is the recognized worldis in direct proportion to the amount of animal proteins, particularly meat, in the diet. authority on the subject and in a special section on cancer, he provides 25 pages of detailed infor- However it is true that devita lized, promation about suntans in relation to skin cancer.cessed, and sugared food can als o cause cancer even in vegetarians. But far more often, when canKime declares that sunlight does not cause skin cancer, if the diet is correct! Here, briefly,cer strikes, those eating the junk foods are also are several of his points:eating meat. Sunlight can change cholesterol near the skin Nations and groups which consume le ss meat surface into free radicals, which can cause cancer.have less cancer. Hospital re cords show that SevBut a good diet will eliminate the free radicals.enth-day Adventists, who eat li ttle or no meat, sufA high-fat diet increases the likelihood offer far less from cancer than the ave rage meatskin cancer. This includes too much oil of any kindeating American. Dr. Willard J. Visek, research sciin the diet grease, hydrogenated oil, trans-fat, andentist at Cornell University, stated that the highvegetable oil.protein diet of Americans is linked to the high inTrans-fat (fat which is not polyunsaturated)cidence of cancer in the U.S. stops oxygen utilization by the cell, and leads to Another cancer physician, who also worked cancer. Liquid vegetable oil can be up to 6% trans-with hundreds of cancer patie nts, said that anyfat, margarines up to 54%, and solid shorteningone who does not eat meat, eats o

nly good food, up to 58%.and does all he can to protect his liver, may never get cancer. If you are on a low-fat diet, sunlight hitting your skin actually inhibits cancer. Cancer is less a disease than a condition existing in the whole body. Cancer would be almost unheard of if no devitalized food or meats were PROTEIN eaten. Cancer cannot exist where there is a pure Our actual daily protein requirement is 20-bloodstream. 30 grams a day, but many eat over 100 a day. Almonds, well-chewed, are a good protein source DAIRY PRODUCTS for those recovering from cancer. Brewer s yeast is also. Do not eat animal protein. Never eat lunProteins should be in the form of seeds andcheon meats, hot dogs, or smoked or c ured meats. nuts. Almonds are excellent, so are sesame andRestrict consumption of dairy prod ucts. sunflower seeds. Chew them well. Eat 10 raw al- Milk and milk products are harmfu l, so they monds daily. They are high in laetrile, an anti-can-should be avoided. Milk cont ains a growth horcer agent (although not as high as apricot seeds).mone for growing calves large in a few weeks and Do not eat peanuts. Limit, but do not elimi-months. It will stimulate tumor grow th. The pasnate soybean products. Soybeans contain enzymeteurization of milk destroys the p hosphatase eninhibitors, so are not the best until you are well.zyme needed for assimilation, and many allergies Eat all concentrated protein at only twoand digestive problems result. Calves fe d on pasmeals (breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner).teurized milk die of heart attac ks in 8 months; yet Do not eat them at the third meal. In this way therewe still give it to our chil dren. are no proteins being digested for a 15-hour pe- The synthetic vitamin D added to milk is one of the most toxic food additives known. Some riod, and the pancreatic enzymes are able to focus their attention on digesting cancer cells presentof it unites with undigeste d calcium, forming calin everyone.cified deposits which can be focal points for developing tumors. Overeating on protein leaves no extra pancreatic enzymes to digest cancer cells throughout Those with cancer should not us e milk, with the body.the possible exception of two tablespoons of yo-

--------------------------------------- 22 22Alternative Cancer Remedies gurt daily.while strengthening cancerous ones. Eggs can cause cancer. Many chickens die of Rancid food and oils are unsafe and c an carcinoma (cancer). It is known that the cancerproduce cancer. Even health foods which have been

germ can pass from the chicken into the egg.on the shelf (not refrigerated) for too long can be rancid. Try to make sure that the wheat germ, FATS AND RANCID OILwheat germ oil, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, flaxseed oil, and whole-wheat flour are fresh. Keep the weight down. Obesity is anotherNatural, unprocessed foods are extremely perishfactor linked to cancer, especially in women. Over-able. Refrigerate as soon as possible after purchasweight women more frequently have cancer of theing them. Wheat germ is a special problem; it turns uterus, and do not recover as easily from breast rancid a week after it is made. Vitamins E, A, and cancer.F are totally destroyed in rancid foods. During the Accumulated fatty tissue in the body af-process of turning rancid, very harmful chemicals, fects female hormones. The more that is present, such as peroxides, are produced. Because they are the more estrogen is produced and converted intostrong chemical irritants, after being ingested they a special type of endocrine substance which stimu-can cause cancer. Research on this was done in lates cells to divide in the breast and reproductiveGermany by Dr. H. Anemueller and, in the Universystem. Overweight men and women are moresity of Pennsylvania, by Drs. Rownee an d Barrett. likely to develop cancer. Heated fats (animal or vegetable), when A high-fat diet dramatically increases theheated to a high temperature, become c arcinooccurrence of colon, breast, endometrial, and ova-genic. Never fry food; never e at fried food. Instead rian cancer, as compared with a low-fat diet. Eat-add no oil to your cooking, bu t place measured ing a lot of fat encourages the development of can-amounts on your food after it is served at the table. cer in both men and women. Colon cancer is moreIn this way, you will be better a ble to control your likely to occur in men.oil intake. Those who eat the most saturated fat are Oil in the coffee bean turns rancid when twice as likely to develop polyps.heated; do not drink coffee because of that an d Dr. Ott Warburg made that discovery in theseveral other reasons. Coffee has been shown to 1920s. He demonstrated that the metabolism of produce cancer of the bladder. cancerous tissue differs radically from that of normal tissue. A regular cell is nourished by oxygen which it uses to break down nutriments; withoutDIET AND NUTRITION oxygen it dies. But a cancer cell lives by using Researchers in Sweden estimate t hat 40% chemicals to break down nutriments not oxy-of cancer in males and 60% in females i s caused gen and needs little or no oxygen to exist. Theby dietary deficiencies and wrong e ating. tumor, being a parasite, has a restricted circula- Chew your food four times as l ong, thus tion of blood, sometimes as low as 2% of normal,making it four times as digestib le. Cancer is often hence it lives on fermentation of sugar, like a plantcaused by mineral deficienc ies. How can you get

or fungus, instead of oxygen. Later experimentsenough, if you are not chewing yo ur food propby Warburg revealed that normal living tissue willerly? When you chew your food well, you do not become cancerous, if deprived of oxygen. It wasneed to eat as much to satisfy bo th hunger and this research which brought Warburg the Nobelbody needs. Prize. As noted elsewhere, do not use dairy prodSince the blood provides the cells with oxy-ucts, fried foods, heavy starches, o r high progen, Warburg concluded that the condition of thetein foods. Keep the diet simple and use cleansbloodstream played an important part in the de-ing foods. velopment of cancer. This is substantiated by the* Rats fed simple, natural food were far less fact that malignant tumors are frequently foundlikely to develop cancer than rat s fed purified near scars, at the sides of ulcers, in atrophied or-foods (i.e., processed foods ). gans, or wherever the blood supply is poor. Do not eat tainted or partly spoiled food: Rancid oils and heavy protein diets thickenfruits, vegetables, grains, etc. Defi nitely do not eat the blood, and weaken its ability to transport foodspoiled protein foods (such a s nuts)! and oxygen to the cells. Unlike other cells, cancer cells do not need oxygen. Rancid oils and fats are dangerous, for they decrease oxygenation and weaken normal cells

--------------------------------------- 23 Special Preventive Factors23 COOKING An epidemiological study of 21 countries revealed that high-sugar intake is a major risk facModern food processing, canning, and tor toward breast cancer. cooking destroys enzymes vital to digestion and O Artificial sweeteners are cancer-causing body needs. When food is heated to 106 F., some drugs. of these enzymes are damaged; many are destroyed O Do not use China tea (the regular tea you when 120 F. is reached. Try to keep foods, which buy in the grocery store); it contains tannic acid. have been subjected to heat, to below 25% of the Only use herbal teas. diet. Too much cooked foods throw an extra burSome natural-remedy cancer therapists say den on the pancreas. It must try to produce addinever use tomatoes at all, if you have cancer. There tional enzymes to detoxify that cooked food, which is something about tomatoes that tend to aggratries to produce a normal output of the same envate the situation for those with active cancer. zymes used throughout the body to destroy canOthers say that those with cancer can eat cer cells.

tomatoes by themselves, not with other foods. When you do cook, measure the water and Some say it is all right to make a meal of them if keep track of the time needed to cook the food you wish eaten alone. Some say they can be eaten so that you will know exactly when to turn off the with freshly baked zwieback (bread which has then fire, and there is only a very small amount of wabeen toasted in the oven until it is hard and chewy). ter remaining in the pot. Then be sure and drink Probably the best decision is avoid tomatoes enthat water. tirely if you have a malignancy. It has been reported that cancer, which has Do not take supplemental iron tablets. The been controlled, starts returning if over 25% of body tries to withhold iron from cancer cells, bethe food is cooked and processed. This is probcause the inorganic iron helps the cancer grow. ably due to the extra demand on the pancreas to People with excess iron levels in the blood tend to replace enzymes destroyed by heat. This paragraph have an increased risk of developing cancer, acis worth remembering later on. cording to the New England Journal of Medicine. Cook all sprouts slightly to eliminate a cerExcess iron suppresses the cancer-killing function tain enzyme. But do not heat alfalfa sprouts; eat of the macrophages and interfers with T- and Bthem raw. cell activity. The richest source of good iron is blackstrap molasses. PROBLEM FOODS Cancer thrives on glucose. They produce a Eliminate fats; salted foods; fried foods;3- to 5-fold increase in glucose uptak e compared smoked foods; pickles; soft drinks; caffeine; al-to healthy cells. Studies of ca ncer patients revealed cohol; chocolate; and all processed, fried, andthat they tended to eat more suga r than healthy junk foods from the diet.people. It was also found that high-sugar intake A high alcohol and/or caffeine intake is aincreases the likelihood of breast can cer. cause of breast cancer. The use of alcohol or to- Simple sugars (glucose, fructos e, sucrose bacco leads to cancer of the larynx. Smokeless[white sugar]) honey, and orange j uice significantly tobacco produces cancer of the lip, mouth, tongue,impaired the capacity of neutr ophils to engulf bacand throat. Smoking cigarettes or cigars producesteria, but starch ingestion did not have this effect. lung cancer and is a factor in bladder and kidneyHowever, you still need simple sugars, so eat them cancer.in moderation. Do not eat too much salt. Research in Japan disclosed that the frequency of stomach can-GOOD FOODS cer is definitely related to the quantity of salt eaten. The average Westerner eats 1,500 pounds of Caffeine also interferes with production of food per year. The food we eat is an important

those enzymes. factor in health or degeneration. Only nutritious Cancerous tumors require sugar in order foods should be eaten, and in moderation. to grow. Older women who use generous amounts Overeating is associated in 35% of all canof sugar are much more likely to contract breast cers. cancer. Do not use any cane sugar products, such One group of mice were allowed to eat as as cake, pie, jelly, ice cream, candy, etc. much as they wanted (about 3 g per day); the other In animal studies, progressive increase in was restricted to 2 g. Over half the mice on the sucrose in the diet leads to a dose-dependent deunrestricted diet developed cancer after 90 weeks. cline in antibody production. Later experiments repeated this result, producing

--------------------------------------- 24 24Alternative Cancer Remedies all types of tumors (lung, liver, skin, etc.). In everyflour. Whole-grain produc ts, well-baked, experiment, the more the diet is restricted in calo-are good. Do not use sourdou gh bread, sugared ries, the less incidence of cancerous growths.bread, or fruit breads. They are t oo indigestible. Carotenoids and bioflavonoids are both Raw fruit and vegetables are best; lightly free-radical protectors. Both stimulate the immunecooked or steamed, they are se cond best. Saltsystem while there is evidence that carotenoidsfree frozen are next. Then comes salt-free canned; may be directly toxic to tumor cells. Carotenoidsbut such food should only be us ed if the first three are the yellow coloring matter in green and yellowchoices are not available. vegetables. Deep green leafy vegetables and fresh Raw fruit and vegetable juices are needed carrot juice are the best sources. Bioflavonoidsto clean the system and help reb uild it. Use red are found in citrus, whole grains, honey, and otherbeet juice (from roots and ve ry little, if any, from plant foods.tops) and juice from carrots, celery, grapes, and Animals fed cruciferous vegetables hadother darker vegetables and fruits, such a s black markedly lower cancer-rate matched controls. Thischerries, black currants, etc. family of vegetables includes broccoli, brussels Fruit juices are best taken in t he morning sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower. Of them, broc-and vegetable juices in the aft ernoon and evening. coli has been found to be the best. Since that 1970 Drink spring or steam-distill ed water only! discovery of the University of Minnesota, the ac- Dr. Hans Nieper, a cancer resea rcher, uses tive ingredient, called indoles, which has been iso-fresh raw cabbage and carrot juice with excellated from the vegetables, provides unusual pro-lent results. tection against cancer. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Some recommend four 8-ounce g

lasses of found that lab animals fed cruciferous vegetables,freshly squeezed juice daily. Max Gerson, M.D., and then exposed to the deadly carcinogen afla-prescribed 13 glassfuls a day. Al ong with a scientoxin, had a 90 percent reduction in cancer rates.tific program of other remedie s, that juice pattern Greens and the green foods have everyis still followed today at the Gerson Insti tute in known vitamin, except Vitamin D and, possibly,northern Mexico. B. In addition, they have high levels of beta-caro- Never mix fruit and vegetable juices in the 12 tene, potassium, glutathione (an amino acid), andsame meal. It is all right to m ix vegetables juices other crucial nutrients which reduce tumor growth.together, but do not mix fruit juices (orange, A diet high in beta-carotene, especially beta-grapefruit, pineapple, lemon, or g rape). Some (incarotene, has been found to protect against can-cluding the Gerson Institute) re commend a comcer (International Journal of Cancer, Septemberbination of carrot and apple juic e. 1984). Fresh lemon juice should be squeezed on Green powders, such as Greenlife, Barleyall greens, salads, or lettuce that is e aten. This Green, etc., are invaluable. Eat a spoonful withenables the calcium and minerals to be better abyour food or in juice.sorbed by the system. Dark green vegetables are Emphasize raw food to the degree you arebetter than light-colored lettuce. able to do so. It is best that most of the food be Lecithin should be included in the diet, to raw, especially fruits and green leafy vegetables.keep cholesterol in the blood stream emulsified Phytosterols are natural chemicals in plants(so it does not harden on the walls) . This will imwhich reduce the risk of colon cancer.prove blood circulation to the site of the tumor. Abscisic acid is a plant dormancy hormoneLecithin helps regulate metabolism, bre ak down and vitamin A analog found in plants; it has pro-fat and cholesterol, and preven t malignancies. found anti-cancer activity. Abscisic acid is a caro- Wheat germ oil is an extreme ly rich source tenoid factor and is especially found in green leafyof vitamin E, and should be taken daily. Only use vegetables.cold-pressed (Viobin), and keep it refrigerated until While cleaning the body (such as during ayou are ready to use it during the meal . fast), breakfast can consist of fresh fruit and fruit Omega-3 fatty acids may inh ibit cancers, juices. Use lemon, orange, grape, carrot, beet,especially breast cancer (Cancer, October 1986). and apple juice daily. All juices should be fresh,Flaxseed oil is, by far, the b est source! with no sugar added. According to a 1988 medical article (British But in other foods, a small amount ofJournal of Surgery), eating an adequate amo unt blackstrap molasses, pure maple syrup, orof essential fatty acids helps protect the body

honey can act as a natural sweetener in place ofagainst skin cancer. It even hel ps eliminate them, sugar.once they form. Use whole wheat or rye in place of white Take a teaspoon of blackstrap molasses a t

--------------------------------------- 25 Special Preventive Factors25 the end of the vegetable meal. This will providepressure. additional amounts of iron, calcium, and impor- Legumes and seed foods (such as s oybeans) tant B vitamins.have protease inhibitors (PI). These tend to proNever eat fruit and vegetables at the sametect the seeds from being digested. As such, they meals. Exception: lemon juice can be squeezedwere thought to be a problem. But r ecently it has over greens to help you better absorb calcium andbeen discovered that they tend to reduce tumor minerals in those greens.growth. The National Cancer Institute think that Use plenty of soaked figs, prunes, and rai-some of these substances (isoflavones and sins.phytoestrogens) have potent anti-cancer properEat garlic daily. Studies done in Japan sug-ties. However, eating a lot of beans is not somegest that taking garlic supplements may help re-thing you will want to do at hom e! Too much produce the size of tumors. It has been used for me-tein helps feed the cancer cell s. dicinal purposes for 4,000 years. Certain other foods show an ability to slow Garlic is a faithful standby, and protectstumor growth in some way. This include s apples, against cancer in general (Acta Unio. Intern. Con-apricots, barley, citrus fruit , cranberries, fiber, tra Cancrum, 20, No. 3, 1964). Cut a thin slice offigs, ginger, spinach, and sea weed. garlic and carefully tape it over, what you consider There are a variety of diges tive enzymes. might be, a skin cancer. Try to avoid contact ofTake them with a meal, to improv e digestion, or the garlic on good skin. (If it does, the skin willon an empty stomach, if the n eed is to help fight redden and burn somewhat.) Russian research,cancer (first thing in the morning; an hour before from back in the 1950s, revealed that garlic is morebreakfast; or the last thing at night, at least two powerful than antibiotics in destroying bacteria.hours after supper.) It also causes moles and skin cancers to fall off. Rice bran, pressure cooked, is rich in Put the garlic on in the morning, take it off,tocotrienols (2-3 tablespoons a da y). and carefully wash the area in the evening before Aloe vera extract (or, better, fresh aloe vera bedtime. Put on a new application. Remove it inleaves) contains the active immun e stimulant, ace the morning, and repeat the process. Do this formannan. about 3 days. The mole or ulcer will dissolve and Scientists have found that the active culture

slough off. Let the area heal. If part of it remains,of bacteria in yogurt (lact obacillus) can fortify repeat the process at a later time.the immune system. In both humans and animals , If you keep applying the garlic for more than 4yogurt in the diet tripled the in ternal production days, it will begin burning deeper into the skinof interferon, a powerful chemic al compound used (you will know, because the area will become veryby the immune system against ca ncer cells. It also painful.) Such deep burning is not necessary toslows the level of natural killer cells. Yogurt slows slough off the cancer, and could be harmful.the growth of tumor cells in the gas tro-intestinal Be sure to incorporate dietary fiber in eachtract while improving the ability of the immune regular meal.system to destroy active tumor cells. It also helps Fiber in the diet helps maintain regularityblock the production of carcinogenic agents in the and avoid colon cancer. But it also helps the coloncolon. Women eating yogurt we re found to have absorb toxins and carry it out of the body. This isless breast cancer. It is wel l-known that milk is important. Be sure to eat at least 3 tablespoons ofone of the worst allergenic f oods, and can carry bran at each regular (non-juice only) meal.disease germs from the cows. So you w ould do Try to have a vegetable, fruit, and berrywell to obtain lactobacillus cultures f rom healthgarden of your own, using natural fertilizers, sea-food stores rather than eatin g yogurt. weed, etc. You are what you eat. Purchase food Other intestinal microflora produc ts can where organically grown food is sold.be used instead of yogurt (which can be all ergenic We do not generally think of mushrooms asand contain cow diseases). Some broad s pectrum the best food, for they are in the fungus family.products contain lactobacillus, bifidus, streptoBut it has been found that three types (Reishi,coccus faecium. Others contain on ly lactobacilShiitake, and Maitake mushrooms) have decidedlus, which is milk- and yogurt-free . anti-cancer factors. Oral extract of Maitake provided complete elimination of tumors in 40% of FASTING test animals while the remaining 60% had a 90% of their cancers eliminated. Maitake contains aYou should be aware of the fact t hat, by the polysaccharide, called beta-glucan, which stimu-time symptoms of pain accompany cancer, it is in lates the immune system and even lowers bloodthe advanced stages. At that point, the body ur-

--------------------------------------- 26 26Alternative Cancer Remedies gently needs good nourishment, as well as cleans-mouth and spit out the capsule.

Do not crack vitaing; it should not be given fasts. For further infor-min C in your mouth the acidi ty can hurt your mation on this, see the Gerson Therapy, later inteeth. Just swallow it whole. this book. It is well-known, by biochemists, that most But, as a cancer preventive, occasional fasting cancer victims have a deficiency of not only all is helpful. Cancer prevention is the theme of the vitamins, but also hydrochloric acid, potasentire Part One section of this book. sium, magnesium, iodine, and many trace eleFasts on fruit and vegetable juices of 1 to ments. 3 days can be taken. If under the care of someone Vitamins are very important. Do not trust who knows what to do, and you are not thin, a yourself to the official standardized amounts of longer fast may be undertaken. needed vitamins and minerals. The actual nutriGo on a fresh fruit diet for several days. If tional requirements are much higher. In addition, the patient is thin, after a few days of fruit diet, living in our chemicalized, polluted age destroys a give him an alkaline nourishing diet. This would number of vitamins and minerals. consist of vegetable broth (simmer thick potato For example, vitamin C is destroyed in its peelings, carrots, and beets; strain; drink the waeffort to combat auto-exhaust fumes and mercury ter on top), mashed half-inch thick potato peelin the food. Vitamin E destroys itself in the proings, brown rice, carrots, greens of all kinds, cess of detoxifying cadmium (which nonsmokers red cabbage, parsley, and other vegetables. breathe when they are in the same room as smokEating good food treats malnutrition, and ers). The list goes on and on. The world is not as many people develop cancer because of a lack of safe now as it used to be. We can be thankful that the protective, nourishing food needed to resist it. we are aware of vitamins and minerals and how to There is a theory that you can starve cancer obtain them in sufficient quantities. to death. This has been proven untrue. Cancer [Special note: The following data on vitamin A does better in a malnourished body. One study was compiled from information gleaned from revealed that pure malnutrition (cachexia) is resources which had not yet discovered that betasponsible for at least 22% and up to 75% of all carotene (pro-vitamin A) was the more active cancer deaths. agency in cancer prevention, and far more powerful than vitamin A.] VITAMINS Vitamin A is crucial in cancer therapy, but IMPORTANT: Throughout this study, when dos-can you get too much of this oil-solu ble vitamin? age amounts used in research are given, theHigh doses of vitamin A (500,000 IU)

can have amounts are always for per day (mg per day, etc.).acute reversible effects. Toxici ty may start as low G means grams, not grains.as 25,000 IU in those with impaired liver function IMPORTANT: According to the literature sur-(caused by drugs, hepatitis, or prote in malnutriveyed, when overdosage was possible, this was in-tion). Otherwise, it begins at several hundred thoudicated. (See vitamins A, B, niacin, selenium, cys-sand IU. 6 teine, arginine.) Of course, vitamin D overdose can Toxicity of vitamin A can be reduced by takalso be toxic, but it is not listed here as an anti-ing vitamin E at the same ti me. This mitigates lipid cancer factor. For a variety of reasons, beware ofperoxide effects. taking much, if any, iron supplements. Toxicity of beta-carotene (pre-vitamin A, as IMPORTANT: Fish oils have also been recom-found in greens and carrot juice) has never been mended in the literature as possible anti-cancerfound. One 15-year study involve d immense betaagents. But we do not list them here for three rea-carotene intake. sons: Large amounts must be consumed to be ben- Experiment after experiment has r evealed eficial. Fish oil has a known history of damagingthat when vitamin A is missing, cancer can be the muscle of the heart. Some forms inhibit bloodstarted in animals; but, when i t is present in abunclottingdance, not even fast growing implanted cancers Take the supplements which seem distastefulwill survive in test animals. Vitamin A inhibits the and hard to swallow; and put them in fruit or otherinduction, and retards the gr owth of both maligdrink, and swallow them all together. If necessary,nant and non-malignant tumors . Taken over a briefly whiz the mixture in a blender.short period, vitamin A can greatly aid in recovery When possible, chew the tablets. Break openof cancer. Take large doses (up to 15 0,000 units the capsules and pour the powder onto your foodper day or you may wish to remain with smaller or into a spoon. Crack liquid capsules in yourdoses: 50,000 units, twice a day). Later you can

--------------------------------------- 27 Special Preventive Factors27 reduce this to a smaller amount.susceptibility and increased tumor size. In anot her Take vitamin A in emulsified form, to mini-experiment, animals fortified with B and then in6 mize liver involvement. Alternate, taking it 2 weeksjected with melanoma (skin) cancer cells showed on and 1 week off. Blurred vision and a soapy feel-a greater resistance to this deadly form of cancer. ing in the mouth are signs that the body has tooStudies on humans revealed simil ar results.

much A. (Vitamins A and D, which are oil soluble, Less than 500 mg of vitamin B i n humans 6 can be taken in excessive amounts, so one mustappears to be safe. always be careful. Never take large amounts of ei- Vitamin B dramatically augment s the tu12 ther for too long a time.)mor kill of vitamin C. In some instances, a person needs to take as A combination of folate (folic acid, a B vitamuch as 300,000 IU of vitamin A. When this mustmin) and B has been found to reve rse bronchial 12 be done, taking 3200 IU of vitamin E will helpmetaplasia (pre-malignant lesions) . Folic acid proreduce the risk of vitamin A toxicity.tects against cervical cancer (American Jo urnal Vitamin A derivatives (retinoids) reverseof Clinical Nutrition, January 1982). bronchial metaplasia. Pangamic acid is vitamin B. Many scien15 Vitamins A, C, E, and beta-carotene re-tists (Warburg, Goldblatt, etc.) believe that chronic duce the risk of cancer by radiation and chemicaloxygen deficiency in cells lead s to cancer cell forcarcinogen exposure. Vitamins A,D, and E inhibitmation. Pangamic acid increases the body s resisoncogene activity.tance to oxygen deficiency. Remember that cancer Varying amounts of Vitamin A were given tocells do not use oxygen and that poorl y oxygendifferent patients with bladder cancer. Those re-ated cells are the most likely to become malignant. ceiving the smallest dosages were the most likely Laetrile (also called amygdalin , nitrilto have recurring cancer (i.e., the cancer returnsosides, or vitamin B) is anoth er substance used 17 later).to eliminate cancer. It is derived from apricot pits The B-complex vitamins help prevent cir-(seeds). Take two 500 mg tablets of laet rile 3 times rhosis of the liver. This is important because aa day. It is also found in all f ruit kernels, except damaged liver has a 60% greater chance of be-those of citrus. Other food sources , which contain coming malignant. Dr. Max Gerson found that tolesser amounts, include lima beans , lentils, mung be consistently true. Take a B-complex supple-beans, crab apples, peaches, plums , apricots, cherment. Also take 3-4 tablespoons of brewer s yeastries, cranberries, sprouted seeds , and apples (chew each day. Do not eat baker s yeast; it contains liveup the seeds as well as the ap ple). yeast and is not good for you. Several apricot kernels (i.e., apricots seeds Dr. Otto Warburg, Nobel Prize winner andor pits) should be eaten at each protein meal. Six director of the Max Plank Institute in Berlin, de-per day may be sufficient. The y should be eaten clared that there is a lack of one or more of threewith food or, better yet, wit h fresh, frozen, or dried B vitamins (riboflavin, niacin, and pantothenicapricots. The slightly bitter one s contain more la-

acid) in tissue which becomes cancerous.etrile (also called nitriloside or amygd alin), and In various countries, nearly 200 scientistsare better for you than are the sweet ones. Do not have reported on the importance of niacin (vita-mix the sweet and bitter varieti es; there may be min B) in preventing and treating cancer.an interaction. If available, 100 mg of oral 3 2 grams of Niacin (B) daily is recommendedamygdalin may be substituted. 3 as an anti-cancer factor. If people regularly ate the seeds when they Niacin has been recommended by the NIHeat apples, peaches, and apricots, they wo uld get in amounts up to 3000-6000 mg, for lowering cho-enough laetrile. Starting to do this earlier will help lesterol. But time-release niacin is more suspectprevent cancer from forming lat er on. of causing liver damage; amounts which might do But when cancer is already develo ping, 500this were not given.590 mg of amygdalin, in solid tablet form, should Vitamin B (pyridoxine; pyridoxal with pyri-be swallowed at the two larger meals. They should 6 doxal-5-pyrophosphate (P5P) is helpful in reduc-not be taken on an empty stomach . ing damage from radiation therapy and slowing Vitamin C is a powerful aid in resi sting cancancer growth from polyamine synthesis of the tu-cer and other diseases. Swedish studies, at mor. Especially good when a B ointment is ap-Karolinska and Umea Hospitals, reve aled that vi6 plied to surface melanoma tumors. It helps pre-tamin C in large doses can be an effective agent in vent respiratory and cervical cancer (Nutrition andfighting cancer. Cancer, June 1984). Vitamin C blocks the carcinogenic effects of B-deficient mice exhibited enhanced tumormost poisons, including nitrates. Vitam in C can 6

--------------------------------------- 28 28Alternative Cancer Remedies be taken to bowel tolerance. This means you cancerous tissue. Take up to 1,000 u nits a day. Vitatake as much as you can, until you begin to havemins C and E help the body inhib it the activity of diarrhea. When the body tissues reach saturationthe enzyme, hyaluronidase, found in cancerous tison C, the remainder of this water-soluble vitaminsue. is sent into the bowel, which reacts to the acidity A lack of beta-carotene (provitamin A), by somewhat runny bowels till the C is gone. Takevitamin E, and B complex in lun g tissue may be large doses of 5,000 mg or more a day. It is therelated to lung cancer. most powerful antitoxin known, and can neutral- Injections of vitamin E, beta-car otene,

ize or minimize the damaging effect of most chemi-canthaxanthin (a carotenoid), and algae extract cal carcinogens entering your body from the air,dramatically bolstered levels of tumor necrosis facwater, or food.tor alpha, and reversed hamster buccal pouch tuCancer of the bladder can occur when themors. amino acid, tryptophan, is not properly metabo- Human prostatic cancer cells in v itro were lized, resulting in oxidation of its metabolites.markedly reduced when vitamin E was added. It Vitamin C prevents that oxidation process, andhelps protect against bowel cancer (Journal of the thus blocks cancer development. It is a preventa-National Cancer Institute, 73, 1984). tive agent against a variety of cancers (Journal of Vitamin F is the essential fa tty acid. Add 1 the National Cancer Institute, 73, 1984).tablespoon of cold-pressed vegetable oi l to each Vitamin C is such a potent cancer fighter,food meal (not juice-only meals). Whea t germ oil that it is well to here provide additional informa-and flaxseed oil are the best . Corn oil and soy oil tion: Deficiency symptoms include slow woundare second best. Safflower oil is no t so good. Make healing, pain in joints, immune suppression, bleed-sure the oil is fresh and kep t refrigerated when ing gums, irritability, and increased risk of can-not in use. Never use cottonse ed oil (it can cause cer. If you take too much at a time, it will causeblindness), hydrogenated oils, lard, greases, or animild diarrhea within 30 minutes. Intake: RDA: 60mal products. The oil in the nut s is good, if the mg. Usual U.S.: 114 mg. Prophylactic: 500-2000nuts are fresh. mg. Therapeutic: 500-100,000 mg. Vitamin K helps protect the body against Taken in larger doses, Vitamins A and Ccertain cancer-causing substances. Take i t with viinhibit hyaluronidase, an enzyme found in can-tamin C, to increase its cancer-re ducing strength. cerous tissues. Quercetin (one of the bioflavonoids which, Vitamins A, C, and E are antioxidants. Whentogether, are called vitamin P) incre ased the cellaccompanied by the minerals, selenium and zinc,kill rate in cancer cells which w ere exposed to hythey help protect against malignancies.perthermia (heat therapy) with no negativ e effect Low serum levels of vitamins A and E wereon normal healthy cells. common in patients receiving, and responding Quercetin reduced cancers in animals expoorly to, chemotherapy. The great danger in us-posed to two carcinogens. ing chemotherapy and radiation is the damage, introduction of poisonous conditions, and destrucMINERALS tion of anti-cancer vitamins. Vitamin C and beta-carotene (pre-vitamin A Cancer Control Convention, meeting in JaA) have been found to be effective in reversing cer-pan, reported that the trace mineral, germanium, vical dysplasia and oral leukoplakia in humans.in the diet is a significant fact or in preventing and eliminating cancer.

Vitamins C and K separately showed antitumor activity against human cancer cells in vitro, One cancer researcher, who st udied in-depth but became syergistically effective at 2% the regu-into cancer remedies over the past 150 years, declared that every effective anti-cancer formula lar dosage when used together. A substance in vitamin D, known as 1,25(Glyoxylide, which is the Koch treatment; the dihydroxycholecalciferol has been discovered toHoxsey herbs; Hypotonic therapy; laetrile; the be an anti-cancer factor. But, due to toxicity of vi-Gerson method; Krebiozen; a nd Carcalon) involves extra amounts of potassium. This is very importamin D overdose, it must be used only under the care of a professional. For most of us, it is best totant. avoid using too much vitamin D, although some is Be sure to include a significant ly higher intake of potassium. Potassium deficiency is conneeded. Sunshine is the best source. (Fish oils can cause heart trouble.)sidered by Gerson, Scott, and others as a primary Vitamin E, working with C, inhibits the ac-contributing cause of cancer. tivity of a growth substance (catalyst) found in can- Potassium foods include alm onds, apples,

--------------------------------------- 29 Special Preventive Factors29 dried apricots, bananas, beans, beets, broccoli,Scotia dulse or Norwegian kelp. Both are special carrots, dulse, grapes, kale, olives, pecans, riceseaweeds which have a wide spe ctrum of trace minbran, sunflower seeds, wheat bran and germ.erals. Food grown on the continents d oes not have These foods help the body resist and overcomeall those trace minerals; rainwater has gradually tumors, cysts, and malignancies.depleted the soils. Center your diet around potassium foods. Iodine protects against breast cancer (L anHere are more of them:cet, April 1976). Dried apricots, asparagus, pearled barley, It is very important to keep the iodin e level dried navy beans, fresh lima beans, raw beets,of the blood normal, so both the t hyroid and body sprouted bread with no salt, Brussels sprouts, cab-tissues will have proper cell oxidation. Eat a suffibage, cantaloupe, caraway seed, cauliflower, cel-cient amount of dulse or kelp e ach day. (Do not ery seed, small leaves of chard, dark raw cher-use California kelp.) ries, dandelion greens, dill seed, endive, People with myxedema, or underactive t hyunsulphurated figs (dried or raw), garlic, concordroids, are more prone to devel oping cancer. So or emperor grapes, grapefruit, fresh horseradish,keep your thyroid in good condi tion with seaweed. fresh lemons, lentils, fresh limes, nectarines, okra, Japan and Iceland both have low goiter and onions, oranges, fresh parsley, dried or rawbreast cancer rates. This may be bec

ause their peaches, Bartlett pears, dry or fresh peas, persim-diets are rich in iodine and selenium. Breast canmons, raw pineapple (never canned), raw plums,cer has been linked to an iodine d eficiency. Japadried or raw prunes, raw quinces, raisins, wild ornese women have almost no brea st cancer. Colon brown rice, sage, rolled oats, spinach, squashcancer rates in Japan are also low . (acorn, Hubbard, yellow summer), tangerines, raw Studies at the University of Zur ich and in tapioca, raw turnip leaves, and watermelon.London Polytechnic reveal that brewer s , or food, Drink potassium broths daily. Prepare themyeast gives improved resistance agains t cancer defrom half-inch thick potato peelings, which are thenvelopment. Brewer s yeast is o ne of the best sources cooked. Draw off the water and drink it.of selenium, an important anti-cancer mi neral. You want foods which are high in iodine Selenium made the headlines, at the end o f and potassium, low in sodium, protein, and fat.1996, as a special trace mineral which could draPotassium ascorbate (12-20 g) can be takenmatically reduce cancer in the human b ody. It comas a partial potassium supplement. This productpletely inhibited tumor growth in mice inoculated includes vitamin C.with tumor cells. Potassium and magnesium are among the Selenium helps eliminate cancer in five way s: more crucial minerals for cancer recovery. Mag-It improves detoxification, bolst ers immune funcnesium helps to stabilize cell membranes and el-tion, directly toxic to tumor ce lls, and is a valuevate immune activity while potassium plays aable anti-proliferative factor (Lan cet, July 1983). critical role in membrane permeability. (Magne-Selenium intake should not exceed 2500 mcg (2.5 sium, 400-800 mg daily from aspartate, citrate,mg) per day. or orotate.) Using selenium as a sole therapy, there was Magnesium protects against cancer in gen-a 38.8% favorable response rate in pati ents with eral (Medical Hypotheses, August 1980).oral cancer. Calcium and magnesium have a beneficial High doses of selenium (equivalent to 54 effect in helping the body resist colon cancer. Natu-mg in humans) resulted in 8 3-90% reduction in ral iron supplements help prevent thyroid cancer.rate of tumor growth in mice. (But many iron supplements are dangerous! Take Long-term usage of 5000 mcg of sel enium blackstrap molasses instead of iron pills.)may result in fingernail changes and hair loss. SeThe New England Journal of Medicine re-lenite is more toxic than selenium bound to amino ported that calcium may prevent precancerousacids (i.e., selenomethionine). Inge stion of 1-5 mg/ cells from becoming cancerous. Calcium protectskg body weight of selenite will p roduce toxic side against colon cancer (American Journal of Epi-effects. This is equivalent to 65, 000 mcg in a 65 demiology, September 1988).kg adult.

Calcium supplements (2000 mg) provide a Chromium as picolinate is very helpful in marked suppression of rectal cancer proliferation.working with carcinoma. (400-8 00 mcg.) It inhibits early stages of colon cancer in geneti- Zinc as zinc picolinate (30-1 00 mg) is also a cally vulnerable individuals.significant help. It protects against prostrate can Iodine and trace minerals are crucial. Youcer (British Journal of Urology, Octob er 1983). can obtain them by each day eating some Nova Cesium is neither essential nor toxi c in can-

--------------------------------------- 30 30Alternative Cancer Remedies cer reduction. But it slightly alters the pH of can- Several studies confirm that arginine recer cells, rendering them more vulnerable to im-duces tumors and tumor formation . It increases mune attack.T-cell function, stimulates the thymus and thyroid, and enhances activity of killer cells, as well as interleukin-2 receptors and general immune imOTHER NUTRIENTS provements. Chlorophyll is an anti-cancer agent which At therapeutic levels (above 5 g) of ar ginine, slows the growth of cancerous tumors. It createsgrowth of certain viruses may be activated. an environment unfavorable to bacterial growth. Methionine reduces the intake of mercury, A diet rich in chlorophyll is therapeuticallywhich is a cancer-causing agent. effective for both external and internal infections, Malnourished cancer patients improve when including malignancies.branched chain amino acids (leucine, isoleuBlue-green algae and chlorophyll clean andcine, and valine) are given. Protein a nd albumin protect the blood synthesis are heightened. CoQ10 (co-enzyme Q10) and germanium provide oxygen to the cells. So does vitamin E, PREVENTING CANCER working in the liver. (Cancer does not use oxygen in the cells.)The information in this section is primarily CoQ10 increases aerobic (oxygen) metabo-for medical researchers, but it is also invaluable lism and immune function. Cancer cells thrivefor those who want to prevent cance r from gaining where there is a lack of oxygen.a foothold in their bodies. CoQ10 sometimes reduces hair loss in thoseBecause of modern nutritional, environ menwho choose to take chemotherapy.tal, and living conditions, cancer rates are rap idly Scientists, at UCLA, have found that sodiumincreasing. In this chapter, the thou ghtful reader linoleate, which contains linoleic acid (an es-will have learned a number of thi ngs which can sential fatty acid) has the ability to fight cancerhelp prevent the occurrence o f cancer.

cells. Lecithin is a good source. You have been a toxic waste site! And now, Gamma linolenic acid (GLA) can be takenbefore the cancer has a chance to start, you are as oil of borage, evening primrose, or black cur-beginning waste disposal operat ions. With prayer, rent seed. In purified form, up to 1.5 grams perdiligent work, and the blessing of God, you can day can be taken.have success. Alpha linolenic acid (ALA) from flaxseed While some are concerned with treating oil (1-2 teaspoons daily). Make sure that it wassymptoms, you must be concerned with getting at stored in the refrigerator at the health food storethe causes of cancer and elim inating them. Only you purchase it from. Flaxseed oil becomes ran-then can the problem be permanent ly solved. cid very quickly, so purchase small bottles.The Gerson Therapy seems to do the b est job of eliminating the toxins. You will find it discussed AMINO ACIDSlater in this book. Well, there you have a number of possible Glutathione (200 grams) functions in thesuggestions. What you have just read may seem body as an antioxidant and helps destroy free radi-like a lot of work. But, sinc e cancer will gencals and the toxicity remaining if you already haveerally mean the end of you, a re you sure you do received radiation treatments and chemotherapy.not want to work? Cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, especially) in- It is extremely important that you care for creases the body s own production of glutathioneand rebuild the liver, kidneys, lu ngs, skin, bowperoxidase (GSH).els, and other organs. Dr. Max Gerson maintained Cysteine (N-acetylcysteine) (1-2 grams) isthat he could eliminate cancer in anyo ne if the liver an amino acid which enters into various detoxifiwas in good condition. Take care of your liver. cation systems in the body, helps bolster glu- If you have cancer, we recommend t hat you tathione paroxidase activity, and can be convertedlocate a physician and place y ourself under his in the body to glutathione, which may become care. A careful systematic regime of healthful reGSH, a potent broad spectrum antioxidant enzymecovery is needed, and you may not know what to system. Cysteine supplementation promotes glu-do. Regardless of which doctor you go to, while tathione synthesis.waiting for appointments get started doing the right Although safe up to 10 g, the nauseating tastethings! Doctors may be busy, but y our life depends and smell of cysteine can cause vomiting.on changes which need to start right no w. Essen-

--------------------------------------- 31 Special Preventive Factors31 tially everything, listed here in Part One of this Length of days, and long life, and peace, shall book, you can do at home to improve health andthey add to thee . . Length of day

s is in her help prevent malignancies.[Wisdom s] right hand. Proverbs 3:2, 16. Do not fear. Trust your life to God; obey the By Me thy days shall be multiplied, and the Ten Commandments by faith in Christ; and stepyears of thy life shall be increase d. Proverbs forward, living your best and doing your best. En-9:11. trust the outcome to God. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. ProvAmerica alone spends $800 billion yearlyerbs 10:27. on physicians and hospitals; yet it is 23rd in the Who forgiveth all thine iniquit ies; who healeth world in level of health, vitality, and longevity.all thy diseases; Who redeemet h thy life from deSurely, it is time that we start thinking for our-struction; . . Who satisfieth thy mouth with good selves.things; so that thy youth is renewed like the All information in this section, andeagle s. Psalm 103:3-5. throughout this book, is offered purely for edu- Be not wise in thine own eyes: fe ar the Lord, cational, research, and experimental purposes and depart from evil. It shall be he alth to thy naas an objective report, not as a recommenda-vel, and marrow to thy bones. Proverbs 3:7-8. tion or endorsement. They are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:22. The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety CLAIMING BIBLE PROMISESby Him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long. Deuteronomy 33:12. Claiming the promises in God s Holy Bible I have set the Lord always before me; beca use He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. is a definite part of preventive medicine, onePsalm 16:8. which is open to us all. Come, read these promises and make them He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: hi s heart your own. More will be found in this book onis fixed, trusting in the Lord. Psalm 1 12:7. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: pages 7, 15, 43, 116, 126, 141, 166, and 174.for thou, Lord, only makest me dwel l in safety. I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,Psalm 4:8. He giveth His beloved sleep. Psalm 127:2. what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet When thou liest down, thou shal t not be for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? . .afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,be sweet. Proverbs 3:24. He will keep the feet of His saints, and the which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into thewicked shall be silent in darknes s; for by strength oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, Whatshall no man prevail. 1 Samuel 2:9. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall we eat? What shall ye drink? or wherewithalshall I fear? The Lord is the s trength of my life; of shall we be clothed? . . For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1. Matthew 6:25, 30, 31, 32. He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is

broken. Psalm 34:20. That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to He that dwelleth in the secret place o f the Most keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thyHigh shall abide under the shado w of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my forson s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy daystress: my God; in Him will I trust . . He shall cover may be prolonged. Deuteronomy 6:2. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. thou trust; His truth shall be thy sh ield and buckler . . There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall Job 5:26.any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psalm What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Keep thy tongue91:1, 2, 4, 10. from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. De- I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the part from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. Psalm 34:12-13.Lord, which made heaven and earth . . Behold, He With long life will I satisfy him, and show himthat keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon My salvation. Psalm 91:16.thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by

--------------------------------------- 32 32Alternative Cancer Remedies day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall pre-tion, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting serve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thee fromplaces. Isaiah 32:18. all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall The steps of a good man are o rdered by the preserve thy going out and thy coming in, for thisLord: and He delighteth in his way. Psalm 37:23. time forth, and even for evermore. Psalm 121:1, He will be our guide, even unto death . 2, 4-8.Psalm 48:14. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8.afterward receive me to glory. Psalm 73:24. As the mountains are round about Jerusa- In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He sh all lem, so the Lord is round about His people, fromdirect thy paths. Proverbs 3:6. henceforth even for ever. Psalm 125:2. A man s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, anddirecteth his steps. Proverbs 16:9. thy foot shall not stumble. Proverbs 3:23. His God doth instruct him to discretion, a nd But whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwelldoth teach him. Isaiah 28:26. safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Prov- And I will bring the blind by a w ay that they erbs 1:33.knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have And the Lord will create upon every dwellingnot known. I will make darkness light before them, place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, aand crooked things straight. Thos

e things will I cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flam-do unto them, and not forsake them. Isaiah ing fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a42:16. defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a And the Lord shall make thee the he ad, and shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for anot the tail; and thou shalt be ab ove only, and thou place of refuge, and for a covert from storm andshalt not be beneath; if that th ou hearken unto from rain. Isaiah 4:5-6.the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I He shall dwell on high: his place of defencecommand thee this day, to observe and do them. shall be the munitions of rocks. Isaiah 33:16.Deuteronomy 28:13. When thou passest through the waters, I will Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the be with thee; and through the rivers, they shallrighteous shall be in everlastin g remembrance . . not overflow thee: when thou walkest through theHis horn shall be exalted with h onour. Psalm fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the112:6, 9. flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, For them that honour Me, I will honour. 1 the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. Isaiah 43:2-Samuel 2:30. 3. By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every mo-and honour, and life. Proverbs 22:4. ment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Length of days is in her right hand; and in Isaiah 27:3.her left hand riches and honor. Proverbs 3:16. For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall [Wisdom] Exalt her, and she shall pr omote of fire round about, and will be the glory in thethee: she shall bring thee to h onour when thou midst of her. Zechariah 2:5.dost embrace her. Proverbs 4:8. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and ISUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. Leviticus 26:6.About ten years ago, the author prep ared The Lord will give strength onto His people;a short research paper on cancer and then the Lord will bless His people with peace. Psalmset it aside and eventually forgot it . As the 29:11.present book was being completed, that study Peace shall be upon Israel. Psalm 125:5.was found. Because it so nicely supplements Great peace have they which love Thy law,the material you have just read, it is h ere inand nothing shall offend them. Psalm 119:165. He maketh peace in thy borders. Psalmcluded 147:14.It is remarkable how much worthwhile inLord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thouformation is available on this cruci al life-oralso hast wrought all our works in us. Isaiahdeath topic. 26:12. My people shall dwell in a peaceable habita-

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Special Preventive Factors33 MINERALSMINERALSMINERALSMINERALSMINERALSabnormal cell division that is character istic of tumor growth. CALCIUMCALCIUMCALCIUMCALCIUMCALCIUMFoods rich in magnesium include wheat germ an d Your body is made up of millions of tiny cells. Can-green, leafy vegetables. cer is just a group of cells which do not grow normally,Magnesium in the body ca n also be interfered with excesses of calcium, protein, and vitamin D. but instead reproduce themselves wildly and erratically. Calcium is known to be important in cell divi-COPPERCOPPERCOPPERCOPPERCOP PER sion. Any substance which releases calcium from cellsDr. Jack Schubert, of the U niversity of Pittsburgh, causes the cells to divide. Therefore, researchers sus-has found that sensitivit y to radiation is related to the pect that a lack of calcium intake in the diet may help amount of copper in the tissues: the lower the copper trigger this abnormal cell division.content, the less sensitive the person is to injury by A rare disease, parathyroid gland cancer, appears to be caused by hypercalcemia an excess of calciumradiation. So too much copper can be a problem. But, in conin the body. The parathyroid regulates calcium metabo-trast, Dr. Otto Warburg di scovered that oxygen is vital lism and hyperthyroidism. However, normal people will not have a problem with hypercalcemia but, instead,to the health of the cell, and that it is the cell deprived of oxygen which becomes malignant. Dr. Schubert diswith too little calcium intake.covered that some copper is needed in the system in Dr. Willard A. Krehl, M.D., a University of Iowa order to increase oxygen utilization. Therefore some nutritionist, says that a lack of magnesium will lead tocopper may be needed, to provide enough of the needed chronic exhaustion and, in some cases, may result inoxygen to the tissues. enlargement of the prostate and perhaps a form of canAmong the foods richest in natural copper are alcer.monds, Brazil nuts, broccoli, and beans. PHOSPHOROUSPHOSPHOROUSPHOSPHOROUSPHOSPHOROUSPHOSPHOROUSIODINEIODINEIODINEIODINEI ODINE Phosphorous may be important in cancer pre-In her book, Human Nutrition: Report No. 2, Benvention; for investigators have discovered that phos-efits from Nutrition Resear ch, C. Edith Weir, Ph.D., phorous is more easily lost from cancer cells thanmentions the importance of iod ine in the diet: from normal cells. There is recent evidence, March 1970, that dietary Phosphorous is the one mineral which is foundiodine deficiency may contribute to breast cancer, at in all foods and, generally, is adequately supplied toleast in rats. Demographic studies reveal that human the body. However, in cases of diarrhea, phospho-breast cancer incidence is high in iodine-deficient arrous (as well as calcium) can be excreted in exces-eas. sive amounts from the body. In addition, there must VITVITVITVITVITAMINSAMINSAMINSAMINSAMINS be enough hydrochloric acid in the stomach for phosphorous to be absorbed.Symposium chairperson, Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D.,

director of the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research MAGNESIUMMAGNESIUMMAGNESIUMMAGNESIUMMAGNESIUM at the University of Colorado, addressed a gathering of Dr. P. Bois, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Depart-top nutrition researchers who m et at Denver in June ment of Anatomy at the University of Montreal, Canada,1983. He said this: reported, in April 1968, to the Federation of American The role of dietary factors in the treatment and Societies for Experimental Biology, meeting in Atlanticprevention of cancer is b ecoming increasingly evident. City, that a deficiency in magnesium might be, what heIt represents a whole new frontier of cancer research. called, a basic cause of human cancer.The keynote speaker at the meeting, Linus Pa uling, In research done at Montreal, Dr. Bois demon-Ph.D., said this: strated that merely eliminating magnesium from the I think that someday historians may say that the diet of rats would trigger tumor growth in them withinmajor anti-cancer advance in the last quarter of this an average of 64 days. This was considered surpris-century was the recognition o f the value of vitamins ing, since rats rarely develop cancer spontaneously. Ofand nutrition in preventi on and treatment. special interest, the cancer began in the thymus gland,Scientist after scientist stood to his feet to present and later went to other parts of the body, eventuallydetailed research reports t o the gathered assembly. In resulting in lymphoid leukemia.most instances, they spoke of research with vitam ins Dr. Bois noted that, if the diet is high in fats orA, C, or E how well patients ha d responded and a lipids, the person may need more magnesium than henumber of the cancers eliminat ed, simply by giving them ordinarily would.one or the other of those three vitamins. Rarely were It has been theorized that a lack of magnesiumall three, or even two given; yet the results with only may result in low calcium and phosphorous levels, lead-vitamins A, C, or E given alone were still outstanding. ing to a malignant condition.For example, Maurice M. Black, M.D., of New York Me diIn an article in Nature, Bois stated his theory thatcal College, and his colleag ues gave vitamin A to palack of magnesium in the diet may result in migrationtients with various cancers and saw the patients reof the mineral from the nucleus of the cell to its outerspond, with some of the patients recovering. Then he portions, triggering chromosomal changes, followed byswitched to only giving vit amin E, and saw essentially

--------------------------------------- 34 34Alternative Cancer Remedies the same results. There is also the possibility that vitamin A comHere is additional information on vitamins, as theypounds somehow stimulate the i mmune system to be relate to the cancer problem:more effective in countering malignancy. For some re aVITVITVITVITVITAMIN AAMIN AAMIN AAMIN AAMIN Ason, certain white blood cells (tho

se leukocytes which have passed through and been treated by the thymus A surprising quantity of data is available on a pos-gland) have an increased abi lity to recognize cancersible link between vitamin A and cancer.ous cells as a foreign body, and seek to d estroy them. When certain carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)A number of drugs have an anti-t umor effect beare added to cultures of prostate tissue from mice, theircause they stimulate th is immune response. Vitamin A usual damage to the cells can be prevented by addinghas been shown to increase t he anti-tumor action of vitamin A at the same time. In addition, the vitaminsuch drugs 100-fold, accordi ng to Dr. Maugh. can even reverse the damage when it is added to theThus turns our attention to t he thymus gland, and culture after the carcinogen has begun its destruction.we learn that vitamin A m ay boost the immune reacThe same has been done with cancers of epithelial tis-tion against tumors by pro tecting the integrity and size sue (skin, lining of the mouth, internal passages, andof the thymus itself. It a ppears, in some way, to hollow organs). Both human and mouse cancer can bestrengthen that gland. In expe rimental animals, this made to regress under vitamin A treatment.small gland (located in the chest) shr inks in size as Scientists have been studying into this vitamin A/tumors develop (after a tumorvirus is injected), accancer relationship for years. For example, Thomas H.cording to Dr. Martin Zisbl att and colleagues Maugh II, Ph.D., in an article in Science (December(American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 1973). 27, 1974), entitled Vitamin A: Potential Protection fromWhen those animals are su bsequently given large Carcinogens, reviewed a number of these experimen-doses of vitamin A, the tumors diminish in size and tal findings.the thymus reverts toward normal size. Zisblatt, et. In addition, cells may be protected after exposureal., commented: Vitamin A appea rs not to be working to a carcinogen by the action of vitamin A. Dr. Maughdirectly as a selectively a nti-tumor compound, but, discusses this, and the discovery was documented at arather, it appears to affec t the process of rejection of workshop sponsored by the National Cancer Institutethe tumor. and Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. In his article, Dr. MaughThus, it may appear that a strong immune reacgoes as far as to suggest that it might be possible fortion to reject tumor cell s depends on a healthy thythe vitamins to mediate a return to normalcy of themus, and that, in turn, depends on adequate intake of person having cancer, in spite of the fact that the can-vitamin A. cer has damaged the system somewhat.At a scientific meeting, held in Denver, Col orado, In all of this, keep in mind that large, excessivein June 1983, Frank L. Meyske ns, Jr., M.D., associate doses of vitamin A can be toxic. All oil-soluble vita-professor of medicine at t he University of Arizona in mins (A, D, K, etc.) should only be taken in rather smallTucson, reported on his investigations. amounts. Yet it appears vital that they be taken into the In one of those investig

ations, Dr. Meyskens gave body!13-cis retinoic acid [a derivative of vitamin A] to 105 Dr. Maugh suggests that orthodox cancer therapypatients with various advanced ca ncers. At the time, deals only with destroying malignant cells after theynone of the people were get ting any other anti-cancer have been formed, but that vitamin A may help wardtherapy. off cancer even before it is known to exist in the body. He soon discovered that som e cancer types didn t This waiting period (before cancer is discovered torespond to the nutrient but t hat the epithelial varietexist in the body, known as preneoplasia, is a lengthyies those involving the cell ular coverings of tissues one often 20 years or more in the case of human cells.did. In fact, 25 percent of patients with one kind of It is known that, during this waiting period, some cellsepithelial cancer actual ly showed signs of tumor shrinkare damaged. But it is also known that some of theseage. And in advanced cancers of any variety, that s a damaged cells revert to good health again. Maugh sug-pretty good record. Prevention , October 1983, 78. gests that vitamin A intake may be part of the cause ofBeta-carotene (also calle d pro-vitamin A) is found that reversal. As he puts it: Vitamin A can produceonly in green and yellow veget ables; whereas vitamin A regressions in squamous cell and basal cell carcino-is found only in meat and da iry products. When foods mas [certain epithelial tumors] in mice and humans. containing carotene are eaten, the carotene is changed It has been suggested that vitamin A inhibits theby the liver into vitamin A. Od dly enough, it is safer to chemical conversion of some harmful substances, en-eat foods with carotene than foods with vitamin A. This tering the body, to an active carcinogen. Maugh specu-is because too much vitami n A can have a toxic effect lated that vitamin A may weaken the attachment of aon the body. You can never ge t too much carotene. The carcinogen to the cell s genetic material the nucleicliver is in charge of changing as much carotene as the acid, DNA, which contains the genes. Since genetic dis-body needs into vitamin A , if you are getting enough turbance is believed to be involved in the cell s loss ofcarotene in your diet. control over proliferation, such a weakening would helpWhat is one of the riches t natural sources of betathe cell revert to health. He noted that various car-carotene? Fresh carrot juice . cinogens bind much more tightly to DNA in culturesWe await further research into this important field. derived from animals made deficient in vitamin A.

--------------------------------------- 35 Special Preventive Factors35 VITVITVITVITVITAMIN CAMIN CAMIN CAMIN CAMIN Croutine autopsies frequently find s mall cancers which have evidently been completely controlled for many Familial polyposis is a hereditary disorder in whichyears. Such cancers, they sa y, may outnumber actual

large numbers of polyps (growths) develop on the lin-clinical cases of cancer by as much as 40 to one. This ing of the patient s colon. Any one of these polyps has awould indicate there is s ome type of powerful, natural high probability of developing into a cancerous tumor.immunity to cancer at work in most human bodies. The standard treatment is colostomy the entire removal of the colon. But a team of five physicians at aCameron and Pauling go o n to point out the fact well-known Midwest cancer clinic, the Vince Lombardithat vitamin C is needed to give lymphocytes (white Colon Clinic, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has succeeded inblood cells) enough vitality to effectively attack invadeliminating or reducing the number of polyps in fiveing foreign bodies. They als o noted that there is norout of eight polyposis patients by giving 3,000 mg. ofmally a high concentration of vitamin C in the adrenal vitamin C daily. The vitamin C was given to patientsand pituitary glands. Howeve r, under stress, the vitawho would otherwise have received the colostomy. Thismin C is quickly depleted. It is known that cancer places breakthrough could conceivably eliminate colon can-great stress upon the body. cer.Continuing on in that article, the two researchers note that, when laboratory animals are injected with a J.U. Schlegel, M.D., of the Department of Surgerypowerful cancer-causing chemica l (methylcholanof Tulane University, has reported that extra vitamin Cthrene), their bodies imm ediately began manufacturcan prevent bladder cancer in animals. He recom-ing much larger amounts of vitam in C. (Only man, the mended that human bladder cancer cases be givengreat apes, and guinea pigs canno t synthesis vitamin C supplementary vitamin C. Each patient was given 1 gram of vitamin C in awithin their bodies but must, inste ad, obtain it from timed-release capsule in the morning, and again at noonfood.) In rats that devel op tumors, the production of and at night (3 grams total daily). One of the research-vitamin C goes even high er! On a body-weight basis, a ers, Dr. Jerome J. DeCosse, M.D., Ph.D., said: Com-rat produces the equivalent (i n a 154-pound man) of plete disappearance of polyps in two of our patients16 grams (16,000 mg.) of vit amin C every day! and a major reduction in three others, beyond the timeWhy is that done? Cameron and Pauling contend limits of spontaneous regression and in excess of anythat the animal makes it in order to help it resist the errors in counting. We attribute this effect to ascorbiccancer. acid [vitamin C]. Since we must get our vitamin C from the food we eat, the two scientists contend that when people get Oddly enough, the experiment was only started be-cancer they should greatly increa se their daily vitacause of a theory DeCosse had that polyps and colonmin C intake. cancer might be caused by chemicals in the colon which,Two British physicians re ported in Medical World when oxidized, become carcinogenic. It was known thatNews (February 24, 1975) th at patients with malignant people living in areas where there were more bacteria and toxic chemicals had more colon cancer. So hedisease tend to be the people who habitually were ob-

reasoned that, perhaps, vitamin C might eliminate thetaining very small amounts of vitamin C in their diet. cancer, since it had known antioxidizing and anti-tumorIn that article, they urg ed all physicians to give all canproperties. Timed-release capsules were used, so ascer patients vitamin C supple mentation. much as possible of the vitamin C would reach theThen there is the virus theory of disease. There lower part of the colon, without being absorbed intoare a number of scientists who believe cancer is caused the blood.by a virus. If that is true, vitamin C would be very helpCommenting on the seemingly remarkable abilityful, since it is known to help the body attack and deof vitamin C to solve problems in advanced cancer pa-stroy viruses. In addition, many cancer patients become so weakened that a second bacterial invasion may tients, Dr. Ewan Cameron and Dr. Allen Campbell saidtake him down still further. So vitamin C would help this: Our clinical findings support the general conten-in this way also. tion that large doses of ascorbic acid enhance naturalOver a period of several y ears, Drs. Cameron and resistance to cancer. Further, we have found this formCampbell (both of Dunbarto nshire Hospital in Scotof medication to have definite palliative [symptomatic relief] value in the management of terminal untreat-land) treated many cancer pat ients with vitamin C. Fifty able human cancer (Chemico-Biological Interactions,of those cases were carefully r eported in detail, because September 1974).they were given only vitamin C (without the standard In the same issue of that international science jour-medical treatments). Each o f the 50 were beyond treatnal, Dr. Cameron and Linus Pauling, Ph.D., two-timement and, for practical purpo ses, beyond hope. Twentywinner of the Nobel Prize, and director of the Linusnine of the 50 patients reco vered remarkably well (conPauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Menlo Park,sidering that the only t reatment was vitamin C), but 37 California, wrote another report on vitamin C. In it,died. Many of the 37 seemed to recover for a time bethey noted that cancer patients which recover do notfore expiring. Keep in mind th at all were in an extremely advanced stage of carcinoma, and only vitamin C was have all the cancer cells removed. They are still in thegiven to them. Since the se patients were in such an circulating blood, traveling all through the system. Yetadvanced cancerous condi tion, some were almost too somehow, although they may live for many more years,weak to even eat food. Also keep in mind that no other their bodies manage to control those cancer cells.change was made in their diet, lifestyle, smoking habThey cite a 1972 medical report, indicating that

--------------------------------------- 36 36Alternative Cancer Remedies its, etc. except the addition of vitamin C for a time.do act as a deterrent to the formation of a carcinogenic And what were those 50 patients given that so manysubstance induced by ultraviol

et light. of them were helped? Most of the patients received 10Since then, it has been dis covered that the need grams (10,000 mg.) of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) daily,for these two antioxidants increased with time and with in four divided doses. Some received more. At first,the amount of sunlight one r eceives. the vitamin C was administered by injection. But theVitamin E has been found to reduce damage to physicians eventually discovered that it was not neces-chromosomes and DNA by ca rcinogens and radiation. sary; they could do just as well starting patients out This is important. Thus it may be a deterrent to damand carrying them through to conclusion on oral vi-age that possibly would otherwi se lead to cancer. It is tamin C.of interest that vitamin E has reduced the incidence of In connection with the above experiment, it shouldcancer in laboratory animals f ed carcinogens. be mentioned that oxalic acid (as found in certain foods)While discussing the sp ecial antioxidant abilities can cause kidney stones. It has been charged that vita-of vitamins A and E, we s hould mention the research min C (ascorbic acid), given in large amounts, mightwork of Dr. Otto Warburg, a leading chemist in the midcause them also. But none of the 50 patients developedtwentieth century. In his 1967 book, The Prime Cause kidney stones, even though given ascorbic acid in largeand Prevention of Cancer, he explained his research amounts over an extended period of time.and thesis. It is this: Cancer derives f rom an oxygen It was significant that all 50 cases experienced adeprivation at the cellular le vel. Cells so deprived have significant reduction in pain and distress. In those casestheir metabolism turne d askew, and they literally bewith cancer of the urinary tract, all had a significantcome wild cancerous. It is well-known among vitareduction in the amount of blood in their urine. In atmin researchers that vitam in E reduces the need of least six cases, the doctors reported indisputable clini-cells for oxygen, and th is may explain its apparent cancal and biochemical evidence that reversal of termi-cer-retarding effects in anim al experiments. nal malignant liver jaundice occurred for a significantVitamin E helps protect t he colon against cancer. period of time.The vitamin interfers with harmful free-radical reacCameron and Campbell concluded that a majortions from bowel carcinogens. repeat of this study should be done by national govern-Nicholas L. Petrakis, M.D ., professor of preventive ments. Apparently, that was never done. They alsomedicine and international heal th at the University of stated that, merely for the relief of pain just for theCalifornia at San Francisco , has found that fluid found easing of pain alone Vitamin C should be given to allin the breasts of women with a high risk of breast cancancer patients. Yet, they added, it would clearly docer often contains high lev els of lipid peroxides. Yet much more than that, if the patients were given it.those are the very same deter iorated fats that occur in the absence of vitamin E. VITVITVITVITVITAMIN EAMIN EAMIN EAMIN EAMIN EUsing a special breast pump, he fou

nd that those Vitamins C and E are both antioxidants, and bothstagnant fluids may contain ciga rette smoke by-prodhelp prevent sun-induced skin cancer. This was theucts, chemicals, and peroxidiz ed fats that may cause finding of Dr. Homer S. Black and Dr. Wan-Bang Lo,cancer in the cells lining the breast ducts. As reported dermatology researchers at Baylor College of Medicine,in the New York Times (Mar ch 23, 1975), he told an Houston, Texas (Nature, December 21-28, 1973).American Cancer Society seminar th at the amount of The two Texas researchers were analyzing how sun-lipid peroxides in breast fluid was seven times higher light causes skin cancer. They learned that, after hu-in Caucasian women than in women of Chinese deman or animal skin is exposed to ultraviolet light, cho-scent, who are relativel y free of breast cancer. lesterol in the skin oxidizes and forms by-products (Na-Vitamin E can help prote ct the body from the effect ture, December 3, 1971). One of those by-products isof X-rays, which are used to treat cancer, but they can cholesterol alpha-oxide, a known cancer-causing chemi-also cause cancer. Dr. Den ham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., cal.of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in Since vitamins C and E were already known to re-Omaha, says that both these effe cts are caused in some duce the oxidation of fats, the two scientists wonderedway by free-radical react ions of the radiation, arising if, adding more of them to the diet, might prevent skinfrom the separation of wa ter from certain parts of the cancer. They found that they did indeed block the for-cell. Free radicals are pe culiar atoms whose electron mation of the cancer-causing cholesterol.structure is such that they can easily combine with other They found that animals, receiving a supplemen-structures, producing abnormal co mpounds which do tal dose of the vitamins, had 64 percent more antioxi-strange things inside cell s. dants in their skin after two weeks than did the otherDr. Harman also found that , in 23 different naanimals. The level decreased somewhat after this, buttions, there was a correlat ion between the consumpwas maintained at about 18 percent above the controltion of fats and oils and th e death rates from leukemia level for the next 24 weeks.and cancer of the breast, ovaries, and rectum in per They also learned that, as the antioxidant contentsons over 55 years of age. The n, using laboratory feof the skin increased, the formation of cholesterol al-male mice, he found that increasing either the amount pha-oxide decreased.of unsaturated fats fed or the degree of unsaturation So this study revealed that, when vitamins C andled to significant increases in the incidence of mamE are given or consumed, they do get to the skin andmary tumors.

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The solution is to reduce the number of unsatur-the appearance of liver cancers in rats maintained on ated fats and, in some way, to block the oxidation ofdiets to which butter yellow and related azo dyes had fats. The answer to the second is vitamin E. It is thebeen added. (Azo dyes are artificial food colors, demost powerful natural, nontoxic antioxidant known torived from coal tar, and are widely used to add various mankind. Dr. Harman chose to use vitamin E in hiscolors to food.) This research was repeated in America, experiments. He found that vitamin E was an antioxi-but the rats did not develop liver cancers. Then it was dant which could reduce cancer formation in rats. Somenoted that the Japanese ra ts were fed white rice while were fed 5 percent fat; others, 20 percent. Half of allthe American rats were fe d a more generous diet. When test animals were given supplemental vitamin E. Afterriboflavin was removed from the diet of the American nine months, the group without the vitamin E beganrats, they contracted liver tu mors as described by Japadeveloping tumors, but none developed in the othernese researchers. group until after 25 months.Richard S. Rivlin, of Columbia University College In 1983, Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D., director of theof Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, reviewed Center for Vitamins and Cancer, University of Colo-riboflavin/cancer research in the September 1973 isrado, reported on his research with vitamin E.sue of Cancer Research. He discuss ed several studies He has looked into the effects of vitamin E onwhich indicate that riboflavin defi ciency is related to mouse and rat tumor cells, and has come up with sometumor growth in experimental animals and possibly in dramatic findings. He reported that, when he exposedman. He also noted provocati ve observations that cersuch cells to DL-alpha-tocopherol succinate [a form oftain patients with cancer excreted less riboflavin than vitamin E], they actually stopped growing.do normal individuals. This would indi cate that need We are hoping, Dr. Prasad says, that one dayof vitamin B2 was greater in these ind ividuals than in vitamin E succinate will be widely used to inhibit tu-normal people. mor growth in humans (Prevention, October 1983). NIACIN (BNIACIN (BNIACIN (BNIACIN (BNIACIN (B, NICOTINAMIDE), NICOTINAMIDE), NIC OTINAMIDE), NICOTINAMIDE), NICOTINAMIDE) 33333 The same year, Laurence Helson, M.D., of the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in NewThis B vitamin is also impo rtant in safeguarding York City, reported on his research. For up to fourhealth. Dr. Robert A. Smith a nd his colleagues, at the weeks, he gave intravenous doses of vitamin E to 13University of California of L os Angeles, raised tissues patients who had nerve cancers. Each one had failedoutside the body from human c olon and kidney canto respond to conventional cancer therapies, so anycers. They found the cancer c ells to have abnormally positive sign would be considered remarkable. But, inlow concentrations of niaci namide, one form of vitafact, the tumors on six of the people either stoppedmin B3 (Niacin), apparently establishing a link between

growing or diminished in size. Several patients reportedB3 and cancer. relief from pain.VITVITVITVITVITAMIN BAMIN BAMIN BAMIN BAMIN B (P (P (P (P (PYRI DOYRIDOYRIDOYRIDOYRIDOXINE)XINE)XINE)XINE)XINE) 66666 Vitamin E works in a double-barreled attack Cancer tissue has a very low level of vitamin B, against cancer. It prevents the oxidized state that can-6 and uses amino acids differently from normal tissues. cer cells thrive in, and it deactivates the free radicals Vitamin B (also called pyridoxine) may also play a that promote cellular damage leading to malignancy.6 part in the body s immunity against cancer. Ten baVitamin E is also very helpful in helping the body reboons were fed a balanced diet, which was only lacksist the dangerous effects of nitrites and nitrates. These ing in one nutriment Vitamin B for two to six years. are highly carcinogenic classes of chemicals naturally6 Half of them developed premalignant nodules and other found in many prepared foods, such as bacon, pickled indications of liver cancer. Yet the animals received no foods, and alcoholic beverages. carcinogenic substance. They were simply deprived of B VITB VITB VITB VITB VITAMINSAMINSAMINSAMINSAMINSpyridoxine. There are over a dozen B vitamins, and they tendWhat happened to the other five? They did not live to work together. C. Edith Weir, Ph.D., mentioned thelong enough to develop live r tumors. Instead, they died value of maintaining an ongoing intake of B vitamins,of liver damage within six to eight months. For more in order to avoid cancer:on this, see the article by Henry Foy in the November There is a small but growing body of data sug-1974 issue of Journal of the Nation al Cancer Instigesting that chronic, low-level intake of some nutrientstute. is a factor in the incidence of cancer in man. There isINOSITOLINOSITOLINOSITOL INOSITOLINOSITOL evidence that vitamin deficiency plays a role in the ocInositol is one of the vitamins in the B complex. currence of cancer in the oral cavity and the esophaNot only does inositol have the ability to break up abgus. Chronic vitamin B complex deficiency, due to innormal deposits of fat in the body, but has also been adequate supply of vegetables in the diet, appears to be demonstrated to have a mild inhibitory effect on canincriminated (C. Edith Weir, Human Nutrition: Report cer. Science (Vol. 97, 1943) reported that intravenous No. 2, Benefits from Nutrition Research). shots of inositol slowed down the growth of transplanted VITVITVITVITVITAMIN BAMIN BAMIN BAMIN BAMIN B(RIBOFLA(RIBOFLA(RIBOFLA(RIBOFLA(RI BOFLAVIN)VIN)VIN)VIN)VIN) 22222tumors. Researchers wrote in the Journal of Urology In late 1973, Michael B. Shimkin, M.D., reported(Vol. 59, 1948) that, when inosi tol was given to six paon the early history of cancer research and vitamins.tients suffering from bladd er cancer, their tumors grew Thirty-five years earlier, Yoshida, of Japan, had reportedsmaller and blood stop ped appearing in their urine.

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38Alternative Cancer Remedies PPPPPABA (PABA (PABA (PABA (PABA (PARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)ARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)A RA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)ARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)ARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID)Academy of Scie nce, a number of researchers to reported a similar research project, using choline, with Para-aminobenzoic Acid is another of the B comsimilar results. plex family of vitamins. It has been found that placing it on the skin before going out in the sun is an excellentBIOTINBIOTINBIOTINBIOT INBIOTIN way to provide a safe sunscreen, to shield the skin from Test animals fed a diet deficient in biotin (another ultraviolet rays which could lead to skin cancer. B vitamin) are particularly susceptible to heart abnorA Harvard team of researchers, reporting in the malities and lung infections. If cancers are transplanted, New England Journal of Medicine (June 26, 1969), they grow rapidly in biotin-deficient diets. (But note showed that PABA in a solution of ethyl alcohol is the that the cancers had to be transplanted into the animost effective sunscreen available. A single application mals first; all the other anti-cancer vitamins were becan protect a person for 24 hours. No commercial proding fed to the animals, such as A, C, E, and the rest of uct was found to provide as good protection. the B complex.) It actually enters into a safe chemical reaction with the skin, even after bathing or swimming. It is alsoSUMMARY OF VITSUMMARY OF VIT SUMMARY OF VITSUMMARY OF VITSUMMARY OF VITAMINAMINAMINAMINAMIN FINDINGS FINDINGS FINDINGS FINDINGS FINDINGS invisible, odorless, and colorless. While it does not preResearchers will especially want to focus attention vent burning, it aids tanning. But it can stain bathingon the effect of vitamin deficiency in relation to cancer. suits. Test results on animals revealed that it affordedIn addition to the oxida tion-enzymes, the vitamins virtually complete protection against sun-induced skinwould appear to have signi ficant part in the origin of cancer. cancer. As mentioned earlier, vitamins A, C, and E are CHOLINECHOLINECHOLINECHOLINECHOLINEvery important oxidation vitamins. (Vitamin B 1, thiamine) is also involved in producing this antioxidant Choline is another B vitamin. Among other qualieffect in the body, so it is needed in order to make the ties of this important vitamin, choline inhibits cancer other three more effective.) Cancer cells lack vitamins growth in animals. In a paper published in the Annals C, B, and A. Cancerous and even precancerous organof the New York Academy of Science entitled, Carcino-isms have a remarkable defic iency in them. Through a genic effects associated with diets deficient in choline continued deficiency of vitamin A, an idleness in vitaand related nutrients, R.W. Engel and others reported min C supply occurs. The body cannot absorb enough, on dietary experiments with rats. In one trial, 14 out of and C is not replaced as rapidly as it ought to be. Hence, 18 rats developed cancers on the choline-deficient diet with an A deficiency, there will always be a C deficiency.

while none who received a supplement of 0.2 percent Yet the presence of vitamin C is of utmost importance developed such tumors. in the entire oxidation process that takes place in the D.H. Copeland and W.D. Salmon reported, in the cells. In addition, vitamin A is also important beAmerican Journal of Pathology for September 1946, cause it brings about the decomposition of certain fatty on a test diet given to rats for 16 months. It consisted acids. It has been suggested that, through a deficiency of peanut meal, casein, sucrose, lard and salt, plus in vitamin A, the increase of these fatty acids in cancer vitamins A and E, calcium, and vitamins of the B comcells can be explained. plex with the exception of choline. Nineteen of the rats, It has been said that vitamins C, E, and riboflavin selected as controls, were fed the same diet, plus the (B) are the vitamins most deficient in the average choline.2 American diet. It would be well if research was done Fourteen of the rats who received no choline died on vitamins A, C, and E at the same time! Surely, this from choline deficiency early in the experiment. After would uncover valuable facts. Arthur Sakamoto, M.D., several months of reasonably good health, the others and several colleagues, in their private practices, found began having serious problems. Included were serious that vitamin supplementation in 23 patients treated for liver damage and tumors. Thirty percent of the rats cancer yielded favorable responses in 75 percent of who survived longer than eight months had symptoms the cases. They reported that supplemental vitamins C of adenocarcinoma, a certain type of cancer. When their and E inhibited tumor spreading at the First Internalungs were examined, those eight-month-or-longer rats tional Conference on the Modulation and Mediation of showed definite evidence of lung cancer. Three of the Cancer by Vitamins, held in February 1982. 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 theNUTRITIONNUTRITIONNUTRIT IONNUTRITIONNUTRITION behavior of the cells generally was much the same as that in animals who develop cancer as the result ofThere are other nutritional f actors, as well as general lifestyle principles which should be considered. being exposed to a cancer-producing substance. But There is a wealth of folk culture discoveries in regard no such substance was used in the experiment. The to lifestyle factors which prevent cancer and help fight rats developed the cancerous growths simply because it when it strikes. one B vitamin was lacking in their diet: choline. They Here is a brief survey of some of the findings of found that 58 percent of the animals without choline common folk. It is not complete, but will afford you an developed tumors. Of the control group, who received ample amount of choline, none showed any evidenceidea of what is involved. These are principles worked out in the process of preventing and overcoming can-

of disease. cer. In the September 7, 1947, edition of the New York

--------------------------------------- 39 Special Preventive Factors39 The key principle in natural living and eating is tocados, or a cold-pressed oi l. avoid unhealthful practices and toxic substances. Ac-Do not buy or use quick-pre pare processed foods. cept the fact that the old way of life is gone forever. YouDo not use butter or margarine; it is grease on your must learn a new, better way of living.bread and grease in your body. Use only w heat germ Eat only natural, wholesome foods. Whole grainsoil, and not more than two teaspo ons per meal. and fresh, leafy vegetables are very important. To what-Some recommend that toma toes, in any form, not ever degree you can, eat a raw-food diet. Those itemsbe given to cancer patients . you do cook, should be cooked with only a small, mea-Try to live in the country rather than in the city. sured amount of water so that a small amount of itAvoid living downwind from an urban area. Live where remains when the cooking is ended. Drink that water.you can breathe fresh, clean air. Never, never use aluminum cookware, dishes, orUse no cosmetics, mouth washes, ge rm killers, drinking canteens. They are very dangerous!shampoos, eye shadow, mascara, hair s prays, perNever cook in a pressure cooker or use foods pre-fumes, deodorants, detergents, dyes of any kind, tooth pared in a pressure cooker. This includes jarred andpaste, or tooth powder. canned goods. (Foods cooked under pressure rise toTake two showers a day, but us e no more soap 0 an extremely high temperature, more than the 212F.than necessary. on your stove.)Do not use microwave ovens, and stay away from Use natural whole foods as much as possible:television screens. If you use a com puter, place an antibeans, cabbage, carrots, celery, chicory, chives, corn,radiation screen in front of it. Do not live near a highcress, cucumber, dandelion, escarole, fennel, garlic,power cross-country power l ine. lettuce, leeks, lentils, onions, peas, parsley, tomatoes,Get out in the fresh ai r and exercise everyday at broccoli, kale, endive, beets, parsnips, kohlrabi, cele-least an hour, if possib le. Walk as much as possible. riac, cauliflower, potatoes, asparagus, eggplant, rad-Exercise is important, but the most important exercise ishes, and squash.is walking. Indoor exercise is not really exercise. Go You can also eat grains and seeds, such as wheat,outside and breathe the fresh a ir! If there is no fresh barley, rye, oats, flax, sesame, millet, buckwheat, rice,air where you live, mov e to a place where you can have corn, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, squash seeds,fresh air. and any other common edible seeds.Drink good clean water. Avoid recycled water.

Avoid The nuts offered for sale make excellent food, butfluoridated water. Fluoridated water kills body enuse them in moderation, and make sure they are fresh.zymes. Chlorine is another poison you should avoid. These include filberts, almonds, Brazil nuts, pecans,Chlorine was a poison gas u sed in World War I. If you walnuts, hickory nuts, and butter nuts. (Cashews havecannot find good clean wate r, then use distilled water. all been heat-treated, in order to eliminate bacteria.) Nuts are a concentrated food; eat no more than threeFresh air, pure water, and w holesome food are the ounces at a time.only things that you want to enter your body. To whatTo whatever degree possible, eat your food raw.ever degree possible, raise your own food. Plant a garThe safest plan is a 100 percent raw-food diet.den, and work in it everyday you can. Avoid chemical Always eat in moderation. For most of us: the lessfertilizers and chemical pesti cides. Never raise food we eat, the better.crops in soil fertilized with fresh manure. When you eat a peach, also eat the peach kernal.Get adequate sunlight on your bo dy. If you work in When you eat an apricot, also eat the kernal. Do theyour garden or walk an hour outdoors everyday, you same, whenever possible, with apples and pears. Onlywill probably have sufficien t sunlight, but you can get eat as many fruit seeds as the fruit you eat along withtoo much of that. it. In that way, you will never eat too many seeds.There are problems with synth etic clothing mateThe most important food is vegetables, especiallyrials. You will be better off w earing cotton or wool. the leafy stalk, stem, and flower vegetables. Second toDo not use chemical addit ives, aspirin, preservathat is the fruits and the root vegetables. Next in im-tives, drugs, estrogen, g ermicides, hormones, hydroportance are the grains and seeds. Lastly, come thegenated oil, mineral oil, mon osodium glutamate, ninuts.trates, saturated fats, prostaglandins, artificial sweetEat no grease. Eat moderately of oil, nuts, andeners (saccharin, etc.), preserva tives (sodium benzoate), beans.or cottonseed oil. Avoid meat products.Here are several samples of what we have been Do not smoke, drink alcoholic beverages, use caf-talking about: feine products, China tea, or sugary foods. The best WHOLE GRAINSWHOLE GRAINSWHOLE GRAINSWHOLE GRAINSWHOLE GRAINS fluid to drink is pure water only water. Do not eat fried, refined, or processed foods, and avoid foods withDuring World War I, in D enmark, when food shortadded chemicals in them. Do not use pickled foods,ages caused the Danish governm ent to forbid the millsmoked foods, sulphured foods, or salted nuts. Learning of grains, nutrition was so improved that the death to read labels. Do not use spices, condiments, or store-rate fell 34 percent. Th is included a reduction in canbought sauces and gravies.cer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart and kidLearn to make your own simple vegetable dress-ney diseases. ings. You can easily do this by using lemon juice, avo-Hal Higdon, in Kiwanis Ma gazine (August 1959),

--------------------------------------- 40 40Alternative Cancer Remedies pointed out a similar gain in health in England duringfood. It has special affin ity for the epithelial tissues, and after World War II, when grains were only partiallywhere over 50 percent of all cancers originate. Epithemilled.lial tissue includes a lot! all linings of organs, includFIBERFIBERFIBERFIBERFIBERing intestines, lungs, esophagus, mammary gland ducts, stomach, uterus, bladder, and other body passages. Research scientists had earlier linked colon can-Protect your epithelium, and yo u keep a lot of cancer cer with both low-fiber and high-fiber fat diets. But, inat a distance. 1983, Bandaru S. Reddy, Ph.D., head of the department of nutritional biochemistry at Naylor Dana Insti-COTCOTCOTCOTCOTTONSEED OIL TONSEED OILTONSEED OILTONSEED OILTONSEED OIL tute for Disease Prevention (Valhalla, New York), re-Cottonseed oil tends to pro duce cancer, according ported on his advanced studies into this matter. Ac-to several studies. In one e xperiment, British sciencording to Reddy, eating a lot of fat and very little fibertists injected 12 mic e with cottonseed oil that had been increases bile acids in the colon, and abnormal highpreheated to high temperatur es. Two of the mice devellevels of these acids promote tumors there. Using inge-oped cancerous lesions at the site of the injection, niously devised experiments, he found that, both inwhereas no animals of the con trol group developed rats and humans, those with the highest bile excretioncancer. had the most colon cancer. More bile acids developed more colon cancer. But, when low amounts of fat andHYDROGENAHYDROGENAHYDROGENAHY DROGENAHYDROGENATED OILTED OILTED OILTED OILTED OIL high amounts of fiber were in the diet, the amount ofHydrogenated oil (also call ed trans fat ) is vegbile acids in the bowel was greatly reduced.etable oil with hydrogen added to it . This deadens and Refined foods contribute to cancer formation be-preserves the oil. If still more molecules of hydrogen cause they tend to have little fiber. Why, since fiber isare added, the oil is h ardened into a grease, called indigestible, is it so important in preventing cancer?margarine. First, fiber in food adds bulk and volume to the stools.The Lancet is a British medical journal. In the This, in turn, aids elimination by providing the musclesmarch 6, 1971, issue, ap peared an article, entitled The of the bowel something to push against. Fiber thus helpsIncidence of Cancer in M en on a Diet High on Polyunprevent constipation and increase, what scientists term,saturated Fat, by M.L. Pe arce and Seymour Dayton: transit time the speed at which digested food passes In an eight-year controlled cli nical trial of a diet out of the body. Why? because the longer the food re-high in polyunsaturated veg etable oils and low in satumains in the bowel, the more it putrefies.rated fat and cholesterol in preventin g complications There is a second reason why fiber is so helpful. Itof atherosclerosis, 846 men were assigned randomly is now known that fiber in the bowel actually absorbsto a conventional diet or t o one similar in all respects

some carcinogens, so they are eliminated instead ofexcept for a substitution of vegetable oils for saturated being assimilated by the body.fat. Fatal atherosclerotic events were more common in In addition to fiber, there is also pectin. Prune juicethe control group. Howeve r, total mortality was similooks clear and decidedly unfibrous, yet it is high inlar in the two groups: 178 controls versus 174 experipectin, which is a veritable vacuum cleaner for thements, demonstrating an exces s of non-atherosclerotic bowel. It picks up bad things and takes them out of thedeaths in the experimenta l group. This was accounted bowel. So a small amount of prune juice in the diet isfor by a greater incidence of fatal carcinomas in the very good.experimental group. Thirty one of 174 deaths in the experimental group were due to cancer, as opposed to FREE RADICALSFREE RADICALSFREE RADICALSFREE RADICALSFREE RADICALS 17 of 178 deaths in the control group. Free radicals are produced from some foods,In plain English, all the men were pu t on a regular through the process of oxidation. Free radicals arediet, with a large amount of fat. One group was given highly reactive molecular fragments which can liter-meat fat; the control group was given hydrogenated fat. ally tear cells apart biochemically. The outstanding free-The meat fat group had more strokes and heart atradical food in your diet is fats. Radiation, drugs, airtacks, and the hydrogena ted fat group had more deaths pollution, cigarette smoke, and stress will also gener-from cancer. ate free radicals within you.It would have been preferable if the men were all Free radicals accelerate aging, promote degenera-placed on a low-fat diet, which consisted only of nontive disease, and cause cellular and DNA damage whichhydrogenated, cold-pressed oil and not very much of may lead to malignancy in some cases.it. Fortunately, there are natural antioxidants in cer-White rats were fed liberally with heated, hydrogetain foods which tend to destroy free radicals in yournated fats and the control group was given a similar body. These are actually free-radical scavengers, andamount of unprocessed fats. All rats in the hydrogego about cleaning them out of your system. These in-nated fat group developed tu mors or cancers, but none clude ascorbic acid (vitamin C), beta-carotene (pre-vi-of the others did. A simi lar experiment, done with lard, tamin A), glutathione, tocopherols (vitamin E), and thehad the same result. mineral selenium (but do not get too much of it!). Beta-carotene (the pro-vitamin A found in greenIRONIRONIRONIRONIRON and yellow vegetables, and abundantly so in carrot juice)In order to eliminate i ron deficiency, injections of is one the best free-radical scavengers found in gooda compound called iron-dext ran is frequently admin-

--------------------------------------- 41 Special Preventive Factors41 istered. The April 11, 1959, issue of the Britishwhom well-developed cancerous g rowths had very

Medical Journal carried an article entitled, Inductionlargely disappeared under s pecial feeding (J.H. Kellogg, of Sarcoma in the Rat by Iron-Dextran Complex. Writ-New Dietetics, 915). ten by H.G. Richmond, of the University of Aberdeen,William J. Mayo, M.D., of th e famed Mayo Clinic in the article revealed that, for example, in one experi-Rochester, Minnesota, said this: Is it not possible, ment, cancer tumors developed in 22 rats at the site oftherefore, that there is something in the habits of civithe injection six to 8 months after the end of the treat-lized man, in the cooking or other preparation of his ment. But rats receiving injections of dextran (a sugar)food, which acts to prod uce the precancerous condialone showed no tumors. So the iron seemed to betions? Within the last one hundr ed years, four times as responsible.much meat is taken as before that time. If flesh foods The article also noted that lung cancer is increas-are not fully broken up, deco mposition results, and ing among minors who work with hematite (iron ore).active poisons are thrown int o an organ not intended No evidence has surfaced that foods rich in ironfor their reception, and which h as not had time to adapt cause cancer, so the problem may lie solely with theitself to the new condition (W.J. Mayo, M.D., quoted intake of special iron preparations.in Life and Health, June 1935). SALSALSALSALSALTTTTT Laboratory experience has repeatedly demonstrated the controlling effect of diet on cancer in aniIt is suspected that a high-salt diet may, in somemals. In one extensive series of experiments, 75 perway, contribute to the start of cancer in the body. Fur-cent of 75 inoculated mi ce developed tumors while ther research is needed into this matter. Dr. Jamesunder normal diet; whereas on ly 19 percent of another Braithwaite, of Leeds, England, noted that a tumor in-75 inoculated mice develop ed tumors under a diet with creased in size from 23/8" to 33/4" when his patientvegetable proteins. Moreover , the tumors in the udder resumed daily use of salt, even in small quantities. Itwere hardly larger in 30 days than those in the former is known that salt is a powerful stimulant to cell me-in ten days (L. Duncan Buck ley, M.D., senior physitabolism. It is also known that salt irritates a wound,cian in the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, as and that irritation of tissue can cause cancer. It is alsoreported in Oriental W atchman and Herald of Health, known that an over-intake of salt can interfere with theMay 1938). absorption and utilization of food. The relationship of salt to cancer may be ever so slight; but then, for theDIETHYLSTILBESTROLDIETHYL STILBESTROLDIETHYLSTILBESTROLDIETHYLSTILBESTROLDIETHYLSTILBESTROL benefit of researchers into the subject, we mention itThis is an additive in mea t, commonly known as here. But none should totally stop all salt intake! SomeDES, which is used to he lp keep meat from rotting is needed to keep the tension of body fluids at normaluntil it is purchased in t he meat market and taken level.home. Here is what the Merck Index of Chemicals and Drugs, seventh edition, says about this substance: MEAMEAMEAMEAMEATTTTT Human toxicity: . . mammary carcinoma in males. L. Duncan Buckley, M.D., in his book, Cancer andMay cause or contribute to mamma

ry or genital carciIts Non-Surgical Treatment, wrote this:noma in females . . history of mammary or genital carRepeated laboratory experiences have demon-cinoma or familial history of these. strated, in a most remarkable manner, the absoluteHere is an excerpt from Natura l Health World, controlling effect of diet on the development of inocu-March 1971: lated cancer in mice and rats, so that the process was In the past ruling on Stilb estrol, Judge Luther M. inhibited almost entirely by vegetable feeding . .Swygert, of the 7th U.S. Circu it Court of Appeals, indiAny number of observers in many lands have re-cated that the record showed DES is definitely a cause corded the almost total absence of cancer among theof cancer in animals . . and possibly a cause of cancer aborigines, living simple lives, largely vegetarian . .in man. Statistics from many countries show that a perHere is a statement from the Nation al Inquirer: capita increase in the consumption of meat, coffee, and As many as 870,000 young A merican women face alcoholic beverages appears to be coincident with a verythe terrifying threat of vaginal cancer because of two great and proportionately greater augmentation in thedrugs their mothers took ye ars ago, warns a foremost mortality of cancer . .researcher. Cancer is said to have been seen in vegetarians, Even more frightening, few women a re aware of although I have never personally known of such a case;this danger. The drugs, ca lled stilbestrol and dienesDr. Kellogg, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, has nevertrol, were given to large numbers of pregnant women known of a case developing in one who had strictlyduring the 1940s and 1950s to prevent miscarriages. followed their regime. Now, researchers find, their female offspring are high Ehrlich has shown that mice living on rice dietcancer risks. cannot be inoculated with cancer, while those on a meatThe New England Journal o f Medicine (April 22, diet can readily be inoculated, the tumors developing1971) put it this way: quickly and continuing to grow until the animal dies Young women whose mothers once took a popu(Good Health, March 1938).lar pill to guard against miscarriage may be suscepThe writer saw in the laboratory of Ehrlich, whotible to a form of cancer, doctors at Massachusetts made an extensive study of diet upon cancer, rats inGeneral Hospital report. Mate rial ingestion of stil-

--------------------------------------- 42 42Alternative Cancer Remedies bestrol during early pregnancy appears to have en-combat osteoporosis (calcium l oss from the bones) and hanced the risk of vaginal adenocarcinoma developingother conditions. But it has been found to stimulate years later in the offspring exposed. cancer of the breast as well as other types of cancers. The birth control tablet, commonly known as theFortunately, there are other safe r ways to solve ospill, contains estrogen. However, the main estrogen usedteoporosis than by takin

g estrogen. in the pill is a synthetic chemical substance known asFLFLFLFLFLUORIDEUORIDEUORI DEUORIDEUORIDE diethylstilbestrol (DES). In addition, two other estrogens are also used in the pill.Dr. Holman, eminent British bacteriologist, is a Cancer-causing properties of estrogens have beensenior lecturer in bacteriology at the School of Mediknown, at least, since 1936. Various researchers havecine, University of Wales, and honorary consultant bacclearly established that these hormones could causeteriologist at the United Car diff Hospitals. He specialadenomas or malignant growth.izes in bacteriological approaches to the study of canIt is estimated that, at the present time, there arecer. Dr. Holman maintains th at the catalase-peroxide about 75,000,000 women throughout the world on thebalance in the body is vital t o life. Fluoride intake (in pill.fluoride additives to drinking water) disturbs this balIt was stated, at the 1970 U.S. Senate hearings,ance. Sodium fluoride (which is added to many public that more than 50 dangerous side effects can resultwater supplies) is a potent d estroyer of catalase. from taking birth control pills.TRITIUMTRITIUMTRITIUMTRITIUMTRITIUM NITRITESNITRITESNITRITESNITRITESNITRITESTritium is a radioactive isotope of hydr ogen. It enNitrites are added to meat to give it a pinkish colorters the atmosphere from nu clear tests, and then falls and also disguise rancidity, as well as slow bacterialto the earth in rainfall. It has been found in aquifers action. The rancidity is not removed, but merely cov-and water supplies in vario us parts of the Northern ered over. It also permits the use of older, cheaper meat.Hemisphere. Tritium is produced naturally in the atNitrites are also known to cause cancer. After be-mosphere by cosmic ray bombard ment, but scientists ing added to meat, the nitrites combine with the amineshave concluded that the b uildup of it originated from to form nitrosamines. A very large amount of nitriteshydrogen bomb tests conduct ed from 1962 onward. is permitted (the 200 ppm level); but, in spite of pro-Dr. Gordon Stewart, of th e U.S. Geological Survey, tests from cancer researchers, nothing is done to lowerhas reported a marked incr ease in tritium in both it. Keeping the meat from the appearance of spoiling iscoastal and inland waters . When it combines with oxyconsidered more important than protecting your bodygen, it can go anywhere regul ar water can go. from the nitrosamines.Dr. Dieudonne J. Mewissen, of the Pritzker School Norwegian researchers, in 1962, discovered thatof Medicine, in a University of C hicago news release on liver cancer in sheep was caused by nitrite ingestionMarch 23, 1971, noted that the tiny amounts of triwhich, in the liver, combined with amino acids to formtium, found in radioactive water, causes tumors in mice. nitrosamines. It is now known that nitrosamines areIt is believed that the upwar d trend in cancer, since the extremely potent cancer-causing agents even at lowearly 1960s, is at least partly due to tritium contamilevels of 5ppm (parts per million). They have beennation of our drinking water. known to cause tumors in a wide range of organs andTo complicate the problem, co

ntrolled release of in every species of animal tested.radioactive liquids has occurred at several At omic EnSACCHARINSACCHARINSACCHARINSACCHARINSACCHARINergy Commission centers in the U.S. For a number of years, it was even legal. Add to this the many accidenSaccharin is a chemical sweetener, and tends total leakages. build up in the bladder. In test animals, it has inducedTritium, like cesium-137 , strontium 90, and other bladder cancer. According to a National Institutes of Health report, we are told:radioactive substances, is contaminating the planet. It is thought that such contaminates are sources of carciSignificant concentrations of saccharin might ac-noma. cumulate in the bladders of individuals who used thisDr. Mewissen s report reveals that tritium, in compound daily over an extended period of time . . Studies have shown that high concentrations of sac-amounts at least 50 times les s than the so-called safe level recommended by the AEC, increased the incidence charin may cause bladder carcinomas. of tumors in laboratory mice. His conclusions resulted ESTROGENESTROGENESTROGENESTROGENESTROGENfrom a seven-year study begun in Belgium , and conEstrogen, a female hormone, is administered tocluded at the Chicago school.

--------------------------------------- 43 Special Preventive Factors43 If we have no cure of cancer, surely it is not from lack of trying. [In order to eliminate cancer] Auler (1937-otherapy, 1947, 1]. Nowhere is this mo re true 1941) recommended a non-sparing diet, richthan in cancer, for which treatments h ave been in salt and spices, raw meat several timesadvanced by the thousands. weekly, juices of vegetables and fruits and oils The older ones included: crab or crab to replace animal fats . .soup; . . purgation; yeast treatment; different Bruenings, Frankfurt a/Main (1930s) rec-dietary regimes; hyperemia and its opposi te; ommended a diet poor in carbohydrates andblood-letting; salves first black, and if this rich in proteins, aided by insulin . .proved ineffectual, red ones; caustic past es; In Dietotherapy Clinical Application ofhot iron-burnings; pipe clay; blood-cleans ing Modern Nutrition [ed. by M.G. Wohl, M.D.;teas; silver and gold; mercury; copper; phosW.B. Saunders, Philadelphia 1946, 573], car-phorous; arsenic externally and intern ally; cinoma of the stomach is described as essen-chemotherapy; acids; alkalies; diaph oresis; tially a surgical problem. A [strict] post-op-vegetable products of all sorts, i ncluding vioerative diet is required only after subtotal orlet leaves and toads; auto-vaccin e; polysacchatotal gastrectomy. Once the patient has sur-ride; implanting of erysipelas strept ococci, etc.

vived the operation and the convalescence hasThe modern cancer remedies include: surgery, followed, the diet is very liberal and practi-X-ray treatment; radium; ionized m inerals cally without restrictions. Patients who have(gold, phosphorous, iodine, cobalt) ; horsuffered partial resections [removal] of themones; . . and the newest proposal o f crestomach can manage practically the same dietation of cancer focci on the skin as cancer of as normal persons . .one organ shields other organs . . Nearly 100 years ago, Otto Voelker wrote: As cancer author William H. Woglom writes , The degree to which a disease is open to thera- If we have no cure of cancer, surel y it is not peutic attack is inversely related to the num-from lack of trying. ber of remedies that we possess [quoted in Max Gerson, M.D., W.H. Woglom, Approach to Tumor ChemA Cancer Therapy, 55, 57-58 thee. Psalm 128:2. I will cry unto God most high; unto God thatBIBLE PROMISES Because he hath set his love upon Me,performeth all things for me. Psalm 57:2. therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on Thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear . . high, because he hath known My name. He shallAnd thine age shall be clearer than the nooncall upon Me, and I will answer him: I will beday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the with him in trouble; I will deliver him. Psalmmorning. Job 11:15, 17. 91:14-15. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; andwith him: for they shall eat the fruit of their dowhere I am, there also shall My servant be: ifings. Isaiah 3:10. any man serve Me, him will my Father honor. Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; wi th John 12:26.favour wilt Thou compass him as with a shield. He shall be like a tree planted by the riversPsalm 5:12. of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his sea- The memory of the just is ble ssed. Provson; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatso-erbs 10:7. ever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 1:3. The Lord is faithful, who shall establish you , Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust alsoand keep you from evil. 2 Thessalonians 3:3. in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm He satisfieth the longing soul, and fill eth the 37:5.hungry soul with goodness. Psalm 107:9. Thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands: The way of the Lord is strength to the uphappy shalt thou be, and it shall be well withright. Proverbs 10:29.

--------------------------------------- 44 44Alternate Cancer Remedies - Part Two Specific Systems of Treatment In this section, medical researchers ought todiscover one of the cancer formulas : laetrile.) be able to find a sizeable amount of earlier cancerHippocrates studied many of t hese tumors and research. Many worthwhile discoveries were made.classified them according to whe

re they occurred It is the hope of the present writer that this infor-and what they looked like. The names he gave them mation may prove to be the beginning of the break-are still widely used. through findings by medical experts in our time,About 500 years later (A.D. 150) , Galen, anthat will settle the matter so the people can beother Greek physician, carried out additional study finally, officially, told about practical methods ofof tumors. cancer control and remission.Between the 13th and 17th centuries, the deThere is a great need to provide simple, prac-velopment of the lens and the micr oscope greatly tical, remedies which common folk can use athelped medical research. Then, in th e middle home. Most people cannot afford expensive hos-1800s, Louis Pasteur established t hat living orpital bills.ganisms can only come from living organisms. There is no such thing as spontaneous generation; EARLIER HISTORYeverything has parents. Shortly after that, Franz von Leydid proved that body cells only come from OF CANCER RESEARCH AND THERAPYbody cells. But where did the strange cancer cells As in every other field, cancer research iscome from? not only dependent upon a long-range strategy Unfortunately, John Hunter (1728-179 3) led in this case centered upon patient investigation of the carcinogenic mechanism but is also af-medicine into a side road. He declare d that cancer was just a localized disease that only profected by chance, the accidental observation,duces local effects. Such a disease should be curor the unanticipated simplifying principle which is likely to be more decisive. It is impossible toable through localized methods . That thinking gripped medical minds from that time down to tell, yet each is complementary to the other, and both are essential in the advancement of theour own. The method of choice was su rgery. knowledge of the cancer cell. AlexanderAt the beginning of the 20th century, radium was discovered. This was seen as a great step forHaddow, The Biochemistry of Cancer, in Annual Review of Biochemistry, Vol. 24, 689.ward. Patients were exposed to tiny qu antities of radium, costing many, many thousands of dollars, It was Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in the hope that this would burn out th e tumor. who originally gave cancer its name. He was the one who said that the physician should never giveThus, radiation was a type of c utting process but much surrounding flesh was burned also! any poisonous substance to his patient. Writing in the 4th century, B.C., Hippocrates observed thatSoon X-rays were discovered, and the burnthe common factor in his cancer patients was aing, searing effects of radiation became easier for physicians to work with and cheaper for them to swelling a tumor. Examining these tumors in autopsies, he saw that they had root-like extensionsobtain. When cancer was diagno sed, it was the radiation knife of the radiologist and the steel knife spreading out from the main growth, giving a crab-

like appearance. The Greek word for crab isof the diligent surgeon which were ap plied. Both karkinos. The Latin word is cancer. (By coin-were very expensive to the customer, in dollars, and both injured all tissue they came in contact cidence, the German word is krebs, and it would be a father-son team with that name which wouldwith.

--------------------------------------- 45 Specific Systems of Treatment45 Then, in the 1920s, chemotherapy began. This worked on the same basic principle as the other _____________ _______ two. Surgery cut out tissue, radiation burned outJ. WELDON FELL, M.D., c. 1858 tissue, and chemotherapy poisoned tissue. All Note to researchers: Fell s treatment focused on the adminthree destroyed a great amount of tissue, evenistration of goldenseal, an herb w hich grows in eastern North though efforts were made to localize the killing America. In view of the fact that herbalists have used it for years zone to the area where the tumor was located. Butfor this purpose, extensive res earch should be carried on using it was not until after World War II that chemo-it on patients. Working Summary: This is the second of the three physitherapy came into its own, for not until then hadcians using this formula. the cost of drugs been raised high enough to be as Dr. Fell was a distinguished physician, and one profitable as the two earlier methods. of the original members of the New York Academy Yet, paralleling this medical history, there aroseof Medicine, as well as a facu lty member of the other views on cancer and other methods of treatUniversity of New York. ing it. Here, in Part Two, we will consider quite aBut when he began using an al ternative few of them. method, he was discriminated against by the hos____________________pitals and physicians. So he emigrated to Lo ndon WILLIAM LAMBE, M.D., 1809and practiced there. Although a Yankee, he was Note to researchers: Much research has been done on thequite successful in Londo n. considerable value of individual vitamins and minerals, in rela-The Fell remedy was derived from the root tion to cancer prevention and reduction. But it would be well toof the puccoon p lant, indigenous to the shores carry out research on exclusively fruit and vegetable diets.of Lake Superior. It had been used by the Indians Working Summary: Lambe s therapy consisted of a simple, vegetarian diet. Little else is known about it.for a variety of problems. Fell kept his formula a secret until he was cerJohn Abernethy was a leading English surgeon tain that it was successful, then he invited other and teacher who specialized in removing and clas-physicians to demonstrations an d published the sifying tumors. However, he recognized that surformula. He added a small amount of zinc chlo-

gery was accomplishing little.ride to the plant powder. I have known a patient to die soon after an operation for removal of a cancer of not greatHe used his remedy at the Middlese x Hospital for a number of years. It could be used on both magnitude, merely in consequence of the shock. operable and inoperable cancers, eliminated the need for surgery, and was followed by healthy In his writings, Abernethy called attention to William Lambe, M.D., of London, who in 1809 pub-granulation and healing. But, up on his death, the remedy was forgotten. Only the published report lished a paper recommending a diet of fruits, vegremains. etables, and pure water as a cure for a variety ofAccording to him, the problem was that an diseases, including cancer. herbal remedy for cancer eliminated the profit to be derived from surgeries. ____________________ (In the southern states, yellow puccoon is T.T. BLAKE, M.D., 1858one of the local names for goldenseal.) Note to researchers: Blake, Fell, and Pattison all lived in the same area at about the same time, and it is believed that they ____________________ had very similar herbal formulas, plus a few additions. It wouldJOHN PATTISON, M .D., 1858 be well to investigate those formulas more closely. Surely, the data must be available in historical literature.Note to researchers: Pattison s fo rmula, consisting of waWorking Summary: Blake was the first of three physicianster, zinc chloride, and a single herb should be easy to use in to use essentially the same therapy, which apparently was gold-testing. There is a need to ascertain whether this could provide a enseal, plus a trace of zinc chloride.viable therapy. It would be well to locate his book and reprint it. Working Summary: Pattison was the third physician who Dr. Blake, of New York City, applied a pow-apparently used this goldenseal formu la. dered mixture of herbs, mixed as a salve, to the Dr. Pattison, originally of New York City, also cancerous area. The growth would generally be gone within 3 weeks.moved to London. Like Fell, he used a simple herbal formula, and offered to freely teach other After the first few days, the treatment produced a discharge from the malignancy, which contin-physicians his method. An 1858 pam phlet was expanded in 1866 to a full book, which discussed ued flowing until the cancer was entirely gone. Throughout this time, the patient was not confinedthe treatment of over 4,000 ca ncer patients in 13 years. to bed, but carried on his regular activities.

--------------------------------------- 46 46Alternate Cancer Remedies Pattison deplored surgery, and aroused the irebut the patient, he decided to met

hodically search of physicians throughout England. He said theythe bone cancer medical records of New York Hoshelped no one, but only killed people.pital for the previous 15 years. To his am azement, In his writings, Pattison cited the case of ahe found one case in which a man s ca ncer totally woman with a growth on her breast which her phy-disappeared! After being given u p for lost, he sician instantly recognized as malignant, but hewalked out of the hospital compl etely cured. told her it was benign. Then he told a colleagueColey discovered that, on his de athbed, the that he told her that, so she wouldn t go to thatman had suffered two attacks of er ysipelas (strepquack in London. She died within a few months.tococcus pyogenes), a severe and so metimes lifePattison s formula consisted of a paste, com-threatening skin infection, accompani ed by severe posed primarily of the powdered root of thefever and chills. plant, hydrastis canadensai, plus flour, water,The physicians called it spontaneo us remisand a tiny bit of zinc chloride. (Hydrastission (a cure with no apparent cause), and quickly canadensai is the botanical name for gold-forgot it. Searching the streets of Ne w York, Coley enseal.) When properly mixed, the flour heldfound the man who, seven years earli er, was dying them together in a mucilaginous mass.of cancer. He was still in complete remissi on! Along with this, he prescribed a simple, strictColey decided to repeat it, by gi ving another diet which included the elimination of all saltedpatient a bacterial infection t hat might kill him. food.He did it several times, without effect. But then, Physicians told him to his face that they pre-from the famous German microbe hunt er, Robferred to stick to their operations. In reply, he saidert Koch, Coley got a part icularly virulent culture his method was almost totally painless, and heldof strep germs. far more promise of recovery from the dreadedWhen he administered this culture, the cancer.patient s temperature shot skyward, and developed It is extremely likely that Blake, Fell, anda severe case of erysipelas. All fea red for his life; Pattison all used the same basic formula. Eachbut, within a few days, he recover ed and the canstarted using his herbal formula on cancer pa-cer was gone. Only scars remained of the tumors tients, in New York City, in the same year. Blake son his tonsils and neck. The ne xt patient had his formula was not revealed to the public; Fell sbone cancer entirely eliminated. included puccoon, one of the names for gold-In 1883, Coley published his first p aper on enseal. And Pattison used Hydrastis cana-this event, which occurred at Memorial Hospital, denisa, the botanical name for goldenseal.in full view of Dr. Bull and other sur geons and Based on what we can learn about all three,pathologists. In later years, he publ ished dozens

their formula consisted of goldenseal, with aof other papers. trace of zinc chloride.But each infection was an ordeal for the paGoldenseal root contains the alkaloid, ber-tient and for the staff (the strep ge rms were highly berine, an antibacterial agent, and is used as ainfectious). tea or tincture to treat inflamed mucous mem-But radium mining interests (Dougla s-Phelpsbranes of mouth, throat, digestive system, andDodge) gained control of the hospi tal, and Coley uterus. It is also used for jaundice, bronchitis,fell into disrepute. Radium was costly ($15,000 a pharyngitis, gonorrhea, and cancer. Warning: Avoidgram back then), and Coley s tre atment was reladuring pregnancy. Because goldenseal is so highlytively inexpensive. But Coley k ept giving his danalkaline, under normal circumstances, it is bestgerous treatment for many years thereafter. not used more than two weeks at a time.What had actually happened? Coley had hap ____________________pened upon an alternative cancer treatment u sed today in certain locations: fever therapy. It is a WILLIAM B. COLEY, M.D., 1888 variation of nature s method of healing: fever. Note to researchers: Definitive research into the remedial (In 1866, William Busch, M.D., a Prussian phyvalue of hyperthermia is needed, along with further study into sician, had also observed a remission of cancer the virus theory of disease. Working Summary: Coley s method, frankly, was terrible;following an attack of erys ipelas.) yet it was still preferable to the orthodox methods used then.Today, fever thera py (also known as hyperFortunately, his strep germ treatment is no longer used. thermia) continues to be given with fair success. Dr. Coley, a New York City physician, was aBut it must be given under the direct supervision graduate of Harvard Medical School and a sur-of an experienced expert! This fact must not be o geon at Memorial Hospital.overlooked! The patient s body is heated to 106 o Noting that operations killed not the cancerF. (sometimes only to 104 F.) while he is under

--------------------------------------- 47 Specific Systems of Treatment47 anesthesia. His head and heart are kept cool. ItNutritional changes and a specia l recovery is now known that, at that high temperature,diet were the only methods used, by Bulkley, to cancer cells cannot live.overcome cancer. He died in 1928. (For more on It is not necessary to give a person a danger-Bulkley, see below and page 60.) ous disease in order to produce a favorable fever. But Coley did not know that.SUPPLEMENT: Upon his death in 1936, his daughter, Helen Coley Nauts, advanced his method so it would notTHE BULKLEY MEAL SCHEDULE

die. She gathered over a thousand cases of cancerHere is Dr. Duncan Bulkley s canc er diet, as remission which he had achieved during his prac-prescribed for cancer patients a t the New York tice, but the cancer organizations refused to con-Skin and Cancer Hospital, Seco nd Avenue and sider the findings.East 19 Street: (For more on safer methods of hyperthermia, see pages 111-113; cf. 53-55, 103-104, and 152.)First Day Coley believed that cancer was caused by aBreakfast: Rice 4 oz. Corn bread 3 oz. Butter virus; and, in 1929, he presented evidence sup-1 oz. Honey oz. Hot water or Postu m. porting it. He was one of the first to come forwardDinner: Tapioca soup 5 oz. Ba ked potato 3 with this theory. In later years, additional evidenceoz. Stewed celery 3 oz. Pea s 3 oz. Gram bread 1 would surface, pointing to a microorganism ofoz. Butter 1 oz. Raw apple 1. some kind as the cause. Some believed the virusSupper: Rolled oats 4 oz. Whole-w heat bread or germ could only gain a toehold in a body weak-2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Prunes 4 oz. Honey oz. Very ened by improper eating and other factors.weak tea. Second Day ____________________Breakfast: Orange 1. Hominy 4 oz. Graham toast 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. Postum. LUCIUS DUNCAN BULKLEY, M.D., 1890Dinner: Pea soup 5 oz. Macaroni 3 oz. String Note to researchers: Bulkley s dietary approach should bebeans 3 oz. Carrots 3 oz. Bread 2 oz. Butter 1 tested on volunteers. In view of the fact that so many modern findings point to nutrition as a significant part of the solution tooz. Dates. Supper: Cream of Wheat 4 oz. Whole-wheat cancer, these earlier methods need to be considered. Research should also be done on the dangers of biopsies.toast 2 oz. Baked apple 1 oz. Crac kers 2 oz. ButWorking Summary: Bulkley s therapy consisted of a care-ter 1 oz. Honey oz. very wea k tea. fully regulated dietetic program. Fortunately, we have partialThird Day knowledge of it. Breakfast: Banana. Pettijohn 4 oz. WholeIn 1885, Dr. Bulkley organized the New Yorkwheat bread 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Hot wat er or Skin and Cancer Hospital (NYSCH), where he postum. served as director of for many years.Dinner: Corn soup 5 oz. Baked potato 3 oz. This distinguished physician gradually becameSquash 3 oz. Boiled onion 3 oz. Bre ad 2 oz. Butconvinced that surgery was useless, and that a ter 1 oz. Honey oz. Raisins. careful, nourishing diet was the answer.Supper: Farina 4 oz. Stewed figs 4 oz. G raExtensively read, Bulkley began to widely pubham crackers 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. Very lish his ideas. Article after article came from hisweak tea. pen, criticizing surgery and advocating naturalFourth Day methods. Breakfast: Raw apple. Corn meal mush 4 oz. Bulkley was one of the first to openly admitGraham bread 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. that biopsies (removing a small slice of the tu-Postum.

mor for examination) only spread the cancerDinner: Vegetable soup 5 oz. Baked be ans 4 and caused the patient to die faster.oz. Cauliflower 3 oz. Asparagus 3 oz. Bread 2 oz. In 1921, the special ward, which he had beenButter 1 oz. Figs. given at the hospital he founded, was closed toSupper: Rice 4 oz. Stewed prunes 4 oz. Grahim. That same year, the Journal of the AMA pub-ham bread 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Hone y oz. Weak lished a letter from the board of the NYSCH, de-tea. claring that it had eliminated Bulkley from its staffFifth Day because his work was not representative of the Breakfast: Cracked wheat 4 oz. Corn muffin hospital.3 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. Hot water or In 1924, he published the results of 250 casespostum. Orange 1. of breast cancer eliminated without surgery. Dinner: Vegetable soup 5 oz. Spaghetti 4 oz.

--------------------------------------- 48 48Alternate Cancer Remedies Lima beans 3 oz. Boiled onions 3 oz. Bread 2 oz. 7 parts comfrey blossoms Butter 1 oz. Dates. 10 parts red clover Supper: Cream of Wheat 4 oz. Sliced orange. 2 parts myrrh gum Oatmeal crackers 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz.6-8 parts yucca Weak tea. 9 parts chaparral Sixth Day5-6 parts wormwood Breakfast: Cooked cereal 4 oz. Graham toast 1 part goldenseal 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. Postum. 2 parts licorice Dinner: Celery soup 5 oz. Baked potato 4 oz. 1 part argillaceous earth Carrots 3 oz. Spinach 3 oz. Bread 2 oz. Butter 1 (redmond clay, dolomite, etc.) oz. Orange. Supper: Wheatena 4 oz. Stewed figs 4 oz. rye ____________________ crackers 2 oz. Butter 1 oz. Honey oz. Weak ROBERT BELL, M.D., 1896 tea.Note to researchers: It is now generally accepted that injury Repeat this bill of fare on successive days.sites are where cancer can later for m. Animal research should be carried out to determine if surgery, radiation treatments, and chemotherapy could be cancer-causing. THE LANCETWorking Summary: Bell s dietetic therapy was probably an COMFREY TREATMENT, 1896excellent one. Notice that he not only nourished the body , but Note to researchers: Here are several plant formulas whichhelped the liver remov e toxins from the dissolving tumors. were used decades ago in the treatment of cancer. Please testOriginally from Gla sgow, Scotland, Dr. Bell these simple remedies on animals and volunteers. Working Summary: Several comfrey cancer remedies, overmoved to London, where he practiced medicine a period of 70 years.for over half a century. In 1894, he abandoned surgery as useless, and began trying to determine It will come as a surprise that the use of thebetter methods of eliminating canc er. plant, comfrey, as a cancer-eliminating agent, dates back to 1896. In that year, the British medical jour-Bell was a distinguished ph ysician who, in the nal, Lancet, published a report on a patient suf-1870s, had devised an improved

method of treating diphtheria and an improvement in treating fering from a persistent tumor that kept reappear-smallpox which eliminated the secondary fever. In ing on his face and nose, requiring several operations in succession.the 1880s, he identified constipation as a cause of disease and named the resulting absorption Seeing that the medical help was useless, theof toxic material into the blood aut otoxemia. man went home and started treating himself. He applied poultices of fresh comfrey root to re-He also originated the microphotog raph. move the growth. It eventually disappeared, muchAfter abandoning surgery, Bell a dvocated a careful vegetarian diet and the elimination of to the astonishment of the physicians who knewconstipation, as the means of avoi ding and rehis case well. In his 1976 book, Comfrey: Fodder, Food, andcovering from disease. In 1896 he re ad a paper before the British Gynecological Society about diet, Remedy, Lawrence D. Hills recounts the story, andas a means of eliminating cance r, and surgery as tells of many others who, in the years since, have eliminated skin cancer through the use of stronguseless and harmful. mucilaginous infusions made from the pow-From that date onward, he met with viol ent resistance from the medical community. In 1903, dered comfrey root.Bell published his book, The Treatment of CanMore recently, a retired Air Force colonel, living in Utah, completely eliminated his lip, cheek,cer without Operation. In it, he cited the case of a woman whose milk overflowed. It was diagnosed and jawbone cancer by totally swearing off to-as cancer, although Bell said a ca ncerous breast bacco and eating large quantities of the fresh leaves in green drink, soup, and salad, alongcould not give milk. After she was operated on, a with some of the root, mixed into pudding andcancer developed and she died three months after the birth of her child. herb custard. He did this for about 17 weeks. ButHe charged that surgeons remove d every breast he also did more: During this time he greatly improved his diet. After recovering from the cancer,lump as malignant, when one ha lf of breast tumors were not. Surgery, he declared, actually inhe continued eating comfrey.cited a more active development of cancer. Here is a special plant formula, said to be able to treat cancer with comfrey and other plants:Despite the professional oppo sition, King Ed5 parts comfrey rootward recognized his worth and offered him a title. But Bell was too embroiled in controversy to ac17 parts comfrey leaves

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cept it. Calomel . . torments the system as long as Bell would help patients that other physiciansthere is a particle left in it. It ever lives, not losleft to die; and, when one of his patients died, heing its properties by its lon g stay in the living was charged with a crime by the medical associa-system. It inflames the joints, and often sends tion. But the resulting court trial revealed one ofrottenness into the bones. It frequently manifests itself in tumors, ulcers, and cancers, years the accusing physicians to be the one responsible for her death.after it has been introduced into the system. 2 Selected Messages, 449. BELL S THEORY OF CANCERAnother cause is improperly clothing the Dr. Bell also established that injuries, blows, body, so parts are overheated and other parts or continued irritation to a part of the bodyare insufficiently clad. The arms a nd legs should could later lead to the development of cancerbe warmly clothed in the winter mon ths. in that site. He developed what is probably the The amount of physical suffering created by best explanation, to date, of why this occurs:unnatural and unhealthful dress ca nnot be esIn healthy tissue, blood resulting from inter-timated. Many have become lifelong invalids nal bleeding is quickly absorbed without leaving through their compliance with the demands of clots. Normally, clotting is necessary only to sealfashion. Displacements and de formities, canan external wound. But, in an acute or inflam-cers and other terrible diseases, are among the matory condition, the tissue cannot properlyevils resulting from fashionable dre ss. 4 Tesabsorb blood. The result may be a hard inter-timonies, 634-635. nal clot which therefore acts as something likeYet another cause is masturbation : a foreign body and later can become the nucleus If the practice [of self abuse, an earlier name of a tumor.for masturbation] is continued from the ages This would explain why cancers tend to recurof fifteen and upward, nature will p rotest against at the sites of surgical incisions. Blood clots ad-the abuse she has suffered, a nd continues to hered there, causing tumors to begin growing.suffer, and will make them pay the penalty for the transgression of her laws, especially from ____________________the ages of thirty to forty-five, by numerou s pains in the system and various diseases, such ELLEN G. WHITE, 1905as affection of the liver and lungs, neuralgia, Note to researchers: Since many people regained their healthrheumatism, affectio n of the spine, diseased as a result of these writings, the relationship of these factorskidneys, and can cerous humors. Child Guidshould be investigated. Are meat eating, sexual enervation, andance, 444. unhealthful modes of wearing clothing causative factors of cancer? Over the years, cancer researchers have genWorking Summary: Listed here are additional causativeerally searched for a singl e causal factor. Yet a va-

factors, as well as a remarkably comprehensive analysis of theriety of causes ca n eventually produce cancer. nature and treatment of disease.WHITE S THEORY OF DISEASE Mrs. White was a leading health writer of the White also declared that the disease was a latter half of the 19th century. Because of her in-cleansing process, instituted by the body to rid fluential work, it is of interest to note her posiitself of impurities. On this basis, she declared, tions on some of the causative factors of malig-good nutrition, clean living, an d trust in God nancies.were crucial to proper healing. Her leading book on health was the 1905 Min- The only hope of better things is in the eduistry of Healing, in which she said that meat eat-cation of the people in right principles. Let phying was a significant cause of the transmission ofsicians teach the people that restorative power cancer:is not in drugs, but in nature. Disease is an People are continually eating flesh that iseffort of nature to free the system fr om condifilled with tuberculous and cancerous germs.tions that result from a violation o f the laws of Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseaseshealth. In case of sickness, the c ause should be are thus communicated. Ministry of Healing,ascertained. Unhealthful conditions shou ld be 313.changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature The eating of pork has produced scrofulais to be assisted in her effort to expel impuri[non-lung tuberculosis], leprosy, and cancerousties and to reestablish right con ditions in the humors. Counsels on Diet and Foods, 393.system. Another cause is poisonous chemicals and Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exdrugs, such as calomel (which is mercurousercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in chloride):divine power, these are the true remedies.

--------------------------------------- 50 50Alternate Cancer Remedies Ministry of Healing, 127 [cf. 126-130].Ross also studied the diets of primitive people, Obedience to the laws of God (the Moral Lawand found that they ate only raw and fresh foods, of Ten Commandments and the physical lawswith all the nutrients retained. of nature) were considered crucial to success inHis therapy primarily consisted of dietary inlife, as well as in maintaining and recoveringstruction. Although many nutrition al discoveries health. She was also an earnest advocate of coun-have been made since, Ross ideas remain just as try living.solid as when he gave them. Ross cited the case of the physician who dared ____________________to speak up in a medical meeting and suggest that F.W. FORBES ROSS, M.D., c. 1905tuberculosis was curable. The place was in an up-

roar because, Ross wrote, the young man had Note to researchers: Intensive laboratory and field studydared to challenge curr ent medical opinion that into the relationship of potassium to the cause and cure of canTB was incurable. He added that the young doccer needs to be conducted. Working Summary: Ross was apparently the first to iden-tor was later harried out of the medical profestify potassium as a key factor in eliminating cancer. The Gersonsion for taking such a stand. therapy expands on his principles. With the beginning of the 20th century, X-rays __________________ __ and radium were added to surgery as leading meth-CHARLES OTHELLO OZIAS, M.D., c. 1910 ods of treating cancer. Due to inadequate shielding methods, many of the radiologists and theirNote to researchers: Administer, in a test setting with controls, a combination of a few of the better-known folk herbs for staff were burned and died of cancer, induced by cancer, along with a simple, healthful diet. See what the results the radiation.are. Dr. Forbes, a London physician, blamed theWorking Summary: Ozias used a simple d iet, plus an herbal formula not now known. ever-increasing rate of cancer deaths on poor diet, the surgery, and radiation used to treat the dis-Dr. Ozias was a small-town phys ician in Neease.vada, Missouri. Gradually, he came to the concluAfter studying the chemical functioning of thesion that cancer was a nutritional problem. So he endocrine glands, the blood, and the overall nu-began prescribing natural foods, simply pretritional requirements of the human system, Rosspared. As a result, he had many recoveries. In identified potassium salts as the key missing el-addition to a simple diet, he a lso gave something ement which normal cells needed for healthfulwhich he would not disclose, which is believed to activity.have been an herbal mixture. He said these salts were being processed outHe became so well-known for his canc er sucof the food offered to the public. The soil wascesses that he built a hospital i n Kansas City, Misdepleted, and cooking only intensified the prob-souri, to which many people came for help. lem since the potassium was thrown out in theOzias said that cancer was the result of soft cooking water.city living and devitalized store-bought food. Ross prescribed potassium citrate and phos-In 1922, he wrote the American Medica l Assophate as part of his treatment of cancer, alongciation and offered to treat 100 cases, free of charge with a weekly dose of five grains of potassiumin his hospital, and disclose his formula so all phyiodide.sicians could have access to it if the results of As with the great majority of natural healers,his work were published in the AMA Journal. The Ross worked with the hopeless, inoperable, andAMA did not answer. Instead, he wa s repeatedly

those who had refused surgery or irradiation. Yettaken to court on a variety of charges. Each time, he was often remarkably successful.the case was withdrawn before it went to cour t. Ross prescribed potassium routinely to allThe AMA knew they could not win in cou rt. He his patients; and he declared that, over a 15-yearfinally retired to his home in Nevada, Missouri, period, none of his patients contracted cancer.and practiced quietly until his d eath in the mid Instead of cutting out the cancer, Ross tried to1940s. improve the general well-being of the patient. Hair color returned, along with better looking skin. ____________ ________ As the diet improved, the tumor began to recede.JOHN BEARD, M.D., 1911 He also noted that most cancer patients preferred rich, spicy foods; were primarily meat eat-Note to researchers: Beard s the ory was the first to focus on enzyme scarcity as a cause of cancer. Because he reported ers; disliked vegetables; and rarely drank thesuch a remarkable rate of success in treating cancer, his work water in which the vegetables were cooked.needs to be clinically verified today.

--------------------------------------- 51 Specific Systems of Treatment51 Working Summary: The Beard theory consisted of givingWorking Summary: The Glover Therapy consists of a sepatients trypsin and chymotrypsin, two pancreatic enzymes.rum from horse blood. It is no longer available. Dr. Beard was a Scottish embryologist who,Dr. Glover, or Toronto Canada, was ano ther as a result of extensive research, concluded thatphysician who believed that can cer was caused by cancer (along with most degenerative diseases)a virus. begin as a result of wrong diet, inadequate diges-With this in mind, and working with several tion, and a lack of proper digestive enzymes.associates, Glover studied viruses and developed Beard said that cancer cells have many ofa serum which was later lost. He began his rethe same characteristics of the trophoblast cells,search soon after entering med ical practice in which produce the placenta during pregnancy.1911; and, financed by a wealthy ind ustrialist, he Both cancer cells and trophoblast cells growdeveloped a serum derived from the b lood of quickly and invade other tissues.horses. If trophoblast cells continued to grow unabatedSeveral times, independently of o ne another, in pregnancy, they could destroy the mother andseveral researchers have used flu ids from horses child. But, in the fourth month of a normal preg-to eliminate cancer in humans. Krebiozen, denancy, the fetus becomes completely developed andveloped in Brazil and then brou ght to Chicago, begins secreting certain enzymes, including trypsinwould later become the most f amous example.

and chymotrypsin, that stop the growth of the tro-Samples of the serum were sent free to hospiphoblast cells, allowing the pregnancy to continue.tals so they could test it, i n accordance with usual According to Beard s theory, eating too muchprocedures. It worked so well, that so on he was animal protein overworks the pancreas to thebesieged by cancer patients from all over North point that it malfunctions and becomes ineffi-America. cient. Because the average American eats twiceThe interesting fact about cancer remedies is as much animal protein as he could handle, thethat, although it has been firmly established that protein is never fully digested and used by the body.dietary and environmental f actors are crucial facThis leads to toxic fermentation in the intesti-tors; yet, upon studying medical history, we find nal tract, with symptoms of gas, bloating, abdomi-that so many different ways ha ve been devised nal pain, and colon irritation.which produce remission from cancer! If the pancreas is malfunctioning, it cannot se-However, only those methods whic h reach crete enough enzymes to suppress trophoblastdown to the heart of the matter and ch ange those cells, making these cells potentially cancerous.things in the life which caused the cancer in the Acting on this theory, Dr. Beard began treatingfirst place are truly successful in the long run. A cancer patients with trypsin and chymotrypsinserum may eliminate the tumor, but it is very likely in 1907. He had remarkable success with thisto return a few years later unless the lifestyle is treatment, which he described in his 1911 book,corrected! Enzymatic Treatment of Cancer.This is why only a few of the methods described One photograph in the book shows a largein this brief historical overview are to be preferred. army captain with an immense cancerous growthYes, there are substances which wil l destroy canon his face. In five weeks it was eliminated by en-cer sites, but the problem is not permanently zymes.solved unless important changes are made in Essential enzymes are not only produced inone s diet and way of life. the pancreas, they are also present in raw foods. In January 1921, the Toronto Academy of Most people in Western countries need a diet whichMedicine issued an official re port, that they had contains more raw food. John Beard s work will be discussed againfound no evidence that Glover s serum had helped anyone. They also said that any so-called later in this book, under the section on the Krebscures were due to psychic sugge stion and nothand their research into laetrile.ing else. (For more on John Beard s research, see pages 119 and 181.)In spite of this setback, a number of physicians in Canada and America began using his serum. On June 4, 1924, a Philadelphian newspa____________________ per (the North American) published an article disTHOMAS J. GLOVER, M.D., c. 1918closing that Glover s serum had produced favorNote to researchers: It is clear from the striking case of T.J.able results.

Glover, as well as Stanley s research, that intensive researchThe next day, the Ne w York Times published a should be done into possible microorganism involvement in thestatement by a lead ing physician, connected with cancer process.

--------------------------------------- 52 52Alternate Cancer Remedies the AMA, who flatly declared Glover s serum to besible cancer-alleviating herbs ne eds to be made in a controlled utterly worthless. He added that as cancer wasenvironment. Working Summary: Unfortunately, we do not know what not a germ-borne disease, a serum treatmentEvans herbal formula was. would accomplish nothing. This is the first mention, in this brief historiThe cure of cancer otherwise than by surgery depends upon the discovery of its cause,cal overview, of a person who was n ot a medical and that remains as yet a mystery, throughdoctor. which only a few gleams of doubtful light haveAbout the year 1905, a man named E vans in been cast. Cardigan, Wales, put together some herbs that On June 11, the New York Times said thatpeople had used for years and gave it to one of Glover, attending a medical convention in Sanhis sons who had cancer. After that success, he Francisco, had announced that his serum wasand his sons gave it to neighbors, an d their candoubtful in value. The article concluded:cers went into remission. Each time, th ey knelt There is nothing in the Glover or any otherand prayed earnestly for the Lord s bles sing. cancer cure to warrant delaying surgery for aPrayer is powerful, especially when combined with single day. simple, natural remedies. But that was an incorrect report; for GloverBy 1907, there had been enough succe ss that had not backed down an inch. In spite of the fu-the British Medical Journal prin ted two scathing ror, several leading Philadelphia hospitals beganattacks on the family and their efforts to help injecting Glover s serum into cancer patients, withpeople. good results.Rees Evans, one of the sons, had been treatAt this point, we will conclude our report oning cancer since 1919. Attacked by the medical Dr. Glover. The battle with the AMA continued forsocieties, he requested an inve stigation in 1924. years. In 1940, Glover published his book, TheWhen asked for the names of 20 pat ients, he Treatment of Cancer in Man, based on 237 can-gave 30 names and addresses. The co mmittee later cer cases, with follow-ups on 50 originally reportedreported that it could not f ind any of them. In rein 1926. The malignancies were meticulously de-sponse, Evans announced that they had not tried scribed by site, operability, length of treatment,to locate them, and a number h ad reported the

survival periods, etc.fact to him. Many cancer patients were alive and well 14The battle in England continued for y ears, and years after the treatment. This is all the more re-is far too lengthy to include here. markable, since we are not told that Glover s meth-Here is a description of one in dividual s expeods included any changes in lifestyle.rience with the Evan s treatment: Dr. Glover s virus theory of cancer precededShortly after receiving a blow to her breast, a his development of a serum derived from horses,woman discovered a growth. After receiving no just as Durovic s virus theory would later lead toworthwhile help from a cancer sp ecialist, she went his development of a horse serum (Krebiozen).to Evans. He told her that it might be healed in Note the June 5, 1924, Times comment, above,about 12 weeks; so then she agreed t o a series of that a serum would be worthless if microorgan-treatments. Using a soft brush, he applied a liqisms do not cause cancer. Yet the serum wasuid, made from his herbal mixture, to her breast. reported to have worked!This brought sensations of penetration, burning In 1955, Dr. Stanley, of the University of Cali-and pulling; yet this was relati vely painless. A new fornia at Berkeley, was awarded the Nobel prizeapplication of the liquid was mad e six days a week, for identifying a cancer virus. The Swedish judgesand the growth gradually rose to the surface and who awarded the prize were convinced, after care-became hard and black. A lettuc e leaf placed over ful examination, that Stanley had made a profoundthe tumor turned black. discovery which could benefit all of mankind.On the twelfth week, the roots of t he cancer Yet no clinical testing or treatment of humans,came out, leaving a crater undern eath. Evans then based on his research, have ever been carried out.treated that with another herb al solution. GraduNot one. The matter was left to die a quiet death.ally, this also healed, leavin g only a small scar. When she showed her healed breast to the phy____________________sician she had earlier gone to, he involunta rily exclaimed, Miraculous! But, in order to keep the REES EVANS, 1919medical association from turning on him, the phyNote to researchers: To what extent is prayer and trust in sician later denied that the malignancy, which he divine power a factor in healing? Careful research needs to behad earlier diagno sed as such, had ever been canmade regarding this. In addition, a complete analysis of pos-

--------------------------------------- 53 Specific Systems of Treatment53 cer.Royal Society and Sir Alexander Fleming, the disAlthough scorned by the English medical pro-coverer of penicillin. fession as unworthy of their notice, oddly enough,Repeatedly, Evans offered to d emonstrate his

the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, N.J., heardmethods in treating the sick to the committee, but about the Rees Evans treatment and successfullyhis offers were declined. tested it. Although no publicity was permitted in the United States, a now-defunct tabloid, the Pic______________ ______ ture Post, disclosed it to the public in September WILLIAM FREDERICH KOCH, M.D., 1920 1950. That same year, Evans came to the UnitedNote to researchers: Koch was a genius, devising new techniques on several cancer fronts. His research needs to be reexStates, at the invitation of the Presbyterian Hospi-amined and vindicated. tal. By this time, he had already treated a thou-Working Summary: Koch was a bri lliant researcher/physisand cancer patients.cian who first improved on Coley s fever treatment, and then Diagnoses, treatment, and recoveries at thedevelop Glyoxylide which destroyed ca ncer tissue by bringing oxygen to it. Could Glyoxylide be hydrogen peroxide? Glyoxylide hospital were all done under the close observa-is no longer available, nor do we know the formula. tion of medical doctors and then published. In 1931, Otto Warburg received the Nobel This aroused the wrath of the British medical profession to a white heat, and they scornfully re-prize, in physiology and medi cine for some of his work, which related to his discovery that cancer jected the Newark report. But public interest was so great, they found it necessary to appoint a boardcells cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. But a decade earlier, a remarkable man of the of inquiry through Aneurin Bevan, British Minister of Health.highest intellect had anticipated Warburg s discovery. In this report, his theories of cancer and methIts final report was issued on June 14, 1952, and was carefully worded. Here are some excerpts:ods for treating it are closely interwoven. Dr. Koch had an M.D., Ph.D., was a teacher at It [the committee] did not examine patients under treatment since it considered that in mosta medical college and a careful researcher. He it was who, before the age of 30, discovered that the forms of cancer assessment of the results of treatment it is not possible until treatment hasremoval of the parathyroids woul d produce death. ended, and also since the technical details ofPhysicians were routinely removing thyroids and applying any particular treatment are irrelevantwondering why so many of their p atients died from to the assessment of its value in treating can-tetany (the parathyroids regulate calcium metabocer. lism). Skin cancers were ignored, because the com-About the year 1915, while teaching a t the Unimittee said they were rodent ulcers and not realversity of Detroit, Koch noted tha t there was a malignancies.marked coagulation of blood and tissues in canEvidence of success in healing rodent ul-cer tissue. He reasoned that, since this normally cers throws no light on whether the samewas a protective mechanism because of to

xic method will be useful in the treatment of can-problems, injury, or irritation, c ould it be that cers in general. there might be toxins in the cancer tissue which As to the herbs themselves, in one brief para-could be removed? graph their possible value was declared worthless.With this in mind, Koch set ab out devising a Samples of the materials used by Mr. Reesmeans of eliminating those toxins. Evans in treatment were analyzed and testedActually, Koch had a good basis of th inking. It in experiments on animals. The committee wasis now known that cancer frequently is a garbage advised by the leading experts that the results dump for poisons and waste products produced obtained did not provide any indication for rec-by wrong eating, overeating, str ess, environmenommending further experiments. tal chemicals, etc. The report concluded that those of Evans pa-Koch s first treatment method was to in itiate tients who died did indeed die of cancer; and those a fevered condition in the body which burn off who did not die, never had cancer!the toxins. From 1888 to 1936, William Coley, (Evans, like other practitioners of alternative M.D., did this also, using strep germs; but Koch s cancer remedies, primarily worked with those whofever therapy method was more co nsistent and had been cut, chemicaled, or burned, and were so without the aid of a dangerous infection. weakened they sought out Evans as a last resort.)Koch s fever treatments were effe cted by The report was signed by four leading British means of tissue thrombin, a ferment which medical dignitaries, including the president of thebrings on a fever when heat b urns off the toxic

--------------------------------------- 54 54Alternate Cancer Remedies elements in the system.tan and fake. Although Glyoxylide was said to be Then in 1920, following eight successful re-nothing more than distilled water, n o examination coveries, Koch announced that he had a cure forwas ever made to determine exactl y what it was. cancer. Immediately, the surgeons in charge of theThe Koch treatment was more ro unded than Wayne County Medical Society instituted a warthat of some others. He did not rel y merely on against him.Glyoxylide, but also required a rigid diet which By that decade, surgery was still the most prof-excluded all foods which were to xic or contained itable treatment for cancer. It was not until theoxygen inhibitors. Included in this list were late 1940s that the cost of cancer drugs was raisedmeats, beans, lentils, coffee , alcohol, and toenough, to make them equally profitable. Frommatoes. Only distilled water was to be drunk, then on, chemotherapy ranked with surgery andand daily enemas were required. Koc

h mainradiation as the approved medical treatments fortained that both the diet change s and the Glyoxcancer.ylide were needed to eliminate the cancer. Another aspect of Koch s brilliant thinking re-Individuals taking the Koch treatme nt needed volved around sugar metabolism. Fifteen yearsno hospitalization. The person woul d receive one before Warburg discovered the same principle (andinjection of Glyoxylide and no more for about six received a Noble prize the following year for doingweeks or until decreased oxid ation was observed. so), Koch had stumbled upon the fact that sugarAs with all worthwhile natural al ternate remoxidation was a key factor in cancer formation.edies for cancer while on the pro gram, pain would According to his thinking, if the sugars couldsubside and tend to disappear. Thi s tends to be a be oxidized, the cancer would be reduced. Whathallmark of genuine cancer remedie s. was needed was more oxygen to the site of theIn 1933, Koch published his book, C ancer and tumor.Allied Diseases, in which he explained the thinkAlthough Koch already had one treatment foring behind his treatments. He maintai ned that cancer (fever therapy), he set to work devisingcancer resulted from years of tox ic conditions another one which would not require the fever.in the body. When the cancer growth begins, He searched for more active catalysts to stimu-these toxic conditions lessen som ewhat, since late the body s capacity to oxidize toxins. Thesome are being stored in the cancero us tissue, result was Glyoxylide. This is the name he gave asomewhat as you might place gar bage in a garliquid formula which he developed. Koch was anbage can, so the house can remain clean and extremely capable and original thinker. His boldneat. Surgery, by removing the s urrounding conidea was that Glyoxylide would cause toxins intainer, damages the house and does nothing to the cancer cells (and elsewhere in the body) toreduce the influx of toxins. be changed into antitoxins by oxydizing them.Koch said that cancer was a response of proThis was to be done by adding molecules whichtection against dangerous toxins; i t tried to changed their composition.bottle them up in tumors. He also maintained Another part of Koch s theory was that cancerthat, when the toxins were eliminated , the canwas caused by a germ or virus; and that origi-cer would automatically shrink and disappear; nally it was harmless, but only became deadlyand all its essential elements woul d be reabwhen poisoned by the toxins in the system.sorbed by the body. This concept closely relates to the discoveriesIn contrast, Koch declared that c utting out of Royal Rife in the 1930s, a young man who, sub-pieces of the body, to rid it o f a cancerous considized by the Mr. Timpkin (owner of Timpkindition, accomplished nothing positiv e but in-

Roller Bearing Company), invented a super-pow-stead it caused great injury, weak ened the body, erful microscope (the Rife microscope) and,and laid the groundwork for even more trouble then, with it, he discovered that germs change fromlater on. Surgery and biopsy, Koch said, only one type to another, depending on conditions inspread cancer faster. Yet, he add ed, it was the the body. One stage is a fungus; the last is cancer.surgeons who were given the authority to decide That was in the days before the development ofwhich remedies could be approved! the electron microscope, but there has been si-Several top physicians, throughou t the world, lence in regard to any efforts made, using the elec-saw the value of the Koch tr eatment and began tron microscope to duplicate Rife s germ transfor-using it until threats stopped the m. This included mations which occur in toxic bodies. (See Pleo-Allen, of Tulane University; Brya n, of Vanderbilt morphism, later in this book.)University; Maisin, of Belgium; Godfrey, in Koch s theories were never investigated by theToronto; and Kannel, of Ft. Wayne, I ndiana. medical authorities. He was treated as a charla-One of these, Forbes Godfrey, wh o for 26 years

--------------------------------------- 55 Specific Systems of Treatment55 was the Canadian Minister of Health and Educa-first cancer treatment he had ever found which tion, said, Radium has a dangerous effect on theprovided any hope. In spite of su ch testimony, no human system. In a couple of years people whoformal report of this hearing was e ver made. have used it usually die suddenly because it af-In the 1960s, the present writer met a lady fects the heart. who told of her meeting with Dr. Koch about a J.W. Kannel later testified about how, over adecade earlier. Because her 10-year -old son had period of 14 years, he had successfully treated 72cancer, they flew to Brazil, w here he had been given cases with the Koch preparation. Many were hope-the Koch treatment. The cancer d isappeared and lessly advanced to begin with. About a third wereher son had been in fine health ever since. still alive. He noted that, before adopting the Koch treat____________________ ment, he had operated on at least 50 cases of can-MIKKEL HINDHEDE, M.D., 1920 cer, had followed surgery with X-ray or radium, Note to Researchers: The data alre ady available on this and yet the longest survival time had been onlysubject is truly vast. How much m ore research will be required two and a half years.before the public will be told about one of the primary cau ses of cancer? Kannel mentioned that, on a visit to Mayo Clinic, he saw a surgeon remove five cancerousWorking Summary: According to a de luge of research find-

ings, a consistent vegetarian non-meat diet is one of the best breasts in one day. When asked about success rate,ways to avoid cancer. the surgeon admitted that surgery and radiation World War I was extremely hard o n the people accomplished nothing, but that he did not know of Europe. Food shortages were widespread, and what else to do. many had extremely little to eat. During the years In 1940-1941 in Brazil, Koch successfully1917-1918, the food restrictions were t he most treated leprosy, tuberculosis, and mental condisevere. Following the war, Dr. Hindhede studied tions. Then an agent for a large pharmaceutical the effects of the restricted diet on the inhabitants firm (which reaped immense profits from repeatedof one city: Copenhagen, Denmark . injections into the insane) shook his fist in Koch s During those two years, the entire populaface and said he would not be interfering much tion of that large city was forced to live on a longer in Brazil.diet consisting primarily of milk, vegetables, and In April 1942, Koch was arrested in Florida grain. But, in studying what had happened, for false labeling of his product. The district atHindhede was astounded to discover that there torney demanded an immense bail of $10,000.was an amazing 34 percent drop in Cop enWhen asked why, since only murder cases required hagen s death rate. The cancer rate dropped also such a bail, the DA admitted that he had received (M. Hindhede, The Effect of Food Restrictions Durorders from Detroit to do this so Koch would noting War on Mortality in Copenhag en, Journal of return to Brazil and finish his research there. the American Medical Association, 74(6):381, Both in 1942 and 1946, the FDA fought Koch 1920). in two bitter trials, claiming that the remedies wereOther studies in Britain, S witzerland, and elseindistinguishable from distilled water. A tempowhere showed similar results. For example, Strom rary injunction was made to stop his work until a and Jensen s analysis of the Norwegian people durthorough investigation could be made. Of course,ing World War II revealed remark ably lowered the investigation was remarkably slow in getting death rates (A. Strom and R.A. Jensen, Lancet started. In 1950, the injunction was made perma260:126-29, 1951). nent. Koch had been stopped.It is well-known, among serious nutritionists, At this juncture, Koch gave his formulas and that artificial additives such as artificial colors and methods to the Christian Medical Research League flavors, preservatives, hormones, and pesticides of Detroit, and then moved permanently to Brazil.in food are cancer-causing. But , with over 1,400 But the preparation was incompetently processed, Americans dying of cancer everyday, there is anwas no longer effective, and was soon abandoned. other important food factor which is producing a

Meanwhile, another cancer investigation wassignificant portion of those tumors: set up, this time in Ontario, Canada. One witness, Until recently, many eyebrows would have J.W. Kannel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, told of treatbeen raised by suggesting that an imbalance of ing 72 patients in 14 years with Glyoxylide, due tonormal dietary components cou ld lead to cancer their own pleadings for help. He said they were and cardiovascular disease . . Today, the accumutoo hopeless for any other kind of treatment. Of lation of evidence makes this notion not only posthat number, 21 were still alive and four otherssible, but certain . . The dieta ry factors are princihad died of other causes. Kannel said it was the

--------------------------------------- 56 56Alternate Cancer Remedies pally meat and fat intake. Dr. Gio B. Gori, speak-a vegetarian diet apparently alte rs the way tuing before Senator McGovern s Select Committeemor cells process fat and thereby prev ents the on Nutrition and Human Needs, 1972.runaway growth that characterizes fatal cance rs. Testifying before that same committee, Dr.This may partly explain why vegetarian diets Arthur Upton declared that up to 50 percent ofhelp slow or stop the growth of es tablished canall cases of cancer are caused by diet. Add tocers (Eduardo Siguel, Nutrition an d Cancer that those caused by smoking and exposure to4(4):285-91, 1983). carcinogens, and we have nearly 80 percent.Medical doctors advise their heart pa tients to This means that most cancer cases could bechange their diets; they need to tell their cancer prevented.patients to do it also. From 1970 onward, there has been an increasing number of research studies which have con__________________ __ cluded that a meat diet is a primary cause of can-HARRY M. HOXSEY, N.D., 1920 cer. For example, in a study of Seventh-day Note to Researchers: Testing on the Hoxsey formula should Adventists, a group that is traditionally vegetar-be carried out. Surely, there must be some value here! It was ian, death rates were about one half of thoseused with apparent success on so ma ny people. seen in the general population (R.L. Phillips,Working Summary: The Hoxsey treatm ent consisted of nine herbs, plus potassium iodide. Fortunately, we know both the Role of Lifestyle and Dietary Habits in Risk of original and the modified formulas. A Hoxsey clinic exists today Cancer Among Seventh-day Adventists, Cancerin Mexico. Research, 35(supp.):3513-22, 1975). Of all the alternative cancer specialists, there When Chinese women moved to America, was no one like Hoxsey, absolutely no one. He was their rate of breast cancers greatly increased.a natural showman, and he loved a good fight.

Men who eat milk, eggs, or dairy products daily, The story began in 1840, when a valuable have a 3.6-times higher risk of fatal prostrate horse (a Percheron) on a farm in Illinois became cancer. Populations around the world with theill. Harry Hoxsey s great-grandfather was very conlowest meat consumption have low rates of cocerned. The veterinarian told him the animal had lon cancer. a hopeless cancer on its right hoof, and should be One study found that vegetarians obtaindestroyed. Instead, John Hoxsey decided t o turn more essential nutrients from their diets and it out into a large pasture so it could eat all the absorb those nutrients more efficiently than do grass it wanted. He wanted the horse to die in non-vegetarians (P. Millet, American Journal ofpeace. The pasture it was admitte d to had lots of Clinical Nutrition, 50:718-27, 1989). tall grass, plus lots of full-grown weeds of various A massive study, called the China Project, kinds. was reported in 1990. Headed by T.C. CampbellJohn watched his beloved horse, and t hen of Cornell University, this research found that Chinoted that it went to one area of the pasture and nese eat one third less protein than Americans ate certain weeds. Hoxsey became interested, (64 gm/day vs. 91 gm/day). But only 7 percentwalked over and watched this very c losely. Soon of the Chinese protein comes from animal the horse recovered completely and the tumor sources, compared with 70 percent for Amerisloughed away. cans (4gm/day vs. 64 gm/day). The Chinese hadSo John ground up various combinati ons of far lower cancer rates. The research findings are the types of plants the horse had been eating, and contained in the book, J. Chen, T.C. Campbell, began treating the farm animals. Eventually, from et. al., Diet, Lifestyle and Mortality in China:those weeds, he had an herbal re medy for canA Study of the Characteristics of 65 Countries, cer. 1990. With this in hand, he prepared a liquid, a Here are other major findings of this study:salve, and a powder and began treati ng animals Eating large amounts of fiber will protect against throughout the area. But he kept his formula a colon cancer. Childhood diets high in protein, secret; and, before his death, Hoxsey entrusted fat, calories, and calcium promote early growth,the formula to his son, also nam ed John, who bebut produce higher breast cancer rates later in came a country doctor treating humans who life among women. Consuming high amounts had cancer. Whether he had it any degree is not of protein can lead to cancer and other degen-known. erative diseases.

Of the twelve children in his family, only young Another study revealed that a vegetarian diet Harry was interested in the cancer remedy. The not only lowers the levels of known carcino-father was thankful one of his sons wanted to carry gens, like saturated fats and excess protein, but

--------------------------------------- 57 Specific Systems of Treatment57 on the healing work; so, in 1919 on his deathbed,herbal mixtures on hand, and cl ose his clinic and he summoned Harry and ordered him to bring hisnever practice again. safe deposit box and three tablets of writing pa-Shocked, Hoxsey feebly asked to see an attorper. Requiring that the door be shut, he calledney first, but Harris said absolu tely No. In addiHarry to come near and, sitting up in bed, Johntion, he said that Hoxsey could n ot see Sergeant found a small white envelope. These, he declared,Mannix again unless he signed the paper. Orders are my cancer formulas. to that effect were immediately phoned to the hosThe father then commanded Harry to write outpital. the formula for the liquid, the salve, and the pow-Harry Hoxsey was powerfully b uilt; and it is at der over and over, till he had filled the three note-this juncture that his incr edible capacity for boldbooks. In commenting on it later, he said he fellness in the face of opposition revealed itself. asleep in the room, before he finished, and had toFrankly, all he had to do was to politely excuse finish the next morning.himself, step out of the office, and a few minutes Then the father burned the papers and, soonlater phone Mannix s daughter. But Hoxs ey was a after, died.great believer in confrontation. Harry Hoxsey was 18 years old, and plannedAs he later wrote in his 1956 book, Yo u Don t to become a medical doctor before using the for-Have to Die, Hoxsey described wh at happened mulas. But a Civil War veteran pled with him fornext: help and, when he recovered, spread the news far I waited until he hung up the rec eiver, then and wide.seized the telephone and called the Mannix Learning of his work, a clinic in Chicago in-home. Before I could be connected, Doctor Harvited him to give them a demonstration of his work.ris reached over the desk and tried to take the Dr. Bruce Miller, a staff member, was astoundedtelephone away from me. My left e lbow flipped by what he saw, and agreed to become medicalup, caught him squarely in the chest , and set him flying into his chair. It promptly topped him director of Hoxsey s Cancer Clinic in Taylorville,over, depositing him in a most u ndignified poIllinois. Miller remained with Hoxsey through some ofsition on the floor. his most difficult times, and later moved to LosHoxsey then told Mannix s daughter to take

her father out of the hospital immediately, and that Angeles and continued treating cancer with the technique.he would be over to change his dressings shortly At some point in his life, Hoxsey acquired aat his home. At this, Harris jumped up and shrieked that naturopathic degree.he would have Hoxsey jailed if he treated Mannix The war began when Hoxsey was invited to give a demonstration of his method in Chicago,again. I will run you quack out of Illinois! he under the sponsorship of Dr. Malcolm Harris, ascreamed. The war had begun, but Hoxsey reveled in the well-known surgeon. Harris was secretary of the AMA, at the time, and later its president.battle. The most hopeless patient that could be foundIt would require too much space to detail the skirmishes, but a few highlights can be noted. Afwas brought to Hoxsey. Thomas Mannix, a policeter enemies closed him down in Ill inois, he moved sergeant, had rotting flesh in his clavicle where the cancer was. Looking at him, Miller despairedto Detroit, then to West Virgini a, Iowa, and finally, and said nothing could be done for the man.in 1936, to Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Hoxsey was able to win powerful Hoxsey was utterly confident of success. Good results were immediately seen; but, offriends among local political and bus iness intercourse, a continued course of treatments wouldests. But the lawsuits, injunction s, arrests, and occasional jailings continued. need to be given before there could be full recov-He won libel suits against Mor ris Fishbein and ery. The next morning Hoxsey was summoned tothe Hearst newspapers. He also sometimes won Harris office and told that he and his associatesmedical suits. Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the AMA, wrote this about Hoxsey: wanted to use it, so everybody in America could All the other wicked medical fakes , firing be healed. Hoxsey was thrilled, but was then told that careful tests would have to be made and that,hope and darkening it to despa ir, pale beside the savagery of the cancer charlatans. They look first, Hoxsey would have to sign a 10-page legallike men, they speak like men, b ut in them, percontract which required Hoxsey to sign over allvading them, resides a quality so malevolent rights to the formula to Harris and his associates. He had to give them the formula, hand over allthat it sets them apart from other s of the hu-

--------------------------------------- 58 58Alternate Cancer Remedies man race . .SUPPLEMENT: THE HOXSEY FORMULA They slay their patients as guiltily as if they knifed them in the heart, and they stay withinHarry Hoxsey s formula included Red clo-

ver, Burdock root, Barberry bark, Licorice root, the letter of the law . . Morris Fishbein, Ameri-Buckthorn bark, Prickly ash, poke berries and can Eagle, quoted in Harry Hoxsey, You Don troot, Stillingia root, Cascara amarga, Potassium Have to Die. Hoxsey was not a man to cringe when in a fight.iodide, zinc chloride, and antimo ny trisulfide. Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) had been He replied:used by the Lake Superior Indians to treat cancer. The distinguished author [Fishbein] had inherited from his spiritual father the techniquePhysicians, using bloodroot paste in the 1960s, of the big lie: Make up a lie that s big enough,healed cancers of the nose, externa l ear, and other organs (Cancer Chronicles, August 1990). Buckrepeat it often enough and people will believethorn contains aloe-emodin, which tests reveal has it! Adolf Hitler was dead, but the Hitler of American medicine ranted on. H.M. Hoxsey, Youanti-cancer properties. Cascara also has al oe-emoDon t Have to Die.din. Barberry has anti-tumor effects. The OTA reIn the suit against Fishbein, representing theport, within the last ten years (s ee Alternative RemAmerican Medical Association, Fishbein had to ad-edies and Congress, at the front of this book), mit that he had never practiced medicine one daynoted that components of prickly ash (cheleryin his life; had never had a private patient; had nothrine and nitidine) and of stillingia (gnidilatidin) have shown positive anti-tumor activity in test anicontact with Hoxsey s method, patients, or records; and thus really knew nothing about what he wasmals. talking about.The major component of the internal tonic was potassium iodide. The actual proportions and In 1954, Hoxsey opened a clinic in Portage, Pennsylvania, with the help of John Haluska, amethods of extractions were kept s ecret (Harry former state senator. Over the years, some of theHoxsey, You Don t Have to Die, 19 56). rich and powerful people that Hoxsey helped, Patients taking the tonics were cauti oned to avoid tomatoes, alcohol, processed flour, and helped him in return. In later years, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy (of Krebiozenvinegar, because of their ability to negate the tonic s fame) briefly visited the Hoxsey Clinic and ex-effect. The Hoxsey formula was mo st successful against lymphoma, melanoma, and skin cancer. pressed his opinion that it was the potassium in the formula that was the key ingredient.In 1968, the Hoxsey method was placed on It is an intriguing fact that most of the ef-the ACS Unproven Methods List. Toda y, Hoxsey s fective alternative cancer remedies include po-work is carried on at the Hoxsey Clinic in Tijuana, tassium.Mexico, which estimates that 80% of the patients Repeatedly, the medical interests refused to ex-are significantly helped. amine cured patients, look over their medicalIn 1963, Mildred Nelson, Hoxsey s chief nurse, records, or conduct tests with full disclosure ofopened the Bio-Medical Center i

n Tijuana, Mexico, which still offers the Hoxsey treatment. Here is results. At his zenith in the U.S., Hoxsey had thousandsthe formula used by Nelson at her clinic: of happy cancer patients coming to his 17 clinics.Red clover (Trifolium pratense ) Burdock root (Arctium lappa) But, after repeated arrests, by the late 1950s, Hoxsey had been forced to leave his clinics, whichBarberry bark (Berberis vulgar is) he had turned over to others. The last to closeLicorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra ) were the ones in Dallas, California, and Pennsyl-Buckthorn bark (Rhamnus purshia na) Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanium) vania. They are closed today. In the late 1950s, Hoxsey moved to Mexico andChaparral (Larrea tridentata) practiced for a time. He was in his 50s by then.Stillingia root (Stillingia sylv atica) Cascara amarga (Picramnia antidesma) (For more on Hoxsey, see pages 158 and 160.) Hoxsey Therapy Bio-Medical Center, P.O. BoxPotassium iodide 727, 615 General Ferreira, Colonia JuarezNelson substituted chaparral for poke, which Tijuana, Mexico 22000was in the original formula. We do not know Ph: 011 52 66-84-9011 / 011 52 66-84-9081whether she still includes zinc chlori de and anti/ 011 52 66-84-9082 / 011 52 66-84-9376mony trisulfide in her revised formula. W e 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 d arco contains the same cancer-

--------------------------------------- 59 Specific Systems of Treatment59 fighting chemical found in chaparral, KDGA, yetwould call it a juice diet), foll owed by healthful does not have the side effects which sometimeseating patterns. Hers was a broad program which occurs with chaparral. See the sections on chap-included enemas. arral and pau d arco for more on this.)On September 1, 1941, Dr. Tilden died at th e Medical literature reveals that licorice root hasage of 90. Dr. Chase s work as a practicing physiproduced adverse effects when taken in massivecian continued from the mid-1920s to the early doses. Poke can be toxic also, but is not included1960s. in the current formula.Many of the alternative cancer treatments deThe Hoxsey Clinic recommends taking 1 or 2scribed in this present historical rev iew were mono teaspoonfuls of the powdered formula in a glassprograms; that is, only a single chemical, comof hot or cold water two or more times a day. Thepound, extract, or nutrient was used. In marked external treatments, which Hoxsey used to use,contrast, Dr. Chase used a wide va riety of nutri-

have been discontinued because they were so harshtional factors, but no chemical s of any type. and painful. SUPPLEMENT - THE CHASE THERAPY ____________________ The following excerpt was taken from the chapALICE CHASE, M.D., 1920ster on Cancer in Dr. Alice Chase s 1959 book, Note to researchers: Alice Chase s method of treating can-Nutrition and Health. cer demands testing by researchers! Such a program could helpIn view of the fact that she had a high rate of millions recover from sickness, with but little outlay of money.success with a w ide variety of infections and disWorking Summary: Chase based her method on the work eases over a period of forty years, Chase spoke of John Tilden and Lucius Bulkley, both of whom used a carefully regimented natural diet to dissolve tumors and expel themwith authority ab out such subjects; for she had from the body. The physicians giving laetrile, as well as the Gersonworked with them for years. Institute, now use a careful dietetic program.Dr. Chase s work, as a practicing ph ysician, A number of distinguished physicians workedcontinued from the mid-1920s to the e arly 1960s. successfully with cancer in the 19th century. OneShe was also acquainted with Dr . Duncan Bulkley s of them was Dr. John H. Tilden.cancer program, which is discussed elsewhere in In 1923, a young pre-medical student, Dr. Alicethis present historical overview. Chase met him and learned about his system ofHere is this excerpt from her book: healing. Tilden was already 73 by that time. She studied under him for two years at his Denver, The body cannot be affected by canc er when Colorado, Tilden Health School.it is healthy. The body must be saturated with un eWhen she became a physician, Chase usedliminated excretions within the cells bef ore it is Tilden s methods and adapted them somewhat. Asusceptible to this disease. primary change was that she found that meat must Cancer is not a local disease at first. When be forbidden to patients who wished to properlyany organ or tissue manifests can cer signs, the recover from any serious physical problem. Meatentire body is a sewer full of wa stes. How do those was a reservoir of disease, she found.wastes saturate the body cells and fluids? Both Tilden and Chase (as well as earlier out- In cancer the body is hypersaturate d with restanding physicians, such as Trall, Jackson, andtained catabolic wastes within t he cells. One reaKellogg) emphasized that good health is a way ofson for the special susceptibili ty of some organs life, and involves nutrition as well careful liv-to cancer is the fact that thes e particular organs ing.are permeated with relatively large blood and They taught that no poisons are to be intro-lymph supplies. When a highly vascul ar organ is duced into the system. For this reason, these phy-saturated with unexcreted wast es, it may manisicians used absolutely no drug medications, norfest signs of cancer. radiation treatments. The breast, the thyroid gland, the prostate These physicians were actually teachers, in-gland, the uterus, and other structu res that are

structing their patients in a better way of life.highly vascular are often found to be cancerous. But they also used an essential tool for theWhen any body organ manifests cancer signs and recovery of disease: complete fasting for a shortsymptoms, the entire body is af fected by the same time in the height of the crisis, followed by partialpoisons, and these will eve ntually kill the sufferer. fasting (drinking fruit and vegetable juices). ForFor this reason, X-ray treatme nts, radium treatconditions such as cancer, they did not use com-ments, and other medical weapons, in addition plete fasts, but relied on juice fasting (today weto extreme and radical surgery , prove futile.

--------------------------------------- 60 60Alternate Cancer Remedies The sick body can be made better only bylonger was associated with the New York S kin and regenerating its cells and fluids from a morbid stateCancer Hospital, worked on the cancer problems to a normal one. This can be accomplished. Thewith diets. Dr. Bulkley found that a vegetarian diet living body responds to constructive methods suchwhich was so low in proteins an d in sulphur-conas raw foods that are potent enough to soak outtaining food was effective in arr esting cancer and cellular and tissue wastes and excrete them fromprolonging the lives of many ino perable and rethe body economy.current cases of cancer . . Food can be more effective than any drug Dogs are often affected by the same diseas es or drugs. Surgery has been proven useless. Itthat carnivorous humans are. They g et blind from does not prolong life. In fact, surgery maycataracts. They get high blood pressu re because shorten life in some cases.of hardening of the arteries. They get cancer beThe surgical patient is debilitated. Surgery iscause they become saturated, to ex cess, with tisshocking and weakening. The sick are entitled tosue wastes. To be sure, the dog is more fortunate such constructive methods as diet offers. Beforebecause he is not a victim of to bacco smoking, surgery is attempted, why should not an honestcoffee drinking, liquor drinking, overwork, and and good surgeon put his cancer patients on a pre-overfatigue all of which are fac tors contributing operative treatment like freshly made raw vegetableto cancer as a disease of man kind in our civilizajuices and raw fruit juices for a week to a month?tion. Men and women of our tim e are subjected to Such initial treatment may prove to work won-wear and tear in the course of ear ning their daily ders on the sick body. The fresh raw fruit juicesbread. Physical overstrain and the conventional and raw vegetable juices can indeed be real po-palliatives liquor, tea, coffee, to bacco contrib-

tent elixirs of life! They would be a boon to thoseute toward the causative fact ors of cancer . . who suffer the weakness and pains of cancer. . . It is difficult to restore the bo dy of a patient The body needs foods that are rich in miner-who has one or both breasts amputated . In many als and vitamins. These are to be preferred to vi-instances the individual patie nt is demoralized betamins and minerals in capsules or pills.cause of the surgical disfigurement. Th ose whose Fresh raw salads and fresh raw fruits are of-internal organs have been operated u pon are in ten even prohibited to the sick when indeed theymost instances even more difficu lt to treat and to would prove to be life savers and health builders.make comfortable. This indictment is based on my experience with In internal surgery, very radical a nd drastic patients who were forbidden to touch any raw fruitchanges are brought about by t he disconnecting or raw vegetable. Why? There is a popular beliefof blood vessels, nerve structur es, and other structhat raw fruits and raw vegetables are gas form-tures besides the actual extirpat ion of parts of oring. These vital foods cannot form gas. When thegans or entire organs. A person w ho has had onebody is charged with excessive wastes, some ofthird, one-half, or two-thirds of his stomach rethese wastes are broken down into gaseous com-moved because of cancer has a very m iserable pounds, and the body attempts to eliminate themtime in eating and trying to feel comfortable after through the stomach, through the bowels, throughfood. the skin, through the lungs. Any stomach case that manifests cancer Sick people should be taught these facts aboutsymptoms is entitled to a rigid die t that would health and disease. Fresh raw fruits and raw veg-consist of strained freshly mad e raw vegetable etables act as vehicles, to carry out some fluid andjuices and raw fruit juices. A month to three other kinds of wastes from the system, providedmonths of such a diet, administer ed with skill, that everything else in the management and carewould tend to regenerate the stom ach and make of the sick body is done correctly.the entire body better. The sick are entitled to this People are given cancer phobias by educa-type of treatment. It is high time that the profestional cancer agencies, as well as by their physi-sional made use of the wonder d rug that food cians and surgeons. They should be educated, thatcan be! in a healthy body there cannot be any cancer! Cancer patients in the terminal stag es are ofThe body must be a veritable cesspool or sewerten found to suffer from spontaneo us fractures of full of excretion before cancer signs are apparent.the bones. They also waste aw ay. . . The sick should not be fed dead animal mat- Dr. J.H. Tilden, also a pioneer in the medical ter as food. In the all-powerful medical world, thefield, who practiced during t he years 1866 to 1939,

sick are being fed on dead animal matter as food.went beyond Dr. Bulkley in putt ing his cancer pa. .tients on an initial fast, which was followed with Dr. Duncan Bulkley, who for forty years ora diet of mainly raw fruits and raw veg etables.

--------------------------------------- 61 Specific Systems of Treatment61 I have had the opportunity to treat some can-plies the blood with effective buffe rs, to soak up cer patients by means of fasting and diet, also us-tissue wastes. Raw vegetable juices also supply ing the basic principles of Dr. Bulkley s system,easily assimilated minerals and v itamins that the namely, feeding my cancer patients a diet that issick body must have in order to thrive and imlow in protein and in sulphur. I found that theprove. cancer patient responds dramatically to short fasts Raw vegetable juices have been used by piowhich are followed by fresh raw vegetable juices,neers for the treatment of the degenerative chronic fresh fruit juices, and solid fruits such as grapes,diseases, cancer among them, by a number of docpineapples, cherries, and other seasonable freshtors in America and abroad. It i s necessary and raw fruits.very important to bring this truth home to every The cancer patient is often found to be suffer-hospital: that raw-vegetable-juice machines must ing from demineralization of the bones. The bloodreplace meat grinders and other kitchen equipin the sick body maintains its chemical reaction,ment that hospitals of our time use for the prepaknown as its hydrogen-ion concentration, at a con-ration of food for the sick. stant level until the very late stages of disease. The sick would get a new lease o n life by The cancer sufferer is often a poor eater.being fed raw vegetable juices as the m edicine at Sometimes food aggravates symptoms such ashospitals and at home. For that matter , the healthy pain and fatigue I mean food of the ordinaryperson should drink raw vegetable juic e twice a varieties. Fresh raw vegetable juice and freshlyday at least as a preventive of food deficiency of made fruit juice are welcomed by the cancer pa-one kind or another in bodily hea lth. tient. In fact, these life-giving liquids even tend to In addition to a glass of r aw vegetable juice stimulate the appetite and the ability to digest pro-for lunch, the cancer patie nt may get some wellteins, starches, and some fats that are properlycooked nourishing soup or stew. If there is any selected.stomach involvement, freshly cooked vegetable The cancer patient does not require any or-mixtures should be liquefied in the mo dern food dinary table sugar. Honey is a superior sweetblender. Home-made pureed vegetable s that can that can furnish energy much more quickly thanbe done in the blender are far sup

erior to canned ordinary table sugar. The cancer patient does notproducts. They do not have to b e overcooked. Overrequire two or three starches at one meal, ascooking and canning cause a loss in vitamin value the Bulkley diet proposes. It is best to give thein the case of any such product s. Freshly cooked, patient as much as he or she can enjoy of oneeven slightly uncooked, vegetables li quefied easily digested starchy food.in the blender to a consistency that the individual A dish of well-cooked oatmeal or brown ricepatient may require are easily digeste d and nouror whole-wheat cereal, seasoned with a littleishing. butter and a dash of salt or vegetable salt, is a One kind of starch, such as a ba ked potato hearty breakfast food, when the cancer patientor rice or a slice of bread and, p erhaps a tiny has an appetite for breakfast. If there is no appe-amount of butter, is all a se mi-invalid or an intite for starchy food in the morning, fresh raw fruitvalid requires. It is not a dvisable to feed the canof one or two varieties can be kept at the bedsidecer patient a high amount of c alories chosen from for the patient to eat whenever he has the appe-sugars, starches, and butter fat . Some cancer patite. Freshly made fruit juices and raw vegetabletients cannot digest butter or any other fat. They juices may be given at two-hour intervals or lessmay be given grapes and other s weet fresh raw often.fruits, as easily assimilable energy foods that are The cancer patient often enjoys being leftbetter sources of calories than an over abundance alone. Sleep and rest are energizing for him. Can-of starches at one meal. cer patients should never be awakened at meal I found that the lentil is a wonderf ul seed that time or for any other daily care. With a dish ofcan be used in a variety of ways to prepare palatcereal for breakfast, the cancer patient may beable dishes for the cancer patien ts. Lentils about fed a cup of plain lemonade sweetened witha cupful according to Dr. Kellogg, furni sh an honey. Mint tea is also a pleasant beverage andamount of iron equal to the iron co ntained in four it does not do the patient any harm.eggs (an ounce of lentils furnish as much ir on as Luncheon for the cancer patient has to de-an ounce of egg yolk). Lentil, as a see d food, is pend on how well his stomach is able to digestalso rich in easily digestible sta rch and protein. It food. Freshly made raw vegetable juice is alwaysis also low in sulphur content, lower than any other in order because it prevents demineralization ofof the seeds such as beans or pe as. Lentils, mixed the bones and muscles. Raw vegetable juice sup-together with three or four fresh green cut-up

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62Alternate Cancer Remedies vegetables, makes a fine, palatable, nourishingripens above the ground. soup or stew. Lentils may also be mixed with Eggs must be forbidden in the cancer diet bebrown rice and cooked as a hearty tissue-build-cause they are high in sulphur co ntent, and the ing and energy-yielding main course for dinner orcancer patient is already char ged with too much supper.sulphur waste. Other foods that combine well with starches, Some cancer patients also have a histo ry of such as those mentioned above for the noon meal,skin disease of one kind or anot her. Psoriasis is as well as for the evening meal, are a glass of rawoften found accompanying canc er. This disease vegetable juice or fresh raw fruit for dessert.cannot be cured with the ordinary diet that inFresh fruit is always superior to stewed prunescludes meat and eggs and fatty fo ods. A person or stewed figs or stewed apples.who suffers from psoriasis must live for months Raw vegetable juice may also be given to theon fruit juices and raw vegetable jui ces, plus a little cancer patient between meals once or twice arice and lentils and one or two green vegetables a day. Even up to four glasses of raw vegetableday. juice a day may be taken with benefit, and also This is the way I found that cance r patients two glasses of freshly made fruit juice. Waterycan get better and live in comfor t in many inbeverages are really not as important.stances. The cancer patient has everything to gain Sometimes watery fluids are contraindicated.by breaking away from conventional ho dgepodge When a cancer patient has involvement of the livereating and taking up the veget arian-fruitarian diet or kidneys or the lymphatic system, there may bethat is rich in raw vegetable ju ices, raw fruit a tendency toward fluid retention within the bodyjuices, and properly steamed ve getables. tissues. Under such conditions the diet has to be Food must also be taken within t he limits of specially worked out. It must exclude foods madecomfort and not because it may d o some good. with water. There are some vegetables and fruitsOccasional fasts are always a bo on to the sick, which have the property of extracting fluids thatparticularly those who suffer f rom cancer. are retained within the liver substance and within Here is a sample 21-day meal s chedule. Keep other parts of the body. These foods are fresh rawin mind that it is only a samp le. There are many pineapple and green squash! These are the bestother meal schedules; some which a re distinctly diuretic foods, which means that these two foodsdifferent. Adaptations might ha ve to be made for have the power to extract retained fluids from thethe condition of the patient, the type of malignancy liver and other parts of the body. This I found inhe has, etc. He might be aller gic to store-bought my clinical studies of very difficult problems ofgrape juice, etc. Of course, ot

her things must be cancer and other diseases, in which fluid reten-done each day, in addition to me als (water drinktion was one of the complications.ing, enemas or good bowel movements, abunGreen squash and fresh raw pineapple aredant rest, baths, exercise or massage, et c.). wholesome foods that can be used even when there Here is this 21-day meal schedule . It would, is no special complication. Any food that has cura-of course, have to be adapted to the individual: tive properties also has preventive properties. Day 1 - On the first day or two, h ave a total Now for a few words about milk in relation tofood fast. (You will repeat this fas t for 1 to 2 days the cancer problem. Some patients cannot takein forthcoming weeks.) Macrophages and lymphomilk; their mouths feel sour and bitter after milk.cytes are the most active and effective in fighting Buttermilk may be tried; this type of cultured milkcancer cells after fasting. products are really forms of synthetic vegetables Day 2 - Drink 16 ounces of fresh grape juice the cow makes milk from grains and grasses! Milk(canned, if necessary) 3 times a day. It is best to is therefore a wholesome food for invalids whendilute the juice. they have an appetite for it and have no bad reac- Day 3 - Switch to 16 ounces of fresh carrot tion from it. When milk is not well-tolerated, itjuice, 3 times a day. may be left alone. Balanced nutrition, weight gain- Day 4 - Use grape juice at bre akfast and suping, or the prevention of the loss of weight can be accomplished with a fruit-vegetarian diet that isper and carrot juice at dinner. planned according to the above suggested outline. Days 5 to 10 - Grape juice at br eakfast, plus It is always desirable to give the patient twoany kind of raw fruit. Carrot juice at supper, plus steamed vegetables, in addition to a starchyany kind of raw vegetables. food, for dinner and supper. One may be a root Days 11 to 15 - Begin adding stewe d or vegetable, such as carrots or beets, and one maycanned fruit to the fruit meal m enu and steamed be a green vegetable or some other kind thatvegetables to the vegetable menu. Se rve hot. Use

--------------------------------------- 63 Specific Systems of Treatment63 as little salt as possible, and never over tea-the century. spoon per day. Never overeat.Dr. Warburg won the Nobel prize in physiolDay 16 - Begin taking 3 almonds with breakogy and medicine in 1931 for his discovery of a fast and dinner. Continue a very small fruit sup-respiratory enzyme. One of his most controverper if essential; it should be omitted as soon assial theories concerned the nat ure of cancer cell possible.metabolism, that is, the way in which cells obDay 17 - Continue the present food plan, buttained their energy. begin serving cup of brown rice at breakfastWarburg was the only person to ever win the

and dinner.Nobel prize twice in his own field. (One of the only Days 18 to 20 - Increase the quantity of riceother persons to win the Nobel prize twice, Linus by one-fourth cup per day until serving one cup.Pauling, also did research into alternate cancer Serve with dry or chopped fruit or onions, toma-therapy and is discussed later i n this book.) toes, lemon juice, or green peas for seasoning. Normally, human cells obtain their energy Day 21 - Increase the number of high proteinthrough respiration. Each of the vast millions of foods served to supplement the rice, keeping thecells in the body takes in oxyge n and gives off carvariety of dishes to a minimum, and using 3 items bon dioxide and water. This is a complex, but only at each meal, as follows:highly efficient, way of generating energy. (a) Eat plenty of raw fruit, including fresh But there is another, far more primitive and lemon and grape juice or raw vegetables, includ-wasteful way of generating energ y: fermentation. ing carrot juice. Do not eat fruits and vegetablesSimple life forms, such as bac teria, use this at the same meal. If possible, 50-80% of the meal method. This is why milk sours and yeast makes should be eaten raw. Asparagus and garlic havebread to rise. both been ascribed as anti-cancer qualities.But there are times when our human c ells also (b) Choose cooked grains or vegetables fromuse fermentation to produce energy. On e occurs the following list. These foods are selected becausewhen the muscles or brain re quire a quick burst of their low phenylalanine and lysine content: po-of energy. tatoes (white or sweet), carrots, rice, millet, corn,Another occurrence and this i s the heart of buckwheat, barley, rye, oats, wheat.his theory is when cancer cells begin function (c) Use immature legumes (such a field peasing. According to Warburg, all cancer cells live or green peas) not more than twice a week, forby fermenting sugar in what are es sentially airthey are high in phenylalanine and lysine. Select less (called anaerobic ) reactions. only one at a meal.Warburg maintained that if a person could (d) Use whole grain cereals or quick breadsfind a way to stop this fermentation, he could without sugar, baking powder, soda, or excessive stop the cancer. salt. He developed this theory in 1930, a year beThat concludes the description by Dr. Chase fore he received the Nobel prize for different reof her nutritional treatment for cancer. Elsewheresearch. in her book, she discussed the importance of fre-Other scientists have since pro ven that canquent enemas, rest, etc. So the above only consticer becomes more resistant to therapy as the tuted a brief outline of the nutritional part of hertumor mass becomes more acid ic and anaerotherapy.bic. It will be interesting to compare her programWarburg s theories provided the found ation

with the Gerson therapy. There are similarities,for ozone and hydrogen peroxide therapies, and there are differences. Overall, it would appearwhich are given intravenously , orally, and recthat the Gerson diet is much more intensive, andtally. While the efficacy of the se therapies is better suited to advanced cases of cancer.controversial, experts caution against drinking hydrogen peroxide, since it is such a potent free____________________radical generator. OTTO WARBURG, M.D., 1930You will recall that, 10 years before Warburg s theory, Koch began using Glyoxylide, an oxygen Note to Researchers: Warburg s research into oxygen vs.catalyst, in his work. fermentation, as a source of cellular energy, needs to be amplified. Techniques should be devised for both terminating fermen-Later, we will le arn about the research work tation in cancer tissue and transporting more oxygen to it.of Joseph Gold who, i n 1968, published a paper Working Summary: Although anticipated ten years earlier by Koch, Warburg s theory of cancer was monumental, and re-on oxygen therapy. Revi ci also used oxygen injecsulted in major advances in alternate cancer treatment later intions. The use of hydrogen peroxide is based on

--------------------------------------- 64 64Alternate Cancer Remedies it. Gerson therapy touches base with it also.oxygenation. Note that Warburg developed a landmark can-(For more on oxygen therapy in its va rious cer theory, but did not, as far as we know, giveforms, see pages 53-55, 103-105. ) clinical treatments based on it. ____________________ SUPPLEMENT: OXYGEN THERAPYWALTER B. COFFEY, M.D., JOHN D. HUMBER, M.D., 1930 Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestly in 1771. Hydrogen peroxide was discovered by LouiseNote to researchers: We will lea rn of others who worked with pancreatic enzymes and extracts, but Coffey focused on Jacques Thenard in 1818, and ozone was discovered by Christian Schonbein in 1840. The firstcortical adrenal hormone. His rese arch should be extended and clarified. hyperbaric operating room was made as early asWorking Summary: Coffey s adrenal ex tract method was 1879 by a French physician, Dr. J.A. Fontaine.unique in several way. The Gerson Institute today also uses pancreatic enzymes and pancreatin. Over a hundred years ago, physicians began treating diseases with oxygen. Oxygen therapyDr. Coffey was chief surgeon and di rector of refers to a wide range of therapies utilizing oxy-the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital in San Frangen in various forms, to promote healing andcisco from 1926 to 1938. Highly resp ected for his destroy pathogens in the body.surgical skill, in the 1920s he devised an operaEarlier in this book, we learned that Frederichtion to relieve the intense pain

of angina pectoris, Koch, M.D., advocated oral hydrogen peroxide forand was invited to demonstrate h is technique becancer patients as early as 1924.fore several leading universities in Europe. In 1930, Otto Warburg, Director of the MaxAs a rule, the men who developed new t reatPlanck Institute for Cell Physiology in Germanyments for cancer were highly skil led and respected and a two-time Nobel Laureate, proposed that amedical doctors whom their peers r ecognized as lack of oxygen at the cellular level may be thebrilliant. Coffey was no exceptio n. prime cause of cancer, and that oxygen therapyIn the late 1920s, Coffey became i nterested in could be an effective treatment for it.cancer therapy. It resulted from experime nting with Later in this book, we will learn of others whoan adrenal extract in treating hi gh blood presused various forms of oxygen therapy especiallysure in a patient who was also canc erous. the research work of Edward Rosenow, M.D., withCoffey was startled to find that the extract not hydrogen peroxide, and Dr. Sweet with ozone, asonly dramatically relieved the hi gh blood preswell as the use of hyperbaric oxygen.sure, but the cancer as well. Very soon, John D. There are two forms of oxygen therapy: oxy-Humber, M.D., joined him in his resea rch. genation therapy and oxidation therapy.Over the next several years, they experim ented All human cells, tissues, and organs requirewith various extracts from the adren al cortex of oxygen. Oxygenation saturates the body withcattle, and then decided that an extr act from the oxygen through the use of gas, sometimes atadrenal cortex of sheep was the most effective. high pressure (hyperbaric). Oxygen can be admin-It is not commonly known, but Co ffey is said istered in many ways (orally, rectally, vaginally, andto have originally obtaine d the cancer extract idea intravenously through inhalation or absorptionfrom a Dr. Eaton, a well-known San Francisco through the skin.urologist. Eaton, himself, had been encouraged by Oxidation therapy enables electrons to bea Dr. Gye, an English cancer specialist , to investitransferred from one molecule to another. Oxi-gate the hormones of the adrenal c ortex for posdation therapy helps the body eliminate tox-sible anti-cancer factors. ins. It also selectively destroys pathogenic (dis-Learning of Eaton s work, Coffey appropriated ease-producing) bacteria, viruses, and otherit as his own. This resulted in grea t enmity beforeign substances. For example, if hydrogen per-tween the two men. oxide is placed on a surface wound, the normalAs medical director of a large hos pital, which cells thrive while the pathogens die.treated many railroad workers, sent in from all Oxidation therapy must be given under clini-over the western states, Coffey was in an excellent cal supervision, since uncontrolled oxidation is de-position to try out Eaton/Gy

e s idea. structive to the body. It may be given intravenously,In January 1930, when he fe lt sufficient cliniorally, rectally by enema, vaginally, or absorbedcal evidence was available, Cof fey demonstrated through the skin. Hydrogen peroxide therapy willhis technique before the San Fra ncisco pathologibe discussed in more detail later in this book.cal Society. This brought him ins tant and wideOzone therapy uses both oxidation as well asspread publicity!

--------------------------------------- 65 Specific Systems of Treatment65 Reporters sent reports to newspapers all overPatients by the thousands flocked t o the CoffeyAmerica, describing the remarkable improvementHumber Cancer Clinic in San Franci sco, to receive of some of the patients. Pain decreased, healththe Coffey-Humber extract, as it came to be seemed to generally improve, and cancers wereknown. disappearing. Records and comments by patientsA branch was opened in Los Angeles ; and, in and staff were printed.1931, a wealthy widow of a railroad magnate, livThere was a rising ovation for Dr. Coffey, froming on Long Island, offered to gi ve her mansion as over 1,200 California physicians at their 1930 con-a third clinic in the chain. This would open the vention. Besieged by cancer victims, Coffey an-entire East Coast to the new anti -cancer method. nounced in the press that he would only acceptThis resulted in a storm of opposi tion and prothose whose cases had been diagnosed, throughtests. On one side were the common masses, plus approved laboratory procedures, as malignant bywealthy patrons and fabulously ri ch railroad exa physician, and then referred to him along withecutives who sided with their boys. On the other a letter that the case could not be helped furtherwas the New York City Welfare Board that, for some by surgery or radiation.mysterious reason, saw fit to deny the people of That was a wise move, since it provided docu-New York the opportunity to obtain help. mentation for the genuineness of each case, andThe application was denied. Later that same did not conflict with the ongoing, brisk activity inyear (1931), Dr. Rowland H. Harris reported in surgery and radiation. He would only accept in-the Journal of the AMA that he ha d investigated operable cases.the extract and found it to be worthless, and even In addition, those accepted for treatment hadharmful. He said that, in some inst ances, it accelto agree in advance in writing to an autopsy re-erated the growth of tumors. port, if they died during treatment.Fired with anger, Dr. R.W. Starr, director o f the Everything seemed to be doing well, but thenLos Angeles Coffey-Humber Cancer Cli nic, deMorris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the AMA,clared that Harris was giving

a false report. heard about Coffey s activities. He wrote:The anger and accusations continued. Dr. Pathologists and surgeons who have inves-Balfour, a Mayo Clinic surgeon, was quot ed by tigated the method express nothing but pro-Time magazine as saying that cancer is curable if found disappointment with both the clinical and[surgically] removed while it is a local disease. pathological results. These experts indicate thatCures by advertised serums, ext racts, etc., are post-mortem examinations which have beenmyths. made in at least 30 cases do not reveal any defi-Shortly afterward, Dr. Garland, a radiologist, nite specific destruction of cancer tissue or evi-stated that he was well-acquai nted with the exdence that the spread of cancer in the bodies oftract, that it relieved no pain, and he had seen the the afflicted patients has been retarded. In view of Coffey s very thorough method ofpatients die like flies. In March 1936, Coffey and Humber published case documentation, it is remarkable that Fishbeintheir results, to date: 7,513 presumably hopeless would dare oppose him publicly in the pages ofcancer patients. Of these, 3,872 d ied before they the Journal. At their next annual meeting, mem-could receive 30 injections (the minimum needed bers of the California State Medical Society issued a public criticism of Fishbein for his unethicalfor a fair test). Of the 3,641 wh ich received the full treatments, 1,040 recovered from cancer, which and unscientific remarks.is about one-fourth. Of these, about 10% lived four As for Coffey, he had some remarks to makeor more years. also:(It should again be noted here that the CoffeyIt appears highly unjust and unethical if Dr. Fishbein has employed pathologists working inHumber treatment neither included n or required secret. Such investigations could have been car-any changes in diet or lifestyle . Without such ried on openly at any of our clinics with ourchanges, serums, extracts, etc., o utstanding, longterm results could not be produced.) utmost cooperation. Secret investigations suchIn his report, Coffey also noted a statement by as he implies remind one of the secret tribunals of medieval days when the accused wasa well-known pathologist, Ewing, who s aid that tried and sentenced without opportunity to de-not 5% of cancer patients recovere d after receivfend himself at open trial. ing surgery or radiation. The contenders were identified, and the battleIn 1944, Dr. Coffey died. In later years, Dr. Humber decided to stop using the extract. was joined. Thoughtful students of medical his-Oddly enough, the method never re ceived any tory could recognize the final outcome. kind of scientific investigation by its opponents.

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66Alternate Cancer Remedies Yet the clinical trials in California were carefully, I have been asked many times what my canand openly, conducted in the presence of manycer cure is. Here it is in a nutshe ll: correct food, physicians and thorough records were kept.herbs, water, fresh air, massage, suns hine, exercise, and rest. ____________________Red clover blossoms should be gathered, made into tea, and drunk freely, abundantly. Place a JETHRO KLOSS, N.D., 1930s handful of blossoms in a quart of water, let in come Note to researchers: Kloss remarkable simple formula forto a boil, and then simme r for 15 minutes. Then the treatment of cancer should be given both laboratory and field testing. It is simple, direct, and could help many folk unable tolet it set unti l cool enough to drink. afford medical assistance.Other anti-cancer herbs included: violet leaves, Working Summary: Kloss was and still is the doctor ofagrimony, ground ivy, burdock r oot, yellow dock the common people. Few books in our century have had the en-root, blue violet (w hole plant), goldenseal root, gum during circulation, in homes with few books, that his masterpiece has had. Kloss had studied closely into the practices ofmyrrh, echinacea, aloes, blue flag, gravel root, Trall, Tilden, Jackson, and Bulkley. Studying his book, we learnbloodroot, dande lion root, African cayenne, chickmore about nineteenth-century natural healing which is equallyweed, rockrose, and Oregon grape. valuable today.Kloss complete program is given on pages 452Born in April 1863 in Wisconsin, at about the464 of his famous book. turn of the century, Kloss trained at J.H. Kellogg s Battle Creek Sanitarium. At the time, that was the ______________ ______ leading natural healing institution in the world; EMANUEL REVICI, M.D., c. 1940 so Kloss obtained an invaluable education. For a time he operated a healing sanitarium inNote to researchers: Revici s sterol and fatty acid lipid research should be re-examined, along with the minerals (potasMinnesota, and later established health-food fac-sium, calcium, copper, and oxyg en) which he administered. tories. Kloss recognized that a healthful diet wasWorking Summary: Revici was a pioneer both in a concern crucial to good health.about fatty acids in the diet, and in the use of potassiu m and So successful was he as a naturopath and soselenium. His program is still availa ble today. eloquent that, by the 1930s, he was in demand asScientific director of the Insti tute of Applied a speaker and traveled widely.Biology in New York City, Revici was the first of In 1939, his book, Back to Eden, was finallyseveral to attempt to balance lipids as a means published. Down through the decades that fol-of eliminating cancerous tissue. lowed, it has remained an important family rem-He began his experiments in the 1 930s in Roedy guide for many common folk.mania, and continued them for a time while on His final years were spent about 15 miles fromthe faculty of medicine at the Uni versity of Paris.

the home of the present writer, in Coalmont, Ten-Exiled by the war, Revici resum ed his work for a nessee. In June 1946 he died there.short time in Mexico City. In 1946, he moved to Kloss remedy for cancer is fairly simple:New York City. Cleanse the body by opening all the channelsAccording to Revici, his method was based of elimination, eliminating constipation, and tak-solely on biochemical and phys iological prining high enemas.ciples, and used chemicals which were wellThe diet included a fruit diet, fruit juices, veg-known and easily available to any physician. etable juices especially carrot juice. After a fewHis treatment was designed to co rrect an days, if the patient was quite thin, he should re-imbalance between fatty acids and sterols in the ceive a vegetable broth composed of the cookedcancer patient, which he called a b iological dualjuice of a large number of vegetables. Tomatoesism. should be eaten alone. Fruit and vegetables (orRevici was a pioneer in using the trace mintheir juices) were never to be eaten at the sameeral, selenium, to heal cancer. He also devised an meal.intriguing theory as to why pain does not occur Deep breathing while walking outdoors, espe-early in the malignancy. cially in the sunlight, was considered important.He said that cancer first begin s within a cell Frequent sweat baths should be taken, with a coldnucleus, and lingers there for a time. It is nontowel around the neck and an icebag over the heartinvasive; that is, does not sp read to other cells. (if there is any heart trouble). Alternate hot andThen, it starts spreading and the strange, cold water applications should be applied to theatypical growth begins. So far, there is still no liver, stomach, spleen, and spine. General mas-pain. sage helps strengthen the circulation [but neverThe third stage consists of chan ges in enrub above a tumor area!].tire tissues, and pain begins. This pain is caused

--------------------------------------- 67 Specific Systems of Treatment67 by chemical changes occurring in the intercel-so-called cancers-in-situ [cancers i n one place] lular fluid that baths the nerve endings, ac-have disappeared without any treatme nt. cording to Revici.Revici was careful to note that his method did Hemorrhages or clotting are the next phase,not always succeed. (This is understa ndable, confollowed by the terminal phase, when radicalsidering that Revici required absolu tely no changes alteration of the entire metabolism is affected.in the patient s way of life. His only concern was According to his theory, pain in cancer is trig-the addition of certain chemical s.) gered by the metabolic changes which unbal-Revici spent years searching for addi tional

ance the pH of the intercellular fluid. The fur-chemical compounds which might e liminate canther the pH deviates from normal pH (either acidcer totally, but success eluded him. or alkaline), the more intense the pain.On August 16, 1955, Revici demonstrated his (Revici s theory is different than Max Gerson s,method before a group of professiona ls, cancer according to which it is the accumulation of tox-patients, and other guests. Pra ctically every type ins in the system which causes the pain. Gersonof cancer in almost every region of the body was must be right, since his method of removing thedemonstrated to the audience. Eve ry one of the toxins eliminates the pain. However, Revici s chemi-18 patients shown (ranging in ages from 8 to 80), cal change in nerve endings and intercellular pHhad recovered sufficiently to re turn to full and acchanges might well fit in nicely into the Gersontive lives. All had been treated free of charge. In theory: The accumulation of toxins causes thenearly every case, previous surgica l or X-ray treatchemical and pH changes, which in turn resultsment had failed. The oldest patien t had been first in pain.)treated in 1942. Cancer had reappeared (on his Revici s investigations disclosed that the lip-nose) in 1955. ids in the painful neoplastic (cancerous) tissueRevici s patients were generally t erminal. Of changed. He decided that some lipids in malig-those who did not die in the first three months of nant tumors were very different than those intreatment, a third survived and sho wed some imnormal tissue.provement. A few recovered completely. Could it be possible, he thought, that byRevici s intravenous therapy used seleniu m, changing the lipid content of the tissue theas well as calcium, copper, and oxygen , to recancer could be eliminated?balance the body s chemistry. During the demIt seemed that these abnormal lipids wereonstration, Revici said that he had rec ently disresponsible for the imbalance in cancer betweencovered that much more rapid reco very occurred the sterols and the fatty acids (the two funda-when he added potassium to the li pid balance mental types of lipids).program. He found that there could be two types ofPossibly because Revici s method was chem ilipid imbalance: too much sterols and notcal in nature, he met with little oppo sition for a enough fatty acids or vice versa. His approachtime. It was a treatment which onl y a physician was to introduce into the system chemicalscould administer. But the reckoning ca me eventuwhich would return the lipids to a normal bal-ally. His medical license was near ly revoked in the ance.1980s. However, intensive lobbying in the New York When Revici did this, he found that pHState capital, led by Congressman Guy Moli nari, changes were normalized; bleeding could behelped him. As a result, Revici was ab le to retain

controlled; and, finally, the strange growth ofhis medical license. cells could be controlled or arrested. Comment-Revici Therapy Emanuel Revici, M.D. , 26 ing on this, he wrote in his 1955 book, The Con-East 36th Street, New York, 1001 6 Ph: (212) 685trol of Cancer with Lipids:0111 All of these changes have been observed following adequate lipid treatment. Moreover, in ___________________ _ many cases significant diminution in the sizeJAMES SHERIDAN, Ph.D., 1942 of tumor masses and even their complete disappearance have been observed. Theoretically,Note to researchers: Sheridan s resea rch work should be emulated, in the hope of producing promising anti-cancer facsuch objective changes in the size of malignant neoplasms can be in part accounted for on thetors. In connection with this, the respiration theories of other researchers (Koch, Warburg, etc.) should also be considered. basis of alterations in cellular lipids, the bodyWorking Summary: Several resear chers have focused on apparently having relatively ample means of de-interfering with the energy sourc es of the cancer cell. Sheridan fending itself against noninvasive cancer cells.was one of the first. One indication of this is the observation that Dr. Sheridan was both an analytical chemist

--------------------------------------- 68 68Alternate Cancer Remedies and a patent attorney. His theory was based onliant, innovative, and highly trai ned. interrupting the respiratory energy chain of can-In the 1940s, in the midst of a n influenza epicer cells. In the late 1930s he developed a cat-demic, Dr. Lincoln made what he thought were echol, a natural chemical that can inhibit res-important discoveries concerning the bacterial piration, and named it Cancell (also known asorigin of certain diseases which he l ater exEntelev).tended to cancer. By 1942, Sheridan claimed that he was hav-He thought he had also found a possibl e cure ing a 70% tumor response in mice.for some forms of these diseases in bacteriophLater, in the United States, he tried to initiateages. These are viruses which p arasitically athuman clinical trials, but was blocked by thetack and destroy specific bacteria. American Cancer Society.Lincoln eventually began treating patients In 1961, he tried to prove the value of his theo-with injections of these viruse s, and claimed to ries to the U.S. Government. But he was told that,see some remarkable results incl uding the reto do so, he must provide the evidence within fivemission of cancer. days. This was a problem since Cancell requiredIt is intriguing how many differe nt methods 28 days before showing effects.have been devised to control or eliminate cancer! In 1982, the Food and Drug AdministrationThis is particularly remarkable, when s o many assigned him an IND (Investigative New Drug) num-techniques rely on a single fac

tor while ignoring ber. This had the effect of permanently putting thethe discoveries which others have used successproject on indefinite clinical hold. fully. Indeed, rarely are changes in diet or l iving When that happened, Sheridan turned his for-habits required. mula over to Edward Sopcak, the owner of aAfter isolating two particularly virul ent staph foundry, who has since given away 20,000 bottlesviruses in 1946, Lincoln found t hat each virus lived of Cancell.only in a single type of host bacterium. So he tried an experiment: At regular 48-hour intervals, he ____________________would inject solutions containing a certain virus (bacteriophage) into cancer tissue. It would J.H. LAWRENCE, M.D., EARLY 1940sseek out a specific host cell and destroy it. He Note to researchers: The urine factor, noted by Lawrence and Burzynski, should be analyzed for possible usefulness.decided that he could do this best by placing the Working Summary: Lawrence was one of the first of sev-virus in the nasal passage , which he called nature s eral to use purified urine factors in the treatment of cancer.own bacteriophage chambers. Dr. Lawrence was a British scientist who car-Using this technique, he was able t o obtain ried on medical research during World War II. In95% apparent cures of sinus infe ctions. So he extended his method to a wide variety of disease the course of his work, he discovered that thereconditions with, what he conside red, fair success. was a factor in urine which seemed to have antitumor activity in animals. His work has since beenWhen it was discovered that Li ncoln was successfully treating cancer, he was besieged with huncontinued and refined by other scientists elsewheredreds of cancer patients, whi ch he treated for a in the world. The research of both Danopoulos and Stanislaw Burzynski will be considered latercharge of one to five dollars ea ch. Wealthy benein this book.factors established a Lincoln Foundation to underwrite the costs of his work. Lincoln carried on his work in the small town ____________________ of Medford, outside Boston. ROBERT E. LINCOLN, M.D., 1940sRather quickly he ran into opposition from the Note to researchers: Lincoln s theory of parasitic virusesJournal of the AMA. Soon afterward, other jourwhich feed on, and destroy, cancer-causing microorganisms is anals would not pub lish reports about his work. fascinating one, and deserves careful laboratory research. Working Summary: Lincoln was unique in his concept thatIn 1949, he requested con ferences with the there are viruses which eat cancer cells. But, if we enlarge theMassachusetts Me dical Society, but the meetings concept somewhat to include the findings of pleomorphism (dis-were repeatedly po stponed. Without investigating cussed later in this book), this could occur.the matter, the Society announced t hat the treatDr. Lincoln entered medical practice in 1926,ment was useless. As for the AMA he adquarters,

at the same time that he was engaged in physicsit told Lincoln in August 1949 th at the matter was research at Harvard. He invented a mechanicala local one, and it should be handled by the mediheart pump. Lincoln was obviously a careful,cal society in his state. thoughtful researcher. Most of the discoverers ofA breakthrough of sorts came wh en Lincoln alternative methods of treating cancer were bril-successfully eliminated cancer in the son of Charles

--------------------------------------- 69 Specific Systems of Treatment69 W. Tobey, a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. ____________________ Tobey was extremely angry that Lincoln s work was JOHN E. GREGORY, M.D., 1945 being ignored, and he said so on the floor of the U.S. Senate.Note to researchers: Is cancer virus- or bacteria caused? This question needs to be resolved, so more efficient remedies This aroused the Massachusett Medical Soci-can be found. An investigation of Liv ingston s research (to be ety, and they sent a team of surgeons and radiolo-discussed later) may help dete rmine this. gists to Medford, where they talked to some pa-Working Summary: Several research ers believed that a tients sitting on the back porch of Lincoln s house.bacteria caused cancer. Gregor y thought it was a virus. Based on the concept that it was a bacteria, Livingston later developed Returning to Boston, they claimed to have seen noa vaccine which worked. signs of improvement in the patients while conDr. Gregory was another believer in the virus ceding that there were some cases of marked symptomatic improvement, which they attributedtheory of cancer. From 1945, onward , he carried on research in this field, as he stated later in his to the tremendous force of faith and hope. Lincoln replied publicly that such a report1955 book, The Pathogenesis of Cancer : [My study] is the result of exhaustive and showed a high degree of stupidity. That comment, of course, did little to calm the storm.careful research work, all of which has been repeated by competent men in their fields. The The Society demanded his resignation; andresearch outlined here has cost the aut hor over when he refused to do so, they expelled him on $250,000. It is the result of more than 20,000 April 8, 1952.hours of research in the field of cancer. In the Then the dean of the Boston University Medipast ten years, forty weeks have been spent at cal School, whose laboratories always preparedresearch clinics and at scientific meetings which the Lincoln antibiotics, wrote him that the sup-pertained to this subject. plies had been cut off. The director of the labora-With such a background of stu dy, one would tory had been forbidden to send him any more. imagine that Gregory might have something to say This stoppage continued for 14 days, and iton the subject of causative agents in

cancer. appeared that many people would die. But urgent Like Royal Rife, Gregory used a high-power telegrams from members of Congress got the sup-microscope to help him in his wor k. Early verplies started again, until a separate laboratory sions of the electron microscope had already been could be set up to provide them.invented, and he used magnifications as high as But, when the cultures were turned over to the 50,000. Lincoln Foundation laboratory, the original cul-His conclusion was that cancer i s an infecture strains were missing. Fortunately, Dr. Lincolntious disease, caused by a vi rus. had some of the original strains stored in other [It is] an infectious disease in which the inplaces. Otherwise production would have beenfecting organism is a cancer virus, which sensicompletely sabotaged.tizes cells to grow invasively and metastasize, Throughout the controversy, no bacteriologistswhen stimulated by chemicals, irri tants, or exwere included in the investigation committees, onlycess hormones. An overwhelmin g infection may surgeons and radiologists.produce the disease. In January 1954, Dr. Lincoln died. He was inPart of Gregory s theory was that the cancer his 60s.virus produces an enzyme which he named chyMany believed that the primary problem withmotrypsin. But was the cancer virus a product his bacteriophages was that they provided an in-or a cause of the disease? expensive method of treating cancer, as well asGregory said he carried out labor atory experimany other chronic conditions.ments to fulfill Koch s postulates [see section on Prior to Lincoln s death, Senator Tobey wroteLivingston for a description of Koch s four postuto over a hundred medical schools, requestinglates]. After injecting a malignant melanoma culthem to send representatives to the Lincoln Clinic,ture into laboratory animals, he withdrew some to investigate and study the therapy. In reply, heof the virus from the malignan cy which developed was told that the Massachusett s Medical Societyin the animal. was conducting the research, and it would be un-The virus withdrawn was the same as the viethical for them to become involved.rus injected, thus supposedly fulfilling Koc h s criThen Tobey turned to the Veterans Adminis-teria. Gregory said he did that 50 tim es. tration, to carry out such an investigation. TheyAssuming then that the cancer w as virusresponded that the National Research Council ad-caused, Gregory looked to antibi otics as the vised against doing this.treatment of choice, realizing that virus strains eventually become immune to antibiotics. So Gre-

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gory felt that a wide variety of antibiotics wouldWachtel felt that some humans were more resishave to be used.tant also. (Keep in mind that this was in the 1940s andInterestingly enough, he cited certa in factors 1950s. Back then, it was thought that antibioticswhich frequently appeared in ca ncer-susceptible could overcome viruses. We now know they can-individuals, which are related to p ituitary funcnot do this. Perhaps Gregory s cancer viruses tion: hyperalkalinity, hyperglycemia, c hanges in were actually bacteria.)fatty sustenances, destruction of body proteins, As Gregory continued his work, he was ablebreakdown of muscles, nitrogen levels which were to help over one hundred advanced cases of can-imbalanced and too easily lost, a nd disorganized cer. He named his ultimate antibiotic, Antivin,enzyme metabolism. Did Gregory really eliminate cancer with hisBut, rather than considering nutriti onal and antibiotic? Perhaps. But it should be kept in mindlifestyle factors, Wachtel mai ntained that such that Gregory also did something that many otherschanges were due to pituitary di sorders. So he in his time were not doing: He required his pa-prepared an acetone extract, draw n from the tients to change a number of things in theirposterior lobe of the pituitary, and then prelifestyle. They had to eat lots of fruit and freshpared another extract from the anterior lobe. vegetables, and totally stop the use of meat andInjecting these into mice, he foun d that the fat.extract from the posterior lobe inhibited the Those changes alone would help a number ofgrowth of transplanted tumors; whereas extracts people with cancer.from the anterior lobe stimulated their growth! In later years, Gregory s methods died withIt is well to keep in mind that both ar e lipid him. No medical group came to his defense orsubstances, so we have here a cancer research support.project similar to Dr. Revici s chemicals, which he used to balance lipids. ____________________Also recall that, whereas Wachtel used pituHENRY K. WACHTEL, M.D., c. 1946itary extract to reduce cancerous growths, the Coffey-Humber extract was an adrenal extract. Note to researchers: It does appear that Wachtel may haveWachtel was excited; he had made a great disstumbled onto something. Research needs to be done into the possibility that posterior lobe injections of pituitary might re-covery. Activit y of the pituitary was thought to be duce cancer tissue mass.the key to cancer growth or regression. Working Summary: Due to the remarkable hormonal func-At any rate, in 1950 Wachte l patented a lipid tions of the pituitary, it would indeed be possible for posterior pituitary extract to quicken body absorption of nutrients andsubstance from the pituitary under the name accelerate waste elimination processes for that is what thatAntineol. Using it, he found some improvement; hormone normally does.and occasionally there was complete recovery. When Wachtel began to test his pituitary subDr. Wachtel, of New York City, was a vigor-

ous opponent of the virus theory of cancer. In-stance, he was removed from his p ost at Fordham University in New York City, and refused all future stead, he believed that cancer was caused bygrants. In later years, Wachtel was outspoken in certain pathological changes in the metabolism, resulting from some normally harmless factorshis claims, that the drug cartel ha d stopped his which, under certain circumstances, tend to in-work. That concludes the available information on duce the development of cancer.Dr. Wachtel s treatment. Frankly, that summary (derived from Wachtel s 1954 book, The Role of the Pituitary in Cancer),At this point, it is of interest to turn to a physicould apply to about anything. A primary ques-ology book and read up on the pitu itary. Surely, tion here would be What were those circum-there must be an answer to this myster y of exstances? Part One of this present book clearlytracts which enlarge or shrink tum ors! outlines a wide variety of circumstances, in dietBut, doing so, you will find th at the anterior and way of life, which have since been shown tolobe of the pituitary produces tw o types of growth greatly increase or lessen the likelihood of cancer.hormones. Wachtel said that an anterior extract But, as the title of Wachtel s book suggests, hewould increase tumor growth. No wo nder; that thought that factors related to the pituitary wereextract contained normal growt h hormones. Body key causative agents in producing or prevent-growth is caused by hormones from t he anterior ing cancer.pituitary. Lacking it, you would be a dwarf; too Noting that some species of animals are verymuch produces gigantism. cancer-resistant while others are quite susceptible,But what about the posterior lobes, which

--------------------------------------- 71 Specific Systems of Treatment71 Wachtel said slowed malignant growth? That wouldof medical equipment in their po ssession. No mibe the important one to consider, since it was thecroscopes, nothing. If they ha d the equipment, they one that shrank the tumors. Since the anteriorwould not have known how to use it . produces growth hormones, does the posterior ex-The very fact, that they accompl ished as much crete or shrink hormones?as they did, reveals yet again that there are many No, the posterior lobe operates in an entirelyavenues to success, when it comes to dealing with different manner: It is a special master gland whichcancer. triggers the thyroid to increase metabolism all overCasting about for an idea, t he couple went to the body! Carbohydrates and fats are digestedher (Lazenby s) Pittsburgh home, took some pots more quickly, body heat is improved, along with aand pans down into the basement . They found a

broad number of other factors.sack of whole wheat and hauled it over to the tubs . When Wachtel injected posterior pituitaryWhy whole wheat? Why not? What s the diff erextract, it would seem that he improved absorp-ence? It s as good as anything else to start with. tion of essential nutrients from the food, in-What they came up with was an enzy matic vigorated, and speeded body processes so theproduct derived from processed whole -wheat cancer cell could more easily be reduced.grain. They called it Mucorhicin. With a name like that, how could they fail? ____________________(It probably had lots of vitamins and minera ls PHILLIP DROSNESin it also, something cancer patients would be lacking in.) AND LILLIAN LAZENBY, c. 1946They then tried their formula on guinea pigs Note to researchers: It should be fairly easy to remove a fluid extract from wheat, give it to cancer patients, and see if anywhich they t hought might have cancer. Whether or improvement occurs.not they did, it seemed they looked all right after Working Summary: It appears that no one else tried to ex-the treatment. So Mucor hicin worked after all! tract the essence of fresh wheat and give it to cancer patients. YetNext, they n eeded to find some people with it would not seem to be difficult to do, since no heating would becancer. Since Mrs. Lazenby worked at a hospital, involved. As with many other worthwhile methods, the Drosnes-she slipped some of her formula into the orange Lazenby method is no longer used.juice she gave to three cancer patients who wer e In some respects, this narrative is even more bedridden and pronounced hopeless, unusual than that of the Hoxsey or Durovic. Pic-According to Mr. Drosnes, all th ree seemed to ture the scene: Two people who knew absolutelyimprove somewhat in symptoms, appe tite, and ennothing about medicine, chemistry, physiology, or disease decide to find a cancer remedy. They goergy, but then they died. Later they were permitted to treat patients who to a house, throw some stuff in tubes and comehad been discharged and sent home to die. The up with a cancer formula which medical doctorstwo drove to their homes twice a d ay to give them were to stand in awe of for over a decade until their extract, which they drank in fruit juice. major medical interests called a halt to the heal-There were some dramatic, if o nly temporary, ings.remissions. Occasionally a recovery occurred. Impossible, you say. Yes, it is; yet it happened. Phil Drosnes was a former tire dealer. Mrs.Then Dr. Paul A. Murray, a Pittsburg physician became interested in what they were doing, Lillian Lazenby was a hospital room supervisor.and offered to help them. In 1948 , a clinic was set These two single people got together every soup in the basement of a Catholic Ch urch. Later, often to eat lunch and chat. One day as they talked, Dr. Joseph Wilson joined the team.

Phil commented that doctors didn t know much.That same year, the two laypeople wer e arHe said that he was bald and doctors couldn t curerested for practicing medicine w ithout a license. it; also a little deaf, and they couldn t solve that. And then there was cancer; they didn t know howBut the case was set aside, since t he clinic was under medical direction. to cure it.The arrest brought publicity! Immediately, Lazenby spoke up and said she sure wishedpeople all over greater Pittsburg sough t the clinic she knew a cure, since her mother had died after great, lingering suffering.for help, and medically affiliated organizations began opposing them. Drosnes seemed interested. Yes, he had a greatBut the Drosnes-Lazenby Clinic had staunch uncle who had died of cancer. So, he said banteringly, I ll help you find a cure. friends among former patients and their relative s. The treatment had often been given free. With the utter naivite of knowing nothing aboutAt the urging of the Pittsburg Ci ty Council, an the matter, they started in. There was not one iteminvestigation was demanded. A medical doctor

--------------------------------------- 72 72Alternate Cancer Remedies came from Washington, D.C.; he spoke with them hicin therapy. But she is happy and well. Dr. for a little while and promised to return in sixMurray, in his written case hist ory of Karen says months to advise further, but never did. Progress of this patient can only be desc ribed Then official reports were sent out, that he hadas amazing. examined their work to be fraudulent. No other The same can be said for other pati ents who testing occurred.have been treated with Mucorhicin. While we By 1958, the clinic could report that they hadwere talking to Karen s father, he m entioned two treated over 3,000 patients through dispensingfriends of his whose cancers had a lso disapphysicians, without any reports of toxic reactions.peared when they got the Dros nes-Lazenby The proportion of symptomatic relief ( the alle-treatment. Can we prove that they had cancer? viation of pain when eating and sleeping, and feel-This becomes increasingly dif ficult. For ining better before death ) had been the experiencestance, Karen s hospital records ha ve disapof more than 90% of all cases. Many recoveriespeared from the files at the hospi tal. J.I. Rodale, The Health Finder, Vol. 2, 121 (1957) had occurred. How could such a formula help anyone?[italics his]. Drosnes and Lazenby were trying to develop an enzyme treatment. But what they actually ____________________ produced was a raw wheat mixture, which, inSTEVEN DUROVIC, M.D.,

addition to enzymes, contained a sizeable dose ANDREW C. IVY, M.D., 1949 of B vitamins; vitamin C; vitamin E; and, in addition to a variety of other vitamins, a num-Note to researchers: The fungus, Actinomyces bovis ( lumpy jaw ) should be extracted from horses, and tested on animals ber of vitally needed minerals, including cal-and human volunteers with terminal cancer. cium and potassium.Working Summary: Not only was Durovic able to extract a cancer-fighting agent from horses, but later, without being told Such a vitamin-mineral supplement alone, administered twice a day, would probably have ac-how to do it, Ivy did it also. In deed, Ivy found he could extract the serum from healthy horses! This is a technique which could complished a great deal to help cancer patients easily be revived. and probably was the source of help provided by Prior to coming to the United States in 1949, the Drosnes-Lazenby treatment. It is likely that a half pound of fresh, refriger-Dr. Durovic, M.D., was a resea rch scientist in Europe. Dr. Ivy was one of the most distinguished ated wheat germ could be soaked for a few minutes, mashed through a sieve, fed immediately tomedical doctors in the United St ates. Here, briefly, is this remarkable story: an individual and produce similar effects to the Drosnes-Lazenby formula.In 1933, Dr. Steven Durovic, left a professorship at the University of Belgrade, to do research After concluding this article, the author hapwork at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He studied pened upon an old article in a book. Back in themolds at a time when most physic ians had not yet mid 1950s, J.I. Rodale went to that Pittsburg clinic heard about Dr. Fleming s 1929 discovery of penito see what was taking place. Here is an excerptcillin. Durovic wondered if the unique, rapid from his report. Apparently, the formula was helpgrowth of mold might somehow be applied to ing people:cancer therapy. We spoke to the father of one patient, Karen G., who was given up as a hopeless brain tu-Durovic tried to reason as to the ca use of cancer at the same time that another physician, halfmor case, when she was eight. Intramedullary glioma of the brain stem and cerebel-way across the world, Andrew C. Ivy, w as carrying out a similar pattern of thought: lum that was the diagnosis her physicians made. After a series of operations, she wasIt seemed to both that all types of c ancer share a common factor: unregulated growth. If sometaken home to die. She was in a coma, unconscious, paralyzed, with toes and hands twistedthing could be found that would ca ncel that facbackward, when her parents came to the clinic.tor, the cancer problem could be s olved. Karen was given Mucorhicin first through a tubeThe factor must already be in the human in her nose. Her second dose was given orally.body and in animal bodies, because occasion-

She began to improve at once and slowly, gradu-ally spontaneous recoveries occur. What could ally she came back to life until about eightbe this natural defense, this natura l control? months later, she could sit in a wheel chair andUnfortunately, neither physician gave much atthe paralysis affected only one arm which con-tention to nutrition, but the outc ome of their work tinues to improve.was still remarkable. Today Karen is fifteen. She is blind, for theWhen World War II burst upon Europe, Dr. cancer had destroyed her sight before Mucor-Durovic joined the Yugoslav army, wa s captured

--------------------------------------- 73 Specific Systems of Treatment73 by the Nazis, and imprisoned for 18 months incame to mind that perhaps he had no t been giving Italy. While there, he reasoned that there must bea powerful enough jolt to the body defenses, in a substance which could induce rapid, uncon-order to produce the growth factor i n recoverable trolled growth in animals; which, in turn, shouldamounts. set up the body defenses against the unregu-But what foreign bodies would produc e the lated growth.fastest growth? Bacteria? viruses? Perhaps it would Meanwhile, Steven s older brother, Marco whobe a fungus; he recalled his work back in Paris. had also been captured, was able to arrange helpThen one day as he was half dozi ng, he rethrough wealthy friends in Rome. Freed, they allcalled the rich fields of his an cestral farmlands, fled to Argentina.and cows and horses grazing there. Then the With the remnants of his fortune, Marco un-thought flashed into mind: Among his father s derwrote his brother s initial experiments. Stevenhorses and cows, sometimes there had appeared was certain there was a growth-regulating factora strange disease. It began as a tiny growth, usuin the body. It was well-known that any animalally on the side of the neck or ja w. Within a few tissue grown artificially multiplied indefinitely, asweeks, the growth would bur geon into a huge tulong as there was nourishment for the cells. It ismor. The horse would become ve ry sick and die, true that they grow slowly, but there was no growthbut some would recover and th e tumor would toregulation governing them. These same tissues,tally disappear. inside the body, maintained an orderly growthThis thought was the moment of brea kthrough. pattern. What caused the miracle of growth regu-Surely, this was one of the fast est-growing livlation?ing forms of animal tissue. When the horse re(Later researchers demonstrated a growth-covered, something in the horse halted the rapid regulating factor. Tissues of an adult frog weregrowth by killing the invading c ells. And all

placed within a tadpole, and the tadpole immedi-this was done in a matter of wee ks! ately stopped growing. The growth-stoppage fac-Checking into this, Durovic found that the tor, in the adult tissues, were stronger than thegrowth was caused by a fungus, Actinomyces growth-stimulant factors in the tadpole. Similarbovis, commonly known as lumpy ja w. effects have been observed in cockroaches andImmediately, he switched to horses and evencaterpillars.)tually had injected hundreds of horses with exBut Durovic was searching, not for an anti-tracts of Actinomyces. Their blood ha d yielded growth element, but an anti-abnormal growth sub-about a half-teaspoon of a whiti sh powder he stance.believed was the growth-control regulator for A related problem would be how to get the ani-which he was searching. mal to produce this growth-regulating factor. Ap-The average yield from a horse was so small parently not by injecting with cancer tissue. Thatthat it was almost invisible, yet it was so potent had been tried repeatedly by many earlier research-that it could protect the hun dreds of pounds of a ers, in an attempt to produce antibodies againsthorse from a foreign growth with in his body. cancer. Such efforts generally met with failure.Strangely enough, some horses yi elded nothDuring his early years in Buenos Aires, Durovicing while others were relatively rich producers of worked with cattle, injecting various substancesthe substance. into them. Then he would draw blood, hoping toTrying out the substance on old do gs with natufind a defense substance which had been pro-ral cancers, Durovic found the cance rs shrank noduced.ticeably; some even disappeared. Eventually, he came across a substance, stimu-Independent tests, done by friends at the lated by the reticuloendothelial system (a body de-School of Veterinary Medicine , University of fense mechanism) which, although ineffectiveBuenos Aires, confirmed his work. against cancer, tended to lower high blood pres-By this time he was ready to go to the United sure.States, where he could have both his anti-cancer Naming it Kositerin, he tried it on 150 patientsand his high blood pressure subs tances tested furat the Durand Hospital. Since his brother s fundsther. were nearly exhausted, they welcomed the help ofSealing 500 ampules, each contai ning a tiny a group of businessmen who wanted to sponsorfraction of the mysterious substance , he said goodthe work, in order to reap profits from the forth-bye to his brother, boarded a plane and flew to coming medicine.Chicago, known to be an important medical cenWhile still testing the substance, his thoughtster. turned back to the cancer research. The thoughtDurovic had another reason for go ing to Chi-

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74Alternate Cancer Remedies cago; he wanted to meet Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, one ofDurovic requested that Kositeri n testing be the most prominent physicians in America.sidelined for a while and Krebiozen be tested. When Durovic had recently discovered a paper by Ivy onIvy heard about the Argentinian results so far, he a theory behind cancer formation, which agreedwas deeply interested, and inquire d how it was remarkably with his own.made. But Durovic said he could not say, since business interests were involved. This caused Ivy During World War II, Andrew C. Ivy, M.D., had been chosen by the government to set up the vastto hesitate. Naval Medical Research Institute at Bethesda,So Durovic told him part of the inf ormation: More than two grams of Kositerin had been exMaryland. During World War II, he had been se-tracted from a comparatively small number of lected by the American Medical Association s Board of Trustees and the U.S. Government, to repre-cattle; and Krebiozen, of which th ere were only sent the allied governments in the trials of Ger-two grams, had been extracted i n a similar manner from many hundreds of horses. man medical men. On his return from Europe, he accepted a position as vice-president of the Uni-Even though the formula was sec ret, Ivy deversity of Illinois, and in charge of its huge medi-cided that he would go ahead with the experimentation, but do it privately through physician friends cal school. Powerfully built, Ivy was a man of ut-rather than through the Univer sity Medical School. most integrity, courage, and determination. If he believed a cause was right, he had the personalityThe rest of the story has fill ed entire books of a bulldog in carrying it through.(including K-Krebiozen Key to Cancer? and A Matter of Life or Death, both by Herbert Bailey). Ivy also believed, and had written, that if theKrebiozen is derived from Greek w ords which uncontrolled growth of cancer could be surmounted, the disease could be conquered.mean that which regulates growth. Tests on humans were begun and the results When Durovic landed at the Chicago airport,were astounding. Many recoveries occu rred. Then he was in a strange land and could not speak athe American Medical Association, following a curword of English. At the airport, he was met by twosory meeting or two, denounced Krebiozen as useChicago businessmen, Edwin Moore and Kennethless in a report released through it s Journal. Ivy Brainard, Moore s brother-in-law.quickly found his closest medical friends separat The men were kind to him and Brainard spokeing from him. French, which Durovic knew well. They offered toThe extent of the problem can be gleaned from fund his work, if he would sign over certain rightsthe fact that, on March 15, 1 954, ten dying pato his work.tients who had received Krebiozen and later had But, somehow, amid all the dickering, an as-been certified in the AMA report as

dead wrote a pect of confusion arose. Durovic was willing to signletter to the chairman of th e Krebiozen Investigatover Kositerin for high blood pressure, but noting Committee, that they were ali ve and in excelKrebiozen for cancer. Yet they were his transla-lent health. tors, and so became involved in Krebiozen also.A great variety of events and cou nter-events We will not here give much attention to this mat-followed; far too many to relat e here. Cancer pater, except to say that Brainard and Moore weretients, who had been healed, test ified. The whole later to give Durovic a lot of trouble when theyaffair was in the public press t hroughout the nademanded full distribution rights to the substance.tion, generally with Ivy not appearing in a very good light. Charges and counter-charges were made. It was the summer of 1949, and Durovic came to see Dr. Ivy. As soon as he heard about the bio-Moore and Brainard stirred up trouble. logic rationale of Kositerin, Ivy agreed to test it.Even close physician friends who had carried out favorable experiments with Krebiozen retracted Shortly afterward, Durovic received word from Dr. Da Grana, back in Buenos Aires, who had justand said it was useless. Andrew C. Ivy was fired completed some key testing of Krebiozen on dogs.from the University; and, in 195 4, Dr. George D. It was an astounding success against the cancers,Stoddard, president of the Univ ersity was discharged for not separating quickly enough from and had even cleared up the cataracts on six of the dog s eyes; they could see again!Ivy. Durovic felt he was now ready to speak to An-Eventually, Durovic s small supply of Krebiozen ran out especially after he and Ivy discovdrew C. Ivy about Krebiozen. On an August afternoon, as always accompanied by Moore andered that they had not been giving large enough Brainard, he held a conference with Ivy in his of-doses to the patients. When th at was done, the fice of the vice president.recovery rate became much higher but the ampules were more rapidly used up.

--------------------------------------- 75 Specific Systems of Treatment75 Dr. Ivy had to do something; the patientstracted. Testing it on mice, it signifi cantly retarded needed help, and soon there would be no morethe development of cancer in mice, b red to deKrebiozen. He cared nothing for politics, salaries,velop and always die of cance r. or reputation; the patients must be helped, or theyTesting the substance on six far-advanced canwould die!cer patients, half of them were benefited to a Durovic recognized that Ivy was one of his onlymarked degree. One woman with can cer of the

true friends; but he felt that Duga, in Argentina,breast with widespread metasta ses, became canowned the copyright on Krebiozen. Certain thatcer-free and symptom-free and rema ined so. anyone could figure out the process, Ivy set aboutAmid the harassment, the extra ction of to do just that.Krebiozen from horses and the treatment of canActually, the procedure was not difficult. Withcer continued. Gradually, with th e passing of years, the help of a friend, Paul Joost of Marengo, Illi-a nice collection of case reco rds of Krebiozen had nois (a dog food manufacturer who let Ivy obtainbeen accumulating; and Ivy and D urovic had hoped samples from his horses), Ivy initially proved thatthat, eventually, enough data would be amassed blood from any horse could be used to produceto prove Krebiozen to be worthwhile . Krebiozen! not just the sick ones!Then, on June 7, 1963, the new Kefauver drug Another friend, Howard Hays, offered to fundlaw went into effect. Enacted in the aftermath of the entire venture of obtaining the substance. Joostthe thalidomide crisis, the pregnancy tranquilizer purchased 40 horses for Dr. Ivy and put them onwhich caused dreadful birth defor mities, it zeroed his farm in Marengo.in on experimental drugs. One of the complaints of the critics was thatImmediately, the FDA descended on D r. the substance was secret or nonexistent, andDurovic with repeated investigations. Af ter 48 of that it could not be produced. Ivy determined tothem, Durovic gave up and withdr ew his drug approve them wrong, as well as obtain the substanceplication and filed suit agains t the FDA, to stop for the patients.the harassment. Withdrawal of the new drug auThe official position was that Krebiozen wastomatically stopped interstate shipm ents of Kreworthless, yet now the opposition set out to makebiozen, so cancer patients taki ng the drug had to sure no Krebiozen would be obtained from thosecome to Illinois. Fearful of what was going to haphorses.pen next, they organized themselves into an orgaJoost was told, by an official of the Illinois Statenization, called Cancer Surv ivors on Krebiozen. Department of Agriculture, that the horses whichThen they petitioned Congress, h eld rallies in variwere being experimented with, could not thereaf-ous cities and a March on Washin gton, and pickter be sold for food even dog food. This wouldeted the White House. really hurt Joost s business income.On September 7, 1963, the FDA announced Yet the horses were treated with killed ac-that Krebiozen was nothing but creatine , a fairly tinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw), and the state hadcommon body chemical which was use less against always routinely allowed horses with active casescancer. of lumpy jaw to be sold for human consumption.At the same time, it announced tha t it was conThen Joost was told, by rendering plants, thatsidering criminal charges against Durovic and Ivy. they would no longer accept the animals. Then heOn October 16, at a large press conference,

was called to appear before the Illinois State Di-HEW special assistant announce d that Krebiozen s rector of Agriculture to answer a list of fifty com-records on 504 patients, by s everal hundred docplaints for various violations. He was told that hetors, proved it was utterly wo rthless. had broken all the laws and regulations of theWithin a week or two, a National Con gress on Division of Foods, Dairies, and Standards of theQuackery was held, during which the president of State of Illinois. On and on it went.the AMA denounced Krebiozen as the greatest It was at this time that Joost s associate,fraud of the 20th century. Burnside, received an anonymous telephone call.Amid all the fighting and counter -fighting, Get Joost to get rid of those plugs and all yourSenator Paul H. Douglas of Illino is stood up in troubles will be over. I know what I m talkingdefense of Krebiozen. He had his chi ef assistant, about. Then the line went dead.Howard Shuman, organize a careful appraisal of Much, much more could be said. As the weeksthe FDA and NCI findings. Shuman was an expert of harassment continued, the researchers wereat getting what he wanted; and he m anaged to obfinding that the substance was eliminating can-tain confidential FDA interoffice memoranda, by cers on the horses hoofs. A brownish-white sub-scientists, on Krebiozen. Shuman a lso contacted stance, which resembled Krebiozen, was ex-the independent laboratories which had for years

--------------------------------------- 76 76Alternate Cancer Remedies run analyses on Krebiozen for Dr. Durovic.we will delay consideration of it unti l later in this On December 5, 1963, all this data (24 pagesbook. of it), favorable in the extreme to Krebiozen, was ______________ ______ published in the Congressional Record and re-SAMUEL BEALE, M.D., leased to the news media. On all counts, the facts SERGE A. KOROLJOW, M.D., 1950s were devastating. Note to researchers: This is an intriguing discovery, and Miles Robinson, M.D., who signed this 24-pagedeserves additional study. report, concluded with these words: Working Summary: It is rather surprising that so many Finally, we must firmly keep in mind thatdifferent approaches can provide cancer remission. Because the the principal objective of the doctors and pa-cancer cell has such a strong crav ing for sugar, one would not tients who have observed the effects of Kre-expect that insulin injections would destroy cancer tissue! biozen is to secure a fair clinical test for theDr. Beale, of Sandwich, Massachu setts, was drug under the auspices and extensive facilitreating a near-gangrenous infection of the toe in a ties of the government, so that the results will63-year-old patient, and found t hat the patient was

be conclusive. It is estimated that such a test slightly diabetic. When he began insulin injections, would not take more than a few months, nor he found the toe improved dramatically, as well as require over $75,000 of the 454 million dollarsthe diabetes. When the patient s di et was changed, spent by the National Cancer Institute on such the insulin was no longer needed, but the toe betests each year. The NCI tests approximately 24,000 newcame worse. Beale began using small doses of insulin for substances on animals and 100 on humans evhealing ulcers and other serious skin breaks, with ery year. Practically all of these substances are highly toxic, and by their very nature offer nono dangerous side effects. Then h e began treating cancer cases, ranging from minor skin cancer to real promise in cancer. cancers of the eye and breast. Krebiozen represents an entirely new and unique approach and everyone admits it is non-It is believed that the reaction c aused by the insulin was increased oxidation. As the cell toxic . . It is high time that these people halt the lucrative parade of poisons pouring into can-burned more oxygen, it had more ene rgy. Since cer research and into cancer patients, and paycancer cells lack oxygen, this bur ning may someattention to Krebiozen and the unique approachhow have weakened those cells. it represents. Oddly enough, diabetics are no more likely In November 1966, Ivy and Durovic and theirthan others to develop cancer, yet th ey have less group were indicted on 49 counts for violations ofinsulin. the FDA Act, mail fraud, making false statementsSeveral years later, Serge A. Ko roljow, M.D., a to the government, mislabeling, and conspiracy.New Jersey physician, reported on his use of inNine months later the case was heard, with 121sulin in treating cancer (Psychiat ric Quarterly, government witnesses, 57 defense witnesses, 700April, 1963). Koroljow reported t hat, in Germany, exhibits (literally weighing a ton) and 20,000 pagesinsulin is used routinely in the treatment of canof court testimony.cer. On January 30-31, 1966, the jury found allIn Russia, the insulin treatment is us ed even parties innocent. Immediately, Durovic left themore extensively. One Russian rep ort described country. Despite the verdict, in late 1966 federal16 cancer patients treated wit h insulin. Four law prohibited the shipment of Krebiozen acrossrecovered completely, 10 had temp orary remisstate lines.sion of 3-6 months, and 2 showed no change. Ivy was now alone, and so he changed the nameAccording to Koroljow, insulin ther apy for from the commercial name, Krebiozen, tocancer is regularly used in Italy, Spain, and Carcalon. His organization was Ivy Cancer Re-South America. search Foundation. He continued to treat patients with the substance, which, by this time, he was _________________

___ deriving from both cow and horse plasma.EVANGELOS D. DANOPOULOS, M.D., The battle continued on for years; but, even1957 tually Krebiozen s defenders retired, left the counNote to researchers: The Danopoulos method has been try, or died off. And that was the end of that. widely researched already, so it should not be difficult to reproduce these favorable results. In the 1950s, another substance (laetrile) wasWorking Summary: This was the seco nd of three purified beginning to gain slight attention. Because the con-urine factor methods of trea ting cancer. troversy over it erupted later and continues today,

--------------------------------------- 77 Specific Systems of Treatment77 For thousands of years, natives have used urine to treat disease. In the early 1950s, Dr. Danopou______________ ______ los, a Greek physician, found that it had anti-canL.A. ERF, M.D., and B.J. MILLER, M.D., cer properties. Trying to isolate the specific factor 1957 which was the active agent, he found it was urea. Note to researchers: It should not be difficult to carry out Urea is the end product of protein metabonutrition experiments, supplemented by ongoing microscopy lism and is the primary substance excreted in examination, to see if the Erf-Miller thesis was correct. urine.Working Summary: The Erf-Miller theory does not solve Of course, all the urine research carried onall the problems, and was probably n ot accurate. Cancer cells are the result of inadequate nutrition and toxic wastes. by Danopoulos and others used purified, sterilized extracts; they did not use raw urine. UreaDrs. Erf and Miller of Jefferson Medical Colis not urine.lege and Hospital, Philadelphia, in an article in Danopoulos injected 2-3 ml of a 50-percentGP (the journal of the American Academ y of Genurea solution directly into the mass of a fast-grow-eral Practice) for April 195 7, set forth a new theory ing tumor, which showed good results. But heof the origin of cancer. found that he did better by injecting the urea veryAfter considerable research w ork, they conclose to the tumor.cluded that cancer cells are cells which have The urea must be injected into and close tonot matured. If the proper materials are present, the tumor itself.every human cell will fully mature and do the A research study in India reported as much asfunction it is designed to do. 75% reduction in inoperable cancer of the uterineBut if maturant substances are no t precervix by means of injections of 40% urea solu-sent, these immature cells will c ontinue to grow tion directly into the tumor, along with a localizedand divide all the while remai ning immature. application of a 50% urea ointment (G.M. Gandhi,For example, in pernicious anemi

a, there are et. al, Urea in the Management of Advanced Ma-many immature red blood cells. Ther efore, the palignancies, Journal of Surgical Oncology, 9:139-tient can die from a lack of matu re red blood cells. 46, 1977).Vitamin B solves the problem, enabling the cells 12 In the case of liver cancer, urea is best takento properly mature. orally. It reaches the liver directly from the intes-In leukemia and myeloma, tw o forms of cantines via the portal vein in a high enough concen-cer, there is an abnormal prod uction of immature tration to be of significant value.red blood cells invading the bone marrow, liv er, The outer surface of tumor cells have a spe-lymph, lungs, kidneys, etc. They tak e up room, cial type of chemical which enables them to morebut do not do what red blood cel ls are supposed easily enlarge and bond with other cells. The re-to do. sult is a structured water matrix surrounding can-These physicians wrote that, b oth in B defi12 cer cells, which enables them to crowd togetherciency and in cancer, under a mic roscope increasand excrete and absorb chemicals in abnormalingly immature red blood cells are s een. They beways.lieved that proper nutrition would enable all cells University of Illinois Medical Center research-to mature properly. ers found that urea injections disrupt this water matrix, and interferes with the processes needed ________________ ____ for continued uncontrolled cellular growth LAWRENCE BURTON, Ph.D., 1959 (Clinical Oncology, 3:319-320, 1977). They disNote to researchers: Burton developed, what he called, rupted it with a 40% urea solution, injected diimmuno-Augmentive Therapy, by injecting various blood prodrectly into the tumor mass and into the area suructs into cancer patients to stimulate the immune system. Isorounding it.lating the fractions of blood serum could be a special hurdle in The normal injection dosage varies fromseeking to replicate his work. But it sho uld be attempted anyway. The interaction of tumor antibodies (IgG gamma globulin, 10% to 50% urea, depending on the type of tisplus related IgA and IgM proteins), with de-blocking factors (such sue. These injections can produce a burning senas alpha-2-macroglobulin) and tumor complement, could prosation (because urea is an acid), but injections ofvide a needed breakthrough. a local anesthetic can prevent this.Working Summary: Burton s formula is indeed in triguing. He claimed to only use four blood proteins to produce cancer The usual oral dosage (for liver tumors) is remission. His clinic is still operating today in the Bahamas. 12 to 15 gm daily, given in divided doses. It can be placed in capsules or dissolved in juice.Born in the Bronx in 1926, Dr. B urton obtained Danopoulos has given up to 30 gm daily in casesa doctorate at New York Universit y in 1955. of very large liver tumors.In the mid-1950s, Burton and an associate

--------------------------------------- 78 78Alternate Cancer Remedies (Frank Friedman, Ph.D.) extracted a factor fromwith large, bulging tumors and in jected them with the larvae of fruit flies which induced tumors inwhat he called a de-blocking age nt. An hour later, noncancerous insects. He then did research workthe skeptical audience gathered a round and saw at Cal Tech, New York University, and St. Vincent sthe tumors nearly gone. In a co uple more hours, Hospital, where he was a senior investigator inthey were completely gone. the Hodgkin s Disease Research Laboratory.Reporters suddenly rushed from the room and In the late 1950s, he was back in New Yorkmanned the phone banks. Banner headlin es in Los with Friedman again, and they worked with oth-Angeles read 15-Minute Cancer Cure for Mice: ers at St. Vincent s in extracting a tumor-inhibit-Humans Next? (Burton later claim ed that the ing factor from fruit flies. Oddly enough, the pur-American Cancer Society recei ved an additional pose of the research was not to find an anti-can-$4 million from the public for cancer research, cer agent, but to develop a method of speedingfollowing that announcement.) cancer experiments and thus save money.The demonstration was repeated the next y ear Then they extended these findings to mice. Us-at the New York Academy of Medicin e meeting. But ing similar techniques, they extracted a factorat both meetings, many scientists denounced it as from mouse blood which caused long-term re-a fraud of some kind. mission of cancer in mice. Burton reported on itIn later years, it was said that Burton refused in June 1959.to publish his findings. Yet he did do so from 1956 The research team was utterly astonished!to 1962; but, in 1963, medical journals refused Within hours, the animals cancers would begin toto accept them, so he stopped try ing. disappear! According to Rottino s later (1978) re-By the early 1970s, Burton and F riedman had port, the research was new, original, and dramatic.developed a theory to explain what took place. TuIn each case, the cancer would eventually re-mor antibodies (IgG gamma globulin, plus return but the fact that, for a time, it would dimin-lated IgA and IgM proteins) had interacted with ish seemed astounding. They then used some ofde-blocking [unblocking] factors (s uch as alphathat factor from mouse blood and applied it, in2-macroglobulin) and tumor comple ment. vitro, to human cancer and it shrunk downBurton gave it the name, Immuno-Augmenalso.tative Therapy (IAT). This factor consisted of four proteins whichIn 1975, Burton was offered an oppor tunity to they had isolated in both mouse and humantest his method on humans. So he and Fr iedman blood. These substances they called de-block-left St. Vincent s and founded the Im

munology Reing protein (DP), tumor antibody 1 (TA1), tu-search Foundation at Great Neck, Ne w York. mor antibody 2 (TA2), and tumor complementFor a brief period, it appeared that t he Bur(TC). Burton claimed that, when used in theton-Friedman technique might be accep ted. That right combination, these four substances couldsame year, there was talk of test trials taking place restore the normal immune function in cancersoon. But they never began. patients.Apparently, Burton had a hot temper, and isAlmost immediately, the Sloan-Kettering Insti-sued strong comments regarding var ious develtute sent men to see them. When the researchersopments. Finally, disgruntled wit h the pressure at St. Vincent s turned down their requests to signfrom official agencies, Burton quit in 1977; he contracts, all public and private research grantmoved to the Bahamas and establi shed a researchmoney to the hospital was suddenly terminated.treatment center on the ground of the Rand HosThe St. Vincent s team switched from leuke-pital, Grand Bahamas. mic mice to animals with spontaneous breast can-After setting up practice in the Bahamas, with cers. Injecting their mouse-derived tumor-inhibit-a physician assistant, Burton claimed to be having factor into animals with rock-hard breast tu-ing good success. But his patie nts were all from mors, they watched in amazement as the growthsoverseas, and he did no follow-up studies, nor become soft, spongy, and disappeared within a daybothered to issue ongoing writt en reports of any or two.kind. He was able to be a law to himself since the One individual who witnessed the cancer re-government loved the way he was bring ing in so ductions, Patrick McGrady, controlled the selec-many tourist dollars. He did not have to report to tion list for the ACS Science Writers Seminar, andanyone. invited Burton and Friedman to Phenix for theBut he did later claim that, of the 186 patients March meeting.earlier treated in Great Neck between 1974 and In front of prominent scientists and reporters1977, 30 (16%) had what he termed m iracle refrom across the nation, Burton picked up four micemissions they exhibited no sign of cancer. Some

--------------------------------------- 79 Specific Systems of Treatment79 80 others experienced tumor regression, and thereAmerica were slightly tainted w ith HIV at the time, was at least a partial stoppage of tumor growth inyet none of them were closed d own.) 60% of those treated. Only 8 of the 186 were notBurton died in 1993, but his Imm uno-Augmendeemed terminally ill, at the time of treatmenttative Therapy is still available a t the clinic he with Burton s method.founded in Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.

Regarding his work in the Bahamas, JohnGustavo Andrade, M.D., of Tijuana, Mexico , is Beaty, M.D., of the Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich,another physician who has had extensive clinical Connecticut, who also taught medicine at Colum-experience using the IAT method. bia University, sent 20 advanced patients to Bur-According to reports from patie nts, Burton s ton.therapy is essentially nontoxic and without side Beaty later told science writer Robert Hous-effects. ton that 10 of the 20 underwent tumor regression.Burton s patients are taught to s elf-adminisAll ten owe their very survival to Dr. Burton s treat-ter their injections. The dos age amount (which can ment . . They also showed tumor shrinkage, appe-vary from two to twelve) is dete rmined by comtite improvement, weight gain, and loss of pain puter, based on a daily blood anal ysis. (Robert Houston, The Burton Syndrome, OurImmuno-Augmentative Therapy Center P.O. Town, April 22, 1979).Box F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph: (809) When a prominent Israeli researcher sought352-7455 to duplicate Burton s methods in the late 1960s,IAT Patients Support Group Mr. Frank Burton and Friedman refused to send him instruc-Wiewel, P.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50 569-0010 Ph: tions for isolating the fractions of blood serum (515) 972-4444 the key step in the whole process, and the oneSources for Immuno-augmentative su pmost difficult to arrive at empirically. Burton splies Immuno-Augmentative Therapy C entre, P.O. response: What if something went wrong? We dBox F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph: (809) be hung without a trial. 352-7455, or / People Against Cancer, P.O. Box 10, In the summer of 1978, Burton asked Dr.Otho, IA 50569-0010 Ph: (515) 972-4444 Arthur Upton, the new National Cancer Institute director, to work with him. Wealthy sponsors would ______________ ______ put up $1 million for Burton to treat 1,000 paWALTER BLUMER, M.D., 1961 tients. These would be chosen by NCI as very adNote to researchers: An extensive number of research studvanced cases, sent to the Bahamas for treatment, ies were conducted in Switzerland, which indicated that chelaand afterward returned to NCI for examination. tion therapy would be a useful adjunct to cancer prevention and NCI rejected the offer, declaring that Burton neededtherapy. Additional confirma tory studies are needed. first to send them reports on all his cases, to date.Working Summary: Chelation therapy is the systematic removal of heavy metals (such as lead, mercury, nickel) from the Ignoring them, Burton went back to work. NCI body, thus reducing the likelihood that cancer will develop. was probably glad he did. But so much success was occurring that, inBeginning in 1958, a lengthy research study was conducted in Switzerland on 231 adults which July 1985, NCI and several other U.S. health agencies, talked the Bahamian government into clos-lived in areas with a higher than average cancer ing down Burton s clinic. Government leaders weremortality rate. (It is of interes t that those areas were homes along heavily traveled highways.

told that blood products everywhere were contaminated with AIDS, and therefore Burton s workPeople living in traffic-free areas ha d a lower (which used four proteins from blood) must becancer rate!) These individuals also had a higher incidence stopped. Near the beginning of the present book (in theof headaches, fatigue, nervous dis orders, gaschapter entitled, Alternative Remedies and Con-trointestinal problems, depression , and substance abuse. gress ), you learned that the closing of the Burton Clinic so enraged wealthy U.S. patients that theyThe researchers suspected that th eir higher got Congress to eventually pass a law setting upexposure to lead from car exhaus ts might be the cause of the problems. an organization to carry on research into alternative cancer treatments.In 1961, 59 of these people were given 10 or As for Burton s clinic, it was a short-lived vic-more EDTA chelation treatments pl us vitamins C and B, while another 172 persons, untreated, tory for U.S. medical interests. In February 1986,1 the clinic reopened. (What NCI had not initiallyserved as a control group. told the Bahamian government was that all theOver the following 18 years, follow -up studies were conducted by Dr. Walter Blumer of Nestal, blood banks and hospital blood supplies in

--------------------------------------- 80 80Alternate Cancer Remedies Switzerland, which revealed that only one of thecancer and the aging process (D. Harman, Role 59 treated patients died of cancer (1.7%), com-of Free Radicals in Mutation, Can cer, and Aging, pared with 30 deaths (17.6%) from cancerand the Maintenance of Life, Radiation Re search, among the nontreated subjects. This is equiva-16:753-60, 1962). lent to a 90% reduction in cancer mortality. (InIn the years since, many studies have been conaddition, Blumer found that death from athero-ducted by others which confirmed a nd advanced sclerosis hardening of the arteries was also re-these findings. duced.) For more on this, see W. Blumer, M.D.,Certain factors in the body (espec ially vitaand E.M. Cranton, M.D., Ninety percent Reduc-min C, vitamin E, selenium, and beta -carotene) tion in Cancer Mortality after Chelation Therapycan block the action of common c arcinogens. with EDTA, in A Textbook on EDTA ChelationElsewhere in this present book, each of these facTherapy, ed. E.M. Cranton, M.D. Also seetors will be covered in detail. But it w as Harman s Journal of Advancement in Medicine 2, Nos. 1-2,basic research which uncovered th e entire field of 1989, 183-188.study. What is chelation (key-LAY-shun)? It a methodDrs. S. Levine and P. Kidd greatly

advanced of ridding the body of unnecessary and toxicthe study of the field by gathering together a wide metals. By removing toxic metal ions, it reducesvariety of findings in their 198 4 book, Antioxidant internal inflammation caused by free radicals.Biochemical Adaptation: Doorways t o the New This reduces the discomfort and disability fromScience and Medicine. degenerative diseases such as arthritis, sclero-It is now known that free radica ls can both derma. It helps reverse gangrene, alleviates inter-initiate and promote cancer, and that antioximittent claudication (cramps) of the legs, restoresdant nutrients are very usefu l in preventing and memory, and significantly reduces serum choles-treating malignancies. terol.The ability of the antioxidant nutrients to There are many oral chelators, such as gar-enhance the immune system and fight c ancer lic, vitamin C, carrageenan, zinc, and certainis greater when they are all prese nt in the body. amino acids like cysteine and methionine. ForListing them once again, they are: vitamin C, example, cysteine is very effective in removingvitamin E, selenium, and beta-car otene. nickel toxicity.Another powerful antioxidant will also be disBy 1948, the U.S. Navy began using EDTA tocussed later in this book: nordihydrog uaiaretic treat lead poisoning. Aspirin has been found to beacid (KDGA), the most powerful ingredient in 3 times more toxic than EDTA.chaparral. KDGA was first discovered in 1942 and The chelation method, primarily used by phy-used during World War II to preserve b utter, fats, sicians, is EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid)and oils in the tropics. and is given by intravenous infusion. Over 500,000 patients have received it during the past 40 years. _____________ _______ However, no drug firm will bother with it, since ORLANDO DEI SANTI, M.D., 1960s the patent on EDTA has expired. Therefore, it continues to be ignored by orthodox medicine andNote to researchers: Studies should be carried out to determine how to produce the best results from this herb, yet withthe American Medical Association.out inducing slow blood clotting. Working Summary: Pau d arco has become an important ____________________home remedy for cancer in many countries. It is cheap and easily obtainable. DENHAM HARMAN, PH.D., 1962 In the early 1960s, an old-time folk remedy Note to researchers: The function of the four leading anti-used for centuries in the Amazon basin of Brazil, oxidants, as well as the search for additional natural ones, should be carried out. Additional forms of free radicals should be as-was given yet aga in but this time a physician certained.heard about it. Working Summary: Harmon s research was basic to manyDr. Santi learned about a girl which was treated studies carried out by others in later years. His work has been afor cancer by h er aunt with a bagful of tree bark. great help in explaining why certain food factors are so valuable

in the treatment of malignancies.It was pau d arco. This is the inner bark of the Tabebuia genus (also called Lapacho). The sciDr. Denham Harman carried out landmark reentific name for the tree is Tabeluia cassearch into free radicals into the late 1950s; and,sinoides. Indians used to fas hion the wood into in 1962, he began releasing his findings to the bows, and pau d arco was Spanish for bow scholarly world. He had discovered that free radi-stick. cals are implicated in both the formation of The girl was in terrible pain with advanced

--------------------------------------- 81 Specific Systems of Treatment81 cancer, and the pau d arco eliminated the cancer.made in the diet. Naessens theory was that additional nitrogen So Santi took some back home to Sao Paulowould strengthen the body to overcome t he cancer. and treated his brother with it. He did it, usingDr. Naessens was a Frenchman wh o, in the the formula he had been taught by the natives:1950s, developed a treatment for l eukemia. He He boiled the bark in grape juice, and thencalled it Anablast. His treatment ang ered certain mixed it with orange juice. Then he had hisFrench government agencies, and he wa s forced brother drink it on an empty stomach. As simpleto leave. Settling first in Corsi ca, and then in as that.French Quebec, Canada, he developed a microSoon the cancer was gone.scope that was said to have a much better resoluThen another Brazilian physician, Prats Ruiz,tion than regular microscopes. Like Rife and Grereported the successful treatment of three casesgory, using it, Naessens made so me unusual disof leukemia with pau d arco tea (A. De Mont-coveries. morency, Spotlight, June 8, 1981).He claimed to have found somatids or elThe wood had first been noted by researchersementary particles endowed with move ment and because it had anti-malaria factors. This is due topossessing a variable life cy cle of many forms. the fact that its most active ingredient, lapachone,Rife had also found that som e very small life forms is a quinone-like NDGA the same active ingre-could change shape, in accordance wit h healthful dient in chaparral (nordihydroguaiaretic acid).or unhealthful conditions in the body. (See the secLapachone is generally called lapachol.tion, later in this book, entitled Pleomo rphisms.) Early tests revealed lapachol was effectiveBut Naessens went a step further: He claimed against leukemia. It has been theorized thatthat the change began when inanimate particles lapachol is such a powerful anti-cancer factorwere transformed into living cells . This, of course, because it interferes with normal cellular en-could not be true. Louis Pasteur h ad disproved ergy production and normal cellular respirationthe theory of spontaneous generati

on decades within the tumor. Because cancers grow so fast,earlier. Only life from life is a t ruism which will they waste away when their energy source isnever be violated. All living forms c ome from livremoved.ing forms, which ultimately came from God at Keep in mind that Lapachol is not pau d arco,Creation. but an extraction of its most active chemicalNaessens eventually produced a chem ical compound. Lapachol has been found to dan-compound, consisting of camphor and nit rogerously slow blood clotting (by interfering withgen. He said that, when this wa s injected into vitamin K metabolism), when given in largethe lymph system of cancer patents, it would enough doses to kill tumors. It also causes ane-bring nitrogen to cancer cells thu s eliminatmia. A safe dosage of lapachol has not been de-ing them. termined because of the anemia and slowed clot-His treatment, which Naessens cal ls 714X, ting produced.consists of three consecutive series of 21 days But the natural form, pau d arco tea, ap-of injections of nitrogen-rich camphor an d orpears to have no severe side effects. However,ganic salts directly into the lymp hatic system. keep in mind that the tea has not been studiedNaessens says he developed it when he obextensively. This is because an herb tea cannot beserved that cancer cells requi re and use up a patented and therefore sold at a great profit. Solot of nitrogen, often stealing it from healthy only common folk want to bother with it.cells. In order to do this, he says, can cer cells The treatment used in Brazil, by the nation-excrete a poisonous compound called co-canals, for cancer and other diseases is this: Theycerogenic K factor (CKF), which paralyzes the take 1 or more 8-ounce glasses of pau d arcoimmune system, allowing the cancer cel ls to tea each day.draw the needed nitrogen from the healthy cells. According to his theory, while the 714X ni____________________trogen is feeding the cancer cells, the pois onous K factor is not being excreted by them, GASTON NAESSENS, M.D., 1950s and the immune system is able to recover itself Note to researchers: Naessens injections of nitrogen-richand attack and destroy t he cancer cells. camphor and organic salts, directly into the lymphatic system, were said to have produced positive results in treating leuke-He also maintains that, injecting the 714X mia. Additional research should be carried out, in order to ob-into the lymph sy stem liquefies the lymph, tain the most definitive results.so it can more easily flush out toxins. He clai ms Working Summary: One would not expect that nitrogen714X has no known side effect s, and that it can alone could accomplish so much. No nutritional changes were also be used as an adjunct to other treatments.

--------------------------------------- 82 82Alternate Cancer Remedies Naessens believes, as do many other scien-0.50 ml. tists, that some cells in the body develop can-714X Centre d Orthobiologie, Somatidi enne cerous characteristics everyday. If the immunede l Estrie (C.O.S.E.), 5270 Fontain e, Rock Forsystem can overcome them, they are eliminated.est, Quebec J1N 3B6, Canada Ph: (8 19) 564-7883 Naessens theorizes that the fermentative metabolism of cancer cells requires high levels of ni____________ ________ trogen. He says those cells are cancer traps, andH. RAY EVERS, M.D., 1960s that, as those cells are forming, they emit a subNote to researchers: Individual aspects of the Evers therapy stance, which he calls the K factor, which pro-have been said to show some success in treating cancer. What tects them from the immune system. would happen if these various aspects could be combined in a The 714X is a derivative of camphor, withtesting situation? an extra nitrogen molecule attached, and mustWorking Summary: Evers eclectic appr oach borrowed a variety of techniques from others; he apparently developed nothbe injected into the lymphatic area in the groin.ing new. Vaporizing at body temperature, it is absorbed by the lymph nodes and supplies the neededDr. Evers treatment was based on a variet y of nitrogen to keep the immune system strong. Al-factors: nutrition, hyperbaric oxy gen, the Koch vaccination, and an antioxidant chelation though most doctors and nurses do not know how to give this injection, Naessens teaches histherapy. He also used something called magnetic patients how to do it at home.field therapy. Laetrile, shark cartilage, and In May 1989, Naessens underwent a criminalother items rounded out the program, w hich, aftrial by the Quebec Medical Corporation of Physi-ter Evers death in 1990 at the a ge of 77, is carcians, but was acquitted. The problem was thatried on at his International Medic al Center in El Naessens had such a large number of documentedPaso, Texas and Jurez, Mexico, by Francisco Soto, recoveries and witnesses in abundance, the juryM.D. refused to convict him of any crime.Oddly enough, he sometimes performed biopToday his formula is still available in Canada,sies during examinations of patie nts. Mexico, and western Europe.Evers was one of the few to use a broader specOn June 8-9, 1991, an international sympo-trum of alternative cancer remedies. sium on Gaston Naessen s work was held. Over 150 scientists from many professional fields con____________________ verged in the small town of Sherbrooke, Quebec,H.L. NEWBOLD, M.D., 1960s Canada. This awakened the interest of still moreNote to researchers: The researc h of Newbold and others physicians around the world, who began usingneeds to be expanded and brought to the attention of the medi714X on their cancer patients. (See C. Bird, Thecal community at large: Vitamin A is a powerful adjunct in elimi-

Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens.)nating cancer. Working Summary: Research into vitamin A and beta-caroIt appears that there are all kinds of success-tene opened up an important avenu e of cancer treatment. The ful cancer remedies, waiting for investigation byinformation contained here is a vailable to everyone. scientific researchers. On June 24, 1993, U.S. Congressman BerkleyThe scientific community gradually aro used to the fact that vitamin A was a powerful cancer foe. Bedell, of Iowa, defended Naessens treatment before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. He attributes hisIn some respects the full awak ening still has not yet fully arrived even though a remarkable recovery from prostate cancer to 714X. Here is information on the dosage of 714X:amount of research on selected cancer topics, has shown vitamin A to be remarkably capable of overA daily injection of the serum must be made daily via the lymphatic system. It is best to givecoming the killer. Bernard Peyrilhe (1735-1804), professor of it into the right inguinal lymph node. The injection must be given very slowly, at a rate ofchemistry at the Ecole Sante and professor-royal at the College of Surgery in Paris, did in-depth 0.5 ml in 15-20 minutes. Three series of 21 injections are given, withresearch into cancer about 200 year s ago. Winner of a 1773 prize from the Academy of a 3-day rest between series (21 days, rest 3 days, 21 days, rest 3 days, 21 days). Following this,Lyon on the subject, What Is Cance r? he advocated the use of carrot juice in the treatment of booster shots are given from time to time, according to the need of the patient.cancer (!). Can you imagine, carrot juice rec ommended for cancer over 200 years ago yet, toHere is the 21-day formula: First day - 0.10 ml / second day - 0.20 ml / third day - 0.30 ml /day, few seem to be aware of it s remarkable value. Carrot juice is one of the best sources of profourth day - 0.40 ml / fifth to twenty-first day -

--------------------------------------- 83 Specific Systems of Treatment83 vitamin A, or carotene, which in the liver is con-for cancer! verted, as needed, into full vitamin A.Using this formula, the Janker Clinic in GerIn the 1920s, Japanese scientists found thatmany was able to obtain full or part ial remisstomach cancer could be produced in rats, sim-sion in 70% of the 76,000 patients it has treated ply by depriving them of vitamin A (Josephsince 1936. Hixson, Vitamin A and the Forces that Be, Harp-For some reason, the FDA banned A-m ulsin. ers, June 1976).The NCI was uninterested in it, and the ACS said In the 1930s, scientists at Cambridge, En-it was determined to keep the Janker t

echnique gland, showed that vitamin A was essential forout of the United States. proper differentiation (maturation) of epithe-In the early spring of 1976, just before an Eslial cells. It was noted that a majority of lungquire article was to be publishe d on the Janker cancers occurred when these same cells in themethod, the National Cancer Institu te suddenly bronchi failed to mature (ibid.).announced clinical trials were about to begin o n a Then, in the United States, research at Memo-vitamin A-like compound. It turned out to be, not rial Hospital in New York City showed there isvitamin A nor carrot juice, but a synthetic variant often a deficiency of this vitamin in the bloodmanufactured by the Swiss pharmac eutical giant, of cancer patients. (The same observation hasHoffmann-La Roche. Testing began in 1978, but been made for vitamin C.)not much came of it. It should be noted here that damage to theIn the 1960s, Drs. Santa Maria and Bia nchi, liver will cause a decided deficiency of vitamintwo Italian researchers, conclud ed a number of A! Thus, liver damage (or having it become over-research studies which demonstra ted that vitaloaded with toxins) can be a precursor to ma-min A had the ability to prevent ca ncer in cell lignancy somewhere in the body.and organ cultures, as well as in chemically inIn the 1960s, Umberto Saffioti, M.D., a gov-duced cancers in animals. ernment cancer researcher, found that vitamin ASince then, many subsequent studi es have coninhibited the development of lung cancer in ex-firmed their ground-breaking work . But, graduperimental hamsters. Those animals not receiv-ally, it has been discovered that beta-carotene ing the supplement developed cancer very similaris even more powerful as an anti -cancer agent. to those found in people who smoke (ibid.).Here is the story. In recent decades, some physicians have qui-Nearly 90% of all cancers affect the epitheetly begun treating their cancer patients withlial cells. These cells line the s kin, gastro-invitamin A. One prominent physician doing this,testinal tract, all body openings, and thin tisH.L. Newbold, M.D., a New York physician. (Wesues throughout the body. Beta-caro tene aids earlier noted that, a few years earlier, he had be-the body in preventing and el iminating these gun giving high doses of vitamin C to his cancercancers. patients.) He also gave them supplemental vita-Vitamin A and beta-carotene are c hemically min A.related. All the vitamin A comes from animal Newbold says that the vitamin A not onlysources (meat, eggs, milk, cheese), and all the reduces cancer tissue in his patients, but alsobeta-carotene comes from fruits a nd vegetables. increases resistance in the body to the dreadedBeta-carotene is also called provitamin A, bedisease. In both ways, it parallels and workscause it can be made into it. Actua lly, beta-caro-

closely with vitamin C.tene is just two molecules of vitamin A linked But he varies the amount according to thetogether! When the body needs more vita min condition of the patient. Keep in mind that theA, enzymes in the intestines spli t a molecule of more the liver has been damaged, the less vita-beta-carotene in half. min A can be given at a time. Some patientsThere is also another difference: Vit amin A receive as much as 200,000 IU of the vitaminis oil-soluble and can be toxic in l arge amounts daily. But, since vitamin A can be toxic, ifor if too much is stored up by the l iver. But Newbold sees signs of toxicity, he reduces thebeta-carotene is water-soluble and no known dosage. Orthodox medicine teaches that 50,000overdose toxicity exists. UP is the normal threshold for toxicity.Vitamin A is also known as retinol, and its Leave it to the Germans to figure out a moremany analogs are called retinoids. B eta-carotene efficient way to do the job. Some German canceris but one of several carotenoids b ut it is the specialists have developed a method of emulsi-most abundant and demonstrates the highest fying vitamin A (which they call A-mulsin ), sobiological activity of any of them. they can give up to 3,000,000 IU doses a dayThe first mention of vitamin A as a protection

--------------------------------------- 84 84Alternate Cancer Remedies against cancer was made in 1922 (S. Mori, Johnshas become the preferred method o f treating Hopkins Medical Bulletin, 33:357-59, 1922).cancer rather than vitamin A although b oth Studies made in 1926 in Japan confirmed this.are well-documented cancer fighters . A remarkable study, made in 1990, com-The fact that beta-carotene has no known t oxpared the cancer-fighting abilities of six anti-icity should not be overlooked. In contrast, daily oxidant nutrients on chemically induced liverhigh doses of vitamin A can damage the liver. tumors. (1) Vitamin E caused a 60% reductionThe only side effect of beta-caroten e (called in the appearance of the tumors. (2) Glutathionecarotenosis) is a yellowish-oran ge appearance caused an 80% reduction. (3) Vitamin C, sele-to the skin. But this is totally ha rmless. nium, and uric acid each caused an 87% reduc-Here is the dosage of beta-carotene : tion. (4) But beta-carotene produced a 100%The dosage of an anti-cancer substanc e, which reduction in the appearance of those liver tu-is given to a cancer patient, is a lways far higher mors (H.S. Nyandieka, et. al, Indian Journal ofthan a preventive dose taken to m aintain health Medical Research, 92:332-36, 1990).and prevent cancer. But, in the case of betacaro-

The Basel study should be noted. Conductedtene, they can be the same! Beta-carot ene is alfrom 1971 to 1973, it was the first large-scaleways perfectly safe. analysis of beta-carotene and human cancer, andA typical dosage of between 75,00 0 IU to received a twelve-year follow-up. Beta-carotene150,000 IU of beta-carotene is pr escribed for came through with flying colors (Journal of thecancer patients at clinics, using nutritional apNatinal Cancer Institute, 73:1463-68, 1984;proaches. This is equivalent to 1 or 2 capsules American Journal of Epidemiology, 133(8):766-(25,000 IU each) at each of three m eals. 75, 1991).But those who are not ill can take the same Other studies attest to the cancer-fighting abili-amount, if they wish: 75,000 I U a day, or 150,000 ties of beta-carotene (New England Journal ofIU a day. Many do, including leadin g health exMedicine, 315-1250-54, 1986; Journal of Nutri-perts who know the research findin gs on the subtion, 119:116-22, 1989).ject. Over 20 studies have been made, showing that a diet high in vitamin A and beta-carotene strongly _______________ _____ reduces the risk of developing cancer. Vitamin A increases the number of T-cells, and beta-caro-ANN WIGMORE, 1960s Note to researchers: Lab work and clinical trials needs to tene increases the number of killer (NK) cells. be carried out on the effects and causes relating to raw wheat Beta-carotene is also a powerful anti-oxi-grass, as it might relate to cancer th erapy. dant, capable of neutralizing cancer-causing freeWorking Summary: The growing of wheat grass requires radicals. It is well-known that free-radical dam-some work but it could have ben eficial effects. The juicing of raw age to DNA can produce cancer.vegetables might accomplish the same results with less work. Back in the 1960s, it was thought that vitamin A was all-important, and that carotene wasAnn Wigmore has a mansion in Bosto n, called not so important. It was not until research in 1981,the Hippocrates Health Insti tute, where she treats that the attention of the scientific community waspeople for cancer by giving th em the juice of wheat turned to the fact that beta-carotene is a moregrass. powerful cancer fighter than vitamin A. ManyThis would appear to be a mono diet; yet, beother studies were then carried out which con-cause of the broad spectrum of vit amins and minfirmed this.erals in it, drinking wheat grass (or taking any By the mid-1980s, it was discovered that,other green mixture, such as Greenlife or Barley unlike any other anti-oxidant, beta-caroteneGreen) is far better than a rice onl y diet or ingestcould neutralize two of the worst cancer-caus-ing chemicals. Wheat grass is food . Yet, interesting free radicals: the oxygen free radical andingly enough, Wigmore ignores food supplements. the polyunsaturated fatty-acid radical.One individual described her arrival at W ig-

There is no other substance, enzyme, etc.,more s large Boston home: in the body or available to it which can neu- Our cab pulled up in front of a five-s tory tralize oxygen free radicals. Yet tumor metabo-brownstone building very similar to the brownlism generates large quantities of oxygen freestones in New York City . . We sto od there wonradicals (also called singlet-oxygen free radi-dering about it all, hoping this wasn t a wild cals), which are the most damaging type freegoose chase. radicals. Upon entering, it was nothing like a hospiAs a result of the research, beta-carotenetal, or a clinic, or a school, or anyt hing other

--------------------------------------- 85 Specific Systems of Treatment85 than a large old home with a quiet library-likehe devised in 1964. atmosphere.Because the tumor was close to the surface, There was a fellow sitting at the desk read-he could tell by its size how it was doing. First, at ing a book. There wasn t anybody runninghis mother s suggestion, he adopted a health y, around in white coats and masks or nurses invegetarian diet. This greatly helped . Then, he white stockings pushing oxygen tanks or otherwent on raw foods, and that helped even more. medical equipment around; nor long forms to fill out with medical history or health recordsThen he took digestive enzymes, a nd found that large doses of pancreatic enzymes helped even or health insurance. In fact, no one seemed tomore. be the least bit anxious about the state of ourHaving solved his own problem, he began tellhealth. Ann Wigmore came down from her quartersing his dental patients about it and more pe ople were helped. But he found that some could not on the fifth floor to greet us. Again, no inter-tolerate a total raw food diet. view, no questions about our complaints, just congenial concern that we be placed in the rightThe cancer method formulated by Dr. Kelley room, that we be made comfortable, that weparallels the Gerson program in a numb er of ways. It is very possible that he used a variation of that be made aware of the meal schedule (no menusapproach. to choose from) rather than the thing that was heavy on our minds, our serious problem withKelley placed an emphasis on fresh f ruits and cancer.vegetables, plus liver detoxification via coffee I found out later why she did not show theenemas. concern I was looking for; she felt that I wouldBut Kelley had two aspects which Gerson get better if I stayed and really followed throughlacked, or at least, does not emphasize: sizeable on her program. So she was more concernedamounts of raw meat in certain diets an d excess with making us comfortable.amounts of almonds each day:

We were assigned a room on the fourth floor. Raw almonds are a very good source of proOur luggage went up in the elevator. We walkedtein and should be used as directe d 10 almonds up. The elevator was very small, and it is one ofat breakfast and 10 almonds at lunch! WilAnn Wigmore s rules that everyone always walksliam Kelley, One Answer to Cancer, 1 1. . .Kelley s program included metabolic typing No one there was to be taking any medica-in order to provide a patient-specific d ietary tion of any kind. This eliminated my autogenousprogram. He also used neurologica l stimulation vaccine, the BCG, the gamma globulin, the vi-by means of chiropractic adjustment s. Vitamin, tamins and the food supplements. I couldn tmineral, and enzyme supplements formed a part help but wonder, Am I signing my own deathof his program. Kelley eventually added meat to warrant? Can I get back on these fast enough ifthe diets of some of the patients . this doesn t work? Eydie Mae with Chris Loeffler, How I Conquered Cancer Naturally,Until 1977, the Merck Medical Manual, considered to be the standard of medical practice, rec65-64.ommended coffee enemas as a useful method of It would seem that the juicing and immediatedetoxification and relief of constip ation. Yet Kelley s drinking of raw vegetable juices would produce critics focused on coffee enemas as the primary the same results, with far less work, than growingflaw in his approach. wheat to the young grass stage, and then juicingKelley was eventually taken to c ourt for pracit. Ann Wigmore Foundation. 196 Common-ticing medicine without a license. A federal judge ordered him to never again give anyone directions wealth Ave., Boston, MA 02116 Ph: (617) 267-to the remission of cancer. Since th at event, Kelley 9424refuses to speak to anyone about the subject. (His ____________________ book, One Answer to Cancer, was published in WILLIAM D. KELLEY, D.D.S., 19641969.) Kelley s work is carried on today (in the 1990s) Note to researchers: This variant of the Gerson program should be candidly tested for its possible value in producingby a Sloan-Ketterin g trained oncologist, Nicholas cancer remission.Gonzales, M.D., in New York City. While still in Working Summary: Kelley stumbled upon what naturalmedical school, Gonzales first learned of Kelley s healers a century earlier clearly recognized: A good diet is at thework. Visitin g him, he was amazed at the extencenter of disease prevention and treatment. sive, detailed records of recoveries from advanced, Dr. Kelley was a dentist who claimed to havemetastic cancer which had survived 10 years or healed himself of pancreatic cancer with a therapymore.

--------------------------------------- 86 86Alternate Cancer Remedies To the simple diet, Gonzalez adds high lev-obtain their ascorbic acid from the f ood they eat. els of nutritional supplementation with vita-A study of mammals revealed to Ston e that mins, minerals, amino acids, glandular sub-they produce and use very large amoun ts of vitastances, digestive and pancreatic enzymes, andmin C, especially when they are un der stress. various detoxification procedures. He also rec-Translated into human dimensions (since our ommends regular fasting, colonic irrigationbodies are so much larger), we need g rams of (high enemas), and coffee enemas.ascorbic acid, not the 75 milligrams (thousandt hs When Robert W. Maver, a Mutual Life Insur-of a gram) that the National Academy o f Science ance executive, learned about the program, hestipulates as the total amount we n eed daily. urged that research be done. Maver said the pro-Although it was true that only m illigrams of gram could save the life insurance industry mil-ascorbic acid were needed to pre vent clinical signs lions of dollars. But nothing was done about hisof scurvy (a disease marked by f atigue, anemia, recommendation.and bleeding gums), but Stone discovered that viKelley s Nutritional-Metabolic Therapy tamin C did far more than just prevent scurvy ! Nicholas Gonzales, M.D., 737 Park Avenue, NewAscorbic acid is actually cell cemen t ; it York, NY 10021 Ph: (212) 535-3993helps hold our bodies together; and, in additio n, it enters into a wide variety of physical functions. ____________________Researchers have found that vitamin C, in la rge LINUS PAULING, Ph.D.,doses, aids the body in resisting and overcoming many diseases, including the common cold. AND EWAN CAMERON, M.D., 1966In his 1971 book, Vitamin C and the ComNote to researchers: Definitive, mega-dose testing of vitamin C on cancer patients needs to be carried out. The Cameronmon Cold, Pauling d ocumented a variety of facts testing clearly revealed that the addition of ascorbic acid, alone,about vitamin C, (as well as some distortions belengthened life and even eliminated pain in terminally ill patients.ing printed by those opposed to its use). In 1976, Working Summary: In a lecture in central California in thehe published Vitamin C , the Common Cold, and mid-1960s, Adele Davis announced that vitamin C would curethe Flu with even more facts. every disease. Perhaps she was right. [Critics] use two sets of logic. Before they Dr. Pauling, a California scientist, was one ofare prepared to look at Dr. Pauli ng s hypoththe most honored men of his lifetime. In additionesis, they demand proof of the most rigorous to Otto Warburg (who also did alternate cancerkind. But when arguing against his views, they therapy research), Pauling also received two Nobelrefer to evidence of the flims iest sort for the

prizes (Chemistry, in 1954, and Peace in 1962).toxicity of ascorbic acid. Abram Hof fer, M.D., For decades this Standford University researchquoted in Pauling, Vitamin C and t he Comscientist had made contributions to chemistry, es-mon Cold. pecially those chemical processes related to lifePauling was asked to journey to Washington, itself. He had helped clarify the nature of DNA andD.C., to meet with officials of the FDA. When he proteins (including hemoglobin and antibodies),was finally able to schedule the trip, the invitation and had done most of the work in cracking thewas withdrawn. A running feud deve loped which riddle of sickle-cell anemia.continued for several years. But, in April 1966, he became a controversialPauling cited examples of earlier p eoples, infigure in the medical field and was roundly criti-cluding the American Indians who , when ill, drank cized because he was not a physician.fluids from ascorbate-containing plants, to treat a You will recall that a similar reaction occurredvariety of ailments. a century earlier, when Louis Pasteur, also a re-But the problem intensified whe n Pauling search chemist, began devising ways to improveturned his attention to cancer, an d began researchnutrition and health. ing the scientific literature in the field. He found At every incursion on the domain of medi-that the results of a remarkable amount of recine, he was looked upon as a chemist . . whosearch into vitamin C in relation t o disease and was poaching on the preserves of others. Rene Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pasteur, 1924.cancer already existed. In the 1930s, German physicians began preIt all began when Pauling made contact withscribing 1-2 gram doses of vitamin C in the treatIrwin Stone, a pioneer researcher into human vi-ment of cancer, with a fair degr ee of success. tamin C requirements. Stone had discovered that nearly all animals synthesize ascorbic acid (vita-Researchers found that cancer patients had lower than average amounts of vitamin C in their min C) within their bodies, but humans, great apes,blood plasma and white blood corpuscles (Richand guinea pigs are different in that they have toard Passwater, Cancer and Its Nu tritional Thera-

--------------------------------------- 87 Specific Systems of Treatment87 pies, 1978).in tissues. He published his findings in a 1966 Epidemiological studies correlated a lack ofbook, Hyaluronidase and Cancer. vitamin C with a high death rate, including a highThen Cameron set to work to fi nd a substance cancer death rate. In 1948, a study of 577 olderwhich would strengthen the inter cellular cement residents of San Mateo County, in California, wereand thus slow the growth of ca ncer. He thought it

interviewed. When researchers followed this upwould be a hormone, but he discovere d that it eight years later, they found that the death rate forwas vitamin C which other r esearchers had shown those receiving the highest amount of dietary vita-was a powerful builder of thi s cell cement. min C was only 40% that of those with muchScotland, with a rather high-meat cons umpsmaller amounts of the vitamin (ibid.).tion, has a high rate of cancer; and 90% of the W.J. McCormick, M.D., a Canadian physician,cancer patients in his area were sent to Cameron s found in 1954 that the degree of malignancy ishospital, whose surgical unit was u nder his direcdetermined inversely by the degree of connectivetion. In addition, his clinical work was supported tissue resistance, which in turn is dependent uponby Scotland s Secretary of State , as well as by the the adequacy of vitamin C intake (ibid.). VitaminLinus Pauling Institute. C does far more than prevent scurvy; it is the ce-The testing by Cameron began i n 1971, and ment in connective tissue throughout your body.Pauling described what happened w hen vitamin Unlike Coley s toxins, Durovic s Krebiozen, orC with the addition of no other nutrient s or Burton s vaccines, vitamin C was a clear-cut chemi-life changes was given to the can cer patients: cal substance, with properties which had been re- Dr. Cameron first noticed that t he patients peatedly researched. Yet a storm of protest del-felt well when they received 10 grams a day or uged Dr. Pauling s disclosure of these facts.more of vitamin C. They developed goo d appeIn 1973, Dr. Morris Shimkin wrote in an NCItites, increased energy, got up from the hospipublication, Science and Cancer, There is no diettal, went home, went back to wor k and got along that prevents cancer in man. Treatment of cancermuch better than with convention al therapy. Paby diet alone is in the realm of quakery. tients who were on morphine for pain cou ld be taken off their morphine in five days. Linus With the help of wealthy friends, Pauling es-Pauling, quoted in H.L. Newbold, Des ign for tablished the Linus Pauling Institute, for researchLiving, interview by Carleton Fredericks, into, and dissemination of, the value of ascorbicPh.D., WOR-AM, New York, May 9, 1978. acid and related ingredients in the treatment ofAlthough these results were exce llent, it was cancer.necessary to begin a detailed study of 100 terminally ill cancer patients who were beyond furEwan Cameron, M.D., was a physician at the Vale of Leven District General Hospital in Lochther help by orthodox methods of treatment. The final results revealed that patients, reLomondside, Scotland. Beginning in 1971, he teamed up with Pauling and began giving terminalceiving 10 grams a day of vitami n C, lived, on cancer patients high doses of vitamin C.the average, four times as long after ha

ving reached the terminal stage than those who reThese were patients who had earlier received surgery, radiation, and hormones; only a few hadceived only the conventional the rapy. In addition, the pain was removed, and they felt so received cytotoxic drugs (chemotherapy). In each instance, two physicians would certify that the casemuch better. was hopeless and nothing further could be done.About 16% of Cameron s cases experi enced a dramatically marked increase in survival time. In Then the patient was turned over to Dr. Cameron. He immediately began high doses of vita-the control group, the mean average was 50 days; in Cameron s group, every patient lived more than min C. This was not difficult, since vitamin Ca year. has no toxic effects on the body, except that its acidity could injure the teeth or be uncomfort-(Of course, if other nutritional and life changes had been made, the improvement probably could able in the stomach. Cameron was a researcher in his own right.have been much greater. The most compl ete sysHe was not only a surgeon, but had studied thetem of nutrition and cleansing, th e Gerson method, requires far wider changes; but, consequently, it biochemistry of cancer cells and found that cancer spread by invading healthy normal tissuehas far greater success.) By the early 1980s, Cameron had over 4,000 in its vicinity. He found that, to do this, the cancer cell produced an enzyme, hyaluronidase.cases in his records. He has found th at the results This enzyme attacked the intercellular groundare far better when he can work on patients in the early stages of cancer. cement, the material that holds cells together

--------------------------------------- 88 88Alternate Cancer Remedies We surmise that the addition of ascorbatehe can seldom go higher than 50-60 grams a to the treatment of patients with cancer at anday, when given by mouth. In addit ion, he gives earlier stage of development might change lifeanother 50 grams intravenously. He adds that expectancy . . from, for example, 5 years to 20if he had cancer, he would take a t least 50 grams years. Linus Pauling and Ewing Cameron,a day intravenously, six days a week, for at least Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-three months; and an equal amount by mouth. ences, October 1976.Beginning in December 1977, one patient with The natural killer (NK) cells are the most important cells in the immune system in thea deadly oat cell carcinoma of the lung , was placed on 105 grams a day! That is 2,000 times battle against cancer, because they attack andthe 60 milligrams recommended dail

y by the FDA. destroy abnormal cells. It has been shown thatMore than a year later, she was in excellent shape NK cells are active only if they contain relativelyand working hard again. large amounts of vitamin C.More recently, Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., of Cameron found that patients given 5 grams Victoria, British Columbia, and Dr. Pauling carof vitamin C orally, on 3 consecutive days, ex-ried out a study of 40 patients w ith cancer of the perience a doubling in the number of lympho-breast, ovary, uterus, or cervix. Th ey continuously cytes in their bloodstream. The high levels con-received large daily doses of as corbic acid and tinued for another seven days.other vitamins. At the same time, another 61 paA 10-gram dose per day, caused this rate to triple. A dose of 18 grams per day resulted in atients with other kinds of cance r followed the same regimen while 31 patients received no vitamin fourfold increase.supplements and served as the control group. In some cases, Cameron has used 20 or 30The control group lived an average of 5. 7 grams a day on patients, by intravenous drip,months. Of the others, 80 percent o f the patients with remarkable results. With the proper use of vitamin C for cancer,with cancer of breast, ovary, cervix, or uterus, had a mean survival time of 122 months while 47 pawe could cut the death rate by 75%. It is prob-tients, with the other kinds of c ancer, lived for an ably wise for every cancer patient to receive vi-average of 72 months. The lengt h of life for those tamin C. Linus Pauling, quoted in Richardusing vitamin C was 13 to 21 times longer than Passwater, Cancer and Its Nutritional Therapies, 1978.those not receiving it (Journal of Orthomolecular Back in the United States, the two research-Medicine 5, No. 3). Before concluding this article, it would be well ers were told that their findings could not be ac-to summarize the relationship of vitamin C to sevcepted until animal research work had been doneeral vital factors and functions: first. Although this would require years of work,Vitamin C stimulates normal cel ls to increase Pauling agreed to it; but, when he applied for grant money, his request was refused.production of hyaluronidase inhibitor. This comFive times Pauling, author of more than 400bines with the hyaluronidase released by the cancer cells, so it cannot break down normal cell walls, scientific papers, requested funds; each time topreparatory for invasion. be turned down. The final notation said, BasedVitamin C is an essential co-factor in the synon evaluation of scientific merit of this application disapproval must be recommended. thesis of carnitine by the body. It is welldocuSince Pauling and Cameron s initial studies, amented that cancer patients have ver y low levels of carnitine, needed for energy production. number of other physicians elsewhere have begunVitamin C increases the body s prod uction quietly prescribing megadoses of vitamin C, alongof interferon, which is a cance r-fighting factor in

with other nutrients in the treatment of cancer. One was H.L. Newbold, M.D., of New York City.the body. For skin cancers, he uses a combination of aboutVitamin C helps produce PGE1, al so called the prostaglandins, which are needed in lym15 grams of vitamin C a day by mouth, alongphocyte function. with vitamin C ointment applied to the surfaceVitamin C is needed by the body so it can of the tumor itself, five or six times a day. He does not always have success, but then he focusesplace a wrapper of collagen fib ers around canprimarily on vitamin C; whereas there are a broadcer cells until they can be tor n apart and discharged from the system. Without vitamin C, colnumber of nutritional, environmental, and lifestylelagen cannot be made; it is t he cell cement of the factors which should also be included.body. In treating other kinds of cancer, NewboldVitamin C protects the body against ra diaincreases the dosage as high as he can. He says tion, rendering it less devastating.

--------------------------------------- 89 Specific Systems of Treatment89 Vitamin C is one of the most powerful anti-The Finnish study, carried out under the dioxidant agents, because it both fights free radi-rection of Dr. Knekt, was the l argest in size and cals in the body and restores the antioxidant prop-scope ever undertaken in rega rd to vitamin E. Conerties of vitamin E.ducted from 1966 to 1972 on 62,440 adults, it One danger should be noted: When a personproduced highly significant results, ai ded by careis taking large amounts of vitamin C, his body ad-ful follow-ups of the patients over the next six to justs to this. But if it is suddenly stopped or heavilyten years. (See American Journal of Epidemioldecreased, vitamin C deficiency symptoms (scor-ogy, 127(1): 28-41, 1988; and Int ernational Jourbutic symptoms, called the rebound effect ) cannal of Epidemiology, 17(2):281-86, 1 988.) appear. High doses of the vitamin should neverVitamin E has anti-cancer effects because it be discontinued suddenly.is a lipid antioxidant and a free-radical scavenHere, from the Linus Pauling Institute, is theger. (In addition, other studies h ave disclosed formula for taking vitamin C:that antioxidants block the action of common 1 - Large amounts of vitamin C should becarcinogens.) taken daily, but in divided doses all throughIt is also the most important fat-s oluble anthe day.tioxidant in the human body. But it only be2 - Begin with 1-2 grams (equivalent to tocomes a clear-cut anti-cancer agent, w hen used teaspoonful) of pure crystalline vitamin C dis-with vitamin C and selenium. In c ombination solved in juice or water.with them, it is particularly effective against 3 - Increase the intake by 1 or 2 grams oncertain cancers, especially breast, lu

ng, and each subsequent day until a laxative action de-prostate. It is also useful again st skin, liver, velops. At this point, reduce the dose by 1 or 2colon, mouth, and stomach cancer . grams below this bowel tolerance level andVitamin E prevents the formation of ce rtain maintain that dose thereafter.cancer-causing chemicals (such as nitroYou can never take too much vitamin C!samines) in the body, helps to change newl y When too much is taken, the body immediatelyformed cancer cells back to normal c ells, and produces a slight, brief diarrhea to dischargestrengthens the body s immune system . it. It is untrue that vitamin C can cause kidneyVitamin E greatly enhances the p erformance damage.of the immune system. Crystalline vitamin C can be obtained inexpen-The official name for the vitamin is tocosively as ascorbic acid. Do not take it in the so-pherol. There are seven natura lly occurring todium ascorbate form (reason: For proper cancercopherols, of which alpha-tocopher ol is the avoidance and recovery, sodium intake should bemost abundant and the most biolog ically acheavily decreased and potassium greatly in-tive. creased).It is now known that, not only does vitamin Upon request, the Linus Pauling Institute, inE and selenium work together in fig hting canPalo Alto, will send out an international list of phy-cer, but selenium so enhan ces its effects that it sicians who may be using intravenous vitamin Creduces the body s need for the vita min. as an adjuvant therapy.Even though vitamin E is fat-soluble, takLinus Pauling Institute of Science and Medi-ing megadoses of the vitamin do not seem to cine. 440 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 91945produce abnormalities. Ph: (415) 327-4064The RDA for vitamin E is 30 IU daily, but Bulk vitamin C Bronson s P.O. Box 628,most research indicates that up to 800 IU a da y LaCanada, CA 91012-0628 Ph: (800) 235-3200is completely safe. The best absorbed form is mycelized E. This ____________________is a liquid form of the vitamin that comes in 1P. KNEKT, M.D., 1966ounce dropper bottles. The natural form of vitamin E (tocoNote to researchers: Vitamin E is such a powerful aid inpherols with ol, is far bett er than the synthe battle against cancer, it deserves additional studies into its anti-cancer factors.thetic form (tocopheryls with yl ). Look on Working Summary: Vitamin E is important in cancerthe bottle before you buy it. Y et the synthetic therapy, but not as much as vitamin C, beta-carotene, omega-3,type (also called the dl- form of the vitamin) is and selenium. used in most studies! This is odd, since the natuVitamin E is a vigorous anti-cancer vitamin,ral form is so much more effective. In fact, it is which has been the subject of intense investiga-30% more biologically active. tion over many years since its discovery.

--------------------------------------- 90 90Alternate Cancer Remedies ____________________the Medical Center began investigating chapa rral. They theorized that there was only one active inMr. FARR, CHARLES R. SMART, M.D.,gredient: Nordihydroguaiaretic Acid (NDGA) AND H.H. HOGLE, M.D., 1967 Note to researchers: Give the whole plant, leaf and stem, ofa powerful antioxida nt. (Larrea Divaricata) in controlled, double-blind tests to advancedOn January 12, 1969, at Park City, Utah, Dr. cancer patients.Hogle presented a paper on Mr. Farr s tumor reWorking Summary: When the medical experts prove unable to uncover a powerful new cancer remedy, a cowboy livinggression at the Ann ual Scientific Meeting of the out in the desert has to give us one. The active ingredient inUtah Chapter of th e American College of Surgeons. chaparral is the same as the one in pau d arco. Although thereShortly after that, the paper was published in are questions about the toxicity of chaparral, there appear to bea professional journal (C.R. Smart, H.H. Hogle, none regarding pau d arco. et.al., An Interesting Observation of NordihyMr. Farr was an old rancher who lived in Mesa,droguaiaretic Acid NDGA and a Patient with Arizona. By 1967, he was in deep trouble; for heMalignant Melanoma: A Preliminar y Report, was experiencing a constant recurrence of malig-Cancer Chemotherapy Reports, Apr il 1969). nant melanoma on the right side of his cheek andThe press quickly spread the wor d that chapneck.arral could heal cancer. This upset the Utah reUncertain what else to do, he went to the Uni-searchers, but they went ahead wit h their testing, versity of Utah Medical Center to consult with hisas well as some folk in the na tional medical socidoctors. They gave him the standard treatment,eties. cutting out the growth. After excising it three times,The research team then too k the active subMr. Farr was no better off than before.stance in chaparral (the NDGA), only, and gave it Returning to the clinic in November 1967, heto human volunteers with cancer. In November was told that the best thing to do was to let them1970, they published a second report (Smart, do a radical neck dissection. When he learned whatHogle, et. al., Clinical Experi ence with Nordihythat would remove, he said things had gone fardroguaiaretic Acid, Rocky Mountain Medical enough. He would go home to die.Journal, November 1970) that, out of 59 cancer Returning to his house in Mesa, he decided topatients treated, only four showed s ignificant tudie heroically! He went out into the desert and col-mor regressions. One of the f our remained in relected the dry leaves and stems of the creosotemission only four months, before new lesions de-

bush. If you have ever driven through the Westernveloped. Soon after, a copy of this second report desert, you will understand why it has this name.was sent to the National Cancer Institute. It has a strong odor.What might have been the results if the lifestyle The other name for this bush is chaparraland nutrition had been drastically impr oved and (Larrea Divaricata or Larrea diverticata). Theif the whole chaparral tea had bee n given, not bush grows from four to eight feet tall, and hasmerely an active agent ? small, dark green leaves and brittle stems. It cov-According to a lady who knew Mr. Farr (Kathlyn ers hundreds of square miles in the plains andWindes of Mesa, Arizona), Mr. Farr eventually died slopes of the western U.S. deserts, up to 5,000of the same melanoma about nine y ears later (c. feet.1974) at the age of 96. She claimed that he died Farr made the tea by steeping the driedbecause some of the same medical people testing leaves and stems in hot water. He later explainedhim at that time would not perm it him to have his that he used the equivalent of 7 or 8 grams ofwhole chaparral tea. Mrs. Windes k new him well, leaves per quart of water. Then he drank 2 to 3and got his story on a 45-minute tape before he cups of this tea each day, rarely missing a dose.passed away. All the while, he took no other medications. HeAt any rate, an abrupt halt occur red in chapdid not change his diet or way of life in the least.arral research at the Univer sity of Utah Medical By February 1968, the facial lesion had de-Center in 1969. creased to the size of a dime and the neck massA number of incidents have since appeared in had disappeared. Farr looked better physically, andprinted form about people who overcame cancer had even gained some weight. He felt better, too.with chaparral tea or tablets. Returning to the University of Utah MedicalIn an Amish newspaper, William McGrat h told Center in September 1968, the physicians wereof an elderly Amish man who had eli minated terastounded to see him. By that time, the growthminal cancer 12 years earlier by t aking 15 chapwas the size of a small pimple.arral tablets a day (The Budget, June 27, 1979). Immediately, under the supervision of Dr.Another example was a man named Andrew Charles Smart and his assistant, Dr. H.H. Hogle,Hanson, who is said to have purc hased some

--------------------------------------- 91 Specific Systems of Treatment91 double-strength chaparral tablets, some Comfrey-including cancer. Plus tablets (both sold by Nature s Way), and someIt is theorized that part of the reason NDGA is Nectar D Or Liquid Minerals. This was the formulaso powerful is because it destroy s free radicals he devised:in the body, and they tend to produce tumor Start with 3 of the large tablets of chaparralformation. 3 times daily. Take 3 Comfrey Plus tablets 3NDGA appears to be less useful for b

reast cantimes daily. Take 1 or 2 tablespoons of Nectarcer than for certain others. D Or with any juice of your choice 3 times daily.At low doses, NDGA can actually s timulate Four days later increase the chaparral tabletscancer growth (!), and higher dose s begin to to 4 tablets 3 times daily. Four days after that produce tumor regression. increase the chaparrel to 5 tablets 3 times daily. There is a report of a woman who took 15 Continue to use the Comfrey Plus tablets andchaparral tablets a day to eliminate breast cancer, Nectar D Or the same. Keep dosages of chaparand was later admitted to a hospital for liver damral at the maximum amount for the duration of age. She recovered completely from the liver damthe 30 days. Take the tablets with the meals age. The FDA says there have been four reported either just before, during or after. The large chaparral tablets can go down easily with othercases of liver toxicity from it. Details of the cases food that has been chewed or may also be swal-are not known. Chaparral can cause nausea, vomiting, and lowed easily with a spoonful of apple sauce if abdominal pain. you have a problem. So questions remain about chaparral. But it At this point, you may begin wondering how a has apparently been used effectively for years in horrible-smelling substance, chaparral, could possibly reduce tumor size. It is an interesting factcombination with other herbs, in the revised that, out in the desert, chaparral secretes a sub-Hoxsey formula, as well as oth ers. It is also part stance which prevents plant seeds (includingof the Jason Winters formula. (Also see Pau d arco, which contains the same many of its own) from germinating on the nearby active chemical, yet is safer to take: page 81.) ground. The earth will be completely bare of plants near each bush. A number of different ____________________ plants excrete such substances, including the black walnut. These substances are strongJOSEPH GOLD, M.D., 1968 growth-inhibitors! As such, they might have tuNote to researchers: How does hydrazine sulfate work to mor-reduction factors in them. You will recall thatblock enzymes, thus enabling cancer cells to be shrunk? Careful a number of other researchers have sought for sub-field testing of hydrazine sul fate on advanced malignancy cases needs to be done. In connection with this, study the reports of stances which would slow cancer growth (Wachtel the Syracuse Cancer Research Institutes, in the 1970s, and the with his posterior pituitary extract, Durovic, withhuman clinical testing which occurred at UCLA in Los Angeles his Krebiozen from lumpy jaw, and Cameron,shortly afterward. with his vitamin C cell cement, etc.).Working Summary: Gold did something clever : He just What Mr. Farr found out in the desert was ablocked a single liver enzyme from wo rking and that caused the cancer to die from starvation! The substance he used is still

natural growth inhibitor. He used tea made from available. the whole leaf and stem. You will recall Dr. Koch s work in the 1920s. But he did not change his lifestyle and probHe had discovered that sugar oxidation was a key ably continued chewing snuff which probably brought on the cheek and neck cancer! So the can-factor in cancer formation. He worked on the cer later returned.premise that, if the sugars could be oxidized, the NDGA, the most active agent in chaparral, iscancer would be reduced. More oxygen was needed at the site of the tumor, in order to eliminate it. now known to have a wide range of anti-cancer Then we noted Dr. Warburg s work in 1930. properties and is relatively nontoxic. Drs. Dean He came upon the same principle, and expanded Burk and Mark Woods calls it the penicillin of on it. Warburg recognized that a key was to get quinones (NDGA is chemically related to quinine, the anti-malarial drug); for they found it to be onemore oxygen to the cancer ce ll. Warburg had found of the most potent agents for destroying the me-that normal cells require oxygen in order to live, tabolism of tumors. They found that it producedbut cancer cells die in the prese nce of oxygen. In 1968, Dr. Joseph Gold, of Syracuse, New almost complete inhibition of anaerobic and York, published a scientific paper in which he proaerobic processing of glucose in cancer cells! posed a new departure for cancer chemotherapy The Indians of the Southwest take chaparral (Joseph Gold, Proposed Treatment of Cancer by tea to prevent and treat a wide variety of diseases, Inhibition of Gluconeogenesis, Oncology, 22:185-

--------------------------------------- 92 92Alternate Cancer Remedies 207, 1968).So far, this theory closely paralleled aspects of Gold s theory was the antithesis of acceptedthe Gerson theory. But, while the Gers on theory medical principles. Surgery and radiation hadheld that it was the toxic wastes i ntroduced into ruled for decades; but, in the 1950s, high-pricedthe body through bad living, di et, etc., which incancer drugs entered the picture more than everduced cachexia, pain, and death f rom liver overbefore. By the late 1960s, it was becoming obvi-load, Gold attributed the proble m solely to an exous to thoughtful practitioners and researcherscess of lactic acid: that the physical damage by chemical toxicity wasWhile regular cells use oxygen for energy, as great as that caused by surgical cutting andcancer uses glucose (sugar) as th e fuel. But the radiation therapy.result is fermentation. The sugar only partially Chemotherapy was keyed to placing high tox-metabolizes, or combusts. The waste p roduct,

icity poison, if you will at the site of the cancer,which is lactic acid, is ejected by the cancer in order to kill it. But, in the process, the entirecells and carried by the blo od to the liver and system was greatly weakened, sometimes withoutkidneys. But lactic acid is not si mply expelled recovering.from the body. Instead, it is reconverted in the In contrast, Gold suggested that, instead ofliver back into glucose. But the bod y must now trying to kill the cancer cell, we need only blockexpend a great amount of energ y doing this. its ability to injure other cells.The glucose is then poured into the blood Gold had studied the work of Otto Warburg,stream, and picked up by the cancer ce lls and and his theory of the nature of cancer cell me-used as still more fuel! The vici ous cycle broadtabolism. According to Warburg, all cancer cellsens and deepens. live by fermenting sugar in what are essentially The net result is a loss of energ y from norairless (anaerobic) reactions. Find a way of stop-mal body energy pools. As the canc er grows, ping this fermentation, and you will be able to stopits production of lactic aci d grows, imposing the cancer.on the body a condition in which the normal Later, in the 1950s, Dr. Dean Burk and asso-body energy pools become more and more deciates at the National Cancer Institute had delvedpleted. Joseph Gold, Cancer Resea rch Instiinto Warburg s contribution. Burk won a scien-tute, Informational Brochure, 1979. Eventually rapid weight loss and debility retific prize for demonstrating that Warburg was correct in his views about cancer ferments. (How-sults cachexia. ever, it was also discovered that, although rarely, Cachexia is but the end result of an insidious process unrecognizable at first, but slowly cancer cells do use oxygen respiration; and, occa-taking its toll of the body s re serves until a point sionally, some normal cells have fermenting mechanisms.)of no return is reached. Cachexia begins with For a short time, oxalic acid (which blockedthe very first cancer tissue. What w e need is a way to stop the vicious cycle and thereby put a fermentation) was tried as a cancer remedy, but ithalt to the leading cause of d eath in cancer: failed. Like regular chemotherapy, it was so toxiccachexia. Joseph Gold, Proposed Tr eatment that it injured regular cells as much as cancer cells. of Cancer by Inhibition of Gluconeogenesis, With all this information in hand, Joseph GoldOncology, 22:185-207, 1968. went beyond either Warburg or Burk. He devel-So far, Gold s research was fully app roved by oped an enlarged theory: A primary cause of death from cancer is thethe powers that be, for it was in the realm of theory. But then he set to work in search of a substance weight loss and debilitation which occurs. Thewhich could block this interaction between the medical name for this is cachexia. But why doesliver and the cancer cells. Tryin g one thing and it occur? If it could somehow to interrupted, the

then another (including the amino acid trypdisease could be brought under control.tophane), everything seemed to fail. But what causes cachexia? Why is the can-Then, in the early 1970s, Gold read a r esearch cer patient reduced to skin and bones while his tumor grows vigorously? Orthodox medicalpaper which stated that hydrazine sulfat e had the ability to block a key enzyme in the liver theory had no answer to this. Here was Gold swhich allowed lactic acid to be conve rted into theory:glucose. Cachexia is the result of cancer s ability to First, Gold tried hydrazine sulfate on four difrecycle its wastes. But it does this by over-ferent transplantable tumor systems i n animals. loading the body with the task of trying to dis-It seemed to work fairly well, a nd supported Gold s charge those wastes. The resultant energy draintheory. Cancer cells in the test tube were not results in emaciation.

--------------------------------------- 93 Specific Systems of Treatment93 injured, but in the body were destroyed. There-cer Therapy, New England Natural F ood Asfore an indirect mechanism was involved. Fur-sociation Bulletin, Spring 1974. ther examination revealed that the cancer cellsIn a paper on the subject, presen ted before were not directly poisoned.top officials at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New Gold also found that hydrazine sulfate couldYork, Burk said this: be used to increase the effectiveness of regular cell- Let me tell you this perfec tly true story . . I poisoning drugs (chemotherapy) in animals. Per-could give you many. A woman with Hodgkin s haps best of all, if only small amounts were used,disease who had been flat on h er back for seven the chemical compound did its work withoutweeks, who had no appetite and who had lost poisoning the normal cells. It is in no way a killerall her weight a paper-thin pati ent took hydrazine sulfate. One week later she was shopcell of any kind including malignant ones. It only works by blocking a certain liver enzyme, neededping in the grocery store with h er own bag; five to provide energy to the metabolism of the tumor.day later she was spending most of the day in her garden. I don t give that as any miraculous In 1973, Gold published his first report onstory it is simply the plain truth. Ibid. his findings, and then gave a talk about it at the New York Academy of Sciences. Afterward, a phy-Hydrazine sulfate, because it was a chemical, sician came up and asked for further data on howwas immediately put into clinica l trials by the chemotherapy department at Sloan-Kettering. Since to dispense it, since he had a woman cancer pa-it had already been tried on huma ns, and since tient who, within three or four days, would be dead.

Within a few weeks, the woman was dramati-news of it was so widespread among phy sicians cally improved, and on her feet again. A numberand somewhat among the general pu blic, announcement was made in September that a joint of other patients also experienced improvement. By August 1973, 20 or 30 patients were taking itSKI-Syracuse Cancer Research Ins titute study in various parts of the country. By October, therewould begin. But, following that announcement, officials at were over a thousand.SKI immediately drew back, and their participaGold began to experience difficulties in his requests for further funds from NCI for research.tion was only deleterious. Patien ts who died beBut Dr. Dean Burk was still at NCI. He it was whofore receiving even one dose we re listed as failures. Instead of receiving the optimal dosage had himself amplified somewhat on the work of(which was 60 milligrams of hydrazi ne sulfate Warburg. Gold s findings vindicated both Warburg and Burk s research into cancer cell metabolism.for the first three days, 60 milli grams twice a day for the next three days, and 60 milligrams Burk was enthusiastic, and said so. He re-three times a day thereafter), SKI had them start leased this memorandum to the scientific community in mid-1973:with 1 milligram a day for the first day, 2 for the Since April 1, 1973, upwards of 30 cacheticsecond, etc., until they reached 20 or 30 milligrams a day. or terminal cancer patients have been treatedWhen Gold appealed to them to abide b y the with gelatin capsules containing 60 mg of hydrazine sulfate three to four times a day (at in-original dosage agreement, SKI ordered a single tervals of about 6 hours). Usually within 24-48massive dose of 120-190 mg. to be given. This hours there is a marked return of appetite fol-high dosage was toxic in the extr eme, and elimilowed by continued increase in weight, remark-nated all earlier improvements. Ac cording to ably restored physical activity, and eventuallyGold, the SKI chemotherapist told a relative of one decrease in tumor size, decrease in pain, andof the patients that he had no enthu siasm or inrelated decrease in symptomatology. Deanterest in hydrazine sulfate and that it was orthBurk, Memorandum, Department of Health,less in the treatment of cancer (ibid.). Education, and Welfare, National Institutes ofIn the summer of 1974, Gold told a packed Health, August 10, 1973.audience at a National Health Federation convenAbout six months later, Burk wrote:tion about the benefits of hydrazine sulfate. This [Hydrazine sulfate is] the most remarkablecaused the news about the compound to t ravel anti-cancer agent I have come across in myeven farther. forty-five years of experience in cancer . . ItIn response, the FDA issued a dir ective blockwould make little difference with hydrazine sulfate if the FDA wanted to balk, because thising access to the compound by phy

sicians and making it illegal for chemical companies to sell material is so cheap and it is cheap becausehydrazine sulfate directly to the publ ic. it is made by the trainload for industrial purposes. Dean Burk, New Approaches to Can-That announcement was immediately preceded by an official statement issued by the public af-

--------------------------------------- 94 94Alternate Cancer Remedies fairs department of SKI:B. 6 (1) None of these patients responded posi-While crude hydrazine sulfate can be to xic, tively to hydrazine sulfate, and (2) some of thethe form used in cancer treatmen t differs from patients developed neurotoxicity [nerve dam-industrial grade versions in that it has been age], apparently due to the administration ofhighly purified. this drug.Hydrazine sulfate has been shown to be a useBased on these findings, therefore, Sloan-ful chemical compound in eliminating ca ncer tisKettering Institute is no longer treating patients sue. It reduces lean tissue wasting (cachexia) with hydrazine sulfate, nor are we conducting and improves the abnormal glucose and insuany further experiments with it at the present lin levels common among cancer patients. time. SKI Statement, July 25, 1974. The normal dosage is one 60-mg tablet, taken Calbiochem, Inc., a California drug company three times a day. One hundred 60-mg tablets, which had been interested in marketing it, immeenough for a month s supply, costs about $25. diately drew back, correctly declaring, that hyAlthough not permitted to be sold in the U.S., drazine sulfate was in the public domain and it can be ordered from overseas companies by mail thus unpatentable. In other words, like goldorder, or from Mexican clinics using it (such as enseal, chaparral, apricot kernels, pau d arco Hospital Santa Monica, 4100 Bonita Road, Bonita, tea, and vitamin C, there were no big profits to CA 91910 Ph: (800) 359-6547 / (619) 428-1147) be made from it. We saw absolutely no place to go with it, he said (David M. Rorvik, Who Wrote ____________________ the American Cancer Society s Denunciation of TIBOR HAJITO, M.D., 1968 Hydrazine Sulfate Alicia Patterson Foundation Newsletter, New York, November 29, 1976).Note to researchers: The use of the pla nt, mistletoe, should In March 1976, the American Cancer Societybe researched, in relation to its canc er fighting characteristics. The pioneering work of Franz should built upon. placed the substance on its list of unproved methWorking Summary: Earlier in this book (on page 30), forty

ods.anti-cancer herbs were listed. Here is a closer look at one of In early 1979, NCI invited Dr. Michael L.them. Both mistletoe and its derivative (Iscador) could have side effects, so care must be taken in their utilization. Gershanovich, director of medical oncology, Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, Leningrad, to comeDr. Hajito has spent over 20 y ears administerto the United States and describe his four-yearing mistletoe to cancer patients, with remarkable study of 225 patients on hydrazine sulfate.success. Here is the mistletoe story: But, after arriving in America, GershanovichEuropean mistletoe (Viscum album) ha s was suddenly denied permission to speak at thebeen used to treat sicknesses for as long as anyMay 1979 New Orleans meeting of the Americanone can remember. About 2,000 years ago, Pliny Association for Cancer Research. However, the mis-the Elder said mistletoe was a remedy for matake had not been caught early enough, and ab-lignancies. It has been used ever since. Actustracts (a summary) of Gershanovich s plannedally, the plant is unusual in that it lives on trees, talk were printed as abstract #969 in the Proceed-taking water and minerals from them, yet returnings of the AACR.ing sugar to the host tree! From 1984 to 1990 and beyond, Rowan T.Dr. Hajito of the Lucas Clinic Laboratory of Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., and his associates atImmunology in Arlesheim, Switzerla nd, has come UCLA in Los Angeles began publishing a series ofto the conclusion that mistletoe does two things reports documenting the ability of hydrazine sul-in the body at the same time: I t inhibits tumor fate to prevent weight loss in cancer.growth while stimulating the immune system . In They found that critically ill patients showedsupport of his work, Hajito has wr itten many reonly marginal response, but those in better condi-ports in scientific journals. tion when the treatment was started did better.A number of researchers and physi cians After a year of treatment, 42% of those taking hy-have worked with the substance , but generally drazine sulfate were alive, compared to 18% ofin the form of Iscador. This is th e trade name those who did not receive it.for the oldest and most widely used mistletoe The use of this compound helps patients feelpreparation. Manufactured by Weleda AG (a Gerbetter within two or three weeks. But it occasion-man and Swiss chemical company ), Iscador is used ally can have mild side effects, including mildmore in Europe than on any other continent. It is numbness of the fingers and toes, nausea, vomit-used a lot in Britain. ing, and slight drowsiness. Gold found that thisThe entire plant is ground up an d made into could be reduced or eliminated by taking vitamina watery extract. Next it is fer mented with the

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Specific Systems of Treatment95 Lactobacilus plantarum bacterium and thenIscador is given in a series of 10 to 1 4 injecfiltered.tions before surgery, at the rate of one dose a It has been found to cause more than 50%day (normally given in the morning when body tumor inhibition in mice, in experiments carriedtemperature is rising). The purp ose is to strengon at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buf-then the immune system, prevent m etastasis, and falo, New York. Yet you will hear little about mistle-promote better recovery. I t is also used as a foltoe in the United States, except at Christmas time.low-up treatment after surger y or radiation treatDr. Hartmut Franz, in Europe, carried out in-ment for several years, in graduall y decreasing depth studies into the substance and found thatdosages. lectins, a group of chemicals in mistletoe, producedIt is believed that Iscador could have seriits primary biological activity. Lectins can connectous side effects if taken in excess. But Hijito to sugar molecules and effect changes in cells.and others have noted that it is nontoxic in the Within the mistletoe, this lectin proteindosages normally given. forms a compound with an enzyme. Franz foundBoth the leaves and berries of the m istletoe that the enzyme inhibited both cell reproduc-contain poisonous compounds (viscot oxins), so it tion and protein synthesis within cells. The lec-is urged that individuals not m ake their own prepatin part of the compound stimulated macroph-rations at home. It would be a good research ages, a type of killer leukocyte (white blood cell),project to figure out how ea rlier peoples treated and causes other leukocytes to release cancer-themselves with the plant, when it is so poisondestroying chemicals.ous. Sounds like a pretty powerful combination! Often considered poisonous. Unconfirmed Hajito found that, within 24 hours of givingreports of deaths have been attribut ed to eatIscador, two special things happened: (1) A cer-ing the berries. Stephen Foster, Ea stern/Centain type of white blood cell was aroused to ac-tral Medicinal Plants, 296. tion releasing antibodies which kill unwantedMistletoe Physicians Association for An throcells. (2) The natural killer (NK) cells increasedposophical Medicine, P.O. Box 269, Kimberton, PA in number and began prowling around for for-19442 eign cells to eliminate. It has been theorized that the production pro__________________ __ cess of fermentation, by which Iscador is made, isVIRGINIA LIVINGSTON, M.D., 196 9 effective because it separates the enzyme from the lectin protein and thus helps them both workNote to researchers: In relation to Dr . Livingston s discoveries, research should be conducted on five fronts: the cancer more effectively.bacteria she identified (Progenitor cryptocides), the human The present writer found little 20th centurygrowth hormone (choriogonadotrophin)

which is produced by research on what the whole plant, taken as a teaProgenitor, the relationship of that hormone to the growth and spread of cancer, and determination of the best sources of abrather than fermented into Iscador, could do. Yet scisic acid, the vitamin-like substance which inhibits cancer. for thousands of years mankind used the plant toWorking Summary: This is a fabul ous story. If cancer is treat cancer, not Iscador. One research study com-not caused by a bacteria, then Livingston s vaccine should not pared the fermented product with the unfer-be able to work. Yet it did; that is, until use of it was forbidden. Do not overlook the information on abscisic acid. mented and found that Iscador was better for eliminating rat liver cancer cells while the unfer-In addition to the cancer-cur e controversies mented tea was more effective on human leuke-which have raged for over a century , a secondary mia cells. Both preparations dissolved the cellcontroversy has continued nearly as long over the walls of the cancer cells (G. Ribereau-Gayon, et.nature of the cancer itself. Is it caused by bacal., Oncology, 43(supp. 1): 35-41, 1986).teria? by virus? or does it have a tota lly nonOne thing is certain: Iscador strengthens theinfectious origin? immune system; whereas the orthodox cancerIn 1905, one well-known health writer spoke therapies weaken it.of cancerous germs : Iscador is given by means of a subcutane- Those who use flesh foods little know wh at ous injection near, or into, the tumor. (In thethey are eating. Often if they co uld see the anicase of brain and spinal cord tumors, it is takenmals when living and know the q uality of the meat they eat, they would turn from it with loathorally lest increased pressure occur.) Oddly enough, although mistletoe reduces tu-ing. People are continually eating f lesh that is filled with tuberculous and cancerous germs. mor mass, in Europe it is not given for that purTuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal disease are pose but rather to lessen the damaging effects ofthus communicated. Ellen G. White, M inissurgery and radiation treatments!

--------------------------------------- 96 96Alternate Cancer Remedies try of Healing, 313.It would require a lengthy paragraph to list all That may have been one of the earliest posi-the medical hospitals, universities, and research tions on a microorganism-causation of cancer.departments that she has been affil iated with. By Back then, germs could refer either to bacteriathe early 1980s, she was working in San Diego at or viruses. The closer distinctions we use today,the Livingston-Wheeler Medical Clinic. were not commonplace then.It was in 1946 that she first discovered that,

Throughout this brief historical overview, weinjecting germs, which caused scler oderma, have noted that Rife, Naessens, Enderlain, Coley,from a person to a guinea pig, caused cancer in Stanislaw, Glover, Lincoln, Durovic, and Gregorythe guinea pig and cancer was extr emely rare all believed that cancer was caused by a microor-among guinea pigs. ganism.At this juncture, her research caused LivIn 1907, James Ewing, M.D., medical direc-ingston to adopt the theory we have no ted sevtor of Memorial Hospital in New York City, listederal times earlier that a microor ganism can 38 different kinds of protozoa, molds, bacilli, andchange in its size and shape. spirochetes, which were possible causes of can- Instead of a bacillus being a baci llus, ad incer. Some even thought that parasites might befinitum, it can and does change in to numerous the cause.other forms dictated by its need to survive or stimulated to greater productivity by an unusuBut, by 1910, according to Michael Shimkin, M.D., in a 1976 NCI publication, scientific con-ally favorable environment. Virginia Livingsensus was for a noninfectious nature of cancer. ston, Cancer: A New Breakthrough, 1972. By the early 1950s, her ideas were gaining fa(M. Shimkin, Contrary to Nature, 176.) Yet historical facts are not quite so neatly con-vor with many scientists, and s he received grants tained. Throughout most of the 20th century, asfrom a number of foundations to c arry on her rein the centuries before, many experienced physi-search. She did much basic work at this time. It was decided that the organism in question was cians and researchers believed that cancer was caused by a germ of some kind.part of the Actinomycetales order, a family of As we found earlier in this historical review, ingerms (ibid.). The famed researcher, Robert Koch (1843the first part of the century William Coley searched1910) had laid down four pos tulates which must for a mixed bacterial toxin which could destroy cancer germs.be met in order to establish the microbial origin Until it is settled beyond the shadow of aof any disease. Livingston and her asso ciates said doubt that cancer is not due to a microorgan-they had succeeded in achieving eac h one: ism, we believe that every effort should be made1. The organism must be present in every case to stimulate to the utmost cancer research alongof the disease which is examined . these lines rather than to attempt to hinder or2. The organism can be cultivated outside the to discredit it. William Coley, American Jour-host animal in an artificial medium. nal of Surgery, October 1926.3. Inoculation of this culture into a suscepAn intriguing claim had been advanced intible animal will produce the disease in it. 1910, when Peyton Rous, a medical researcher at4. The germ can be obtained from the inocuthe Rockefeller Institute said he had found an in-lated animal and cultivated on ce again. fectious agent in fowl which would pass throughBy this time, in addition to her ot

her work, the smallest filter known.Livingston was caring for 20-30 cancer patients Rous was laughed to scorn by his contempo-daily at the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark. She raries, but the development of virology (the studyobtained blood from them and i njected it into of sub-microscopic organisms) caused scientistsguinea pigs. By doing this, the i ncidence of cancer to re-examine Rous monograph. In 1966, at theamong guinea pigs could be increased from the age of 89, Rous was given the Nobel prize for hisnatural rate of 1 in 500,000 to 1 in 4. According 1910 research.to Livingston, the cancer microbe crossed the But later official interest waned in viruses as aspecies line. This could mean, for example, that cause of cancer. But both viruses and bacteria haveeating cancerous meat could i nduce cancer in continued on as special topics of interest and studythe one eating it. among cancer researchers and specialists.Livingston named this cancer-causing mi crobe In the latter part of this century, Dr. VirginiaProgenitor cryptocides (meaning t he hidden anWuerthele-Casp-Livingston-Wheeler (Dr. Living-cestral killer ), and declared that animals could ston, for short) has been at the center of the con-catch it from man, and that m an could catch it troversy over a bacterial origin of cancer.from animals especially by eating the c ontami-

--------------------------------------- 97 Specific Systems of Treatment97 nated flesh of fowl and other animals.physicians. Livingston said she found a large degree ofIn 1972, one of her associates, Dr. O wen infection with Progenitor cryptocides in chick-Wheeler, asked her to treat him s olely by immuniens (ibid.).zation. He completely recovered and, when By the early 1950s, she had not yet begun toLivingston s husband (Dr. A.M. Livings ton) died, treat cancer in animals or man with any specialshe married Wheeler. kind of treatment. But, in that decade when che-In 1970, working at the Universi ty of San Dimotherapy was becoming the method most pre-ego, she showed that the cancer microb e proferred by the big cancer organizations, she beganduced an antibiotic (actinomyci n) as well as to be regarded with suspicion by those leading can-toxic material which increase d the frequency cer institutes. Cornelius P. Dusty Rhodes, of theof cancer in mice. NCI, led out in derogatory comments about theUsing a dark-field microscope, she was able work carried on by Livingston and her associates,to describe the entire life cyc le of this complicated, which included curtailing her sources of researchever-changing germ. (It was at this time that she money.named the microbe.) In 1968, something called the Livingston Vac-That same year, Livingston made a re

markcine, was included in the ACS s Unproven Meth-able discovery: Progenitor cryptocide s was able ods book. After careful investigation of the vac-to produce a human hormone. Nev er before, had cine, the ACS had concluded that it had no objec-a germ of any kind been known t o manufacture a tive benefits in the treatment of cancer.human hormone! Further research into th is parYet no such vaccine existed! Any genuine in-ticular one (human choriogonadotrophin ; HCG) vestigation would have disclosed the fact. Up torevealed that it has long been kn own to be present that time, Livingston still had not treated cancerin greater amounts in cancer p atients. HCG is a with any unorthodox method, and she had no vac-human growth hormone! cine. (That recalls to mind the research of Dr. But other physicians were treating with an anti-Wachtel, who noted that injectio ns of an extract of Progenitor cryptocides vaccine. Some of the pa-the human anterior lobe of the pi tuitary, which tients survived for more than a year and a half.produces growth hormones, would significantly inThis false report about her having a Livingstoncrease the size of cancer tissue.) Vaccine goaded her into action, and she beganOddly enough, HCG is present in huma n sperm more vigorous research work. In 1968, at theand is needed for growth from the ve ry beginning Biomed Laboratory in San Diego, the cancerof human life. microbe was filtered, put into tissue culture, Two years later, researchers at Prin ceton Uniand produced degeneration of cells, under cer-versity confirmed that HCG could b e made by a tain conditions, and proliferation of cells in oth-bacteria (H. Cohen and A. Str ampp, Bacterial ers.Synthesis of a Substance Similar to Huan ChoriIt was also discovered that the cancer bac-onic Gonadotrophin, Proceedings of the Society teria were sensitive to certain chemotherapyfor Experimental Biology and Medicin es, July when outside cells, but hardly at all when in-1976). side human cells. That does not speak well forIn 1978, it was confirmed again, t his time by chemotherapy, which is generally thought to poi-H.F. Acevedo of the W.H. Singer Memorial Research son every kind of cell it comes in contact with.Institute in Pittsburg, that Pro genitor cryptocides In 1969, she and her husband opened theproduced that human growth hormone. Aceve do Livingston Medical Clinic, in San Diego, and be-felt that a number of other bact eria in cancer pagan immunization treatment of cancer patients.tients also produced HCG as well. Commenting My studies had led me to the conclusion thaton Livingston s findings, Acevedo wrote : cancer is an immune deficiency disease based The impact of these findings in the f ields of on infection by a definite etiological agent, theoncology, bacteriology, epidemi ology, genetics Progenitor cryptocides. On the basis of treatingand molecular biology is so grea

t that a detailed an immune deficiency in man, we began to ac-description will be beyond the scope of this comcept cancer patients. Virginia Livingston, Amunication . . It is apparent that his phenomNew Breakthrough, 1972.enon exposes the need for a new approach to This treatment included a vaccine to fightthe analysis as well as to our current concepts the microbe, a health-food diet, and the adop-of cancer. Hernan F. Acevedo, Cancer 41:1217tion of a relaxed way of life. Thus, her program29, 1978. was more comprehensive than that of many otherProbably one of Livingston s most im portant

--------------------------------------- 98 98Alternate Cancer Remedies discoveries concerned abscisic acid. This is aFruits natural substance present in many foods. SheMangoes found that it neutralized the HCG. This meansGrapes Avocados that it should have anti-cancer effects in the body.Pears Oranges, with the white underpeel and pulps Abscisic acid is very difficult and expensive Apples, whole with the seeds to purify, so you are not likely to be able toStrawberries afford it in tablet or capsule form. Fruit Blossoms and Leaves as Tea But it is very common in many healthful Peach Flowers foods. Abscisic acid is chemically similar to vi-Strawberry Leaves tamin A, and is probably another vitamin. It is Cherry Flowers plentiful in plant foods. Animal experimentsApple Blossoms showed it to be a powerful anti-cancer agent.Vegetables She discussed it in her 1977 book, Food Alive. Pea shoots After her retirement, Dr. Livingston s work con-Lima Beans tinued to be carried on by other physicians. UsingPotatoes the Livingston vaccine, they noted shrinkagePeas, Dwarf or disappearance of tumors, as well as completeYams remissions in patients with lymphocytic leuke-Sweet Potatoes mia and malignant lymphoma (Townsend LetterAsparagus Tomatoes for Doctors, May 1987). Onions Neil Nathan, M.D., carried on her work at theSpinach Livingston Foundation in San Diego, California, for a time. He said the success of the treatmentRoot Vegetables All root vegetables, especially Carrots depends on whether or not the cancer has metastasized or they have received chemotherapy,Seeds and Nuts radiation, or surgery. If they have, there is only aSeeds and Nuts of all Kinds 40-50% success rate; but if not, there is 70-95%Leafy vegetables success rate. But in terminal patients, with wideMature Greens metastasis, the rate drops to 20%. Unfortunately, in February 1990, the Califor___________________

_ nia Department of Health Services issued an orF. JOSEPH MONTAGNA, 1970s der to the Livingston Foundation Medical Center Note to researchers: Double-blind tests should be conducted Clinic, in San Diego, to stop administering and prescribing the autogenous vaccine. By that time,on Montagna s herbal formula, in order to ascertain its possible value. If his formula can actually inhibit cancer, it could save it was the only place which still offered thelives at a low expense. Livingston therapy.Working Summary: Montagna put together 22 herbs and That same year, Dr. Livingston died.began treating disease with them. Apparently he had success, for attempts were made to stop his work. Since then, the clinic has remained open. Patients are treated with vaccines based on PC cul-In the mid-1970s, F. Joseph Mon tagna of Porttures, together with the diet and other aspects ofland, Oregon, developed an her bal formula which, the program. But the autogenous vaccine is nohe claimed, produced about an 80% s uccess longer given.against cancer. But we have no information on how Here is the address of the clinic:long such remission generally lasted. Livingston Therapy Livingston FoundationIt would be well for medical researchers t o Medical Center, 3232 Duke Street, San Diego CAcheck out his claims and see if th ey are worth any92110 Ph: (619) 224-3515thing. Here, in his own words, was Montagna s forAbscisic acid is a plant dormancy hormonemula: and vitamin A analog found in plants; it has pro-A. BASIC INGREDIENTS: found anti-cancer activity. Abscisic acid is a caro-1. Chaparral leaves. Dissolv es malignant tenoid factor and is especially found in greentumors. leafy vegetables. Here is a list of foods contain-2. Bloodroot. Purifies and cle anses blooding abscisic acid. It comes from Livingston s book,stream. Food Alive:3. Red clover blossoms. Antidote to can-

--------------------------------------- 99 Specific Systems of Treatment99 cer.mor proliferation will rapidly increase. There4. Burdock root. Neutralizes and elimi-fore do not stop taking it! nates toxins.An epidemiologist, Raymond Shamberger, 5. Echinacea root. Natural herbal anti-listed cancer rates in the states and maj or cities toxin.of America. Then he listed them again, according 6. Goldenseal root. Kills poisons; equal-to the amount of selenium available in the diet. izes circulation.The two matched inversely. The more selenium in 7. Comfrey leaves. Relieves pain; estab-the diet, the lower the levels of cancer (Arlishes normal conditions.chives of Environmental Health, 31:231-35, 8. Ginseng root. Stimulates vital cell pro-1976). cesses.In another study, this one of W.C. Willet, the B. OTHER INGREDIENTSserum selenium levels and risk of cancer, of over Poke, Parsley, Blue violet leaves, Lico-10,000 men and women, were evaluated. Th

ose rice, Dandelion root, Cayenne, Prickley ash,with the lowest selenium levels had twice the risk Garlic, Cleavers, Gotu kola, Periwinkle,of developing cancer (Lancet, 2(8342):13 0-33, Sassafras, Agrimony, Ground ivy.1983). Keep in mind that Montagna, like many oth-Similar research of the 24 regions of China ers, remained with a single treatment; in this casewere done, with approximately the same results. an herbal mixture. If broad changes were alsoIt should be noted here that glutat hione permade in nutrition and living, much more could beoxidase is one of the most impor tant antioxiaccomplished by his program. The need to cleansedant enzymes in our immune syste m. This enthe body of the broken-down cancer tissue wouldzyme protects the body against th e destructive be crucial to pain relief and healing.effects of hydroxyl free radicals, yet gluta thione peroxidase is selenium dependent. If ____________________there is a lack of that vital trace mineral in the GERHARD N. SCHRAUZER, Ph.D., 1976tissues, this crucial enzyme will not be produc ed. This enzyme is also an important anti-cancer facNote to researchers: What is the exact nature of the meanstor. whereby selenium protects a person against cancer? How can it be better utilized by the medical profession in treating in situIt should also b e mentioned that selenium and malignancies?selenium-containing compounds tend to bind Working Summary: Notice that selenium is effective onlywith heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, as a cancer preventive. It is an important nutrient. etc.) and carry them out of the body. Research Selenium, an essential trace mineral, is astudies reveal that exposure to even l ow levels of recently discovered anti-cancer agent. When athose metals can seriously deplete selenium and tiny amount (1-4 ppm) is added to the diet ofeliminate its anti-cancer power. lab animals, it protects against a wide varietyWhat would be the proper dosage a mounts of carcinogens. Many studies have also beenfor selenium? made of the ability of selenium to protect peopleOne study in China reported tha t a daily dose from toxic, cancer-causing substances.of 500 mcg of selenium over a period of se veral For a number of years in the 1970s, Dr.years is safe for healthy adults. Higher dosages Schrauzer studied the relationship of selenium tofor normal people could be toxi c, but are neceshuman cancers. As reported in a number of pro-sary in the treatment of cancer. fessional journals, he repeatedly found that it wasSchrauzer reported that dosag es of 2,000 to highly effective as a cancer-preventive agent.5,000 mcg per day will produce tox ic symptoms As a result of his research, Schrauzer was ableafter several months. Yet, since these symptoms to show that, for maximum protection, selenium(nausea, weakness, and discolorati on of the fin-

should be given to a person from his earliest years.gernails) are hardly ever ov erlooked, no instances This is because even small children are nowof fatalities resulting from excess s elenium have contracting cancer and selenium only pro-ever been reported. tects against cancer before the malignancy gainsRobert C. Donaldson was a St. Lo uis oncoloa foothold in the body! But, if given all along, if agist who decided to carry o ut research into the tumor begins, the selenium, if continually given,dosage amounts for selenium. In doing so, he made will retard tumor development.an important discovery: In most of his patients, Selenium is a non-accumulating trace mineral;the giving of normal doses of selen ium (the and other research by Schrauzer revealed that, ifamount healthy people should ta ke as maintein mid-life the selenium intake is stopped, tu-nance doses) did not produce much of an in-

--------------------------------------- 100 100Alternate Cancer Remedies crease in the blood levels of cancer patients.But macrobiotics, as practiced in Am erica, They were in such a nutrition-starved condition,revolves around eating rice, ric e, rice too much that they needed far more!rice, and not enough other vital foods. He found that very high oral doses must beMichio Kushi is the individual who esp ecially given, before the blood level of selenium camepopularized macrobiotics in the We stern World. up. He finally determined that, in nearly everyHe came to the United States in 1 949, and later case, he had to give 1,000 to 2,000 mcg of sele-established a macrobiotic center in Boston in nium daily until the blood levels came up, and1978. The objective, according to him, was to then drop back down to a maintenance dose.achieve 100% cereal diet! In one unusual case, Donaldson found it nec-Kushi had received his training and theories essary to give 2,700 mcg/day for two months, fol-from years of study under a the orist in the Eastlowed by six weeks of 5,000 mcg/day before theern religions. George Ohsawa combi ned the teachblood level came up.ings of Zen Buddhism with the earlier simple nuIt should be understood that normal peopletrition of Oriental macrobiotics. Fran kly, the would find such high dosages far too high, andtwisted diet that he deduced from all this was unthe above-mentioned toxic symptoms would re-balanced. Yet, in the West it would prove helpful, sult, indicating that they must reduce their dailysince almost anything is bette r than the Western intake amount.diet of cornflakes, grease, spices, cokes, white In all of this, keep three facts in mind: (1) Thesugar, and flour. toxic symptoms are easily recognized, and there-Another disciple of Ohsawa, Herm an Aihara, fore unlikely to ultimately produce dangerousalso came to America and has writte

n several results. (2) Selenium very quickly leaves thebooks. Both Aihara and Kushi have p roduced antibody, so reducing the daily intake quickly nor-cancer diets, based on those Budd hist theories. malizes the amount in the system. (3) For thatAnthony Sattilaro, M.D., an Americ an physireason, stopping the intake entirely can actu-cian obtained cancer remission by following the ally be very dangerous.diet. It may sound good, but it is nutritionally unDonaldson found that, for some patients, sig-balanced! nificant and even dramatic tumor regression oc-According to the macrobiotics the ory, a percurred when blood levels reached normal levels.son is to have a limited intake o f fruit, not But for others, it did not occur until the levelsenough protein and B intake, an d unlimited 12 reached .40 ppm to .50 ppm; and some requiredaccess to miso and pickles, which a re high in .80 ppm.sodium. By way of comparison, a totally different studyBeware of narrowed diets, which e xclude vi(one done in Finland and reported in 1984) foundtally needed food. that subjects with serum selenium levels of lessYet, since the macrobiotics theo ry involves betthan 45 mcg/liter had three times the risk ofter nutrition than is generally fou nd in modern developing cancer as subjects with serum sele-civilization, there are instances in which it has imnium levels greater than 45 mcg/liter.proved the health of some people. ____________________ ____________________ MICHIO KUSHI, 1978JASON WINTERS, 1980 Note to researchers: The nutritional factors in theNote to researchers: The Wint er s herbal formula should macrobiotic diet, and also the inherent imbalance of this diet,be tested, an eff ort made to round them out with a somewhat needs further study.better mixture, by filling in a useful substitute for the mi ssing Working Summary: It is remarkable how partially nutri-herb(s). tious diets can inhibit cancer to one extent or another. Yet,Working Summary: Ve ry likely any three or four of the forty throughout this history of cancer remedies, we repeatedly findcancer herbs, list ed earlier in this book (p. 30), could be packthat the change of even a few factors can help people improve.aged, sold, and he lp people. Everywhere we turn, we find cancer remedies. This program is based on the writings of a Japanese physician, Saegen Ishizuka (1850-1910)Jason Winters claimed to have had cancer and who is said to have eliminated cancer in himselfto have successfully eliminated it with an herbal tea formula. But, instead of using one of the herbal by forsaking the refined diet of the Japanese, and eating brown rice, soybeans, fish, miso soup,formulas already available, he said he developed sea vegetables and other traditional Orientala new mixture. foods. In other words, he returned to a more natu-His story can be found in Benj amin R. Smithe s ral vitamin and mineral-filled dietary.

1980 book, Killing Cancer: The Jason Winters

--------------------------------------- 101 Specific Systems of Treatment101 Story. Obtainable in packages at some health-foodAs of the mid-1990s, over 30 re search and stores, the herbal mixture lists Red clover, spe-clinical studies of clodronate h ad been made. Here cial spice, Indian sage. As you can see, part ofis the results of one of them: the formula remains a secret.Twenty-seven patients with malignant bone For some unknown reason, a number of yearsdisease (hypercalcemia) were given int ravenous inago the Jason Winters formula had red clover,jections of clodronate. Within two days, serum calchaparral, cayenne, and spices (undisclosed). cium levels had significantly decreas ed, By the The new name, Indian sage, is very likely a po-fourth day, 89% (24 patients) had r eached normal etic name for chaparral, possibly to hide its iden-calcium levels. tity.No other chemical compounds (including calThe present writer would think that, if ancitonin, glucocorticoids, mithramycin, and prosherbal mixture alone were to be desired, Essiactaglandin synthetase inhibitors) accomplish what would have a far better track record, with decadesclodronate can do in treating bone cancer. of documented cases.Bone cancer generally begins as the result of metastasis. Cancer somewhere else (breast, ____________________prostate, etc.), when it begins to spread, m ay enter the bones. More than 80% of advanced prosE.S. SIRIS, M.D., 1980 Note to researchers: Close attention should be paid thetate cancer metastasis sp reads to the bones. Clodronate is produced under the trade structure of clodronate and its use, in preventing as well as elimi-name of Bone fos by the Leiras Corporation, in nating bone cancer. Additional serious studies are needed here. Working Summary: In clodronate, we have a chemical thatFinland. It is approved f or use in 25 countries, is not natural to the body. Yet it has only minor side effects. Itbut not in the U.S. But Americans can order a can be purchased by mail.three-month supply by mail. Dr. Siris is one of the pioneers in working withSide effects tend to be mild, sh ort duration, clodronate in the treatment of certain forms of can-and easy to manage. They inc lude nausea, vomitcer.ing, and diarrhea. Lowering the dosage generally Clodronate is a member of a group of chemi-solves the problem. Three cases of ki dney failure cals called the bisphosphonates. They are struc-have been reported. turally similar to the pyrophosphates which oc-The dosage is as follows: cur naturally in the bones and body fluids (plasma,A single daily intravenous in fusion of 300 urine, and saliva). It is the task of pyrophosphatesmg (1 ampule), for three to five days (but someto regulate calcium balance. This involves build-times ten days). This generally

returns the caling new bone and reabsorbing old bone.cium level to normal. The bisphosphonates can also regulate calciumThereafter, the patient can be main tained and bone development. But, because of the car-with oral clodronate. This is 1,60 0 mg to 2,400 bon atom in their molecules, they are very versa-mg daily, in two or three equal doses. (In adtile. Of them, clodronate, with its two chlorine at-vanced cases, the initial do se may be 3,200 mg oms attached to the carbon atom, has the highestdaily.) biological activity of any bisphosphonate.Sometimes treatment of mild cases are beClodronate is given to treat bone cancer.gun with oral doses, with no preliminar y injecBecause clodronate attaches itself to calcium,tions. The initial dose is 3,200 m g daily, which it is able to stop the osteoclasitc activity of boneis reduced as the calcium le vel improves. From resorption. Bone cancer is an excess resorptionthat time onward, the maintenance dose of (elimination) of bone tissue, and clodronate1,200 mg daily is generally adequate . (This stops this wasting away and normalizes calciumtranslates to one 400-mg capsule t aken 30 minand bone levels.utes before each of the three meals.) Radiation can reduce the pain of bone cancer,Since this substance binds with cal cium, it but it does not stop the disease. Chemotherapymust not be taken with calcium-con taining foods does not work either. But clodronate has beenor liquids. For this reason, it is always given 30 found to be very useful.minutes before the meal begins. Clodronate normalizes the level of calciumIf, bone scans reveal that there is su fficient imin the blood, prevents hypercalcemia, stops theprovement, the dosage can be redu ced to two 400spread (metastasis) of cancer to new areas, andmg capsules twice a day. After si x to nine months, retards or reverses the growth of existing me-it may be possible to reduce this to one 400-mg tastases. It also reduces bone pain and the like-capsule daily. lihood of fractures.The taking of clodronate must not be termi-

--------------------------------------- 102 102Alternate Cancer Remedies nated, but continued the rest of the person spatients who are using shark cartilag e. life.Since powdered shark cartilage is classified Clodronate, as most others discussed in thisas a food supplement, it is not cont rolled by the book, is a single-substance therapy. No change wasFDA and can be purchased at he alth-food stores. made in the diet or way of life, so one would ex-The usual dosage of shark carti lage for an pect the cancer to immediately return as soon asadult is fifteen 740-mg capsules daily, taken

the Clodronate was stopped.orally, in three doses of five capsules each. They Clodronate Order under the trade name ofare taken on an empty stomach about 30 min Bonefos, from the Leiras Corporation, Helsinki,utes before meals, so digestive a cids will not Finland. A three-month supply can be ordered bydestroy the active ingredients. mail.More recently, it has been discovered that ____________________higher dosages can be taken by means of a re ctal I. WILLIAM LANE, Ph.D., 1980sretention enema. For this purpose, the dosage is 1 gram of powdered shark cartilage per each 2 Note to researchers: The anti-angiogenic properties of various cartilage substances needs to be analyzed more closely. Fieldpounds of body weight, daily. (A 120-pound person would take 60 grams of powdered shark cartests should be conducted on such substances, in conjunction with other alternate anti-cancer formulas.tilage rectally each day.) Working Summary: This remedy is not for vegetarians.Shark cartilage has also bee n found beneficial Purified, powdered cartilage from sharks is taken orally. for osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleThis remedy is not for vegetarians.roderma, psoriasis, and eczema. Dr. Lane has been the leading advocate of sharkIn their book for patients (the G erson Primer), cartilage therapy. Although we have seen that can-the Gerson Institute says they provide cartilage cer can be successfully inhibited by a number offrom either sharks or cows for t hose who want it. other substances, this present study would not beSo cow cartilage must now be av ailable. If it were complete without noting shark cartilage.not fairly potent, Gerson would not offe r it. In order for tumors to grow, they must de-Sources for shark cartilage Cartilade, f rom velop their own blood supply. Most other tis-Cartilage Technologies, Inc., 222 G race Church St., sues and organs also do this; the process is knownSuite 204-A, Port Chester, NY 10573-5155 Ph: as angiogenesis.(914) 939-9000 / Allergy Research Group, 400 But cartilage, which is a tough, elastic con-Preda St., San Leandro, CA 94577 Ph : (800) 545nective tissue, contains no blood supply. It has9960 / Hospital Earnesto Contrer as, Paseo Playas an anti-angiogenic substance which stops thede Tijuana, No. 19, Tijuana, B.C. Mexi co Ph: 011 blood supply from developing.52-66-80-1850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795 With these facts in mind, researchers sought(Rest of U.S.A.) for a substance which might keep tumors from developing their own blood supply. Robert ____________________ Langer, Ph.D., of the Massachusetts Institute of JOSEF ISSELS, M.D., 1980s Technology, discovered that shark cartilage contains a thousand times more of the angiogen-Note to researchers: Ganzheitstherap ie therapy is greatly needed today in our research laboratories. It is time to stop countesis inhibitor than any other type of cartilageing trees and begin using the ent ire forest. We have amassed (W.I. Lane and L. Cormac, Sharks Don t Get Can-piles of worthwhile anti-cancer rem edies; now it is time to apply cer, 1992, 47).them collectively.

When it was administered alone to cancerWorking Summary: Issels was one of the first to forbid a wide variety of modern contaminants, as important in the treatpatients (by means of a retention enema), therement of cancer. His method, expan ded on, is an excellent one. was significant improvement. After the first month, Dr. Issels, a German physician, came to the 7 out of 8 patients experienced tumor reductions ranging from 30 to 100%. In all cases, symptom-conclusion that the solution to c ancer was to treat the whole body, and not just a local tumor. atic improvements were noted, along with pain control, weight gain, and improved energy. But notInstead of administering a sin gle nutrient or chemical, Issels identified a wide-ranging group all studies are this successful. A 1983 article in the journal, Science, first sug-of cancer-causing factors: gen etic traits, microbes, dental amalgams (mercury poisoning), gested that shark cartilage could inhibit tumor growth (221:185-87, 1983).infections, abnormal intestinal flora, faulty diet, neural interferences, chemical toxins, radiation, Renato Martinez, M.D., of Bloomfield, N.J., and Charles B. Simone, M.D., of Laurenceville, N.J.,etc. He called it ganzheitstherapie, or whole have been separately monitoring advanced cancer

--------------------------------------- 103 Specific Systems of Treatment103 body therapy. First thing, the amalgam fillingsfor over 40 years, discovered that hydrogen permust be removed, and tobacco, coffee, etc.,oxide was a safe, effective, antimico rbial, antistopped. Eating of organic foods is stressed, andviral agent. Without his discov ery, we might not even the emotional state of the patients is a sub-know of this remedy today (alt hough the substance ject of concern.had been used to treat infections back in the In addition to removing or adding specific1920s). things from the diet and way of life, Issels alsoUnfortunately, Rosenow died, in 1966, before carried on several types of therapies:his discovery could be published. But he h ad exIssels used specialized oxygen therapy meth-plained it to a priest, named Wilhel m, who was a ods, not available to the average person. He alsochemistry teacher. Wilhelm dete rmined to promote administered fever therapy (as William Coley andhydrogen peroxide. Throughout th e 1970s, he tried others did). During the induced fever, Isselsto get pharmaceutical companies to do research found that he could increase the number of dis-on it, but the substance was a co mmon, inexpenease-destroying leukocytes (white corpuscles)sive item which could not be patent ed and thus in the bloodstream.had no commercial value to them. He also used vaccines for specific types ofThen, in the winter of 1982, he met W

alter cancer, using ultrafiltrates of cancer tissues in(Wally) Grotz. Following an ear lier auto accident, much the same way as modern vaccines use in-Wally had developed a severe, crippl ing, and very fectious agents to stimulate antibody produc-painful arthritis. He despaired of life. Then his wife tion.encouraged him to take a warm Caribbean cruise, In one long-term study of 370 patients, 87%in the hope that it might help. were alive 5 years later, with no recurring signs.On the ship, he met Wilhelm, w ho urged him Dr. Issels relapse rate was only 13%. That is re-to take hydrogen peroxide for hi s arthritis. Almarkably good.though he only took small amounts, within a few This high success rate is probably due tomonths his arthritis was gone. Immediat ely, Grotz the fact that he fought the cancer with a varietyset to work; he must convince t he world that hyof factors, including nutritional and lifestyledrogen peroxide was the great ans wer to mankind s changes which the patients continue on withproblems. afterward! Researchers, please keep this inWhat is hydrogen peroxide? It is a ve ry mind! In order to have a high rate of successfulsimple compound, with the chemic al formula remission, followed by years of happy living there-HO. All it consists of is a m olecule of water, 22 after, many changes must be made. It is not enoughplus an added atom of oxygen. It is found to just drink an herb tea once in a while.throughout nature, in plants and anima ls. After Dr. Issels retired, two physicians kept hisEvery cell in your body makes i t. Every plant work going (Dr. Woppel and Dr. Ahmed Elkadi ofcell makes it also. When ozone in the sky mixes Panama City, Florida). Elkadi uses Issels program,with moisture in the air, it fo rms hydrogen perplus the use of the herb, Nigella sativa (blackoxide, which comes down in rain o r snow. It is seed spice), with which he has observed a 55%in fresh fruits and vegetables. Pla nts take it in enhancement of the helper T-cells and the sup-with the rainwater they absorb; th ey also make pressor T-cells, and a 30% enhancement of natu-it via photosynthesis. It is rich in mother s ral killer cells activity.milk and especially so in colostrum (the first Issel s Whole Body Therapy Akbar Clinc,milk secreted after birth). 4000 East 3rd Street, Panama City, FL 32404 Ph: The generation of HO in cellular p rocesses 22 (904) 763-7689seems to be purposeful, and H2O2 cannot be dismissed as a mere undesirable by-product . . ____________________The capacity for generation of H2O2 is not f ound to be widespread in a variety of organisms and EDWARD ROSENOW, M.D., 1980s in the organelles of the cells. T.H. Oliver and Note to researchers: The remarkable ability of hydrogenB.C. Cantab, Lancet, 1:43 2-33, 1920.

peroxide to oxygenate the body and reduce certain diseases All this, of course, relates closely to Otto should be more carefully investigated. Warburg s discovery that, when cells become Working Summary: Over the years, since Koch and Warburg, sizeable attention had been paid to providing the body with oxy-deficient in oxy gen, they tend to become cangen as a mechanism to help destroy oxygen-hating cancer tis-cerous. sue. But hydrogen peroxide is something of a capstone to the By releasing more oxygen into the body, hysearch for oxygenation to the body. drogen peroxide promotes healthy, oxygenDr. Rosenow, a physician at the Mayo Clinicbased metabolism. It not only stimula tes the

--------------------------------------- 104 104Alternate Cancer Remedies immune system, but a single injection almost It is involved in any metabolic pathw ay doubles the metabolic rate. Its extra oxygenwhich utilizes the many different ty pes of oxiatom provides it with sterilizing power.dase enzymes. Hydrogen peroxide is invol ved As noted elsewhere in this book, in the 1950sin protein, carbohydrate and fat me tabolism, immunity, vitamin and mineral metabolism or Dr. Harman discovered the relationship of free radicals to aging and disease. But it has since beenany other system you might w ish to explore. Our studies demonstrate a positive metanoted that not all free-radical reactions are bad. bolic effect to intravenous infusion of HO. Its One of these is the manner in which oxygen helps22 ability to oxidize almost any physiological subenzymes remove toxins. Another is the way it atstance, in addition to producing increased tistacks invading bacteria. sue and cellular oxygen tensions, has proven it It is now known that hydrogen peroxide does to have therapeutic value. C.H. Farr, The not increase the bad kind of free radicals in the Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen Perbody. Instead, it stimulates natural killer (NK) oxide, 1987. cells, which attack cancer cells when they try Here is information on administration and to spread throughout the body. dosages: Dr.T.L.Dormandy, president of the Free RadiNever use the commercial grade of hydrocal Research Association of Europe, has stated that gen peroxide. Only use the 35% food grade kind. current levels of hydrogen peroxide, taken Never take it straight! If you do not dilute it, orally, cannot damage any organ. He also says serious chemical burns will result. that the hydrogen peroxide is taken up though the

It can be taken orally or intravenously. Most mucous membranes of the mouth, throat, and agree that the oral method is not as good. stomach within one or two minutes after being Oral solutions have an unpleasant taste, and swallowed. nausea often results before enough of a theraIntravenous injections of hydrogen peroxpeutic amount of the substance can be taken ide release pure oxygen into the body. This satuinto the body. rates the cells and aids in treating cancer as A product called SuperOxy+Aloe Vera Tonic, well as other diseases. formulated by Dr. Kurt Donsbach, is said to be a Hyperbaric oxygen chambers are another stabilized oral hydrogen peroxide product that is means of increasing the body s supply of oxygen. mixed with aloe vera. (The aloe vera is said to help But they are very expensive to use, even for half reduce the nauseating effect, and thus enable the an hour. taking of higher doses.) Each tablespoon equals Yet another method is the use of ozone. Ozone 10 drops of 35% hydrogen peroxide. Of course, is O, and also has antiviral properties. Ozone func3this must be diluted, or chemical burns can retions in the same manner as hydrogen peroxide; sult. however, clinics which have used both have The simplest way to take it orally is to dilute it found that hydrogen peroxide seems to be a with water, and expect the nausea. It must be more efficient method of administering oxygen taken on an empty stomach, or it will react than ozone. (But keep in mind that the clinics chemically with the food and be neutralized. In use intravenous hydrogen peroxide injections, the process, undesirable free radicals might resomething many people at home do not have availsult. able to them). Oral doses are taken in this way: First day So hydrogen peroxide is a good, inexpen- 3 drops of 35% hydrogen peroxide in 8 ounces sive source of extra oxygen; but no pharaceutical of water, three times a day. Thereafter - the doscompany will touch it, since it cannot be patage is increased at the rate of 1 more drop in ented and is so inexpensive. Yet, without their solution per day (4 drops on the second day; 5 involvement, the government will not approve on the third day, etc.) to a maximum of 25 drops its use as an official remedy. on the sixteenth day. Over 5,000 research studies have been made When nausea is experienced, reduce the of the remedial value of hydrogen peroxide, yet strength until the solution is tolerated. This is the FDA will not approve it for the treatment of

most likely to occur about the twelfth day. The arthritis, cancer, and other conditions. patient maintains the tolerated dosage for one Hydrogen peroxide is produced by all cells to three weeks until the symptoms of cancer of the body for many different physiological reasubside. Then he tapers off by taking the tolersons. The granulocytes produce H0 as a first 22 ance dosage once every other day for a week, line of defense against bacteria, yeast, viruses, then once every third day for two weeks, and parasites, and most fungi.

--------------------------------------- 105 Specific Systems of Treatment105 finally once every fourth day for three weeks.markable adjunct to other cancer t reatments, but is only availFollowing that, 5-15 drops in solution per weekable at a few alternate cancer cl inics. is a good maintenance dosage. But the type ofDr. Douglass has publicized a littl e-known diet will affect this.method of treating cancer, called PhotoluminesYet another method is to take 3 to 4 dropscence, which is inexpensive, painless, and only of hydrogen peroxide in an aloe vera mixture,requires about half an hour per tre atment. instead of in straight water.As the patient lies on a table, some of his blood Patients who cannot reach a therapeuticis run into a quartz tube which is irradi ated with dosage, because of nausea, do best to be givenultraviolet light. Each treatment irradiates about intravenous doses. The present writer does not10% of his blood. have data on the dosages.This treatment has been used on cancer paA stinging or burning sensation may occur attients and, in Africa, on hundreds o f AIDS patients. times, when an injection is given. But it is said toBecause the process is simpl e and cannot be be transitory and harmless, and can be helped bypatented, organized medicine and the pharmaceuslowing the rate of infusion. Application of Paintical industry are not interest ed in the procedure. Gel, which contains 10% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, an inflammatory compound), topically to __________________ __ the surface of the injection also helps reduce irriSTANISLAW BURZYNSKI, M.D., 1980s tation to the vein. A paper published by the Grotz group, saysNote to researchers: Burzynski s short-c hain BDS amino acids should be applied in carefully controlled oral and intravethat the peroxide remedy may produce skin erup-nous experiments on animals, follo wed by tests on humans. tions, nausea, headaches, sleepiness, unusual fa-Working Summary: Burzynski s amin o acids treatment may tigue, diarrhea, head or chest colds, ear infections,have some relation to Burto n s four blood protein treatment.

boils, or other ways the body uses to loosen tox-Both therapies are still being given today. As usual with most therapies, no change in diet or lifestyle is required, so it is less ins. This is a natural cleansing of the body (Hy-likely to provide long-term remi ssion. drogen Peroxide Therapy, 28). You will recall earlier mention of J.H. LawIn summary: There are few side effects with hydrogen peroxide therapy. In rare cases, a prob-rence, Ph.D., a British scienti st during World War II, who claimed that something in urine seemed to lem involving inflammation of veins at the site of injection will occur. Hydrogen peroxidehave anti-tumor activity in animals. Then there was Dr. Danopoulos, who, in the should not be taken orally, as it causes nausea 1950s, discovered that purified urea could help and vomiting; and rectal administration canreduce cancer masses. lead to inflammation of the lower intestinal Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D., expanded tract. Other side effects observed include tem-on this theory of urine derivativ es; and, in the porary faintness, fatigue, headaches, and chest 1980s, he theorized that certain substances could pain. Most peroxide problems stem from the useinhibit the growth of tumor cells, witho ut disturbing normal cells. After isolating them from of either an inappropriate administration route, administration above patient tolerance, the mix-human urine, he is said to have later synthesized these compounds in the laboratory. ing of oxidative chemicals with other substances, or using oxidative chemicals in tooA graduate of the Lublin Medical Aca demy in Poland, his treatment is based on the theory great a concentration. Sources for hydrogen peroxide Interna-that the body has a parallel biochemical def ense system independent of the immune system. He tional Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, P.O. Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205 Ph: (405)calls it the biochemical defense sy stem (BDS), and says it is completely different than in the 478-4266, or / Hospital Santa Monica, 4100 Bonita Road, Bonita, CA 91910 Ph: (800) 359-6547 /immune system. It is a reprogramming of defective cells. It s (619) 428-1147 no longer killing of the cells, but changing the program inside the defective cell, which means ____________________that the cell will begin functioning normally . WILLIAM CAMPBELL DOUGLASS, M.D.,Stanislaw Burzynski, Antineoplastons, Lec1980sture delivered at World Foundation Research Note to researchers: The possibilities here are remarkable.Congress, October 7, 1990. It would be well if double-blind tests were performed, to verifyBurzynski found that the BDS consisted of the usefulness of this procedure.short-chain amino acids, known as polypepWorking Summary: Photoluminescence therapy is a re-

--------------------------------------- 106 106Alternate Cancer Remedies tides, which are able to inhibit cancer cellamounts of germanium: garlic, comfre y, ginseng, growth. He calls them antineoplastons (meaningand aloe. Asai found that the amou nt of germaanti-new growth ). He first isolated them fromnium in the plant varied according to the amount human blood and later from urine.in the soil, and that adding more to the soil i mHis work has gained worldwide recognitionproved plant growth. from scientists. Low doses of orally administeredBecause germanium, like silicon , is a semisynthetic antineoplaston A10 help prevent lung,conductor, Asai theorized that it s remarkable breast, and liver cancers. There are no major sidehealing properties are due to the fact that it effects. Many of the patients are treated with thisenables a plant to convert en ergy from sunlight substance along with orthodox cancer treat-into electricity. This energy is used t o break waments.ter into hydrogen and oxygen. Carbon dioxide In recent years, Dr. Burzynski has adminis-(taken in by the plant from the air) combines with tered about 10 types of these substances, boththe hydrogen to produce carbohydra tes. The oxyorally and intravenously, at his clinic in Hous-gen is given off into the atmosp here. ton, Texas. The brochure for his HoustonBecause each atom of organic germanium Burzynski Clinic indicates that the minimumis bonded to three atoms of oxygen, i t is an length of time for treatment is from four monthsefficient carrier of oxygen, and helps substitute to one year.for oxygenation in living tissues. Antineoplaston treatments are given by intra-This is significant, since Otto War burg discovvenous drip, intravenous injections, and orally inered that cancer cells do not metabolize oxygen capsule form. Dosage and method of administra-well. An excess of germanium in th e system, tion are determined by the type of cancer and con-provides a sizeable additional amount of oxydition of the patient.gen in the body. Antineoplaston Therapy Burzynski Clinic,The germanium helps carry oxygen to the 6221 Corporate Drive, Houston, TX 77036 Ph:cells, and thus offset the damage to them from 713-777-8233.free radicals which produced oxygen starvation in them. ____________________But germanium does even more: It increases KAZUHIKO ASAI, Ph.D., 1980sNK (killer) cell activity. It normalizes and strengthens the immune system. It restores the Note to researchers: Closer attention should be given to thenormal function of T -cells, B-lymphocytes, and relationship of germanium-132 to specific forms of cancer. Why are some types alleviated more easily than others? Are dosageantibody-forming ce lls. factors involved?It stimulates the body s production of in-

Working Summary: We have here, not a chemical or pro-terferon, without producing the side effects of tein, but an important nutrient.other substances which stimulates that producDr. Asai synthesized Germanium-132 (Ge-tion. 132) in Japan in 1967, but it was not until theGermanium, Asai found, was effect ive against 1980s that it was extensively researched and used.asthma, diabetes, hypertension , neuralgia, cardiac While searching for better ways to mine and useinsufficiency, hepatic cirrhosis, softening of the coal, he discovered fossilized plants in the coalbrain, and several cancers (leu kemia, lungs, bladdeposits. Analyzing them, he found substantialder, breast, and larynx). It even helped with heavy amounts of germanium.metal poisoning, high blood pressure, arthritis, Having heard something about Russian re-vision problems, and some types of depre ssion. search into its remarkable healing properties, Asai Yet it does all this while hav ing extremely decided, when he retired in 1969, to spend thelow toxicity. rest of his life researching into this trace mineral.By the 1980s, a sizeable nu mber of other He found that it was true that the substancegermanium studies were in progress, showing had unusual powers, yet it cost too much to ex-strong anti-cancer ability, with remarkably low tract from natural plant sources, in the quantitiesside effects. needed to treat cancer. So Asai developed a methodGermanium-132 is available at this time in for producing an organic germanium-132, whichhealth-food stores as a nutritional supplement for was chemically identical to the form extracted fromoral consumption. Preventive doses range from plants. The chemical name for this substance is250 mg to 325 mg per capsule or t ablet. bis-carboxyethyl germanium sesquioxide.In treating diseases, especially cancer, much It is of special interest that many of the mosthigher daily doses are taken. One example would important healing herbs contain significantbe 50 mg/Kg/day orally. For a 110-pou nd person,

--------------------------------------- 107 Specific Systems of Treatment107 this would amount to 10 250-mg capsules (2.5and breast. gm) per day. Higher doses are best taken under aObtaining omega-3 in your diet i nhibits physician s care.arachidonic acid, provides the needed nutriHospital Santa Monica c/o Dr. Ross Pelton,tional help, and offsets the disadvantag es of an P.O. Box 81365, San Diego, 92138-1365overbalance of omega-6. (The hospital is located in Tijuana, Mexico)Do you want to solve the lack of ome ga-3 lack in your life? This chart will tell you how to do so: ____________________OMEGA-3OMEGA-6 Almond 026 RASHIDA KARMALI, M.D., 1987Avocado 010

Note to researchers: Additional sources of omega-3 need to be determined, Omega-3 food analyses for additional foods,Canola1024 such as wheat germ oil, needs to be determined.Corn 060 Working Summary: Flaxseed oil (also called flax oil) isOlive 0 8 extremely important and should, if possible, be added toPeanut 030 everyone s diet. Safflower 079 Dr. Karmali in New York has been a leader inSesame 041 research into the relationship between the essen-Soy 850 tial fatty acids and cancer. The story of omega-3 isSunflower 069 a fascinating one; here it is:Flaxseed 58-60 18-20 There are three types of fats: saturated, mono-EPA and DHA are two factors in om ega-3, but unsaturated, and polyunsaturated. Two of thebecome rancid more quickly than the omega-3 in polyunsaturated fats are essential nutrientsflaxseed. EPA and DHA are found in f ish oils. which the body must have from outside sources,Udo Erasmus, author of Fats and Oi ls, debecause it cannot make them itself. These twoclares that the only safe form of o mega-3 is flaxare omega-3 (alpha-linolenic acid) and omega-seed. Erasmus says it is impossible to produce 6 (linoleic acid).safe (non-rancid) nutritional supplements of EPA Karmali discovered that the ideal ratio is 1 toand DHA. Flaxseed oil, which is l ess saturated than 1; that is, for optimum health and cancer-pro-EPA and DHA, is all we have availa ble to us yet it tection, the body needs an equal amount ofis excellent. omega-3 and omega-6.Heat, light, and oxygen will all rapidly cause This is extremely important information, inflaxseed oil to become rancid. Here i s how to light of the fact that the standard American dietuse it: Purchase it only in bla ck, opaque plastic contains a 1 to 20 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6.bottles, and only from a health-f ood store which Most foods contain far more omega-6 thankeeps it refrigerated. Take it home and keep it omega-3. To make matters worse, food processorshome; and pour some into a smalle r, clean jar purposely try to rid food of omega-3! This is due(such as a pint Kerr jar), and place that in the to the fact that omega-3 is highly unstable andrefrigerator. Put the larger cont ainer in the freezer. quickly becomes rancid; whereas omega-6 andNever use it in cooking or baking. Wh en you arachidonic acid (a member of the omega-6 fam-are ready to use it at mealtime, t ake the small jar ily) are quite stable.from the refrigerator and pour a little on your food But, of them, only omega-3 protects againstor, better, into a spoon and put it i nto your mouth cancer and fights it when it arrives.along with some food. Then return the jar t o the In his book, The Omega-3 Phenomenon, Dr.refrigerator. Flaxseed oil is somewhat t hick, but Donald Rudin says that in the last one hundredhas a remarkably nutty, nice flavo r. years, there has been an 80% decrease in theTaking basic antioxidants with that meal (viamount of omega-3 in our diets.tamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and selenium)

Prostaglandin production by the body is de-will help protect the body against in ternal lipid pendent on obtaining these two omegas. Lackingperoxidation. a proper balance, platelet stickiness occurs in theThere are no side effects, ot her than posblood, causing blood clots and heart attacks.sible rancidity effects, which are slight. Arachidonic acid, a member of the omega-6Here is dosage information: family, can promote tumor formation, cell prolif-For normal maintenance, take 1 or 2 tableeration, metastasis, and suppression of the im-spoons of flaxseed oil each day a t mealtime. mune surveillance system. Karmali has shown thatFor cancer therapy, take 1 table spoon of flaxinhibiting arachidonic acid metabolism can de-seed oil, twice daily at mealtime. For an outpacrease cancers of the colon, esophagus, skin,tient maintenance dose, 1 tablespoo n daily at the

--------------------------------------- 108 108Alternate Cancer Remedies main meal may be sufficient.infections, joint problems, fungal infections, leg Following her medical research, Johannaulcers, infected or poorly healing wounds , and Budwig has treated thousands of cancer patientsburns. Professional help is neede d when ozone is with flaxseed oil.taken internally. Flaxseed Oil If you cannot obtain it at yourKeep in mind that adverse effects asso cihealth-food store, here are addresses for orderingated with intravenous ozone ha ve been reported it direct (it might even be fresher ordered direct):to include phlebitis (inflam mation of a vein), cirOmega Nutrition, 5373 Guide Meridian, Bldg. B,culatory depression, chest pain, s hortness of Bellingham, WA 98226 Ph: 800-661-3529. Keepsbreath, fainting, coughing, flushing , cardiac unopened in freezer up to 6 months, and in refrig-arrhythmias, and gas embolus ( bubbles). Rectal erator 3 months. After opening, keep it no longeradministration can lead to infl ammation of the than three weeks. / One of the best flaxseed manu-lower intestinal tract. Althou gh easily tolerated in facturers is Barlean s high lignan Flax Oil, 4936other tissues, in high concentrat ions ozone causes Lake Terrell Rd., Ferndale, WA 98248inflammation of the lung tissue. Obviously, there are other alternative can____________________cer remedies which are less problematic. F. SWEET, M.D., 1990 Note to researchers: Ozone therapy combines inexpensiveness and effectiveness. In this day of high-priced medications, ____________________ surely ozone demands careful analysis by researchers. Working Summary: Combined with proper diet and other OTHER RESEARCH lifestyle changes, ozone therapy can be used against cancer. How-

ever, other forms of oxygen therapy (hydrogen peroxide and hy-Note to researcher s: Each of these alternative remedial perbaric chambers) are more frequently used.agents should be carefully investiga ted in both laboratory and field test settings. About one-fifth of the air you breathe is oxygen in its two-atom form (O). Ozone (O) containsIn addition to other alternative cancer re23 three oxygen atoms and is a less stable form. Be-search and claims, a number of other theracause of the added oxygen molecule, it morepies have also appeared. quickly enters into reactions in the body to oxiA crucial pattern, frequently observed in some, dize other chemicals. During this process, the exis that claims are made that success will be obtra oxygen molecule breaks away, leaving a nortained by taking one substance (taxol, etc.) or a mal O molecule. This increases the oxygen con2narrowed diet (macrobiotics, etc.). But such a protent of the blood or tissues. For this reason, ozone gram cannot provide the best likelihood of suctherapy involves both oxygenation therapy and oxicess. dation therapy. Actually, programs which require a wide Careful laboratory research by Dr. F. Sweet and change from an unhealthful to more healthful diet his associates has shone that human lung, breast, and way of life produce the most favorable reand uterine cancer cells are inhibited by ozone sults. Why gamble on something narrowed, when (F. Sweet, M. Ka, and S. Lee, Ozone Selectively you can have something broader? Inhibits Growth of Cancer Cells, Science, 2009 Maitake this is a mushroom from the Ori(72) 931, 1990). Yet ozone therapy, as an alternaent, which contains a substance that prevents cartive remedy for cancer, is still in its formative cinogenesis and inhibits the growth of cancerous stages. We should not place reliance on it yet. tumors. It also helps the body adapt to the stress Jonathan Wright, M.D., of Kent, Washington, of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy. finds ozone very effective against a number of disShiitake and reishi mushrooms have valuable imeases, when combined with dietary changes and mune-boosting and anti-tumor properties. It is of high doses of intravenous ascorbate (a form of viinterest that the Gerson Institute, and certain other tamin C). He says that vitamin C must be given cancer therapists, have said not to eat fungus if with any oxidative therapy, in order to prevent you have cancer; this is what mushrooms are. uncontrolled oxidation which is detrimental to the body.Mayapple One example was the mayapple It should be noted that ozone therapy is not(Podophyllum peltatum). The Penobsco t Indians used in the treatment of cancer, as much as itlong used this plant as a folk rem edy for cancer. It

is used for other diseased conditions (such aswas even mentioned in an 1849 medi cal book. But inflammatory infections, arterial circulatory prob-was then forgotten for over a century. lems, allergic diseases, arthritis, hepatitis, herpesIn more recent decades, NCI s Jonathan

--------------------------------------- 109 Specific Systems of Treatment109 Hartwell decided to investigate the mayapple andThis is the most abundant hormo ne found in the found that it actually retarded the growth of ma-bloodstream, and is produced by the adrenal lignancies. Now called VM-26, it has been foundglands. It is produced abundantly in youth, and to be effective in the treatment of brain cancer inbegins declining at age 25. A t age 80, people have some cases. But, if the mayapple treatment wereabout 10-20% of the DHEA they had at 20. Most combined with a much broader change in one sof the DHEA you can buy (nonprescripti onway of life, it would be far more successful (Ameri-strength pills and capsules) is extracted from wild can Cancer Society, Plants that Cause and Cureyams. High doses of DHEA may suppre ss the Cancer, Cancer News, Fall 1975).body s natural ability to synthesize the hormone, The information we have available does notand high doses given to animals can pr oduce liver state which part of the plant was used for treatingdamage. When taking DHEA, be sure and take the cancer. Note: Herbarium manuals cite the may-antioxidants: vitamins C and E, and selenium. apple as being poisonous. Fu Zheng therapy This treatment, used exCat s claw This is an herb which enhancestensively in China, is based on the use of ginseng immune function and has anti-tumor properties.and astragalus, along with other h erbs. It was Autumn crocus The autumn crocus was rec-reported that life expectancy doubled for patients, ommended as a cancer remedy by Dioscorides,and they experienced healing of rapid ly advancing cancers when Chinese herbs were added to their the famous Greco-Roman physician and botanist.remedial program (U.S. Congress, A ppropriations More recently, it was found to contain a chemical useful in the treatment of chronic granulocytic leu-Subcommittee hearing, June 2 4, 1993, 65). kemia (M. Kreig, Green Medicine, 1964).Poly-ZYM-023 These are enzymes which are Garlic and Ginseng Both of these substancessaid to break down the protective shiel d around the tumor. They can be ordered from a health-food have given some indication of anti-cancer activity,store, which will obtain them from General Reaccording to studies at Brown University in Rhode Island (Brown University News Service, One ofsearch Laboratories, in El Segundo, California.

the Oldest Remedies May Help Assist CancerBiological Theory of Ionization Carey A. Fight, February 10, 1976).Reams was a research chemist who devised a system of sputum and urine testing with chemicals, Maytansine A shrub found in East Africa con-which an experienced reader of the fiv e numbers tains this chemical which the NCI declares to be a possible anti-cancer agent. Natives used the plantproduced; these could reveal a great variety of for centuries to treat tumors (American Cancerthings about the body. Various foo ds would then be prescribed in order to bring the body into harSociety, Plants that Cause and Cure Cancer, mony with the numbers. Cancer News, Fall 1975). Unfortunately, we have here an example of Periwinkle This small plant, native to Mada-trusting a theory more than common sen se. Algascar, is said to have remarkable healing quali-though the Reams program may he lp individuals ties.in a variety of ways (it is especially good at getting Kombucha A tea made from this herb haspeople to drink more water), it is myopic ab out energizing and immune-boosting properties, andthose numbers. He recommended drin king alcohol as ways to correct the numbers. may be valuable in fighting cancer. Following Dr. Reams death in the late 1980s, Taxol Derived from the Pacific yew tree, taxolone of the leading practitioners of the program is said to be a useful cancer remedy. As with manylisted 32 food fallacies in his Reams instruction other substances, it should be combined with nutritional and other changes in order to be espe-manual. These are errors which peo ple cling to, because they follow standards and principles incially effective.stead of going by the numbers. According to DMSO Dimethyl sulfoxide is a hormoneReams theory, he stated, almost any kind of ju nk which, used alone or in combination with otherfood can be eaten. therapies, is used to treat certain forms of cancer.The reader is told that, bec ause they generBut, as the reader may know, hormones are notally do not disagree with the numbe rs, it is all always the safest thing to use.right to eat white sugar, white flour, white fat such DHEA The hormone dehydroepiandro-as Crisco, fried foods, butter, margarine, milk, carbonated beverages, coffee, alcohol, cooked food, sterone is believed to help prevent cancer by block-preservatives, microwaved fo od, food cooked in ing an enzyme that promotes cancer cell growth.

--------------------------------------- 110 110Alternate Cancer Remedies aluminum, vinegar, high protein diet; and do notalternative remedial facilities in the world, proworry about salt or bother being a vegetarian. Meatvides this supplement formula for cancer patients.

is just fine. Go by the numbers, and apparentlyIt would probably work equally well for those inthe numbers care not for what you eat (More Ex-tent on avoiding cancer to begin with: cellent Way Ministries, Home Correspondence The dosages of nutritional supplements used Course, chapter 2, Fads, Facts and Fallacies, in most of the alternative cancer the rapies are 48-76).much higher than the RDA levels. However, as But, the truth is, if the numbers say it is allmentioned above, these levels of supplementation right to eat bad food, then there must be some-rarely produce harmful side effec ts. thing wrong with the entire theory. There is continuing controversy over dosage In Part One of this present book, we listed alevels of nutritional supplements; and health prowide variety of nutritional factors, researched andfessionals involved with alte rnative therapies recaccepted in many circles as fundamental to goodommend different levels, accordin g to their aphealth and resistance to disease. It is not neces-proach. The following are rang es of nutritional sary to return to liquor, white grease, and alumi-supplementation that I feel co nfident in recomnum pots to improve our health.mending to adult cancer patients I have worked with: ____________________ Vitamin C 1,00 to 2,000 mg with each meal. Vitamin E 400 IU twice daily. OTHER FACTORS Beta-carotene 25,000 to 50,000 IU with DIETETIC AND LIFESTYLE FACTORSeach meal. Note to researchers: Abundant opportunities for special- Selenium 100 mcg at each me al. ized research will be found in the many anti-cancer factors listed Organic germani um 100 to 300 mg daily. in Part One of this book. Omega-3 fatty acid (flaxseed oil) 1 to 2 tableIn Part One of this book, over a hundredspoons daily. Ross Pelton, Ph.D., and Lee factors were listed which can help prevent theOverholser, Ph.D., Alternatives in Cancer onset of cancer. But it should be kept in mindTherapy, 109-110 (1994). that adherence to those principles will also help a person recover from cancer.HYPERTHERMIA (HEAT THERAPY) Note to researchers: Hyperthermia treatments should be NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTSgiven to cancer patients in a testing situation. There ar e definite cases of recoveries from this method, which always requires Note to researchers: A large amount of research has been monitoring by a skilled attendant. conducted on the importance of vitamins and minerals in relation to maintaining health and preventing diseases, includingIn his book, Back t o Eden, Jethro Kloss mencancer. Additional definitive studies are needed.tions a man who had been bitten by a mad dog. Essential nutrients are those substances whichDeciding to end it all, the man to ok an extremely the body must have in order to maintain health,hot steam bath. But, instead of d ying, the rabies yet which it cannot manufacture itself. They mustwas entirely destroyed. Whether or not the story be obtained from food or nutritional supplements.is accurate, it points up a tru

th. At the present time, there are known to be 45You will recall Coley s toxins, consi sting of danessential nutrients for human beings: 20 miner-gerous strep bacteria (erysipelas ; streptococcus als, 15 vitamins, eight amino acids, and two fattypyogenes), which he used to pr oduce a fever which acids.burned out the malignancy. The landmark NHANES II study revealed that,Then there was Robert Koch, who at fi rst used on any given day, 91 percent of Americans do notstrep germs, and later tissue th rombin, to accommeet the USDA/DHHS guidelines of eating two orplish the task more efficiently an d safely. more servings of fruits and three or more servingsWe have also noted that the Ge rson Institute of vegetables. Instead, on an average day, 11 per-has discovered that laetrile r aises the temperature o cent have no fruit or vegetables at all, 45 percentaround the tumor 4-5 F. That small amount is a eat no fruit, and 22 percent eat no vegetables.great help in weakening the cance r cells. The food-processing industry, the dramatic in-It now known that cancer cells can not take as crease of fast-food restaurants, and the orthodoxmuch heat as normal cells can. silence on the need to eat good food all work to-It is on this basis that hyperthe rmia (also called gether to keep the hospitals full.fever treatments) are given. Dr. Ross Pelton, administrator of Hospital Cancer cells are more vulnerable to heat than Santa Monica in Baja, Mexico, one of the largest

--------------------------------------- 111 Specific Systems of Treatment111 normal healthy cells. Since the time of Hippocratesrole in the healing process o f the body. The metaand the Egyptian Pharoahs, heat therapy has beenbolic rate is increased 100% for every 10 degrees valued. Research has shown that applying heat tocentigrade rise in temperature. a person elevates immune responses. TemperaIn this book, we will pay more detailed atoo tures of 107 F. (42 C.) will kill most cancer cells, tention to hyperthermia procedure than to any but can be quite stressful on the person. Specialother single item, since it may be done at home o ists in this field generally say not to go over 104F. yet can be dangerous if not done properly. ConKeep in mind that these high body temperatures sult your physician! can be dangerous! The brain and heart must be o kept cool. If the brain goes over 104F., it will be A person using this therapy must have a permanently damaged!helper and follow the instructions, below, care-

Hot water packs over the tumor area can alsofully! If you practice hyperthermia at home, you help raise localized temperatures, but whole bodyshould consult your physician. Douglass Lewis, applications are more frequently used.N.D., cautions patients to be careful to m onitor o Whole body hyperthermia requires careful su-their temperature and not let it go above 102 pervision under a competent professional! It is notF., measured orally. something you can do at home! Special hot tubHere, briefly, is the hyperthermia formula, devices, general anesthesia, and medical supervi-as used at the Gerson Clinic and taught to helpsion may be required. Localized hyperthermia hasers to use on patients after the y return home: also been done. Major cancer research centers, including Stanford and Duke, have found thisHYPERTHERMIA FORMULA therapy useful. But they generally use it in con- Hyperthermia treatment - hot tub bath - procenection with chemo and radiation therapy which,dure: of course, involves serious side effects. Full treatments should not be taken duri ng Over the last few centuries, physicians havehealing reactions, though relaxing ba ths at lower observed that people suffering from certain ill-temperatures are allowed. Patien ts will need to nesses such as cancer, gonorrhea, and syphilis of-have a medical examination and EKG in prepaten become free of these illnesse following a highration. The accompanying perso n is invited to fever from another infection. This has led to re-observe the procedures, so they can be continsearch into the production of fever to treat a wideued in the home environment. variety of health problems from common colds to 1. Don t eat: Patient should eat nothing for AIDS and cancer. Douglas Lewis, N.D., Chair, 1 hours before treatment. Liquids (juices, tea, etc.) Physical medicine, Natural Health Clinic, Seattle, can be continued. If the patient is scheduled soon Washington.after a meal, only a light meal may be taken. Current medical literature contains many ref2. Coffee enema: One hour before scheduled erences to the use of hyperthermia as an adjuncttreatment, a coffee enema is tak en. cancer treatment. 3. Shower: At this time a thorough cleansing Hyperthermia modifies cell membranes inshower is to be taken. such a way as to protect healthy cells and make 4. Laetrile treatment: Those pa tients taking tumor cells more susceptible to other means oflaetrile will have it applied 15 m inutes before the destroying them, such as herbs, etc.scheduled treatment. Hyperthermia heats cancer cells, thus weak5. Herb tea: Fifteen minutes befor e the treatening them, since malignant cells do not toleratement a cup of hot tea is given. elevated temperatures as well as normal cells. 6. Bathing suit: Upon arrival in the departHyperthermia stimulates the immune sys-ment the patient changes into a bathing s uit. tem. White cell counts drop immediately follow7. Tub: From the hot shower, t

he patient goes ing treatment, but rise within a few hours. Notto the tub. The tub is entered sl owly, submerging only do the number of white cells increase, butuntil the shoulders are covered a nd a comfortable their ability to destroy target cells appears to in-position found. crease as well. 8. Tea: A second cup of herbal tea is taken As a result of whole body hyperthermia, thereupon entering the tub. is a marked increase in the production of 9. Cover head with towel: The head wil l be interleukin-1. This is a compound produced bycovered by a towel to limit heat lo ss. the body in response to infection, inflammation, 10. Monitor temperature and pulse : Temperaor other immunologic challenges.ture and pulse will be monitored frequently as t he body temperature increases. Increased body temperature plays a positive

--------------------------------------- 112 112Alternate Cancer Remedies 11. Relax: The patient is encouraged to relax.rate), or severe hypertension or hy potension. As the temperature increases, breathing exercises Those with temperature regulato ry problems are used, eg: Breathe in through the nose, pulling(especially the old and very y oung) should not use the air in with the stomach muscles, then outhyperthermia. through the mouth. Swab the face, and fan with a Other reported risks of hyperthermia include wash cloth.herpes outbreaks (including herpes zoster), liver 12. Time: 20-30 minutes: It takes about 20toxicity, and nervous system injury. 0 30 minutes for the average patient to reach 103Some substances used to induce hyperther0 104 F. On the first treatment a lowered temperamia are not recommended: blood products, vacture is attempted (1010-1020) to begin acclimatizacines, pollens, benign forms of malaria. All such tion. The final temperature is determined by what are dangerous. Only use water or warm blankets! the patient feels he can tolerate. Do not use microwave or other forms of di13. Heat the bed: Preheat the patients bed usathermy. They burn tissue around the eyes, burn ing an electric blanket over the other blankets. Help the bones, and kill people with pacemakers. the patient into the warmed bed and disconnect Those with peripheral vascular disease or the electric blanket. loss of sensation are at risk of burns during hy14. Stay in warm bed: The body temperature perthermia. is maintained in the bed for another 15-20 minWatch for signs of hyperventilation. These

utes at which time the blankets are slowly removed, include numbness and tingling in the lips, hands, one by one. This cooling-off process will take about another 20 minutes. Upon leaving the tub and en-or feet. If hyperventilation occ urs, reduce the bath tering the bed, sips of hot herb tea are given. Astemperature; breathe from the abdomen, not the the cooling-off process continues, cooler fluidschest, or breathe into a paper b ag until the tin(never cooler than room temperature) can be givengling passes. (Hyperventilation is excessively rapid until, at the time of completion, several glasses ofbreathing, which results in carbon dioxide depleorange juice are recommended.tion and fall in blood pressure and vasoconstric15. Shower: When the patient returns to histion.) room, a lukewarm shower should be used to fur- Stand slowly after finishing the t reatment ther assist in washing off the skin. A restful after-and be careful, in the show er, for the cool rinse. noon is indicated. Many sleep several hours. Regular meals and juices need not be interrupted. BREAST AND SKIN CANCER Hyperthermia Treatment, Gerson Primer, 4th ediAPPLICATIONS tion, 11 [3rd edition, 13]. Note to researchers: Aspects are noted here which should be given special scrutiny for possible beneficial effects. HYPERTHERMIA PRECAUTIONSIn the late 1980s, researchers discovered that As noted above, someone should always bewomen develop breast cancer far more fre quently monitoring the patient; and the temperaturein certain localities than in others. Analyzing them, should be continually checked so that it does notit was discovered that they are those areas where o go above 102F., measured orally.there tends to be less sunlight throughout the y ear. Hotter water can generally be tolerated forFor example, northwestern California, the westshort periods, but it may cause an increase in bodyern slopes of Oregon and Wash ington, and the temperature that occurs too quickly. This mayNortheast had a far greater number of breast cancause the treatment to be ended soon and leavecer cases than did Florida, Texas, Arizona, and the patient feeling uncomfortable.southern California. The solution: Take sunbat hs Consult your physician before doing thisfrom time to time, throughout the year. Sunlight treatment if the patient has any of the followingis important for maintaining go od health, purifyconditions: high or low blood pressure, seriousing the body, and resisting infec tion. illness, diabetes mellitus, multiple or muscularBreast cancer occurs more often in women who sclerosis.started menstruating early in their youth, had a Do not use this treatment during pregnancy.late menopause, gave birth later in l ife, had a famOther individuals who may be especially sen-ily history of breast cancer, develo ped obesity af-

sitive to heat include those with anemia, heart dis-ter menopause, and/or had a history of alcoholease, seizure disorders, or tuberculosis.ism and eating a high-fat diet. Those with cardiovascular disease shouldResearch indicates that those who take o ral not use hyperthermia. This especially includescontraceptives are three times mor e likely to dethose with arrhythmia (irregularity or loss of heartvelop breast cancer. Silican (used in breast imrhythm), tachycardia (abnormally rapid heartplants) causes cancer in test animal s. Those who

--------------------------------------- 113 Specific Systems of Treatment113 develop breast, and other, cancers have less vita-that time forward. min A in their bodies.Yet, with the passing of time, more highly deEat a nutritious diet centered around freshveloped microscopic equipment was dev eloped, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and nuts. Eatand research scientists contin ued discovering migarlic and onions. Drink distilled water and freshcroorganisms which changed. fruit and vegetable juices. Get extra fiber.German scientist Robert Koch won a N obel Do not eat too much soy or peanut products.prize for his discovery of the tuberc ulin bacillus Avoid meat; dairy products; alcohol; caffeine;bacterium. But Koch also discovere d that the tynicotine; and processed, fried, white-flour, andphoid bacillus bacterium had a p leomorphic najunk foods. Do not take supplements containingture. iron.Royal Rife was funded by Mr. Timpkins, owner Place hot and cold water packs over the tu-of Timpkins Roller Bearings Co., to c arry out remor, to bring the blood circulation to the area.search. Inventing a high-power, 30,000 magnifiThis is good in breast cancer, as well as some oth-cation microscope in his Cali fornia laboratory in ers. Exercise to maintain good circulation.the 1930s, he found that germs which changed Combine clay and macerated cabbage leaves,shape were present in cancer cells. Th ese bacteand mix together with powdered flaxseed and wa-rium made several changes, the fi rst of which was ter. Make a thick paste; add a pinch of cayenne,a fungus, and the last was cance r. and spread on a linen cloth. Apply to the areaIn the late 1940s, Virgina Livings ton, of Newwhere the tumor is located. It can be left on forark, N.J., isolated, what she b elieved to be, the several hours.cancer-causing microbe. She claimed to have found A drawing, soothing poultice can be made withit present in all cases of cancer. equal parts of powdered plantain leaves, comfreyAfter World War II, Gaston Naess ens, a French leaves, and lobelia. Mix this with wheat germ andbiologist, developed a high-pow er microscope castor oil into a thick paste. Spread it -inch thickwhich he called the Somatosco pe. Using it, he

on a cloth and place it on the tumor. Keep it on forfound tiny particles in the blood which had never 4 to 6 hours daily.before been seen, although earlier researchers had Poultices made from comfrey, pau d arco, rag-surmised their existence. Naming them somatids wort, and wood sage have been found to be help-( tiny bodies ), Naessens said they w ere the smallful.est unit of life and precursors to DNA. Jethro Kloss said that he frequently removedNaessens carried Rife s research furth er, findhard swellings in the breast, bowels, rectum, anding that these somatids normall y went through a vagina with hot applications, massage, and herbs.three-stage micro-cycle: somati c, spore, double spore. ____________________He also discovered that, when the immune sys PLEOMORPHISMtem became stressed or damaged (due to sickness, pollution, emotional distress, etc.), the somatids Note to researchers: Additional research into this field couldchange through 13 additional forms. The result is provide major breakthroughs in the treatment of malignancies. diseases like cancer, lupus, AIDS, multiple sclePleomorphism means changing shapes, rosis, etc. and concerns the fact that microorganismsBut, Naessens maintained, pleomorphic m ican change and take on multiple forms dur-croorganisms do not cause disease! They are siming a single life cycle.ply witnesses to a weakening of the natural deAntoine Bechamp, a rival of Louis Pasteur, wasfenses of the body and sign posts that can be used for early diagnosis of disease. In other words, the first to discover this. Bechamp was a physician, chemist, and teacher at the University ofthese microorganism changes were effects of probToulouse, in France. He found tiny granules calledlematic living, not causes. microzymas, or small ferments, which couldGuenther Enderlein, a German bacteriolog ist, found similar changing microoganisms, and change size and shape and become disease-causing bacteria.named them protits. He noted that these tiny proPasteur objected, saying it did not agree withtein-based microorganisms were esp ecially abundant in blood cells, plasma body fluids, and tishis theory that all disease was caused by external, pre-existing, never-changing microbes which in-sues. Somehow, they lived in a ha rmonious relavade the body. Pasteur s germ theory of disease tionship with the body. But, when sev ere changes was accepted by the medical establishment, fromoccurred in the body, these organ isms would also change. They would pass through several differ-

--------------------------------------- 114 114Alternate Cancer Remedies ent stages of cyclic development, advancing fromdoing to their bodies by the foo d they choose to

harmless bacteria to more dangerous bacteria oreat and the way they choose to li ve. fungi.W.C. Huerper, who retired in 1965 as head of Enderlein believed that one factor, triggeringthe Environmental Cancer Section, National Cansuch changes to the more toxic form, included acer Institute, stated: diet rich in animal fats and proteins, as well as The evidence on hand, when criti cally and radiation and other carcinogenic factors.competently evaluated, in fact strongly suggests These discoveries in pleomorphism are vigor-that the majority of cancers affecti ng the following ously denied by the medical establishment. It saysorgans are attributable to exp osures to environthat such microorganisms are just anomalies andmental carcinogens: skin, mouth, paranasal sithat, even if they do exist, play no part in cancer.nuses, larnyx, lung, esophag us, stomach, intestine, One exception is Raymond K. Brown, M.D., aliver, blood-forming organs, bone, bla dder, kidney, physician and former researcher at SKI in Newand thyroid. The probable existenc e of similar York City. He made this statement:causal relations can be suspected, moreover, f or Pleomorphic organisms are demonstrableat least a part of the cancers affecting th e brain, as the silent stage of a gamut of infections, andbreast and uterus. they ve been found in not only cancer patients,In 1928, Barker wrote Cancer is a di sease of but those individuals afflicted with arthritis,over-civilization or faulty civil ization, and is caused multiple sclerosis, and other diseases. R.K.by chronic poisoning in almost any form ; and it Brown, M.D., AIDS, Cancer and the Medicalcannot be doubted that much disease is caused Establishment, 1986, 92.by our being bombarded with chemicals and poisons in minute quantities at all meals (Cancer, ____________________the Surgeon and the Researcher). ADDITIONAL AREASEXERCISE One of the best preventive meaFOR EXPLORATORY RESEARCHsures against cancer may be exercise. Drs. R.A. Note to researchers: Here are a number of additional top-Holman and Warburg decl ared that impaired utiics requiring additional cancer research.lization of oxygen in the body was a si gnificant CATALASE Over 20 years ago, Dr. O. Loewcause of cancer. The German researcher, Dr. Ernst van Aaken, discovered the important enzyme, catalase. It has since been determined that this enzyme is pro-kept close tabs on a group of 454 members of a gressively diminished in both the tumor and theclub of long-distance runners. He found that in person or animal with the tumor. It is now knownthe six-year period of his study , only four of the runners got cancer; and all recovered and are now that catalase can be reduced in the body by the presence of viruses and also carcinogenic agents.running again. Records were als o kept on a paralBecause catalase inhibition in red blood cor-lel group of 454 normal men who did not run. During the same time period, 29 cases of cancer

puscles result in the formation of Heinz bodies, this could be a rapid method of screening agentsoccurred and 17 died of the dise ase (Stadtfor carcinogenic activity. Careful research shouldAnzeiger, January 15, 1971). be made, for this could enable us to more quicklyThe runners were continually pr oviding themselves with more oxygen than they needed, says determine carcinogenic agents. The presence of catalase in cells enables themDr. van Aaken. to live in the presence of oxygen. It is coming to beARTIFICIAL LIGHTING Dr. John Ott, the derecognized that this fundamental biological mecha-veloper of time lapse photogra phy, found that, in nism could be a key to cancer diagnosis and con-mice inbred for cancer, those in daylight cages detrol.velop malignant tumors under artificial light in the ENVIRONMENTAL AND DIETETIC POISONS average of two months later than mice kept unde r During the past 50 years, famous men like thewhite artificial light, and three mon ths later than Nobel Prize winners Alexis Carrel, Szent Gyorgyi,those under pink lights (Annals of the New York and others have emphasized that until we intel-Academy of Sciences, Vol. 117, 624635, Septemligently reform some of our habits of civilizationber 10, 1964). there will be no measurable reduction in the inci-During the summer months, 15 t erminal candence of this disease in the majority of the popu-cer patients attending the out patient department lation.at New York s Bellevue Medical Center agreed to Methods must be introduced to awaken thefollow Ott s suggestion for prolonged hour s outpublic to the very real dangers of what they aredoors, minus eyeglasses or sungl asses. At the end

--------------------------------------- 115 Specific Systems of Treatment115 of the summer, 14 of the 15 patients showed nocreasingly suspected of causing bl adder cancer. further advancement in tumor development andMore research needs to be done in th is area. These several showed possible improvement. The per-substances are saccharin, cyclamate (another arson can be in the shade, not in direct sunlight.tificial sweetener), tobacco, co ffee, and cola drinks. Ott then discovered that the one patient who had deteriorated had misread the instructions. SheBONE CANCER Due to various radio active and nuclear explosions, contaminants, and other had taken off her sunglasses but kept wearing herprojects, radioactive strontium continues to be a eyeglasses.growing problem. Further research is demanded ASBESTOS Many physicians believe there ishere. For example, in the town of Aliquip pa, Penna relation between asbestos exposure and lung can-sylvania, nine miles away from the Shippingport cer, yet additional research into this is lacking.Nuclear Generating Plant, the

mortality rate for The air of city streets is loaded with asbestos, be-infants is more than double that for the rest of the cause the average vehicle wears out three or fourstate. There is more than twice as much leukesets of asbestos brake linings and one or two as-mia, as the state average and i nfant diseases of all bestos clutch facings in its lifetime. This is prob-kinds amount to 165 percent of the state average. ably a major cause of the asbestos dust in ourYet the Atomic Energy Commission h as declared cities. But there are also other sources of asbes-Shippingport to be the safest of all nuclear power tos contamination, for many products contain as-plants. bestos.Sodium alginate (the trade name is algin) is TALC Talc is both chemically and geologicallyknown to be the most effective preven tive therapeutic measure against radiostrontium poisoning. related closely to three of the five types of asbes-It can be purchased in healt h-food stores. (Better tos. It is known that older talc workers die of lung cancer at a rate four times higher than would beyet, move away from nuclear powe r plants!) Algin expected. Talc should never be used on babies oris derived from kelp. When alginate is eaten, an ion-exchange reacin any other manner! Use corn starch instead! Thetion occurs in the intestines, and insoluble stronpresence of talc or asbestos is regularly found in the female organs of women with cancer in thosetium alginate gel is formed. The strontium is then excreted without being absorbed into the blood body parts.and thence taken to the bones. Dr. Pierre Biscaye, of Columbia University, found that many deodorants are heavily laced withBOWEL CANCER Consistent research reveals talc.that high-fiber foods help reduce the likelihood of Both beer, soft drinks, and other bottled re-bowel cancer. And, of course, stop eating meat freshments generally contain asbestos. This is dueproducts! Because humans have a longer gut, the to the fact that asbestos filtering pads are usedmeat tends to rot in the lower intestine before it is during processing. It is often in city tap water.excreted. There are many good reasons to move out toBREAST CANCER One excellent set of resea rch the country! findings revealed that women who live in areas FLUORIDE Fluoride is a trace mineral with awhere there is little sunlight (such as northern and relatively narrow margin of safety. Our bodies cannortheastern U.S.) have more b reast cancer than only tolerate so much before there are serious sidethose living in sunnier areas (such as the southeffects. Cancer is one of them. Additional researchwest). This research needs to be extended. needs to be done in this field.Iodine deficiency has been shown to be a cause In a careful Japanese study, it was found thatof breast cancer. Supplemental est rogen and the people who ate those foods which contained higherbirth control pill are also sig nificant causes.

amounts of fluoride had significantly higher ratesCERVICAL CANCER diethylstilbestr ol (DES) is of gastric cancer (Japanese Journal of Public Health, Vol. 4, 1969).a prime factor in causing cervical cancer. DES is a synthetic sex hormone. Fluoride even damages our genetic material!Another cause is eating meat from ani mals This could result in birth defects. Experiments have shown that fluoride compounds injected intotreated with stilbestrol. These factors need additional research. chicken eggs causes malformations in the embryo. The addition of sodium fluoride to the diet of fruitLUNG CANCER Lung cancer in mal es has inflies caused a high frequency of melanomas.creased 2,000% since 1914. Yet not al l of it is caused by smoking. BLADDER CANCER Several substances are in-Dr. Eugene Houdry discovered that lung ca n-

--------------------------------------- 116 116Alternate Cancer Remedies cer decreased 35% during the war years, due tothat all food additives, dyes, and other chemicals gasoline rationing. The problem is that, of thein our food produce a similar eff ect. 600,000 tons of pollutants poured into our atmoSTOMACH CANCER Eating smoked meat sphere daily, automobiles emit carbon monoxide, causes stomach cancer. Nitrites added to meat dursulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ing processing is another major cause. In the stomhydrocarbons, and lead particles. ach, the nitrite changes into nintrosamines, a Premium gas consists of high-boiling fractions deadly carcinogen. o o over 700F. But all fractions over 700F. have been THYMUS CANCER Radiation therapy is frefound to be highly carcinogenic. Regular gas and quently used in the treatment of cancer. But, among diesel are not far less toxic. Diesel also gives off other evils, it produces cancer of the thymus. formaldehyde and acrolein (the main ingredient Sometimes children are given radiation for in tear gas). tonsilitis or acne. In later years, they are more The takeoff of one commercial jetliner emits likely to develop thymus cancer. pollutants equivalent to 10,000 cars. Factories and other plants convert coal intoThe above data will provide research ers with benzopyrene, a powerful carcinogen. That gas hasa wealth of information, on whic h further labobeen found above every city. Cigarettes also emitratory and clinical studies can be conducted. it.___________________

ORAL CANCER Chewing mouth tobacco is a Because laetrile, Essiac, and the Gerson major cause of this malignancy, but so is smoktherapy are the most widely used today, they ing. Drinking undiluted whiskey increases the likehave purposely been placed after the preceding lihood of contracting oral cancer in cigar and pipe historical review. smokers. But drinking this alone will also cause ____________________ it to develop. Chewing betel nut is another cause. Badly fitting dentures causes up to half the oralERNST KREBS, SR., M.D., cancers in patients over fifty.ERNST KREBS, JR., Ph.D., JOHN A. RICHARDSON, M.D., 1947 SKIN CANCER An excess of sunlight is a primary cause, especially in those who tan or burnLaetrile is the only alternative cancer in easily. A severe sunburn, which produced blisters,America today which has been d eclared legal by during childhood can lead to skin cancer in latercourt action. life.Because this book is primarily written for reThose who eat only healthful, uncooked oil aresearchers, we have included specia lized research less likely to contract skin cancer from sunlight.information and formulas. This present section Vitamins C, E, and especially PABA (para-ami-is no exception. Note to researchers: Double-blind studies on laetrile needs nobenzoic acid, a B vitamin) and calcium carbonto be done, especially accompanied by nutritional changes. There ate, help protect the body against harmful light is a need to ascertain exactly what concomitants are needed to rays.accomplish the greatest good with laetrile. Many drugs and chemicals in the environment Working Summary: Laetrile, by itself, has been found to be increase sensitivity to the sun. Antibacterial soaps, most effective in the earlier stages of cancer. The addition of and many cosmetics and lotions are equal offenddietetic changes (by Richardson, Kowan, and Contreras, listed ers. Research at West Virginia University revealedbelow) greatly adds to the ini tial and long-term remission rates. BIBLE PROMISES 23:25. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit ofwhich the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and them. They shall not build, and another inhabit;unto thy house. Deuteronomy 26:11. they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the A little that a righteous man ha th, is better days of a tree are the days of My people, and Minethan the riches of many wicked . Psalm 37:16. elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble;He addeth no sorrow with it . Proverbs 10:22. for they are the seed of the Lord, and their off- Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than spring with them. Isaiah 65:21-23.great treasure and trouble therewith. Proverbs And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He15:16. shall bless thy bread and thy water. Exodus

--------------------------------------- 117 Laetrile Therapy117 - Part Three Laetrile Therapy Ancient Chinese substances, of the family insugary compounds found in . . plants , many of which are edible . . They comprise molecules made which laetrile is found, were used medically. Emperor Shen Nung listed kernel preparations as be-of a sugar, hydrogen cyanide, a bensene ring or ing useful against tumors.an acetone (Krebs, Jr., Journal of Applied Nutrition, 22:3-4, 1970). Herbert Summa has written that the Egyptians, in the time of the pharaohs, also used those seedsThroughout this study, as in a ll medical litfor special purposes.erature on the subject, the words amygdalin, laetrile, and vitamin B are interchangeable. But, The Romans had a medicinal preparation17 called agua amygdalarum amarum ( bitter al-throughout earlier history, amygdalin h ad been the mond water ). It was used as a medicine for cen-common term for the substance. In 1830, Pierre Jean Robiquet and Boutron, turies. The word amygdalin comes from the Greek amygdale. Celsus, Scribonius Largus,prepared it in its pure state. In 1837 , two German Galen, Pliny the Elder, Marcellus Empiricus, andscientist, Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wohler, discovered that amygdalin is split by an enzyme, Avicenna all used preparations containing amygdalin to treat tumors. The same is true of the medi-colmopex, into one molecule of hydrogen cyanide, eval pharmacopoeia (Bruce Halstead, M.D.,one of benzaldehyde, and two molecules of sugar. They found the enzyme complex, with glucoAmygdalin Therapy, 1977). side, in the bitter almond. Today, the apricot Laetrile is as commonplace in plants as is glupit is one of the richest natural sources. cose; you eat it all the time. The substance exists In 1845, the scientific literature contained the in various amounts in at least 1,200 foodstuffs. first report on the use of amygdalin in cancer. A But one of the richest sources is apricot seeds (usuRussian professor claimed that using the subally called apricot pits or kernels). Another stance apparently brought about controls in two source are bitter almonds. The seeds contain cases of widely spread cancers. This first docuamygdalin and prunasin, which are the two betamented use of a laetrile-like substance in treating cyanogenetic glucosides (BCG) of special medicancer is referred to in the Gazette Medicale de cal interest. These BCGs are also called nitrilParis, tome XIII, of September 13, 1845. Dr. T. osides, although sometimes the word is applied Inosemtzeff, professor of the Imperial University

only to amygdalin. of Moscow, cited two cancer patients who were These are enzymes, and amygdalin is also a treated with bitter almond emulsion. Both were vitamin; therefore it has been given the name, Visuccessful; one living for 11 years, the other for tamin B. The other name for this, laetrile, comes 17over three years. It is believed that this was the from the scientific description of the chemical nafirst time in modern Western Civilization that canture of this substance: LAEvo-mandeloniTRILE. cer was treated with a food factor. But, for the technically minded, the name laEarlier in this book, we reported on the reetrile is derived from a compound which is a levo (left-moving)-mandelopitrile-betaglucouronoside.search work of John Beard, but w e will discuss it Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., who coined the terms,again here since it figured so significa ntly into the research work of the Krebs. laetrile, nitriloside, and vitamin B, defines the 17 nitilosides as water-soluble, essentially nontoxic,

--------------------------------------- 118 118Alternate Cancer Remedies In the late 1800s, a Scottish physician, Dr.den, fatal illness. John Beard deter mined to find John Beard (1845-1924) developed a theory ofthe cause: What caused the trophobla st to shut cancer which modern advocates of laetrile therapydown or fail to shut down? hence determining believe helps to explain the function of this sub-whether the fetus will live or deadly chrioepithstance in treating malignancies. Yet he never per-elioma will develop. sonally used amygdalin. Beard found that this 56th day shutting down Beard published his findings, in 1902, in theoccurs at the very same time that t he fetal panBritish journal Lancet and then, in 1911, in hiscreas begins secreting. As he st udied further, he book, The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer and Itsdecided that the pancreatic enzymes are responScientific Basis. He elaborated on a theory which,sible for checking the growth of the gestational although remarkably different, was relativelytrophoblast, even though it is not entirely desimple. At the time, it received little interest andstroyed. some hostility. Beard s book was rediscovered byHere we have trophoblasts, which, just like the Krebs research team in 1938. (For more oncancer cells, are invasive, corrosi ve, diversive, and John Beard, see page 51.)able to metastasize (spread) yet are a normal part Here, very briefly, is the Beardian, or tro-of the life cycle, and naturally bro ught into check phoblastic, theory of cancer:by the body. The trophoblast was first identified in 1857Beard then found that some of these primitive

and named in 1876. This mysterious cell plays agerm cells, able later to become a trophoblast, specific role in pregnancy: It eats out a niche ineventually circulate throughou t the system. Could the uterine wall, where the fertilized egg can gainit be that, if they try to be come a trophoblast outnutrition from the mother s bloodstream.side the uterus, cancer will be the name g iven to Its name comes from the Greek words forthe process? nourishment and tissue ; and, in orthodox em-Beard therefore reasoned that, if pancre atic enzymes could inhibit cancer during gestation, bryology, it is said to be a layer of extra embryonicsurely they or some other enz ymes could stop ectoderm.the growth of cancer. The trophoblast is an invading, autonomous,Beard also believed that the stereoch emierosive cell that, during pregnancy, is found in thecal structure of cancer prot eins and carbohyblood and other organs outside the uterus. Butdrates is opposite to the structur e of the same the activity of the trophoblast puzzled Beard.things in normal cells. It does things which the cancer cell does! Could it be that the trophoblast a natural part of theThat is Beard s theory, also called the trohuman life cycle and cancer are the same thing?phoblastic theory of cancer. To find out, Beard traced the histories of bothErnst T. Krebs, Sr., and his son, Ernst T. Krebs, kinds of cells. In order to study the fertilized eggJr. carried on further resea rch along similar lines, many times at all its various stages, he workedbut did not discover Beard s theory until 1938. with small creatures called elasmobranches.But, by that time, they had already m ade several Gradually, he found that the trophoblast arises,other discoveries. Both the fath er and son were in some manner, from the primitive, undifferenti-remarkably brilliant. ated germ cell. But later, something dramatic happens. BeardBorn in 1877, Ernst T. Krebs, Sr., e arned a discovered that it is in the 56th day, in the span ofmedical degree from the Col lege of Physicians and human gestation, that the cellular trophoblast be-Surgeons, San Francisco. He wa s living there in gins to undergo a dramatic deterioration! Some-1906 when the great earthquake st ruck. Having thing checks the further growth of the gesta-lost everything, he moved his famil y to Carson City, tional trophoblast.Nevada. While practicing there, Ernst T. Krebs, These invading cells which have overpow-Jr., the first of his four children was born. At about ered and eroded other cells, begins to dimin-the same time, he adopted an orphan W ashoe Indian girl. ish and stop functioning.Krebs, Sr., though a physician, had also studBut there is one exception: This is when oneied pharmacy, and used his spare tim e in biomediof the most malignant forms of cancer (cancer ofcal investigation. Moving to San Francisco s Misthe chorion) develops. When that happens, bothsion District, he set up a laborat

ory in his home, a the mother and child can die in a matter of weeks.large mansion on South Van Nes s Avenue; and, Physicians in Beard s day acknowledged thatacross the street, above a pharmacy, he had his trophoblasts had something to do with that sud-medical office. As Krebs, Jr., wa s growing up, he

--------------------------------------- 119 Laetrile Therapy119 worked closely with his father in his research work.it. In 1918, Krebs, Sr., discovered an antibioticSo Krebs, Sr., made an extract from the aprimold which was successful in respiratory diseases.cot kernels and found it worked even better But, upon learning that the AMA did not like whatthan ever in eliminating cancer in rats. he had done (it was 10 years before AlexanderAt that time, the process (which he greatly imFleming s discovery of penicillin), he withdrewproved later) consisted of removing the oil from from membership in the AMA and never returned.the seeds, grinding them up in wat er, filtering the During the Prohibition in the 1920s, Krebs,mixture, precipitating the filtrate w ith alcohol, drySr., accepted some business, analyzing whiskeying the precipitate, redissolving it, then injecting smuggled on ships into San Francisco. The smug-it. glers were worried that it might contain wood al-Krebs, Sr., was certain that he was extracting cohol (isopropyl alcohol), which is deadly. So Krebsenzyme substances from the a pricot pit. Among accepted the job of analyzing it, to be sure it wasthese substances, he tentativ ely identified emulsin, grain alcohol (ethyl alcohol).amygdalase, prunase, pectinase, and others. At This got him interested in what kind of en-the time, he thought emulsin was the active ingrezyme in the wooden barrels caused certain tastedient. changes in the liquor. He found that mold on theBy this time, he was purchasing mice with spebarrel produced enzymes which affected the taste.cially inbred tendencies to can cer. Most of the time, Released into alcohol, they worked on the rawthe mice were healed, but sometimes they sudwhiskey. The aging process took a long time, be-denly died. Krebs did not yet re alize what was causcause only a small amount of mold was releaseding the mice to suddenly die and h ow to solve the at a time.problem. It was not until later that, in solving this, Dr. Charles Gurchot, a pharmacologist whohe was able to better purify the extrac t. worked with Krebs, Sr., for years in the pursuit ofIn 1928 or 1929, Krebs gave t he injections to the enzymatic control of cancer, later recalled, This was the cataclysmic event. Dr. Krebs toldhumans and found a consistent pattern of pain me, When I saw that enzyme doing all that digest-reduction and other good signs.

But he kept trying, it occurred to me it could be useful in cancer. ing to devise a way to produc e a purer extract. This idea that some type of enzyme mightGurchot later recalled that, of the first 25 or be able to digest cancer cells become some-so patients, there were no toxic effect s, other than thing of an obsession. In the early 1920s, Krebs,occasional complaints of feelin g chilly or crawlSr., started searching for rats with cancers. Find-ing of ants in the tumor area. In nearly all cases, ing them, he would inject them with the enzymethe tumor either was reduced or co mpletely disand see what happened. Sometimes the tumor dis-appeared. At about the same time, several other physiappeared. Krebs, Sr., was sure he was on to some-cians started working with him, and injecting the thing.substance in their San Francisco area clinics. But then his initial batch of enzymes ran out,Then one day, without telling Kreb s, Sr., and subsequent batches were not effective in elimi-Gurchot prepared a batch of e xtract with all the nating tumors. So Krebs, Sr., made another cru-enzymes killed. When Krebs, Sir., said it worked cial decision which was a glorious mistake! Hefine, Gurchot told him all the enzym es were dead. wanted to find a source of oak enzyme, and heImmediately, Krebs knew that the pr esence of live thought to himself, the oak belongs to the roseenzymes was not a factor. family, so I need to obtain the extract of a plant inThe team worked into the 19 40s before they that family. figured out the nature of the active ingredient. Now, the oak does not belong to the rose family; Krebs was a better chemist than botanist. But,At this point we will jump ah ead to the late just about that time, it turned out that the Washoe1930s. By that time, there we re several physicians Indian girl who he had earlier adopted married athroughout the world using Kreb s method, includyoung, wealthy man from the Hawaiian Islands.ing Dr. James Ewing, in New York Ci ty. They bought an apricot orchard, across the BayAll the while, young Ernst Krebs, Jr., had been in Oakland.growing up, helping in the lab, cleaning up, and Now Krebs, Sr., had a source of a member oflearning how to do research work. Obt aining a the rose family (apricots, peaches, almonds, etc.,bachelor s degree in bacteriolog y at the University are in that family). His error had led him to theof Illinois, he went on to obtai n a master s in pharrichest source of amygdalin (laetrile) in the West-macology, and a doctorate in anatomy. ern world. Yet, at this time, he knew nothing aboutIn 1938, young Krebs found Jo hn Beard s

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1911 book, The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer.reduce and the pain to leave? And what caused its The Krebs and Gurchot was astounded.toxic symptoms? The challenge of Beard caused the young KrebsAs he tried to improve the method o f extracto decide he would give his life to figuring out thetion, he decided that it mus t be the cyanide in the cancer riddle. This was when he switched fromamygdalin which was eliminating the cancer. But medicine to biochemistry. He eventually amassedwhat about all those other factor s plus enzymes nine years of university studies in a variety of fields.in the extract? Where di d they figure into the In the process, he taught himself to read French,riddle? German, Spanish, and Italian, so he could goCould it be that the cyanide was bot h the blessthrough 17,000 scientific papers and books.ing and the curse of the old extract th at selective The apricot extract had been a consistent prob-release of cyanide at the site of the tumor inhiblem. It contained an unaccounted toxicity. Whenited the tumor, but that sometime s it released prethe extract was injected into the cancerous labo-maturely possibly by the action o f emulsin durratory animals, the tumors would definitely be-ing the extraction process? come smaller in a matter of days. But more of theOne day in 1949, Krebs, Jr., pu t a quantity of animals were dying than he anticipated, and notthe apricot preparation into a te st tube. He added from cancer. Krebs knew that the kernels containeda quantity of glycosidase an enz yme known to amygdalin, a cyanide-bearing substance; so, whenbe especially abundant in cancer tissue. He waited he made his next batch, he eliminated as much ofa few moments to give the two su bstances a chance the amygdalin as he could. This time the deathsto work on each other. Then he to ok a sniff. Cyaamong the animals decreased drastically, but sonide. The glycosidase had caused the cynanide, did the tumor response. It was obvious that hesafely locked inside the apricot p reparation to had years of work ahead of him, tailoring the apri-be released. cot seed formula. They had consistently found thatTriumphant, he realized his th eory was true! the purer the preparation was made, the largerBut he also knew he had smelled so mething very the dosage could be in animals without any sidedangerous, so he ran outside and breathed deep effects.for a time. At this juncture, they decided to set aside theThey had solved the mystery. apricot kernel project and apply themselves to Here is the solution to the riddle: Beard s theory. Laetrile (amygdalin, vitamin B) is a cya17 The Krebs, Sr.; Krebs, Jr.; and Gurchot colnide-containing compound that gives up its cyalaboration team set to work on chymotrypsin, the nide only in the presence of a certain enzyme pancreatic enzyme that Beard said was the blocker

group, called beta glucosidase or glucuof the trophoblast and cancer. In 1943, they deronidase. But the miracle of nature is that this veloped the first crystalline chymotrypsin commerparticular enzyme group is only found (to any cially available in the world. appreciable extent) in cancer tissue. They sent it out to physicians who tried it out. When it is found elsewhere, it is always acGurchot (in Chicago at the time) tried it on 50 or companied by greater quantities of another en60 patients, and only one made a complete recovzyme, called rhodanese, which has the capacery. ity to convert the cyanide immediately into comIn 1947, Krebs, Sr., publicly announced 30 pletely harmless substances (some of which help characteristics shared by the tropoblast cell and produce and utilize other vitamins). But canthe cancer cell, noted the specific antithesis of chycer tissue does not have this protecting enzyme. motrypsin to cancer cells. By 1950, the two Krebs, So cancer tissue is especially defenseless with the help of a Texas biochemist, Howard Beard against laetrile for two reasons: (1) It has beta (no relation to John Beard), published their glucosidase, which laetrile releases its lockedlandbook, The Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis in cyanide in the presence of, and (2) it does of Cancer, in the Medical Record. not have the enzyme, rhodanese, which protects non-cancer cells by converting the cyaBut the chymotrypsin experiments were not nide immediately into harmless substances. succeeding. The patients would improve, but the The result is that the cancer cells are desymptoms return. So Krebs, Jr., made a major stroyed by laetrile, whereas the non-malignant decision: He dropped the pancreatic enzyme cells are not harmed. project, and returned to that earlier apricot kerAt this point, two intriguing facts stand out. nel extract his father had used. First, Beard s theory, that pancreatic enzyme would But what in that extract caused the tumors to

--------------------------------------- 121 Laetrile Therapy121 destroy cancer, did not prove to be correct. Sec-well as the sugars are also sol uble in alcohol, ond, it does not appear that Beard s theory of theand laetrile happens to be selec tively soluble in trophoblast, although evidence indicates it to beboiling alcohol (about 40 times greater than cold true, was needed to bring the laetrile through to aalcohol). The fat free powder is then added to useful method of treatment. The only factors inboiling alcohol where laetrile is

extracted from common seemed to be that both were keyed tothe powder and then the materials are filtered. The filtrate that remains is put in a freezing enzymes as being involved in the treatment of can-cabinet, or refrigerator or co ld room, where the cer. But beta glycosidases and rhodanese are quite different than Beard s pancreatic enzyme.temperature is brought down to about 10 d eIn 1977, the publishers of one of the mostgrees Centigrade. The crystals of laet rile precipitate or fall to the bottom of the flask bepopular dictionaries in the world contacted thecause in cold alcohol the materia l is insoluble. McNaughton Foundation, and asked them to define the meaning of the word, laetrile. Here is Now these crystals are recovered and the process of recrystallization is repeated a numthe definition they provided:ber of times, depending on whether the mateLaetrile (Lay-eh-tril)rial is to be used for oral purposes or for injecBasic Ingredients: An organic aglycone or non-sugar protein combined with a cyanidetion. When the chemicals are dried the first time, group and carbohydrate in glycosidic linkagethey have a chemical purity of about 99.7 or to form a single tightly bound molecule.99.8 percent pure. For oral purposes, it is reChemical formula: Since laetrile is a col-peated twice. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., address lective name for a group of chemically related to the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, 1974. compounds, the generic name for which isThroughout their work, neither the Krebs , nor nitriloside, it cannot be given a specific chemi-any other laetrile worker tried to patent or control cal formula. A well-known analogy is digitalis which represents a general group of chemicallyany of the various processes. It w as made availrelated compounds to which no specific formulaable to any physician, laboratory, or research group anywhere in the world. can be assigned. Etymology: Originally used as a shortenedIn 1949, Krebs, Jr., injected himself wi th the term for a laevo-rotatory glycuronic nitrile. Itsfirst human shot of the purifie d substance. He had meaning has been expanded to represent aresearched the matter enough that he had not the shortened term for any laevo-rotatory gluco-slightest concern that it would pois on him. sidic or glucuronic chemical compound con-Had he had cancer anywhere in his body, taining an aglycone and a tightly bound (CN)the enzymes would have triggered the lethal regrouping. McNaughton Foundation. lease of cyanide at the site of the tumor while That definition will help the medical research-his noncancerous tissue would hav e been proers who use this present book. It is questionabletected by rhodanese. If he had no cancer, the if it helped the poor folk who were trying to revise their dictionary.body s natural processes would slough off the

laetrile naturally. The next step for Krebs, Jr., was to furtherThat is why it is good to eat apple seeds, refine the extract until what it amounted to wasapricot kernels, etc. They help eliminate canpurified amygdalin. Only then could the cyanidecer in its early stages, years be fore it reaches remain safely bound in its compound until itthe critical final phase. (But, of c ourse, other reached the hydrolytic enzymes, which wouldchanges must also be made in the diet and break it apart at the cancer sites.lifestyle, if one wants to avoid cancer.) The process for extracting the laetrile fromIt was at this time that Krebs, Jr., gave the the apricot pits is not a secret. Here is thesubstance the name laetrile. formula:In 1950, the first laetrile treatment of huThe first step in the present production,man cancers, always to terminal patients , was which is from natural materials, is to grind thegiven intramuscularly and involved only 10 apricot seed or kernel; then it is defatted with a cold solvent, such as ether, hexachlorine, ormilligrams. That was but a fraction , compared to the size of doses given today. A small dose other such substance, and the solvent is drivenwas given back then, because the amount of cyafrom the remaining ground pulp, and a completely fat free powder which is partially solublenide rhodanese which the body could tolerate was in water is left.not yet known. Decrease in pain always occurred but, because of the small dosage, death always The laetrile (amygdalin) in this powder as

--------------------------------------- 122 122Alternate Cancer Remedies followed; yet sometimes it was prolonged far be-was announced that a preliminary study had been yond the expected time.carried out under government auspices with most encouraging results. By 1952, Krebs, Sr. s, two sons, Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., Ph.D., and Byron Krebs, M.D., had greatly im-On August 2, 1965, Ernst Krebs , Sr., agreed to a permanent court injunction against further proved the processing of laetrile. The extract wasdistribution of laetrile. On F ebruary 3, 1966, he being prepared better, and the theory clearly established.was given a one-year suspended sentence for failWithin a couple years, physicians in variousing to register as a producer of dru gs. This was not a setback, since the Krebs had made known parts of the United States, England, Belgium, Italy,the entire process, at no ch arge, to a number of the Philippines, and Japan were giving laetrile. It was soon discovered that dosages up to 400 mglaboratories and physicians request ing it. could be given with no harmful effects, and thatAfter the 1953 California Report , patients had

been forced to go abroad for treatment to the Philintravenous injections accomplished far more than intramuscular ones.ippines (Dr. Manuel D. Navarro, professor of biochemistry and therapeutics at the University of Beginning in November 1952, the laetrile treat-Santo Tomas, Manila) and Italy (D r. Ettore Guidetti ment battles began, initially with the Californiaof the University of Turin). Cancer Commission and later with various fed-In 1966, a leading German researche r and aueral agencies.thor, Dr. Hans Nieper, in Hanover, West Germany, Laetrile is one of the naturally occurring sub-began administering laetrile and in far larger stances that cannot be patented, making it adoses than Krebs, with excellent res ults. true orphan drug. No drug company is interThen there was Dr. Shigeaki Sakai, in Matested in committing money to research laetrile ssuyama, Japan; he was also success fully treating potential. R. Pelton and L. Overholser, Al-cancer with laetrile. ternatives in Cancer Therapy, 160. Unfortunately, the industry formula appearsCancer sufferers also went to Mexico. Dr. Ernesto Contreras, a graduate of the Mexican Army to be If you cannot control and market it, fightMedical School, who did postgradu ate work in it. Boston, opened a new clinic in Tijuana, just beThe basic 1953 report, used repeatedly therelow the southern California border. Mexico gave after against the use of laetrile by physicians, waslaetrile and the Contreras C linic full approval in written by Drs. Ian MacDonald and Henry L. Gar-1973. land. It is of interest that they had earlier teamed up on a report which attempted to disprove theMost of these physicians and resea rchers wrote scientific reports about their work in journals all U.S. surgeon general s report, that cigarette smok-over the world. ing causes cancer. (MacDonald later died in a fire,As of 1974, Contreras had abo ut a thousand caused by a lighted cigarette; and Garland died of new patients a year, the great majority of which lung cancer from smoking.) Some people sus-were terminal. He said that only 60% of them pected that the trade knew that those two doc-showed a response, ranging from a fe eling of tors would write research reports that were slanted whichever way their hiring agency instructed them.well-being and cessation of pa in to the regaining of weight. Of the 60%, only about half had This report caused the use of laetrile in therecurrences of the disease after a temporary U.S. to decline for awhile, but people started trav-arrest of three to six month s. A patient was coneling overseas to obtain treatments. In 1962, Judge W.T. Sweigert, of the San Fran-sidered to have his cancer controll ed, if he experienced five symptom-free years. But he cisco District Court, allowed limited distributionmust remain on laetrile tablet s for the rest of of amygdalin supplies to the McNaughton Foundation in Canada and several American physicianshis life.

Gradually, a number of physicians would for investigation and/or treatment.come to realize that laetrile, alone, was NOT By order of the FDA, on November 1, 1963,the answer! The solution was total nutr itional laetrile was banned from interstate shipments, except for animal testing. This meant it could onlychange. Many things must be dro pped, many added. Many changes in lifestyle must be made. be investigated and used in California (which had(Some of the changes, which lae trile doctors a court order permitting it there). On May 15, 1965, the Canadian equivalent ofbegan requiring of their patients, wi ll be listed at the close of this article.) the AMA turned against laetrile. This turned theBut, even for those who died wit hin a few attention of cancer sufferers to Mexico, where ityears, the cost of treatment wa s relatively low,

--------------------------------------- 123 Laetrile Therapy123 and far freer from the horrible pains accompa-Jr., along with four others, on a variety of state nying the orthodox procedures.health-law violations. (A related fact was that those patients whoOn September 1, 1971, the FDA announc ed had earlier received chemotherapy, radiation,that its blue-ribbon panel had found o acceptor surgery were far less likely to respond wellable evidence of therapeutic effect to justify clinito laetrile. Their bodies had been too greatlycal trials of laetrile. It appeared that laetrile, like weakened.)all its forerunner alternative therapies, was doomed Following massive intravenous laetrile injec-to extinction in America. tions, patients were sent home with laetrile tabJohn A. Richardson, M.D., lived and practiced lets and strict orders to remain on them for the medicine in Albany, California, just across the Bay remainder of their lives. from San Francisco. In the 1960s, he contacted It is an extremely important fact, which to Dr. Krebs, Jr.; and, after many talks with him, he their sorrow many recovered cancer patients began giving laetrile to his terminal cancer patients. have learned, too late, is that when a person Success brought many more cancer patients. contracts cancer, and recovery appears to be I was totally unprepared for my first visit to made; if he thereafter relaxes his efforts to eat the Richardson Clinic. As a nurse, I had spent and live carefully, the cancer will very often reconsiderable time on cancer wards and I knew turn and renewed treatments will not be effecwhat to expect: the awful odor of decaying flesh tive in remitting the cancer, as had occurredand the sallow faces of forlorn pat ients who have earlier! This is a solemn fact to be kept inbeen condemned to a sub-human existe

nce as mind.they await their inevitable fate. No one likes to be in the presence of death Dr. Dean Burk, one of the founders of the Naand, because there is so little that orthodox tional Cancer Institute, was world famous for his medicine can do other than mask the pain with research work and writings, and served for many mind-dulling drugs, the doctor and nurse ofyears as head of its cytology department. He was ten avoid the terminal cancer patient as much also famous for being a maverick within the Canas is ethically acceptable. Examinations are cer Establishment. He disliked bureaucracy, red brief. Conversation is kept to a minimum. tape, professional fudging, and was quite blunt in Where possible, the patient is assigned to staff speaking out when he ran into such problems. subordinates. Cancer wards and cancer clinics Challenged by Andrew McNaughton (a wealthy all are pretty much the same: impersonal, individual who had befriended the laetrile cause)smelly, and depressing. to test laetrile, Burk did so. Among the tests Burk It was to my amazement, theref ore, to disconducted was this one: He put a quantity of livecover that the Richardson Clini c did not fit this cancer cells into a Warburk flask with laetrilemorbid pattern. The first thing t hat struck me and the enzyme, beta glucosidase. He thenwas that the patients awaiting treatmen t were stained the cancer cells with tryptan blue andengaged in animated conversation. They were placed them under a microscope where, he re-talking, not only about their illnes s but about ported to McNaughton, he could see the can-their children and grandchildren, abou t the cer cells dying off like flies. cross-country sightseeing trip they were planAs a result, Burk became a staunch defenderning just as soon as they felt strong enough, and of their ultimate return to work. These of laetrile. (1) It was Dean Burk who, digging into people were not preoccupied with death; they records, discovered that although the FDA banned were planning for life! bitter almonds in this country, the agency s own Then I noticed the attitude of the staff. They publications listed extracts of bitter almonds as actually enjoyed being with the patients and an approved substance for general use. spent considerable time with each. They derived (2) It was Burk who also established that lagenuine satisfaction from learning of the imetrile, as vitamin B17, was a valid vitamin and thereprovement over the previous visit. Their jokes fore not subject to the FDA regulations on new with the patients were not those strained little drugs. condescending attempts to be cheerful in the (3) Burk also determined that laetrile could face of tragedy but rather the genuine outbursts

be taken orally. This research was later confirmed of people who were finding fun in their work. by Dr. Nieper in Germany. This discovery greatly And, finally, I suddenly became aware that helped patients keep on a maintenance dosage at the air was completely free from the fetid smell home. associated with growing cancer. In February 1971, state agents arrested Krebs, A middle-aged man stepped from the clinic

--------------------------------------- 124 124Alternate Cancer Remedies area into the waiting room and, with a big grin,Medical doctors were puzzled by the fact that announced to the patients that this was the lastamygdalin had been well-known an d listed in the day of treatment for Mrs. So-and-so (everyoneUnited States Pharmacopeia as a non toxic subresponded to the name), that she was headedstance for over a hundred years while FDA-apback to Illinois in the morning, and that everyproved methods of cancer treatment were exone was invited to a party to celebrate her de-tremely toxic. parture. In the course of their research, the father and A party in a cancer clinic?! Patricia Griffin, R.N., B.S., quoted in J.A. Richardson andson Krebs also pioneered the disco very of pangaP. Griffin, Laetrile Case Histories, xv-xvi.metin (pangamic acid), which they na med vitamin B. The AMA refused to acknowledged the fact. After a variety of episodes, at 10 o clock on15 June 2, 1972, Richardson and two nurses wereHowever, belatedly, in the July 23, 1973 issue of the AMA Journal, it was noted that another vitaarrested, and his clinic and car ransacked. min, synthesized by Prof. [Vasili] Bukin earlier, is Richardson was a little different than some other folk. He was one of those people who, whenvitamin B15; this chemical entit y aids in stimulating oxidative processes and energy exchange. The opposed over a principle he believed in, had a pertruth was that it was the Krebs who made that sonality like granite. All across the nation, men had given in. Richardson would not give in.discovery. The best sources of B15 ar e apricot kernels, rice bran, and brewer s yeast. The battle went on for months, and lengthened In the summer of 1976, a team of physicians into years. There seemed to be no end to it. Neither the government nor Richardson would yieldand researchers from Israel visite d the laetrile clinics in operation in Mexico and California; and, an inch in the ongoing legal battles. upon their return home and over the signature of At one point, one of his attorneys, George Kell,

argued in court that, on the basis of the 1973 Su-Dr. David Rubin (surgeon at th e Beilinson Hospital and cancer researcher at the Hadassah Hospipreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision, in which the tal in Jerusalem), they issued a detailed SeptemCourt held that the doctor had the absolute right to take the life of a human fetus, Kell convincinglyber 1, 1976, report praising laetrile as an effective treatment against cancer. claimed that there was a hideous anomaly in the By that year, Dr. Richardson had received more law, in that the cancer patient did not have the right to freedom of choice to save his own life legal harassment from the state th an any other physician in its history. He had his license suswhich the mother had in taking the life of her unpended, had been arrested, hauled off to jail twice, born baby! But a key defense was the fact that the sub-and four times made to stand trial f or using laetrile. He had spent more than six months defendstance was a nutritional factor, B. The physician 17 ing himself in court. In the fourth trial they sucis actually treating a metabolic disorder with vitamin therapy. The patient also happens to have can-ceeded in securing a convictio n against him; but he appealed his case, and the battled was concer. tinuing. Here are the five properties of a true vitamin, all of which laetrile fulfills:Why did he undergo this treatment? Why did he not give up? Richardson knew that the lives of 1 - It is a nutritional component of organic composition required in small amounts for theuntold thousands depended on his st anding true complete health and well-being of the organ-to principle in this matter. ism.Because Richardson had been a active mem2 - Vitamins are not utilized primarily tober of the John Birch Society, when the medical supply energy or as a source of structural tis-authorities began picking on him, t he thousands sue components of the body.of members of the John Birch Society throughout 3 - A vitamin functions to promote a physi-America rose to the defense of a fello w Bircher. ologic process or processes vital to the contin-Although some cared little for h ealth matters, they ued existence of the organism.saw in his case government intrusion on the rights 4 - A vitamin cannot be synthesized by theof the individual. cells or the organism and must be supplied deIn addition, all across the nation people were novo [anew each time].uniting in organizations demanding the right to 5 - In man and in other mammals, deficiencybe treated with laetrile. of a specific vitamin is the cause of certain ratherRichardson s ongoing fight, wh ich others enwell-defined diseases. David Greenberg,tered into in their own areas, brought the m atter Western Journal of Medicine, April 1975. to a showdown.

--------------------------------------- 125 Laetrile Therapy125 The court order, allowing Americans to bringAn FDA appeal, to delay enforcement of this laetrile into the U.S. and even to have it mailedruling until the case could be heard by the 10th to them, was signed by Judge Luther BohanonCircuit Court of Appeals in Denver, w as denied on on April 8, 1977.December 24, 1978. Lawyers for the FDA quickly asked JudgeBy the end of the 1970s, some 17 states Bohanon to amend his court order, so that it wouldhad legalized the use of laetr ile. A number of stipulate that American cancer patients could ob-other states were considering t he matter. tain laetrile only upon affidavits signed by theirBy 1978, it was estimated that 50,000-100,000 doctors saying that they were only a few weeks orcancer patients were taking ove r 1 million grams a few months away from death. Judge Bohanonof laetrile a month (Charles Moertel, A Trial of rejected the appeal.laetrile Now, editorial, New England Journal of The FDA then announced that it would con-Medicine, January 26, 1978). tinue to oppose laetrile regardless of what hap-In June 1979, the Supreme Court handed pened in its favor in the courts of the land or thedown its decision. Prior to t hat decision, canstate legislatures of the country.cer patients were able to receive laetrile leg ally By the end of 1977, more than a dozen statefrom their physicians under an affida vit system legislatures had legalized, within their borders,set up by federal circuit judge , Luther Bohanon. the administration and prescription of laetrileThe main practical effect of the decision, by by physicians to their patients and the right ofthe high court, was to remand th e case to the others to obtain it by mail from places sellingCircuit Court of Appeals for revi ew. Thus, the it, so they could take it at home.affidavit system still remained in effect. But certain federal agencies were unrelenting.As result of all the ongoing legal activity, phyLaetrile had become the hottest issue in terms ofsicians, researchers, and commo n citizens were state s rights since the Civil War for threats hadable to purchase, use, and ship la etrile. In addibeen made to send in federal agents to shut downtion to the two clinics in Tijua na, Mexico, which laetrile production facilities and arrest anyone traf-treated cancer with laetri le (the Contreras Clinic ficking in laetrile in any way whatsoever.and Clinica Cydel), there are two laet rile processThe question becomes: If a state legislatureing plants which purify and shipped out the subcannot determine the laws applicable within itsstances to those desiring it. own borders, then what was the sense of havingBetween the 1970s and the mid-1990 s, 70,000 a state legislature in the first place?people had used laetrile to treat cancer.

Then in November 1977, the California CourtAt the present time, about 21 states allow of Appeals reversed the decision of a lowerthe use of laetrile in cancer treatme nt while court, in the conviction of four people chargedother states have revoked medical licenses for with conspiracy to sell laetrile and one physi-doing so. cian (James Privatera) who was charged with The McNaughton Foundation has published using the substance in the treatment of his cana Physician s Handbook of Vitamin B Ther17 cer patients. apy, which summarizes the various methods Next, in 1978, a federal court ruled that laof administering laetrile. Here they are: etrile (amygdalin) is exempt from the new drug Laetrile is available in tablet form, for requirements of the FDA; and that the Secremaintenance therapy. tary of Health, Education, and Welfare and his Laetrile solutions have been used as nightsubordinates in the Food and Drug Administratime retention enemas, and have been instilled tion are hereby permanently enjoined and redirectly into the intestines through an already strained from interfering with the use of laetrile existing colostomy. (amygdalin) for the care or treatment of cancer Gauze-soaked solutions of laetrile (or a by a person who is, or believes he is, suffering water-soluble salve) have been placed on open from the disease. skin lesions. The same order also prohibited interference Injections are put directly into the tumors! with the importation and introduction into inThe tumor wall should not be penetrated. Interstate commerce of laetrile on the basis of stead, the injections are placed into the artery any alleged new drug status. The HEW and above the tumor site. This provides maximum FDA were, finally, prohibited from interfering concentration of laetrile in the tumor. Intra-arwith any licensed medical practitioner in adterial injections should only be done in a hosministering laetrile (amygdalin) in the care or pital setting by qualified personnel! treatment of his cancer patients.

--------------------------------------- 126 126Alternate Cancer Remedies A table listing various tumor sites and the sug-U.S., 25% contract the disease. gested arterial routes of administration is given inThe late Dr. Albert Schweitz er, in his preface the book.to Alexander Berglas 1957 book, Cancer: Cause Here is information on the book:and Cure, wrote that the absence of cancer in

McNaughton Foundation, Physician s Hand-Gabon, West Africa, seemed to be due to the difbook of Vitamin B Therapy, Sausalito, Calif:ference in nutrition of the natives compared to the 17 Science Press International, 1975.Europeans. Over a third of all edible plants in that area contain vitamin B. Summarizing all the research and clinical17 So much data has been collected regarding treatment, it appears that laetrile is more effecthe importance of laetrile in the normal diet, that tive with early-stage cancers than with termimany nutritionists recommend that, even nally ill patients, although it will quickly rethough a person does not have cancer and is duce pain in all of them. It is most effective not under laetrile therapy, he should, as a prewhen used with other factors, especially nutriventive measure, be eating several apricot kertional ones. nels everyday! Laetrile and Shark Catilage Hospital Earnesto Here is the recommended formula: Contreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19, One apricot kernel per each 10 pounds of Tijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-80body weight, per day. 1850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795 If an individual cannot easily purchase apri(Rest of U.S.A.) cot kernels at his health-food store or laetrile Laetrile: Richardson Clinic John A. tablets by mail, there are other foodstuffs which Richardson, M.D., clinic in Albany, California also contain laetrile (vitamin B). Laetrile: Contreras Clinic Hospital Earnesto17 The following list will provide you with the Contreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19, primary foods which have laetrile and the apTijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-80proximate amount each has. The range is as fol1850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795 lows: (Rest of U.S.A.) Laetrile: Navarro Clinic Manuel D. Navarro,High - 500 mg nitriloside per 100 grams of M.D., 3553 Sining St., Morningside Terracefood. (Those which are high are in bol d type.) Santa Mesa, Manila 2806 PhilippinesMedium - Above 100 mg per 100 grams of food. Low - Below 100 mg per 100 grams of food. ____________________ FRUITS WHICH ARE HIGH Wild blackberry, - SUPPLEMENT LAETRILE DIETS -choke cherry, wild crabapple, Swedish (lignon) cranberry. LAETRILE FOODS FRUITS WHICH ARE MEDIUM TO HIGH ElderNow let us turn our attention to diet: berry. Cancer is extremely rare among tribes and culFRUITS WHICH ARE MEDIUM Boysenberry,

tures where the natural diets contain nitrilosidecurrant, gooseberry, huckleberry, loganberry, mulrich foods. Some of these areas where cancer berry, quince, raspberry. hardly occurs include El Salvador and native FRUITS WHICH ARE LOW Domestic blackAmerican tribes such as Navajo, Hopi, and Modoc. berry, market cranberry. For example, the Taos Pueblo Indians of New SEEDS WHICH ARE HIGH Apple seed, apriMexico, who are also exempt from cancer, regucot seed, cherry seed, nectarine seed, peach larly grind up kernels of apricots, cherries and seed, pear seed, plum seed, prune seed. peaches, and drink them as their beverage. SEEDS WHICH ARE MEDIUM Squash seed. The Hunzas, in the Kashmir district of West BEANS WHICH ARE HIGH Fava. Pakistan; the Abkhasians, of the Caucasus in the BEANS WHICH ARE MEDIUM TO HIGH Mung USSR; and the Karakorum people, of outer beans. Mongolia, are also virtually cancer-free. They reguBEANS WHICH ARE MEDIUM Lentils, Burma larly use apricot kernels and oil, as well as a rich Lima beans. selection of grains and fresh vegetables of the BEANS WHICH ARE LOW TO MEDIUM Blacknitriloside-containing variety. eyed peas, garbanzos, kidney beans. In 1975, in response to a U.S. Government surBEANS WHICH ARE LOW Black beans, green vey request, the Pakistan Health Department repeas, U.S. lima beans, shell peas. plied that, of the 35,000 people living in Hunza, TUBERS WHICH ARE HIGH Cassava. five had cancer. That is a ratio of 1 in 7,000. In the TUBERS WHICH ARE LOW Sweet potato, yams.

--------------------------------------- 127 Laetrile Therapy127 NUTS WHICH ARE HIGH (raw only) Bitter al-ALS (Supergran) One or two grams daily. mond. 11. VITAMIN E 800 I.U. to 1,2000 I.U. daily. NUTS WHICH ARE MEDIUM TO HIGH (raw) Mac- 12. LIQUID PROTEIN Two to four tableadamia.spoons daily. This protein is in a predigested NUTS WHICH ARE LOW (raw) Cashew.form, providing basic amino acids that do not SPOUTS WHICH ARE MEDIUM Alfalfa, bamboo,require the action of pancreatic enzymes f or fava, garbanzo, mung.their use by the body. (This is used by those patients who are not taking Ag/Pro tablets.) LEAVES WHICH ARE HIGH Alfalfa, eucalyptus. LEAVES WHICH ARE LOW Spinach, watercress. 13. ADDITIONAL VITAMINS AND MINERALS to be recommended where necessary in special cases. John A. Richardson, M.D., THE RICHARDSON DIET AND THERAPY and Patricia Griffin, R.N., Laetrile Case HisDr. John Richardson has learned that the ad-tories, 123-125 (1977).

ministration of laetrile alone is not adequate to keep cancer from returning soon. Here is the dietEnzymes are usually added to th e regimen, folwhich, over a period of years, he gradually worked lowing the theory of Krebs, Jr. (1970), and Beard out. It is routinely prescribed at the Richardson (1911), that the pancreatic enzymes (trypsin and Clinic for all his cancer patients.Chymotrypsin) are intrinsic anti-cancer facto rs. Here is the diet and laetrile therapy preTo free these enzymes to kill cancer cells, laetrilists scribed by Dr. Richardson: advise their patients to eat only small amounts of 1. THE DIET Principally fresh fruits, veg-animal protein or, better yet, none at a ll. They adetables, seeds, nuts, and grains. All animal provise them to eat large amounts of fresh fruits and tein, including dairy products, is excluded. vegetables. 2. TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, and COFFEE are not to be used. THE KOWAN DIET 3. LAETRILE (Vitamin B) INJECTIONS 17 First month: I.V. injections, 6-9 gms or more;Researchers, in working with their patients, 1 per day for 20 days.will find the following information to be very helpful. It comes from Maurice H. Kowan, M.D., a CaliSecond month: I.V. or I.M. injections, 3 gms; 3 per week for 4 weeks.fornia physician who administered laetrile to his Third month: I.V. or I.M. injections, 3 gms;patients for quite some time. 2 per week for 4 weeks.This is the accompanying diet which Dr. Fourth to Eighteenth Month: I.V. or I.M. in-Kowan prescribes to his patients taki ng laetrile: jections, 3 gms; 1 per week for one to one and a To be most effective, laetrile sh ould be comhalf years or longer.bined with proper diet and hygienic care. The ideal diet would be one with a low protein in4. LAETRILE (Vitamin B) TABLETS One 17 take. This is based on the fact that cancer cells to four 500 mg. tablets are taken on the days must have complete proteins in the diet in orthe patient is not receiving an injection of laetrile. Two tablets per day is the usual dosageder to survive and multiply. The refore, to secure the best and most rapid results with laduring the first year. Most patients will continue etrile therapy, it is essential to eliminate entirely, taking tablets for the rest of their lives. Some for some time, all animal products, such as will use 100 mg tablets and supplement with meat, fish, fowl, eggs, and cheese. apricot kernels. The kernel must be taken at a different time during the day than laetrile tab- The general diet should consist o f salt-free, lets.non-processed foods, free from carcinogenic additives. Lightly cooked but not canned 5. PANCREATIC ENZYME TABLETS Two foods are permitted. Recommended foods are:

to four tablets, four times daily. kafir milk and buttermilk; oatmeal, buckwheat, 6. VITAMIN B15 (PANGAMIC ACID) 50 mg, millet, and brown rice; fat-free raw milk (one three times daily. pint maximum daily); soups; vegetables, includ7. VITAMIN C 750 mg to 2,000 mg daily. ing potatoes and raw salads as tolerated; raw 8. AMINO ACID TABLETS (Ag/Pro) Three fresh fruit and vegetable juices, extracted with to nine tablets daily, to compensate for reduced a pressure (not centrifugal) juicer; raw or intake of animal protein. cooked fruit; raw nuts and nut butters, espe9. CHELATED MINERALS Dosage decially almonds. pends upon the type and extent of deficiency Another help in the absorption of the maligrevealed by hair analysis. nant tissue is the consumption of several 810. THERAPEUTIC VITAMINS AND MINERounce glasses of fresh raw juices, drunk within

--------------------------------------- 128 128Alternate Cancer Remedies 30 minutes after juicing. The constituentstities. Forbidden: all other. should be altered occasionally, so the patientDessert Fresh fruits, stewed fruits, Forbidwill not tire of it. The juice regime which I rec-den: all pastries, puddings, c ustards, junket, ommend consists of a minimum of four glassessauces, ice cream. a day of equal parts of carrot and apple, plusEggs Poached or boiled eggs, not fri ed, one a another four glasses of fresh juice consisting ofday. Forbidden: any other form. romaine lettuce, celery, grapes, beets, and other fresh vegetable juices in season. Any of the fol-Fat Cold-pressed oils, preferably flaxseed or soya oil, soya lecithin spread. Forbidden: butter, lowing pressure-type juicers could be used:shortening, margarine, satuated oils and fats. Norwalk, K & K, Champion, and Vita-Press.Fish White flesh fish only (very fresh). ForIt is essential that the cancer patient include in his daily diet a generous supply of standardbidden: all other fish and seafoo d. Fruits Fresh fruits only: apples, pears, apripancreatic enzymes, such as Chymoral-100cots, bananas, cherries, currants, grape s, guava, (Armour Co.) or Pancreatin (Lilly Co.). A minimum of three or four should be taken daily onmangoes, melons, nectarines, papaya , peaches, an empty stomach. A generous intake of Vita-plums, ripe oranges, quinces, tange rines, avocamin C (12 grams daily in divided doses is sug-dos, ripe pineapple. The following dried fruits gested) also will aid in recovery.(unsulfured) can be stewed: apples, apricots, dates,

When I first began using laetrile therapy infigs, prunes, peaches, pears, plums, raisins. Forthe treatment of cancer, I noted that pain reliefbidden: canned fruits. was secured in practically every case within aJuices Only fresh juices. May be sel ected few days time with the daily injection. For thefrom lists of fruits and vegetabl es permitted, infirst year, I stressed only the laetrile, not realiz-cluding the following green leaves: chicory, endive, ing the extreme importance of a dietary regime.escarole, lettuce, Swiss chard, a nd watercress. ForMy proportion of clinical relief was about 20%bidden: all canned juices and juic es with artificial to 30%; but, when later I gave an increased dos-coloring and sweetening. age of laetrile and combined it with specific di-Meat Lean, grilled, broiled or ba ked beef, etary and enzyme regime, my results in termi-chicken, lamb, turkey, and veal. In ternal organs: nal cases reached practically 100% improve-only heart and extra-fresh calf liver permitted. Forment. Maurice H. Kowan, M.D., quoted in bidden: no pork, fat, fried or smoked meat sauGlenn D. Kittler, Laetrile: Nutritional Controlsages. for Cancer, 90-91.Milk Yogurt, buttermilk, and nonfat milk alDr. Kowan s recommendations, above, are excellent. You will find it of interest to compare itlowed in limited quantities. Forbidden: other dairy products. with the diet prescribed by Dr. Contreras:Nuts All types of fresh raw nuts (except peanuts), almonds, 6 to 10 a day. Forbidden: roasted THE CONTRERAS DIETand salted nuts and peanuts. The laetrile diet of Ernesto Contreras also for-Potatoes Baked, boiled, and mashed . Potato bids such items as alcohol, coffee, soft drinks,salad seasoned with salad dressi ng substitute, white bread, ice cream, butter, canned and pre-brown rice, or corn. Forbidden: F rench fries, chips, pared foods while encouraging the use of healthwhite rice. foods such as whole grains, herb teas, and honey.Salads The following raw vegetabl es, shredded Here, in detail, is the Contreras diet, whichor finely chopped, separatedly or m ixed: carrots, he requires of each cancer patient. After a rela-cauliflower, celery, chicory, g reen pepper, lettuce, tively short time at the Contreras Clinic inradishes, Swiss chard, watercress, o nions, ripe toTijuana, they return home to continue on la-matoes, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and broccoli. etrile and the following dietary program:Forbidden: any other. Beverages Chamomile tea, clear tea, mintSeasoning Chives, garlic, onion, parsley, tea. Forbidden: alcohol, cocoa, coffee, milk, softherbs, laurel, marjoram, sage, thyme, savory, drinks.cumin, oregano, salt substitutes or other potasBread Rye bread, soya bread, whole-wheatsium salt, and sea salt in small amounts. Forbidor bran muffins, whole-wheat bread. Forbidden:den: spices, pepper, paprika. all white bread.Soups Vegetable soup, barley, brown rice, Cereals Buckwheat, cornmeal, crackedand millet can be added. Forbidden: canned and wheat, millet, oatmeal, sesame, fine ground grits.creamed soup, fat stock, conso

mm. Forbidden: all other. Refined and bleached flour.Sweets Unpasteurized honey, unsul phured Cheese Cottage cheese only in limited quanmolasses, carob. Forbidden: candy, chocolate,

--------------------------------------- 129 Laetrile Therapy129 white sugar.green peas, green pepper, leeks, lentils, lima Vegetables Raw or freshly cooked: arti-beans, potatoes, radishes, tomatoes, wax be ans, chokes, asparagus, carrots, cauliflower, celery,yams, eggplant, squash. Any vege table listed unchives, corn, endives, green onions, spinach,der salads. Forbidden: all canned v egetables. BIBLE PROMISESProverbs 12:21. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and The way of the slothful man is as an hedge blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shallof thorns: but the way of the r ighteous is made be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thyplain. Proverbs 15:19. ground, and the fruit of thy cattle; the increase Cast thy burden upon the Lord, a nd He of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessedshall sustain thee: He shall ne ver suffer the righshall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shaltteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22. thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt In whom we have boldness and access with thou be when thou goest out . . The Lord shallconfidence, by faith of Him. Ephesian s 3:12. command the blessing upon thee in thy store- The Lord is my strength and song. Exohouses, and in all that thou settest thy handdus 15:2. unto; and He shall bless thee in the land which I know the thoughts I think toward you, the Lord thy God giveth thee. Deuteronomysaith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of 28:3-6, 8.evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah God giveth to a man that is good in His29:11. sight, wisdom and knowledge and joy: but to A just man falleth seven times, and ri seth the sinner He giveth travail, to gather and toup again. Proverbs 24:16. heap up, that he may give to him that is good The Lord is good unto them that wait for before God. Ecclesiastes 2:26.Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. LamentaAlso that every man should eat and drink,tions 3:25. and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift Ye shall serve the Lord your God . . and I of God. Ecclesiastes 3:13.will take sickness away from the midst of thee. Every man also to whom God hath givenExodus 23:25. riches and wealth, and hath given him power to The Lord God is a sun and shield: t he Lord eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to re-will give grace and glory: no go od thing will He joice in his labour; this is the gift of God. For hewithhold from them that walk uprightly. shall not much remember the days of his life;Psalm 84:11. because God answereth him in the joy of his The Lord preserveth the simple: I was heart. Ecclesiastes 5:19-20.brought low, and He helped me. Psalm 116:6.

Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes . . In God I will praise His word . . In God I that it may go well with thee, and with thy chil-have put my trust: I will not b e afraid what man dren after thee. Deuteronomy 4:40; 5:29.can do unto me. Psalm 56:10-11. For this shall every one that is godly pray Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye unto Thee, in a time when Thou mayest bebe established; believe His prophets, so shall found: surely, in the floods of great waters theyye prosper. 2 Chronicles 20:20. shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hid- Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one ing place; Thou shalt preserve me from trouble;mind, live in peace; and the God of love and Thou shalt compass me about with songs of de-peace shall be with you. 2 Corinthian s 13:11. liverance. Psalm 32:6, 7. To do good and to communicate forget not: He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea,for with such sacrifices God is well p leased. in seven there shall no evil touch thee. JobHebrews 13:16. 5:19. If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted The Lord preserveth the faithful. Psalmaccording to that a man hath, and not accord31:23.ing to that he hath not. 2 Corinthians 8:12. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall But know that the Lord hath set apar t him any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psalmthat is godly for Himself: the Lord will he ar when 91:10.I call unto Him. Psalm 4:3. There shall no evil happen to the just. We are saved by hope. Romans 8:24.

--------------------------------------- 130 130Alternate Cancer Remedies - Part Four Essiac Therapy obtain help in Toronto. ____________________Journeying down there with her husband, she was told that she had advanced cancer and would RENE CAISSE, R.N., 1922be dead in a short time unless she was operated Note to researchers: Now, after more than 50 years of mys-on. But the woman reca lled a friend who had retery, the Essiac formula is known. Research work on this for-cently had a radica l mastectomy and died soon mula should be carried out, so official approval can be obtained.after. Besides, they did not have the money for exWorking Summary: Essiac consisted of a carefully worked out formulation of several herbs, which both attacked the can-pensive operations . cer and helped expel it from the body. Fortunately, we have bothReturning to the Objibwa tribe, she sought the formula and how to prepare and take it.out the old Indian. He gave her an he rbal tea, There are three people who have made it pos-along with instructions to drink it twice a day. sible for Essiac to be available today. Here is thisShe was also given the compl ete formula for incredible story.gathering the herbs and making the tea. The The first of the three was Rene Caisse. She isherb tea totally eliminated the ma

lignancy. one of the few people in this brief history of can-Caisse was astounded, and ask ed if there was cer remedies who was not a medical doctor. Sheany way she could obtain the formu la. The woman was a Canadian registered nurse who was born insaid she had it written down at h ome. Bracebridge, Ontario, in 1888. Briefly married (herThe formula listed only a few herbs, and nothhusband died shortly after their marriage), she re-ing more. Rene kept it, think ing that some day tained her maiden name for the rest of her life. Ashe might have cancer and woul d then use it on kindly lady, she could be quite stubborn when nec-herself. Yet, two years later when her aunt, Mireza, essary and had a strong distrust of medical andwas medically diagnosed as dying of inoperable government intrusion.stomach cancer with liver involvement, Caisse wellIn 1922, Caisse was 33 years old and headknew that the latest medical advances i ncluded nurse at the Sisters of Providence Hospital inburning the patients horribly with radium. Haileybury, Ontario, Canada. One evening she no-Wishing to spare her favorite au nt such torticed an elderly woman patient who had a strangelyture, she gave her the herbal tea. Both Caisse and scarred breast. When she inquired as to the cause,the attending physician, Dr. R .O. Fisher, were the lady told her that, more than 20 years earlier,amazed when, after two months of treatment, the she had come from England to join her husbandrelative rallied and recovered. (Sh e lived 20 more who was working as a prospector in northernyears after that.) Ontario. Shortly after arriving, a hardened massDeciding to give the formula a n ame, Caisse appeared on her breast.called it Essiac, which is her name spelled backThe area where they were camping was inhab-wards. ited by Ojibwa Indians (also known as Chippewa).With the help of Dr. Fisher, she now began treatLearning of her problem, an old Indian native doc-ing dozens of patients sufferi ng from cancer. The tor (medicine man) said it was really no problem,results were documented, freque ntly with remarkfor their tribe regularly healed these tumors withably success. an herbal mixture. The kindly Indian offered toOne was an old man, J. Smith, who had a hidhelp her, but she and her husband said they wouldeous, hemorrhaging malignant gr owth on his face.

--------------------------------------- 131 Essiac Therapy131 Within 24 hours the bleeding had stopped; and,own mother was diagnosed with inop erable canafter several treatments, the growth began reduc-cer. But the tea brought a full recovery, and she ing in size and the large holes in his chin began tolived another 18 years till the age of 90.

heal.Thousands of signatures were gathered by Based on what was happening to these cancerfriends and sent to Dr. J.A. Faulkner , provincial patients, many of whom were terminal, eight phy-Minister of Health, imploring th e government to sicians and medical professionals signed a peti-support her work. The petition w as ignored. tion in 1926 and sent it to the Department of Na-Then nine medical doctors submi tted another tional Health and Welfare in Ottawa, requestingone. Upon receiving it, Faulkner conferred with that Caisse be given facilities to do research workSir Frederick Banting, the co -discoverer of insuon her herbal formula.lin. Banting was interested. He had first heard In response, they sent two investigating doc-about Essiac ten years earlier in 1 925, when a tors with papers empowering them to have herwoman treated with it no longer need ed insulin. arrested. But, when they arrived, they found sheHer diabetic condition had disap peared! Checkwas working with nine of the most eminent physi-ing into it, Banting had conclud ed that Essiac had cians in Toronto, who told them of her work.somehow stimulated the pancreas to fu nction norStunned, one investigator gave her cancerousmally, thereby healing the diabetes. mice (inoculated with deadly Rous Sarcoma) toBut when the matter was again broug ht to his experiment on and she kept them alive for 52attention by Faulkner in 1935, she was invited to days, longer than any other method known tothe Banting Institute in Toronto, to work under medical science.his supervision. Caisse kept helping people who came to her.Caisse s supporters urged her to accept this Most of the time, they had been diagnosed as hav-outstanding offer; but, because it included stoping advanced, inoperable cancers.ping her care of cancer patients and working on A battle began which lasted 50 years until hermice, she said she turned down the offer. She death at the age of 90 in the fall of 1978, afterwould have to leave Bracebridge for a time, and falling and breaking her hip. She had outlived mostthis she refused to do. Her p atients needed her of her opponents.help, and would die if she left. Rene was threatened with arrest a dozen times;In 1936, a large number of physici ans again yet doctors, who had been referring patients toput their signatures on a petitio n for the Ottawa her, always came to her rescue. She never tookDepartment of Health and Welfare t o give her an any money for administering the treatment, onlyopportunity to demonstrate her me thod, so it could donations; and she lived very modestly. Many gavebe officially approved. Once ag ain, it was turned her only a dollar or two for the help they received.down. News of what she was doing gradually spread. AsAt this juncture, let us cite two examples of you might expect, the public was very favorable towhat Rene Caisse was doing at Bracebridge, which her work.she considered too important to abandon for

In 1932, the first major newspaper article ap-mouse studies: peared in the Toronto Star. Entitled, BracebridgeTony Baziuk was a CNR engine wat chman with Girl Makes Notable Discovery Against Cancer. lip cancer. It was so swollen after r adium treatThis brought her work to the attention of manyments in London, Ontario, that he could see it over more people.the end of his nose. The pain was excruciating. That same year, Dr. A.F. Bastedo, of Brace-Fellow workers collected enough to pa y Tony s bridge (her hometown, located 170 kilometersway to Bracebridge. One injection of Essiac and north of Toronto, with a population of only aboutTony felt immediate relief. In six months he was 9,000), let Caisse treat one of his patients whoback on the job, and lived 40 mo re years. had terminal bowel cancer. When the patient re-May Henderson went to Bracebridge , in 1937, covered, Bastedo was so impressed, he convincedwith tumors in both breasts. Doct ors told her she the town council to make the British Lion Hotel,must have a double mastectomy im mediately. Then which had been repossessed for back taxes, avail-they found a tumor the size of a grapefruit in her able to Rene for a clinic.uterus. Rene Caisse now had an entire hotel to use,Too weak to move, she had a horror of surfree of charge. Soon patients were arriving fromgery; so her physician, Dr. J.A. McInnis, told her around the world. The King of England wrote hershe was hopeless and sent her to Caisse. Describa letter of encouragement.ing the experience later in 1977, May said: Then a personal tragedy confronted her: Rene s My color was a muddy yellow, my hair thin, my

--------------------------------------- 132 132Alternate Cancer Remedies eyes, ordinarily blue, were gray and stony. I hem-so did highly trained physicia ns. Emma Carson, orrhaged so badly I thought I would die, andM.D., came from California. Original ly planning couldn t stand up for any length of time. quotedto remain one day, amazed at what she found, she in Richard Thomas, The Essiac Report, 19.stayed at the Bracebridge Clinic nearly a month. Within three months after beginning Essiac in- I firmly resolved that my investiga tion be jections, May was back at work.based on unprejudiced judgment. The vast majorAt first, the lumps seemed to grow harder, butity of Miss Caisse s patients were br ought to her then the turning point came and I discharged greatafter surgery; radium, emplast rums, etc. had failed masses of fleshy material. Ibid.to be helpful, and the patients were pronounced Still healthy 40 years later when she recountedincurable or hopeless cases. the experience, she never had another recurrence The progress obtained, the actual results from of cancer.Essiac treatments, and the rapidity of repair were

In late 1937, a petition with 17,000 signaturesabsolutely marvelous and must be seen to be bewere sent to the Canadian government. By thislieved. My skepticism neither yield ed nor became time, Rene was repeatedly offered millions of dol-subdued by the hopes and faith so definitely exlars if she would give her still-secret formula topressed by the patients and th eir friends. some firm, so they could exclusively sell it to the As I reviewed, compared and su mmarized my public. All such offers were rejected. Caisse wanteddata, records, case historie s, etc., I realized that the people helped, and feared letting either pri-skepticism had deserted me. Whe n I arrived I convate firms or the government gain control of thetemplated remaining 12 hours; I remained 24 days. formula.I examined results obtained on 400 patients. A leading physician in Chicago heard aboutEmma Carson, M.D., op. cit., 23. Essiac, and offered to let Caisse come there to do research work. Since she would be gone fromThen, in 1938, the central government became Bracebridge only every other week, and the Essiacinvolved when a bill was presen ted to Parliament, would be given to people, not just mice, she agreedwhich would officially allow Rene Caisse to treat to do so.cancer patients with Essiac. It was introduced in She commuted to Northwestern UniversityMarch by Frank Kelly, and proposed that R ene Hospital in Chicago, assisting five physicians inCaisse be officially authorized to practice meditreating 30 volunteer terminal cancer patients.cine in Ontario in the treatment of cancer in all its After 18 months, they concluded that Essiac pro-forms and of human ailments and conditions relonged life, broke down nodular masses to a moresulting therefrom. Caisse wanted to be able to normal tissue, and relieved pain. They as muchtreat cancer patients before they had entered the as said that it eliminated cancer, but dared notadvanced, terminal stage. The pa tients were half openly admit it lest they get in trouble.dead before she had an opportunity to wor k on Passavant Hospital in Chicago offered her athem. home and the use of their laboratories, if she wouldThe bill was supported by a petition with move to the United States. A group of American55,000 names of patients, their fa milies, and businessmen in Buffalo, New York, offered to putfriends, and many physicians. Bu t, in a close deup a million dollars in cash, if she would turn overcision, the bill was defeate d by just three votes. the formula to them so they could control it forAt this juncture, it is a wonder the voting pubworld marketing.lic of Canada did not throw the bunch out of ofBut Caisse turned them all down. She said shefice. wanted Essiac used immediately on suffering cancer patients. Authorities wanted her to stop usingFaulkner, who had favored Cais se somewhat, it while they spent years testing it on animals!had been replaced as Minister of Health by Harold

Yet, by that time, it had successful healed thou-Kirby, who declared, I will not see the honor of sands of human beings of the dreaded disease.modern medical science tainted! He i ntroduced And they wanted to go back to animals!a bill into Parliament three days after de feat of the She wanted Essiac to be recognized as a cureKelly bill. It easily passed, and ca lled for fines and for cancer. Others wanted the formula and mar-jailing of anyone giving Essiac. C aisse was warned keting control of the product. She was thinking ofthat she would be arrested if she continued to give people; they had money in mind.her useless Essiac treatments. Somehow, in a world gone mad with greed,Rene immediately announced she was closi ng Rene Caisse was a different kind of person.her clinic and moving to the United S tates. Her Not only patients came from distant places,patients were heartbroken, and protes ts from all

--------------------------------------- 133 Essiac Therapy133 across Canada deluged the desks of the Premiertestimonies and piles of records s ubmitted, where and the Minister of Health.diagnosis had been by biopsy, there had been only Under incredible public pressure, Premierone recovery by Essiac. Hepburn and Health Minister Kirby publicly an-For example, Mrs. Annie Bonar (quo ted above) nounced that Caisse could continue her work, andwas said to have been cured by t he earlier radium would not be charged under the new Kirby law.treatments, not by a tea made from plants! She consented. It is my opinion that the hearing of my case before the Cancer Commission was one of the greatThe war continued. On one side were the pro-est farces ever perpetrated in the h istory of man. tests of the public; on the other side, a drivingOver 380 patients came to be he ard and the Commission limited the hearing to 49 patients. Then concern to shut down Caisse s clinic. The next year (August 1938) the government set up a commis-in their report they stated that I had only taken 49 sion of six physicians, with expertise in the treat-patients to be heard, that X-r ay reports were not acceptable as a diagnosis, and that the 49 doctors ment of cancer, to investigate her claimed cancerhad made wrong or mistaken diag noses. It is a sad cures.state of affairs if doctors can diagnose an affliction All this was somewhat ironic, since the formula had been curing cancer in Canada longeras cancer and send patients home with a few months at most to live, if they are not sure. Rene than there had been a Canada.Caisse, op. cit., 31. Drs. W.C. Wallace and T.H. Callahan were sent to Bracebridge to interview her patients, and received glowing reports.For several years she continued giving the treatments, always without charge, and never knowing

Three members of Parliament (Duckworth,when she would be arrested. In 1942, clos e to a Armstrong, and Summerville) strongly urged enactment of a bill to permit Caisse to treat cancer.nervous breakdown, she closed down the clinic. In 1948, when her husband died, she returned to Caisse brought not 10, 20, or even 30 Essiac-Bracebridge, but little is known of her activities treated patients but 380 of them! They alluntil 1959. It was widely believed that she was claimed to have been cured, and there was medical documentation to support it. The commissionstill treating patients, and the government dared not arrest her. heard 49 of themThroughout the years when she was treating Here are just two of those 49 testimonies: After treatment by Nurse Caisse, I m workingpeople, when asked about her income she would everyday. I milk five cows, night and morning. I mlaugh, I never had $100 I could c all my own! She would accept fruits, vegetables, eggs, or whatright off the farm and have boarders and all in theever the people would bring h er in payment for house, and I have to do it all myself. I owe my life to Miss Caisse and I hope you will do somethingher help. She never turned away a nyone who had for her. Elizabeth Stewart, op. cit., 28.no money. When asked why she kept the formula secret, My cancer had spread after radium treatments until my arm had swelled to double its size, andshe replied that as long as the government and turned black. I went down from 150 pounds to 90the medical groups did not have i t, they could not pounds, and then entered St. Michael s to have myforbid others to use it. She refu sed to reveal the arm amputated, but changed my mind on the eveformula to the Canadian Government, the Memoof the operation and went to Bracebridge instead.rial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Cen ter in New York, After four months on the Essiac treatment my armor the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryhas returned to normal, and I have gained 60land just to name a few. pounds. Annie Bonar, ibid.She said she would not tell them the formula After hearing the 49 testimonies, the commit-until they publicly admitted that i t could cure cantee admitted that Essiac may have helped some ofcer. This they refused to do. So the stalemate conthem. But most of the time, the commission con-tinued on down to the time of her death. cluded her patients either did not know what they I want to know that suffering hu manity will benwere talking about, never had cancer (had earlierefit by it. When I can be given that assurance, I am been misdiagnosed), or that some standard methodwilling to disclose my [herbal] formula, but I have had really remitted the cancer.got to know that it is going to get to suffering humanity. Rene Caisse, op. cit., 30. In spite of all this evidence, the commission rejected the request for permission to give Essiac

to cancer patients. In its official December 1939There are three individuals who made it posreport, the commission declared that, of all thesible for people today to have E ssiac. The first was

--------------------------------------- 134 134Alternate Cancer Remedies Rene Caisse; the second was Charles A. Brusch,Eventually, Brusch was told that m ice would M.D.no longer be available to him for obvious reasons and technical difficulties. Pressure became so In February 1959, Roland Davidson (a Cana-great that he was much more cautious a bout treatdian healed of a severe case of ulcerated hemor-ing patients with cancer, lest h e be arrested. But rhoids by Essiac) journeyed to New York City toBrusch remained solidly with Rene Caisse as her convince Ralph Daigh, editorial director of Fawcettfriend and fellow researcher. She recognized this, Publications, to print a story on Caisse and Essiacgave him the full formula, an d signed a conin True, at that time the largest men s magazine intract making him co-owner of th e Essiac forNorth America. He had with him copies of 10mula. That was one of the wisest deci sions she pounds of documents, testimonials, physicians ever made. statements, and newspaper articles. The results we obtained with thousands of paDaigh was skeptical at first; but, after examin-tients of various races, sexes, and ages, with all ing the material for several hours, he became verytypes of cancer, definitely pr ove Essiac to be a cure interested. Daigh decided to check further into thefor cancer. All studies done in four laboratories in matter. With a friend (Paul Murphy of the Sciencethe United States and one or mo re in Canada forResearch Institute of New York), he went totify this claim. Charles A. Brusch, M.D. Bracebridge to interview Caisse and several physicians who had worked with her.Rene found that Essiac tended to normalize Daigh then made arrangements for Caisse tothe thyroid gland. She noted that it w ould heal be invited to go to Cambridge, Massachusetts andstomach ulcers within 3-4 weeks. Sir Frederick work with Dr. Charles Brusch, one of the mostBanting, the co-discoverer of insul in, said the tea prestigious physicians in America. Expenses wouldseemed to regenerate the pancre as so it would be paid and she would retain the right to her for-again produce insulin. It is a lso good for the commula. By this time, Rene was 70.mon cold. Essiac elevates the immune system. From 1959 to 1962, Dr. Brusch worked withGary Glum, author of a book on Caisse, says he Essiac at his Brusch Clinic in Massachusetts. Hehas taken one ounce of Essiac, e ach day for a dewas a personal physician to John F. Kennedy; and,cade, and he has not had a cold , flu, or a virus. Yet neither Essiac nor any other special food using Essiac, he healed Ted Kennedy s son who

had a sarcoma on his leg.should be taken as a cure-all, without changing It was quickly obvious to Brusch that Essiacone s way of life. Adequate rest, exer cise, and healthful living are crucial to success; it would be was a winner, and he wanted to try to improve on the formula. Working closely with Caisse, they gavefoolish for a person to just take Essiac, and imagEssiac orally and by injection to the patients. Theyine that he was insulated fr om infection and cripalso gave it to mice. Brusch knew a skilled herb-pling disease. alist, in Kansas, who suggested several otherBy the 1970s, no one (other than Br usch) herbs. Gradually, over a period of time, Bruschyet knew what the formula was. Mi dway through honed the formula into one which worked bet-that decade, Caisse finally admitted to the genter, and no longer needed to be injected. In thiseral public that the core formu la contained only way, common folk could more easily obtain andfour herbs. use it.At the time, one natural healing writer asked What they discovered through extensive experi-her directly if red clover tops was one of them. mentation on human patients was that by addingShe said no. He was amazed, since red clover more herbs (called potentiators) to Essiac s origi-blossoms have been widely used as a cancer nal core formula, Essiac became even more effec-remedy. What Caisse did not ment ion was that tive. So much so that it was possible to administerit was one of the four auxili ary herbs. the entire formulation orally. This was quite aLater in this chapter, we will te ll you the breakthrough because it meant that people couldnames of all eight herbs. treat themselves in the privacy of their own homes.From 1962 to 1978, Rene conti nued quietly Long treks to the clinic were no longer necessarytreating cancer sufferers at th e Bracebridge Clinic. . . Essiac in its newly evolved formulation was never Official papers have come to light, that the govagain administered by injection to human pa-ernment knew about this, but looked the other tients. Richard Thomas, The Essiac Report,way. They feared the people, who consider ed this 39. The improved formula had the four basiclady, who without charge healed cancer, t o be an angel from heaven. herbs, plus four others.For his part, Brusch continued experimenta-

--------------------------------------- 135 Essiac Therapy135 tion with the herbs, giving them to some patients,Rene Caisse was heartbroken. S he blamed and continually refining the proportions to be givenResperin for the problems. B itterly disappointed, for optimum results. As he progressed, he sharedshe died on December 26, 1978, a week after be-

his discoveries with Caisse. He also told her ofing operated on for a broken hip . other conditions which he found to be helped byBut Charles Brusch still had the formula. He Essiac. The formula was a phenomenal detoxifier,continued investigating, and he learned still more. cleaning the body so a variety of advanced degen-In early 1980, he learned why h e had been eracies and debilities could be alleviated.kept totally in the dark about Resper in s work with In the summer of 1978, Homemakers, one ofEssiac, even though the contract called for him to Canada s largest magazines, published a story onbe regularly consulted. Since Brus ch was in New Rene Caisse and her work. Rene was swampedYork State, not Canada, he hired a pri vate investiwith requests for help. Newspapers across Canadagator to check things out. This is what was dispicked up the story. Letters poured in.covered: One of those who read the Homemakers storyResperin was not even a viable corporat ion at was David Fingard, the vice-president of Resperin,the time of the Homemakers arti cle. It had a Canadian corporation said to have pharmaceu-sold some respiratory products, bu t little was tical interests. Fingard determined that he wouldknown about them. The impressiv e board of condo the impossible: convince Caisse to turn oversultants were merely friends of D avid Fingard. the formula to him. Repeatedly, he made offers,Fingard was a trained chemist, bu t his spewhich she turned down. But he kept offering new,cialty was unknown. Essiac was b eing formulated revised offers. Finally, he offered to treat poor can-in the kitchen of Dr. Matt hew Dymond, the only cer patients free, if she would turn over the for-other Resperin employee. Both men were now in mula.their 70s, and too frail to accomplish much. On the morning of October 26, 1977, Caisse,The general inaction of Resperin and in the Brusch, and Fingard signed a contract giving hishospitals provided the Departmen t of Health and firm the formula. Although Brusch was somewhatWelfare with the excuse it was loo king for. On April doubtful, yet Caisse, knowing she was nearing the9, 1981, the Health Protection Branch (an interend of her life decided to go ahead with it. Sheesting name) issued an official statement condemnhad signed over the rights to her secret formula,ing Essiac as essentially worth less. The hospital for the sum of one dollar, to a Canadian manufac-testing, it declared, had not h elped anyone. turing firm. Resperin was organized by a physi-On August 30, 1982, Resperin s perm it for testcian, Matthew Dymond, who wanted to save Essiacing of Essiac was rescinded. Know ing the public from extinction. He told her that he would use itwas to be outraged, the governm ent was ready. to help humanity, and she trusted him.They issued a statement that, under the Em ergency

With the passing of time, Brusch s fears wereDrug Release Act, any physician could obtain found to be true.Essiac for his cancer patients. Resperin kept the secret formula in Toronto;But such extensive paperwork was req uired but, in order to carry on their work, they said itfor each case, that the local physicians could not was necessary to share the formula with the Ca-use it. Among other things, the c omplete past nadian Ministry of Health and Welfare. This an-medical history of the patient mu st be written out gered Caisse, who felt that the men had betrayedand submitted, with copies of al l tests, X-rays, etc. her.Resperin had been effectively stopped, and But Brusch began checking into the matter andFingard and Dymond retired into sil ence. Essiac learned still more.could not be gotten to the people. On one hand, the medical establishment was up to its old tricks. Only two hospitals were per-Now enters the third person wh o, with Rene mitted to dispense Essiac. Physicians at those hos-Caisse and Dr. Charles Brusch , would bring Essiac pitals refused to give Essiac in the larger amountsto the people. needed to accomplish anything worthwhile. The clinical testing was limited to private physicians,Before her death, Caisse, bro kenhearted over and they were required to fill out extremely lengthythe state of affairs, shared the four-herb basic forforms for each person they wanted to give Essiacmula with some friends. Graduall y others learned to. So few physicians would bother to use it veryabout it. But Dr. Brusch contin ued to have the commuch. The physicians said they must give it inplete formula. Only the four basic herbs in the origicombination with various drugs. On and on wentnal formula had been divulged to Resperin. Why the merry-go-round.the complete formula had not been shared is a

--------------------------------------- 136 136Alternate Cancer Remedies question we do not have an answer for. It is likelyAlexander, from both medical interests and the genthat the advanced research work by Brusch waseral public. Learning where she liv ed, people would held back because of his initial doubts aboutmob her home. She became an expert at sorting Fingard and his organization. (A letter dated De-out the legal red tape, so pati ents could obtain cember 31, 1985, from the Health and WelfareEssiac from their physicians via the Emergency Department, in Ontario, confirms that only theDrug Release Act. Yet the complica tions were so four-herb formula was in use.)serious that only a few could be helped. The pressure continued from 1984 onward. Essiac was dead. Dr. Brusch did not know whatThen, in early 1988, Elaine got an idea. Simple to do, and could only wait.enough, it would cut through all the red tape and

Then, in the late summer of 1984, a woman inbring Essiac to the people at last! Vancouver phoned him.The answer was to be found, for example, in a Elaine Alexander was a woman with a remark-letter from Dr. A. Klein, at the Heal th Protection able amount of energy. She was a radio talk showBranch of the federal government . host and producer in Vancouver, British Colum- Relevant Factors: bia; and she had heard about Essiac. Essiac has always been classified as a drug b eIntrigued at first, she investigated, read every-cause the Resperin Corporation has made drug thing she could on the subject, and become con-claims for this infusion. vinced that Essiac really could heal cancer! According to the Food and Drug Act, a substance Alexander asked Brusch if he would be willingis a drug when it is a substance or a mixture of to appear on her Vancover radio talk show. It wassubstances sold or represented for use in the diagobvious that she already knew a vast amount aboutnosis, treatment, investigation or prevention of a Essiac, and regularly discussed controversialdisease, disorder, abnormal physica l state, or the symptoms thereof, etc. health issues over the air. In 1984, she had been one of the first to reveal the AIDS crisis to Canadi- Essiac has always been repre sented to be a ans, and she spent six weeks of broadcasts doing cure for cancer; therefore, it is a drug due to the claim. it. Brusch found that Elaine had already meticu- Suggested Response: Essiac appears to be entirely nontoxic. lously gone through court records, privately interviewed people healed by Essiac, and spoken with From the evidence to date Essiac h as only a physicians. Now she wanted to take the whole mat-placebo or a phychological effe ct on cancer patients. If Essiac were to be sold in health food stores, ter to the public in a radio series. For the first two-hour interview, the phone linesthe implied claims for this sub stance could be conwere jammed as she spoke with Brusch.sidered fraudulent, and would also constitu te a health hazard with regard to self-diagnosis and selfAlexander: Does Essiac have any side effects? Brusch: None.treatment of cancer. Briefing Information on Essiac, A. Klein, M.D., Health Protection Branch, A: Dr. Brusch, let s get right to the point. AreDepartment of Health and Welfare, O ntario, you saying Essiac can help people with cancer, or are you saying that Essiac is a cure for cancer?March 17, 1988. The solution was simple: Change the name of B: I m saying it s a cure!the formula from Essiac to something else, and A: Would you repeat that once more, Dr. Brusch? sell it at low cost through the health-food stores, B: Yes, I would be glad to. Essiac is a cure formaking no claims of any kind for it! cancer. I ve seen it reverse and eliminate cancers at such a progressed state that nothing medicalWhy fight a war that cannot be wo n? Instead,

just give it to the people as an herbal tonic science currently has could have accomplishedwhich is what the Objibwa Indians s aid it was. similar results. I wouldn t have believed it myself had I not seen it with my own eyes. I feel veryCharles Brusch was astounded. Res perin was essentially defunct; and, by this time, he knew that strongly that Essiac is the single most beneficialElaine Alexander was a true fr iend of Essiac. Imtreatment for cancer today. First E. Alexander radio interview with C.A. Brusch, M.D., Novem-mediately, he signed a contract ma king her cober 1984.owner of the formula, and he pled with her to take In Dr. Brusch, Rene Caisse had at last found acharge of getting the herbal formu la to the people. friend who would not betray her. In ElaineOn November 10, 1988, legal documents were drawn up and signed (and an additional confirAlexander, Brusch had at last found the friend he needed to bring Essiac to the people.matory contract was drawn up between them o n April 23, 1993). Intense pressure was immediately applied to

--------------------------------------- 137 137Essiac Therapy Elaine had to make a major decision. In ordertribution of Essiac. If Alexander w as not satisfied, to bring Essiac to the people, she would have toeither changes would be made or the contract give up her radio broadcasting. Somehow the dis-would be canceled. tribution would have be done on a massive scaleAt last, common people could obta in Essiac. by a large, well-established firm committed to natu-(For more on Essiac, see pag es 158 and 163.) ral remedies. It required four years of investigation by SUPPLEMENT: THE ESSIAC FORMULAAlexander and Brusch before they selected Flora Manufacturing and Distributing, Ltd.1 - THE ORIGINAL ESSIAC FORMULA In 1913, Dr. Otto Greither lay gravely ill in aHere are the four primary herbs i n the Essiac Bavarian hospital. A leading European orthodoxherbal formula: physician, Dr. Greither s condition was impossibleBurdock root (Arctium lappa) is slightly bitto diagnose, but left him paralyzed from the waistter. You can add an additional 2-6 oz. to the 24 down. Both legs were hard, dark, and one wasoz., if you do not mind the added bi tterness. This beginning to gangrene.would be beneficial, but not necessary. The night before he was to have both of themSheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella) is a wild peamputated, a nurse made a comment to him. If Irennial miniature of garden sorrel . It must be green may say so, one of those foolish comments thatin color and have an aroma of swee t grass. Soronly a person acquainted with natural remediesrel comes from a French word for sou r. Sorrel

would make. She told the great doctor that if hetastes a little like lemon juice . would take some enemas, it would clean out theTurkey (or Turkish) rhubarb root ( Rheum colon and eliminate the toxic buildup.palmatum) is yellowish-brown in color. Greither was understandably outraged at suchSlippery elm inner bark (Ulmus fulva ) is best a stupid statement. But, recognizing that he hadpurchased. If you strip it from a tree, you will likely nothing to lose, he did it. The effects were imme-kill it if you do not know the proper way to do it. diate, and a full recovery followed soon after.For your information, it is somet imes said that Returning to his practice, rich foods, meat,Essiac originally had six herbs in i t, not four. wine, and late hours, within six months he wasChecking this out carefully, we fi nd that there were back in the hospital with both legs paralyzed again.only four. Once again, Greither took an enema.We have learned that sheep sorrel is a crucia l This time, recovery awakened him fully to theingredient, but that many herb comp anies substireality of natural remedies and uselessness of or-tute yellow dock and curly doc k for the sheep sorthodox medications. He made a total changeoverrel. Yet it is the sheep sorrel th at is said to be in practice, and thoroughly researched the health-responsible for the destructio n of cancer cells, food field. In 1916, Dr. Otto Greither founded ain the body, or their amalgamati on where mecompany, called Salus Haus (Health House). Withintastasized cancer cells actuall y return to the origi10 years there were more than 50 of them in Ger-nal cancer site. It is very impo rtant that the sheep many. Specializing in herbal formulas to detoxifysorrel be included in the mixtu re, not dock! the body, the firm spread to other countries.We have also learned that Rene woul d harvest Employing over 250 people, Salus Haus nowthe sheep sorrel (a common weed which g rows owns organic fields throughout Bavaria, an organicover much of Canada and the Un ited States) when herbal farm in Chile, and an organic acerola farmit was 4-6 inches high. She cut it back and it would in Florida.grow again, and she would cut it back again. After Its manufacturing plant outside Munich cov-doing this about three times, she wou ld let it go to ers 60 acres, and the products are exported to 60seed. While seeding the ground, it would grow to countries. The headquarters of the Canadian com-14-18 inches. pany, called Flora, is located on the edge of Van-Caisse would then take the her b cuttings home couver, B.C.and lay them out at room temperature to dry. AfThe first meeting of Elaine Alexander with theter 3-4 days, she would begin turn ing the herbs. head of the company, Thomas Greither (Otto sThereafter, she would turn them every two days grandson), was in May 1992. Ultimately, an agree-until they were properly dry, w hich took about 10ment was signed.14 days. About a bushel of harvested sheep sorrel

Brusch and Alexander required that she main-is required to produce one pound of the dried tain continual oversight of the growth, harvesting,powdered herb, as used in the formula. processing, widespread, and lower-cost sales dis-Rene had said that, when she or iginally ob-

--------------------------------------- 138 138Alternate Cancer Remedies tained the formula in the early 1920s, she altered(4) 4 oz. of powdered slippery elm bark. the formula somewhat. It is now known that theSupplies needed: modification was the addition of Turkish rhubarb Two 3-gallon (or larger) pots wi th lids. They root (Rheum palmatum). This herb is not nativeshould either be stainless steel o r enameled blued to North America, nor available here. It does notcanner pots. Never use aluminum as a container grow in the fields, therefore could not be part offor anything you may later put into your body! the original Ojibwa Indian formula. But it has been Fine-mesh strainer (stainless steel). used for thousands of years, and originally came Funnel (stainless steel or plast ic). from India into China, where the British acquired Spatula (stainless steel). it and took it to Britain and Canada. Because herbs Twelve or more 16-oz. sterili zed amber glass imported from foreign countries are generally fu-bottles with airtight caps (not the childproof type; migated and irradiated, some prefer to use a na-these are not airtight). Clear-g lass mason jars can tive variant. It is said that ordinary rhubarb rootbe used, if they are stored o n a dark shelf. can be used as a substitute. Measuring cup (pyrex). (Special note: The above information was ob- Kitchen scale (it must have ounce me asuretained from research studies on Turkish rhubarb,ments). and it is there called Rheum palmatum; yet thatAdvance preparation: is the scientific name for ordinary, North Ameri-(1) Sterilize the bottles and c aps, which the can rhubarb. The present writer has been unableherbal liquid will later be store d in. Bottle caps to obtain any further information on Turkish rhu-must be washed and rinsed thorou ghly, and may barb. )be cleaned with a 3% solution of food grade hyThe burdock root (Arctium lappa) and thedrogen peroxide in water. inner (not outer) bark of the slippery elm (Ulmus(2) To make the 3% solution: Mi x 1 oz. of 35% fulva) are easy to obtain. It is the sheep sorrelfood grade hydrogen peroxide wi th 11 oz. of dis(Rumex acetosella) that is said to especially de-tilled water. Place in a pot an d let the jars and lids stroy the cancer cells. The burdock and rhubarbsoak in it for 5 minutes; then ri nse and dry. If the are said to be blood cleansers. (However, fromfood grade hydrogen perioxide is n ot available, use other sources, we learn that Hungarian research, teaspoon of Chlorox to 1 gallon

of distilled wain 1966, and Japanese research, at Nagoya Uni-ter. versity in 1984, disclosed that burdock has anti-Preparing the herbs: tumor activity; and studies done, in the 1980s(1) Mix the dry ingredients thorou ghly. You can showed antibiotic and anti-tumor properties inbest do this by placing the herbs in a plastic bag rhubarb.) As for slippery elm, its primary func-and vigorously shaking it. Any c lean household tion is to catch toxic substances, brought to thebag will suffice. colon by the bloodstream, and carry them on out (2) Put the 2 gallons of distill ed water into the of the body.large pot, cover it with the lid, and bring it to a Here is additional information about Essiac:rolling boil. Continue the boil for a couple minThis information comes from several sources,utes. and all of it agrees. (One of the sources is a book (3) Stir in 1 cup of the dry ingredients. Reby Gary L. Glum, a Los Angeles chiropractor, en-place the lid and continue boili ng for 10 minutes. titled Calling of an Angel, about Caisse and (4) During the waiting period, stor e the reEssiac.)mainder of the herbs in a cool, dark place. The Even its worst enemies could never claim thatherbs are light sensitive. Essiac had any side effects. It can be safely taken, (5) Turn off the fire, but do not remove the up to 6 oz. a day (2 in the morning, 2 around noon,herbs. The steeping process h as begun (during and 2 in the evening).which the herbs remain in the hot water). Scrape Some may wish to order the four herbs anddown the sides of the pot with a spatul a, stir the mix their own, in order to insure highest qualitymixture thoroughly, replace the lid. of product. Here is the recipe: (6) The pot should remain closed for 12 hours. Dry ingredients:Then turn the stove to the highest setting and heat (1) 24 oz. of burdock root. This is equivalentalmost to a boil but do not let it b egin boiling! to 6 (six and a half) kitchen measuring cups, fullThis will take about 20 minutes . The steeping out of the cut root piece or 24 oz. of the dry powderedof the active ingredients (fr om the herb into the herb.water) is now completed. (2) 16 oz. of powdered sheep sorrel. (7) Turn off the stove. Strain the liquid i nto (3) 1 oz. of powdered Turkey rhubarb root.the second 3-gallon (or larger) pot. C lean the first

--------------------------------------- 139 Essiac Therapy139 pot and strainer.under the brand name, Flor Essence; they are (8) Do the second straining: Strain the filteredboth in ready-to-take liquid fo rm and formulated liquid back into the first pot, using the strainerdry herbs for home steeping. I t is sold simply as and a clean cotten cloth across the mouth of thean herbal cleansing tea. No othe r physiological strainer.claims are made for it. The herbs are said to have

(9) Use the funnel to immediately pour thebeen grown under entirely organic con ditions. hot liquid into sterilized bottles, being careful toThe proportions of the formu la remain a tighten the caps securely. Allow the bottles to cool.closely guarded secret, but the full list of herbs in Then tighten the caps again.the improved Flor Essence product is known. Any (10) If possible, store in a cool place untilphysician or researcher who adminis tered the opened. Upon opening a jar, keep refrigerated, butherbs over a period of time co uld ascertain the not frozen.ideal proportion of the eight herbs. (11) Essiac contains no preservatives so, ifThese herbs are as follows: mold forms in a bottle, immediately discard theThe original four herbs The origina l four contents.herbs, as given by the Objibwa Indian doctor, (12) Sediment on the bottom of the jars is fromhave been listed above. They are sheep sorrel, the herbs and is normal.burdock root, slippery elm bark, rhubarb root Directions for use:(also called Turkey rhubarb root). These four Essiac is easy to take and does not taste bad.herbs have been discussed at lengt h in the Brew the tea and store it in bottles in the refrig-preceeding two pages, and wil l be discussed in erator. Drink it at least one hour before mealtime.even more detail later in thi s book (Part Five: (1) If you have cancer, drink two fluid ouncesHerbal Preparations). three times a day. Do this for at least 12 consecu-The additional four herbs Worki ng closely tive weeks, without interruption.with a Kansas herbalist, Dr. Brusch found that the (2) If you have diabetes, drink two ounces twiceaddition of certain other herbs p otentiated (ima day.proved) the successful outcome of administering (3) For general health maintenance, drink twoEssiac to cancer patients. We do no t know what two-ounce cups twice a day for two weeks, thenthe proportions of these four addi tional herbs one a day thereafter.were, but the context of all the discussion about Directions for normal use:Brusch s findings would indicate the basic four (1) Shake the bottle of Essiac.herbs were probably in the largest proportion. (2) Take 4 tablespoons (2 oz.) twice a day. ItHere are these additional four her bs: watercan be taken cold or heated slightly (do not mi-cress, blessed thistle, red clov er, and kelp. Here crowave).is a brief overview of each of them: (3) Take it in the morning upon arising. OneWatercress is called a light herbal t onic, hour before eating is best.which not only tones up the system but also pro(4) Take it again at bedtime on an empty stom-vides some nourishment. It aids in rebuilding and ach, at least 2 hours after eating.retoning the body. It is said to be an excell ent blood (5) In severe cases, also take 2 oz. before thetonic and purifier, and richer in iodine than most noon meal.plants found within the continent. For this reaIf you have severe stomach problems, diluteson, it improves the action of the th yroid. Essiac with an equal amount of distilled water.Blessed Thistle improves digestio n and cir-

Directions for use as a preventive:culation and strengthens the heart. It is use ful for (1) Shake the bottle of Essiac.all liver, lung, and kidney problems, and strengt h(2) Take 4 tablespoons (2 oz.). It can be takenens the brain and memory. Blessed thistle should cold or heated slightly (do not microwave).not be taken alone or in large amount s during preg(3) Take it at bedtime on an empty stomach,nancy. at least 2 hours after eating.Red clover is an excellent blood purifier when used alone or in combination with other blood pu2 - THE IMPROVED ESSIAC FORMULArifiers (such as yellow dock, dandelion root, sas safras, etc.). For many years it has been known as As agreed upon by Dr. Charles Brusch, Elainea powerful cancer remedy. Only the t ops (blosAlexander, and Thomas Greither, the completesoms) are used. herbal compound, as formulated by Caisse andKelp is the fourth of Dr. Brusch s pote ntiaimproved on by Brusch, is today marketed by Florators. Kelp is a general term for seaweed. Nutritionists recognize that California kelp may be good

--------------------------------------- 140 140Alternate Cancer Remedies as fertilizer, to help plants grow; but it is not atient was not compelled to re sort to opiates or nargood nutritional supplement. The ideal is Novacotics in increasing doses, as usu ally is the case. Scotia Dulse or Norwegian Kelp. Both are rich inMy decoction is increasing doses , as usually is the trace minerals, especially iodine. It would be wellcase. My decoction is a nonto xic drink made from to include either of these in the diet everyday. Theherbs which are of definite benefit for cancer. present writer has done so for years. I have felt that once the cancer becomes act ive, If you wish to have Dr. Brusch s exact propor-traveling as it does along the line of least resistions of these eight Essiac herbs, you will need totance . . insidiously, on its relentless course, any destructive agency applied to the human body can obtain Flor Essence, in either the liquid or dry herb form.only do more harm (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery). ADDRESSES: I have found that no matter where the maligResearchers will appreciate the fact that, regardless of where they may live, if Flor Essencenancy may be in the human body, su rgery would be much more successful after the treatment of is not available at local health-food stores, heremy herbal remedy, followed by continued treatment are some addresses which might be helpful in locating Flor Essence:over a period of time; then there would be no recurrence of the tumor. In the case of breast cancer, Flora Manufacturing Company is headquar-the primary growth will usually invade t he mam-

tered in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, British mary gland of the opposite breast or the auxilla Columbia, Canada.(armpit), or both. My treatment, I found, reduces Salus Haus is the international headquarters,the secondary growth into the prima ry mass, enand is located in Munich, Germany.larging it for a time. When it became localize d, it Here are three addresses in the United States:was encapsulated and could then be removed withP.A.H. Products, P.O. Box 2665, Mission, KSout danger of recurrence. In one inst ance, a pa66201 / 800-318-2666.tient with breast cancer was instructed by her docSawnson Products, P.O. Box 2803, Fargo, NDtor to take my treatment before underg oing sur58102 / 701-277-1662.gery; however after a brief treatment the cancer L&H Vitamins, 37-10 Crescent St., Long Is-had completely disappeared, with no re currence. land City, NY 11101 / 718-937-7400. Most importantly, and this was verified in ani mal tests conducted at the Brusch Medical Center The above addresses are for the improved eight-herb formula. Here is an address for theand other laboratories, it was dis covered that one earlier four-herb formula:of the most dramatic effects of taking this remedy was its affinity for drawing all the cancer cells, Caisse s Herbal Tea, obtainable from Camaswhich had spread, back to the original s ight, at Prairie Products, Trout Lake, WA 98650. It contains organic burdock root, sheep sorrel, slipperywhich point the tumor would fi rst harden, then later it would soften until it vanished altogether or, elm bark, and turkey rhubarb.more realistically, the tumor would decrease in siz e to where it could then be surgically removed with STATEMENT BY RENE CAISSEminimum complications. The following statement by this dedicated In certain cases and at certain stages o f the disnurse summarizes her observations after givingease, the cancer would act as if i t were coming to a Essiac to cancer sufferers for many years. We es-head, similar to an abscess. It would then break pecially include it because it describes the man-down and slough away. These peo ple all reported ner in which spreading cancer will frequently re-that when the mass breaks, it i sn t like puss but turn to the original tumor, which will then hardenlike a cottage cheese substanc e that comes away. Still other types will enlarge until the mass is loand grow smaller. My treatment is nontoxic herbs. It goes to thecalized, then loosen and reduce in size until there is nothing left, having been absorbed into and carseat of the trouble no matter where it is whetherried off by the blood stream an d body waste. internal or on the surface, and gives healthy cells the strength to resist the demands of the malig- Other observations I ve made over m y years of nant cells for the substance upon which the malig-practice: The treatment allowe d patients to sleep in greater comfort than they had in the past, and

nancy thrives, thus causing a recession of the malignant cells from the healthy cells, which havethe increased appetite and weigh t, diminished pain, become stronger.decreased tumor size, and longer life span were all attested to by doctors in attendance. Dr. Banting, I can truthfully say that I have in many cases been able to stay the disease (cancer) and in somewho examined case after case, was especially imreally bad cases prolong life. In practically all cases,pressed with the effect of the treatment on the pancreas and possibly other sluggish glands which it pain and suffering were alleviated so that the pa-

--------------------------------------- 141 Essiac Therapy141 seemed to restore to activity. Other doctors whowhen the level of toxins in the body becomes examined my patients discovered the treatment hadtoo high, cancer begins to grow in order to proa special effect on the liver. After taking bloodtect the body from death. The c ancerous tumor counts they found hemoglobin and white cell plate-actually filters the toxins ou t of the blood; but, lets had returned to normal.as soon as the tumor is removed, the toxins My treatment, given to people in health, is help-come back because the cause of t he poisoning ful in that it is a blood purifier and will do its workhas not changed. before there is any chance of the malignant cells invading the body. Undated statement by ReneThe solution is to increase the general nutriCaisse.tion, stop putting those toxins into the body, and set to work, systematically, to rid the body of the An increasing number of alternative cancertoxins it has. The Gerson therapy is i deally suited therapists are leaning toward the conclusion that,to this task. Them that honour Me I will honour. 1 His anger endureth but a moment; in His Samuel 2:30.favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, The Lord preserveth the faithful. Psalmbut joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30:5. 31:23. When thou passest through the waters, I Surely goodness and mercy shall follow mewill be with thee; and through the river s, they all the days of my life: and I will dwell in theshall not overflow thee: when th ou walkest house of the Lord for ever. Psalm 23:6.through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neiVerily there is a reward for the righteous. ther shall the flame kindle upon thee. F or I am Psalm 58:11.the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: ThySaviour. Isaiah 43:2-3. blessing is upon Thy people. Psalm 3:8. Thou shalt be secure, because there is All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apol-hope. Job 11:18. los, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or I will both lay me down in pea ce, and sleep: things present, or things to come; all arefor Thou, Lord only makest me dwell in safety. yours. 1 Corinthians 3:21-22.Psalm 4:8. His secret is with the righteous. Proverbs He giveth His beloved sleep. Psalm 127:2.

3:32. The Lord is my light and my salvation; The light of the righteous rejoiceth . . To thewhom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of righteous good shall be repaid. Proverbs 13:my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1. 9, 21. Thou shalt lie down, and none shall make He that spared not His own Son, but deliv-thee afraid. Job 11:19. ered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, Him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32.and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy Blessings are upon the head of the just . .navel, and marrow to thy bones. Proverbs 3:7The desire of the righteous shall be granted . .8. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord sha ll Proverbs 10:6, 24, 28.be safe. Proverbs 29:25. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: Proverbs 12:2.but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Behold, God will not cast away a perfectPsalm 34:19. man, neither will He help the evil doers: till He I will look unto the Lord; I wil l wait for the fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips withGod of my salvation: my God will hear me. rejoicing. Job 8:20-21.Micah 7:7. Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remem- The Lord redeemeth the soul of His serber it as waters that pass away. Job 11:16.vants: and none of them that trust in Hi m shall Even so would He have removed thee out ofbe desolate. Psalm 34:22. the strait into a broad place, where there is no As many as receive Him, to them g ave He straitness; and that which should be set on thypower to become the sons of God, even to them table should be full of fatness. Job 36:16.that believe on His name. John 1:12.

--------------------------------------- 142 142Alternate Cancer Remedies - Part Five The Gerson Therapy ____________________treatment appears to rank above even the laetri le treatment for including a wider range of nutrition, MAX GERSON, M.D., 1928 a more systematic cleansing of toxins, and thereWe include the Gerson therapy here near thefore yielding a higher percentage of patients who end of this historical review, since it is one of the survive five years or longer. (The Gerson treatment, most accessible alternative treatments availableas given by the Gerson Institute , also includes the today.administration of laetrile.) Here is the Gerson story: Note to researchers: The Gerson treatment needs to be thoroughly explored by medical researchers, for it yields such a highMax Gerson, M.D ., was born in Germany on rate of success. But the controlled testing should be carried out,October 18, 18 81. For his graduation tests, at the

using the strict Gerson dietetic principles. The Gerson treatment requires major changes in the diet, and must be exactly repli-age of 19, Max wro te a totally new approach to a cated.mathematics problem. His teacher could not figWorking Summary: The Gerson therapy has received theure it out, so sent it to th e University of Berlin. longest research (70 years of clinical improvement), is the mostThey wrote back, that it was the work of a brilcomplete system (including a full range of dietetic changes), andliant mathemati cian and that Gerson should be can be done at home. They hide no secrets.directed into higher mathematical stud ies. But It is an intriguing fact that, with the sole ex-Gerson planned to become a medic al doctor. He ception of the laetrile battle headed by Dr. Johnwanted to help people. Richardson, the physicians who left the United Graduating from the University of Freiburg in States were the most successful in administering1907 as a physician, he received advanced trainalternative therapies over a long-term basis. Theing under five of the leading m edical experts in medical doctors who fled included Dr. Lawrence Germany. Burton, who went to the Bahamas; Dr. William Koch, who went to Brazil; and Dr. Steven Durovic,Shortly after completing medica l school, Gerson began experiencing severe migraine headaches. who returned to Argentina. Then there were those who carried on a suc-He was only 25, yet he would have to lie in a darkcessful practice, entirely outside the United States.ened room for two or three days in pain. The doctors had no answer. One told him, You Included here were Dr. Robert Bell, in Scotland; the physicians, in Canada, who used Essiac forwill feel better when you are 55. B ut that was not much of a solution. years; Dr. Ernesto Contreras, in Mexico; as wellThen Max read about a woman in I taly who Dr. Manuel Navarro, in the Philippines; Dr. Ettore Gudetti, in Italy; Dr. Hans Nieper, in Germany; Dr.had changed her diet, and her migraines lessened. This gave him an idea, so he began tinkering with Shigeaki Sakai, in Japan; the Jankers Clinic, in Germany; and many others.his diet. In his case, he had excellent feedback: If he made a beneficial change, the migraines reduced We can add to those clinics which have beenin intensity and frequency; if he mad e a mistake, successful outside America, the Gerson Institute in northwestern Mexico. Behind that hospital isone would begin within 20 minutes . First, he tried a milk diet, but that was usean interesting story. It is especially interesting because the Gersonless. Then he went off all milk, and that helped a little.

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Gerson Therapy143 Then he tried eating apples only raw, cooked,ure. Sauerbruch did not think it woul d come to baked and that was a great help. Slowly he addedthis; he had hoped against hope. S o he penned a other things, till eventually he had totally elimi-letter to his friend Gerson a nd, then, slowly walked nated his migraines.back across the hospital grounds after posting the So he told his migraine patients about his diet.note. He called it his migraine diet. When they re-He was on his way to cancel the test; but, on turned, they would tell him theirs was gone too.the way, met a woman carrying tw o large trays full But one said it had also eliminated his lupusof meat, gravy, sugary foods, and a ll the trimmings. (lupus vulgaris, or tuberculosis of the skin).Asking her what she was doing, she replied airily: Gersen knew the man could not have had lupus Oh, the people over in this building are starving, since it is incurable, but the patient showed himso we re sneaking food in to make them happy. his medical records. The year was 1922.They have a crazy doctor! It was obvious to Gerson that the medicalSauerbruch quickly set guards to keep t he diet theory, that there is but one medicine for each dis-the way Gerson had prescribe d it, and then wrote ease, was incorrect. As he later stated it, the greata second letter informing G erson the test was still truth was this: Nourish the body and it will doin progress. the healing. Result: 446 of 450 incurable patients (99%) So Max treated some other lupus patients, andrecovered. Lupus had been shown to be curable their problem vanished also. But patients cameby diet therapy. back with the news that their other problems hadBut Gerson still had not tried h is therapy on disappeared as well. The careful dietary programcancer patients. Even in Germany , physicians were he devised was successful in treating asthma andcareful about trying out new can cer remedies. other allergies; diseases of the intestinal tract, liver,When a couple of cancer victims came to him, he and pancreas; tuberculosis; arthritis; heart dis-turned them down. But one day, a lady called him ease, skin conditions, and on and on! Some of his most striking successes were in liver and gallblad-to her home, but would not te ll him what was der diseases.wrong with her. Arriving, she told him she had cancer and pled for him to help her. She was in In Germany at that time, trains often had pri-bed, weakened, and in terrible con dition. He told vate compartments, each one seating six. One day,her he could not do so. Please, she said, just write as a train was about to pull out from the station, aout your dietary formula, an d I will sign a paper man entered one of the compartments. The onlynot holding you responsible for wha t happens. other person there was a distinguished-appearingGerson did so and left. It was o bvious she was too gentleman who said nothing. As the train got un-weak to even follow the directio

ns. derway, the man started chattering to no one inAll alone, the sick woman struggl ed to follow particular. The gentleman tried to ignore him.the program and recovered totally fr om cancer. Soon the man jovially got on the subject ofLearning of this, Gerson began treati ng other health, and the gentleman wished he could get tocancer patients. The year was 19 28. Of his first his destination a little quicker.12 cases, 7 responded favorably, remaining symp Then, opening his shirt slightly, the man said,tom free for seven and a half yea rs. And you know, I had this lupus, right here on my(Some of these facts we know beca use of testichest. And this doctor, he cured it. Now it s gone! mony presented by him and others at the July 1At this, the gentleman jumped up, lunged at3, 1946, senate hearings, conducted b y Claude the man, reached for his shirt and said, Let mePepper of Florida.) see that! Gerson also treated Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his The gentleman was Ferdinand Sauerbruch,wife, and daughter for various health pro blems. M.D., one of Europe s leading skin and tuberculo-Gerson saved Mrs. Helene Schweitz er from hopesis doctors. He well-knew that lupus cannot beless lung tuberculosis in 1931; an d, several years cured!later, he healed their daughter of a rare, serious Obtaining Gerson s name and address from incurable erupting skin condition that defie d dithe man, Sauerbruch contacted Gerson as soonagnosis. as he reached his office. A friendship was started,Dr. Schweitzer himself came t o Gerson at the and Sauerbruch, impressed with his humility andage of 75, depressed and weary wi th advanced diasincerity, arranged a test using Gerson s remark-betes. In five weeks, Dr. Schweit zer had cut his able diet on 450 incurable lupus patients.insulin dosage in half, and in ten was c ompletely But after a week or so, it was obviously a fail-off of it. Healed, and with new energy, he returned

--------------------------------------- 144 144Alternate Cancer Remedies to Africa where he worked past the age of 90. Inoutside, where he was gunned dow n as Gerson response, the world-famed Schweitzer declared,watched through the window. He had just seen the I see in him one of the most eminent medical ge-first large-scale action to colle ct 6,000,000 Jews niuses in the history of medicine. for extermination in the Nazi concentration cam ps. As the train continued on, Max completely Schweitzer afterward required that his physi-changed his plans. Instead of getti ng off at Berlin, cians in Lambarene, Africa, study Gerson s book, Therapy of Lung Tuberculosis, before they startedhe continued on the train to Vi

enna, Austria. From to treat the patients in his hospital.there, he contacted his wife and told her to immediately come with their three girls, which she did. Gerson was remarkable. Geniuses tend to fo-He also contacted all their brothers, sisters, and cus their thoughts, whereas most people scatter theirs. Because of this trait, Gerson could not riderelatives, and offered to se nd money for them to a bicycle. He would be so deep in thought that heleave. But they laughed at his concerns. They had their homes, their businesses, and there was nothwould smash it. After having destroyed four of them, his family forbade more of that. For the sameing to fear from Hitler. reason, he could not drive a car. His mind wasMax Gerson, his wife, and their re latives were Jews. All of those relatives (15, plus children) later continually at work, devising ways to help his pa-perished. From Vienna, Gerson later went to Paris. tients. One day while walking in the woods in the HarzIn 1936, he emigrated to America, and went Mountains near Bielefeld (before moving toto school to learn English. In January 1938 he received his medical license and began practicing Kassel), Max met a man who raised foxes. Thein New York City. By this time, Gers on could enrancher told him that he ran a very successful fox farm. He would buy sick, tubercular foxes for al-large or shrink surface cancers at will. He knew exactly what was needed to help his patients. The most no cost, and later sell them. He said his foxesonly question generally was whether they were in had the finest coats and their pelts brought the highest prices. Gerson asked him how he couldearnest enough to fully follow his program when do this. Mentioning that it was a secret which mustthey went home. His first contact with medicine in America was not be shared with the other fox farmers, he saidenlightening. Called as a consu ltant to physicians there was a doctor, somewhere in Germany, named Max Gerson who had a nutritional cure for dis-treating a wealthy industrialist f or arthritis, Gerson outlined what he would do to bring a fairly quick ease. The farmer bought sick foxes which had lungrecovery. There was an awkward pause, and then tuberculosis, healed them with Gerson s diet of organic vegetables and fruits, and then sold themone of the doctors said, Dr. Ger son, you are new at a good profit because they produced such highhere. You don t understand. This m an is a wealthy member of the W.R. Grace family. They own steamquality fox furs. Both men were happy whenship lines, banks, chemical companies, and so on. Gerson introduced himself. You don t cure a patient like this. You treat him. At the age of 51, Gerson was asked to presentIn New York, he treated 90% of his cancer pahis findings, by appointment, at a meeting of thetients without charge and finan ced his own re-

German Medical Association. At last he would havesearches in chronic diseases. F rom 1946 to 1948 an opportunity for the world to learn of his workhe saw patients at the Gotham H ospital. to save people. On April 1, 1933, as he sat in theAt the Senate hearings, he tes tified that berailroad car, on his way to Berlin, the train stoppedlieved the liver held the k ey to the cure of cancer at a station and Hitler s SS troups entered.and that if the liver was too far gone , treatment When a young, inexperienced SS officer askedwas useless. This would be understan dable, since Gerson where he was going, Gerson, not knowingthe liver, an astounding chemical laboratory, is the there was any danger, enthusiastically showed himprimary detoxifying agency in t he body. X-rays and told him about his work. Impressed,Appearing with him on July 3, 1946 , at the the young man replied that he hoped Gerson wouldthree-day Senate hearings were f ive of his patients, succeed, forgot to ask the question, and passedeach of whom had fully recovered from some of on to the next man just behind Gerson. For thethe most common forms of cancer in America. He first time, Gerson heard the question the troopsalso came with X-ray photographs , pathology rewere asking each passenger on the train: Are youports from leading hospitals, and testimonials a Jew? from many other patients and relatives of cancer Immediately, Max sensed the terrible danger.victims. All the passengers except Gerson were asked thatIn reaction, on November 16, 194 6, in its question, and Max saw one young man, a Jew, led Frauds and Fables category, the Jou rnal of the

--------------------------------------- 145 Gerson Therapy145 AMA hopefully dismissed the Gerson s unprec-most completed book (A Cancer Therapy: Results edented Senate presentation with the words, For-of Fifty Cases) were stolen and n ever recovered. tunately for the American people this presenta-Separating himself from that grou p, Gerson, tion received little, if any, newpaper publicity. now quite aged, raced against ti me to completely In its January 8, 1949, issue, the Journalrewrite the book. In 1958, the book wa s published. wrote, There is no scientific evidence whatsoever On March 4 of that same year, he was finally to indicate that modifications in the dietary intakesuspended for two years from the New York Mediof food or other nutritional essentials are of anycal Society. At a meeting of t he New York Academy specific value in the control of cancer. of Medicine, the surgeons, radiologists, and phyDuring his lifetime, Gerson wrote 51 articles,sicians condemned a colleague who was living by

published in medical journals. (All of his publica-Hippocrates dictum: Above all, do no harm. tions are listed at the back of S.J. Haught s book,Gerson died a year later (March 8, 1959), Has Dr. Max Gerson a True Cancer Cure?) But,shortly after he fell down the stair s in his house. for the most part, Gerson worked alone. Other phy-He was 78 years old. sicians generally feared to help him or duplicateUpon Gerson s death, Albert Schwe itzer, the his work, for fear of reprisal.Nobel prize-winning physician and missionary, and Eventually, Gerson s medical privileges ata patient of Gerson s, made this statement : Gotham Hospital were revoked, and he was un- I see in him one of the most eminent mediable to find an affiliation with any other hospitalcal geniuses in the history o f medicine . . Many in the city. In 1953 his malpractice insurance wasof his basic ideas have been a dopted without discontinued. One $100,000 malpractice lawsuithaving his name connected with the m. Yet he would have wiped him out. Because the largerhas achieved more than seemed possib le under adverse conditions. He leaves a legacy which number of those who sought him had advancedcommands attention and which will ass ure him cancers, some of them died. Yet their relatives knew that they died with dignity, free from pain andhis due place. Those whom he cure d will now brain-numbing narcotics.attest to the truth of his ideas. Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Ph.D., quoted in S.J. Haught, Gerson s needs were simple. Patients wereHas Max Gerson a True Cancer Cure? 1962. shocked to learn that he would generally charge $25 for the first visit, and $5 or $10 for subse-That prediction was to prove tr ue. At the urging of many individuals who recogquent visits. (They had earlier been told he chargednized that a revival of Gers on s therapy was urhigh fees, $1,000 or $2,000 for each visit.) gently needed, Charlotte Gerson Strauss (the secRefusing to stop his work, Gerson treated pa-ond of Gerson s three daughters; born March 27, tients at his own facilities. In October 1954 at the1922), headed up a new ventu re, called the Gerson age of 73, he wrote his former patient and closeInstitute, in a clinic/hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. friend, Albert Schweitzer,The Gerson Institute was incorporated on June Those who say they would like to help, of-27, 1978, twenty years after the public ation of ten tell me they cannot. They regret not beingGerson s book, A Cancer Therapy, and nineteen able to assist me for fear of losing their position in hospitals and laboratories. I have longyears after his death. The Gerson Institute headquarters is located abandoned thoughts of attaining any kind ofin Bonita, California, near San Diego . The hospirecognition, nonetheless I continue on mytal, is in a suburb of Tijuana, Mexico. way. Journal of the Gerson Institute, Fall 1981, 16.Charlotte continues to travel around the world, speaking at conventions, meetings, and on talk Some of his best-documented, recovered pa-shows. Although elderly herself, she i

s in good tients died, when they were urged back by theirhealth, for she carefully remains on the nutrition former physicians for examination, and then told they must have surgery or radiation when theyand juice program her father develope d. Addresses: were totally free of cancer symptoms or evidence.Gerson Therapy The U.S. address a nd phone On two occasions Gerson became violently ill after being served coffee by a group supposedlynumber will, for most people, be easier to work with: Gerson Institute, P.O. Box 430, Bonita, Calisupporting him. Later laboratory tests showed un-fornia 91908. Phone: 619-585-76 00 or 619-267usually high levels of arsenic in his urine.1150. Fax: 619-367-6441. Automated v oice inforSome of Gerson s best case histories mysteriously disappeared from his files. In 1956, themation 24 hrs/day: 1-888-4-GERSON. Web: www.hospital-meridien.com/meridien manuscript and all of its copies for Gerson s al-Email: meridien@hospital-meridien .com

--------------------------------------- 146 146Alternate Cancer Remedies The primary Gerson treatment center is Hos-complete recovery system, one which c an be pital Meridien, Lava #2971, Secc. Costa Hermosa,used on any degenerative disease . Playas de Tijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP22240. Phone:In 1907, at the age of 25, Max G erson began 011-52-66-801358. Fax: 011-52-66-801831. Web:trying to devise a way to eliminate disease through Meriden@telnor.net. Hospital Meridien is 30 minutes south ofthe use of diet and related natural fact ors. For the downtown San Diego.next 52 years, until his death in 1959, he kept A recently opened U.S. treatment center is theimproving on that method. Gerson Center at Sedona, 78 Canyon Diablo,Then, in 1977, the Gerson Institute wa s opened; and, from that time until the present, they Sedona, AZ 86351. Phone or write the Bonita, Cali-have tried to improve on Max s b asic method. The fornia, office, above. GCS, the Sedona facility, isresult is over 70 years of not research but located 100 miles north of Phoenix and 28 milesclinical observation, experimenta tion, and imsouth of Flagstaff, near Sedona, a small town ofprovement. 8,000. No other cancer therapy has such a long ____________________record. In addition, the Gerson Institute us es more nutritional factors than any other named SUPPLEMENT therapy in this book, and it uses more of the THE GERSON THERAPYmethods described in Part Two of this book. Lastly, the Gerson therapy can be done at INTRODUCTIONhome if you do not have the $5,000 or so per

week to be at the Gerson Institute. Unlike some Medical researchers, your attention is toof the alternate cancer systems, Gerson hides be called to the fact that most of the cancer treatments in this book deal with only one orno secrets. They tell it all exactly how to get a few of the following factors; whereas thewell. Gerson therapy includes them all.The best way to learn how the therapy works is to order a copy of the two books, The Gerson Consider these factors, needed for the re-Primer and A Cancer Therapy: Results o f Fifty covery of cancer; all of which are included in the Gerson therapy:Cases, and carefully read in them. If only one book can be obtained, the best is the Primer. Nourish the body.Gerson believed that cancer would not occur Attack the cancer tissue and weaken it.in bodies with properly balanced and func tioning Cause the cancer tissue to begin dissolv-livers, pancreas, thyroid, and immune s ystems. ing as it is absorbed by the body and carried to the liver for discharge from the body.He found that, using his dietary regime, h e was Strengthen the body while the cancer isable to reverse the majority of cancer in patients being expelled.that came to him. It primarily consisted of a simple, Detoxify the liver of the accumulated poi-no-salt diet, supplemented ten times a day with sons from the reabsorbed tumor masses.freshly crushed juices of fruit (primarily apple) and vegetables (primarily carrot), taken at hourly inClean the entire gastro-intestinal tract oftervals. In addition, the patients we re given some these toxins.vegetable soups and a little waterless-cooked vegRebuild the body to a state of health evenetables. better than before the cancer started years before.This flooded the body, everyday, with the nuSummarizing the above, key factors in thetrients from nearly 20 pounds of fresh, organic Gerson therapy is nourishing the body, destroy-foods. His program, with some imp rovements, ing the cancer tissue, and cleansing it from thecontinues to be carried on by th e Gerson Instibody.tute. In addition to the careful diet, while they are Very, very few other cancer methods thor-initially being treated, patients take 3-4 coffee enoughly correct the diet and greatly improve gen-emas a day. Placed in the bowel, coffee has an eneral nutrition. Gerson does this.tirely different effect on the body than when i t is No other therapy systematically works to cleanse the discharged accumulation of cancerdrunk. It causes the bile ducts to be opened and and other poisons from the body. Gerson doestoxins to be ejected from the liver, where they have this.been sent as the tumor tissue breaks down. The Putting it all together, Gerson has the mostGerson nutritional program causes th e body to

--------------------------------------- 147 Gerson Therapy147 send toxins from the shrinking cancer tissue, andenemas aid the liver and bowels in eliminating the elsewhere, to the liver which ejects it through thecast-off dead cancer cells. T he Gerson therapy regallbladder into the intestines. But such a greatquires intensive detoxification with continuous enmass of toxins are being transported at this criti-emas, which must also remove necrotic cancer tiscal time, the liver is overloaded and needs help.sue. If this liver and bowel cleansing does not continually take place, the patient will often continueGerson said he lost some pat ients in his earto weaken, and the pain will intensify. It is danger-lier years, because he was unaware of the need to ous not to cleanse the liver!remove dead tissue. Autopsies later proved that The enemas quickly reverse the situation, re-some died, not from their cancers, but from the serious intoxication caused by the body s attempt sulting in a remarkable lessening of pain and ato absorb dead cancer tissue. general sense of improvement.Another problem he found was that, in the later With the liver relieved of its burden, it increasesstages of cancer when the liv er has been decidedly in health, even amid the cleansing program whichweakened, some vitamins (given t hrough supplerequires hard work on its part.ments) can induce a regrowth of cancer tissue, de In addition, there is other added supplemen-spite improved outlook from stimulat ed metabotation from various substances such as pepsin,lism. He especially found that the administration potassium, Lugol s solution (a powerful source ofof calcium to boys and girls with osteosarcoma, supplementary iodine), niacin, pancreatin, and thy-although showing remarkable r esults at first, were roid extracts. These stimulate various organ func-later followed by a rapid and incurable regrowth tions, especially the liver and thyroid.of cancers 10-14 days later. (At the Senate hearings, Gerson said that heOf course, the body receives a large intake of added iodine to his program because he found itvitamins and minerals through the Gerson diet, counteracted the neoplastic [cancer-inducing] ef-but that is never a problem. fects of certain hormones.) Gerson s program is high in raw, unprocessedGerson s most tragic loss occurred in 19 42, plant food, low in fat, and emphasizes potassium-when 25 of 31 patients who had been symptomrich foods. It also includes vitamin and mineralfree for several months, were in fluenced by physisupplementation, especially high doses of vitamincians to go on, what was then c alled the Huggins C.therapy, which was the administration of horGerson believed part of the problem was themones of the opposite sex. Although t hey felt much oversalting of food by Western Civilization. Thebetter after a few weeks on thes e hormones, their

ratio of potassium to sodium needed to be cor-cancers suddenly became worse and Gerson was rected. He found that cancer patients generally hadunable to save them. Max real ly cared for people, and this disaster so crushed him that he almost an excess of sodium, far outweighing the potas-gave up his medical practice. He sorrowed deeply sium in their bodies. Sodium acts as a poison inover the death of anyone. the body, inhibiting enzymes. In contrast, potas-One of the 25 was the 16-year-o ld son of John sium is an enzyme activator. (By the way, do notGunther, the well-known author o f Inside Eurobrush your teeth with soda! It is sodium and ispe, John, Jr., was showing remark able improveabsorbed right through the walls of the mouth.)ment, but his other physicians we re determined The modern American diet reverses the nor-that he be also placed on the hormones . mal 4 to 1 (potassium to sodium) ratio to our cur-Years after Max Gerson s death, when the rent 16-fold deterioration in this crucial balanceGerson Institute was establish ed, it continued on of electrolytes. All your cells are bathed in a saltywith Gerson s methods. When l aetrile appeared, ocean water, with higher concentrations of potas-the Gerson Institute was quick to recognize its sium inside the cells.value and incorporate it into the program. Birger Jansson, Ph.D., of the University ofCharlotte Gerson says that the cancer patients Texas, found that patients with a higher sodiumwho have the most difficult time recovering on the to potassium ratio in their diets were the ones most likely to have cancer. Stephen Thompson, Ph.D.,program are the ones who have bee n operated on at the University of California, San Diego, foundor have received radiation or c hemotherapy treatthat increasing the sodium content of the diet ments. would accelerate the rate at which metastasis ofHere are several items which the Gerson Incolon cancer in animals occurred.stitute has found to be absolutely forbidden, i n The potassium-rich foods revitalize the body,order to provide proper recovery fr om cancer: so that it rids the body of malignancies; and the Water with fluoride, chlorine, chemicals, wa-

--------------------------------------- 148 148Alternate Cancer Remedies ter softener (which contains sodium). Use distilledfor the first six months. water with added charcoal filter, or reverse osmo- Laetrile, when given to the pa tient, increases sis with added charcoal filter.the temperature around the tumor by 4-5o F. This Salt, tobacco, alcohol, black tea, most sea-weakens the cancer cells and aids in the process sonings, all drugs, fluoridated toothpaste, and sodaof their being destroyed by the T-lymphcytes. (including brushing teeth with soda). During reactions, pain can intensify as tox

Aerosol sprays, air fresheners, insecticides,ins are released from the tumors. B ut additional paint fumes.enemas will solve the problem. The enema is reDeodorants, hair dye, permanents, lipstick,tained for 15 minutes; and, because a ll the blood sunscreen, and amalgam tooth fillings. Teeth withpasses through the liver every three minutes, these root canals must be pulled out.enemas are a form of dialysis of the blood. Salt and all substitutes, soda, epsom salts. Patients with cancer have seriously weakSugar, soy beans and products, nuts, mush-ened immune systems. Until the Gerson program rooms, spices, white flour, fats, oils (except flax-pulls them out, they must be very careful not to seed oil), avocados, berries, pineapple, commer-get a common cold or virus. Thei r bodies may be cial beverages, candy, cake, chocolate, cocoa, alltoo weakened to handle it. types of coffee, cream, ice cream, butter, cheese, It is important that patients on the program eggs, fish, meat, milk, cucumbers.get enough rest! However, the feeding and enem as Aluminum cookware.must be continued. Only a minimum amount of exposure to sunshine and television. Here is some information on using the Gerson Some patients using large amounts of alfalfa therapy for non-malignant diseases: sprouts have adverse reactions, such as regrowth When on a Gerson program for a condition of the tumor. The sprouts contain incomplete proother than cancer, the number of glasses of juice teins and/or large amounts of certain amino accan be reduced from 13 to 6 a day, plus a glass of ids. citrus juice. Arthritic patients should avoid citrus For sweeteners, only use, when needed, a juices. limited amount of organic maple syrup, Sucanat The number of enemas can be reduced to (raw brown sugar), and raw, unfiltered honey. Do about 2 or 3. But the same special soup and other not use other sweetenings. menus should continue to be used. No salt, fats, oils, added proteins, or refined Information on this less-intensive program foods, except as prescribed. is outlined on pages 397-401 of the 2nd through No salt means no table salt, sea salt, kelp, 5th editions of A Cancer Therapy. In the original seaweed, soy sauce, baking soda, Bragg Aminos, edition (the only one available from 1996 onward), vegetable salt, or any other sodium-containing ada supplementary booklet is mailed out with it. The ditive (sauces, dressings, breads, cheeses, prenon-malignant program is listed on pages 13-14, pared foods). 18-19 of that booklet. Pages 4-7 include lists of No fats or oils means no oils, butter, lard, special diseases treated by the Gerson therapy.

cream, meats, margarine, Olestra; frying, salad oils, foods high in fats or oils (nuts, seeds, wheatThe potassium in foods chart on pages 228germ, soy beans, cheeses, prepared foods, sauces,229 of A Cancer Therapy makes i nteresting readdressings, breads with added oil). Exception: cold-ing. It shows the amounts of sodium and potaspressed organic flaxseed oil (which Gerson calledsium in common foods. In every case, the good linseed oil ) two tablespoons a day for the firstfood has more potassium and less sod ium, and 4 weeks and 1 tablespoon a day thereafter. Neverthe junk food has more sodium an d less potasuse it in cooking, frying, baking, or any form ofsium! Page 230 of that book lis ts some of the unheating.expected things you will find sodium in. No added proteins means no meat, nuts, The Gerson method, through its fruit and vegcheeses, or animal or vegetable protein suppleetable juices and soups, is so saturated with numents. tritional principles, that it generally has the highHere are several other worthwhile points toest rate of long-term success. But it is also the keep in mind:method which requires the most work all that Do not put Lugol s [iodine] solution in thejuicing of fruits and vegetables. It is far easier to green juice.take some herb pills (Essiac, etc.), but the long50 mg of niacin must be given 6 times a dayterm results may not be as good.

--------------------------------------- 149 Gerson Therapy149 The following two statements will provide re- Earl was in pain, and the easiest th ing to do searchers with a better idea of the success rate ofwas to stay in bed; but, he t hought, If I do that, the Gerson therapy and the difficulties:I ll just die. So he forced himself out of be d, to By application of these principles, thegrind and press the hourly raw juices and to do Gerson therapy is able to achieve almost rou-the rest of the therapy. Soon the p ain was gone. tine recovery 90% or better from early to in-In a month his doctor could no longer f eel any termediate cancer. When cancer becomes incur-of the large mass. able by orthodox methods (i.e., involves the liver In a few months he felt well en ough to go or pancreas or is metastasized inside the body),each day to help his friend, Gwi nn Dunbar, who about 50% recoveries can be achieved by thewas dying of cancer spread through bo th lungs. Gerson method.Both patients recovered on the Gerson therapy Norman Fritz gives laetrile as an exampleand are still alive 15 years after being hopeof other good nontoxic therapies. It has a goodless. Journal of the Gerson Institut e and the short-term response relief from pain, remis-Gerson Therapy, Fall, 1981, 5.

sion of malignancy, improvement in appetiteHere is a second comment on Earl, whi ch clariand sense of well-being or increase in strength fies his case still more: in 70% or 80% of cancer cases. The long-term Earl Taylor, 85, Metastasized prostat e canrecovery rate, however, is about 15% or less. Incer. Prostate cancer diagnosed b y biopsy, 1963. most cases degeneration progresses to whereTreated with female hormones. In 1966 , mass the laetrile is no longer sufficient. In some casesspreading to groin, much pain , told to go home other nontoxic therapies may be constructivelyand get his affairs in order. At a ge 70, started combined with the Gerson therapy.Gerson therapy. In one month, mass no longer The other big advantage of the Gersonpalpable by physician. In 1980, accident cau sed therapy is that it usually heals the body of allrib fracture. Bon scan showed no sign of canthe degenerative diseases rather than just heal-cer. Remains in good condition, still working ing cancer. Many cancer patients are sufferingpart time at 85. Op. cit., 4. from other degenerative conditions also arthri-We will conclude with another state ment by tis, heart conditions, diabetes, etc. CancerDr. Albert Schweitzer: News Journal, 1983 Update. . . I see in him [Gerson] one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of mediOf the many, many cases which could be described, here was one among several where thecine. He possessed something elemen tal. Out patient had do everything by himself:of deepest thought about the nature of dise ase Fifteen years ago, at age 70, Earl Taylor ofand the process of healing, he came t o walk along new paths with great success. UnfortuCairo, Illinois, was sent home to die by his doc-nately, he could not engage in scientific research tor. Earl had prostate cancer which was spread-or teach; and he was greatly impe ded by ading extensively as a large mass in the groin, inverse political conditions. In o rdinary times he spite of the harmones his doctor had been giving him. His doctor told him to get his affairs inwould have been able to expoun d his ideas for order, as there was nothing that could be donemany years as professor at one of the importo save him.tant German universities; would have taught pupils who could carry on his research and Earl had read about Dr. Gerson and theteachings; would have found recognition and Gerson Therapy in Prevention magazine. Heencouragement . . All this was denied h im. contacted Dr. Gerson s daughter in New York. His was the hard lot of searching and w orkShe sent him Dr. Gerson s book, A Cancer Therapy results of 50 cases. Earl had com-ing as an uprooted immigrant, to be ch allenged pleted the sixth grade as a boy and spent all ofand to stand as a fighter. We wh o knew and his life working in a junk yard. He called Dr.understood him admired him for wor king his way out of discouragement again and again, and

Gerson s daughter again and told her that hefor undertaking to conquer the obstacl es . . couldn t understand the book. She suggestedDr. Albert Schweitzer, quoted in Journa l of the that he just follow the treatment outlined onGerson Institute, Fall 1981, 14. page 235 in the book (page 236 in the latest edition, now gives an hourly schedule). Earl said it was the hardest thing he everTHE GERSON BOOKS did in his life. His wife had died years before, Where would a researcher or anyone so he was all alone. (The institute tells peopleelse go to find further informatio n on the they should have help with the therapy, to haveGerson therapy? the best chance of winning.)So much information is available in the Gerson

--------------------------------------- 150 150Alternate Cancer Remedies books, that a section will be included here to dis-Max Gerson s book, A Cancer The rapy: Recuss them.sults of Fifty Cases, now outdated, was somewhat disorganized since it was done in patchwork after A CANCER THERAPY Of the four books which his original manuscript was stolen, and only Gerson wrote, his most important was A Cancer shortly before his death. For those who obtain a Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, which was pubcopy of the book, the practical information on how lished in 1958. This, his largest book, explained to carry on the therapy, as he outlined in the back in some detail his methods. In the years since then, in 1956-1957, will be found on pages 187-248; the book has sold a quarter million copies, and with a concise summary on pages 235-248. was in its 5th edition; but the revised editions were The first 185 pages of Cancer Therapy had terminated in 1996. It was recognized that enough interesting information. Here are some examples: improvements had been made in the program in The rare incidence of malignant tumors in recent years, that it was best to encourage people countries where garlic is used in greater amounts to obtain a copy of the Gerson Primer. . . cannot be explained. I have seen two cancers Only the original edition of A Cancer Therapy of the breast disappear with the use of Fenuis now available. It is still useful for providing much greek seed tea in large amounts, combined with background information on the program; yet all a saltless vegetarian diet. Two others were cured the practical details needed by researchers, phy-after the patients drank green leaf juice only sicians, and laymen is to be found in a recent book: for six to eight months. A Cancer Therapy, The Gerson Primer.96. The original edition of A Cancer Therapy does A person who stays on the program (a s it is not include the two appendixes at the back. Thegiven today) will, in a year s time

, take in 1,800 first appendix, by Charlotte Gerson, has been ex-pound of carrots, 1,300 pounds of apples, 145 panded into the second of the above-named books.heads of red cabbage, 400 heads of lettuce, and The second appendix, by Max Gerson, is included125 pounds of green peppers. Op. cit ., 143. in a small 41-page booklet which is included withHere are the five steps in the progression of each purchase of the original edition of A Cancercancer: Therapy. 1. Slow intoxication and alteration of the whole body, especially the liver. 2. Invasion of THE GERSON PRIMER This book, prepared the Na [sodium] group, loss of K [potassium] by the staff of the Gerson Institute, was first regroup, followed by tissue edema. 3. Lower elecleased in 1993 and is now in its 4th edition. A trical potentials in vital organs, more edema, copy is given to every patient arriving at the Gerson accumulation of poisons, loss of tension, toInstitute for treatment. A brief recipe book is innus, reduced reactivation and oxidation power, cluded at the back. differentiation of some cells. 4. Cancer starts: general poisoning increases, vital functions and energies decrease. Cancer increases. 5. Further destruction of the metabolism and liver parenIMPORTANT NOTICE chya. Cancer rules. It is acting, spreading. 6. AS WE GO TO PRESS Loss of last defense. Hepatic coma; death. Op. cit., 102 [see 64-65 for the three stages of The present author has comcancer and 72-73 for the effect of each of those pleted a simple, systematic prestages on the liver]. sentation of the Gerson Therapy. Gerson discovered that, in both hypothyroidFor the first time, every aspect is ism and hyperthyroidism, the thyroid does not organized in easy-to-locate cat-have enough iodine! egories. You will now be able to In both, the iodine content is decreased in quickly find what you are lookingthe thyroid, in hyperthyroidism even up to 1/ for.10th of the normal. The difference is that blood Entitled, The Gerson Therapyiodine is markedly elevated in most cases of hyperthyroidism, which it is decreased in hy-for Those Dying of Cancer, this 44pothyroidism Op. cit., 115. page book clearly outlines the entire, basic procedure. THE GERSON ADJUVANT TREATMENTS See the last page in The basic Gerson therapy, obtainable at the this present book for details. Gerson Institute, is relatively inexpensive (at the present time about $5,000 a week for the patient

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Gerson Therapy151 and a helper accompanying him; some insurancehome. The following three would nee d to be costs might be covered), compared with orthodoxadministered under the direction of a physihospital treatments.cian or a genuine expert in the field: But, in addition, there are other forms ofMild Fever Treatment The patient is imtreatment obtainable at the Gerson Institute, mersed in water above body temperatu re, and kept the acceptance of which might add consider-there for a time. This induces a mild fever. Laably to the cost of being there. We will listetrile is injected just prior to th e bath, and this them here, since the Gerson personnel (allincreases the temperature at the tumor site. Norhighly qualified M.D.s) are highly respectedmal healthy tissue can easily withst and temperao and only use what they conscientiously be-tures up to 104 F., but tumor tissue c annot. lieve to be helpful. Thus their use of the folPolarizing Solution (GKI) This consists of lowing remedies, some of which could be used an intravenous injection of potassium solution, gluat home, provides a strong recommendation cose, and a very small amount of insulin. Many of them. patients who are deficient in potassium, need a Laetrile The Gerson Institute has found thattransport mechanism to help the potass ium travel laetrile, when given to cancer patients, increasesthrough the cell membrane. The basic GKI (gluthe temperature around the tumor, increasing thecose-potassium-insulin) solution , given in the Merk body s ability to fight it.Manual, is administered. Vitamin C Gerson personnel administer itLive cell therapy This method is only availorally and rectally. For patients who were earlierable from a physician, and is much more effective given chemotherapy, both laetrile and vitamin Cafter worthwhile detoxification h as occurred for a are administered.time. It should not be used during the initial stages of Gerson therapy. Tahebo (Pau d arco) Tea and Essiac Tea Both of these very useful herb teas are given. Na-The following treatment could only be adtive Indians used them, and they have been shownministered at the Gerson Clinic: to have anti-cancer properties. Tabebo (Pau d arco) Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) This decidedly herb comes from Brazil; and the Essiac formula increases the oxygen to the body, and particularly originated in Canada. to the tumor cells. A minimum of 10-20 treatments Ozone About 30cc of ozone are inserted intoof HBO are needed, so treatment is star ted shortly the rectum, so it can be absorbed into the bloodafter arrival at the Gerson Inst itute. Hyperbaric stream. This is said to increase the oxygen in theoxygen chambers are not common , and the Institissues. Normal tissue appreciates the extra oxy-tute now has one. gen; but, as noted earlier in this book, tumor tis-

sue abhors oxygen. The result is a slight weakenTHE INSIDE STORY: ing of the cancer cells. HOW CANCER IS ELIMINATED Cartilage Gerson offers both bovine and Note to researchers: Additional work should be done in shark cartilage. As mentioned earlier, research hassalt and water biophysics, wi th special attention to the groundindicated that it helps eliminate cancer. Gersonbreaking work by Gilbert Ning Li ng, Ph.D., and Freeman W. Cope, M.D., two biophysics researchers. personnel administer it in several ways, including rectal implant.Max Gerson did what worked, and over the decades kept improving on it. He believed that Wobe mugos These are highly concentrated natural foods rather than chemicals were the pancreatic enzymes. Although the basic Gerson solution to mankind s ills and this led him therapy includes some pancreatin, the additional along paths of practical, clinical discovery amount helps dissolve and digest tumor tissue so which had eluded others. it can be more easily eliminated from the body. However, after his death in 1959, microbiThis add-on treatment is recommended if the paology and microbiophysics research came into tient has a heavy tumor load. If excessive toxic their own and verified the accuracy of Max wastes are not eliminated, the patient can die from Gerson s findings. hepatic coma (which is the usual cause of death Here is a brief summary of some of the from cancer; it is not the cancer but the toxic overmost important of the more recent discoverload which finally kills him). ies, as they relate to the function of the cell. All of the above methods could be used atThe following information consists prim a-

--------------------------------------- 152 152Alternate Cancer Remedies rily of a brief summary of a somewhat tech-from the cell and replace it with pot assium. This nical 15-page, December 1990, report by Garis done by (1) heavily restricting so dium and salt Hildenbrand, now on pages 20-34 of the lat-products in the diet, (2) flooding th e body with an est (4th) edition of The Gerson Primer.excess of potassium-rich foods, and (3) r emoving toxins from the bloodstream. Cancer has been a mystery for thousands ofAs this is done, the sodium and water begins years. We are now coming closer to an understand-leaving the damaged cells, to b e replaced by poing of cause, nature, and remedy. Here is a brieftassium and more normal conditi ons. overview.

Every living creature is made up of cells. WithinIn order to accelerate this pro cess, the Gerson each cell are hundreds of complicated structures,therapy gives the patient highe r doses of iodine in and thousands of activities and interactions.two different forms. Cell pathology is the study of what happensWe earlier mentioned that the mitocho ndria, when a living cell becomes damaged in some way.the batteries in the cells, are a ble to make more A new field of biophysics research explains whatATP and get them working faster wh en a special happens when our cells are injured or hurt.signal comes to do so. The cellular damage may be caused by oxygenIt is the arrival of iodine-rich thyr oxine, a horstarvation, trauma, poisoning, etc., but the effectsmone from the thyroid, which is the signal. are always the same. As you may know, potassium and sodium areIn and around every tumor and arthritic joint continually in a balancing act within the body. Po-in the body are cells, swolle n with water which no tassium is primarily in the cells, and sodium islonger function properly. Sodium always attracts primarily in the blood.water, and it has entered the damaged cells, takWhen cell damage occurs, first, the cell losesing the place of the potassium whi ch left when the potassium. Second, the damaged cell, is willing todamage occurred. It is an intriguing fact that people who are deaccept sodium. Third, the cell begins swelling withbilitated and in bad conditio n have an excess of an excess of water. The result is cellular edema.water in their cells. Yet the e dema may not be outWhen this happens, the cell can no longer pro-wardly detectable. duce enough energy. And what is the source of thatThis excess of water exists no t only in fat energy?people, but also in thin people who are debilitated. Free energy is primarily produced by ATP (ad-Those in an advanced stage of cance r have this enosine triphosphate). This is a chemical com-cellular edema, even though they m ay appear to pound produced by the burning of sugar throughbe extremely emaciated. oxidation. ATP has the ability to be broken in theThe emaciation is caused by th e lack of norprocess of making energy, and then reform and bemal cellular activity. They are no longer properly broken again and again. The compound consistsproducing energy, digesting food, m aking blood, of a linking of three phosphate bonds, linked toproducing harmones, or anything else. an adenosine protein molecule. It is the phosphateA normal, healthy cell will al ways have more which produces the energy.potassium in it. Only damage to that cell can cause Nearly all energy produced in your body comesthe sodium to enter and take over. from ATP. Without it, life would immediately cease.The structure of the entire b ody is a miracle of But when the cell becomes swollen with wa-God, and all of it points to His marve lous workter, the energy-producing process is crippled be-ing. You are 55% water; yet all t hat water within cause the mitochondria are flooded. These areyou is actually structured, held in

place, inside or shaped like small circular batteries, and that isoutside of the cells by electri c ion charges. There what they are! They contain the ATP; and, becauseare dynamic energies in cells w hich hold water in they have their own DNA and RNA, are able toan organized pattern. produce ATP whenever the signal arrives to do so.Within each cell is an electron ic current which, But when the mitochondria are watersoaked, theyas it flows, attracts paramagneti c ions (in this case, cease functioning properly. If the situation is notthe hydrogen) in the water. T his attraction causes reversed, they soon stop entirely.the hydrogen to line up and point toward the c urAs the body becomes filled with toxins, drugs,rent. heavy metals, and excess food wastes, more and more cells are damaged and begin filling with wa-The result is a layer of polari zed water around ter. Eventually degenerative diseases occur.that electrical charge. Beyond it, i n the cell, are The Gerson therapy works to remove sodiumadditional layers of polarized water. N o water floats

--------------------------------------- 153 Gerson Therapy153 freely. Thus, under normal conditions, all the wa-the other sites are triggered to begin accepting poter in the cell is controlled. It cannot leave the celltassium again also! This greatly speeds up the resand no other water can enter without permission.toration process if the potassium -sodium ratio Yet this organizing function only occurs whenis fairly good, and there is enough potassium in potassium is in the cell. When potassium leavesthe system. the damaged cell, this water structure is lost andWhen the cell flips back to a high potassium the cell begins swelling with water as sodium en-load, interactive cellular acti vity returns to norters.mal, the water content normalizes, and everything Many of the findings in this article were deter-begins working right again. mined by Freeman W. Cope, M.D., a biophysicistAt this point, we have found the f ormula physician who, working with Raymond Damadian,for good health and healing to be l ow sodium, M.D., invented the magnetic imager (which canhigh potassium, and high iodine. take the equivalent of X-rays, yet without harmful It is an intriguing fact that, when a person is radiation).placed on a high potassium, low sodium diet for Gilbert Ning Ling, Ph.D., another biophysicistthe first time, large amounts of s odium begin to researcher, discovered that every molecule of ATP in the cell will have 20 association sites for po-be excreted into the urine. This is because he tassium to attach to. Ling s research led Dr. Copehad been storing up sodium for y ears while all the time losing essential potassium! Whatever might to search for some medical therapy, somewherebe his condition (asthma, arthritis

, etc.), he bein the world, which might be already using highgins making improvements as sodiu m leaves the potassium, low sodium diets to correct cell im-damaged cells. balances and restore health. He found it in the Gerson therapy.Gerson wanted to increase this effect, and he found that, by heavily restricting protein intake Let us look again inside those cell batteries. The mitochondria take sugar given them by otherfor a time, even more of the sodium was excreted! cellular components, and burn it. In a marvelousSo we need to restrict sodium (a person always obtains enough in natural food) and increase way, doing so produces ATP, the body s energy mol-potassium intake. Yet the protei n foods need to be ecules. The ATP helps the potassium to bind toreduced also. those association sites, and the potassium structures the water and controls how much of it is inGerson would severely restrict his patients the cell.protein intake for about the first six to eight weeks, in order to help the sodium leave the cells. He All this means that, when you have been in-found that, for some reason, the sodi um seemed jured, are sick, or have degenerate problems ofto be trapped in the body with th e protein. Someany kind, you need to expel the excess sodium (byhow the two were hooked togethe r. Ling s later heavy salt and sodium product restriction) andwork verified that fact. greatly increase your intake of potassium foods.However, there is a problem with protein. On And if you want to remain in good health, youone hand, extreme protein restricti on can only be ought to remain on, very nearly, that same diet.continued for a rather short tim e. This is because Now, when you permit your body to becomea certain intake is needed to help the i mmunity damaged, the cell no longer operates properly. Thesystem function properly. Scie nce has long known potassium leaves and sodium and excess waterthat protein is necessary for good i mmunity, but begins entering. Several things immediately beginhas not known how much. happening: Not enough oxygen reaches the cell.Unfortunately, several earlier res earchers, such The protein and lipid structures within the cellas Voit, declared that high-prot ein diets were the become disorganized. ATP is no longer adequatelybest. For decades since then, th e 20th century diet made, and normal cellular operations break down.of the Western World has been ge ared to that erWhat ATP sites remain now accept either potas-ror. But an excess of protein incr eases disease and sium or sodium (both have the same chemicalreduces lifespan. valence), and trouble is ahead. Robert Good, M.D., director of Sloan Kettering But actually, the cell prefers potassium. SoInstitute for a number of years, did extensive work when you eat a low sodium and high potassiuminto protein and human needs. He fou nd that a diet, the damaged conditions in your body beginheavily protein-restricted diet f or a short time

correcting themselves more quickly. Ling made the intriguing discovery that whenactually stimulates cellular immunit y! Dr. Alice potassium begins binding again at one ATP site Chase and Dr. L.D. Bulkley would ha ve been

--------------------------------------- 154 154Alternate Cancer Remedies thrilled to know that such confirmation would laterThus we find that a modified, ongoing Gerson be made of their natural, but restricted, diets fordiet not only helps prevent c ancer from getting patients.started, it also helps prevent the various forms of In his initial protein experiment, Dr. Good fedcardiovascular disease. a no-protein diet to one group of guinea pigs andIt is unfortunate that salt and fat are everynormal chow to another. According to the tradi-where in the Western diet, and th ere is lots of protional view, the no-protein group should lose theirtein in it also. So a more he althful diet requires immunity; but, instead, he found that their im-careful thought and planning. munity levels remain stable while the crucial T-It should be mentioned that, aft er six to eight lymphocyte levels became extremely active. Those weeks on a heavy protein restricted diet, Gerson thymus lymphocytes became like angry dogs in apatients are given some protein fo ods. house, searching for something to devour. Dr. GoodBefore continuing, the reader might be interfound that this non-specific, aggressive behavior ested in knowing what that later added protein is. continued for quite some time after the diet wasBecause it has to be a low sodiu m, low fat protein, relaxed. Good had actually stimulated overall immu-the Gerson Institute found that non-fa t cow (not goat) yogurt was the best. But, of course, vegans nity by restricting protein intake! This led to amight substitute something else . Those on the lengthy series of research projects, not only in his Gerson diet lose about 40 grams of protein each laboratory but elsewhere.day in stool evacuations. That is normal and canDr. Good repeatedly found that test animals, genetically predetermined to various diseases,not be avoided. When the yogurt is added, those patients receive a total of about 30-40 grams a could better resist those diseases on a low-pro-day, which is the correct amount , agreeing with tein diet. Some of those diseases had direct anathe Chittendon standard, and a positive nitrologs to human diseases.gen balance. (The Voit theory that you need 70So far, our formula is reduced sodium, in-80 grams a day is a recipe for an earl y, painful creased potassium, increased iodine, and re-death from disease.) duced protein.In one research report, we find this statement: But there was yet another way to reduce so- Thus the animal s immune resistance coul d

be either increased or depressed, depending on dium levels in the body: calorie restriction.the timing and the severity of the nutritional At first thought, one would imagine that patients on the required Gerson diet would have adeprivation. Similar inhibitory e ffects upon the incidence and growth of malignant tumors have high-calory intake since they drank 13 cups ofbeen reported in animals fed diets i mbalanced juice a day, plus three meals, and sometimes more or deficient in the essential amino acids. Robat night. But they are not.ert Good, M.D., and David Jose, M.D., Journal The key here is fat restriction. The only ap-of Experimental Medicine, 137, 1973 . preciable fat intake of a typical Gerson patient is Unfortunately, Dr. Good lost favor at Sloanthe 1.5% fat in his oatmeal, the two tablespoonsKettering in the 1970s, when he suggested in print of daily flaxseed oil, and a rather small amount inthat high protein diets might cause cancer and the fruits, vegetables, and a few white potatoes andheart disease. So he went to the University of South a little yeast. (The strict level of the Gerson dietFlorida, in Tampa, to contin ue his research. totals about 90 calories a day; whereas U.S. sol-In a book written in German, pu blished in the diers sitting around awaiting action during the Gulf1930s, Gerson first reported on the same kind of War were being given up to 9,000 calories a day.changes that Good found 40 year later. Gerson That provided an excellent foundation upon whichhad found that his protein-restr icted patients sickness could be built. And, for many, other cir-showed increased white cell co unts, plus increased cumstances caused that to occur.) lymphocyte activity and nonspecific immune acEliminating the fats from the diet greatly re-tivity. duces the calorie intake. This is because, while aAt this juncture, our formula for health and tablespoon of carbohydrate and a tablespoon of healing is up to five points: reduced sodium, protein yield approximately the same number ofincreased potassium, increased iod ine, recalories, a tablespoon of fat provides more than duced calories, and reduced protein. double that number of calories. To reduce the calories, you reduce the fat intake and, in the pro-On a high potassium, low sodium di et, all the cess, you greatly help your heart and blood ves-cells in your better do better, and damaged ones are greatly helped. Cellular water quantity and sels.

--------------------------------------- 155 Gerson Therapy155 structure improves.stitute still has not found a better way: Increasing the iodine intake (and do not try to These ripe [cancer] cells take it

up so fast get it from iodized salt!) increases ATP produc-and they perhaps grow a little f aster but they tion, so you have more energy. Thyroxin from thesoak in more with great greed as m uch as they thyroid signals the cell batteries (the mitochon-can together with a little bit of sodium, probdria) to make more ATP and get it to workingably. But then there isn t much sodium left [in the cell, as a result of the Gerson program]. So harder. In addition, some of the idodine goes directly to the cells and stimulates them.then these cells pick up potassium and o xidizing enzymes and die by themselves. You have Restricting the protein intake causes large numbers of T-lymphocytes to be made. These thento realize that cancer cells live essentially on fermentation but potassium and oxidizing enwander around the body searching for bad thingszymes introduce oxidation. And th at is the point to gobble up including cancer cells. T-lymphoat which we can kill cancer cells, because we cytes have the capability of penetrating tumors and,take away the conditions whi ch they need to if there is enough of them, destroying the tumors. continue to live. They do this by ingesting them. Then resultant But now we have to deal with a mass of dead waste is carried to the liver where these toxic parcells in the body, in the blood stream and they ticles must be sent out in the bile through the gall-have to be eliminated where ver they may be. bladder, into bowel for evacuation. And that is not so easy! The ripe [cancer] cells, The cancer tumor needs lots of sugar and pro-the mature cells are very abnormal. These are tein, but it does not know how to handle proteinmuch more easily killed than the other cells properly. In the morass of water around the tu-which are unripe, not yet mature, and not so mor, the waste protein builds up and produceswell developed. And there are other cancer cells toxic results on nearby cells. As they weaken, can-in lymph vessels. These are c logged at both ends cer extends into them.by cancer cells. No blood and no lymph can A sphere of damaged tissue (called a sodiumreach them. There are cancer cells in the glands. ring ) several times the volume of the tumor, willThey are hidden there, protected from regular surround a typical melanoma. That entire tissuecirculation. So it isn t easy to re ach these. At area is in poor shape: It is waterlogged, cloggedfirst it is only the big mass w hich is killed. But this dead mass now has to be absorbed wherwith metabolic waste from the tumor, has poor immunity, lacks electrical resistance, has poorever it is perhaps in the uterus, p erhaps in the kidney, or in the lung, or in the brain this blood circulation, and inadequate drainage. It is has to be absorbed. This absorption is only

remarkably like a clogged sewer.possible through the blood stream. I call this It is for such reasons that cancer patients, in parenteral digestion. Enteral digestion is in the very late stages, emit such strong odors. Tu-the intestinal tract. Parentera l digestion takes mors have poor waste disposal facilities, and the place outside of the digestive tract, through the body keeps filling with waste products.blood stream. It becomes important then t o conDepending on the extent of the tumors, whentinually carry on detoxification day and night the Gerson therapy is applied, that sodium ringin order to bring the parenteral digestion to the will disappear within weeks. This is because ofhighest point, even to a hyperfunc tion. How the intense tumor attack, waste removal, and re-can this [expelling of waste by the body] be building nutrition the patient is given.done? . . At this juncture, it would be well to men- First, we gave some different enemas. I found out that the best enema is the coffee ention the problem of waste removal. Max Gerson had a problem when it came toema, as it was first used by Prof. O.A. Meyer in Goettingen. This idea occurred to him when . . waste disposal. His nutritional program producedhe observed that the bile ducts were opened and such excellent effects in rebuilding cells and demore bile could flow. I felt that this was very stroying tumors that an immense amount ofimportant and I worked out coffee enemas. We waste material was being sent over to the liver for took three heaping tablespoons of ground cofdisposal.fee for one quart of water, let boil for three minBut Gerson found that the liver could notutes, then simmer 10 to 20 minutes, and then handle the load. The body was trying to cast off agave it at body temperature. great deal of toxic waste, and the liver was on the The patients reported that thi s was doing verge of collapsing under the load. We will let Dr.them good. The pain disappear ed even though Gerson explain the problem and the only efficientin order to carry through the d etoxification, we way he was able to solve it. Today, the Gerson In-had to take away all sedation. [!] I realized that

--------------------------------------- 156 156Alternate Cancer Remedies it is impossible to detoxify the body on the oneson wants to have anything to do with; yet, if dyhand and put in drugs and poisons on the other,ing of cancer, he would do well t o consider it. In such as sedation medication demerol, co-such a crisis, it becomes an emergency nee d. deine, morphine, scopolamine, etc. So we hadIn the years since Gerson s death, inf ormato put the medication aside which again was ational has come to light on how cof fee enemas help

very difficult problem. One patient told me that he had one grain of codeine very two hours andthe body rid itself of those terri ble toxic substances. that he got morphine injections. How can youFirst, a coffee enema can dilate the bile ducts take these away? I told him that the best seda-better than any other known subst ance, because tion is a coffee enema. After a very short timeof palmitates in the coffee. Expe riments on rats he had to agree with that. Some of the patientswith these palmitate acid salts p roduced strong who had been in severe pain didn t take coffeeejection of bile by the liver. enemas every four hours as I prescribed theySecond, research at the University of Minnetook them every two hours. But no more seda-sota has revealed that coffee stimul ates an enzyme tion. After just a few days there was very littlesystem in the liver. Called glu tathione-S-transpain, almost none . .ferase, it is able to remove a large variety of These patients who absorb the big tumorelectrophiles from the bloodstream. The mo re masses are awakened with an alarm clock evcommon name for electrophiles is free radicals. ery night because they are otherwise poisonedThese are charged particles which d amage cell by the absorption of these [broken-up tumor]membranes if not eliminated as soon as possible. masses. If I give them only one or two or threeThe free radicals are adsorbed by the glutathioneenemas, they die of poisoning. I did not haveS-transferase, which makes them ine rt. the right as a physician to cause the body to absorb all the cancer masses and then not toThe above-named enzyme also triggers the endetoxify enough. With two or three enemas theyzyme system in the liver which is responsible for eliminating free radicals (called the ligandine enwere not detoxified enough. They went into azymes), to increase in activity up t o 700% above coma hepaticum (liver coma). Autopsiesnormal. No other substance but coffee can trigger showed that the liver was poisoned. I learned from these disasters that you can t give thesesuch intense activity. patients too much detoxification . . When I didn tThese various poisons are made i nto bile salts give these patients the night enemas, they werewhich are ejected vigorously from the liver. drowsy and almost semi-conscious in the morn-The water in the enema stimulates t he visceral ing. The nurses confirmed this and told me thatnervous system, producing perista lsis. This helps it takes a couple of enemas till they are free ofthe small intestines rush the w aste products to this toxic state again. I cannot stress the detoxi-the large bowel, where they a re carried out of the fication enough. Even so with all these enemas,body. this was not enough! I had to give them also castor oil by mouth and by enema every otherSo, in summary, the basic aspects of the Gerday, at least for the first week or so.son therapy are greatly improved and incr

eased After these two weeks you wouldn t recog-nutrition; restricted sodium, protein, and calorie intake; increased potassium and iodine intake; nize these patents any more! They had arrivedelimination of free radicals from t he bloodstream; on a stretcher and now they walked around. They had appetite. They gained weight and theand cleansing of the bloodstream, l iver, and intestumors went down. Max Gerson, lecturetines. given in Escondido, California in 1956, re-The result is that the sodium ring ar ound the printed in Appendix 2 of the 2nd through 5thtumors disappears, the tumor is pene trated by editions of A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fiftypotassium, the tumor is eaten by t he T-lymphoCases, 409-410, 407-408. [It is not in the origi-cytes, the toxic waste is taken out of the body, and nal edition.]the entire system is nutritionally rebuilt. Coffee is something that no health-minded per-

--------------------------------------- 157 Herbal Preparations157 - Part Six Herbal Preparations In this section, we will bring together a(blossoms). Red clover generally appear s in most varied collection of data on herbs, as they re-every herbal cancer remedy, so it probably would late to cancer. It ought to provide worthwhilenot be a problem if it were added to Essiac. Yet help to ongoing medical research.Caisse did not use red clover in the original f ormula. (Beware of white clover; it contains the toxin ____________________hydrocyanic acid. Cyanogenetic glycosides can break down to prussic acid in the digestive sysTHE TOP FIVE HERBAL FORMULAS LISTED BY FORMULAtem and prove extremely poisonous.) We have also learned that sheep sorrel is a crucial ingredient, but that many herb companies Later in this chapter, we will list forty-eightsubstitute yellow dock and curly dock for the sheep anti-cancer herbs. But it is well to be able to work with proven herbal formulas for cancer.sorrel. But the sheep sorrel is said to be responHere are the top four:sible for the destruction of cancer cells in the body or their amalgamation, where metastasized cancer cells actually return to the original cancer 1 - THE ESSIAC HERBAL FORMULA site. It is very important that the sheep sorrel be Here are the four herbs in the Essiac herbalincluded in the mixture, not dock! Rene had said that, when she originally obformula (see pages 131-142 and 163 for more information on Essiac):tained the formula in the early 1920s, she altered the formula somewhat. It is now known that the Burdock root (Arctium lappa) is slightly bit-modification was the addition of Tu rkish rhubarb

ter. You can add an additional 2-6 oz. to the 24root (Rheum palmatum). oz., if you do not mind the added bitterness. This would be beneficial, but not necessary.2 - THE HOXSEY HERBAL FORMULA Sheep sorrel (Rumex acetosella) is a wild perennial miniature of garden sorrel. It must be greenHere are the nine herbs in t he Hoxsey in color and have an aroma of sweet grass. Sorherbal formula (see pages 56-58 for more inrel comes from a French word for sour. Sorrelformation on Harry Hoxsey and his form ula): tastes a little like lemon juice. Turkey rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum) isRed clover (Trifolium pratense) Burdock root (Arctium lappa) yellowish-brown in color.Barberry bark (Berberis vulgaris) Slippery elm inner bark (Ulmus fulva) is best purchased. If you strip it from a tree, you will likelyLicorice root (Glycyrrhiz a glabra) kill it if you do not know the proper way to do it.Buckthorn bark (Rhamnus pursh iana) Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americana) For your information, it is sometimes said that Essiac originally had six herbs in it, not four.Chaparral (Larrea tridentata) Stillingia root (Stillingia sylvatica) Checking this out carefully, we find that there wereCascara amarga (Picramnia an tidesma) only four. But, if you wanted to add something toPotassium iodide the collection, you could toss in red clover tops

--------------------------------------- 158 158Alternate Cancer Remedies COMPARING THE FIVE PRIMARY HERBAL FORMULAS FIVE herbal formulas are presented here for easy comparison (the sixth is the Jason Winters formula, which is listed in brackets, in the Hoxsey listing). Of these, the Essiac and Hoxsey formulas have been used the most frequently, and are the bestknown. Lines connect herbs used more than once. ESSIACHOXSEYSANTILLOKLOSSMONTAGNA Burdock rootBurdock rootBurdockBurdock root Sheep SorrelSorrel Turkey rhubarb root Slippery elm barkSlippery elm Red clover [and Winters]Red cloverRed clover blossomsRed clover blossoms Barberry bark Licorice rootLicorice rootLicorice Buckthorn barkBuckthorn bark Prickly ashPrickley ash Chaparral [and Winters]ChaparralChaparral leaves Stillingia root Cascara amarga BloodrootBlood rootBloodroot EchinaceaEchinaceaEchinacea Dandelion rootDandelion rootDandelion root Blue violet leavesBlue violet leavesBlue violet leaves Sanicle Ginger Rock rose Yellow dock

Goldenseal rootGoldenseal root Chickweed CleaversCleavers Coral Virgin s bower Willow Wood Sage Poplar Poke rootPoke ComfreyComfrey leaves Blue flag Gum myrrh Aloes (Aloe vera?) Gravel root Cayenne, AfricanCayenne AgrimonyAgrimony Oregon grape 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 le aves. Two times: Sorrel, slippery elm, buckthorn bark, prickly ash, goldenseal, cleavers, poke root, comfrey, African cayenne, agrimony. One time: All the rest.

--------------------------------------- 159 Herbal Preparations159 Mildred Nelson, Hoxsey s chief nurse, later5 - MONO FORMULAS substituted chaparral for poke, which was in the original formula. We do not know whether she still A number of the herbs, included in the above includes zinc chloride and antimony trisulfide inlists, have, for some, been rep eatedly used alone her revised formula at her Hoxsey Clinic in Tijuana.with success: We also do not know the proportions of each in-ChaparralEchinacea gredient in the total formula.ComfreyGoldenseal It is now known that pau d arco contains theMistletoePau d arco same active ingredient as in chaparral (nordihydro-Red clover blossoms (tops) guaiaretic acid, or KDGA) while lacking the harsh side effects chaparral sometimes has.____________________ 46 SPECIAL HERBS 3 - THE WINTERS HERBAL FORMULALISTED ALPHABETICALLY Here are two of the three herbs in the Jason Winters herbal formula (see page 101 forNext, let us place all the above her bs in more information on Jason Winters and hisalphabetical order, so medical research ers can formula):more easily identify the ones they wish to use.

Obtainable in packages at some health-foodIn most instances, the author has been able to locate the botanic names. stores, the herbal mixture lists red clover, special spice, Indian sage. As you can see, part of Agrimony (Agrimonia spp.) the formula remains a secret.Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera) Barberry bark (Berberis vulgaris) 4 - THE MONTAGNA HERBAL FORMULABlue flag (Iris versicolor) Here are the eight primary and fourteenBlue violet (Viola odorata) Violet the whol e secondary herbs in the Montagna herbal for-plant with rock rose and red clover t ops Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) mula (see page 99 for more information on R.J. Montanga and his formula):Buckthorn bark (Rhamnus frangula) Burdock root (Arctium lappa) Here, in his own words, was Montagna s for-Cascara amarga [The author cannot locat e data mula:on this herb; Cascara usually refers to A. BASIC INGREDIENTS:cascara segrada, the most-used laxative 1. Chaparral leaves - Dissolves malignant herb.] tumors.Cayenne, African (Capsicum annuum) 2. Bloodroot - Purifies and cleanses blood-Chaparral (Larrea divaricata) stream. Chickweed (Stellaria media) 3. Red clover blossoms - Antidote to can-Cleavers (Galium aparine) cer. Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) 4. Burdock root - Neutralizes and elimi-Coral (Corallorhiza odontorhiza) nates toxins.Dandelion root (Taraxicum dens-leonis) 5. Echinacea root - Natural herbal antiEchinacea (Brauneria angustifolia) toxin.Garlic (Allium sativum) 6. Goldenseal root - Kills poisons, equalizes circulation.Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Gingseng (Panax ginseng) 7. Comfrey leaves - Relieves pain, estab-Goldenseal root (Hydrastia canadensis) lishes normal conditions. Gotu kola (Centella Asiatica) 8. Ginseng root - Stimulates vital cell pro-Gravel root (Eupatorium pupureum, Qu een of cesses.the meadow) B. OTHER INGREDIENTS Ground ivy (Nepeta hederacea) Poke, Parsley, Blue violet leaves, Lico-Gum myrrh, or myrrh (Commiphora myrrha) rice, Dandelion root, Cayenne, Prickley ash, Garlic, Cleavers, Gotu kola, Periwinkle,Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) Mistletoe (Viscum album) Sassafras, Agrimony, Ground ivy.Oregon Grape (Berberis aquifolium, Wild Oregon grape; California barberry) Parsley (Petroselinum sativum; Garden parsley,

--------------------------------------- 160 160Alternate Cancer Remedies Rock parsley)Burdock rootRed clover tops Pau d arco (Tabeluia)ChaparralSorrel

Periwinkle, tropical (Catharanthus roseus,Garlic Vinca rosea)2 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should atPoke root (Phytolacca decandra) Poplar (This could be one of four differenttack and destroy bacteria and viruses . Since there is good reason to believe that canspecies of poplar, all of which are used ascer may be a bacteria or virus, the f ormula should herbal remedies: Populus tremuloides,include an herb which is antibiotic ; that is, which Populus balsamifera, Populus candicans, or Populus nigra)inhibits the growth of, and destroys, viruses and bacteria, and strengthens the body s immune sysPrickly Ash (Xanthoxyhum americanum)tem. Red clover blossoms (Trifolium pratense, red clover tops)ANTIBIOTICS These are herbs which inhibit Rock rose (Helianthemum candense, Sun rose,the growth of, and destroy, viruses a nd bacteria, Frostweed)and strengthen the body s immune system. Sanicle (This could be one of two herbal rem-ChaparralGarlic edies: American sanicle - SaniculaEchinaceaGoldenseal marilandica or European sanicle - SaniculaAlso helpful would be an herb which pr evented europaea)the growth of more bacteria during the cleansing Sassafras (Sassafras officinale)process. Slippery elm (Ulmus fulva) ANTISEPTICS These herbs prevent the Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)growth of bacteria. Stillingia root (Stillingia sylvatica)BarberryGarlic Turkish rhubarb root (or use common rhubarb; EchinaceaGoldenseal Rheum palmatum).3 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should Virgin s bower (Clematis virginiana) Willow (Salix alba, White willow)purify the blood, in order to help rid the body of Wood sage (The author could not locate this onetoxins, in general, and also port ions of the cancer tissue as it is being absorbed into the blood stream. in the herb books.) Yellow dock root (Rumex crispus)Here are herbs, in the above list, which do this : ALTERATIVES These are herbs which pu____________________rify the blood. They usually do this by cleaning QUALITIES DESIREDout the spleen, liver, kidneys, and bowels. As a rule, these herbs are best used for a lengthy peIN A CANCER HERBAL FORMULA riod of time, so that the detoxification will not occur too rapidly and overwhelm the body s abilities Medical researchers, unacquainted withto discharge those toxins. Of course, nutr ition must the field, will appreciate knowing that, in de-be corrected at the same time tha t alternative herbs signing an anti-cancer herbal compound, theare taken. best herbal formula for cancer should haveBarberryGoldenseal these qualities:Burdock rootGotu kola The following herbal listing is, with few excep-CayenneLicorice root tions, drawn from the above listing of the herbsChaparralOregon grape root included in the best cancer forumulas. CarefullyChickweedPoke root CleaversPrickley ash examining the information which follows will help

you understand the attributes of each of thoseComfreyRed clover tops herbs.DandelionRhubarb EchinaceaSassafras 1 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should at-GarlicYellow dock tack and destroy cancer tissue. Of the herbs listed Ginseng in the above formulas, here are the ones which destroy tumors.4 - The ideal anti-cancer formula should help clean out the liver. This is crucial, since the blood DISCUTIENTS These are herbs which dis-stream sends the toxins from the broken-down solve and remove tumors and abnormal growths.tumor to the liver to be ejected. W hen the cleansThey can be used as poultices, fomentations, and/ ing occurs too fast (which can easily happen if the or taken internally.

--------------------------------------- 161 Herbal Preparations161 diet and herbal formula is correct), the liver canComfrey become overloaded and stop functioning. This 7 - During the cleansing process, it would is called hepatic coma, and death results.be well to help soothe the gastro-inte stinal tract. CHOLAGOGUES These herbs help open the bile ducts and promote the flow of bile, thus aid-MUCILAGES These are herbs which tend to soothe inflamed parts. Slippery elm is the best of ing the liver in cleaning itself out.them. BarberryGoldensealChickweedSlippery elm CayenneYellow dock DandelionComfrey Note: The Gerson Institute has found that cof-8 - It might be helpful if an herb could be fee enemas are far and away the most powerful,included which relieved pain durin g the recovyet safe, means of emptying the bile ducts and thusery process. Yet it is now kn own that cancer never cleaning out the liver. But it must only be donecauses pain! It is not the tumor but the toxic overwhen high levels of nutrients and vitamin andload in the later stages which prod uces the pain! mineral replacement is being made!As soon as the toxins are being reduced, by el imiIt would be helpful if, at the same time, thenation through the bowels and kidne ys, the pain liver could be strengthened. But this may not bewhich cancer patients are experi encing lessens and crucial.stops. The Gerson Institute has found that, when pain occurs, coffee enemas flush out the liver and HEPATICS These are herbs which streng-the pain subsides. They also use chamomile t o then, tone, and stimulate the secretive functionslessen gastro-intestinal pains. of the liver. Aloe veraNERVINES These herbs help relieve pain (yet Barberryare unlikely to stop cancer pain since it is caused by a toxic overload). 5 - It would also be helpful to strengthen

the organs of elimination.ChamomileMistletoe Gravel rootWood betony LIVER TONICS These herbs increase theANODYNES The following herbs relieve pain. energy of the liver. BarberryCleaversThey do this by decreasing the excitability of the nerves and nerve centers. Anti-spasmodic (antiBuckthorn bark Mistletoeparalysis) herbs are quite similar in function. GALLBLADDER TONICS The followingEchinaceaWhite willow herbs strengthen the gallbladder.SUMMARY GoldensealOregon grape rootIt is of interest that, in the above listings, cerKIDNEY TOPICS These herbs strengthen thetain herbs, known to have anti-cancer prop erties, kidneys so they can work better.are continually repeated. They are: Burdock rootMistletoeBurdock root CleaversEchinacea Barberry INTESTINAL TONICS These herbs energizeAlso repeated frequently are chaparral, gold the gastro-intestinal tract.enseal, mistletoe, dandelion, etc. BarberryGoldenseal Cascara sagrada RhubarbIn addition, the four Essiac herbs are all there: Burdock root 6 - Additional flushing of toxins is alsoSorrel needed during the cleansing process.Rhubarb root Slippery elm bark LYMPHATICS These herbs stimulate and cleanse the lymphatic system.Working from the above analysis, it would ChaparralOregon grape rootseem that Essiac, possibly with the addition of DandelionPoke rootEchinacea and Barberry (please note: Large doses EchinaceaYellow dockof barberry are harmful!), could provide the baGarlicsic herbal formula. Yet it must be kept in mind ANTI-CATARRHALS These herbs help ridthat, if too many herbs were added to Essiac, the body of catarrh.the balance it already has might be lost. (For another analysis of Essiac, please turn to pages BayberryGarlic57 to 61.) CayenneGinger

--------------------------------------- 162 162Alternate Cancer Remedies Since Essiac has the best track record ofit may even be constipative . . Burdock is also any herbal formula, it is well-worth focusing oursaid to neutralize and eliminat e poisons in the attention on it.system. The leaves are not generally used but do contain a substance that stimulates the seThe ideal anti-cancer herbal formula will at-cretion of bile. If they are to be used for liver tack and destroy the tumor (whether or not bacproblems, use fresh leaves only . . The seeds teria or viruses are involved). It will help cleansecontain an oil that is used medicinally, but only the blood, liver, kidneys, lymphatics, and gastro-with medical supervision. John Lu st, The intestinal tract. An important part of that pro-Herb Book, 140. [Therefore avoid use of leaves, cess is to open the bile ducts, to help free theunless fresh, and seeds.] liver from the toxic overload. Some cathartic Root tea (2 ounces died root in 1 qu

art waaction on the bowels, along with soothing theter) used as a blood purifier ; diuret ic, stimustomach and bowels, would also important.lates bile secretion, sweating . . Also used for The above paragraph was written beforegonorrhea. Steven Foster and J.A. Duke, preparing the following analysis of the fourEastern/Central Medicinal Plants, 16 6. Essiac herbs in detail. Yet, having done so, it SORREL Rumex acetosella L. has been discovered that Essiac essentially fulfills the above conditions! Of course, the GersonSame as sheep sorrel, sourgrass . Sorrel helps flush out toxins through the bowels and kidtherapy does it more systematically, rapidly, and with more permanent results. Yet Essiac shouldneys. But it also has anti-tumor p roperties. Astringent, diuretic, laxative. Sorrel root has not be ignored.astringent properties, and a decoction made from it has been used for hemorrhage . . A tea ____________________made from the leaves and stem is diuretic and ANALYSIS OFmay be helpful for gravel and stones. For mouth and throat ulcers, a tea made from leaves and THE FOUR HERBS IN ESSIAC flowers and taken with honey has been recommended. Sorrel leaves are sometimes used like BURDOCK ROOT Arctium lappa. Burdock is excellent. It cleans the blood ofspinach, particularly for spring cure . Externally, a tea made from the herb can be used as impurities and help flush the kidneys.a wash or fomentation to treat skin diseas es Root: alterative, diaphoretic, diuretic, deand problems. Caution: Consuming large quanmulcent. Body parts affected: blood, kidneys,tities of sorrel can irritate the k idneys and proand liver . . duce mild to severe poisoning. Lust, 359-360. Burdock root is one of the best blood puri- Diuretic, antiscorbutic, refrigerant, v ermifiers for chronic infection, arthritis, rheumatism, skin diseases . . It provides an abundancefuge . . It kills putrefaction i n the blood, expels worms, and is warming to the heart . . A tea of iron and insulin which makes it of special value to the blood. It has volatile oils whichfrom the flowers is good in intern al ulcers and black jaundice; also scurvy, scrofula, and all makes it a good diaphretic [induce sweating], and clears the kidneys of excess wastes and uricskin diseases. A poultice is exc ellent for cancer, boils, and tumors. Kloss, 315. acid by increasing the flow of urine. Humbart Santillo, Natural Healing with Herbs, 96. Leaf tea of this common European alien t raditionally used for fevers, inflammation, scurvy. Root: diuretic, depilatory, alterative. Leaves:Fresh leaves considered cooling, d iuretic; leaves maturating. Seed: alternative, diuretic. poulticed (after roasting) for tumors, wens (se-

The root is one of the best blood purifiersbaceous cysts); folk cancer remedy . . Warning: for syphilitic and other diseases of the blood. It cleanses and eliminates impurities from theMay cause poisoning in large doses, d ue to high oxalic acid and tannin content. Foster, 214. blood very rapidly. Burdock tea taken freely will clear all kinds of skin diseases, boils, and car-RHUBARB Rheum palmatum. buncles. Increases flow of urine. Excellent forRhubarb stimulates the bile ducts , so the gout, rheumatism, scrofula, canker sores,liver can flush. It is excellent as a m ild laxative syphilis, sciatica, gonorrhea, leprosy. Jethrofor children or very sick people. It also relieves Kloss, Back to Eden, 211. [Keep in mind thatstomach troubles, and cleans the bow els. Also herbs which treat syphilis, gonorrhea, and/ora good blood cleanser. leprosy are generally good for cancer also, Common names: Turkey rhubarb, China since all are garbage diseases.] rhubarb. Medicinal properties: Vulnerary, tonic, The decoction or infusion of burdock rootstomachic, purgative, was atringent, ape rient. is aperient, but not for all individuals; for some Rhubarb is an old-time remedy, very useful

--------------------------------------- 163 Herbal Preparations163 for diarrhea and dysentery in adults and chil-ins and pushes them out of the bow els. dren. An excellent laxative for infants, as it is Demulcent, emollient, nutritive; astringent. very mild and tonic. Excellent to increase theBody parts affected: general effec ts on the whole muscular action of the bowels. Excellent for usebody . . in stomach troubles. Will relieve headache. It Slippery elm used as a gruel is nou rishing stimulates the gall-ducts, thereby causing thefor children and the elderly with weak stomejection of bilious materials. Excellent forach, ulcers and those recovering fro m diseases. scrofulous children with distended abdomens.It will relieve constipation and dia rrhea . . Good for the liver. Cleans and tones the bow- Slippery elm is also used to bind th e mateels. Kloss, 304. rials of suppositories, boluse, lozenges and unAstringent, laxative, stomachic; alterative,leavened breads together. silagogue. Body parts affected: stomach and inExternally, use it as a poultice applied to testines . .sores, wounds, burns, open sores and infected Rhubarb is both a laxative and astringent.skin problem areas. It is a good additi on to Its dual properties make it a good herb for bothdouches and enemas when there is inflammadiarrhea and constipation. It stimulates thetion and burning. If used as a douch e or enwalls of the colon and the secretory glands ofema, it will need to be diluted wi

th water so it the stomach and intestines. In small amounts,will not plug the apparatus as it i s a mucilagirhubarb is an excellent digestive tonic. Judgenous herb. Santillo, 177-178. the amount on your own. 30 grains given every Slippery elm, American elm [differen t than 2 or 3 hours has stopped diarrhea and hemor-Ulmus campestris, which is the Engli sh elm, rhages in adults. Larger amounts will producecommon elm, European elm] . . Medic inal part: a laxative effect. If you do not desire a laxativethe inner bark . . effect, cut back on the dosage and it will act as Demulcent, diuretic, emollient. The inner a good tonic and blood cleanser. bark of slippery elm is noted primarily for its Finley Ellingwood, M.D., states in the Ameri-soothing properties. Internally, it is helpful can Materia Medica, It is the laxative for debiliwhere inflammatory irritation exists, as in sore tated patients, or for patients recovering fromthroat, diarrhea, dysentery, and many urinary prostrating disease. Given to a nursing mother, problems. Externally it is applied as a poultice like aloe, it relaxes the infant s bowels, and into irritated and inflamed skin an d to wounds some cases it is desirable to administer it to. . Due to its depletion from Dutc h Elm Disthe mother for this purpose. ease, the American elm should be protected Rhubarb is used to treat chronic blood dis-against widespread use of its bark. Th e bark eases. The dosage for a general digestive toniccannot be used without disfigurin g or killing a and blood cleanser is one teaspoon of the tinc-noble tree. Lust, 182-183. ture three times daily or one to three capsules Three tablespoons of inner bark in a cup of three times daily. Note: Do not use over pro-hot water makes a thick mucilaginou s tea, tralonged periods as it tends to aggravate any tenditionally used for sore throats, upset stomach, dency toward chronic constipation. Do not useindigestion, digestive irritation, stomach ulcers, during pregnancy. Santillo, 167-168.choughs, pleurisy; said to help in diarrhea and Special note: In the thinking of the presentdysentery. Inner bark considered edib le. Once writer, there are three oddities about rhubarb: (1)used as a nutritive broth fo r children, the eldIt is remarkably high in oxalic acid, which is noterly, and convalescing patient s who had diffigood for a person. It may be that this acid is theculty consuming or digesting f ood. Externally, factor which helps medicinally. The Gerson Insti-the thick tea, made from powder ed inner bark, tute permits small leaves of beet greens to be usedwas applied to fresh wounds, ulcers, burns, in cooking, but not the larger ones, because of theirscalds. Science confirms te a is soothing to muoxalic acid content. (2) The herb books indicatecous membranes and softens harde ned tissue. Bark once used as an anti-oxidant to prevent that rhubarb and Turkey rhubarb are essen-

tially the same; yet it has been said in Essiac ar-rancidity of fat. Foster, 294. ticles, that Turkey rhubarb is imported from Eu-Echinacea, especially, would mak e an excelrope. (3) One would think that the small amountlent addition to the four herbs i n Essiac. Yet, even of rhubarb in Essiac would be constipative ratherthough it is a powerful anti-tu mor agent, the Essiac than laxative.herbal formula, just as it is, keeps a nice balance between some cancer fighting and much cleansSLIPPERY ELM BARK Ulmus fulva Slippery elm is an extremely gentle soothering of the toxins from its breakdown. That is extremely important, since it is generally the toxic of the gastro-intestinal system as it grabs tox-

--------------------------------------- 164 164Alternate Cancer Remedies overload which kills the cancer patient, not thechaparral for two reasons: First , it has the same tumor.cancer-fighting chemical in it (nordihydroNotice the nice balance that Essiac alreadyguaiaretic acid, or KDGA); and, secon d, it is not has:as harsh and does not have the side effects that Burdock root - cleans the blood and helpschaparral has at times. flush the kidneys. It was also mentioned earlier that comfrey, Sorrel - helps fight the tumor, but especiallyechinacea, and goldenseal have som etimes been flushes the bowels and the kidneys.used alone in the treatment of malignancies. Rhubarb - is a blood cleanser, and also re- Alfalfa has anti-cancer properties. lieves the stomach, cleans the bowels, and is a A rectal implant of chlorophyll ( in an enmild laxative.ema held in the bowel for 30 minutes), taken daily Slippery elm bark - soothes the entire gastro-after the bowel is cleaned by enem as or colonics, intestinal tract in the process of absorbing toxinswill help detoxify the system . and taking them out. Cabbage leaf poultices or castor oil packs It is clear that the above herbs do more clean-may be placed over the tumor. Whe n pain is preing than fighting which is very important. If wesent, mix wild lettuce and valeria n tincture (10 added echinacea (or goldenseal, red clover tops,drops) in warm water and take ev ery hour. etc.) to the four-herb formula, we might produce Eucalyptus oil may be placed on the affected too much destruction of the tumor, with no re-area. sources to carry off, and out of the system, the Tea-tree oil mixed with goldense al powder waste products.may be placed on the area. (Tea-tree oil is also Before concluding this, let us note the remark-spelled tee-tree and ti-tree; it is also known as able properties of echinacea. The narrow-leavedmelaleuca.) purple coneflower (Echinacea angustifolia) is the Here is another one: Simmer sor rel and best source, and better than the pale purple cone-plantain in olive oil for 2 ho urs, let cool, and flower (Echinacea pallida) or the purple cone-place the salve on the area.

flower (Echinacea purpurea). Echinacea is truly remarkable!HERB TEAS Plains Indians are said to have used Echin- There are nonpoisonous herbs that can puacea for more medicinal purposes than anyrify the blood and kill malignant growt hs interother plant group. Root (chewed or in tea) usednally or externally, leaving no b ad after effects. for snakebites, spider bites, cancers, tooth-Cancer will not survive in a system when the blood aches, burns, hard-to-heal sores and wounds, flu, and colds. Science confirms many tradi-stream is pure. Always take herb tea s an hour betional uses, plus cortisone-like activity; alsofore drinking fruit juice. insecticidal, bactericidal, and immunostimulant Here is a useful herbal formula: Mix together activities. Considered a nonspecfiic immuneas many of the following powdered her bs as possystem stimulant. More than 200 pharmaceu-sible (all if you can get them): Chapa rral, red clotical preparations are made from Echinaceaver, echinacea, violet leaves, burdock root, licoplants in W. Germany, including extracts, salves,rice root, bloodroot, dandelion root, sanicle, and tinctures, used in wounds, herpes sores,buckthorn bark, and ginger. Place th e mixture canker sores, throat infections, preventive forin 00 (double ought) capsules. Ta ke 2 capsules 4 influenza, colds. A folk remedy for brown re-to 6 times daily. Along with this, garlic, carrot juice, cluse spider bites. Foster, 200.and beet juice could be taken daily. Fluid is neede d to neutralize and flush out the poisons. ____________________ Dr. Hans Neiper, a German cancer specialMORE HERBAL HELPist, uses carnivora, a South American plant. Here is another anti-cancer herbal combiIn addition to those named earlier (Essiac,nation: Red root, flaxseed, yellow do ck, sanicle, Hoxsey, Winters, and Montagna), here are stillwitch hazel, tansy, wood sage, whi te oak bark, more anti-cancer herbs and formulas. Theserock rose, mullein, hops, mugwort, eld er, coltsshould provide a field day for researchers: foot. As mentioned in the historical section, This is a herbal tea to take internally: chapmistletoe, pau d arco, and chaparral each havearral tea (especially for skin cance r), apricot received acclaim for success in, at times, remit-seeds, garlic, red clover bloss om tea, burdock, ting cancer. Of these, pau d arco is superior toechinacea, black walnut, ginseng, goldenseal,

--------------------------------------- 165 Herbal Preparations165 pau d arco, suma, aloe vera, dandelion root, and lace him in If a patient cannot be outdoors, p

violet.a room with sunshine coming through the winHere is a chaparral formula: Each day 4dows. It should be properly ventilated at all times. chaparral tablets (15 grain) and 9 red clover com-He should exercise as much as he can indoors, bination tablets.breathing deeply as he does it. Sassafras, red clover, chickweed, and bur- For the weak patient who is unable to exerdock root are good teas to drink, to cleanse thecise out-of-doors, a daily massa ge is essential. Afblood.ter about ten days, the rubs may be reduced to The Red Clover Combination (sold byone or more weekly. Nature s Way) is similar to Harry Hoxey s formula If he is not thin, give him frequen t sweat which he used for years. Take 4 tablets a day.baths, followed by salt glows (rub bing his arms, Australian tee tree oil (tea tree ortrunk, and legs with cloth mittens dipped in salt). melaleuca) is an anti-fungal agent used to treatThis helps eliminate more poison s. Place a towel, the common fungal infections coating the mouth,wrung out of cold water, around t he neck to keep as well as cancer sites. Taking 3-5 drops ofthe head cool. Change it frequently during the melaleuca oil (ti-tree oil), 3 times a day, in a swal-sweat bath. If he has hear t trouble, place an ice low of water or juice, helps destroy fungus in thebag over the heart. blood. Cancer thrives on fungus in the blood, and If he is strong enough, give hi m a cold, damp melaleuca is anti-fungal. It is said that many fataltowel rub every morning. Alt ernately placing hot infections in cancer patients are caused by fun-and cold packs on the liver, sto mach, spleen, and gus.spine will also help. (Also place it over the abdoPeriwinkle (Vinca Major, Vinca minor) is re-men, if the problem is in the bowels or pelvis.) ported by British physicians to contain a substanceAlso place an herbal liniment over the affected area called vinblastine sulphate, which has producedand on the back. good results against choriocarcinoma and Queen of the meadow is an antiseptic use d Hodgkin s disease. Additional research is beingto treat disease of the uterus and cancer of the conducted for other types of cancer, including lungwomb. cancer. The leaves are used. Here is an herbal formula used by one herbSiberian Ginseng is an adaptogen, whichalist for malignancies: pumpkin seeds, ma ndrake, helps to rectify abnormal cellular metabolism (2-comfrey, violet, culvers root, cascara sagrada, 4 g dried root or 10-20 ml [2.5-5 teaspoon] tinc-witch hazel, mullein, and slipp ery elm. ture). To make the herbal liniment, mix 2 ounces Ginkgo biloba dramatically improves periph-powdered myrrh, one ounce powdered go ldenseal, eral circulation, and may slow cancer through oxy- ounce cayenne pepper, 1 quart rubbing alcohol genation (120 mg).(70% strength). After mixing, let stand for 7 days; Milk thistle is a potent liver protector andshake well every day; decant off the top liquid (withdetoxifier (70-210 mg in tablet form).out disturbing the sediment beneath); and

bottle Other anti-cancer herbs include henna,the liquid. horehound, juniper berries, mezereon, and Blue violet (Viola odorata) is used int erSolomon s seal.nally and externally for tumors and other maligMichael Tierra, in the section on Cancer innant growths. Blue violet seems to be a ble to reach his book The Way of Herbs, provides this Pureplaces only the blood and lymphatic fluids penBlood Formula : 25% echinacea, 25% chapar-etrate. The flowers and leaves are used. ral, 10% astragalus, 10% American ginseng, 6% Here is an herbal formula to help c leanse red clover blossoms, 6% grifola, 4% fu ling (po-the blood. It has been recommend ed for cancer by ria cocos), 4% licorice, 4% cayenne, 3% cas-an experienced herbalist: cara sagrada, 3% kelp. Grifola is not defined or Burdock - blood purifier, promot es kidney even mentioned anywhere else in that book.function, to clear the blood of harmfu l acids. Do not forget the special plant formula, men- Yellow dock - nutritive tonic very high in iron, tioned earlier in this book under comfrey: 5 partsnourishes the liver and spleen . comfrey root, 17 parts comfrey leaves, 7 parts Chaparral - cleans deep into the m uscles and comfrey blossoms, 10 parts red clover, 2 partstissue walls; cleans system of tox ic wastes. myrrh gum, 6-8 parts yucca, 9 parts chaparral, Dandelion - helps liver to detoxif y poisons, 5-6 parts wormwood, 1 part goldenseal, 2 partsblood purifier and cleanser, rich in vitamins and minlicorice, 1 part argillaceous earth (redmond clay,erals. dolomite, etc.). Barberry - promotes bile in the liver to clean

--------------------------------------- 166 166Alternate Cancer Remedies blood, removes morbid matter from stomach andremoves excess fluids from lungs an d throat. bowels. Sarsaparilla - very cleansing, glandular balYarrow - opens the pores freely, purifies theance, stimulates the body s defense m echanisms. blood, and equalizes circulation. Prickly ash - increases the circulation, healin g Cascara sagrada - safe laxative, stimulates theproperties to the system. secretions of the digestive system. Stillingia - removes toxic wastes from the sy sRed clover - eliminates toxins, tonic with valu-tem, stimulates the liver and gl ands. able minerals, vitamins, and high amounts of iron Oregon grape - purifies the blo od, stimulates and Vitamin A.bile to aid digestion, tonic for all the glands. Licorice - supplies energy to the system and BIBLE PROMISESteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, A just man falleth seven times, and ri seth saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not ofup again. Proverbs 24:16. evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And

29:11.why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou Their soul shall be as a watered garden;in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who i s the and they shall not sorrow anymore . . I will turnhealth of my countenance, and m y God. their mourning into joy, and will comfort them,Psalm 42:11. and make them rejoice from their sorrow. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. H e Jeremiah 31:12-13.that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious Come, and let us return unto the Lord: forseed, shall doubtless come again with r ejoicHe hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smit-ing, bringing His sheaves with h im. Psalm ten, and He will bind us up. Hosea 6:1.126:5-6. The Lord also will be a refuge for the op- The righteous is delivered out of troubl e, pressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psalmand the wicked cometh in his stead. Prov9:9. erbs 11:8. He hath not despised nor abhorred the af- The wicked is snared by the transgression fliction of the afflicted; neither hath He hid Hisof his lips: but the just shal l come out of trouble. face from him; but when he cried unto Him, HeProverbs 12:13. heard. Psalm 22:24. The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say onthe Lord raiseth them that are bo wed down. Psalm 146:8. the Lord . . When my father and mother forsake They cry unto the Lord in their tou ble, and me, then the Lord will take me up. PsalmHe saveth them out of their distresses. Psalm 27:14, 10.107:19. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand The lips of the wise shall preserve them. Proverbs 14:3. . . The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue He is their strength in the time of trouble. keepeth his soul from troubles. Proverbs Psalm 37:24, 39. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and21:23. my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I I have been young, and now am old; ye t have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my sal-begging bread. He is ever mercifu l, and lendeth; vation, and my high tower. Psalm 18:2.and his seed is blessed. Psalm 37:25-26. God is our refuge and strength, a very pre- If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. sent help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the2 Timothy 2:12. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;and hope to the end for the grace that is to be though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,brought unto you at the revelatio n of Jesus though the mountains shake with the swellingChrist. 1 Peter 1:13. thereof. Psalm 46:1-3. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He My grace is sufficient for thee: for My stren gth

is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righ-12:9.

--------------------------------------- 167 Putting It All Together167 - Part Seven Putting it All Together SORTING OUT THE SYSTEMSment. This chapter represents the opinion of theRevici used chemicals to correct lipid /fatty author as to what may possibly be the bestacids and pH balance. method for medical researchers to produce re-Sheridan used a chemical to inhibit cancer gression of malignancies. That does not meanrespiration. it is actually the best, nor that anyone otherBlumer used chelation chemicals. than a medical expert should use it. ReadNaessens used chemicals for leukemia. H e again the warnings, given at the beginning ofalso injected a camphor nitrogen co mthis book, against self-therapy.pound into the lymph system. This book is particularly written for research-Gold used hydrazine sulphate ers; and, throughout it, the need for additionalLivingston used a vaccine to kil l cancer research has been indicated, along with a wealthbacteria, along with nutrition a nd lifestyle of fields of study which need to be explored orchanges. expanded on.Rosenow used hydrogen peroxide. But research into individual herbs, chemicals, or extracts is not really the full solution to the can-ANTIBIOTICS cer problem. It is obvious that an overall changeGregory used an antibiotic to k ill cancer in one s way of life is required in order to experi-microorganisms. He also used m ajor diet ence fullest success in ridding the cancer cursechanges. from the body.SERUMS Researchers, I appeal to you: Carry out test-Glover used a serum from horse bloo d. ing on broad areas of change, not just micro-Durovic and Ivy used a growth-contr ol extract cosms here and there! We are past that point.from horses There is enough nutritional, and other, data inBIOLOGIC FACTORS hand, to formulate a very effective overall pro-Lawrence used a factor in urine. gram!Danopoulos used urea from urine. However, so much information has been in-Burzynski used factors synthesized from cluded in this book, that it can appear quite daunting to put it together into a carefully balanced, sys-human urine. tematic whole. So, in this section we will overviewBurton used a factor extracte d from mouse and summarize many of the areas, covering theblood. best of the findings.Lane and Evers used shark cartilage. First, let us categorize the cancer thera-BACTERIA pies discussed in Parts Two to Four:Lincoln used parasitic viruses (bacteriophages) to feed on, and destroy, cancerCHEMICALS Koch used a chemical injection to changecausing microorganisms. toxins into antitoxins. He also used a veryGLANDULAR EXTRACTS strict diet. Evers also used the Koch treat-Beard used pancreatic enzymes

--------------------------------------- 168 168Alternate Cancer Remedies Coffey and Humber used adrenal cortexwhole wheat. extract from sheep.Krebs, Sr., Krebs, Jr., Richardson, Evers, Wachtel used posterior pituitary extract.and others used a purified extract from Beale and Koroljow used insulin.apricot kernels. Richardson, Kowan, and Contreras added major nutritional FEVER THERAPY (HYPERTHERMIA) Coley, Koch, Issels, and Gerson used feverchanges. therapy. Coley s excitement agent was strepCAREFUL DIET germs, Koch s was tissue thrombin,Bell used a careful vegetarian diet and avoided Gerson s was hot water.constipation. Bulkley and Chase used a careful diet, plus OXYGEN THERAPY Koch, Evers, Issels, Sweet, and Gerson usedenemas. Wigmore used the juice of fresh, young wheat oxygen therapy (note Warburg s theory). HERBAL MIXTURESgrass, plus a careful diet. Kelley used fresh fruits, vegetables, and Lambe and Blake used unknown herbalalmonds, along with vitamin-mineral mixtures. supplements. Fell and Pattison, each used a single herbIssels used major nutritional changes, empha(possibly the same one), plus zinc choride.sizing organic foods, along with life As reported in Lancet and elsewhere, some changes and the elimination of toxic subused comfrey, plus other herbs.stances, such as amalgam. Evans used an unknown herbal formula,Gerson used juice therapy, a strict diet, p lus a accompanied by prayer. variety of other factors (enemas, potassium Hoxsey used a 14-herb formula, which we nowiodide, etc.). know. Caisse used 4 herbs, which we now know.COMBINED THERAPY Some researchers have developed a wide-rangSanti used pau d arco.ing anti-cancer program. This would include Hajito used European mistletoe. Farr, Smart, and Hogle used chaparral leavesBulkley, Chase, Kloss, Evers, some l aetrile physicians, and the Gerson Institute. and stems. Montagna used 9 primary and 14 secondary herbs. ____________________ WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH? Winters used 3 herbs. There are so many cancer treatment methods, VITAMINSthat it almost bewilders the mind. A researcher Pauling and Cameron used vitamin C, plus nutritional and lifestyle changes.might wonder where to start, what to do. Newbold used vitamin A and beta-carotene.Certain principles need to be kept in m ind: Livingston used abscisic acid (probably a1 - Use no method which is poisonous. vitamin) in food to control cancer.2 - Use substances and techniques which Gerson used niacin and vitamin C.people can use at home. Kneki used vitamin E.3 - Use a rounded approach which covers

Karmali used omega-3.all needed aspects. 4 - Use a method which has shown itself, MINERALSfor years, to be a proven method. Schrauzer used selenium. It is too late to spend time experimenting Asai used germanium-132.with new things, all the while that people are Siris used clodronate, a variant of calcium.dying all over the world! There are enough methRoss used a mixture of potassium citrate,ods which have been shown to work; let us fophosphate, and iodide.cus on the best of them. Gerson used a mixture of potassium glucon-Researchers, some of your patients wil l preate, acetate, and phosphate along withfer to avoid all the problems and just con tinue Lugol s solution for idiodine.on as they are but continuing to do whatever they have done in the past is what gave them FOOD EXTRACTthe cancer! Drosnes and Lazenby used a fresh extract of Some will want to obtain orthodox therapy.

--------------------------------------- 169 Putting it All Together169 You will need to explain to them that there are(3) - Of very great importance, i t provides a alternative ways to treat cancer which are farmeans of accelerating the discharg e of toxins more effective.from the body, toxins stirred up by the entire program and the gradual dissolution of the canIn view of the large number of possible meth-cer site through special enemas, and castor ods, where should the researchers focus their at-oil. tention? If each researcher were to ask himself theIt is this thorough approach which is so cruquestion, What would I do if I suddenly learned Icial. It is not enough to kill t he tumor; it must had an advanced case of cancer? he would re-be removed from the body. It is not eno ugh to spond, I would want to be treated by the therapydo both; the entire body must be nourished back which, historically, has had the highest rate of success! to a strong, healthy condition. In Part Four of this book, we discovered that,The cancer tissue must be attacked , reduced, over a period of more than 70 years, the Gersonand dissolved without injuring surr ounding normal tissue. therapy has been clinically developed to itsThe cancer patient generally dies fr om liver present state, and that it has the highest five-overload (hepatic coma), not fro m the cancer. So year survival rate.much toxins have been sent to the liver to be proFew other treatments have had the opportu-cessed and discharged out through the bowels, that nity of over a half century of continued improve-the liver collapses under the b urden. Vigorous meament. In addition, it is an eclectic program, bor-sures to discharge the toxins

from the liver, through rowing the best from nutrition and other fields. Itthe bile, must be carried out . is also one of the very few which uses a broad nu-The blood stream, organs, and tissues must tritional program, including fresh juices and itbe built up, and major diet and li fesytle changes is the only one which includes a systematic pro-must be made or the cancer will la ter return. gram to cleanse the liver and hasten excretion of toxins.The Gerson therapy also makes use of other The current costs at the Gerson Institute wouldworthwhile methods, as well: iodi ne, oxygen, pobe about $5,000 a week for the cancer sufferertassium, heat therapy, laetrile, Essiac, Pau d arco, and a helper he would bring with him (to prepareand selective vitamin therapy. the juices, etc.). That includes all standard charges,Health researchers, the pe ople need educaincluding the food; but it does not include othertion; they need instruction, so they can henceservices, such as labwork or procedures (hyper-forth care for themselves and hel p still others. baric chamber, laetrile, etc.). It is requested thatThere simply are not enough physicians availthe patient be there at least three weeks, with aable for all the people sufferi ng from disease. one-week minimum.In addition, the costs of medical treatment in Fortunately, the Gerson Institute has explainedthe hospitals keeps skyrocketing, due to hightheir methods in two books, so poorer individu-tech equipment and high-priced dr ugs and surals can take the therapy at home.gery. The only solution is to teach the people Medical researchers, the Gerson therapy ishow to take care of themselves. the best for your patients all your patients Clinicians, you would need to instruct each for they will generally have only one chance atpatient to order a copy of A Gers on Primer, by the a therapy, before dying. To summarize it again:staff of the Gerson Institute (cu rrently $19.95). 1 - It has succeeded for half a century.Also helpful is A Cancer Therapy, by Max Gerson 2 - It has the highest rate of long-term suc-(currently $19.95). In the latter b ook, tell him to cess.read 187-248 and 391-422; and explain that the 3 - It has repeatedly been improved.actual program is summarized on 235-248. 4 - It is the only known therapy which pro-In the Primer, the patient will find the entire vides a rounded approach to getting rid of can-program, including information no t found in Cancer:cer Therapy (such as more detailed instruction (1) - It provides strong nourishment toon how to do the program at home). strengthen a person s body and organs through juices, food, potassium, iodine, niacin, ________________ ____ etc. (2) - It weakens the cancer tissue, and dis-WHAT WOULD I DO IF I HAD CANCER? solves it through laetrile, Essiac, Pau d arco,This present book has so much informa tion and heat therapy.on the subject, that it is difficult to know where to

--------------------------------------- 170 170Alternate Cancer Remedies begin. Fortunately, the present writer has a fairdown and eliminate it. understanding of what is in this book, since heIt might be that I knew I had a c ancer without has just finished writing it.further testing. Yet, if tests are needed, safer te sts So, as a help to the researchers, it might beare available. well if I said how I would use this book to pro-If I wanted to have a cancer tes t done, I could tect myself from contracting cancer, and whatturn to pages 180-183, and carefully read the information I would use in this book if I dis-information. One or more of these tests may recovered that I had it!veal if I have cancer developing in my body, even Perhaps this section will spur researchers inthough I have no outward evidence o f it. their work. It would be well if medical research-Let us say that I have discover ed that I do, ers paused to think what they would do if they had cancer! Such an approach might turn themindeed, have a cancer. Well, that is just fine. down a new, more practical pathway of investiga-Now I have work to do! You might say, What a crazy attitude to have! Ah, but it is exactly the tion.best attitude for me to have. If I become discourI do not have cancer; but, according to the sta-aged and depressed, the general health of my entistics, there is one chance in three that I will contract it, and one chance in four that I will die of it.tire body will begin spir aling downward; and that There is also clear evidence that, if I live and eatis not solving anything. Instead, I will be hopeful and confident that very carefully, I am far less likely to ever experi-the best will come, whatever it may be. Accomence malignancies.panied by prayer and trust in God, I set to work Please understand, the following statementsto solve this problem. I have spent a lifetime solvrepresent the opinion of the present writer. They may contain many errors of judgment, and theying problems, and this is just anot her one to tackle. After that, there will be many more before I die. are not provided for self-diagnosis or treatmentProblems can be an adventure, if you approach by laymen. They are spurs to investigation, andthem in the right way. are not for anyone to follow! The next question is What should I do about it? In order to prevent cancer from developing, I can ignore it and hope for the best . I would carefully read through Part One (pp. 16-43) of this book. I would need to begin a better I can take one of the three o rthodox treatway of life. Diet is important; but exercise outdoors,ments (surgery, chemothera py, or radiation). I can go to an alternative cancer clinic or adequate rest, and other factors are equally im-hospital.

portant. A peaceful, abiding trust in God is cru- I can stay home and treat it my self. cial to success. I would want to make the Bible promises in Part One my own (pp. 31-32).First, I am not going to ignore the matt er. That would always be a foolish decision. Skin cancers can begin all through adult life.Second, I choose not to undergo or thodox If I found that I had skin cancer, I would crush a small piece of garlic and place it on the coloredtreatments. I am an adult and h ave the legal right area alone, with a little tissue and tape over it. Ito take the orthodox treatme nt, refuse it, take an alternative therapy, or treat myself. For reasons would change this every evening and morning. Incited in the section on Authorized Treatments about 3 or 4 days, I have good reason to believe(pp. 175-179), I choose not to t ake the orthodox that it would have sloughed off. (I have alreadyapproach, in spite of what my fr iends and relasuccessfully done it.) tives may tell me. I am happy in my decision, for I If I thought that I might have a more seri-believe I have made a good one. I wil l not be disous cancer, I would begin praying even hardersuaded. than before. One of the things I would have to first decide is how I might ascertain if I really hadNext, I have to decide whether to go to an alternative therapy clinic or treat myself at such a malignancy.home. In my case, I would choose not to have a biopsy. That would require cutting into the tumor,In order to determine that, fi rst, I might wish which would be a very unwise thing to do! Theto read again through portions of t his book. I tumor could begin metastasizing. That is a medi-need to carefully think through this. There is a lot cal word for spreading. I would not want that toof information there, yet many of those therapies happen! Instead, I would want it to remain self-are no longer available. contained until I could devise ways to shrink itSome of the most important mater ial is

--------------------------------------- 171 Putting it All Together171 marked in bold print in the table of contentsobtain thorough help somewhere! The dietetic (pp. 3-7). I would do well to look up each itemproblems at Gerson are better tha n letting people in the table of contents which is in bold printcut me up or fill me with chemica l poisons. and carefully read it again, especially those inI am also deeply impressed by th e fact that Parts 2 through 6 (pp. 44-166).the Gerson Clinic has a better long-term survival record than the laetrile clinics. At this point, I am still trying to decide whether to treat myself at home or go to a clinic and which By application of these princip

les, the Gerson Therapy is able to achieve almost rouone I might enter.tine recovery 90% or better from early to inPerhaps I might wish to contact an altertermediate cancer. When cancer becomes incurnate therapy referral center. Over the past sev-able by orthodox methods (i.e., involves the liver eral decades, a number of individuals have banded or pancreas or is metastasized inside the body), together and formed organizations which provideabout 50% recoveries can be achie ved by the information on alternate cancer therapies toGerson method. whoever wants it (pp. 188-189). People gener- Norman Fritz gives laetrile as an ex ample ally became involved in such groups because ofof other good nontoxic therapies. It has a good orthodox treatment tragedies in the lives of theirshort-term response relief from pain, remisloved ones or surprising success at an alternativesion of malignancy, improvemen t in appetite cancer clinic. I can phone one or more of thoseand sense of well-being or increa se in strength organizations and see what they have to say, whilein 70% or 80% of cancer cases. The long-term continuing to weigh my options.recovery rate, however, is about 15% or less. In most cases degeneration progresses to where But, instead, I turn to the clinic addresses the laetrile is no longer sufficient. In some cases listed in this book, for a number of currentlyother nontoxic therapies may be co nstructively available therapies. Those addresses are listed combined with the Gerson Therapy. both at the end of their respective chapters, and The other big advantage of the G erson also in the therapies section at the back of the Therapy is that it usually heals the body of all book (pp. 188-189). Sixteen clinics are listedthe degenerative diseases rather t han just healthere. ing cancer. Many cancer patients are suffering In considering a clinic decision, I am especiallyfrom other degenerative conditi ons also arthriinterested in finding one which uses natural rem-tis, heart conditions, diabetes , etc. Cancer edies rather than chemicals, and one which has aNews Journal, 1983 Update. broad range of lifestyle corrections. I wish the Phoning the Gerson Institute number in Chase (pp. 59-63) and Bulkley (pp. 47-48) clinics were still open, but they are not.Bonita, California (619-585-7600; fax 619-5857610), they mail me some literature on their Yet, of those clinic therapies currently available, in my view only two fit the category of sys-program. Reading it, I learn s till more. I find that I will have to take someone with me to the tematized nutrition: The laetrile method (pp. 117-129) and Gerson method (pp. 142-156).hospital to prepare my juices, etc., an d it will, at the present time, cost about $5,000 a week to be Both include a broad range of changes. Checking this out more closely, I find thatat Hospital Meridien; for cancer, the

y prefer that I be there a minimum of three weeks. the Gerson treatment is more scientifically detailed, includes both in-depth nutrition, as wellUnfortunately, I am not sure if I can get someone to go with me; and, when I sit down and count as careful body and liver cleansing as the tumor breaks up.my pennies, I find I do not have enough to go there! This is unfortunate, for obviously it would be a The Gerson method also has the longest record of clinical experimentation and improve-fantastic educational program! Bo th I, and the person accompanying me, would learn all the ins ment (from 1907 to 1959, and 1977 to the and outs of the ongoing, daily program. present time over 70 years.The brochure says that my medical insurance Reading once again the section entitled, policy might cover it, and that I should contact Supplement - Gerson Therapy: Introduction, American Metabolics at 619-425-4625 in Bon ita, on pp. 131-134, which summarizes the benefits California, to ascertain that. But then I have no of the Gerson method, I decide that the Gersonmedical insurance either. Institute clinic in the Tijuana suburbs (Hospital Next I learn that all the basic Gerson daily Meridien) is the one I will go to. I do not particu-treatment information is giv en in the two Gerson larly like some of the substances I might receive books: A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, there, but I will soon be dying of cancer if I do not

--------------------------------------- 172 172Alternate Cancer Remedies by Max Gerson, and The Gerson Primer, by the95). I learn that pau d arco is easier to take, yet Gerson Institute. The Primer is the book they givecontains the same essential re medial chemical every patient who goes there; it explains what theirin chaparral, I also discove r that the Essiac forprocedure! Turning to the back of the brochuremula is the most proven herbal for mula against they have sent me, I find both books listed; theycancer in the 20th century! I a m deeply impressed are $19.95 each. Well, I do not have $15,000 for awith its track record. Fortuna tely, it is now easily three-week stay, but I do have $40.00. So I orderobtainable and can be taken ora lly. the books.(5) - Some therapies involve materials which I can order by mail, including herbs, nuWhile waiting for them to arrive, I do moretrients, and oral hydrogen peroxide. checking. Perhaps I live alone, am in terrible shape, and have no one to help me with the GersonIf I decide not to take the Ger son therapy treatments. Perhaps I really do not want to do allat home, I can patch together the best of what the work involved, and imagine I can get by on ais available of the above-named special nutri-

simpler program.ents and herbs, along with what I wish to pick So, once again, I begin browsing. In theand choose from the book, the Gerson Pri mer. present book, Parts One (pp. 16-43) lists over 200 cancer preventive do s and don ts. I haveOr, if I wish, I can scrape together th outo make sure I am doing all that. Doing thatsands of dollars and go to one of th e nonalone will be a good improvement.Gerson clinics: Still thinking that I may be able to do some-(6) - Narrowed clinic treatments wh ich are thing different than Gerson, next, I look at Partsstill available include the la etrile clinics Two (pp. 44-116), Four (pp. 130-141), and Six(Richardson s in Albany, CA, Contrera s in (pp. 157-166). There I find that everything men-Tijuana, or Navarro s in Manila) ( pp. 118-129), tioned falls into one or the other of several cat-Revici s chemicals (pp. 66-67), Burton s four blood proteins (pp. 77-79), Naessens camphor egories:nitrogen compound (pp. 81-82), Gold s hydra1 - Treatment methods which are no longerzine sulphate (pp. 91-94), Siris clodron ate (pp. available.101-102), Lane s cartilage (p. 102), the hydro2 - Treatment methods which, for one rea-gen peroxide injections (pp. 103-105), Issels nuson or another, are not accessible by me.tritional program (pp. 102-103), and Bu rzynski s 3 - Treatment methods which involved dieturine substances (pp. 105-106). Address es of all alone.of these are available in the articles (and also 4 - Treatment methods which involvedat the back of the book on pp. 188-190). herbal formulas. 5 - Treatment methods which are narrowed,But I do not have the money to go to an y but which I can order by mail.clinics, Gerson s or otherwise. I will surely miss 6 - Treatment methods which are narrowedthe excellent training and initial testi ng I would in their scope, require going a clinic, and areespecially have received at the G erson hospital. also expensive.So I will have to do whatever I can at home. (1-2) - The first two are out.If I have a friend to help me, that will be wonder (3) - As for the dietetic-type therapies: Theful. only dietetic programs outlined to any extent areSo I must decide whether to ful ly go on the those of Bulkley (pp. 47-48), Chase (pp. 59-64),Gerson therapy or group together a patchwork and certain physicians using laetrile (pp. 126-collection of other therapies. Le t me think out 129), plus, of course, the extensive informationloud about what I might do: in the two Gerson books which will soon arrive in the mail. I do not want to forget important factors,1 - All of the various thera pies listed in Parts such as beta-carotene (pp. 82-84), vitamin C (pp.Two to Six are concerned with, in some way, de86-89), selenium (pp. 98-100), germanium-132stroying the cancer tissue. 2 - A few are concerned about changing the (pp. 106-107), and omega-3 (pp. 107-108).way of life, so the malignancy will not only be

(4) - Then there are the herbal formula thera-eliminated but is not likely to re turn. pies: I find that, while they are listed throughout3 - But the Gerson therapy is also deeply the book, they are all brought together on 158-concerned also about expelling th e broken down 166. Several very important herbs are Essiac (pp.cancer tissue from the system. It alone has a sys130-141, 158, 161-166), pau d arco (p. 81),tematic way of doing that. chaparral (pp. 84-91), and mistletoe (pp. 94-On pages 130-141, 158, and especial ly on

--------------------------------------- 173 Putting it All Together173 pp. 161-165, I discovered that the Essiac formulacaused by the need to flush out toxins! The does both also. Yet the Gerson therapy may beGerson enemas remarkably stop those pains, safer, more thorough, and have better long-termbecause it flushes out those accu mulating poiresults. It is more than taking some pills; it is aboutsons. Individuals with an advanced tumor have a drastic change in living primarily keyed to tak-died because they did not remain on the special ing vegetable and fruit juices, and eating very nour-Gerson enemas, which so rap idly flush toxins out ishing food.of the liver. Well, what is the Gerson faster-flushing If I decide to go on the Gerson nutritionmethod? It involves the use of coffee e nemas. program, for a year and a half, or two years (orThese cause signals to go to the bile ducts, and longer if I wish), it will primarily require: Making and drinking 13 glasses of freshlythey open up wide. The toxins from the dissolvprepared juices everyday. These are vegetableing tumors are sent through the blo odstream to juices (primarily carrot), fruit juices (primarilythe liver to be discharged thr ough the gallbladapple), and green leaf juice.der into the bowel. But the liver can only work Preparing and eating some vegetables whichso fast. A toxic overload of the liver causes toxare simmered in little water until well done.ins to back up throughout the body and pain is Eating some raw vegetables, grated if neces-felt. Too much overload and the live r stops funcsary.tioning and this is called hepatic coma. Preparing and eating a vegetable soup.People die, not from cancer, but either fr om Taking several supplements, including io-hepatic coma or from cachexia, which is general dine for the thyroid and hydrochloric acid for thestarvation also due to toxic o verload in the liver. stomach, but especially potassium for the cells.Therefore, it is obviously of extr eme imporEliminating the use of all oils, except flaxseed oiltance that the body and the liver be cleansed of

is important.those toxins, which are being cast off by the system! It is a life and death matter. The nutritional program rebuilds the system and strengthens it to attack and begin destroyingThe Gerson faster-flush method uses: the cancer tissue. I must not (not) fast when I Coffee enemas, for the most rapid flushing have cancer! I must feed the undernourishedof the liver. body, so it can destroy that cancer! Additional nutrients to replace minerals and If I decide to go on part or all of the Gersonvitamins lost from the liver durin g this time. Uncleansing program, it is extremely important thatfortunately, that includes live r extract. the waste substances, cast off by the body at this Because a faster flush is in p rogress, castime, are being expelled. Therefore:tor oil is needed to help clean bile out of the stomI must take low enemas (Gerson found thatach and help push the liver-ejected tox ins out of high enemas or colonics should not be taken, forthe bowels. they wash out certain minerals from the bowels). Chamomile tea and peppermint tea are also The frequency of enemas should be increasedhelpful. Perhaps my condition is such that I do not when evidence of toxicity buildup occurs. This willneed the faster-flush. But if I am in pain and be indicated by headaches, fever, nausea, intesti-deteriorating, I had best care fully rethink my nal spasms, and drowsiness. If they are notsituation. present, less enemas are needed. At some point, I would need to decide if I amIn addition to whatever level of th e Gerson going to remain on a mild flushing program or gotherapy I might go on, I can als o do some other on a more intensive one.things which will in no wise interfere with the If I choose to remain on a slower ejection oftherapy, but actually help improve the situatoxins, I will take the simple enemas. I can alsotion. I can take: take Essiac everyday, since this will definitely aid The Essiac formula. That is the only herb the expulsion process (see pp. 161-165 for the rea-formula I would take, unless I chose to add a sons why it helps the body do that).little echinacea (and possibly a very small amount Or I can choose to go on the faster flushingof barberry) to it (see pp. 161-165) . After writprogram, used by Gerson. How can I know whiching this book, I have the most resp ect for Essiac and the Gerson therapy. They have I need? First, how advanced is the cancer? If it isthe longest and best track re cords. in the early stages, I may not need the faster flush- Vitamin C. ing. Second, is there pain? The pain is primarily Laetrile.

--------------------------------------- 174 174Alternate Cancer Remedies Pau d arco. This contains the same cancer-Well, that is what I would do if I had c

ancer. fighting chemical that is in chaparral, but withoutMy ideas may well be full of mistakes, for everythe side effects of chaparral.thing human generally is. It is merely my opinion Fever therapy. Details are given in the Gersonof what I would do, to care for my self. Primer, 11 (4th edition; p. 13 in the 3rd); I must It is hoped that this brief overview may help read it carefully before attempting to do this! cancer researchers better focus their work on pracPoultices, etc., over surface, or near-surface, tical areas of treatment which the people need. tumors. Millions out there are dying, awaiting official word I can also take certain vitamin supplethat natural remedies are useful. We are lookments; but, if I have cancer, certain other ones ing to you, the laboratory and clinical researchers should be avoided since they excite the already of the Western world, for help! overworked liver too much. Common folk, happening upon this book, Niacin is excellent. might inquire, What should I do if I contract canVitamin C, of course, is also. cer? That is not for me to say; I can only relate According to Gerson, I must avoid the use of what I would do if I had a malignancy. I have a Vitamins A, E, most B complex, and B. How6legal right to select any therapy which appeals ever, niacin (B) is especially useful. Both A and 3to me. You have the same right. Therefore, clinic E are picked up by the cancer cells and energize addresses are listed at the back of the book. In those cells. (In contrast, pro-vitamin A, which is nearly every instance, you will receive treatment beta-carotene is excellent to use.) under the supervision of an M.D. physician. Or I must recognize that, once I begin the pro-you may prefer to go to your local h ospital, there gram, I may have to remain on portions of it forto receive the orthodox treatmen ts. Fortunately, the remainder of my life. There is the very realin this book there is now availa ble a wealth of predanger that a later relapse could be irreversible,ventive information (Part One) , along with the treatand death would follow. This does happen!ment discoveries and methods developed by many I may eventually reduce the number of juicesexperts in the field (Parts Two to F ive). I would taken daily, and drop the enemas, etc. But I mustdirect you to them and to their clinics. remain on the preventive points listed in Part One May God bless and keep you. I hope we can of this book. meet someday in heaven. BIBLE PROMISES The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, He shall be like a tree planted by the riversand He addeth no sorrow with it. Prover bs

of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his sea-10:22. son; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatso- And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and ever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 1:3.He shall bless thy bread and thy water. ExoMany are the afflictions of the righteous:dus 23:25. but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. And thou shalt rejoice in every good th ing Psalm 34:19.which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, Thou, which hast showed me great and soreand unto thy house. Deuteronomy 26:11. troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring A little that a righteous man ha th is better me up again from the depths of the earth. than the riches of many wicked. Psalm 37:16. Psalm 71:20. He became the author of eternal salvation Thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wiltunto all them that obey Him. Hebrews 5: 9. bring down high looks. For thou wilt light my The Lord thy God in the midst of the e is candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my dark-mighty; He will save, He will rej oice over thee ness. Psalm 18:27-28.with joy; He will rest in His love, He will joy over I will cry unto God most high; unto Godthee with singing. Zephaniah 3:17. that performeth all things for me. Psalm 57:2. The fear of the Lord is the instructio n of Thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fearwisdom; and before honour is humility. Pro v. . And thine age shall be clearer than the noon-erbs 15:33. day; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the Behold, My servants shall sing f or joy of morning. Job 11:15, 17.heart. Isaiah 65:14.

--------------------------------------- 175 Additional Information175 - Part Eight Additional Information THE AUTHORIZED TREATMENTSable modern curative methods (surgery or raSince this book is primarily written todiation) would thereby be delayed potenti ally medical researchers, it is well to clarify an-until such time as metastasis had occurred and other reason for the great urgency in yourthe cancer therefore might no longer b e curable. California State Health and Safety conducting cancer research. The avenues forCode, Section 10400.1. treatment, at present, are not good!Thus the orthodox methods are said to offer In this brief chapter, it will be shown that, un- cure, and the only source availab le for it. Let us fortunately, even the officially authorized (often re-now consider each of the t hree officially approved ferred to as the orthodox ) treatments for cancermethods of treatment: are themselves seriously flawed! Medical researchers, we need your help, inSURGERY developing and convincing the medical es-Celsus, in the 1st century A.D., described a tablishment in America to use better methodssurgery for cancer of the lip. A cen tury later, of dealing with this most terrible of diseases!Leonidese also wrote about cancer surgery.

It is frequently said that the orthodox cancerIn the 14th century, Guy de Chauli ac described treatments are cures. In the American Cancera wide variety of cancer operations; and, two cenSociety s book, Unproven Methods of Cancer Man-turies later, Hildanus discussed th e first axillary dissection for breast cancer. In 1891, Halsted deagement, updated periodically, the reader is told:tailed the first radical opera tion for breast cancer. Unfortunately, many patients with curableHis basic procedures are still in use. cancer leave the care of competent physiciansThe following statement appeared in an imto be treated with a worthless unproven rem-portant Eastern scientific journal: edy until a cure by accepted methods of treat- Ten of our patients underwent an un successment becomes impossible. American Cancerful attempt by a surgeon to remove the tumo r. Society, Unproven Methods of Cancer Manage-All surgeons know that this procedure is usument, 1971 Edition, 1. In an ACS brochure, the following statementally followed by an increased growth of the appears:tumor . . Why not use an unproven method if it has Although the most common factor related been proven to be harmless? Because time isto spontaneous regression in our monog raph cancer s ally. Any time wasted on worthless un-was excision [removal] of the prima ry [tumor], proven remedies may prevent a patient fromI cannot attach much importance to it because metastasis develops so commonly after exciobtaining proven treatment while his cancer ission of the primary. Spontaneous Regre sstill curable. American Cancer Society, Can-sion of Cancer: The Metabolic Triumph o f the cer.Host? Annals of the New York Academy of This concept is written into the lawbooks ofScience, 136-137 [emphasis ours]. California: Metastasis does have significant risks, beThe use of [laetrile] in early cancer to thecause it requires cutting through the protecexclusion of conventional treatment with accepttive wall keeping the cancer bottled up. When

--------------------------------------- 176 176Alternate Cancer Remedies it is cut open (by the surgery), the cancer issis. F.R.C. Johnstone, M.D., Californ ia Medilikely to leaves its pocket (the tumor) and be-cal Digest, August 1972, 838. gin quickly spreading through the bloodstreamIn addition, the operation caused a large to other parts of the body.wound, which the already greatly weakened body The same article noted that the statistical ratemust try to heal. of spontaneous regression following surgery is 1Excluding skin cancers, according to ACS in 80,000 to 100,000 cases (op. cit., 111-112).data, the statistical average is that the rate of Spontaneous regression occurs when the cancerlong-term survival after surgery is

only 10-15%. subsequently disappears entirely from the body,Once the cancer has metastasized to a second lofor reasons which orthodox medicine says are un-cation, the cancer is in the blo odstream, and surknown.gery has almost no survival value. The first statistical analysis of the survival rateBefore leaving this subject o f cutting into after cancer surgery was done by Dr. Leroy d Etoilles cancer tissue, we should consider biopsies. in 1844 and published by the French Academy of Science. Case histories of 2,781 patients (cover-Generally the first thing the p hysician wants ing a 36-year period) were submitted by 174 phy-to do, when a patient inquires w hether he might sicians. The average survival was only one yearhave cancer, is to cut into the q uestionable tisand five months about what the average is to-sue in order to extract a small slice f or microday.scopic examination. But this procedure is highly The net value of surgery or caustics was, indangerous, for it tends to spread the cancer. prolonging life, two months for men and sixEven massaging a tumor is dangerous! months for women. But that was only in the Massage of a tumor is followed by massi vely first few years after the initial diagnosis. Afterincreased numbers of circulati ng tumor cells that period, those who had not accepted treat-in the blood stream . . Experiment al data furment had the greater survival potential by aboutther suggest that surgical truam a decreases fifty percent. Walter H. Walshe, The Ana-natural host [body] resistance to the form ation tomy, Physiology, Pathology and Treatment ofof metastasis . . Cancer, Boston, 1844 [emphasis ours]. Needle biopsy is occasionally used, [but] . . But what is the survival rate today? In 1961, aa needle track may harbor nests o f cells which large-scale controlled study was begun, to see ifmay form the basis for a later recurrent spread. all the surgery was worthwhile. (By that time, not Incisional biopsy of certain hi ghly malignant only the tumor was removed, but frequently thetumors through an open operative f ield may be contraindicated because of risk of spread of the entire breast and lymph nodes, and often the ovaries also.)tumor throughout the operative field. ACS Results of the 7-year study were conclu-and University of Rochester, Clinical Onc ology for Medical Students and Physicians, 3rd ed., sive: Difference in the percentage of patients remaining alive mattered little whether they re-32, 34. ceived a cancer operation or no operation or other treatment at all! (R.G. Ravdin, et. al., Re-RADIATION sults of a Clinical Trial Concerning the Worth ofX-rays were first aimed at canc erous tumors Prophylactic Oophorectomy for Breast Carci-in 1899. The first shipment of radium to the United noma, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, De-States (1903) was given to the New Y ork Academy

cember 1970.)of Medicine for the treatment of cancer. More reA key factor here is that operations tend tocently, cobalt machines and proton a ccelerators open up the cancer, so it can begin to spread (me-were developed. tastasize) to other parts of the body. When can-But the principle underlying the m all is the cers begin spreading to secondary locations in thesame as for surgery: While sur gery cuts the tubody, the odds drop practically to zero, that themor away, the radiation burns i t away. It is, in patient will survive. Johnstone says that, onceeffect, a radioactive knife, cutt ing into the tumetastasis occurs, the situation is almost out ofmor while filling nearby tissue with radioactivcontrol, as far as orthodox remedies are concerned.ity. A patient who has clinically detectable me-In addition to the problem of metastas iztastases when first seen has virtually a hope-ing, following the burning process , there are less prognosis, as do patients who were appar-other problems with radiation trea tments. ently free of distant metastasis at that time butOne problem is that excessive e xposure to who subsequently return with distant metastaradioactivity induces cancer! The part of the

--------------------------------------- 177 Additional Information177 body where the radiation treatment focused mayearly detection, there are four or five new canhave been burned out, but the surrounding tis-cers produced by these X-rays . . In my view sue has tended to have cancer induced into it!this entire matter has become so s erious that Energy from the ultraviolet rays of sunlight,the NCI would be better off putting the money and ionizing radiations from X-rays, radium,allotted for future screenings into a trust fund and other radioactive materials encountered infor the victims of the program who will develop industry and in the general environment causecancer in ten to fifteen years time. Er win a variety of cancers. The pioneer workers withBross, M.D., National Inquirer, No vember 30, radium and X-rays developed cancers of the1976, 49. skin. Even now, radiologists and others exposedThat article was written because Dr. Bross, dito high total doses of ionizing radiation are morerector of biostatistics at the Roswell Park Memolikely to develop leukemia than persons not sorial Institute of Cancer Research, called for an imexposed. Uranium miners have been found tomediate stoppage to chest X-rays. He c harged that have a higher than normal incidence of lungthe ACS and NCI had ignored the objec tions of cancer. Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edi-scientists, so they could obtain government tion, 764.grants of $54 million to carry out the screening.

Another problem is the fact that radiationYet cancer radiation treatments are fa r worse! therapy causes normal cells to be more easilyX-rays cause cancer; they do not cu re it. Radamaged than cancer cells. Because tumors con-diation therapy helps no one. The following statetain more non-cancer cells, than cancer cells, ment is from the report of the National Surgical the tumor will reduce in size because the non-Adjuvant Breast Project: cancer cells were burned. Oddly enough, the From the data available it would seem that cancer cells tend to be less harmed by the ra-the use of post-operative irradiat ion has prodiation and remain in the now smaller tumor!vided no discernible advantage to pati ents so Radiation and/or radiometic poisons willtreated in terms of increasing the propor tion reduce palpable, gross or measurable tume-who were free of disease for as long a s five factions. Often this reduction may amount toyears. B. Fisher, et., al., Postoperativ e Raseventy-five per cent or more of the mass of thediotherapy and the Treatment of Breast Cangrowth.cer; Results of the NSABP Clinical Trials, AnFor example, a benign uterine myoma willnals of Surgery, October 1970. usually melt away under radiation like snow inDr. Phillip Rubin, Chief of the Di vision of Rathe sun. If there be neoplastic cells in such adiotherapy at the University of R ochester Medical tumor, these will remain. The size of the tumorSchool, summarized their analysis of the value of may thus be decreased by ninety percent whileradiation therapy for cancer in the se words: the relative concentration of definitively neoplasThe clinical evidence and statistical data in tic cells is thereby increased by ninety per cent.numerous reviews are cited to illustrate that As all experienced clinicians know or atno increase in survival has been achieved b y least should know after radiation or chemo-the addition of irraditation. Phillip Rubi n, therapy have reduced the gross tumefaction of The Controversial Status of Radiatio n the lesions, the patient s general well-being doesTherapy in Lung Cancer, Speech de livered to not substantially improve. To the contrary, therethe Sixth National Cancer Confe rence, sponis often an explosive or fulminating increase insored by the ACS and the NCI, De nver, Colothe biological malignancy of his lesion. This isrado, September 18-20, 1968. marked by the appearance of diffuse metastaAt the same conference Dr. Vera Peters, a sis and a rapid deterioration in general vitalityToronto radiologist, said this: followed shortly by death. John A. Richardson, M.D., Letter to interested Physicians, There has been no true improvement in the successful treatment of the disease over the past November 1972.thirty years. Vera Peters, Radiation Therapy Beware of all types of X-rays, much less the in the Management of Breast Cancer, op., cit.

far more powerful cancer radiation treatments! InIn the chapter on Mutations in hi s book, Ori1971 a Dr. Robert Gibson, at the University ofgin of Life (Volume Two of the thr ee-book EvoluBuffalo, found that fewer than a dozen routine tion Disproved Series), the present author wrote medical X-rays to the same parts of the bodyan article, entitled Evolutionists Par adise (pp. increase the risk of leukemia by at least 60% 424-427). It recounts the stories of the Chernobyl (R.W. Gibson, M.D., National Inquirer, Decembermeltdown (April 27, 1990) and the Hiroshima 5, 1971, 11).nuclear blast (August 6, 1945). In both instances, For each women who is possibly cured by large amounts of radiation were released. Predict-

--------------------------------------- 178 178Alternate Cancer Remedies ably, no one was thereby cured of cancer! Instead,of the New York Academy of Sci ences, March 18, the radiation produced large numbers of muta-1974, 44-45, 48). tions (all of which produced terrible results) andYet the function of chemothera py drugs, by various diseases, including cancer. Mutations can-the design of the drug compani es and the renot cause the beneficial changes evolutionaryquest of orthodox medicine is to dest roy the theory requires, and radiation cannot cure can-body s immune system, in the hope t hat, by cer.doing so, the cancer will die! ( Spontaneous Regression of Cancer: The Metabolic Triumph of the CHEMOTHERAPYHost? Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 130.) Unlike all other chemical treatments for drugs, the officially approved (orthodox) chemi- But this will only result in the chemotherapy producing more cancer than it cures! cal treatment is based on the concept that ev-You will recall that, in 1919, nit rogen mustard ery cell in the area of the tumor should be killed, in the hope that the cancer will be destroyed. Forgas was the first chemotherapy given to cancer patients. A little over 20 years later, it was found this reason, chemotherapy treatment consists ofthat workers making mustard gas d uring World the administering of very powerful (powerful!) poisons.War II had far higher rates of lung cancer (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., 764). Only those chemical compounds are used which are guaranteed to kill cells.Listen to this: All the currently accepted ch emotherapy drugs were given, one at a time, to Chemotherapy began in 1919, when nitrogentest animals which had no malignancies, a nd mustard was given to leukemia patients. As always, the hope was that the strong poison wouldproduced cancers in those previou sly healthy

animals! (NCI research contract PH-43-68-998.) kill the cancer before it killed the patient. Regardless of where the cancer is, the re-Commenting on such facts, Dr. Dean Bur k, while head of the Cytochemistry Division of the sultant poisoning affects the entire system. DeadNCI, made this statement: blood cells cause blood poisoning while violent nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, and cramps Virtually all of the chemotherapeut ic anticancer agents now approved by the Food and occur in the stomach and intestines. The re-Drug Administration for use or testi ng in huproductive organs are affected, producing steman cancer patients are (1) highly or variously rility or impotency. The brain is wracked withtoxic at applied dosages; (2) mark ly immunopain. Eyesight and hearing are damaged. Thesuppressive, that is, destructive of the patient s poison is so bad, even the hair falls out! native resistance to a variety of diseases includYet it is well-known among immunologistsing cancer; and (3) carcinogenic [cancer causthat one of the best defenses the body has againsting] . . I submit that a progr am and series of cancer is a healthy and well-functioning immu-the FDA-approved compounds that yi eld only nological system, which is centered in the white5%-10% effectiveness can scarcely be deblood cells.scribed as excellent, the more so since it repThe importance of the immune system inresents the total production of a thirty-ye ar efthe defense against neoplastic disease [cancer]fort on the part of all of us in the cancer therapy seems established. The high incidence of can-field. Dean Burk, Ph.D., Letter dated April cer of various types in patients with immune20, 1973, to the head of the NCI. deficiency diseases and in patients who haveAs if that seems unbelievable enough , read received immunosuppressive therapy, espe-this: cially after kidney transplantation, supports the As yet, no drugs are available t o cure most concept that rejection of an incipient malignancymalignant tumors. Textbook of Medi cal-Suris an important function of the immune sys-gical Nursing, 874. tem. Annals of the New York Academy of No chemical agent capable of inducing a genScience, Vol. 230, op. cit., 45.eral curative effect on disseminated forms of Indeed, Dr. George Friou declared that the for-cancer has yet been developed. Dr. R obert mation of new cancer cells is not unusual, butSullivan of the Lahey Clinic Found ation, are normally overcome by the immune system,speech at the NCI Clinical Center aud itorium, before they develop into a recognizable malig-May 18, 1972. nancy. But, in order to do that, the immune A cure from chemotherapeutic agents is not system must not be in a shattered state. (Georgeconsidered valid. Spontaneous Regres sion J. Friou, M.D., Relationship of Malignancy, Au-of Cancer: The Metabolic Triumph o f the Host?

toimmunity, and Immunological Disease, AnnalsAnnals of the New York Academy of Sc ience,

--------------------------------------- 179 Additional Information179 130.more dangerous! The quicker they apply the James D. Watson, Ph.D., was a co-discoverercut, burn, and poison, the quicker yo u will die. of the structure of the DNA molecule, for which heSix years later, Dr. Jones mus t have retired, received the Noble prize. This scientist is quitefor then he really told it stra ight. Read this and knowledgeable in the medical research field andburn it into your memory: has the integrity to speak out: You see, it is not the cancer that kills the The American public is being sold a nastyvictim. It s the breakdown of the defense mechabill of goods about cancer. While they re beingnism that eventually brings death. told about cancer cures, the cure rate has im- With every cancer patient who keeps in proved only about one percent. The grim can-excellant physical shape and boosts his health cer statistics are about as bad as ever. Today,to build up his natural resistanc e, there s a high the press releases coming out of the Nationalchance that the body will find its own defense Cancer Institute have all the honesty of theagainst cancer. He may have many goo d years Pentagon s. Dr. James Watson, quoted by at-left in good health. He shouldn t squander t hem torney George Kell, in testimony before theby being made into a hopeless invalid through California Assembly Committee of Health, Mayradical intervention which has zero chance of 20, 1976.extending his life. Hardin Jones, Ph.D., The handling of cancer statistics is a problem.quoted in Midnight, September 1, 1975. Dr. Hardin Jones, professor of medical physics It is utter nonsense to claim that catching and physiology at the University of California atcancer symptoms early enough wi ll increase the Berkeley, is a recognized authority on cancer de-patient s chances of survival. No t one medical mography (cancer statistics). In a speech at thescientist or study has proven th at in any way . . My studies have proved conclusively that 1969 conference of the ACS, he declared that there is usually a wide difference between the pub-untreated cancer victims actually l ive up to four lished statistics about cancer success rates andtimes longer than treated indivi duals. Hardin B. Jones, Ph.D., quoted in Daniel S. Greenberg, the actual results of practicing physicians who universally experience a low success rate. The Cancer: Now the Bad News, Private Pr actice, May 1975, 68. variation is accomplished by tampering with the statistics (Hardin B. Jones, Ph.D., Report on Can-

cer, paper delivered to the ACS 11th Annual Sci-CONCLUSION ence Writers Conference, New Orleans, March 7,Research scientists, the proven cur es of sur1969).gery, radiation, and chemotherapy do not exist. In his speech, Dr. Jones went on to explainWe need your help. Give us something better, some of the techniques used to doctor the sta-something based on better living, wh ich will give tistics.us longer living. One method is loading the statistics with easy-We have spent billions, multiplie d over and to-heal skin cancers, plus a large number of con-over again, on cancer research and treatment. ditions which may not have been cancer.The money spent has accomplished nothing. Another technique is to list any of the controlsThere is no such thing as a fight against canwho died as having died while not listing any ofcer. Every year, the number of pe ople dying of the patients under treatment who died as havingcancer increases. died.1900 62 per thousand. In conclusion, Jones said this:1910 - 76.2 per thousand. The apparent life expectancy of untreated1933 - 105 per thousand. cases of cancer after such adjustment in the1948 - 143 per thousand. table seems to be greater than that of the treated1976 - 171 per thousand. cases. Ibid.1995 - 237 per thousand. The medical researchers, to whom this bookA typical edition of the book, Unprove n Methand this chapter are written, do you realizeods, published by the American Cancer Society, what that means? If you contract cancer, ac-lists 58 unproven methods of treatin g cancer. By cording Dr. Hardin Jones, an expert in cancerthis is meant that these 58 methods have not been statistics, you will live longer if you just stay attested by the ACS, SKI, or N IH, and shown to be home, make no changes, keep living the wayworthwhile. you have been, and pay for no treatment!On that annotated list only about 10 wer e exThis is why cancer screening and earlyamined. Some were given a cursory examination detection of cancer by the physicians is evenand the notation of no investigation.

--------------------------------------- 180 180Alternate Cancer Remedies It would appear that, at this rate, the book on unproven methods will continue to be published, since recognized authorities are not interested in doing any proving.LOCAL TESTS Medical researchers, we need your help!You will want to purchase the book, Gerso n Please carry out the needed testing on worth-Primer, from the Gerson Institute, and then turn while methods, publish your findings, and de-to the chapter on testing. It will explain in some mand that action be taken on them!detail how to interpret lab tests which you ca n have done locally. Gerson Institute For most people, the U.S.

address and phone number will be easier to ____________________work with: Gerson Institute, P.O. Box 430, TESTS FOR CANCERBonita, California 91908. Phone: 619-585The American Cancer Society has widely pub-7600 or 619-267-1150. Fax: 619-367-64 41. lished the seven cancer signs. They are as fol-Automated voice information 24 hrs/ day: 1lows:888-4-GERSON. 1. Change in bowel or bladder habits.Web: www.hospital-meridien.com/meridien 2. A sore that does not heal.Email: meridien@hospital-meridien.com 3. Unusual bleeding or discharge.You may wish to take one or both of the 4. Thickening lump in breast or elsewhere.following two tests. One does not hav e to take 5. Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing.both tests. Generally the first, the urine test is 6. Obvious changes in wart or mole.quite adequate to provide the needed informa 7. Nagging cough or hoarseness.tion. To these the International Health Council (an independent group) adds these four: 8. Any condition that does not respond toTHE BEARD-NAVARRO URINE TEST treatment.( THE PHILIPPINE TEST ) 9. Thrombophlebitis, inflammation from blood clotting in the circulatory system.You will recall, in the article in this book on 10. Putrid intestinal gas.laetrile (pp. 117-129), that John Beard theorized Make a follow-up of all cancer surgery or ra-that the trophoblast in early pregn ancy and the diation therapy with a test.cancer cell are essentially the same. Obviously, the above signs will only discloseThat 1911 theory was totally ignore d and forcancer that is fairly advanced.gotten for decades. Later researchers, quite unAre there no tests which disclose very earlyaware of Beard s work, independently d iscovered cancer development within the human body?a connection between cancer and pregnan cy (but not that either one causes the other!). In the previous chapter, we learned that it isIn 1927, two German scientists, As cheim and dangerous to have an orthodox cancer test taken,Zondek, produced the A-Z Pregnan cy Test, which called a biopsy, for it requires cutting into thewas the basis for all subsequent pr egnancy tests. cancer tissue, thereby letting it spread to otherOther researchers eventually id entified the human chorionic gonadoptropin hormone (HCGH) as the parts of the body.active substance in the test. Are there no safe tests for cancer? In this chap-Then Dr. C.D. Cori reported in the Journal of ter we will list two:Experimental Medicine, that the same substance The following tests have been developed towas in the urine of cancer patients. I n 1944, Dr. help a person know whether cancer is begin-A. Roffo, an Argentine researcher, fo und that the ning to develop within his body. These testshormone was in 100% of 1,000 cancer patients, will tell him whether he has cancer long be-and none in 1,000 people who did not h ave canfore the pain, which informs him that he has advanced cancer, and it is felt.cer.

We are told that, at any stage in the develop-In 1946, Krebs, Jr., and Gurchot i solated ment of cancer, the following tests can be made.HCGH in the urine of males with cancer. They Fortunately, neither one requires a biopsy whichfound that it was broken up by t he pancreatic eninvolves slicing into the cancer tissue, thus per-zyme, chymotrypsin. This agree d with John mitting it to more rapidly metastasize (spread) toBeard s theory. other locations in the body.Aware of these developments, Dr. Howard H.

--------------------------------------- 181 Additional Information181 Beard (no relation to John Beard), formerly of Yale and Chicago Medical School, devised a test A. Urine Sample Processing: which quickly showed the presence of HCGH (I. Gather the following materials: Gla ss in a urine specimen but also measured thehousehold or lab measuring cups, one to m eaquantity. Thus it could gauge the extent of anysure 3.3 fluid ounces (100 cc) an d one 13.2 fluid cancerous action in the person s body beforeounces (400 cc.); glass funnel or wide-m outh that person could otherwise know he had can-jar; glass or stainless steel stirri ng rod or spoon; cer! The test proved to be 95% accurate. It wasone gallon empty vinegar jug, rin sed out but do called the Beard Anthrone Test for Cancer. Al-not clean with soap or detergent. Get a domesthough developed in the U.S., it was banned.tic money order from the Post Office for $12.00 (subject to change); one pint or less of Glacial In Manila, Manuel D. Navarro, M.D., of the Santo Tomas University Medical School, madeAcetic Acid; one pint or more of Acet one; a few sheets of filter paper, 4-5 inch diameter, 10-12.5 modifications to the test and raised its accuracy in extended tests to 97% (actually 97% tocm. These materials can be secured from a chemical laboratory supply house, medical or 100%). He reported on its success in 42 cases in the July-August issue of the Santo Tomas Jour-surgical supply house, and some dr ugstores. Some hobby shops selling chemistry sets have nal of Medicine. This test is commonly known asfilter paper. Photo stores handli ng dark-room the Philippine Urinalysis Test for Cancer. supplies have Glacial Acetic acid. Navarro found the test could forecast can- (2. Total fluid intake should be restr icted cer up to two years before it could be detected before, and during, the urine collection period. by present medical techniques.Collect all urine voided in a 24-hour period in This quantitative urinalysis is now available the clean one-gallon glass bottle. Keep in a cool in the Philippines and other countries, to de-place. Shake well, record total am ount voided.

termine the amount of human chorionic go(3. Take 3.3 fluid ounces (100 cc) of urine nadotropin hormone in the urine. This hor-from the gallon bottle. mone is present in all types of cancer, includ- (4. Add one tablespoon (15 cc) of Glacial ing leukemia; and the directions for taking theAcetic Acid to the urine sample a nd stir well. sample, partial processing, and mailing are notBe careful, this is a powerful ac id. Do not intoo difficult for the average person. This test ishale; if splashed, use plenty of water for 15 banned in the United States, but individuals haveminutes, to flush. the right to take it by mail. (5. Add this mixture to 13.2 fluid ounces Dr. Nararro s method was exhibited at the In-(400 cc) of Acetone. Acetone is highl y volatile ternational Cancer Congress in Tokyo, but our gov-and inflammable, so use it out side and away ernment (NIH), the ACS, and the SKI showed littlefrom sparks and flame. Acetone will dissolve interest.some plastics, so use only glass in handling. It is believed by some that, if a person had (6. Stir well and let stand outside for two advance warning of the onset of the disease, heor more hours. might take time to think through his treatment (7. Pour off most of the clear flu id, being options, along with ways to possibly improvecareful not to lose any sediment. his diet and way of life. But, learning later that (8. Fold a circle of filter pa per in half, then he has the problem, he is more likely to panic andone-quarter circle, then one-e ighth circle. Open partially and line the inner surface of a glass accept surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. funnel loosely. If a funnel is not available, hold Here is the formula for the Philippine Test.filter paper cone over a wide-mouth bottle. Pour The following information comes from a book-the balance of the fluid with sedime nt through let, published by the International Healththe filter paper, catching the sedimen t in the Council:center of the paper. Be sure to get all the sediDo not send a sample from a patient who isment. In the event there is very little sediment, pregnant, is using birth control pills or estro-collect a new sample and rerun. gen or other female hormones, is using toxic (9. After drying, trim off excess fi lter paper, chemotherapy, is showing more than 100 mgfold over the edges and place between t wo sheets of albumin or a moderate amount of blood, isof plastic. Trim off the surplus pla stic and seal bedridden, has lost a lot of weight, had inter-edges with Scotch tape. course within 12 hours, or has a badly depleted (10. Insert the sample in an envelope with: liver. It takes one month to clear hormones orthe patient s name, address, sex, ag e, to whom toxic chemotherapy from the system, so an acreport is to be sent, a brief case history, date curate reading can be made.sample was taken, $12.00 money order, and

--------------------------------------- 182 182Alternate Cancer Remedies total amount of urine voided in 24 hours.reports, it is this writer s opinion that this is a (11. Air mail to: Dr. Manuel D. Navarro,valuable asset to the individual and prof essional M.D., 3553 Sining Street, Morningside Terrace,in the detection and control of ca ncer and the Santa Mesa, Manila 2806, Philippines. To avoidsystems imbalance leading to cance r. Also, we delay, have the Post Office weigh for properbelieve this to be a measure of the malignancy postage.pressure working against the body s resistance in the earlier stages. In other words, the malignancy pressure could break through at index 4 B. Interpretation of Report from Dr. Navarro:if the body s resistance is high. The IHC Program is designed to concurrently reduce the [When the test results are mailed back to youmalignancy pressure and at the same time infrom Dr. Navarro, here is how to determine whatcrease the body s resistance to dis ease. Inthe numbers mean:]ternational Health Council, A Program for the IndexInternationalInterpretation NumberUnitsPrevention and Detection of Pre-Cancer, 7-10. 00doubtful 1-330-50faintly positiveTHE PRE-CANCER BLOOD TEST 4200-409moderately positiveThe urine test, described above, is quite ad5500-700definitely positive 61,000-3,000definitely positiveequate by itself and is said to produce 97% accu74,000definitely positiveracy. But there is also a blood test for cancer. 85,000definitely positiveHere is this test, as described in the same In96,000definitely positive 10-128,000-15,000markedly positiveternational Health Council book: 13-1520,000-40,000 heavy positive Many physicians outside the U.S.A. use this 16-1860,000-100,000 very heavy positiveBlood Test in their day-to-day management of 19 and overover 200,000excessively positivecancer. It is also useful in situatio ns where the victim cannot use a urinalysis, as indicated preC. Coordination with IHC Programviously, or as double-check with the urinalysis. Nagative, 1, or 2: Use Prevention Section ofFor the initial test, both blood and urine samples should be utilized. [That is, both a blood and the Program.urine sample should be mailed to the testing Index 3 and 4 are generally considered early or pre-cancer, a nutrition-related systems im-service.] balance. The Pre-cancer Section of the IHC Pro- Material required: a few ounces o f pure methyl alcohol no substitutes, two or more gram is used, unless other factors are evident.new cleaned microscope slides fro m a laboraIndex 5 and above and/or medical diagnosis are considered advanced cancer, and the Ad-tory supply house, hobby shop or other source, vanced Section of the IHC Program is used witha sterile lancet or pin, and a $15 .00 money order.

professional nutritional therapy. Instructions: Under some conditions a temporary flare up, indicated by a rise in the index, will occur (1. If slides are not clean, clean with alcohol from a destruction or rupture of a tumor andor acetone, to remove dirt and greas e film. (2. Clean finger tip or ear lobe with alcohol will usually recede in a short time. A falling in-and let dry completely. dex generally indicates improvement if accompanied with a feeling of well-being. A falling in- (3. Puncture finger tip or ear lobe with sterdex concurrent with severe physical deteriora-ile steel lancet or pin. tion is sometimes experienced when a person (4. Wipe off first blood with Kleenex. is weak or bedridden because there is insuffi- (5. a. Deposit only one small dropl et of blood cient raw material present for the cancer cellson the surface, near one end, of the slide. to manufacture the HCGH hormone being mea- b. Select the smoothest edge of the oth er sured, and the report is invalid. Care must beside and hold it at a 30 to 40 deg ree angle. Back taken to properly evaluate the report.up to the droplet and allow the blood to s pread Frequencies of tests used successfully byalong the contacting edge. many people are as follows: for prevention, c. Use only the weight of the spreader slide where they have never shown positive; once perand slowly drag the droplet in the direction indiyear, for those showing positive; once every twocated. Do not retrace direction on e pass months until two negatives are received; and,only. Thick or irregular smears can not be used; then, every six months for the rest of their lives.blood must flow spontaneously and evenly. If a From examination of hundreds of these testperfect smear is not obtained: Clean th e slides

--------------------------------------- 183 Additional Information183 with plain, water dry with tissue, clean with alcohol or acetone, and try again. b < ____________________ c >GLOSSARY (6. Allow blood smear to air dry thoroughly, but do not heat or blow on it.Ab-dom-i-no-per-i-ne'al re-sec'tion The large (7. Fix the smear by immersing in purebowel is cut above the cancer and the open methol alcohol for 5 minutes and let air dryend brought out of the abdomen. The tumor and all the bowel from the tumor to the anus thoroughly. After fixing and drying, cover theis removed and the anus sewn shut. The smear with the second slide for protection. (8. Sandwich slides carefully between twopatient then has bowel movements from an thick pieces of cardboard. Scotch tape theopening on his abdomen. edges; write name and address on the card-Ad-e-no-ac-an-tho'ma Adenocarcinoma in board cover; enclose age, date, date of previ-which some cells have undergone sq uamous

ous test, and money order in an envelope,metaplasia. A cancer cell that looks sc alemarked Hand Stamp. Mail (not registered orlike under a microscope. special) to: Laboratorio Del Mar, P. O. Box 3973,Ad-e-no-car-cin-o'ma A malignant adenoma San Ysidro, California 92073.arising from epithelium of a glandular organ. Interpretation of report: M MonocytesA cancer which has its origin in the coverin g (damaged) 0%-49%, normal; over 50%, Positiveof an internal or external surface o f the body. malignancy. N Neutrophyls (damaged) 0%-19%,Ad-e-no'ma-tous Pertaining to adenomas. normal; over 20% Positive malignancy. L Lym-Pertaining to tumors arising from co verings phocytes (small competent), body resistance of an internal or external surface of the body. Poor: 1%-10%, Fair: 11%-25%, Good: AboveAd-e-nop'a-thy Swelling and morbid change in 25%. International Health Council, A Pro-lymph nodes, glandular disease, swollen gram for the Prevention and Detection of Pre-glands. Cancer, 10-12. Al'ky-lat-ing a'gent 1. A substance which introduces an alkyl radical into a compound TEST ADDRESSESin place of a hydrogen atom. 2. A chemoURINE TESTS Air mail the sample to:therapeutic agent capable of destroying Manuel D. Navarro, M.D.human cells (cancer and non-cancer cells) at 3553 Sining St., Morningside Terraceall stages in the cell s life cycle. Santa Mesa, Manila 2806An-a-plast'tic Pertaining to anaplasia. The Philippineschange of a cell to a more primitive type, often associated with cancer. BLOOD TESTS Mark handstamp and mailCar-ci-no'ma An epithelial cell growth or the sample (not registered nor special) to:malignant tumor, enclosed in connecti ve Laboratorio Del Martissue, and tending to infiltrate and give rise P.O. Box 3973to metastases. Cancer. San Ysidro, California 92073Cer'vi-cal 1. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of the neck. 2. Pertaining to the cervix of an GERSON BLOOD TESTS Blood tests fororgan, as the cervix uteri. patients on the Gerson therapy, are sent to:Cer'vi-cal ver'te-brae First seven bon es of the Gerson physician (caring for you)spinal column. c/o Hospital Baja CaliforniaColi'tis Inflammation of the colon. Chula Vista, CA 91912Co-los'to-my Incision of the colon for the Fax direct dial from U.S.: 011-52-66-80-29-08purpose of making a more or less pe rmanent Fax from other countries: 52-66-80-29-08fistula between the bowel and the abdomi nal wall. A surgical procedure after which the If any of the above addresses goes out of busi-patient has bowel movements from a hole in ness, current addresses of testing services couldthe abdomen. be obtained either from the Gerson Institute (ad-Co-ni-za'tion Excision of a cone of tissue, as of dress given immediately above) or from one of the laetrile or other alternative therapy clinics. Thosethe mucous membrane of the c ervix. The addresses are listed under Therapies at the backpurpose of removing the cone of ti ssue is to see if the tissue is cancerous. of this book.cu-ret'tings Material surgically scraped from a

--------------------------------------- 184 184Alternate Cancer Remedies body cavity, such as the bladder or uterus.X-rays, is injected into the lymphati c vessels Cys-ti'tis Inflammation of the bladder usuallyon the hands or feet, and a series o f X-rays is occurring secondarily to infections of associ-taken following the path the dye t ravels. ated organs (kidney, prostate, urethra). MayLym-pho'ma A general term for growth o f be acute or chronic.cancer tissue in the lymphatic system. This Dys-pla'sia Abnormality of tissue development.group of cancers includes Hodgkin s Di sease, Di-ver-tic-u-lo'sis Diverticula in the colonlymphosarcoma, and malignant lymphoma. without inflammation or symptoms. AnLym-pho-sar-co'ma A malignant disease of outpouching of the intestinal wall. These arelymphatic tissue. Clinically may be quite usually seen as many tiny finger-like orsimilar to Hodkin s disease. balloon-like bumps on what should be aMam'mo-gram An X-ray picture of the breast. smooth gut wall.Mas-tec'to-my (radical) Removal of a breast Dor'sal Pertaining to the back. 2. Indicating aand muscles underneath the breast d own to position toward a rear part.the chest wall; also includes removal of the Duc'tal Pertaining to a narrow tubular vessellymph nodes under the arm. or channel, especially one serving to conveyMel-a-no'ma A malignant, pigmented mol e or secretions from a gland, e.g. the milk ductstumor. The most serious skin cancer. of a female breast.Mes-o-the-li-o'ma Tumor (cancer) starting in En-do-me'trium The mucous membrane liningthe lining of a body cavity. the inner surface of the uterus.Me-tas'ta-sis 1. The appearance of a second Ep-i-the'li-al Pertaining to, or composed of,cancer in a different location from t he first. epithelium, the covering of internal and2. Change in location of a disease or of its external surfaces of the body.manifestations or transfer from one organ or E-soph-a-gi'tis Inflammation of the esophagus.part to another not directly connect ed. (The E-ti-ol'o-gy The study of the causes of disease.chance of survival after metastasi s is practiEx-ci'sion An act of cutting away or taking out.cally zero.) Fun'gat-ing growing rapidly like a fungus,Met-a-stat'ic Pertaining to metastasis. applied to certain tumor.Mu'co-cele 1. Enlargement of the lacrimal sac. Gran-u-lo'ma Granular tumors usually of2. A mucous cyst. (A cyst is a closed sac o r lymph cells (as in Hodgkin s Disease) orpouch which is walled and contains fluid, epithelial cells.semi-fluid, or solid material. It is usually an Gy-ne-col'o-gist Physician who specializes inabnormal structure. diseases of the female reproductive system.Ne'o-plasm A new and abnormal formation of Hem-a-tu'ri-a Blood in the urine.tissue, as a tumor or growth. It serves no Hemo-sta'sis Arrest of bleeding or of circula-useful function but grows at the exp ense of tion. 2. Stagnation of blood.the heathy organism. Frequently it is used as He-mat'o-crit Centrifuge for separating solidsa substitute for the word, cancer. I t is more from plasma in the blood. 2. The volume ofaccurate to say malignant neoplasm whe n

erythrocytes packed by centrifugation in areferring to cancer. given volume of blood.Ne'oplas-tic Pertaining to, or the nature of, His-to-cy-to'ma A tumor containing histio-new abnormal tissue formation; usually cytes. Histiocytes are tissue cells.refers to cancer. Hy-per-pig-men-ta'tion Abnormal (too much)Pal'li-a-tive 1. Serving to relieve or all eviate, coloring, usually of the skin.without curing. 2. An agent which alleviates Hy-per'tro-phy Increased size of an organ oror eases. the body, due to abnormal growth.Pal'pa-ble Perceptible, especially by touch. Lob'u-lat-ed Consisting of, or pertaining to,Usually refers to a lump or a body or gan lobes or lobules. 2. Resembling lobes.which can be felt only when involved in Loc'u-lat-ed Containing or divided into loculi,disease. ( A doctor would not palpa te the i.e., small cavities.nose; he would feel it. He would, however, Lym-phad-e-nop'a-thy Disease of the lymphpalpate the armpit to see if there were nodes.swollen glands present.) Lym-phan'gi-o-grams A procedure that allowsRad'i-cal A group of atoms acting as a si ngle the doctor to look for disease (usuallyunit, passing without change from one cancer) in the lymph system without havingcompound to another, but not able to e xist in to perform surgery. A dye, which shows up ina free state. 2. Anything that reach es the

--------------------------------------- 185 Additional Information185 root, origin, or original. 3. Radical surgery isVictims, in Where Medicine Fails, ed. by that surgery in which large amounts of tissueAnselm Strauss, 1973. or bone are removed.Beard, H.H. A New Approach to the Conquest of Rads Rad is an abbreviation for a radiation-Cancer, Rheumatic and Heart Diseases, absorbed dose. It is the unit of measure used1962. in calculating how much radiation a bodyBeard, John. The Enzyme Treatment of Can cer part will receive.and Its Scientific Basis, 1911. Re'nal Pertaining to the kidney. 2. Shaped likeBird, Christopher. The Persecution and Trial of a kidney.Gaston Naessens, 1991. Re-tic'u-lo-cyte A red blood cell containing aBoesch, Mark. The Long Search for th e Truth network of granules or filaments represent-About Cancer, 1960. ing an immature stage in development.Borkin, Joseph. The Crime and Punishment o f Re-tic'u-lum A network formed by cells orI.G. Farben, 1978. connective tissues between cells.Bottcher, Helmuth M. Wonder Drugs A History Rhab-do-myo-sar-co'ma Cancer arising fromof Antibiotics, 1964 muscle tissue which appears rod-shapedBrennan, Richard O., M.D., with Helen K. under a microscope.Hosier. Coronary? Cancer? God s Answer: Sar-co'ma Cancer arising from underlyingPrevent It! 1979. tissue: muscle, bone, and other connectiveBrody, Jane, and Holleb, Arthur. You C an Fight tissue. May affect the bones, bladder, kid-Cancer and Win, 1977. neys, liver, lungs, parotids, and spleen.Brown, E. Richard. Rockfeller Medicine Men: Scir'rhous Hard, like a scirrhus. A hardMedicine and Capitalism in America, 1979. cancerous tumor caused by overgrowth ofBrown University News Service. One of Olde

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How You Can Beat the Killer Diseases,1992. 1977.Ross, Walter S. The Medicine We Need But Haught, S.J. Has Max Gerson a True CancerCan t Have, 1973. Cure? 1962.Smithe, Benjamin Roth. Killing Cancer: The Hoffman, Frederick L. Cancer and Diet, 1937.Jason Winters Story, 1980. Hunter, Donald. The Diseases of Occupations,Stone, Irwin. The Healing Factor, Vi tamin C 1978.Against Disease, 1972. Hunsberger, Eydie Mae, with Chris Loeffler. HowSalaman, Maureen, M.Sc. Nutrition : The Cancer I Conquered Cancer Naturally, 1975.Answer, 1984. Jensen, Bernard, D.C. Tissue CleansingSimone, Charles B., M.D. Cancer and Nutrit ion, Through Bowel Management, 1981.1983. Katz, Jay. Experimentation with Human Be-Swope, Mary R., Ph.D., with David A. Da rbro, ings, 1972.M.D. Green Leaves of Barley, 1987. Klass, Alan. There s Gold in Them Thar Pills,Towner, Bettie. Cancer Holiday, 1978. 1975.Vallery-Radot, Ren. The Life of Pasteur, 1924. Lane, I. William, Ph.D., and Comac, Linda.Vogel, Virgil J. American Indian Medic ine, 1970. Sharks Don t Get Cancer, 1992.Walters, Richard. The Alternative Cancer Livingston, Virginia. Cancer: A New Break-Therapy, 1993. through, 1972.Warburg, Otto. The Metabolism of Tumors, Livingston-Wheeler, Virginia. The Conquest of1930. Cancer, 1984.Wigmore, Ann. Hippocrates Diet and Health Livingston-Wheeler, Virginia and Wheeler, OwenBook, 1984. Webster. The Microbiology of Cancer: Com-Williams, Roger J. Nutrition Against Di sease: pendium, 1977.Environmental Protection, 1971. ______. Food Alive, 1977.Wolf, Max, and Ransberger, Karl. Enzyme Manner, Harold, et. al., The Death of Cancer,Therapy, 1972. 1978.Zimmermann, Caroline A. Laetrile: Hope or Marchetti, Albert, M.D. Beating the Odds, 1988.Hoax? 1977. Martin, Wayne. Medical Heroes and Heretics, 1977. McGrady, Pat, Sr. The Savage Cell, 1964. ____________________ Medical Committee for Human Rights, Billions ORGANIZATIONS for Band-Aids, 1972. The following organizations are especially acMedvin, Norman. The Energy Cartel: Who Runs tive on the political front, and are also clearingthe Americal Oil Industry, 1974. houses, able to provide you with information on Morris, Nat. The Cancer Blackout, 1977. places where alternative treatment may be obMoss, Ralph, Ph.D. The Cancer Industry, 1989. tained. There is a wealth of data available here! Moss, Ralph, Ph.D. Cancer Therapy, 1992. Alliance for Alternative Medicine. P.O. Box 59, ______. The Persecuted Drug: The Story of Liberty Lake, WA 99019 Ph: 509-255-9246. DMSO, 1973. A political action group for freedom of choice NcNaughton Foundation. The Laetriles in medicine. Also provides information about Nitrilosides in the Prevention and Control alternative treatment centers and support of Cancer, 1967.

groups. National Cancer Institute, Fact Book, 1975. Arlin J. Brown Information Center. P.O. Box Old, Lloyd J., and Boyse, Edward A. Current 251, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 Ph: (703) 752Enigmas in Cancer Research, 1973. 9511 _______. Cancer and Its Nutritional Therapies, A clearinghouse for information regarding 1978. alternative cancer therapies. Information _______. Vitamin C and the Common Cold, available upon request. 1976.

--------------------------------------- 187 Additional Information187 Cancer Control Society. 2043 North BerendoSuite 110, Playa del Rey, CA 90291 Ph: Street, Los Angeles, CA 90027 Ph: (213)(213) 822-5032 663-7801Publishers of the Cancer News Journal, a Provides listings and information on alter-layman s journal for laymen and profess ionative cancer treatment centers and patientsals. The IACVF describes itself as a ch ariwho have recovered from various cancerstable, educational, nonprofit organizatio n using alternative therapies. Particular em-that serves as a clearinghouse for th e accuphasis on metabolic therapies. Also spon-mulation of material on nontoxic cancer sors an annual convention showcasing 40-50therapies and other related topics for laymen alternative practitioners who treat cancer.and professionals. As a lay organizat ion we The CCS publishes a magazine Cancercannot prescribe, only provide enlightenment Control Journal with news and features onon the current status of various cancer alternate therapies. It maintains the Cancertherapies, approaches to prevention, and Book House with books and reprints onresearch achievements. nutrition, cancer, and other related dis-National Health Federation. P.O. Box 68 8, 212 eases. Price list available on request.West Foothill Boulevard, Monrovia, CA Foundation for Advancement in Cancer91016 Ph: (213) 357-2181 Therapy. P.O. Box 1242, Old Chelsea Station, The National Health Federation is Ame rica s New York, NY 10113 Ph: (212) 741-2790.largest organized non-commercial health A clearinghouse for information regardingconsumer group. It is a nonprofit corpo raalternative cancer therapies, emphasizingtion founded in 1955. Its members belie ve nutritional and metabolic approaches.that health freedoms are inherently guaranInternational Association for Cancer Victorsteed to us as human beings, and our right to and Friends. 7740 West Manchester Avenuethem as Americans is implied in the word s Suite 110, Playa del Rey, CA 90293 Ph: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . . (310) 822-5032. Provides information andThe NHF opposes monopoly and compulsion

listings on alternative cancer treatmentin things related to health where the sa fety centers and patients who have recoveredand welfare of others are not concerned . . from cancer using alternative methods.The NHF publishes the National Health Focus is on cancer treatments and scientificFederation Bulletin and Public Scrut iny. research conducted around the world.Second Opinion. P.O. Box 548, Bronx, NY People Against Cancer. P.O. Box 10, Otho, Iowa10468 50569 Ph: (515) 972-4444 Second Opinion is the voice of rank-and-file A nonprofit grassroots membership organi-employees of Memorial Sloan-Kettering zation dedicated to cancer prevention andCancer Center. It presents news and opi nmedical freedom of choice. Provides counsel-ions of the Center and the cancer fi eld from ing and information on alternative cancerthe employees point of view . . In cance r, we treatments.believe in putting prevention first; making World Research Foundation. 15300 Venturaresearch relevant to human diseases; an Boulevard, Suite 405, Sherman Oaks, CAopen-minded policy toward new and unor91403 Ph: (818) 907-5483thodox methods; making the best treatment Large research library of alternative medi-available to all people; taking the p rofits out cine. Library is open to the public. Providesof cancer. a computer search and printout of specificCancer Federation. P.O. Box 52109, Ri verside, health issues for a nominal fee.CA 92517 Ph: (714) 682-7989. Committee for Freedom of Choice in CancerCanHelp. 3111 Paradise Bay Road, Port L udlow, Therapy, Inc., 146 Main Street, Suite 408,WA 98365 Ph: (206) 437-2291 Los Altos, CA 94022National Self-Help Clearinghouse, 25 West The Committee for Freedom of Choice in43rd Street, Room 620, New York, NY 10036 cancer is a nonprofit organization, subsistingNutrition Education Association, I nc., 3647 on contributions from its committees andGlen Haven, Houston, Texas 77025 Ph: friends. The committee s main activity has(713) 665-2946 been to lobby for the legalization of laetrile.Patient Advocates for Advanced Ca ncer Publishes The Choice.Treatments, Inc. (PAACT), 1143 Parmelee International Association of Cancer VictimsNW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Ph: (616) 453and Friends. 7740 Manchester Avenue,1477

--------------------------------------- 188 188Alternate Cancer Remedies Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medi-Tijuana, B.C. Mexico Ph: 011 52-66-80cine, 1180 Walnut Avenue, Chula Vista, CA1850 / (800) 262-0212 / (800) 523-8795 92011 Ph: 800-227-4473(Rest of U.S.A.). International Academy of Nutrition andLaetrile: Navarro Clinic Manuel D. Navarro, Prevention Medicine. P.O. Box 18433,M.D., 3553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace Asheville, NC 28814 Ph: (704) 258-3243Santa Mesa, Manila 2806 Philippines. International Association of Cancer Victors &Laetrile: Richardson Clinic John A. Friends. 7740 W. Manchester Ave. No. 110,Richardson, M.D., Clinic in Albany, Cal iforPlaya del Rey, CA 90293 Ph: (213) 822-5032nia. Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. 440 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CAGerson Therapy For most people, the U.S.

91945. Ph: (415) 327-4064address and phone number will be easier to Orthomolecular Project Cure. 5910 Northwork with: Gerson Institute, P.O. Box 430 , Central Expressway, Suite 760, Dallas, TexasBonita, California 91908. Phone: 619 -58575206 Ph: (214) 891-6111, Legal Issues.7600 or 619-267-1150. Fax: 619-367-6441. Syracuse Cancer Research Institute, Inc.Automated voice information 24 hrs/day: 1Presidential Plaza, 600 East Genesee Street,888-4-GERSON.Web: www.hospital-meriSyracuse, NY 13202 Ph: (315) 472-6616,dien.com/meridien Hydrazine sulfate.Email: meriien@hospital-meridien.com. Ann Wigmore Foundation. 196 CommonwealthGerson Institute: Mexico The primary Gerso n Ave., Boston, MA 02116 Ph: (617) 267-9424,treatment center is Hospital Meridien, Lava Nutrition.#2971, Secc. Costa Hermosa, Playas de International Health Council. 15328 EdolynTijuana, B.C., Mexico, CP22240. Phone: Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44111011-52-66-801358. Fax: 011-52-66-801831. Web: meriden@telnor.net. Hospital Meridien For additional information on orthodox treat-is 30 minutes south of downtown San Diego. ments, and reasons why alternative therapies areGerson Institute: Arizona A recent ly opened not accepted, contact one or more of the follow-U.S. treatment center is the Ger son Center at ing: They will explain it to you.Sedona, 78 Canyon Diablo, Sedona, AZ American Cancer Society. 777 Third Avenue,86351. Phone or write the Bonita, Cali fornia, New York, NY 10017 Ph: 202-371-2900 Ph:office, above. GCS, the Sedona facility, is (212) 371-2900located 100 miles north of Phoenix, and 28 American Medical Association. 535 Northmiles south of Flagstaff, near Sedona, a Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Ph:small town of 8,000 (312) 751-6000 Food and Drug Administration. 5600 FishersHospital Santa Monica c/o Dr. Ross Pelto n, Lane, Rockville, MD 20852 Ph: (202) 245-P.O. Box 81365, San Diego, 92138-1365 1144(The hospital is located in Tijuana, Mexico.) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 1275Hoxsey Therapy Bio-Medical Center, P.O . Box York Avenue, New York, NY 10021 Ph: (212)727, 615 General Ferreira, Colonia Juar ez 794-7000Tijuana, Mexico 22000 National Cancer Institute. 9000 Rockville Pike, Ph: 011-52-66-84-9011 / 011-52-6 6-84Bethesda, MD 20012 Ph: (301) 496-66419081 011-52-66-84-9082 / 011-52-66-849376 Antineoplaston Therapy Burzynski Clinic, ____________________6221 Corporate Drive, Houston, TX 77036 THERAPIESPh: 713-777-8233 Chelation Therapy American College of AdListed here are all of the alternative ther-vancement of Medicine, 23121 Verdugo apy clinics and hospitals mentioned through-Drive, Suite 204, Laguna Hills, CA 9 2653 out the book, plus some additional ones. Pa-Ph: 714-583-7666; 800-532-3688 tients at nearly every one are treated under714X C.O.S.E., Inc., 5270 Fontaine, Ro ck the supervision of M.D.s.Forest, Quebec, Canada J1N3B6 Ph: 819564-7883 Laetrile: Contreras Clinic Hospital EarnestoSyracuse Cancer Research Institute Presi

denContreras, Paseo Playas de Tijuana, No. 19,tial Plaza, 600 East Genesee Street, Syra-

--------------------------------------- 189 Additional Information189 cuse, NY 13202 Ph: (315) 472-6616IMMUNO-AUGMENTATIVE THERAPY Immuno-Augmentative Therapy Center P.O.Immuno-Augmentative Therapy Centre, P.O. Box F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph:Box F-2689, Freeport, Grand Bahama Ph: (809) 352-7455(809) 352-7455, or / People Against Cancer, IAT Patients Support Group Mr. FrankP.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50569-0010 Ph: (515) Wiewel, P.O. Box 10, Otho, IA 50569-0010972-4444 Ph: (515) 972-4444LAETRILE Hospital Ernesto Contreras, 494 Issel s Whole Body Therapy Akbar Clinc,Calle Primera, Suite 904, San Ysidro, CA 4000 East 3rd Street, Panama City, FL92173 Ph: (800) 326-1850 32404 Ph: (904) 763-7689LIVINGSTON-WHEELER THERAPY Kelley s Nutritional Metabolic Therapy Livingston Foundation Medical Center, 3232 Nicholas Gonzales, M.D., 737 Park Avenue,Duke Street, San Diego, CA 92110 Ph: (6 19) New York, NY 10021 Ph: (212) 535-3993224-3515 Revici Therapy Emanuel Revici, M.D., 26 EastKELLEY PROGRAM Dr. Nicholas Gonzales, 36th Street, New York, 10016 Ph: (212) 685-737 Park Ave., New York, NY 10021 Ph: 0111(212) 535-3993 Livingston Therapy Livingston FoundationMISTLETOE Physicians Association for Medical Center, 3232 Duke Street, San DiegoAnthroposophical Medicine, P.O. Box 2 69, CA 92110 Ph: (619) 224-3515 [By StateKimberton, PA 19442 order, Livingston no longer gives the special714X Centre d Orthobiologie, Somatidien ne de injection.]l Estrie (C.O.S.E.), 5270 Fontaine, Rock Forest, Quebec J1N 3B6, Canada Ph: (819) 564-7883 ____________________SHARK CARTILAGE Cartilade, from Cartilage SUPPLY SOURCESTechnologies, Inc., 222 Grace Church St., Suite 204-A, Port Chester, NY 10573-5155 SUBSTANCES AVAILABLE AT MOST HEALTHPh: (914) 939-9000, or / Allergy Research FOOD STORES Vitamin C, vitamin E,Group, 400 Preda St., San Leandro, CA beta-carotene, omega-3 (flaxseed oil), germa-94577 Ph: (800) 545-9960. nium-132, chaparral, pau d arco,VITAMIN C (bulk) Bronson s P.O. Box 628, LaCanada, CA 91012-0628 Ph: (800) 235SUBSTANCES WHICH MAY BE PURCHASED3200 FROM OVERSEAS MAIL-ORDER COMPANIES, OR FROM MEXICAN CLINICSThe remainder of this supply listing are USING IT Hydrazine sulfate, clodronate,Gerson supply sources. Those on the isoprinosine, urea (urea may also be pur-Gerson therapy may obtain some of chased inexpensively in the U.S.)these items at lower prices, if they so notify the vender: ANTINEOPLASTONS The Burzynski Clinic,GERSON SUPPLIES The various items used 6221 Corporate Drive, Houston, TX 77036by outpatients, which cannot be obtained ESSIAC P.A.H. Products, P.O. Box 2665,locally, are obtained as follows: Mission, KS 66201 / 800-318-2666GERSON Rx PRESCRIPTIONS AND SUPSawnson Products, P.O. Box 2803, Fargo, NDPLIES STAT, S.A., Apartado Postal 2392 , 58102 / 701-277-1662Tijuana BCN, Mexico Ph: 011-526-680-1103 L&H Vitamins, 37-10 Crescent St., Long IslandGERSON SUPPLIES Baja Hosp. Services , P.O. City, NY 11101 / 718-937-7400Box 3535, Chula Vista, CA 91911 Ph: 619-

HOXSEY TREATMENT The Bio-Medical425-1557. Here are examples of what is Center, P.O. Box 727, 615 General Ferreira,meant by supplies : Lugol s [iodine] soluColonia Juarez, Tijuana, Mexico 22000, Ph:tion, potassium compound, potassium 011-52-66-84-9011gluconate, acidoll [HCl], niacin, flaxseed oil, HYDROGEN PEROXIDE International Bio-castile soap, enema buckets, food mill, etc. Oxidative Medicine Foundation, P.O. BoxSome of these supplies (such as Lugol s) 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205 Ph:would be difficult to obtain elsewhere. (405) 478-4266, or / Hospital Santa Monica,ORGANIC FOODS Gerson emphasizes eating, 4100 Bonita Road, Bonita, CA 91910 Ph:if at all possible, organically grown frui ts and (800) 359-6547 / (619) 428-1147vegetables. In order to learn whether this is

--------------------------------------- 190 190Alternate Cancer Remedies feasible in your area, and if you can affordabout $1,500; saving you over $500. them, you may wish to contact OFPANA, BoxOZONE GENERATOR To purify the air, give 1078, Greenfield, MA, 10301 Ph: (413) 74-off ozone and negative ions. Mountain F resh 7511. Or you can order a U.S. directory ofServices, P.O. Box 1915, Bonita, CA 91 908 sources: The book is called OrganicPh: (619) 656-9077 Fax: (619) 656-6627 Wholesaler s Directory and Yearbook, community Alliance with Family Farmers, Box 464, Davis, CA 95617 Ph: 916-756____________________ 8518. c. $35, plus $5 shipping. FLAXSEED OIL If you cannot obtain it at yourTEST SOURCES health-food store, here are addresses forURINE TESTS Air mail the sample to: ordering it direct (it might even be fresherManuel D. Navarro, M.D. ordered direct): Omega Nutrition, 53733553 Sining St., Morningside Terrace Guide Meridian, Bldg. B, Bellingham, WASanta Mesa, Manila 2806 98226 Ph: 800-661-3529. Keeps unopenedPhilippines in freezer up to 6 months, and in refrigerator 3 months. After opening, keep it no longerBLOOD TESTS Mark handstamp and mail than three weeks. / One of the best flaxseedthe sample (not registered nor speci al) to: manufacturers is Barlean s high lignan FlaxLaboratorio Del Mar Oil, 4936 Lake Terrell Rd., Ferndale, WAP.O. Box 3973 98248San Ysidro, California 92073 JUICER (TRITIATOR AND PRESS) Gerson says centrifigal juices are all right for mostBlood tests for patients on the Ge rson therapy, diseases; but, for cancer and bone-deformityare sent to: conditions, a pulp grinder and press areThe Gerson physician caring for them needed. If you have lots of money ($2,000)c/o Hospital Baja California the Norwalk Juicer and electric hydraulicChula Vista, CA 91912 press is the best: Norwalk Juicer, c/o Rich-Fax direct dial from U.S.: 011-52-66 -80-29-08 ard Boger, (800) 405-8423 in U.S., or (619)Fax from other countries: 52-66-80-29 -08 755-8423 outside U.S. / Lower-cost set, with manual press (requires work!): K&K GrinderWATER TESTS If you can afford to pay up to and Press, c/o Al Hasser, 14410 Big Canyon$200 to test your drinking water, here are Rd, Middletown, CA 95461 Ph: (707) 928-the addresses: National Testing Laborato5970. Shredder $750, and press $275. / Canries, 8151 Wilson Mills Rd., Cleveland , OH

substitute Champion juicer as a lower-cost44143 Ph: (800) 458-3330 / Water Test, 33 shredder: Lodi Health Foods, 521 S. CentralS. Commercial St., Manchester, NH 031 01 Ave., Lodi, CA 95240 Ph: (209)334-3868.Ph: (800) 426-8378 / Water Testing Labora $189 plus shipping. If you want a used, latertories, 4600 Kutztown Rd., Temple, PA model of a used Norwalk Juicer, call Richard19560 Ph: (800) 433-6595. You especi ally Boger at 519-755-8423. Also phone 619-want to beware of lead, radon, nitrate, 585-7600 and ask for their used Norwalkfluorides, and chlorine. Juicer list. At the present time, they run

--------------------------------------- 191 Indexes191 - Part Nine Indexes RESEARCHER INDEXGerson, Max, M.D., 142 (TO PART TWO TO FIVE)Glover, Thomas J., M.D., 51 This book would not be possible withoutGold, Joseph, M.D., 92 Gregory, John E., M.D., 69 the exhaustingly careful research of manyGuidetti, Ettori, 122 men and women over the years.Hajito, Tibor, M.D., 94 The key laboratory and clinical cancer researchers mentioned in Parts Two to Five ofHarman, Denham, Ph.D., 80 this book are listed here, along with begin-Hindhede, Mikkel, M.D., 55 Hogle, H.H., M.D., 90 ning of the primary article in which they wereHoxsey, N.D., 56-59, 158-160 mentioned.Humber, John D., M.D., 64 Only eight of the 80 experts, who devel-Issels, Josef, M.D., 102 oped the alternative cancer control methods discussed in Parts Two to Five, do not haveIvy, Andrew C., M.D., 72 Karmali, Rashida, M.D., 107 doctoral degrees.Kelley, William, D.D.S., 85 Knekt, R., M.D., 89 Asai, Kuzuhiko, Ph.D., 106Koch, William Frederich, M.D. 53 Beale, Samuel, M.D., 76 Beard, John, M.D., 50, 118, 181Koroljow, Serge A., M.D., 76 Kloss, Jethro, N.D., 66 Bell, Robert, M.D., 48Kowan, Maurice H., M.D., 127 Blake, T.T., M.D., 45Krebs, Ernst T., Sr., M.D., 117 Blumer, Walter, M.D., 79Krebs, Ernst T., Jr., M.D., 117 Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, MD., 47 Burton, Lawrence, Ph.D., 77Kushi, Michio, 100 Burzynski, Stanislaw, M.D., 105Lambe, William, M.D., 45 Lane, I. William, Ph.D., 102 Caisse, Rene, R.N., 130Lawrence, J.H., M.D., 68 Cameron, Ewan, M.D., 86Lazenby, Lillian, 71 Chase, Alice, M.D., 59 Coffey, Walter B., M.D., 64Lincoln, Robert, M.D., 68 Coley, William B., M.D., 46Livingston, Virginia, M.D., 95 Miller, B.J., M.D., 77 Contrares, Ernesto, M.D., 128Montagna, R. Joseph, 98 Danopoulos, Evangelos D., M.D., 76Navarro, Manuel D., M.D., 122-142, 180 Douglass, William Campbell, M.D., 106Naessens, Gaston, M.D., 81 Drosnes, Phillip, 71

Durovic, Steven, M.D., 72Newbold, H.L., M.D., 82 Nieper, Hans, M.D., 24, 123 Erf, L.A., M.D., 77Ozias, Charles Othello, M.D., 50 Evans, Rees, 52Pattison, John , M.D., 45 Evers, H. Ray, M.D., 82Pauling, Linus, Ph.D., 86 Farr, Mr., 90 Fell, J. Weldon, M.D. 45Reams, Carey A., Ph.D., 109 Revici, Emanuel, M.D., 66

--------------------------------------- 192 192Alternate Cancer Remedies Richardson, John A., M.D., 117Bread, sugared, 24 Rosenow, Edward, M.D., 103Butter, 39 Ross, R.W. Forbes, M.D., 50 Santi, Orlando dei, M.D., 81Cadmium, 20 Schrauzer, Grehard N., Ph.D. 99Caffeine, 23, 39 Sheridan, James, Ph.D., 68Candy, 23 Shigeaki, Sakai, M.D., 122Cane sugar products, 23 Siris, E.S., M.D., 101Cake, 23 Smart, Charles R., M.D., 90Canned foods, 23 Sweet, F., M.D., 108Carbon monoxide, 20 Wachtel, Henry K., M.D., 70Chemical irritation, 17 Warburg, Otto, M.D., 63Chemicals, 20 White, E.G., 49Chemotherapy, 17 Wigmore, Ann, 84Chemical additives to food, 17 Winters, Jason, 100Cesium-137, 42 China tea (regular tea), 23, 39 Chlorinated water, 17, 39 ____________________Clothing, synthetic, 39 PREVENTIVE INDEXChocolate, 23 Chromates, 20 (TO PART ONE)City living, 17, 20, 39 This is an index to Part One (pp. 16-43) ofCleaning compounds, 20 this book, which deals with preventative mea-Cleaning waxes, 20 sures.Coal tar dyes, 19 Coffee, 22 THINGS TO AVOIDCondiments, 39 Contraceptives, 16, 17 Aerosol products, 20Constricting bands of clothing, 17 Aflatoxins, 20Cosmetics, 19, 20, 39 Air, polluted, 17Cottonseed oil, 40 Alcohol, 17, 23, 39Cyclamates, 19 Aluminum cookware, 19, 39 Amines, 20DES food additive, 19, 41-42 Amphetamines, 20Deodorants, 39 Aniline dyes, 20Detergents, 17, 39 Antibiotics, 20Dairy products, 21 Antihistamines, 20Diary products, excessive use of, 17 Anxieties and worries, uncontrolled, 17Devitalized food, 21 Artificial colors, 19Diethylstilbestrol, 17, 41-42 Artificial flavors, 19Drugs, 40 Artificial odors, 19Dyes of any kind, 39 Artificial sweeteners, 23 Asbestos, 20Eggs, 22 Aspirin, 20, 39Emotional conflicts, severe, 17 Atromids, 20Emotions, negative, 17 Attitudes, negative, 17Environmental polutants, 17

Automobile exhausts, 20Estrogen, 39, 42 Exhaustion, continual 17 Benzidines, 20Eye shadow, 39 BHT food additive, 19 Biopsies, 17Fats, 23 Birth control pills, 20, 42Fats, heated, 22 Butazolidin, 20Fats, commercial, 17, 40-41 Body fat, excess, 22Female hormones, 20 Bread, fruit, 24Fertilizer, chemical, 39 Bread, sourdough, 24Fish, 19

--------------------------------------- 193 Indexes193 Fluoridated water, 17, 39, 42Nitrites in food, 42 Free radicals, 40Nitrosamines, 19, 42 Fresh paints, 20Occupational polutants, 17 Fried foods, 22, 23Oil added to cooking, 22 Fruit and vegetables eaten together, 24Oil, cold-pressed, 39 Oil, cottonseed, 40 Garden pesticides, 20Oil, saturated, 39 Germicides, 39Oils, commercial, 17 Germ killers, 39Overeating, 23 Glucose, 23Overwork, continual, 17 Gravies, commercial, 39 Grease, 17, 21, 40Partly spoiled food, 22 Penicillin, 20 Hair sprays, 20, 39Perfumes, 39 Hard drugs, 17Pesticides, 20, 39 Herbicides, 20Phosphate fertilizers, 20 Hexachlorophene soap, 20Photochemical pollutants, 20 High-fat diet, 22Physical irritation, 17 Hopelessness, feeling of, 17Pickeled foods, 39 Hormones, 17, 20Pickles, 23 Hydrogenated oil, 17, 21, 39, 40Pie, 23 Pollutants, 17 Ice cream, 23Power lines, high power, 39 Iodine 131, 20Presamine, 20 Inadequacy, strong sense of, 17Preservatives, 39 Insecticide strips, 20Prostiglandins, 39 Iron, supplemental tablets, 23, 40Protein foods, high, 22 Protein diet, heavy, 21, 22 Jelly, 23Protein foods, spoiled, 22 Junk foods, 23Processed foods, 21, 23, 39 Lonliness, strong feelings of, 17Radiation, 17, 20 Losses, emotional, 17Radiation therapy, 17 Radioactive materials, 20 Manure, crops raised in fresh, 39Radium, 17 Margarine, 21, 39Rancid oils, 22 Mascara, 39 Meat, 19, 21, 39, 41Saccharin, 17, 42 Mechanical irritation, 17Salt, 23, 41 Medicinal drugs, 17, 20Salted foods, 23, 39 Methotrexate, 30Saturated fat, 21, 40 Microwave ovens, 20, 39Sauces, commercial, 39 Milk and milk products, 21Shampoos, 39 Mineral oil, 39Shellfish, 20 Moderation, eat in, 39Sick pets, 17

Monosodium glutamate, 17, 39Sk-Promine, 20 Mothballs, 20Smoked foods, 23, 39 Moth crystals, 20Smokeless tobacco, 23 Mouth washes, 39Soaps, too much, 17, 39 MSG food additive, 19Soft drinks, 19, 23 Sodium benzoate, 39 Naphthalenes, 20Solid shortening, 21 Nickel, 20Spices, 39 Nicotine, 17Starches, heavy, 22 Nitrogen dioxide, 20Street drugs, 17 Nitrates in food, 17, 19, 42Stress, 17

--------------------------------------- 194 194Alternate Cancer Remedies Stress, mental, 17Arginine, 30 Strontium 90, 20, 42 Sulphured foods, 39Barley, 25 Sugar, cane, 23Bedroom, sunshine in during the day, 19 Sugared foods, 21, 39Bedroom, properly ventilated, 19 Sugar, refined, 17Beet juice, fresh, 24 Sunlight, too much if on a trans-fat diet, 17, 20-Beta-carotene, 26-27, 28, 40 21Bible, reading in daily, 17 Surgery, 17, 45, 54Bioflavonoids, 24 Sweeteners, artificial, 17, 23, 42Biotin, 38 Blackstrap molasses, 24, 25 Tannic acid, 23Blue-green algae, 30 Tapazole, 20Bowel movement, daily, 19 Tainted food, 23Brewer s yeast, 27, 29 Television, 20Broccoli, 24 Television radiation, 17Broth, potassium, 29 Tetracycline, 20Brussels sprouts, 24 Tobacco, 23 Tobacco, smokeless, 23Cabbage juice, fresh, 24 Toothpaste or powder, 39Calcium, 29, 33 Tofranil, 20Canthaxanthin, 28 Tomatoes, caution about, 23, 66Carotinoids see Beta-carotene Trans-fat, 21, 40Carrot and apple juice, 24 Tritium, 42Carrot juice, fresh, 24 Type C personality, 18Celery juice, 24 Cesium, 30 Unrefrigerated seeds, flour, 22Cherries, black, 24 Unrefrigerated wheat germ, oil, 22Chewing food well, 22 Uric acid, 21Chlorophyll, 30 Choline, 38 Vegetable oil, too much, 21Chromium, 30 Vegetables and fruit eaten together, 24Citrus fruits, 25, 27 Venereal disease, 17Cleansing foods, 22 Vitamin D, synthetic, 21Climate, warm and unpolluted, 17 Constipation, relieve, 19 Wart, pimple, or sore irritation, 17Cooked food, not over 25%, 23 Water, recycled, 39Copper, 33 Wheat germ, not fresh (rancid), 22CoQ10 (co-enzyme Q10), 30 Worry, 17Country living, 39 Cranberries, 25 X-rays, 17, 20Cruciferous vegetables, 24 Currants, black, 24 THINGS TO INCLUDECabbage, 24

Cauliflower, 24 Abscisic acid, 24Cysteine, 30 Air, obtain plenty of fresh, 18 Alfalfa sprouts, 23Deep breathing, 18 Aloe vera, 25Diet, simple, 22 Alpha linolenic acid, 30Digestive enzymes, 25 Amino acids, branched chain, 30Dressing, simple vegetable and lemon, 39 Amygdalin, 27 Anti-radiation screen over computer, 39Eliminative organs, keep them active, 19 Apple juice, fresh 24Exercise out of doors, 17, 18, 39 Apples, 25Extremities, keep warm, 17 Apricot kernels, 27 Apricots, 25Fiber, dietary, 25, 40

--------------------------------------- 195 Indexes195 Figs, soaked, 25Omega-3 fatty acids, 24 Flaxseed oil, 24Orange juice, fresh, 24 Folic acid, 27 Food (brewer s) yeast, 29PABA, 38 Food, good and nourishing, 17Pangamic acid, 27 Fried food, 22Pantothenic acid, 27 Fruit diet, fresh, 26Para-aminobenzoic acid, 38 Fruit, 24Pectin, 40 Fruit, lightly cooked or steamed, 24Phosphorous, 33 Fruit, salt-free frozen, 24Phytoestrogens, 25 Phytosterols, 24 Gamma linolenic acid, 30Potassium, 28-29 Garden, vegetable and fruit, 25Potassium broth, 29 Garlic, 25Prayer, daily, 17 Germanium, 28, 30Protein, 21 Ginger, 25Prunes, soaked, 25 Glassware or stainless steel for cooking, 20Purpose, maintaining a strong sense of, 18 Glutathione, 30Pyridoxine, 37-38 Grape juice, fresh, 24Pyridoxal, 27 Green foods, 24 Green leafy vegetables, 24Quercetin, 28 Green powder, 24 Raisins, soaked, 25 Honey, 24Raw foods, emphasize, 24 Hydrochloric acid, adequate, 16, 21Regularity in daily schedule, 17 Rest, adequate, 17 Indoles in vegetables, 24Riboflavin, 27, 37 Inositol, 37Rye flour, 24 Iodine, 29, 33 Isoflavones, 25Seaweed, 25 Isoleucine, 30Selenium, 29, 40 Shower, daily, 39 Lactobacillus, 25Sodium, 29 Laetrile, 27Sodium linoleate, 30 Lecithin, 24Spinach, 25 Legumes, 25Sprouts, cook slightly (but alfalfa raw), 23 Lemon juice squeezed over greens, 25Stainless steel or glassware for cooking, 20 Lemon juice, fresh unsugared, 24Sunshine, 17 Leucine, 30Sunlight, if on a low-fat diet, 21 Linoleic acid, 30

Linolenic acid, 30Seed foods, 25 Protease inhibitors, 25 Magnesium, 29, 33Rice bran, 25 Maple syrup, pure, 24Potato peeling broth, 26 Methionine, 30Rice, brown, 26 Massage, daily if weak, 17 Mushrooms, Reishi, Shiitake, and Maitake, 25Trace minerals, 29 Trust in God, strong sense of, 18 N-acetylcysteine, 30Type C personality, 18 Negative ions, from outdoor air, 19Type F personality, 18 Niacinamide, 27, 37Type H personality, 18 Niacine, 27 Nitroloside, 27Valine, 30 Vegetable broth, 26 Oil, flaxseed, 24Vegetables, dark green best, 24 Oil, wheat germ, 24Vegetable juices, darker, 24

--------------------------------------- 196 196Alternate Cancer Remedies Vegetables, lightly cooked or steamed, 24Chaparral, 90-92 Vegetables, salt-free frozen, 24Chelation, 80, 188 Chemicals, 49 Walking, lots of outdoor, 17, 18, 39Clodronate, 101-102 Water, distilled, 24, 39Creosote bush, 90 Water, drink enough, 19Coffee enemas, 86 Water, measure to reduce in cooking, 23Comfrey, 48 Water, pure, 17, 39Copper, 67 Water, spring, 24DHEA, 109 Wheat germ oil, 24DMSO, 105 Whole-grain products, 24, 39, 40Enemas, 54 Whole-wheat flour, 24Entelev, 68 Worthwhile work to do, have, 14Essiac, 131-142, 158 Exercise, 114 Vitamin A, 26-27, 28, 34-35, 38Fever therapy, 46-47, 53-55, 102-103, 111-113, Vitamin B-complex, 27, 38151 Vitamin B, 27, 37Flaxseed oil, 190 2 Vitamin B, 27Fruits and vegetables, 47-48, 48-49, 50-51, 593 Vitamin B, 27, 37-3863, 66, 85, 111, 127-129, cf. 143-157 6 Vitamin B, 24Fu Zheng, 109 12 Vitamin B, 27Garlic, 109 15 Vitamin B, 27Germanium-132, 106-107 17 Vitamin C, 19, 26, 27, 28, 35-36, 38, 40Gerson therapy, 142-156, 188, 189 Vitamin D, 27, 28Gingsen, 109 Vitamin E, 19, 26, 27, 28, 30, 36-37, 38, 40Glyoxylide, 53-55 Vitamin K, 28Goldenseal root powder, 45-46 Heat therapy, 111 Zinc, 30Herbal 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

THERAPY INDEX Humber-Coffey extract, 64-66 (TO PARTS TWO TO FIVE) Hydrazine sulphate, 91-94 Page numbers refers to articles in Parts TwoHydrogen peroxide, 103-105, 189 to Five which deal with the topic. Numbers inHyperbaric oxygen, 64, 82-83, 151 bold italics refer to source locations.Hyperthermia, 46-47, 53-55, 102-103, 111113, 151 Adrenal cortex, 64-66, cf. 143-157Immuno-augmentative therapy, 77-79, 189 Anablast, 81-82Insulin, 76-77, 188 Antibiotic, 69-70Issel s therapy, 102-103, 189 Antineoplastons, 106, 188Juice diet, 59-63, 69, 143-157, 191 Antioxidants, 80Kelley s therapy, 85-86, 189 Antivin, 70Koch treatment, 53-55 Autumn crocus, 109Kombucha, 109 Bacteriophages, 68-69Krebiozen, 72-76 Baths, 66Laetrile, 117, 139, 151, 188 Beta-carotene, 83-85, cf. 143-157Live cell therapy, 151 Biological theory of ionization, 109-110Livingston vaccine, 95, 189 Breathing, deep, 66Macrobiotics, 100 Camphor nitrogen, 81Maitake, 108 Cancel, 68Mayapple, 109 Carcalon (Krebiozen), 72-76Maytansine, 109 Cartilage, 82, 102, 189Mistletoe, European, 94-95, 189 Catalase, 114Nigella sativa, 103 Cat s claw, 109Nitrogen, 81-82

--------------------------------------- 197 Indexes197 Non-meat diet, 48, 55Taxol, 109 Nutrition, 45, 48, 55, 59, 66, 69, 77, 82, 85, 96,Tissue thrombin, 53-55 101, 102, 127-129, 111, 143Selenium, 66-68, 99-101 Omega-3 (flaxseed oil), 107, 143-156, 190714X, 81-82, 189 Organic foods, 103,189Shark cartilage, 102, 189 Oxygen, 53-55, 63, 64, 66, 103-104, 104-105,Shiitake, 109 Ozone, 64, 108, 151, 190Ultraviolet light, 105 Pancreatic enzymes, 51, 151Urea, 77 Parasitic viruses, 68-69 Urine factor, 68 Periwinkle, 109Wheat seed extract, 71-72 Photoluminescence, 105 Wheat grass extract, 84 Poly-ZYM-023, 109 Wigmore therapy, 84, 188 Pituitary extract, posterior, 70-71 Wobe mugos, 151 (cf. 51) Potassium, 50, 66-68, 127-129, 152 Vitamin A, 82-84 Prayer, 52-53 Vitamin B, 117-129 17 Reishi, 109 Vitamin C, 72, 80 Tahebo, 151 Vitamin E, 89-90 Relaxation, 95-99

Vitamin-mineral supplements, 85, 110 Revici therapy, 66, 189 They cry unto the Lord in their trouble, andseed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, He saveth them out of their distresses. Psalmbringing his sheaves with him. Psalm 126 :5107:19.6. Thou hast given commandment to save me; Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, for thou art my rock and my fortress. Psalmthat delighteth greatly in His commandme nts. 71:3.Psalm 112:1. His God doth instruct him to discretion, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and doth teach him. Isaiah 28:26.and My Father will love him, and We will come They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Heunto him, and make Our abode with him . that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing preciousJohn 14:23. The only major killing disease . . whose rates are sharply rising. The only major k illing disease . . whose rates are sharply rising. Cancer is now the only major killing dis-epidemic proportions, with an incidence of one ease in the industrialized world whose rates arein three and a mortality of one in four. Analysis sharply rising. Just by way of quantitative con-of overall cancer rates, standar dized for age, trast, mortality from AIDS, another eminentlysex and ethnicity, has demonstrated steady inpreventable disease, although highly alarmingcreases since the 1930s, with more recent sharp if not catastrophic, is relatively low. Aboutannual increases in incidence rates by some 2% 30,000 cases, more than half already fatal, haveand in mortality rates by some 1 %. been reported since 1981 when the disease was Cancer is an age-old and ubiquitous group first detected; additionally, it is estimated thatof diseases. Its recognized ca uses and influences 2-3 times as many Americans suffer from ad-are multifactorial and include natura l environvanced symptoms of the AIDS-related complexmental carcinogens (such as aflatoxin s and sunwhich often progresses to frank AIDS. Rapidlylight), lifestyle factors, genetic susceptibility, and increasing numbers of cases, totaling somemore recently industrial chemicals. Ap art from 270,000 are projected by 1991. In contrast,modern lifestyle factors, particularl y smoking, there have been major reductions in deathsincreasing cancer rates reflect exposu re to infrom cardiovascular disease, still the numberdustrial chemicals and run-away mod ern techone killer in the U.S., probably because of anologies. Samuel Epstein, M.D., profes sor of recent decline in smoking and attention to dietoccupational and environmental me dicine, and exercise.University of Illinois Medical Center of Chicago, With over 900,000 new cases and 450,000quoted in 1987 Congressional Record, U.S. deaths last year, cancer has now reached133(135):E3452-3453.

--------------------------------------- 198 from Type 1 and Type 2 to Type 3 behavior. HOW TO LIVE LONGERThe fourth manner of dealing with a problem is to take it to God in prayer. Here we find a person who has A researcher in Germany discovered that how youchosen to accept Christ as his Sa viour. He has dedicated deal with problems can affect how long you will livehis life to Him and, by enab ling grace, seeks to obey His and, to some extent, how you may die!Written Word each day. In this life, each individual is continually confrontedThen when a problem arise s, he takes it to God in by problems difficulties in relation to persons, situations,prayer. Those who do t his have found that it produces and goals. Some of these problems can be quite large. Yetwonderful results. In s ome cases, a beautiful solution apthe attitude the person takes toward his problems can,pears all by itself. At ot her times, the person will arise literally, finish him off.from prayer, greatly encouraged to press forward in a Type 3 approach: With a positive outlook, he will try a new way What you are about to read can affect your entireto solve the problem. However, there are difficulties which, life, so you will want to consider it carefully; recognizeunfortunately, cannot easily be solved. They would try to it as good advice and, not only start doing it, but also sharing it with your friends and loved ones.hang as a dead weight around the nec k, year after year. Only Type 4 living can deal effectively with such problems. A Christian can face problems more positively than Ronald Grossarth-Maticek, a Yugoslavian oncologist,others. He can cheerfully liv e with problems which and his students were given access to mortality data in Heidelberg, Germany. They carefully studied thousands ofwould crush others. Yet there is something else about Type 4 living which deaths, read through autopsy reports, and interviewed rela-is special: The perso n who puts God first in his life will tive of the deceased. He discovered that a person s attitudespend much of his thou ght and energy trying to make the greatly affects his life span and in special ways. There are four methods of dealing with problems. Thelives of others happier. The person who is busy helping others will always seem to have fewer problems. He is too European researcher dealt with the first three. Other re-busy being a blessing t o others to give them much attensearch studies reveal there is also a fourth. Here they are:tion. Type 1 - The first way of dealing with a problem is toWhat have we learned from these four types? let it get you down. The key words are hopeless/helpless. This person is unable to solve problems relating toWhen you have a problem, do this: (1) Take the problem to God in prayer. Make sure you are obeying the others, situations, or goals. If relationships are sour, cir-Ten Commandments an d all that He commands in His cumstances unfavorable, and goals seemingly unachievable,Inspired Writings. (2) Keep positive and cheerful. If you he sinks into a depression, characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. This person seems unablehave a personal relations hip with God, you will especially be able to do this. Trust everything to Him, and

to change his negative view of life. He consistently holdsbelieve He will work i t all out for the best. (3) Change on to depression as a habit to run into and hide.your behavior in such a way tha t conditions are changed The coronary reports revealed the fact that the person choosing this type of behavior is highly prone to cancer.for the better. Obedien ce to God s laws will greatly encourage you. Type 2 - The second way of dealing with a problemAmid the problems of life, when you walk up to a wall is to blow up. The key words are frustrated/angry. Thisof difficulty, you can go t hrough it, go around it, or go over person also seems unable to deal with problems in a posi-it. Sometimes, with God s help, the wall just disappears tive way. Instead, he becomes disgusted or loses his tem-as you walk toward it. per.Here are several additional pointers: The person choosing this type of behavior is highlyJust what is the problem? Wha t new, alternative acprone to heart disease.tivities would produce more positive results? Think it Type 3 - The third way of dealing with a problem isthrough, and then, prayerfull y, try making the changes. Always stay on the positive. Failure should not be regarded to remain positive, and turn one s attention to finding aas a reason for not tryin g out new types of behavior and new way a different way to tackle the problem and resolve it. The key words are cheerful/positive. The sig-activity. Discouragement or anger accomplish nothing. nificant factor, of course, is the continued positive outlook.Take it to the Lor d in prayer, and arise ready to move forward positively again. The individual selecting this type of response toSome problems cannot be solved. Sometimes you live problems tends not to get sick! That is what the interviews and coronary reports revealed. These people havewith them. This is when Ty pe 4 living walking hand-inthe lowest incidence of disease. In fact, they have the low-hand with God can prov ide wonderful solutions, even if unfortunately circumstances do not seem to change as est incidence of death due to all causes, including acci-quickly as they might. It can also help you live in environdents. Here we have two major killers, and many smallerments which would crush others. ones. The solution to forestalling many of them is a changeChoose the sunshine s ide of life, and problems about you will evaporate. The Christian has heaven coming; he in outlook and thinking, a change in behavior.can afford to wait patiently throu gh the days that are dark. Type 4 - There is also a fourth way of dealing withFor him, the future is bright . problems, which other studies have repeatedly shown toMay God bless and keep you , as you try to live longer. be highly beneficial to both mind and body. This methodRemember to use your long er life to help and bless othincreases the positive outlook of Type 3 living, intensi-ers. That is why you we re born into this world. Spend fies the healthful results, and makes it easier to switchyour time making others happy. vf

--------------------------------------- 199 202Alternate Cancer Remedies BIBLE PROMISESTherefore will I deliver him. Psalm 91:14. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the And I will bring the blind by a way tha t they Most High shall abide under the shadow of theknew not; I will lead them in paths that they have Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refugenot known. I will make darkness light before and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.them, and crooked things straight. These things He shall cover thee with His feathers, and un-will I do unto them, and not forsa ke them. der His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shallIsaiah 42:16. be thy shield and buckler. There shall no evil Great peace have they which love Th y law: befall thee, neither shall any plague come nighand nothing shall offend them. Psalm 119:165. thy dwelling. Psalm 91:1-2, 4, 10. Lord, Thou wilt ordain peace for us: for I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, fromThou also hast wrought all our works for us. whence cometh my help. My help cometh fromIsaiah 26:12. the Lord, which made heaven and earth . . Be- He shall call upon Me, and I will an swer him: hold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slum-I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him ber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lordand honor him. Psalm 91:15. is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall By Me thy days shall be multiplied , and the not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.years of thy life shall be increase d. Proverbs The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He9:11. shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve The fear of the Lord prolongeth d ays. thy going out, and thy coming in, from this timeProverbs 10:27. forth, and even for evermore. Psalm 121:18. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:3-8. Whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and shall be be quiet from fear of evil. Proverbs 1:33. Because he hath set His love upon Me, - IMPORTANT NOTICE This book is not intended to prescribe or diagnose in any way. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional help. The intent is to offer historical uses of herbs, vitamins, and other potentially healing substances. Those who are sick should consult their doctor. Neither the author nor the publisher directly or indirectly dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of herbs, nutrients, or other substances as a form of treatment. The author and publisher assume no responsibility if you prescribe for yourself without your doctor s approval.

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The information presented here will help those desirous of improving their health so they can prevent cancer from gaining a foothold in their bodies. Because it discusses many anti-cancer substances and formulas, this book is especially written for medical researchers and historians. It also contains many fascinating stories of pioneers in cancer research over the past century and a half. It is important that you be told that this book has not been written for cancer patients, those who already have this dread disease, or laymen desirous of treating it. The AMA, NIH, NCI, and SKI have determined that anyone who has contracted cancer should see his or her physician. Special dietary programs: Bulkley, Chase, Richardson, Kowan, Contreras, and more. Special herbal formulas: Essiac, Hoxsey, Kloss, Winters, Montagna, and more. Special mono herbs: Chaparral, Comfrey, Echinacea, Goldenseal, Red Clover tops, Mistletoe, Pau d arco, and more. Special clinical treatments: Revici, Urea, Immuno-augmentative, Anablast, Hydrazine sulphate, Clodronate, Hydrogen peroxide, Photoluminescence, Antiplastons, Laetrile, Gerson, and more. Special nutritional factors: Vitamin A and beta-carotene, selenium, Vitamin C, potassium, Omega-3, Abscisic acid, Niacin, Germanium 132, and more. Hundreds of lifestyle changes which can help prevent cancer. Changes you can begin making right now before you contract cancer so you will be far less likely to have problems later. This book is written for medical researchers and historians, and those intereste d in preventing the initial development of cancer. Warning: It is not written for those wanting to treat cancers already in place.