Nutritonal Cancer Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D.

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Hi everyone,

 

Question- I have heard of people with cancer using the coffee

enemas, but I have also heard from people that I respect that it

isn't such a good idea.. Any thoughts? Why use coffee, with all

the caffeine? Anyone know the reasoning for this? Why not

something like wheatgrass juice if you want an enema? But perhaps

they are on to something, who knows.. Do you?

 

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Nutritional Cancer Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D.

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Nutritional Cancer Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html

The Gerson Therapy, by Charlotte Gerson and Morton Walker, DPM

(2001) NY: Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN 1-57566-628-6 (Trade

paperback, 371 pages, plus appendixes and index.)

 

It has been said that more people live off cancer than die from it.

The Gerson Therapy is a book that can put a stop to this travesty.

Here is a very practical, highly detailed guide to the intensive

nutritional treatment of cancer and other life-threatening diseases

that many would consider to have been impossible to obtain. But

thanks to the work of Max Gerson, M.D., and his daughter, author

Charlotte Gerson, this knowledge is readily available for all who

need it.

 

Max Gerson cured cancer. He did so with a strict fat-free, salt-

free, low-protein, essentially vegetarian dietary regimen, based on

great quantities of fresh vegetable juice, supplements, and systemic

detoxification. Ms. Gerson explains:

 

“Dr. Gerson found that the underlying problems of all cancer

patients are toxicity and deficiency. He had to overcome both these

difficulties. He found that one of the important features of his

therapy had to be the hourly administration of fresh vegetable

juices. These supply ample nutrients, as well as fluids to help

flush out the kidneys. When the high levels of nutrients re-enter

tissues, toxins accumulated over many years are forced into the

blood stream. The toxins are then filtered out by the liver. The

liver is easily overburdened by the continuous release of toxins and

is unable to release the load… Dr. Gerson found that he could

provide help to the liver by the caffeine in coffee, absorbed from

the colon via the hemorrhoidal vein, which carries the caffeine

to the portal system and then to the liver. The caffeine stimulates

the liver/bile ducts to open, releasing the poisons into the

intestinal tract for excretion.â€

 

The Gerson Therapy book consists of nearly 400 pages of treatment

specifics, instruction, hints, cautions, recipes, case histories,

and references, all held together with an authority that only

experience can bring. Some of the blunt, uncompromising statements

Ms. Gerson makes are certain to get up the medical profession’s

collective nose. Too bad for them, for she is right. Charlotte

Gerson’s entire life has been immersed in healing people, first

learning while assisting her father, and later teaching his method

to the world. Co-author Dr. Morton Walker is one of my favorite

medical writers, and putting these two talents together in The

Gerson Therapy was a master stroke.

 

I personally have seen what the Gerson program can do for a

terminally ill cancer patient. I have been called upon to help in a

couple of high-profile but last minute cases. One patient was a well-

known sports figure. He was given some months to live and was not

happy about it, as he was still in his 50’s. He asked what his

best shot would be for inoperable, untreatable metastasized

cancer. I told him: the Gerson therapy. He did it, not in its

entirety, but with enthusiasm. And, he lived considerably longer

that he was expected to. But what really impressed me was the

dramatic improvement in his energy level. From fatigue and weakness,

he went instantly to a vibrant life, commencing from the very week

he started the program. He maintained a more-than-full schedule for

so long that even people who knew he was sick forgot that he was

sick.

 

Years later, people that never knew of my involvement in the matter

would bring up his name, invariably recalling how active he was and

how good he looked until, almost as a surprise, he died.

 

I saw a similar level of success with a prominent New York

businessman, the owner of a chain of stores and afflicted with

untreatable liver cancer. He began to do much, but by no means all,

of the Gerson program, and was subsequently able to extensively

travel the world with his family. He lived years longer than

expected, with a high quality of life confirmed by all who saw him.

 

Looking only at these two patients, wanton critics of Gerson’s

method might think that, without complete and unequivocal cure,

there is little to crow about. Such a view is unproductive, for

neither of these patients followed the Gerson program completely. It

is a tough sell, even to a person with a terminal diagnosis.

 

Why is this?

 

Ignorance and arrogance make a bad combination, and “modernâ€

medicine has been guilty of both for decades. Political physicians

did not heed Dr. Gerson. In fact, they publicly condemned him. The

news media have been their willing accomplices. The misinformation

they spew to this day is fraught with fabricated frights of natural

therapies, while in the same breath they spew forth the wonders of

pharmaceutical drugs. When is the last time you saw a favorable

mention of the Gerson program in the newspaper or on TV? Since

pharmacological doctors have no sure-fire cure for cancer (an

understatement if there ever was one), they might at least back a

winning horse. The Gerson approach has been shown, for over six

decades, to significantly improve both quality of life and length of

life in the sickest, the most hopeless, of cancer patients. Many

people have been completely cured on the Gerson therapy.

 

And the directions are in this book, which costs $17.

 

I am especially pleased with the open-minded spirit of cooperation

which I detect in reading The Gerson Therapy. The authors’

awareness of the realities of individual patient needs is well

demonstrated with the inclusion of chapter sections discussing

unavoidable modifications of the program. Instructions for home self-

care, for patients undergoing chemotherapy, and for the treatment

of very advanced cases, are all provided. Chapter 17, discussing

treatment of illnesses other than cancer, needs to be greatly

expanded. Ms. Gerson informs me that she is currently “preparing a

booklet for each disease (including, among others) asthma,

rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, diabetes, drug addiction, Crohn's

disease, and fibromyalgia. They will start with a general escription

of the disease, then have a basic outline of how the Gerson therapy

deals with it, then the specific description of the Therapy,

followed by some dozen of recovered cases... I think each booklet

will contain some 30-40 pages.†I am looking forward to their

early publication. (Update, April 2002: Individual booklets about

cancer of the breast, ovaries, liver/pancreas/colon, lymphoma and

melanoma are now available for purchase from Charlotte Gerson, 355

Greenwood Place, Bonita, CA 91902. Email Lotte )

 

The present book contains explicit instructions for the

administration of the Therapy’s controversial but nonetheless

crucial liver-detoxifying coffee enemas. (Yes, at body temperature.)

The use of castor oil, a thorough listing of which foods to eat (and

not eat), how to juice, psychological aspects of therapy, and

generally favorable mentions of megadose vitamin C supplementation

are also presented. The concise chapter (Chapter 6) on melanoma is

extraordinary, easily the best I have read anywhere.

 

Dosage and rationale for the supplements Dr. Gerson prescribed is

the focus of Chapter 11. Potassium, iodine, digestive enzymes,

niacin and (by prescription) thyroid, liver extract and vitamin B-12

injections are all covered. Both this chapter, and the Resourcesâ€

section of the Appendix, are free of any attempt to market such

products, a feature I wish to highlight for special praise.

 

I liked the inclusion of references at the end of each chapter, and

the thoroughness of devoting a chapter to appropriate laboratory

tests. And everyone will enjoy reading the success stories in

Chapter 21.

 

In the next edition of The Gerson Therapy, I would like to see

detailed charts that summarize exactly what a “Gerson Personâ€

needs to do each day. I recall how helpful such charts were in this

book’s predecessor, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases. My

experience in working with very sick patients and their families is

that they are easily overwhelmed with instruction, no matter how

vital that instruction may be. Easy-to-read personal itineraries are

virtually essential to ensure intelligent compliance with a complex

nutritional program. To some extent, this need is met by way of a

helpful Summary in the Appendix. However, such information can be

presented in greater detail and in a more user-friendly manner, by

employing graphics to full advantage.

 

Some years ago I watched a video tape of a Gerson patients’

“reunion.†On stage were people from all walks of life, and most

were advanced in age. One after the other they spoke of the cancer

they were diagnosed with three, ten, or twenty years ago. All were

recovered. Dr. Gerson was the reason. You cannot watch such an event

and fail to be moved.

 

A special benefit of The Gerson Therapy is that it is not

specifically a cancer treatment. Dr. Gerson saw it as a metabolic

treatment, one that cleanses the human organism while strengthening

the body’s ability to heal itself. Not surprisingly, therefore,

the Gerson therapy is effective against all manner of diseases, some

50 of which are listed on page 21.

 

I am even more interested in the preventive aspects of the Gerson

diet. As I write this, I have a cool quart and a half of carrot

juice in my tummy. I do not particularly enjoy carrot juice, but I

do want to prevent illness. Only time will tell for me personally,

but I am going to take a Pascal-like viewpoint: there is no down

side to juiced vegetables.

 

Well, maybe one: some people don’t wish to change their diet and

lifestyle. Jack Benny, when asked “Your money or your life†made

radio comedy history with his answer, “I’m thinking!†To a

profoundly sick person, the question might be rephrased, “The

Gerson Therapy or your life.†Too many persons have died thinking.

 

Don’t be one of them.

 

" I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical

history. " Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

To learn more about how to do the Gerson Therapy:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html is the transcript of

a speech by Dr. Gerson himself.

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson_therapy.html is a

bibliography of published clinical studies showing the demonstrated

benefits of the Gerson treatment

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html is a bibliography of

all of Dr. Gerson’s scientific writings.

 

Review copyright C 2001 by Andrew W. Saul, 23 Greenridge Crescent,

Hamlin, NY 14464 USA.