DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol 2, No 21) September 5, 2002

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The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol 2, No 21) September 5, 2002

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free

online library of over 350 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

scientific references.

 

7,000 hits a day at http://www.doctoryourself.com really racks up the email,

let me tell you. Many readers have asked for information about an illness

not discussed on my website or in back issues of the Doctor Yourself

Newsletter

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/backissues.html ). Over past years, I have

compiled quite a " request list " from readers worldwide. So, in this issue I

will yield to your wonderful persistence and try to tackle just what

alternatives may be worth trying for a number of ailments. As your list is

fairly long, my suggestions will necessarily be brief. Dosage suggestions

are not included here but may be derived from reading my website and the

books I list or have reviewed there.

 

Common-sense caution: I am not a physician, and these are opinions and

options to consider. There is rarely a short answer to any illness, and no

one should think that what follows is anything close to being the whole

story.

 

ADRENAL EXHAUSTION: Saturation of vitamin C is a specific for this

condition. Along with the eyes and spinal fluid, the adrenal glands are, or

should be, the major storehouse of vitamin C in your body. Without lots of

ascorbic acid, your get up and go will have gotten up and went. Megadose

vitamin C may be worth an adjunctive therapeutic trial for those with

Addison's Disease.

 

AGE SPOTS: Also known as " liver spots. " I'm not sure about curing them, but

to prevent them I suspect that high-doses of the vitamin B-complex coupled

with a raw food, raw vegetable juice, vegetarian diet would be the best

approach.

 

ALOPECIA: Genetic factors aside, zinc deficiency is known to cause alopecia

(hair loss) in animals. I think vitamin E and the essential fatty acids

linoleic and linolenic acid are also important. I stopped my own hair from

thinning by taking lecithin, high doses of the B-complex, and zinc. It has

been 12 years now, and I have not lost any more. Will nutrition regrow

hair? I doubt it, but it cannot hurt to give it a whirl.

 

ANOREXIA NERVOSA: Zinc deficiency is known to depress appetite. Intravenous

multivitamins in quantity will do much to keep a hospitalized anorexic

alive. I think niacin in quantity is worth trying to help the psychological

aspects of this illness.

 

BEDWETTING: I have seen the homeopathic remedy Kali Phos 6X help here. I

also think there is a role for behavior modification. When I was a college

student, I worked as a summer-camp counselor at a facility for

underprivileged kids, without a homeopathic remedy within miles. We always

had quite a handful of bedwetters at the start of camp, but with consistent,

positive reinforcement, we had far fewer when the kids headed back home.

 

BINGE EATING AND BULEMIA: Megavitamin C reduces food cravings. Juice fasting

favorably alters appetite patterns. Afterwards, vegetarian diet helps keeps

it all in balance. If you doubt this, it is because you have not tried it.

 

BURNS: First aid for burns is immediate cold. Topical vitamin E

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitamin_e.html ) is next.

 

First Degree Burns (redness, no blisters): At bedtime and again in the

morning, rub in liberal amounts of vitamin E, mixed with a teaspoonful of

olive oil to help spread it out.

 

Second Degree (blisters): For this, forget the olive oil and apply

concentrated vitamin E directly, gently and frequently.

 

Third Degree Burns (damaged skin; skin missing): Drip vitamin E on the wound

straight from the capsules and you do not have to touch the burned area at

all. Risk of infection and need for skin grafting will be dramatically

reduced. Be smart: get medical attention for ANY serious burn.

 

CANCER, SPECIFIC TYPES: To most nature healing advocates, cancer is

essentially the same disease no matter where in the body it regrettably is

found. There are quite a few articles at my website on this important topic.

A http://www.doctoryourself.com site search for " cancer " will bring up 140

matches. You will read them all if you mean business.

 

DIARRHEA: Eat fiber. Applesauce, cheese, and calcium are other traditional

cures.

 

ESOPHAGITIS: Cabbage juice ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/colitis.html )

and non-acidic ( " buffered " ) vitamin C.

 

IMPETIGO: Medical treatment is usually systemic antibiotic drugs. I think

systemic antibiotic vitamin C to saturation levels is an equally good

approach. Topical non-acidic vitamin C might also be tried for localized

relief.

 

MEMORY LOSS: Lecithin. Write that down before you forget it.

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/lecithin.html )

 

MIGRAINE HEADACHE: First off, look up the side effects of any medication you

take in the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR), available to read at any

library, pharmacy or doctor's office. Eat lots of fiber to help reduce

hormonal buildup. See a chiropractor and have your upper vertebrae checked.

Eliminate junk food and stop eating dairy products. Try the Gerson diet:

vegetable juices and a salt-free, mostly vegetarian diet.

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_flowers.html )

 

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD): Frequent oral doses of niacin in large

quantity ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacin.html ); ditto with vitamin C

and the B-complex vitamins. Also important: dairy-free, sugar-free,

vegetarian diet. I recommend an http://www.doctoryourself.com site search

for " Hoffer " if you really want to learn what to do.

 

NAUSEA: I'd suggest getting your neck checked by a chiropractor. Homeopathic

remedies often help.

Morning Sickness: Natrum Phos 6X

Motion Sickness: Kali Phos 6X.

Nausea from indigestion: Juice fast.

Nausea from nervous tension: Regular practice of stress reduction. This

really helped me, let me tell you.

 

NIGHTMARES: I think bad diet equals bad dreams. Your brain gets the same

nutrients, or garbage, as your stomach does. Do not eat even good food

within three hours of bedtime. Regular exercise is important, too. More at

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/sleep.html )

 

POST-PARTUM DEPRESSION: Niacin, cashew nuts

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/prozac.html ), and a really good babysitter.

 

ROSEACEA: Doctors usually give antibiotics for this condition. Saturation

levels of vitamin C have a powerful antibiotic effect.

 

SCIATICA: Saturation of vitamin C, stretching exercises, chiropractic care

and weight loss.

 

SHINGLES: Saturation levels of vitamin C. This sounds too simple to work,

doesn't it. ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html )

 

STUFFY NOSE AND/OR SINUS PRESSURE: Drink lots of water and vegetable juices.

Facial massage. Horseradish, vinegar and cayenne pepper sauce.

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/sinuses.html )

 

VITILIGO: High-doses of B-complex vitamins; lecithin; PABA and magnesium.

Have your thyroid checked. (Balch and Balch, Prescription for Nutritional

Healing, 1990, p 310.)

 

YEAST INFECTION / CANDIDA: Saturation levels of vitamin C. Some women have

successfully used vitamin C tablets as topical inserts. I personally do not

think that avoiding all dietary yeasts is absolutely necessarily to banish

pathological yeasts.

 

SOME IMPORTANT TREATMENT PRINCIPLES:

1) If you are not already familiar with " saturation " (bowel tolerance) of

vitamin C, this is a good time to learn.

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html ) Remember what Dr. F. R.

Klenner said: " Administer vitamin C while pondering the diagnosis. "

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitaminc.html )

 

2) If you smoke, drink alcohol (

http://www.doctoryourself.com/alcoholism.html and

http://www.doctoryourself.com/alcohol_protocol.html ), are overweight

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/weight_loss.html ) , or eat meat or junk

food. . . STOP TODAY. ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/badhabits.html )

 

3) Near-vegetarian diet and juice fasting are long time tried and true

therapies that build all parts of the body. If you have not tried them, you

are volunteering to be sick. ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicefast.html

and http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicing_2.html )

 

Of all the recommendations I've ever made to clients in the past 25 years,

it is these three axioms that have helped the most people.

 

Can this article, or me, be your one-stop source for all healing knowledge?

No way. But should I be asked to testify before the Supreme Court, this is

what I would say if under oath.

 

BOOK REVIEW

Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, by Howard Straus (Kingston, Ontario:

Quarry Press, 2002) ISBN 1-55082-290-X. Softcover, 397 pages plus

bibliography.)

 

Really good conspiracies take decades to surface. In the case of

natural-healing physician Max Gerson, M.D., attempts to discredit his

vegetable juice, raw food and coffee enema cancer therapy were so effective

that the whole story has never been told.

 

Until now.

 

Dr. Gerson's grandson, Howard Straus, has just published the definitive

Gerson biography. It is fascinating reading, at times bordering on the

unbelievable. And what a story: a respected physician discovers a natural

cure for cancer, and the medical-pharmaceutical lobby actively and

relentlessly conspires keeps it from the public.

 

All of it is provably true. Mr. Straus has gone far beyond requirements to

research his subject and support his statements. And he has had a family

" in " that no other Gerson biographer has: his mother, Charlotte Gerson

Straus, the doctor's daughter. Together, and with expert assistance from

Barbara Marinacci, they have assembled documentation I believe to be

sufficient to topple the tower of organized, politicized medicine.

 

For over sixty years, cancer treatment and research has been almost entirely

restricted to cut, zap and drug: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Billions and billions of dollars have been expended investigating every cure

BUT a nutritional one.

 

Where is the real incentive to cure the disease, anyway? Business is good.

It is now pretty much an open secret that more people live off cancer than

die from it. The big money is to be made in disease, not in health. Dr.

Gerson guaranteed his own ostracism when he dedicated his life to find out

why patients lived, and what could be done to be sure they did. Then he went

and did it.

 

In 6th grade, Mrs. Palmer taught my class that debates are won when you

present your case as more compellingly and more factually than the

opposition. This may be true in most endeavors, with the exception of

medicine. Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_vitc_can.html ), who each write

favorably of Gerson's work, pioneered and popularized widespread megadosing

with vitamin C and niacin, respectively. They did this so successfully that

the only angle left to their many critics was the ad hominem: attack the

men, not the idea.

 

" Coffee Enema " Gerson was attacked in much the same way. It has been

ridicule, not science, that has kept the Gerson therapy away from your local

oncologist's office. Try a simple test: ask ten doctors what they think of

using the Gerson therapy against cancer. Then ask the same doctors what

they KNOW of the Gerson therapy. I'll lay good odds that about all they

know is that the guy used coffee enemas. " Would you like cream and sugar

with that? " a physician once said to me. And you'll likely hear worse.

 

Body temperature, fresh coffee enemas offer at least two vital benefits for

a seriously ill patient: pain relief, and detoxification. One does have to

accept the second to appreciate the first. Gerson's extensive medical

experience taught him that both are accomplished. Patients and physicians

who follow Gerson's protocol have seen that he's right. That is the only

standard that is absolutely necessary.

 

Too bad that some critic's egos let them forget the true healer's prime

directive: " For the good of the patient, to the best of my ability. " If

there is a down side to vegetable juices, I am yet to hear it. The worst

reproach I've encountered is that, while harmless, vegetable juices have no

special properties against cancer. How can that be, when doctors now know

(and our grandmas have known for generations) that vegetables DO in fact

help prevent and arrest cancer. All vegetables are high fiber and low fat.

Tomatoes are loaded with lycopene. Orange and green vegetables tremendous

sources of carotene. Broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts and

cabbage (the cruciform vegetables) are all heavyweights in the fight against

cancer. (LINK)

 

How, pray tell, could their juices NOT have anti-cancer properties? Juice

consists of the entire cytoplasmic contents of a vegetable's cells, but

without an unpalatable excess of indigestible fibrous cell wall. It's the

corn without the can; the nut without the shell; the cash without the bank.

 

The two chief purposes of juicing is to increase the quantity of vegetables

consumed, and to increase a patient's absorption of what is consumed. More

vegetables is good. Better utilization is good. Ergo, juicing is good, and

Gerson was right.

 

I find that, like a method actor, I need to get into character before

discussing a book. To this end, I had two quarts of carrot juice for lunch

and now I can feel the part in a big way. I am juiced up and in the groove.

And for all my 20 years of juicing, for all the many miles on my juicers, I

owe a personal debt of thanks to Dr. Gerson. He was pretty much the first

physician ever to plainly set all this down into a clear-cut, specific

therapeutic regimen. This is provided in great detail in two other books:

The Gerson Therapy (reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html ) by Charlotte Gerson and

Morton Walker (2001). NY: Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN 1-57566-628-6 and

A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases (briefly reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bestbooks.html ) by Max Gerson (1977) Del Mar,

CA: Totality Books.

 

In the next edition of Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, I would to see

paragraph by paragraph footnote references. Many a good-reading history book

provides this for obsessive scholars who just have to challenge every

statement. They are out there, and I think the tightest possible citation

system is best suited for such a controversial work as this. I also think

serious students of the Gerson therapy would appreciate a topic index. I

liked the inclusion of photographs and an exhaustive international

bibliography. I think translating the mostly German-language reference

titles into English would be a worthwhile project.

 

Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless is a tribute, an education, and a

warning: there is a price to pay for true lifesaving innovation in medicine.

The best possible review of Dr. Gerson's life story could not surpass what

the great Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer, M.D., wrote:

 

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

medicine. He has achieved more than seemed possible under adverse

conditions. Many of his basic ideas have been adopted without having his

name connected with them. He leaves a legacy which commands attention and

which will assure him his due place. Those whom he has cured will attest to

the truth of his ideas. "

 

" Medical heretic " Dr. Robert Mendelsohn said that one grandmother is worth

two MD's. Good fortune has favored Howard Straus. His grandfather was worth

hundreds.

 

(Reprinted with permission of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Second

Quarter 2002, Volume 17, Number 2, pages 122-124.)

 

WHY FDA MEANS " FOOLISH DRUG ADVOCATES "

FDA and the international pharmaceutical cartel are attempting to restrict

vitamin potency with a " dosage must be restricted to insure safety "

argument. Consider this: tincture of iodine, a deadly poison, is sold over

the counter without even being in a child-resistant bottle. There is a

screw loose here somewhere, and it may be more than just the iodine bottle

cap.

 

Think this one over while pondering how you will feel when CODEX soon takes

away your right to buy high-dose food supplements:

 

SO WHO WANTS TO " WATER DOWN " YOUR VITAMINS?

by Bill Sardi

 

Guess who is soon going to dictate the dosage of vitamins and minerals you

can purchase? How about foreign dictocrats at the United Nations and the

World Health Organization? Yes, and it's all being done under the name of

free trade " harmonization, " in a so-called attempt to preserve U.S. vitamin

manufacturers sales to foreign countries.

 

According to guidelines just released by the U.S. CODEX delegation, as part

of treaties under the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which

would be binding upon all members of the World Trade Organization (WTO),

foreign " experts " would dictate to American companies the maximum amount of

vitamins and minerals that can be placed in food supplements. Foreign

manufacturers could challenge the WTO that more potent U.S.-made brands

represent unfair competition. Since many foreign countries already restrict

the dosage of vitamins and minerals in food supplements, the new guidelines

are likely to be used to water down the dosage of U.S-made brands so that

foreign companies can compete with U.S. manufacturers.

 

Currently, many foreign travelers seek U.S.-made food supplements and bring

them back to their native lands because of their high quality and maximum

dosage. This would all change. U.S. food supplement manufacturers would

likely lose their prime position in the world marketplace. Oddly, CODEX

claims its guidelines have been drafted to protect U.S. manufacturers and

consumers.

 

CODEX Guidelines Legally Binding

Some three years ago The Center for Science In The Public Interest (CSPI)

[ " International Harmonization of Food Safety and Labeling Standards, " June

1997] cited numerous international trade agreements and codes which could be

used to enforce standards upon U.S. manufacturers of food products and now

on food supplements. The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body could impose trade

sanctions on industries unrelated to food supplements which could cause

Congress to buckle and give in to restrictions on food supplements.

 

Upper Limits Being Established

CODEX guidelines attempt to establish upper limits on the dosage of food

supplements. While the upper limit on vitamins appears to be established to

protect consumers from potential side effects from over-dosage, the very

establishment of maximum dosage would likely be misunderstood by the public.

Printing upper limits on food supplement labels would likely scare many

consumers away from these products.

 

CODEX guidelines make the false assumption that there are thousands of cases

of serious side effects emanating from over-dosage of food supplements and

that the public needs immediate protection. Vitamin and mineral supplements

are far safer than aspirin and ibuprofen (which cause thousands of cases of

stomach ulcers and death from hemorrhage annually), acetaminophen (causes

70,000+ cases of liver toxicity annually and a few hundred deaths yearly),

chlorinated tap water (causes 20,000+ new cases of bladder and kidney cancer

annually), table salt (contributes to millions of cases of hypertension that

can lead to strokes), and aspartame artificial sweetener (produces thousands

of reports of adverse effects annually), all which are over-the-counter

items like food supplements.

 

Just Who Are the Experts?

Another guideline proposed by the U.S. CODEX delegation is to require

labeling that would urge consumers to take supplements only on the advice of

a physician, dietician and nutritionist. The CODEX Draft continued to spread

the mistaken idea that all the public needs to maintain health is a good

diet. While food supplements do not replace meals, still less than 1 in 5

Americans consume the recommended five to seven servings of fresh fruits and

vegetables daily. An estimated 8 in 10 Americans are short on magnesium, 4

in 10 are deficient in vitamin D and vitamin B12, and all humans suffer from

a genetic mutation that blocks the natural conversion of blood sugars into

vitamin C that most animals exhibit.

 

Costs Would Rise

If upper limits on food supplements are established then consumers who still

want to consume higher doses of certain supplemental vitamins or minerals

would be required to take more pills which would of course raise the cost to

consumers.

 

CODEX Disregards Congress

Congress has explicitly forbidden the FDA from limiting potency or

availability of supplements. Instead, the FDA and the U.S. CODEX delegation

disregarded the wishes of Congress and moved ahead with the CODEX guidelines

which still contain provisions for upper limits and other restrictions.

 

Vitamins have been a hot political issue in the past. More letters have been

received by Congress on vitamins than any other issue on Capitol Hill. It's

time to the public to pull out their pens once again.

 

(Bill Sardi ( Bsardi ) is a health journalist and author. His

website is www.askbillsardi.com. 2002 Bill Sardi Word of

Knowledge Agency, San Dimas, California. Edited and reprinted with

permission of the author.)

 

(Editor's note: Be sure to ask Bill for a subscription to his free email

newsletter. Next issue, I will be discussing how to still get your vitamins

after CODEX becomes the law of the land. If you do not like the idea of

having to go that way, let your voice be heard immediately (LINK)

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF WEBSITE OF THE MONTH

Important: You can find VACCINATION EXEMPTION LAW, STATE BY STATE, at

http://www.access1.net/via/STATES/allstates.htm :

" All States have a Medical Exemption. In addition, all States have a

Religious

Exemption except Mississipi and West Virginia. " Interesting, that, since the

First Amendment applies (or should apply) in EVERY state, don't you think?.

 

FULL REFERENCE FOR THE BRONCHITIS ARTICLE previously mentioned in the Doctor

Yourself Newsletter (Vol 2, No. 16

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n16.txt ) LANCET Volume 359, Number

9318, pages 1648-1654, 11 May 2002. Azithromycin for acute bronchitis: a

randomised, double-blind, controlled trial. Arthur T Evans, Shahid Husain,

Lakshmi Durairaj, Laura S Sadowski, Marjorie Charles-Damte, Yue Wang

 

Correspondence to: Dr Arthur T Evans, Collaborative Research Unit, Cook

County Hospital, Room 1600, Administration Building, 1900 W Polk St,

Chicago, IL 60612, USA ( e-mail: aevans ) His team's conclusion:

" Azithromycin is no better than low-dose vitamin C for acute bronchitis. "

 

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