carbuncles are large boils read this then go to the whole article at-- http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitamin_disease.html

[Guest guest]

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

 

VITAMINS AGAINST DISEASE

Many persons want to know what scientific substantiation there is that

vitamins and diet can be as effective in treating illness as nature-cure

authorities maintain. In this article we will review some classic research

papers supporting vitamin therapies for curing disease. There is nothing

new about vitamin treatments, as I wish to demonstrate by including these

decades-old studies. Still, this information may be news to you, and almost

certainly will be news to most physicians...............

 

a cloudy urine, heavy with phosphates and epithelium, is generally

associated with a low vitamin C status, as determined by titration with

dichlorophenal-indophenol (Hoffmann-LaRoche); and that as soon as corrective

administration of the vitamin effects a normal ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

level the crystalline and organic sediment disappears like magic from the

urine. I have found that this change can usually be brought about in a

matter of hours by large doses of the vitamin, 500 to 2,000 mg, oral or

parenteral. " (p. 411)

 

This sediment or crystalline matter in the urine is what makes up kidney

stones. Please also note that 500 to 2,000 mg is much more than the U.S.

Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for vitamin C of 60 mg/day. The U.S. RDA

is not enough vitamin C. Dr. McCormick clearly indicates the need for large

quantities of this vitamin, not just a daily drink of orange juice.

 

In what might be seen as a display of almost too much therapeutic

versatility, Dr. McCormick also found that calcareous deposits of the eye

and cornea " may be cleared away in a few days by correction of vitamin C

status, and I find also that dental calculus (tartar on the teeth), which

lays the foundation for so much dental havoc, can be quickly suppressed and

prevented by an adequate intake of vitamin C. "

 

With vitamin C, " adequate " means abundant. Americans do not get abundant

amounts of any vitamin in their fast-food, convenience food, sugar-laden,

meat-and-starch, over-cooked diet. They certainly do not get much, if any,

vitamin C. Dr. McCormick believed, and not alone, that nine out of ten

people in this country are vitamin C deficient. In a 1954 paper,

" Intervertebral-Disc Lesions: A New Etiological Concept " printed in Archives

of Pediatrics, Dr. McCormick says:

 

" It would seem almost unbelievable that in this day and age, when fresh

fruits and vegetables are so plentiful, any of our health care, and very

powerful prevention at that, by using a vitamin. Vitamin C isn't just for

colds any more. We're talking here of nothing less than the cure and

prevention of serious illness with a vitamin that anyone can buy and take on

their own.

 

And we're not going to stop there. We're going to take on the biggest

killers of modern times: heart disease and cancer. Can they be conquered?

Consider this summary of facts brought out by Dr. McCormick in the papers

cited above, and from " Coronary Thrombosis: A New Concept of Mechanism and

Etiology " (McCormick, 1957):

 

1.) Four out of five coronary cases in hospitals show vitamin C deficiency.

 

2.) Cancer patients have vitamin C deficiency averaging 4,500 mg.

 

3.) Smoking is known to predispose a body for cancer and heart disease;

smoking is also known to rob the body of its vitamin C.

 

4.) The symptoms of classic vitamin C deficiency disease, called scurvy, are

identical with the symptoms of some types of leukemia and other forms

cancer.

 

Scurvy is generally supposed to be extinct. Yet cancer is all too

prevalent today, and the signs in development of cancer and scurvy are

similar. Can they be the same disease under different names? In " Have We

Forgotten the Lesson of Scurvy " (1962), Dr. McCormick reviews the literature

in this regard:

 

" As long ago as 1609, Martini cited by (scurvy research pioneer) Lind stated

that scurvy is nearly allied to the plague, as it occasions carbuncles,

buboes and cancer. In an effort to clarify this relationship we published

two papers in which we advanced the hypothesis that deficiency of vitamin

C, by bringing about disintegration of epithelial and connective tissue

relationships, owing to liquefaction of the intercellular cement substance

collagen) and disintegration of the connective tissue of the basement

membrane, results in breakdown of orderly cellular arrangement, thus acting

as a prelude to cancer. "