Practical Notes on Vitamin C Therapy

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Practical Notes on Vitamin C Therapy

 

Notes On Orthomolecular (Megavitamin) Use of Vitamin C

Vitamin C (ascorbate, ascorbic acid) has varying activity in the body at varying

levels of intake. At low levels of consumption, vitamin C is like a trace

nutrient: you need very little of it to stay alive, but without any at all you

die. Even a few milligrams a day will suffice to preserve life. At moderate

levels of consumption, say 500 to 1,500 mg per day for an adult, the vitamin

works to build health in a positive sense. statistically, fewer colds will be

reported; incidence, severity and duration of influenza will be less. (Stone,

The Healing Factor, 1972 and Pauling, Vitamin C, the Common Cold and the Flu,

1976). But it is at high levels, say 8,000 to 40,000 mg per day for an adult,

that we begin to obtain therapeutic properties for the vitamin.

At the proper (high) level, vitamin C has anti-histamine, anti-toxin, and

anti-biotic properties. The pharmacological effects of a vitamin at high

concentration do not disqualify our continuing to call it, and think of it, as a

vitamin. Money still buys things even if you have a lot of it; its nature has

not changed but its power has. If it takes 50 gallons of gas to drive from New

York City to Albuquerque, you simply are not going to make it on 10 gallons, no

matter how you try. Likewise, if your body wants 35,000 mg of vitamin C to fight

an infection, 7,000 mg won't do. The key is to take enough C, take it often

enough, and take it long enough.

QUANTITY, FREQUENCY and DURATION are the keys to effective orthomolecular use of

vitamin C. So many people hold a philosophical viewpoint such as " I shouldn't

have to take so much of a vitamin. " That's certainly true; you do not have to.

This is America, where everyone has the right to be sick if they want to. But if

you want swift recovery, and if you want to use vitamin C, you might just as

well use it effectively. What we are interested in is results. High doses of

vitamin C gets those results as well or better than any broad-spectrum drug on

the market. Rather than take what we think the body should require, we take the

amount of C that the body says it wants.

The safety of vitamin C is extraordinary. There is not one case of vitamin C

toxicity anywhere in the world's medical literature. There is not one case of

vitamin C-caused kidney stone ever proven, to the best of my knowledge. Vitamin

C has been used to prevent and cure the formation of kidney stones since William

J. McCormick, M.D. used it in 1946 (Medical Record 159:7, p 410-413). 10,000 mg

of ascorbic acid per day does not significantly increase urinary excretion of

calcium (Linus Pauling Institute Newsletter " Effect of High Intake of Ascorbic

Acid on Excretion of Calcium " by Dr. C. Tsao, 2:3, 1983). Daily doses of over

120,000 mg have been used with safety by medical doctors, and guinea pigs have

been given the human daily dose equivalent of 500,000 mg without harm. The major

side effect of vitamin C overload is an unmistakable 5-times-an-hour diarrhea.

This indicates absolute saturation, and the daily dose is then dropped to the

highest amount that will not bring about diarrhea.

That is a THERAPEUTIC level. Robert Cathcart, M.D. of California routinely

employs high-ascorbic acid therapy with his patients with success (Journal of

Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 2nd Quarter, 1981). Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. of

North Carolina has seen cures of diphtheria, staph and strep infections, herpes,

mumps, spinal meningitis, mononucleosis, shock, viral hepatitis, arthritis and

polio using high doses of vitamin C (Journal of Preventive Medicine, Spring,

1974). Dr. Klenner says: " Ascorbic acid is the safest and the most valuable

substance available to the physician " and " If you want results, use adequate

ascorbic acid. "

Copyright C 1983, 1994 Andrew W. Saul. From the book PAPERBACK CLINIC,

available from Dr. Andrew Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York

14470.

 

 

 

 

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