VITAMIN C HAS BEEN KNOWN TO FIGHT 30 MAJOR DISEASES . . . FOR OVER 50 YEARS

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

March 15, 2006

 

VITAMIN C HAS BEEN KNOWN TO FIGHT 30 MAJOR DISEASES . . . FOR OVER 50 YEARS

 

If so, why haven't you heard more about it?  Why haven't more doctors used

vitamin C as medicine? 

 

Progress takes time.  Fresh fruit was known to cure scurvy by 1753, yet

governments ignored the fact for nearly 100 years. Countless thousands died in

the

meantime.  The 19th century doctor who first advocated washing one's hands

between patients died ignored and in disgrace with the medical profession.  The

toxic metal mercury was used as medicine into the twentieth century.

 

The first physician to aggressively use vitamin C to cure disease was

Frederick R. Klenner, MD, beginning back in the early 1940's. Dr. Klenner

successfully treated chicken pox, measles, mumps, tetanus and polio with huge

doses of

the vitamin.

 

The following is a complete list of the conditions that Dr. Klenner found

that responded to extremely high dose vitamin C therapy: 

  

Pneumonia 

Encephalitis 

Herpes Zoster (shingles) 

Herpes Simplex 

Mononucleosis 

Pancreatitis 

Hepatitis 

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever 

Bladder Infection 

Alcoholism 

Arthritis 

Some Cancers 

Leukemia 

Atherosclerosis 

Ruptured Intervertebral Disc 

High Cholesterol 

Corneal Ulcer 

Diabetes 

Glaucoma 

Schizophrenia 

Burns and secondary infections 

Heat Stroke 

Radiation Burns 

Heavy Metal Poisoning (Mercury, Lead) 

Venomous Bites

Multiple Sclerosis 

Chronic Fatigue 

Complications of Surgery 

 

This seems like an impossibly long list. At this point, one can either

dismiss the subject or investigate further. Dr. Klenner chose to investigate.

The

result? He used massive doses of vitamin C for over forty years of family

practice.  He wrote two dozen medical papers on the subject. (1) It is

difficult to

ignore his success, but it has been done.  Dr. Klenner wrote: " Some physicians

would stand by and see their patient die rather than use ascorbic acid

(vitamin C) because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin. "

 

Vitamin C is remarkably safe even in enormously high doses. Compared to

commonly used prescription drugs, side effects are virtually nonexistent. It

does

not cause kidney stones. In fact, vitamin C helps dissolve kidney stones and

prevents their formation. William J. McCormick, MD, used vitamin C since the

late 1940's to prevent and treat kidney stones. (2) Robert F. Cathcart III, MD,

reports that he started using vitamin C in massive doses with patients in 1969.

He writes: “I estimate that I have put 25,000 patients on massive doses of

vitamin C and none have developed kidney stones.†(3) Said Dr. Klenner: " The

ascorbic acid/kidney stone story is a myth. "   Recent scholarship has confirmed

this. (4,5)

 

How much vitamin C is an effective therapeutic dose?  Dr. Klenner

administered up to an astounding 300,000 milligrams (mg) per day.  Generally,

he gave 350

to 700 mg per kilogram (2.2 lb) body weight per day. That is a lot of vitamin

C. 

 

But then again, look at that list of successes. 

 

Dr. Klenner emphasized that small amounts do not work.  He said, " If you want

results, use adequate ascorbic acid. "  

 

For Further Reading:

 

The Vitamin C Connection, by Emanuel Cheraskin, MD et al (Harper and Row,

1983) 

 

How To Live Longer and Feel Better, by Linus Pauling, PhD, (Freeman, 1986) 

 

The Healing Factor: Vitamin C Against Disease, by Irwin Stone (Putnam, 1972) 

 

The complete text of this book is posted for free reading at

http://vitamincfoundation.org/stone/ , a not-for-profit foundation's website.

 

Physicians and other health professionals may wish to read papers by William

J. McCormick, MD, Linus Pauling, PhD, Abram Hoffer, MD, and Robert F. Cathcart

III, MD. The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is also recommended 

http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm

 

References:

 

1. All of Dr. Klenner’s papers are listed and summarized in the Clinical

Guide to the Use of Vitamin C (ed. Lendon H. Smith, MD, Life Sciences Press,

Tacoma, WA, 1988. This book is now posted in its entirety at

http://www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm ,

a non-commercial

website.

2. McCormick WJ. Lithogenesis and hypovitaminosis. Medical Record 1946,

159:7, July.

3. Cathcart RF. www.orthomed.com

4. Gerster H. No contribution of ascorbic acid to renal calcium oxalate

stones. Ann Nutr Metab. 1997;41(5):269-82. 

5. Hickey S and Roberts H. Vitamin C does not cause kidney stones.

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, July 5, 2005.

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v01n07.shtml

 

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

 

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as " the treatment of disease by

the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum

concentrations of substances normally present in the human body. " Orthomolecular

medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more

information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

 

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Editorial Review Board:

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD

Harold D. Foster, PhD

Bradford Weeks, MD

Carolyn Dean, MD, ND

Erik Paterson, MD

Thomas Levy, MD, JD

Steve Hickey, PhD

 

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