Allergies

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I don't know if the world is full of smart men bluffing

or imbeciles who mean it.

(Morrie Brickman)

 

Most allergies are a lot of bunk. They usually disappear while you wait if

you use the safest, most powerful, cheapest and most effective

antihistamine-antitoxin in existence: vitamin C. As Jacob Marley's ghost said

to Ebeneezer

Scrooge, " You don't believe in me. " Well, you don't, do you? How can a

simple vitamin replace a medical specialty, and I'm telling you, it could. You

could start a drive-in allergy clinic, with only one prescription:

" Take C. Forty dollars, please. Do you want fries with that? "

Wisdom is inherent in simplicity and safety. Hippocrates, the father of

medicine so-called, said: " Of several remedies, the physician should choose the

least sensational. " That is genius, and it is practical, reproducible advice

good for modern man. Vitamin C therapy is safe, simple and effective.

So you question this naive approach? Naturally, since we've all been taught

that anything safe and simple cannot possibly be medically effective. So I

give you the case of my friend Tim.

Tim brought in his wife and family to talk about scarlet fever. They'd had a

touch of it in their family, and a touch is enough of that. We discussed

vitamin C's role as an antipyretic (fever-lowerer) and value as an antibiotic.

They were keen to focus on this. Just in passing, Tim also mentioned some

unspecified allergy problems. I briefly mentioned that vitamin C had great

usefulness there as well.

Tim called me a few weeks later.

" Good resolution with the fever, " he said. " We gave all the kids grams of

vitamin C and only one of them had scarlet fever symptoms. That was Jeffrey,

and he got over it much faster than the doctor expected him to. "

" That's really good, Tim, " I said.

" There's more to tell, " he responded. " I was stung by a bee last week. "

" And? "

" And I'm allergic to bee stings. "

Ulp. He hadn't previously told me that.

" I have medicine and an inhaler, " Tim continued. " The whole kit and

kaboodle. When I was stung, I took 25,000 milligrams of vitamin C in the first

hour.

By the end of the day, I'd taken 100,000 milligrams. No symptoms at all. Not

even any swelling. You had to look hard to find where the sting was, even. "

 

" But you used your medicine, right? "

" No! " Tim said. " That's the amazing thing. Normally I would have had to, or

I would probably die. But this time, all I did was the C. Talk about an

antitoxin-antihistamine! That vitamin C really works. "

I was unnerved at the high stakes Tim had played for, but impressed with his

findings.

Allergy, like most disease names, tells you little about cause and nothing

about cure. Robert F. Cathcart, MD, looks at allergy (and many other

conditions as well) simply in terms of how much vitamin C it takes to cure it.

He has

much experience as a clinician and has published numerous papers on the

topic.

And he is correct.

A young woman, age 20, was brought to see me once by her family. She was

allergic to horses and hay. Since she loved to ride, and her parents kept

several horses in their barn, this was a big problem. The young lady was not

readily going to change her eating habits, but was willing to take a lot of

vitamin C. It was effective, as she tells it:

" Whenever I was taking 20,000 milligrams of vitamin C a day, I had no

allergies at all. The only time I got them back was when I drank beer. So I

either

avoided beer, or if I drank, I took an extra 10,000 mg of C. I never had

problems with horses or hay again. "

I had a client once who was allergic to everything, literally. She said that

she'd tested out positive as allergic to 72 different substances. I'd never

heard of that severe a condition before, and apparently, neither had her

allergist. He said that she could take a " megadose " of perhaps 1,000 milligrams

a

day. It was not doing anything. I suggested she take vitamin C to bowel

tolerance, and hold the C level just below the amount that caused loose stools.

This turned out to be nearly 40,000 milligrams a day.

She took all the C she could hold. That was the end of her 72 allergies.

And I've seen more of the same with children and teenagers, friends and

neighbors, all ages and stages. Take enough C to be symptom free, whatever the

amount might be... but stay a few thousand milligrams under the amount that

would cause loose bowels.

Think about this: what would actually happen if everyone were actually

healthy? If each person took vitamins? If doctors and hospitals and

pharmaceuticals, all of which prosper from sickness, were not needed? In

America, there is

a vested interest in disease. There is no profit in prevention.

The United States Recommended Daily Values (or Dietary Allowances, or

Reference Intakes, or whatever other claptrap they offer you) are forms or

nutritional communism, or dietetic socialism. The government-set levels are

incontestably right and ample for all, and that's the end of it. A socialist

state

might say that you may earn your pay, but only keep a subsistence income, say a

few thousand dollars above the federal poverty level. Would your needs be

met with ten or twelve thousand dollars a year? Would you be best off that

way? Does the government have either the knowledge, or the right, to decide

either your financial needs or your nutritional needs for you?

RDA's: one size fits nobody.

Let's temporarily assume that orthodox dietitians are correct when they tell

us that vitamin supplements can only cure vitamin deficiency diseases, and

nothing else. If this is true, when any disease is cured by supplements, it

indicates deficiency. If zinc speeds recovery from the common cold (and many

studies do confirm this), then people with colds are zinc deficient. If lots

of vitamin C shortens the intensity and duration of the common cold (and there

are dozens of scientific studies that prove this), then people with colds

are vitamin C deficient as well. The RDA's and pitiful American intakes are

therefore below the deficiency levels.

LAW: The quantity of a nutritional supplement that cures an illness

indicates the patient's degree of deficiency. It is therefore not a megadose

of the

vitamin, but rather a megadeficiency of the nutrient that we are dealing

with.

Allergies evidently constitute one such megadeficiency.

You must use vitamins correctly to get the job done. Large amounts work;

small amounts don't. The dose depends on the patient. Think big: you have to

use

as much as it takes to get results. Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner said, " If

you want results, use adequate ascorbic acid. Don't send a boy to do a man's

job. " If I were to die tomorrow, I'd want you to remember that I told you

this today: " Take enough C to be symptom free, whatever that amount might be. "

The safety of vitamin C therapy is unassailable. Dr. Klenner writes,

" Vitamin C is the safest substance available to the physician. "

Vitamin therapy: don't knock it until you've tried it. And especially, until

you have personally read Nutritional Influences on Illness, by Melvyn

Werbach, MD; How to Live Longer and Feel Better by Linus Pauling; The

Vitamins in

Medicine, by Bicknell and Prescott; Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C,

edited by Lendon Smith, MD; The Vitamin C Connection, by Emanuel Cheraskin,

MD; A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular Medicine, edited by Roger

Williams; and Orthomolecular Psychiatry, by David Hawkins, MD and Linus

Pauling.

Do not be dismayed by these high-falutin' titles. " Orthomolecular " is usually

just another term for megavitamin. These are the books you want to look into.

 

I raised my kids all the way into college without either of them ever having

a single dose of an antibiotic, not even once. Why? Because we used

vitamins instead, that's why. And this especially meant lots of vitamin C.

Vitamin C

very effectively treated their influenzas and mononucleosis; it promptly

stopped their coughs and their bronchitis; it lowered their fevers and cured

their sore throats. I repeat: they never once had an antibiotic. Because of the

C, they never once needed an antibiotic. It is not that kids won't get sick,

because they do. Natural healing is not about avoiding doctors and drugs.

Natural healing is about not needing doctors or drugs. And orthomolecular

therapy is about using vitamins instead of drugs.

Vitamin C is but one of many vitamins, vitamins are but one part of

nutrition, and nutrition is but one aspect of health. And even then, look what

just

the one vitamin can do.

Vitamin C replaces antibiotics, antihistamines, antipyrretics, antitoxics,

and antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance) levels. This is the

single most inflammatory statement in medicine.

" I Don't Believe In Allergies "

An English friend of mine told me that he'd hardly even heard of allergies

until he came to the United States. " Allergies were quite rare in Britain, "

he said. " In America it seems everyone has them, children especially. " He's

right, really. If you asked Grandma, she might say the whole allergy business

is ridiculous. I agree with Grandma. I think there is only one genuine

allergy, and that would be the fatal result of transfusing the wrong type of

blood

into a person. Anything else is simple by comparison, and deserving of

nutritional therapy.

First of all, what we now label " allergies " could just as easily be called

" undernutrition " and I think should be. The majority of Americans are

demonstrably scorbutic, or on the very verge of scurvy (McCormick, 1962).

Insufficient vitamin C results in exaggerated sensitivity to even average

levels of

irritants, toxins, chemicals, pollution and microorganisms. Deficiencies of

vitamins A, B-complex and E frequently manifest as skin problems or

hypersensitivity to foods, stress, germs or shock. Millions of vitamin

deficient but

overstuffed persons are literally waiting to be allergic to something. Food

that

fills and fattens but doesn't fortify the body is like trying to build a wall

with bricks and no mortar: it will hold up only until you lean upon it.

Can you imagine how you'd explain the theory of evolution to a classroom

full of kids allergic to housedust? I can't see any way that humankind could

have evolved at all if people were always stopping to itch, scratch or sneeze.

Allergy shots have only been available in recent medical history. So have

allergies. So has our chemical-laden, overcooked, overly processed, overly

meaty-and-starchy diet. If you look at someone cross-eyed and they get sick,

they

were primed and ready by years of bad diet.

What's more, " allergy " tells you nothing. In Botany class, I once learned

that plants turn towards the light because of phototropism. Phototropism means

" moves towards light " . The name tells you nothing that you couldn't have

observed yourself. Same with allergies. Rashes, hives, troubled breathing and

such when gathered together in one body are collectively called " allergy " . When

some people get near such and such, they have an " allergic reaction " . What

do you do, then? Just keep them away from what triggers the reaction. No milk,

no dust, no cats, no feathers, etc. Nothing concrete is accomplished. How

can avoidance be cure? If your son got sweaty palms, hives or " butterflies "

every time he telephoned a girl to ask her for a date, would you conclude that

he's allergic to women and send him to a monastery? Of course not. You'd find

out why he got so nervous and strengthen him, encourage him and most of all

allow him to get over it.

So why not do the same for your body?

" Allergic " tells you nothing more than any other symptom. Symptoms tell us

that our body is not quite right. Naturopaths tell us that if our body is not

quite right, we should take a good look at the way we take care of it. Check

your diet first, not for the presence of " allergens " but rather for an

absence of nutrients. You can start with a saturation test with vitamin C, as

mentioned above.

Other questions to ask yourself: Are you avoiding chemical preservatives and

other unnecessary food additives? Avoiding drugs, non-prescription and

otherwise? Are you getting enough rest? Do you need a cleansing fast? Eating a

near-vegetarian diet? These questions should replace battery after battery of

allergy tests.

Great-grandma might have said (mine did, anyway) that you have to eat a peck

of dirt before you die. One of my brothers once confidently reassured me

that I could eat dog droppings, flies and all, and it still wouldn't kill me.

Regardless of the merits of that particular gem of wisdom, it is safe to say

that a naturally healthy body will not be troubled by allergies. The way to

have a naturally healthy body is to NOT eat as so many misguided consumers do.

As Dr. John A. Myers says in " The Role of Some Nutritional Elements in the

Health of the Teeth and their Supporting Structures " from Annals of Dentistry

(22)2, June 1958:

" Modern civilized diet, after much processing, modification, staleness, and

complete cooking, produces children with rampant dental caries, skeletal

defects, allergies and fatigue, along with the emotional and nervous changes

seen

in the experimental animals. (p. 38) "

Rather, the way to be healthy is deceptively simple:

1.) Stop eating meat, sugar, and junk food. . . or reduce as much as

possible.

2.) Instead, eat whole grains, fruits, beans, sprouts, lightly cooked or raw

vegetables, and take vitamin food supplements (especially vitamin C).

3.) Clean out body wastes by occasional juice fasts and an everyday natural

diet which is high in fiber and free of artificially colored or preserved

foods..

This is more than " folk " medicine. This is a real remedy for all folks.

Copyright C 2002 and prior years Andrew W. Saul.