This sort of information is probably why Britain's equivalent of the AMA in the year or so past published an opinion that vitamin C in doses of about 500 mg/day and greater causes cancer. Linus Pauling reported the remarkable curative properties of C over twenty years ago. He was ridiculed.
James-Osbourne: Holmes -----Original Message----- From: Dean T. Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: CS>Vitamin C revisited Thanks to another forum I'm on, I ran across this info which is new to me. It seems like we may have another all-around preventative and fix for a variety of problems -- one which is in the medical literature but hasn't been played up very much (or at all). The full article is at: http://www.timebomb2000.com/cgi-bin/tb2k/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t= 003535 in the TimeBomb2000 forum (where they discuss survival issues in addition to health). The article(s) are by MDs and discuss, with references, what the true power of vitamin C is, when used in large doses (up to 500 grams/daily). It seems that even a mild cold requires 100 grams/daily to stop it, and more severe infections like mononucleosis and viral pneumonia need 200 grams/daily -- to stop the infection within 2 days. Some quotes: " A clinical experience prescribing doses of ascorbic acid up to 200 or more grams per 24 hours to over 20,000 patients during the past 23 year period has revealed its clinical usefulness in all diseases involving free radicals. The controversy continues over the value of vitamin C mainly because inadequate doses are used for most free radical scavenging purposes. Paradoxically, the non controversial use of minute doses of vitamin C in the prevention and treatment of scurvy has set the minds of many against more creative uses. I have found vitamin C exceptionally useful in a very high dose range. Its usefulness is in three such distinct realms that I will describe them as the three faces of vitamin C. 1. vitamin C to prevent scurvy (up to 65 mg/day.) 2. vitamin C to prevent acute induced scurvy and to augment vitamin C functions (1 to 20 grams/day.) 3. vitamin C to provide reducing equivalents (30 to 200 or more grams/day.) " "My early discovery was that the bowel tolerance to ascorbic acid of a person with a healthy GI tract was somewhat proportional to the toxicity of their disease. Bowel tolerance doses are the amounts of ascorbic acid tolerated orally that almost, but not quite, cause diarrhea. A patient who could tolerate orally 10 to 15 grams of ascorbic acid per 24 hours when well, might be able to tolerate 30 to 60 grams per 24 hours if he had a mild cold, 100 grams with a severe cold, 150 grams with influenza, and 200 grams or more per 24 hours with mononucleosis or viral pneumonia (1, 2). Marked clinical benefits in these conditions occur only at the bowel tolerance or higher levels. I named the process whereby the patient determined the proper dose as titrating to bowel tolerance. These increases in bowel tolerance in the vast majority of patients normally tolerant to ascorbic acid (perhaps 80% of patients) are invariable. The marked clinical benefits are noted only when a threshold dose, usually close to the bowel tolerance dose, is consumed. I call this benefit the ascorbate effect. " "Failures are related to individual difficulties in taking the proper adequate doses. I now have had 22 years to gather clinical experience and to reflect on this phenomenon. I want to emphasize the importance of this increasing bowel tolerance with increasing toxicities of diseases. The sensation of detoxification one experiences at these doses is unmistakable. The effect is so reliable and dramatic in the tolerant patient as to make obvious the fact that something very important, that has not been widely appreciated before, is going on. " -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
