Ulcers were also cured by high dose vitamin C. A friend of mine was the
person that launched black current juice back during world war two. They
had scurvy in the British ranks at Tabrook. Acid vitamin C sources like
oranges and lemons rotted quickly and made you sick in the heat and it
burned ulcerated lips.
Dr Travers Harrison OBE was an agricultural chemist at the British
department of agriculture. With the Germans sinking ships no-one wanted
to take boat loads of crops to America and the colonies so the
department of Agriculture was stuck with millions of tons of surplus
crops. Black currents by the boat load were piling up so Dr Harrison was
tasked to check them to find out what was in a black current so a new
use could be made for them. He found Vitamin C in a non acidic form.
Just what the troops needed in north Africa. The troops were saved from
scurvy and the war was won.
A few years later a medical friend mentioned that he had a problem.
Patients with severe ulcers were suffering from scurvy because they
could not eat acidic food. Dr Harrison supplied some black current juice
and saved the day. Then mysteriously the patients started getting cured.
Hundreds of them improved with the ulcers disappearing faster than the
scurvy. Today thanks to the Nobel prize winning research linking
Helicobacter pylori with ulcers; we can see why the cure was working but
in the 1950’s it seemed very strange. Huge doses of black current juice
were used; litres of the stuff. Pure vitamin C had less of an effect.
Black current juice its self was required. A certain associated sugar
changed form in the processing. Thousands were cured but only now we are
understanding what happened. Attempts to get the cure accepted though
the 50’s and 60’s failed; scientists, doctors and pharmacists ignored or
opposed the cure. Yet half a century ago Dr Harrison always believed he
and his colleagues had found a cure for Ulcers that the world of
medicine simply chose to ignore.
Dr Harrison tale was my first childhood introduction to the idea that
science often ignores a cure even though it would save millions from
suffering. It taught me that scientists were capable of great things and
at the same time great folly.
Mark S Bilk wrote:
Chris Zell pointed out that the research linking Helicobacter
pylori with ulcers was ignored and resisted by the medical
establishment, and that its discoverers have just been awarded
a Nobel Prize. Also that the usage of Vitamin C against viral
infections has met with similar dismissal and resistance. I've
used it on cats and young children (with dosage proportional to
body weight), who were not subject to a placebo effect, and it
was very successful (against upper respiratory infections, and
measles with severe rash and fever).
According to the research cited here (about 100 journal articles):
http://rheumatic.org
"rheumatic" diseases -- rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma,
etc. -- are caused by infections by certain mycoplasmas --
bacteria that lack cell walls (but of course still have cell
membranes).
These diseases can be cured by the proper antibiotic therapy!
Here are some sources of information about Vitamin C:
http://www.orthomed.com/
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=klenner+%22vitamin+C%22&num=100&hl=en
This year I was getting frequent colds (or never quite getting
rid of the same cold) and at least stopping the symptoms with
12-18 grams/day of Vitamin C as ascorbic acid. Dissolve, with
constant stirring, 6 grams of ascorbic acid -- 1.5 teaspoon --
in a cup of water, drink it, then rinse your teeth with baking
soda solution, as the acid attacks the enamel. The solution is
pretty irritating; it tastes much better with 5 saccharin tablets
in it. To avoid any possibility of getting it down your larynx,
fill your lungs with air and pressurize it a bit while swallowing
the solution.
My local healthfood store proprietor suggested that excessive
acidity in my body caused by the ascorbic acid was congenial
to the infections, so I switched to magnesium calcium ascorbate:
Dissolve 6 grams ascorbic acid, 1 teaspoon milk of magnesia --
Mg(OH)2 (shake well), and 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of powdered chalk
-- CaCO3, in a cup of water, with constant stirring. Add the
CaCO3 last after the C and Mg(OH)2 have dissolved, and titrate
to taste -- it should be neither sour nor bitter, or a little
of each.
He also suggested Vitamin A (preformed, i.e. from fish oil, not
carotene), 50-100,000 IU/day with a small oily meal for a few days
only; this is also very helpful for bacterial sinus infections.
Also powdered astragalus root ("Nature's Herbs" brand, actually
Twinlab); the bottle says 6 of the 400mg capsules/day; I take
1/2 capsule/day, although it has no side effects -- I'm timid
about herbs. The recurrent colds stopped after about a week of
this treatment with a dosage of 6 grams (vit. C content) of the
mineral ascorbate twice a day; now I only take it once a day.
Mark
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:42:14AM -0600, Zell, Chris wrote:
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4307826.stm
So, two guys get a Nobel prize for discovering that a bacterial
infection causes ulcers. A simple antibiotic cures the problem.
Does anyone see anything DRAMATICALLY WRONG with this event?
They describe the discovery as "bloody obvious" and say that
they were "shunned" and labeled as "eccentric". More than
that, decades of "modern medicine" fail to correctly identify
the simple cause of a painful and debilitating condition.
...
I made the mono go away in two days after taking large doses of
vitamin C. I tried the same thing with my recent illness and ,
in a few days, got the same result. I have since read that
many alternative doctors have long known this and commented
on the dramatic recovery of people with mono using vitamin
C in large doses.
