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Speech by Cancer Expert Max Gerson, M.D. |
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Cancer: Food Plan |
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THE CURE OF ADVANCED
CANCER BY DIET THERAPY: MAX
GERSON, M.D. (1978 Publisher's
Note. This is a lecture given by Dr. Gerson in A search for “Gerson” at the www.doctoryourself.com mainpage
will bring up much more on the subject.) Abstract: Thirty years of clinical
experimentation has led to a successful therapy for advanced cancer. This
therapy is based on the concepts (1) that cancer patients have low
immuno-reactivity and generalized tissue damage, especially of the liver, and
(2) that when the cancer is destroyed, toxic degradation products appear in
the bloodstream which lead to coma and death from liver failure. The therapy
consists of high potassium, low sodium diet, with no fats or oils, and
minimal animal proteins. Juices of raw fruits and vegetables and of raw liver
provide active oxidizing enzymes which facilitate rehabilitation of the
liver. Iodine and niacin supplementation is used. Caffeine enemas cause
dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer breakdown
products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products from blood across the
colonic wall. The therapy must be used as an integrated whole. Parts of the
therapy used in isolation will not be successful. This therapy has cured many
cases of advanced cancer. Ladies and Gentlemen: When I was a physician
for internal diseases in It was a big book of
about 1,200 pages on folk medicine and in the middle there was that chapter.
I started to read. That book was edited by three schoolteachers and one
physician. None of them practiced medicine. So they put together that book. I
read that chapter. In it there was something about Hippocrates who gave these
patients a special soup. I should like to tell you, we use that soup at the
present time! That soup from that book, out of the practice of Hippocrates -
550 years before Christ! He was the greatest physician at that time, and I
even think the greatest physician of all time. He had the idea that the
patient has to be detoxified with the soup and with some enemas and so on. I read and read but
finally I told the lady, "Look, because of my tuberculosis treatment
physicians are opposed to me. Therefore I'd like not to treat you."
Again she insisted, "I'll give you in writing that you are not
responsible for the outcome of the treatment and that I insisted that you do
so." So with that signed statement, I thought, all right, let's try. I
wrote down the treatment. It was almost the same which I used for
tuberculosis patients (1-7) which I had worked out and used at the University
Clinic in I tried - and the patient
was cured! Six months later she was up and around in the best condition. Then
she sent me two other cancer cases. One of her family with a stomach cancer
where it had been found during an attempted operation that there were
metastasized glands around the stomach-also cured! And I had to cure then,
against my will, a third case. I expected to have still more opposition from
the medical profession. The third case was also a stomach cancer. It was also
cured. Three cases were tried and all three cases were cured! I have to tell you that
up to this day, I don't know how this happened, how I stumbled into that, how
this was achieved. At that time I always said that I didn't know why they
were cured. I didn't know enough about cancer and it was such a difficult
problem to go into. But once it was in my head and in my hands and in my
heart, I could no longer separate myself from that problem. Some time later I was in Then I came to Some time later I came to
this country. I couldn't get the cancer problem and the cure of the first
three cases out of my mind. I kept thinking "It must be possible, it
would a crime not to do it." But is wasn't so easy. When I came here, I
had no clinic. I didn't even have a license to practice medicine. When I had
taken the exams and could take patients, I had to treat them at home and that
was hard work. The patients didn't like to obey the diet, to do it at
home. They were accustomed to save kitchen time and not to work hard to make
all the juices necessary for the treatment as it had been worked out. Now the treatment for
tuberculosis was a saltless diet, mostly fruit and vegetables, vegetables
cooked without added water, steamed in their own juices, with a heavy pot, no
aluminum. The cover had to be heavy and fit well so that the steam could not
escape. Then they had to have most of the food raw, finely grated. They had
to drink orange juice, grapefruit juice, and apple and carrot juice. This had
to be produced in a special machine-a grinder and a separate press-because I
found that in centrifugal juicers or liquefiers, I couldn't obtain the kind
of juice which cured patients. At first, I had thought
that liquefiers would be the most wonderful thing. All the material was
there, nothing was lost. But it didn't work. Then I found out through a
physicist that in the liquefier, in the center, there is positive electricity
and in the fluid there is negative electricity. This electricity kills the
oxidizing enzymes. And that is also true for the centrifugal juicer and the
other apparatus. The juice must therefore be made by a grinder and a separate
press - if possible, made of stainless steel. (Editor's note: a
masticating juicer, such as a Champion, might also work.) The patients must drink a
lot of those juices. They have to have the Hippocrates soup. I can't go into
all the details. The evening would not be long enough for that. But very
important for the detoxification are enemas. I felt that the detoxification
as suggested in the book of Hippocrates was a most important part. Finally, I had a clinic.
The patients saw that also the more advanced cases and even some terminal
cases, very far advanced cases, could be saved. They brought me more and more
of these terminal cases. I was forced into that. On the one side, the knife
of the AMA was at my throat and on my back. I had only terminal cases. If I
had not saved them, my clinic would have been a death house. Some of the
cases were brought on stretchers. They couldn't walk. They could no longer
eat. It was very, very difficult. So, I really had to work out a treatment
that could help these far advanced cases.(10,11) Again, I was forced into it. On the need of where to
put the emphasis: reading all the literature, I saw that all the scientists
treat the symptoms. These, I thought, are only symptoms. There must be
something basic behind them. It has to be impossible that there are symptoms
in the brain, others in the lungs, in the bones, it the abdomen and in the
liver. There must be something basic, or else this is impossible. Already, through my work
with tuberculosis, I learned that in tuberculosis and in all other
degenerative diseases, one must not trcat the symptoms. The body-the whole
body-has to be treated. But that is easily said. How will you do it? Little
by little I came to the conclusion that the most important part of our body
is the digestive tract. For all our intake to be properly digested, and for
the other organs of the digestive tract to function right and help in the
digestion to the end product-and at the same time eliminate all the waste
products-all the toxins and poisons which must be eliminated so that nothing
will accumulate in our system, I thought that this was the most important
thing in the tuberculosis treatment. It must be the same in all the other
degenerative diseases, too. And still, up to the present, I am convinced
that cancer does not need a "specific" treatment. Cancer is a so-called
degenerative disease, and all the degenerative diseases have to be treated so
that the whole body at first is detoxified. In my tuberculosis work again, I saw that the
liver plays the important role. It eliminates the toxins from the body,
prepares them so they can enter into the bile ducts, and can thus be
eliminated with the bile-that is not an easy job. In addition, the liver
helps to prepare the stomach juice with the help of the visceral nervous
system. The liver helps to prepare the pancreas, trypsin, pepsin, lipase, the
digestive enzymes-all that is regulated with the help of the visceral nervous
system. The liver has many, many more very important functions. One of them
is the reactivation of the oxidizing enzymes as we know through Rudolf
Schoenheimer. He did the work along these lines. It would go too far to go
into that at this time. It is very important to note that oxidizing enzymes
are at a low level of function in cancer patients. Now let us anticipate the
theory. During these years the idea occurred to me that there are two
components in cancer which are of particular importance. One is the whole
body, the general component. The other is a local one, the symptom. The
treatment has to be applied to the general component. When we are able to
bring this into balance, the local one disappears. What is the general
component and what does the treatment have to do to bring it into balance? I
should like to devote this evening mostly to that question. The general
component is the digestive tract and the liver. The digestive tract is very
much poisoned in cancer. How can we handle that? Detoxification is an easy
word, but it is very difficult to do in cancer patients. These cases, when
they are far advanced, can hardly eat. They have no stomach juice, the liver
doesn't function, the pancreas doesn't function, nothing is active. Where do we begin?. The
most important first step is the detoxification. So let us go into that.
First, we gave some different enemas. I found out that the best enema is the
coffee enema as it was first used by Prof. 0. A. Meyer in Goettingen. This
idea occurred to him when together with Prof.Heubner he gave caffeine
solution into the rectum of animals. He observed that the bile ducts were
opened and more bile could flow. I felt that this was very important and I
worked out coffee enemas. We took three heaping tablespoons of ground coffee
for one quart of water, let it boil for three minutes, then simmer 10 to 20
minutes, and then gave it at body temperature. The patients reported
that this was doing them good. The pain disappeared even though in order to
carry through the detoxification, we had to take away all sedation. I
realized that it is impossible to detoxify the body on the one hand and put
in drugs and poisons on the other, such as sedation medication - demerol,
codeine, morphine, scopolamine, etc. So, we had to put the medication aside
which again was a very difficult problem. One patient told me that he had one
grain of codeine every two hours and he got morphine injections . . . how can
you take these away? I told him that the best sedation is a coffee enema.
After a very short time he had to agree with that. Some of the patients who
had been in severe pain didn't take coffee enemas every four hours as I
prescribed - they took one every two hours. But no more sedation. After just a few days
there was very little pain, almost none. I can give you an example. A lady
came to me not so long ago. She had cancer of the cervix and then two large
tumor masses around the uterus. The cervix was a large crater, necrotic,
producing blood and pus, and the poor lady couldn't sit any more. The
condition was inoperable. She had been given X-rays and vomited any food she
took in. She couldn't lie down anymore. She could not sit. She walked around
day and night. When she came to my clinic the manager told me, "Doctor,
you can't keep her here. This moaning and walking day and night is keeping
the other patients from sleeping." After four days she was able to sleep
with no sedative whatsoever - which had not helped her much anyway. The sedation
had worked for perhaps half an hour or so. After 8 to 10 days, she asked me
for just one thing: let her omit that night enema at 3 or 4 o'clock in the
morning. These patients who absorb the big tumor masses are awakened with an
alarm clock every night because they are otherwise poisoned by the absorption
of these masses. If I give them only one or two or three enemas, they die of
poisoning. I did not have the right
as a physician to cause the body to absorb all the cancer masses and then not
to detoxify enough. With two or three enemas they were not detoxified enough.
They went into a coma hepaticum (liver coma). Autopsies showed that the liver
was poisoned. I learned from these disasters that you can't give these
patients too much detoxification. So I told this lady that for one night she
could sleep for seven hours-but only for one night. I wouldn't risk more!
When I didn't give these patients the night enemas, they were drowsy and
almost semi-conscious in the morning. The nurses confirmed this and told me
that it takes a couple of enemas till they are free of this toxic state
again. I cannot stress the detoxification enough. Even so with all these
enemas, this was not enough! I had to give them also castor oil by mouth and
by enema every other day, at least for the first two weeks or so. After these
two weeks you wouldn't recognize these patients any more! They had arrived on
a stretcher and now they walked around. They had appetite. They gained weight
and the tumors went down. You will ask, "How
can such a cancerous tumor go down?" That was a difficult question for
me to understand. I had learned in my treatment of tuberculosis patients that
I had to add potassium, iodine, and liver injections to help the liver and
the whole body to restore the potassium. Now as far as I can see this is the
situation. At first we give the patient the most salt-free diet possible.(12)
So, as much salt (sodium) is removed from the body as can be. During the
first days, 3 grams, 5 grams, up to 8 grams a day of sodium are eliminated
while the patients receive only about one half gram of sodium content in the
diet and no sodium is added. The patients are given
thyroid and lugol solution (lugol's solution is iodine plus potassium iodide)
I learned first through the so-called Gudenath tadpole experiment that iodine
is necessary to increase and help the oxidation ability. Then we gave the
patients large amount of potassium.(12) It took about 300 experiments
until I found the right potassium combination. It is a 10% solution of potassium
gluconate, potassium phosphate (monobasic), and potassium acetate. From that
solution the patient is given four teaspoonsful 10 times a day in juices.
That large amount of potassium is introduced into the body.(12) At the same
time 5 times one grain of thyroid and 6 times three drops of lugol solution,
˝ strength. That's 18 drops of lugol which is a large dose. Nobody was
observed to develop heart palpitations from that, even if some patients told
me that they could previously not take thyroid because they would develop
heart palpitation. And all allergies disappeared! Some patients claimed that
they could previously not take one teaspoonful of lemon juice or orange juice
- they were allergic. But when they are well detoxified and have plenty of potassium,
they are not allergic. Allergies and other hypersensitivities are eliminated. When introduced into the
system, thyroid and lugol solution go immediately into the cancer mass. These
ripe cells take it up fast and they perhaps grow a little faster but they
soak in more with great greed - as much as they can - together with a little
bit of sodium, probably. But then there isn't much sodium left. So then these
cells pick up potassium and the oxidizing enzymes and die by themselves. You
have to realize that cancer cells live essentially on fermentation but
potassium and oxidizing enzymes introduce oxidation. And that is the point at
which we can kill cancer cells because we take away the conditions which they
need to continue to live. But now we have to deal
with a mass of dead cells in the body, in the blood stream -and they have to
be eliminated wherever they may be. And that is not so easy! The ripe cells,
the mature cells are very abnormal. These are much more easily killed than
the other cells which are unripe, not yet mature, and not so well developed.
And there are other cancer cells in lymph vessels. These are clogged at both
ends by cancer cells. No blood and no lymph can reach them. There are cancer
cells in the glands. They are hidden there, protected from regular
circulation. So it isn't easy to reach these. At first it is only the big
mass which killed. But this dead mass now has to be absorbed wherever it is -
perhaps in the uterus, perhaps in the kidney, or in the lung, or in the brain
- this has to be absorbed. This absorption is only possible through the blood
stream. I call this "parenteral digestion." Enteral digestion is in
the intestinal tract. Parenteral digestion takes place outside of the
digestive tract, through the blood stream. It becomes important then to
continually carry on detoxification day and night in order to bring the
parenteral digestion to the highest point, even to a
"hyperfunction." How can this be done? I found that in order to
bring the parenteral digestion to the highest function, it is necessary to
start with the soil. Our soil must be normal, no artificial fertilizers
should be used, no poisons, no sprays which go into the soil and poison it.
Whatever grows on a poisoned soil carries poison too. And that is our food,
our fruit and vegetables. I am convinced that the soil is our external
metab6lism. It is not really far removed from our bodies. We depend on it.
But our modern food, the "normal" food people eat is bottled,
poisoned, canned, color added, powdered, frozen, dipped in acids, sprayed-no
longer normal. We no longer have living, normal food, our food and drink is a
mass of dead, poisoned material, and one cannot cure very sick people by
adding poisons to their systems. We cannot detoxify our bodies when we add
poisons through our food which is one of the reasons why cancer is so much on
the increase. Saving time in the kitchen is fine but the consequences are
terrible. Thirty or fifty years ago (this speech was delivered in 1956)
cancer was a disease of old age. Only elderly people whose liver was no
longer working well - was worn out-became sick. They contracted cancer when
they were 60 to 70 years old and cancer was a rare disease. Everybody knows
that. And now four, even going on one out of three dies of cancer. Now in the
second generation it is even worse. The poor children get leukemias more and
more. There is no country which has so much leukemia as this country ( Now let us consider our
digestive tract. As part of the digestive tract, the most important thing is
that we restore the function of the liver - the tissue and the function of
the liver. That is very hard work. We give the patients (including also the
tuberculosis patients) liver injections, and since most of these patients
need an increase in the red blood cells, we add some vitamin B12. They
receive 3 cc of crude liver extract together with 100 mcg of B12. In addition
when I found that our fruit and vegetables no longer have the normal content
of potassium and not enough of the oxidizing enzymes, I looked for the best source
of potassium in the best composition and the best supply of oxidizing
enyymes. I found that to be calves liver. But we cannot give the patient
calves liver because it contains too much fat and cholesterol. As you know,
fat and oils cannot be given Therefore we give these patients freshly pressed
calves liver juice, which is made in a special way with equal parts of
carrots. Liver alone cannot be pressed. We take ˝ pound fresh calves liver
(not frozen) and ˝ pound of carrots to make one glass of 200 cc (approx. 8
oz.) of fresh juice. The patients, the far advanced cases, get two glasses a
day, even three glasses, and they like it! All this is done in the
effort to restore the enteral digestion. When that functions, we add stomach
juice (Acidol Pepsin) and we add pancreatin not coated. The cancer patients
cannot digest the coated pancreatin. The pancreatin is given five times a
day, three tablets each time. So they always have plenty of trypsin, pepsin,
lipase and diastase in their systems. The blood can carry this around and
digest the tumor masses wherever they may be. Now, since I am running
out of time, I should like to tell you what we do to prove that this
treatment really does work on cancer.(13,14) Number one, the results. I think
I can claim that I have, even in these far advanced cases, 50% results. The
real problem arises when we cannot restore the liver. Then there is no hope.
The liver-the restoration of the liver and its functions-are so important
that some of the patients whose livers cannot be restored die some six months
to 2˝ years later from cirrhosis. Autopsies show no cancer cells in the body.
They did not die from cancer. They died from a shrunken liver. Since I give
more liver juice and I give more for promoting the parenteral digestion,
these cases of a shrunken liver are rare.
I think I could do a lot
to improve the results. I do not want to go into the problems that
patients face when they go home and the family physician tells them that they
need not "eat that cow fodder." Or the family thinks they cannot
carry through this treatment because it is too much work as it takes one to
one and a half years to restore the liver. The liver cells are renewed in
four to five weeks, five to six weeks in older patients. To restore such a
liver, you would need 12 to 15 new generations of liver cells. That is 1˝
years. But the most important part of the treatment, I have learned, is to
give the patients a new functioning liver.
Now, for the proof of
this theory. I had the idea to make an animal experiment in which we
connected two rats - one cancerous rat and one healthy one. We cut them open
along the side and connected a blood vessel, then sewed them together: The
blood from the healthy rat circulated in the sick one day and night and
cleared up the sick body. Thus we showed that with a healthy normal
metabolism you can cure cancer. You can cure the cancerous rat with the
healthy body of the normal rat. But we are in the early stages of this type
of experiment. There was one patient whose husband wanted to be connected to
his wife because of her very poor condition. But she said no, she didn't want
to have him immobilized so long, next to her, with extensive nursing day and
night. When she was first brought in to me, she had a very bad liver with
probably hundreds of metastases, also in the rest of the body. I had told
them that I didn't believe I could do anything for her, so the husband had
offered his healthy body. But, even as it is, she is still living and
improving. At any rate, with this type of experiment we have had no
experience on human beings, only on rats.
Our next step to prove
the theory was by taking tiny tissue samples from the liver by liver
punctures. When time goes on and the patient recovers, the liver shows
microscopically and chemically that recovery has taken place. This is done by
micro-chemistry. There is an increase of the potassium content and iron, and
now we can even trace the content of cobalt. For ten years, I examined
the potassium content in the serum of human beings and I made about 200
curves. But these are not characteristic. On the other hand, if we take a
little tissue - a little mucous membrane or muscle tissue with the
improvement of the patient, the tissue also shows a return to the normal
potassium content. (12) This is of tremendous importance. Two months ago when I
planned to come here for my vacation, the parents of this little boy wrote me
and asked me for treatment for leukemia. Here is the little boy. He was
treated with blood transfusions, had been 50 and 60,000 white blood count and
his red blood count was down to 1,400,000. He lost eight pounds in one week,
couldn't eat or drink. I started the treatment about six weeks ago. Since
that time, the boy is up and around, he can ride his bicycle, he is active
and gained a total of five pounds. The blood count is normal. Lymphocytes are
6,500; hemoglobin is 73; 4,500,000 red blood cells - from 1,400,000! And here
is the little boy. (The mother adds: “I want to tell you doctor, he really
likes the liver juice, he doesn't want to eat chocolate!”) You see,
the liver juice, the children really like it and ask for more. In the clinic
where the parents had taken the child, they were told that nothing could be
done for him but I feel that now we can save I have here another
patient: Mr. Eyerly. Could you come here? Mr. Eyerly came here to see me. He
lives in By chance I had these two
patients here and could show them to you.
Post-Lecture Questions
and Answers A. Fibroid tumors are
mostly benign. Benign tumors take 10 to 20 times as much time to absorb as
malignant tumors. This goes for adhesions and scars. Fibroid and benign
tumors are dissolved only very slowly because they are not abnormal. It is
difficult for the parenteral system to bring its digestive powers to bear on
these benign tumors. But when they turn malignant, then they are quickly
dissolved. Q. (from a doctor) Dr.
Gerson, when I visited your hospital in 1946 your housekeeper was drinking
fresh carrot juice. She had had an inoperable cancer of the pancreas. Please
tell us about her. She was doing very well for such a bad condition. A. She is living
and in good condition now, 10 years later.
Q. Is cancer a
state of reaction of unrestrained excessive factors of certain hormones
working on various degenerated organs or tissues? A. No, I don't
think so. There is much more and to answer that question, I have to go deeper
into the problem. We have to separate the state of pre-cancerous condition
from the state where the cancer appears. In the pre-cancerous condition, all
is prepared. The liver is sufficiently damaged and the other organs of the
intestinal tract are damaged enough and then later the symptoms appear. Until
then we have the pre-cancerous condition and this condition cannot be cured
with hormones and enzymes, etc. We can to a certain degree stimulate the
liver with hormones. We can stimulate the liver with cortisone. We can
stimulate the liver with adrenalin etc., but then we take out the last
reserves. We empty the liver instead of refilling it. What we have to do in
cancer -a degenerative, deficiency disease- is to refill the organs which are
empty and poisoned. Therefore it is almost a crime to give cortisone and the
other stimulants which will take away the last reserves and improve the
condition for a short while only.
Q. Why are all
berries prohibited? A. Some of the
patients are hypersensitive, especially in the beginning, against berries
which are a little difficult to digest. Therefore I cut them out. Q. Are tomatoes OK? A. Tomatoes are OK. Q. Soy products and
soy beans are forbidden. But is lecithin forbidden, which is made from soy
beans? A. Since soy beans
contain fats, I had to forbid them. Cancer patients are not able for a long
time to digest fats to the end products. When some intermediate substances are
left in the body, they work as carcinogenic substances. Therefore we had to
cut out fats, oil, and goods containing them for a long time. Q. What metabolic tests
do you do before and after to further prove recovery systematically as well
as clinically? A. I examine in all
these case the urine, the complete blood count, basal metabolism or
protein-bound iodine, and potassium in serum and tissue. To see how the liver
functions, I found it best to examine the end product of the protein
metabolism, urea nitrogen and uric acid. When these are normal and stay
normal, then I assume that the patient is all right. But potassium in serum
does not give a characteristic picture and makes it difficult to judge. The
patient can be cured yet the serum potassium still shows low because the
tissues take it away. In some of the cancer patients when they arrive as
terminal cases, potassium is above normal! One of the physicians asked me
once, "Are you crazy? With the potassium above normal, you give such big
doses of potassium?" And I said, “Yes, sir, I am not crazy. The
patient is losing the potassium. (12) That is how it is increased in the
serum." Q.Is fat-free lecithin
OK? A. Yes. But not in
the beginning. After six weeks, fat-free lecithin is OK. Q. How harmful is
coffee as a drink? A. Coffee as a
drink can be used by the patients only when they take the castor oil because
coffee increases the motility of the stomach so the castor oil moves more
quickly out of the stomach. But otherwise, coffee as a drink disturbs the
function of the capillaries and therefore it has to be cut out. Q. Would not
detoxification be advisable in the majority of illnesses? Is this not
comparable to what is called "a cleansing program?" A. We have to
detoxify the body in all degenerative diseases, in acute diseases too. But
not to the extent as is required in cancer. Even most of the arthritis cases
are not so toxic. I found that almost all of the arthritis cases have a weak
liver or damaged liver. This is also true of coronary disease. Q. Are (synthetic)
vitamin and mineral supplements OK? A. No, they are
wrong because calcium and many other minerals cannot be added so easily. They
bring the system out of harmony. With calcium you can produce cancer. I was
forced in three cases of hemophilia to give calcium to bring the blood to
coagulate. I did it but the cancer regrew and I lost all three cases. No
calcium, no magnesium, no other minerals. I tried it. There must be harmony
in our body under the law of totality. One should not change the mineral
metabolism, especially not in cancer. Only the two most important minerals
potassium and sodium must be balanced. This is the need of the cancer
patient. Q. In John
Gunther's book, Death Be Not Proud,
mention is made of your treatment as used on John Gunther's son. Spectacular
results were obtained at first but then there was a relapse and the patient
died. Could you have cured this case without the regular MD's interference? A. I will tell you
why this poor boy died. He had a terrible brain tumor growing out of the
skull, larger than my fist. I cured that. It's written in the book. But after
that, the boy had an eczema and this eczema was of a special type which can
usually be cured by giving the anterior lobe pituitary extract, a hormone.
The family doctor, Dr. Traeger, said, "Why don't you give it to
him?" But I told him that this is a terrible risk and I don't like to
take such a risk with the life of that boy. When we give the pituitary, like
many other hormones we may kill. But finally I gave in and it was my fault.
And for a long time after that I couldn't sleep nights. I gave him the
hormone and the tumor regrew. I can add to that, that more than 12 years ago
now, there appeared an article by a professor in Q. Your treatment
worked in advanced cases of cancer of the liver? A. If more than
half to three-quarters of the liver is gone, you can't restore its function
enough to save the patient. You may save them for half a year to a year, but
then the liver may shrink and the patients die of a shrunken liver, cirrhosis
of the liver. The liver is such an important organ that when it has to
eliminate its own cancer, this has to be done by the healthy liver tissue.
But the process of elimination can damage the healthy liver tissue if we
don't detoxify constantly day and night, especially in these cases. Now about three or four
months ago a case came to me from (Comment by M.C.: “I may
say that I have looked through a lot of these places in a general way. I have
been through Dr. Gerson's sanatorium on three different occasions and spent
each time eight or ten days. I saw cases come in there by ambulance, on
stretchers - just like Dr. Gerson said -hopeless metastatic cancers of the
liver, the intestines, with obstructions, getting morphine every three to
four hours. To my amazement within ten days these same patients would be
walking around, free from pain. I was so amazed I couldn't understand it. It
was so incredible that I made my son who was a senior in medical school come
back with me to see these things. But it was not only cancer. I saw cases there
of other degenerative diseases of all types.”) Q. Is folic acid
treatment contra-indicated during treatment of cancer? A. Yes, (synthetic)
folic acid did damage. Q. Can arthritis be
cured by the same treatment which you use for cancer? A. Yes. The
treatment is not specific. It is not a specific treatment for cancer. Q. How do you account for
the fact that many skin cancers and some other cancers can be surgically
removed and they never regrow or recur, even though no metabolic changes have
been made? A. Some patients
have only temporary damage of the liver and the liver is then able to restore
itself. But that is not in a majority of the cases. Sometimes if you remove,
say a breast cancer, the removal of these toxins and poisons which the cancer
itself generates is sufficient in some cases to relieve the temporary damage
from the liver. Then the liver can recover. But these are the exceptions. And
it is not basic. Also some of these patients get recurrences later. Many of
my patients, after an initial operation, had stayed well for three or
sometimes even five years. Then the cancer recurred. They were inoperable and
orthodox medicine was helpless. Q. Would it not be
advantageous for the cancer patients to remain permanently on a vegetarian
diet for the rest of their lives? A. That depends on
how far the liver can be restored. If it can be restored entirely, after say
1˝ years, we tell the patients only to avoid fats and salt. Otherwise they
are free. Many of them lead normal lives. But I'd like to say that about 75%
like to stay more or less on the diet, and some even convince the other
members of their families to stay on it with them. For instance, we have a
photograph here in Escondido of Mr. Walter Wagg. He had a 100% incurable
disease, progressive muscular dystrophy. He had been in the best clinics and
could get no help. I cured him. Then his wife wanted to have another baby and
they were able to have one. Later he came to where I was spending my vacation
and showed me his wife and the baby. He told me that the whole family sticks
to the diet and said he would stay with it as long as he lived since he is in
such fine condition. Q. What can be done for
impaired lymph circulation following surgery in one arm for what was
diagnosed as cancer? A. It is very
difficult to absorb these scars so that the lymph circulation can be
restored, a very difficult task. It takes years. Q. What is your
conception of a prolonged fast or periodical three-day fast? A. You can't let the
cancer patient fast. In the cancer patient the body is so depleted, if you
let them fast they go downhill terribly.
Q. What would you
consider more important, diet or balanced emotions? A. The balanced
emotional condition is very important but without the diet and the Q. Would
Parkinson's disease respond to a treatment similar as that for cancer? A. What is
destroyed in the central nervous system - and Parkinson's disease is a
disease of the basal centers - is destroyed forever. But you are able to help
the arteries in the brain with the treatment, and you can stop the
progression, and you can restore what is not yet entirely destroyed. Q. Does anemia
contribute to cancer? A. Sometimes it is
a pre-condition to cancer, especially a certain type of anemia, not the
so-called secondary anemia. Q. Can too much
vegetable juice cause alkalinity? A. No. Q. Dr. Otto Warburg
advises increased intake of oxygen. A. Oxygen would not
go into the system so easily. You must have oxidizing enzymes, you must have
more potassium, you must have the conditions under which oxygen can function. Q. What vitamins are OK
to take with your treatment? A. With the vitamins we
have a similar situation as we saw with the hormones. I damaged patients with
vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin B and B6. Patients get really damaged. Vitamin
A and D is picked up by the cancer cells immediately. Niacin we can use, that
is B-3. (Editor’s Note: the Gerson Diet is extremely high in natural
vitamins. Cancer patients are probably very sensitive to overdosage
with synthetic vitamin preparations.)
Q. What do you
think of deep manipulation? A. Cancer patients
should not be massaged. Rubbing of the skin to open the capillaries and to
help the body to stimulate the circulation is very valuable. We give the
patient a rub two or three times a day before meals with a solution of ˝
glass water with two tablespoons rubbing alcohol and two tablespoons of wine
vinegar. To rub the whole body is very refreshing and helps the circulation. Q. Can a person
with a colostomy take the same type of coffee enema as a regular patient? A. Yes. Q. What are the
principles of the coffee enema? A. It opens the
bile ducts. This is the principle. Q. How can we
prevent cancer? A. Cancer must
be prevented by preventing damage to the liver. The basic measure of
prevention is not to eat the damaged, dead, poisoned food which we bring into
our bodies. Every day, day by day, we poison our bodies. The older people
still have a better liver and resistance from the food they had when they
were young. The younger people get worse and the babies, now the second
generation on canned baby foods, are still worse. They get leukemias. First
of all, eat as much as you can of raw food, keep the potassium level
up, and take some iodine. A search for “Gerson” at the www.doctoryourself.com mainpage
will bring up much more on the subject.) NOTES AND REFERENCES 2. M. Gerson, ibid, 77,
967 (1930). 3. M. Gerson,
"Phosphorlebertran und die Gerson-Herrrnannsdorfersche Diat zur Heilung
der Tuberkulose," Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr., 12, 1(1930). 4. F. Sauerbruch, A.
Herrmannsdorfer and M. Gerson, Muench. Med. Wochenschr, 23 (1930). 5. M. Gerson,
"Wiederherstellung der verschiedenen Gefuchiqualitaeten bei der
Lupushei. lung," Verli. Disch. Ge:. 6. M. Gerson, Diattherapie
der Lungentuberkulose, Deuticke, 7. M. Gerson,
"Einiges ucher die kochsalzarme Diat," Hyppokokrates Z.
Einheitsbestr. Gegenwarismed., 12, 627 (1931). 8. F. Sauerbruch, Das
War Mein Leben, Kindler und Schiermeyer Verlag, Bad Woerischofen, 1951,
pp 363-371. This contains an account of how the author learned of Gerson's
work by an accidental conversation on the train with one of Gerson's cured TB
patients, which led to a large scale successful trial of the Gerson TB
therapy at the Sauerbruch clinic. 9. E. Urbach and E.
B. Le Winn, Skin Diseases, Nutrition, and Metabolism. Grune and 10. M. Gerson,
"Dietary considerations in malignant neoplastic disease. A preliminary
report," Rev. GastroenteroL, 12, 419 (1945). 11. "Effects
of a combined dietary regime on patients with malignant tumors," Exp.
Med. Surg., 7, 299 (1949). 12. F. W. Cope,
"A medical application of the Ling association-induction hypothesis: The
high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson cancer therapy," Physiol.
Chem. Phys., 10, 465 (1978). 13. M. Gerson,
"Diattherapie boesartiger Erkrankungen (Krebs)," in Handbuch der
Diatetik. Scala, Ed., Deuticke, 14. M. Gerson, A
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