Vitamin C , Vitamin B17- laetrile

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Vitamin C , Vitamin B17 - laetrile

The all-round benefits of Vitamin C to the human physiology have been known and utilised for centuries. In terms of its benefits in cancer treatment and prevention, we read the following from Phillip Day:

“Dr Linus Pauling, often known as the ‘Father of Vitamin C’ and twice awarded the Nobel Prize, declared that daily intakes of up to 10g of the vitamin aids anti-cancer activity within the body. Pauling was largely derided for making these declarations, but today, large doses of Vitamin C are used by many practitioners for cancer patients in nutritional therapy, who believe Pauling was right and that the popular nutrient is indispensable to the body in its fight to regain health from cancer.” [31]

Vitamin C can also protect against breast cancer.

After reviewing 90 studies on the relationship between Vitamin C and cancer, Gladys Block, Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley concluded,

“There is overwhelming evidence of the protective effect of vitamin C and other antioxidants against cancer of the breast.” [32]

And Geoffrey R. Howe of the National Cancer Institute of Canada reviewed 12 case-controlled studies of diet and breast cancer and noted that Vitamin C had the most consistent statistically significant relationship to the reduction of breast cancer risk. [32a] And on the subject of the importance of mineral and vitamin supplements, a recent New York Times front-page article quoted Dr. Geoffrey P. Oakley, Jr., at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as saying:

“We, the physicians, were mistaken not to recommend vitamin supplements to our patients for so long. We need just to admit that on this one, we were wrong.” [33]
Dr Nicola Hembry of the Dove Clinic, specialising in the non-conventional approach to cancer care and treatment:

“Nutritional treatments such as high dose vitamin C and B17 (laetrile) have been known about for years, and there are many success stories from patients lucky enough to have received and benefited from them. Research shows that levels of 400mg/dl Vitamin C in the blood can kill cancer cells by a pro-oxidative mechanism, and there is a great deal of data showing that B17 is preferentially toxic to cancer cells.

The trouble is that there is little in the way of well-designed random control trial data for the use of these substances, and therefore mainstream medicine rejects them out of hand without even considering the evidence available or even asking why these trials haven't been carried out.

It has to be said that one of the reasons is a lack of financial incentive because these substances cannot be patented. Sadly it is the cancer sufferers who lose out. To not even have the choice of these safer, more natural treatments even when a cancer is deemed incurable and only palliative chemotherapy or radiotherapy is offered is in my view totally unacceptable. I have seen many patients experience an improved duration and quality of life with an integrated approach, and some go on to achieve complete remission of their disease even when dismissed as incurable by their oncologists.”

Hazel had been given a virtual death sentence by her cancer doctor, telling her that although there was an 86% recovery from her type of breast cancer, she was unfortunately in the smaller category. As previously noted, Hazel’s chemotherapy was only making her feel terrible, and she decided that if she was going to die, then she would do so without further conventional treatment.

Hazel began a regime of intravenously, IV administered Vitamin C and supplements including Vitamin B17 and paid great attention to her diet. She soon began to feel a great deal better. She regained her weight and her hair and her appetite. About nine months following the diagnosis, she was troubled with lower back pain and visited her doctor. He suggested a further scan based on Hazel’s lower back pain, which the doctor believed was possibly the result of her cancer having spread to the base of her spine.

Hazel said there was no way she was going for more chemotherapy or scans which she believes in themselves can trigger carcinogenic activity. Instead, Hazel supplemented her Vitamin C regime with a course of Vitamin B17 kernels, as well as maintaining a sensible diet and staying away from her conventional cancer physician. The blood count taken by her GP before Christmas read as normal. She feels very healthy and is in the process of writing a book on her experiences. She feels passionately that people need to know that there are alternative cancer treatments available and speaks to groups on this subject.

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Because of the Money

Cancer is big business, and knowledge claims on any treatments that earn money and, conversely, on any treatments that do not earn money for the drug companies are never neutral.

Dr Ralph Moss served as the Assistant Director of Public Affairs at America's most famous cancer research institution, Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan. He knows the cancer industry inside out. Read what he had to say in an April 1994 interview with Laura Lee, and judge for yourself the quality of the evidence against the effectiveness of vitamin B17:

Dr Moss: "Shortly after I went to work [at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute], I visited the elderly Japanese scientist Kanematsu Sugiura, who astonished me when he told me he was working on laetrile (B17). At the time it was the most controversial thing in cancer, reputed to be a cure for cancer.

We in Public Affairs were giving out statements that laetrile was worthless, it was quackery, and that people should not abandon proven therapies.

I was astonished that our most distinguished scientist would be bothering with something like this, and I said, 'Why are you doing this if it doesn't work?' He took down his lab books and showed me that, in fact, laetrile was dramatically effective in stopping the spread of cancer."

Laura Lee: "So this is verified, that laetrile can have this positive effect?"

Moss: "We were finding this and yet we in Public Affairs were told to issue statements to the exact opposite of what we were finding scientifically."23

Unable to sit on this information, Dr Moss later called a press conference of his own and, before a battery of reporters and cameramen, charged that Sloan-Kettering officials had engineered a massive cover-up. He provided all the supporting documents and named all the names necessary to validate his case.

The following day he was fired for "failing to carry out his most basic job responsibilities".

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/doctoring2.html

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The human and plant kingdoms are intimately connected; for every disease there is a cure provided by plants.

Essiac http://www.hidden-cancer-cures.com/h...ncer-cures.htm

In the mid nineteen twenties, Rene Caisse was head nurse at the Sisters of Providence Hospital in a northern Ontario town. One of her patients told Caisse a story, that a very old Indian medicine man had told her she had cancer, but he could cure it. The medicine man told her what herbs to use and how to make a tea from them; the formula worked, the cancer was cured. This woman gave Caisse the formula. Caisse became involved with using the herb to treat cancer, and called the formula Essiac (which is Caisse spelled backwards).

Caisse only treated patients with permission of medical men and under their observation, which is how she stayed out of jail. She had living proof of her success, with clinical x-ray and pathological proof of results, after everything known to medical science had failed.

For decades she fought a battle with the medical establishment in an attempt to get her formula recognized and brought out for the benefit of humanity. In the end, she failed; cancer is still said to be incurable. But you, lucky reader, now know about it and can avail yourself of it.

There is controversy about the recipe. There are books that claim to offer the recipe, but these are modified versions of the authenticated one. There is agreement about the herbs though; Essiac is made from burdock root, sweet sorrel herb, slippery elm bark, and turkey rhubarb root.
Rene Caisse's Original Formula, from the book Essiac Essentials, lists the ingredients by weight:

4.25oz/120g burdock root, chopped to size of small peas
2.8oz/80g sheep sorrel, powdered
0.7oz/20g slippery elm, powdered
0.18oz/5g turkey rhubarb powdered

Caution: All herbs should be US organic and not irradiated.

There is an interview with Dr. Glum who tells the story of Charles A. Brusch, a personal physician to the late John F. Kennedy. He said: Dr. Brusch worked with Rene Caisse from 1959 until 1962. He worked with thousands of cancer patients. Dr. Brusch presented his findings after ten years of research. In his own words, "Essiac is a cure for cancer, period! All studies done at laboratories in the United States and Canada support this conclusion." Whereupon the federal government issued a gag order on this information!