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A History of Natural Alternative Medicine Part 1
By 1a2b | July 1, 2010
Since the 1930s there has been research involving natural
alternative medicine. Here are some notable examples of
physicians who came to note the power of natural medicine.
Dr’s. Wilfred and Evan Shute. In 1933 Dr’s. Wilfred and Evan
Shute were some of the first doctors to use large doses of
vitamin E to treat heart disease. At that time, antioxidants and
free radicals were rather obscure concepts in the chemistry of
oxidation, far removed from issues of health and disease. Also at
that time, using vitamins to treat serious diseases such as heart
disease and diabetes was considered by the medical establishment
as misguided at best and outright fraud at worst.
In 1985, Linus Pauling wrote: “The failure of the medical
establishment during the last forty years to recognize the value
of vitamin E in controlling heart disease is responsible for a
tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering and for many early
deaths. The interesting story of the efforts to suppress the
Shute discoveries about vitamin E illustrates the shocking bias
of organized medicine against nutritional measures for achieving
improved health.”
Dr. Szent-Györgyi. Dr. Györgyi became interested in a chemical
agent, present in plant juices, which had the effect of delaying
oxidation, such as the browning of a sliced apple exposed to the
air. He suggested that this agent, which was also present in
cabbages and oranges, was the mysterious Vitamin. By 1933, he had
isolated the substance in kilogram lots and named it “ascorbic
acid” which means “the acid which prevents scurvy.” In 1937, he
won the 1937 Nobel Prize for his discovery of vitamin C. He was
the first to predict the use of Vitamin C for cancer.
Irwin Stone, PhD Irwin Stone became interested in the anti-oxidant
properties of ascorbic acid, then newly discovered, as a means of
protecting food against deterioration. He continued his study of
vitamin C for the next 50 years, and in the 1950s he established
that humans would benefit from ingesting much larger amounts of
ascorbates than the medical and nutritional establishments
considered adequate.
Dr. Fredrick Klenner. “In the early 1950s, Dr. Fredrick Klenner
began his work with mega doses of vitamin C. He used doses up to
100 grams per day orally or intravenously. In clinical reports he
recorded the excellent response he saw when it was given in large
doses. For example, polio patients given vitamin C suffered no
residual defects from their polio. A controlled study in England
on 70 children, half given vitamin C and half given placebo,
confirmed that none of the ascorbate treated cases developed any
paralysis while up to 20 percent of the untreated group did. This
study was not published because the Salk Vaccine had just been
developed and no one was interested in vitamins. Dr. Klenner’s
work was ignored.”
Dr. Klenner was the first physician to emphasize that small
amounts of ascorbate do not work. He said, “If you want results,
use adequate ascorbic acid.” As a result of seeing consistent
cures of a great variety of viral and bacterial diseases with
huge doses of vitamin C, he published over twenty medical reports.
Orthodox medicine’s rejection of his lifesaving work stands as a
reminder to all medical mavericks practicing today. “Some
physicians,” Klenner wrote, “would stand by and see their patient
die rather than use ascorbic acid because, in their finite minds,
it exists only as a vitamin.”
Dr. William J. McCormick. Over 50 years ago, it was Toronto
physician William J. McCormick, M.D., who pioneered the idea that
poor collagen formation, due to vitamin C deficiency, was a
principal cause of diverse conditions ranging from stretch marks
to cardiovascular disease and cancer. This theory would become
the foundation for Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron’s decision to
employ large doses of vitamin C to fight cancer.
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July 23rd, 2010 at 5:40 am
Nice post…&…very nicely edited…
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