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A History of Natural Alternative Medicine Part 2
By 1a2b | July 2, 2010
Over twenty years before Pauling, McCormick had already reviewed
the nutritional causes of heart disease and noted that four out
of five coronary cases in hospital show vitamin C deficiency.
McCormick also early proposed vitamin C deficiency as the
essential cause of, and effective cure for, numerous communicable
illnesses, becoming an early advocate of using vitamin C as an
antiviral and an antibiotic. Modern writers often pass by the
fact that McCormick actually advocated vitamin C to prevent and
cure the formation of some kidney stones as far back as 1946.
Linus Pauling, PhD It was two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus
Pauling who coined the term “ortho molecular.” Ortho molecular
medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating
disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances
which are natural to the body. Pauling identified sickle-cell
anemia as the first molecular disease and subsequently laid the
foundation for molecular biology, and then developed a theory
that explained the molecular basis of vitamin therapy. Irwin
Stone first introduced Pauling to Vitamin C, recommending
3,000mg a day, which was 50 times the RDA. Pauling and his wife
began taking this amount, the severe colds that he had suffered
from several times a year all his life no longer occurred. After
a few years he increased his intake of vitamin C to 100 times,
then 200 times, and then 300 times the RDA (now 18,000 mg per
day). Pauling lived to be 93.
“Professor Pauling, as always, is ahead of his time. The latest
research on vitamin C substantiates his twenty-five years of
advocacy and investigation on the benefits of vitamin C.”, said
J. Daniel Kanofsky, MD, MPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Josef Issels. Because of his well-known professional skills,
his kindness, and relatively high rate of survivors, many cancer
patients in the terminal stage came to consult German Dr. Josef
Issels. In 1951, one wealthy and grateful patient funded his
private clinic, where he continued his successful work until
1960, when he was arrested by the German ‘Kriminalpolizei’ on the
instigation of his medical opponents. He had to close down his
clinic for years, in spite of a report from an independent
scientist who had concluded that, of 252 terminal cancer patients
with histologically proved metastases, 42 had survived for at
least five years (17%) with the Issels therapy. For terminal
patients, such a score is disproportionately high.
Issels believed that cancer was the end stage, the ultimate
symptom, of a lifetime of immune system damage which had created
an environment for the tumor to grow. He argued that conventional
therapy just looked at the tumor without recognizing this
longtime pre conditioning period. Dr. Issels saw the body as
having great potential to heal itself. Good nutrition and a clean
environment were central to his therapy.
In the end, Issels was proven to be right. From 1967 to 1970,
Professor J. Anderson of King’s College Hospital and member of
the World Health Organization inspected Issels’ reopened clinic.
He confirmed the highly significant survival rate of Issels’
terminal cancer patients. His legacy is continued by the work of
his wife, Ilsa and his son Christian.
Dr. William Kaufman. Dr. Kaufman was among the very first
physicians to therapeutically employ mega doses of vitamin B3
(niacin, or niacin amide). He prescribed as much as 5,000 mg of
niacin amide daily, in many divided doses, to dramatically
improve and restore range of joint motion in arthritic patients.
Kaufman said, “I noted that niacin amide (alone or combined with
other vitamins) in a thousand patient-years of use has caused no
adverse side effects.”
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