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VITAMIN C

Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.

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Definition:

"Orthomolecular Medicine emphasizes natural substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fats, and diet in the prevention and treatment of diseases. Food and chemical sensitivities, candida, and parasites are considered important. Chelation for the elimination of heavy toxic metals is utilized where needed. I am especially interested in the use of megadoses of vitamin C, both orally and intravenously." -Dr. Cathcart- 

 

IV Ascorbate Used in the Treatment of Cancer

Hugh Riordan, M.D., Articles on the use on intravenous ascorbate in the treatment of cancer.  

More Riordan Articles on the use of IVC for Cancer.

Ascorbate Web, Read It Yourself.  An Outstanding Resource of Articles from Medical Literature on Vitamin C.

Drug Cartel Plans Genocide by Outlawing Vitamins

Drug companies trying to shove Codex law to outlaw adequate doses of vitamins down the Earth population's throats so as to sell more drugs.  This ridiculous attempt amounts to GENOCIDE.   JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO STOP THIS and learn how not to need dangerous drugs.

Cause and Treatment of SIDS Found and Suppressed

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Archie Kalokerinos, M.D.

His book, Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, Describes how acute induced scurvy is the cause of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.)  His constant fight with the medical establishment in Australia and their refusal to listen to the obvious which would save thousands of infants is recorded.  Descibes how innocent people are unjustly jailed for the shaken baby syndrome.  Describes the injustice of the Australian Nanny case (the most famous case of shaken baby syndrome.)  Describes many other nutritional problems of the Aboriginal children which are also present in white children all over the world.

 

The Answer to Crib Death “Sudden Infant Death Syndrome” (SIDS) by Joseph G. Hattersley

Cause Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Remains Elusive

See the above book by Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., Medical Pioneer of the 20th Century, who has shown that SIDS is caused by acute induced scurvy. Why is this not investigated?   As far as I know there have never been any studies that refute this claim.  Is admitting that large doses of ascorbate that terrible?  In the reference by Hattersley above one can see the massive number of references on this subject in the literature.   This hiding of the efficacy of ascorbate is going from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Intravenous Ascorbate Treatment for Cancer?

New insights into the physiology and pharmacology of vitamin C with suggestions about investigating intravenous ascorbate in the treatment of cancer.

The proposed studies are fraught with possibilities of not making it work if previous patterns of investigating ascorbate are utilized.  One of the frequent problems of investigators who have contacted me about investigating ascorbate is that the investigational committees, ethics committee, or pharmacy committee will not allow the investigator to use adequate doses of ascorbate thereby insuring failure of the project.  To learn how to treat many cancers with ascorbate, the investigators should contact Hugh Riordan, M.D.    Refusing to do that I would suggest no less than 60-120 grams of sodium ascorbate intravenously rapidly infused at a rate of 60 grams in 2 to 3 hours every day for several months.  As the tumor resolves, the infusions may possibly be dropped to 2 times a week for a long time.   One caution is that if the patient has not been taking ascorbate orally in fairly large doses, they should be started on oral ascorbic acid very slowly if there is widespread metastasis.  This caution is because about one out of 100 tumors will suddenly drop dead at the sight of ascorbate and the sudden death of a large tumor mass may kill the patient. This caution was noted in Cameron and Pauling's Vitamin C and Cancer.  Additionally, I would suggest a overall nutritional support plan that Hugh Riorday, M.D. could help with.  Especially important in addition to the basic nutrients is alpha lipoic acid 100 mg 3 times a day.

Proof versus plausibility: rules of engagement for
the struggle to evaluate alternative cancer
therapies

The in vitro cytotoxicity of ascorbate depends on the culture medium used to perform the assay and involves hydrogen peroxide.

This paper is important when one is thinking about how ascorbate could selectively kill cancer and not normal cells.  Normal cells have catalase and cancer cells do not.

POLIO CURED IN 1948

Fred Klenner, M.D. Cured Polio in 1948 with Intravenous Sodium Ascorbate.

WHO Says One Polio Strain Eradicated but there are 2 strains remaining affecting more than 28,000 cases a year.  Why are not the more than 28,000 cases a year treated with intravenous sodium ascorbate which would cure most of them?  You know, of course, that how to cure polio was published in 1949?   You didn't know that?  I wonder why not.  There has never been a paper to counter Klenner's clinical observations.  I wonder why not.

Polio Victims Suffering Late Relapse

Measles Kills 45 in India; May Be New Type

Ascorbic acid in large doses orally will ameliorate measles.  In cases where there is inflammation of the brain, intravenous sodium ascorbate should be used.  These types of diseases kill by way of free radicals.  This is a very simple situation to solve.  You just give massive doses of ascorbate in sufficient amounts to provide the electrons to neutralize the free radicals.  The person's immune system then makes short work of the virus.  This works with all acute self-limiting viral diseases because they all kill or cause symptoms and complications with free radicals.

Legionnaire's Disease - Probable Cure

2nd Autoworker Dies of Legionnaires, March 17, 2001

The massive doses of ascorbate almost always prevents secondary infections.

One dead in Ohio Legionnaire's outbreak, March 16, 2001

Legionnaire's Disease Closes Ford Plant, March 16, 2001

Legionnaire's disease closes Ford plant, March 14, 2001

The president of one of the companies that I have worked with in the past told me this story:  In 1976, he and his friend went to a conference in Philadelphia.  A few days after he came home, he came down with what he thought was bronchitis.  He said that he thought that it would be a good time to try "Cathcart's titrating to bowel tolerance" with vitamin C.  So he began taking ascorbic acid in large doses (actually he did not get to tolerance at first).  The next day he was not well but he was still working.  So he raised the dose.  Still no diarrhea; he was not well but still working.  Then he heard that his friend had died!!!  He went to his doctor who tested his blood and prescribed him erythromycin.  The first dose made him so sick that he did not take more erythromycin.  He increased the dose of C and after a few days was all well.  The blood work had come back by this time and it showed he had had Legionnaire's disease.  The conference he had gone to was that famous Legionnaire's meeting.  His friend had died of the disease. 

OK gang, why don't you try this?  With a death rate of 20%-50% what could it hurt?  Those who are not yet hospitalized can try the titrating to bowel tolerance method (Do see your doctor and take his prescrition probably of erythromycin.)   However, if you are in the hospital and can get your physician's cooperation, be given intravenous sodium ascorbate.   Recovery should be quite rapid.  It cannot hurt and may save your life.  There is no conflict between ascorbate and antibiotics and the ascorbate will, most probably, block any true allergic reaction to the antibiotic.

Ebola found in rodents

A soft hypothesis:  In the past, I have observed that if you cannot give a disease to any animal except for man, monkey, or guinea pig, try vitamin C   in high doses on the humans with the disease and you will probably cure the disease.  This is because man, monkey, and guinea pigs do not make ascorbate; other animals do.  It has been observed by many that vitamin C in moderate doses will usually cure a cold only if taken very early.  This is because the moderate doses are not enough to cure the disease after a significant free radical cascade starts.   Massive doses will cure the disease, however.  Even though Ebola is probably a "500 gram disease," the animals who make ascorbate should be relatively immune to it because they are able to control the virus before it can cause the free radical cascade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: see explaination of this type of chart.

Canada.Com search on Ebola, over 14,000 links.

The number of links shows how seriously the Ebola Virus is taken in many countries.  It could kill millions in this country.  This makes one wonder about why the medical community will not try massive doses of ascorbate on Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever patients who are mostly dying anyway.  It will certainly ameliorate the disease.  In the book, Fever, by John G. Fuller, he mentions that he first survivor of Lassa Fever, nurse Pinneo, was taking vitamins.  If the doctors will not give sodium ascorbate by vein, maybe families might sneak in ascorbic acid by mouth; it might help.  The problem is that this may be a 500 gram disease.

Health Canada rules out Ebola virus as cause
of woman's mysterious illness, 2/8/01 ,  but other viral hemorrhagic fevers not ruled out. 

If the doctors do not think she has acute induced scurvy they should test her blood levels of vitamin C.  I will guarantee that they will be zero or almost zero.  Therefore, she should be given massive doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously followed by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid as she recovers.

EBOLA IS PROBABLY IN CANADA, 2/6/01, NO, THE AILING WOMAN IN CANADA DOES NOT HAVE EBOLA, 2/7/01, Labs rule out infectious hemorrhagic fevers in Congolese woman, 2/11/01.  Ailment plaguing Congolese woman may never be known, hospital says, 2/12/01

That was close.  They are still worrying about some hemorrhagic fever,  but the patient is bleeding from several orifices.  With the hemorrhagic fevers or any severe infectious disease, the patient's vitamin C is burned up by free radicals so rapidly that they get "acute induced scurvy."  One of the symptoms of scurvy is bleeding of course.   Massive doses of C will probably correct this situation no matter which hemorrhagic fever or other serious infectious disease causes it.  If this lady were given sodium ascorbate intravenously, her recovery would probably amaze all the doctors.  So far, I am not reassured.   With the patient bleeding from several orifices and the cause being unknown, not only do they not know what it is, they do not know how it is spread.  I would not let down isolation proceedures;  I would strengthen them and give the patient intravenous sodium ascorbate.  It does not matter at this time what is causing the bleeding, her chances would be better if they gave IVC.

Frantic over Scarlet Fever

Scarlet Fever Found in Seven D.C. Schools

·         Fortunately, acute Scarlet Fever is usually one of the easiest diseases for ascorbate to cure.   This is even after the rash and fever occurs.  It is so easy that apparently the ascorbate in adequate amounts neutralizes the strep toxin instantly.  With the toxin gone, there is nothing for the immune system to react to.  The rash, fever, etc., disappear within a few hours.  Penicillin should be used to kill any residual beta hemolytic streptococcus but the dramatic resolution of symptoms has to be due to the ascorbate because it is so dramatic.  The ascorbate also protects the patient from allergic reactions to penicillin.   Because the disease can otherwise be so damaging, intravenous sodium ascorbate should be used although I suspect that oral ascorbic acid to bowel tolerance would markedly ameliorate the disease.

6 D.C. Students Have Scarlet Fever

 

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EBOLA MAY THREATEN THE UNITED STATES

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States Regroup On West Nile Disease

Here it comes again.  Why not use intravenous sodium ascorbate on seriously ill patients and neutralize all their free radicals so as to save their life.

Woman suspected stricken with Ebola came into close contact with only two

So now Ebola is probably in Canada,  I wonder if they will give intravenous sodium ascorbate a try.   Free radicals play a part in killing these victims.  Therefore, massive doses of oral ascorbic acid or in more severe cases intravenous sodium ascorbate would neutralize these free radicals and save lives.

Experts Move Against Ebola-Like Outbreak in Congo

Ebola Doctor Buried As Uganda Despairs

When these doctors are dying, why do they not give intravenous sodium ascorbate to themselves?

Nine dead as Ebola spreads to Pakistan

Better stock up on sodium ascorbate for intravenous injection.  This ascorbate in massive doses will neutralize the free radicals which kill in Bbola and other hemorragic fevers as a result of the "acute induced scurvy."  Ascorbate in massive doses will neutralize free radicals; it is a matter of chemistry; however, in Ebola which is probably about a 500 gram disease, enough ascorbate must be used to drive a reducing redox potential into the affected tissues.

West Nile virus spreading rapidly, officials warn

Demands on ERs to increase during flu season

Here again we have a use for oral ascorbic acid and intravenous sodium ascorbate that would save many lives. I will admit that I have never treated a case of Ebola but I have treated hundreds of cases of flu and ascorbate absolutely works to prevent many cases and markedly ameliorates established cases. Flus are usually 100 to 150 gram diseases so they usually do not provoke bleeding. The Ebola is probably a 300 to 500 gram disease so it rapidly causes a severe acute induced scurvy which causes bleeding throughout the body, malaise, coma, death, etc. There has recently been discovered a toxin produced by the Ebola virus which damages the blood vessels and causes the bleeding. This toxin is undoubted a free radical which can be neutralized by massive and only massive doses of ascorbate.

Mystery Disease Kills 7 in Brazil

Here we have a mysterious infectious disease that is killing people.  Free radicals are a major part of what is killing these people no matter what the organism turns out to be.  Massive doses of ascorbic acid by mouth or in the more serious cases, intravenous sodium ascorbate would save most of these lives.

West Nile Virus Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?

Ebola spreads from northern to southwestern Uganda

Uganda Confirms Ebola Death Far From
Outbreak Site
Haemorrhagic Fevers

Ebola Virus Kills 80 in Uganda
WHO Says Deadly Ebola Outbreak to Last Months
HAS EBOLA COME TO THE U.S.?

Uganda Ebola Toll Reaches 103, Survivors
Shunned

Uganda Ebola Death Toll Rises To 73

Plane quarantined after passenger bled from eyes

This is undoubtedly a false alarm but it shows how worried some people are.

Mystery death spurs concern: Ebola not ruled out.

Hopefully, this is a false alarm but why do they not try intravenous sodium ascorbate in massive amounts.

Uganda in terror as ebola spreads

U.S. Experts Help Tackle Ebola Outbreak

OK gang, what would it hurt to use intravenenous sodium ascorbate, maybe in doses of 200 to 500 grams per 24 hours.  They are going to die anyway.  You would have to experiment to find out the flexible doses.   If this disease gets loose in the US, half the people could be dead in 6 months.   Free radicals can always be neutralized with enough vitamin C.   We throw away the vitamin C for the electrons carried.  This is why the enormous doses.   When you neutralize all the free radicals generated by other acute infectious diseases, They are cured.  Come on gang, give it a try; see if Ebola can be cured.  Even polio can be cured with massive doses of IV C.

Ebola death toll in Uganda rises

If this disease breaks out in the US, millions could be saved with IVC.

New deadly Ebola outbreak reports in Uganda

Maybe this one will be the one to get loose.  Why won't they use intravenous sodium ascorbate?  The symptoms obviously have in common symptoms of scurvy.  Bleeding from every orifice, bruising, intense body pain, coma, etc., all symptoms of scurvy.  We know that infectious diseases burn up ascorbate depending on how toxic they are (depending upon the amount of free radicals produced.)  The sicker a person is the more ascorbic acid they can tolerate without the ascorbic acid causing diarrhea.  Ebola is probably a 500 gram disease. Does the fact that polio was cured by Klenner in 1948 with intravenous sodium ascorbate have anything to do with all this?

West Nile Virus Kills N.J. Man

Here it comes.  Why not try ascorbate in these deathly ill patients.

Scientists keep an eye out for new outbreaks of a rare mosquito-borne virus.

When you read this article realize that the severe inflammatory damage is caused by free radicals.  Massive doses of ascorbate will neutralize those free radicals if enough ascorbate is used.  This is a matter of chemistry.

The Plague Dogs: The Black Death Is Decimating Montana Prairie Dogs

This disease involves free radicals. Therefore, massive doses of ascorbate would ameliorate the disease.  During the acute phase of the disease sodium ascorbate intravenously would markedly decrease the aymptoms.  The appropriate antibiotics should be utilized.   The ascorbat will eliminate allergic reactions to the antibiotics.  Later, maintenance bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid should be utilized.

Army Asked To Fight Mosquito Virus

By using intravenous sodium ascorbate properly, the death rate from this virus would drop to almost zero.

U.S. totally unprepared for bioterrorism

The Defense Department should really learn how to use massive doses of ascorbate.  It would certainly be of help in some of these circumstances described.

Mosquitoes Are Not Only A Pest But A Huge
Health Threat

I do not have experience with malaria but massive doses of ascorbate are bound to ameliorate the disease.  It might be that with malaria, the use of massive doses of ascorbate would broad the spectrum of activity of the appropriate antibiotics as it does with resistant bacterial diseases.  I do have the experience to say that massive doses of ascorbate will cure acute self-limiting viral diseases.  Ascorbate in massive doses will cure or ameliorate a disease in proportion to how important free radicals are in the perpetuation or symptoms of the disease.  The secret of the massive doses is that we are throwing away the vitamin C for the electrons carried by the vitamin C.  We are wasting much of the vitamin C for the electrons carried.   When free radicals are surrounded by a sufficient reducing redox potential (free electrons), they are neutralized.  This is a matter of chemistry.  It always works.

US facing 'silent epidemic' of hepatitis C

Since acute hepatitis A, B, C, etc., is easily cured with massive doses of ascorbate, intravenously and with followup with oral ascorbic acid, it is tragic that it is not properly utilized.  Hepatitis C is a special problem because only about a quarter of cases present as acute (when it would be easily cured).  Chronic hepatitis C is more of a problem, however with massive doses of ascorbic acid orally, a no sugar diet, and many other nutrients, I have never seen a case to go onto acute hepatic necrosis or cancer of the liver.

Explanation of how Massive Doses of Ascorbate Cure Acute Viral Diseases from Colds to Polio and Lassa Fever, Etc., Distemper and Kennel Fever

Girl dies of rare virus; 2 other deaths probed: Disease believed to be spread by rodents

·         So here is one of these diseases that kill by overwhelming the victim with free radicals. Now it is here in California. What harm could there possibly be in neutralizing all those free radicals with massive doses of ascorbate?   IVC followed by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid by mouth would be obviously beneficial.

A pilot study to ascertain carotid artery status in high potency vitamin C supplement takers

Aortic wall damage in mice unable to synthesize ascorbic acid

Virus Found In Mosquitoes, NYC Birds

Researchers Identify Killer Virus

Hospitals told to make emergency plans to cope with biological terrorism attacks

Aid worker with suspected Lassa fever is critical

If virus resurfaces, threat could grow, entomologist says

REPORT: Almost 2,000 people may have been infected with the West Nile virus in New York City...

Return of the killer virus that spread terror in New York

Massachusetts on mosquito al