Dr. Klenner cured 60 cases of polio in 1948 using vitamin C in by injection. Tom Levy, MD cured two cases of West Nile disease in 2003 using intravenous sodium ascorbate, (a form of vitamin C). He also wrote a book "Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins" citing 1200 articles showing that vitamin C given intravenously can cure infections such as hepatitis and encephalitis.
Dr. Linus Pauling with Dr. Ewan Cameron, head of the cancer department of Vale of Levan Hospital treated 100 terminally ill cancer patients in Scotland with 10 grams per day of vitamin C. They all lived an average of six years. Some were still alive after 15 years. The control group of 1000 terminally ill cancer patients all died within the year.
The conclusion of the above is that vitamin C is definitely helpful in serious infectious diseases and cancer, but why wait until getting into such bad shape? Finding a doctor that will give vitamin C intravenously or by injection may be difficult. Sometimes a well-informed patient such as Norman Cousins can persuade their allopath to do it, but many find their MD's resist taking directions from patients.
Being saturated with vitamin C can protect one from infectious diseases by strengthening the immune system, diminishing symptoms of chronic diseases, strengthening the cardiovascular system and even uplifting the spirit, as depression is a symptom of scurvy, the result of an extreme lack of vitamin C.
These vegetables high in vitamin C: parsley, red bell peppers, green peppers broccoli flowers, mustard greens, kale, peas, collards, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and kohlrabi. These are given in approximate order of vitamin C content. Cooked vegetables lose about half their vitamin C from heat and dissolving in the cooking water, so be sure to drink that. Tomatoes have some C but that is often destroyed in iron skillets in which tomatoes or tomato sauce is cooked.
Everyone knows that the citrus fruits are full of C. These are best eaten whole, not as juice. The white layer just under the skin is full of valuable bioflavonoids, which, by some studies, make the amount of ascorbic acid needed much less. The whole fruit has fiber, which is lacking in the juice, which is mostly sugar.
Other fruits especially high in C are camu camu, a shrub growing in the Amazon region, rose hips, acerola, guavas, baobab, black current, kiwi, strawberries, longan, lychee, marula, red current, strawberry, papaya and American persimmon. Then come oranges, lemons, grapefruit, tangerines and limes. All the fruits are listed roughly in order of vitamin C content.
The C in meat resides in the liver. Since the liver is an organ of detoxification it is best eaten from organically raised animals.
People who need more vitamin C, other than those who are sick, are the elderly, people working in toxic environments, smokers, alcoholics and people working under a lot of stress.
The elderly and alcoholics usually are not well nourished.
Smokers use up vitamin C because it supplies the missing electrons of free radicals that occur in smokers, which eventually can cause cancer. An army doctor checking the lungs of recruits could tell how much they smoked by their lung sounds. One day he got one who didn't have smoker's lung, so he congratulated him on not smoking. The recruit said that he smoked a pack a day. The doctor couldn't understand until he was told that the recruit's aunt had recommended he take a gram of C everyday.
People working in toxic environments need extra vitamin C as it is used up in the cells protecting them from harmful genetic alterations. It is also is a chelating agent which can help the body get rid of heavy metals such as lead.
If one decides to take large doses of C to prevent or minimize infections and gets diarrhea that means the body is saturated with the vitamin. Keep well hydrated and be sure to have enough mineral supplements because C chelates all minerals without being selective. For more information on dosage, etc. please visit www.orthomed.com .
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