The Gerson Therapy for Those Dying of Cancer SEVENTY YEARS WERE SPENT IMPROVING A CANCER TREATMENT – HERE IT IS BY VANCE FERRELL THIS BOOK WAS PREPARED FOR CANCER PATIENTS WHOSE DOCTORS HAVE TOLD THEM THEY ARE GOING TO DIE Pilgrims Books PB–282 The Gerson Therapy For Those Dying of Cancer by Vance Ferrell Published by Pilgrims Books Beersheba Springs, TN 37305 USA Printed in the United States of America Cover and Text Copyright © 1999 by Pilgrims Books This book is only written for those whom the physicians have given up on. It can provide you with information you need as you consult with a Gerson-trained physician at the Gerson Institute. Caution: Consult with your physician and do not, without his guidance, attempt self-help therapy. The author and publisher are not responsible for any attempt to do so. This information is provided as an educational tool concerning certain aspects of cancer. “The physician . hesitates to take risks for his patients by applying a not-recognized treatment . I was in a more fa- vorable position. Ninety to ninety-five percent of my patients were far advanced (terminal) cases without any risk to take; either all recognized treatments had failed or the patients were inoperable from the beginning.” —Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy, p. xiv “I should like to tell you what we do to prove that this treat- ment really does work on cancer. Number one, the results. I think I can claim [stated in 1956] that I have, even in these far advanced cases, 50% results.” —Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy, p. 411 FOR ADDITIONAL COPIES: One copy - $4.00, plus $2.50 p&h / Two copies - $3.75 each, plus $3.00 p&h In Tennessee, add 9.25% tax on total 3 Contents The Physiology of Coffee 4 Preparing the Enema Mixture 29 Preface 6 Taking the Enema 29 The Story of Max Gerson 8 Taking Castor Oil by Mouth 30 Taking Castor Oil By Enema 30 1 - INTRODUCTION The reasoning behind this therapy DEALING WITH PAIN Four Special Problems 12 Pain Triad 30 Solving the Four Problems 13 Castor Oil Pack for Pain 30 Better in Seven Ways 13 Hydrotherapy for Pain 31 Five Dangers 14 Heat above the Abdomen for Upset Intes- Why Did Gerson Succeed? 14 tinal Tract 31 Gerson Explains His Method 14 Chamomile Tea Enema for Upset Intesti- nal Tract 31 2 THE BASIC THERAPY Potassium Added to Enema Water 31 What is included in the program Flare-ups and Reactions 31 How to Begin 17 Clay Poultice 32 Do this First 17 Special Needs 18 OTHER POINTS Green Leaf Tea Enema 32 FORBIDDEN FOODS Massage 32 Forbidden Foods 18 The Will to Live and Push Through 32 Forbidden Non-food Substances 19 Instructions for Giving Injections 32 Why Do Some Cancer Patients Do Better FOODS after Surgery? 35 Foods to Use 20 How to Prevent Cancer 35 More on Foods to Use 20 Foods to Eat Each Day 21 3 - SCHEDULES AND SUPPLIES Sample Menu 21 Putting it all together Sodium-Potassium Ratios 21 SCHEDULES Medications - 1 22 Charts: Two Schedules 34 Foods Temporarily Forbidden 23 Initial House Preparation 35 Sample Enema Schedule 35 FOOD PREPARATION Daily Schedule 35 Purchase of Food 23 Kitchen Equipment to Use 24 SUPPLIES Kitchen Equipment Not to Use 24 Kitchen Supplies 36 Juices 24 Three Months’ Supply 37 Preparation of Carrot and Apple Juice 24 Gerson Supply Sources 38 Chart: Using the Norwalk Juicer 25 Locating Organic Food 40 Preparation of Citrus Juices 26 Supply Order Form 39 Preparation of Green Leaf Juice 26 Lab Tests 40 Preparation of Cooked Vegetables 26 Improving Your Water Supply 40 Preparation of Special Soup Gerson Therapy Recipies 41 (Hippocrates’ Soup) 26 Preparation of Peppermint Tea 27 4 - NON-CANCER DISORDERS Medications - 2 27 Milder measures for non-malignancy The Gerson Therapy in the Treatment of DETOXIFICATION Non-Cancerous Disorders 41 Physiology of Coffee Enemas 28 4 Summary of the Gerson Therapy The Physiology of Coffee Just what does coffee do in the human body? lowed, it has entirely different effects—and all It is a remarkable fact that, according to the of those effects are extremely negative: manner in which it is taken, it has two entirely “A cup of coffee taken by mouth has an entirely different effects. different effect . It heightens the reflex response, If a diluted mixture of coffee is taken in an lowers the blood pressure, increases heart rate, per- enema, it opens up the bile ducts so toxic sub- spiration, causes insomnia and heart palpita- stances can be emptied out of the liver. For about tion.”—Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy, p. 191. 54 years, Dr. Max Gerson used coffee enemas to Checking a standard 1,450-page textbook (pp. do this—and found no other side effects. Instead, 374-377 of Mosby’s Pharmacology in Nursing) he found that diluted coffee enemas would save which deals with the subject, the effects of drinking lives, when nothing else would. coffee or other caffeine products are well-known. “More frequent side effects include increased “Where do we begin? The most important first nervousness or jittery feelings and irritation of GI step is the detoxification. So let us go into that. tract resulting in nausea. More frequent adverse First we gave some different enemas. I found out reactions in neonates abdominal swelling or dis- that the best enema is the coffee enema as it was tension, vomiting, body tremors, tachycardia, jit- first used by Prof. O.A. Meyer in Goettingen. This ters, or nervousness.”—Mosby’s Pharmacology in idea occurred to him when, together with Prof. Nursing, p. 375. Heubner, he gave caffeine solution into the rectum of animals. He observed that the bile ducts were It is an intriguing fact that not one of these opened and more bile could flow . terrible side effects occurs when a coffee enema “These patients who absorb the big tumor is given! Max Gerson said that “a cup of coffee taken masses [from the tumor into the blood stream into by mouth has an entirely different effect.” That was the liver] are awakened with an alarm clock every his observation from about 1925, onward to his night because they are otherwise poisoned by the death in 1959. absorption of these masses. If I give them only one A diluted coffee enema has one, different, and or two or three enemas, they die of poisoning. I did powerful effect: the strong dilation of the bile not have the right as a physician to cause the body ducts. This never occurs when coffee is drunk to absorb all the cancer masses and then not to by mouth. detoxify enough. With two or three enemas they were not detoxified enough! They went into a coma It is clear that drinking coffee by mouth and hepaticum (liver coma). taking a diluted mixture of it, temporarily into “Autopsies showed that the liver was poisoned. I the lower bowel, have totally different effects. learned from these disasters that you can’t give Why is this? these patients too much detoxification . When I Here are four reasons why: didn’t give these patients the night enemas, they were drowsy and almost semi-conscious in the First, God made the stomach and small in- morning. The nurses confirmed this and told me testines to be the normal means of absorbing that it takes a couple of enemas till they are free of substances from the food. This includes carbohy- this toxic state again. I cannot stress the detoxifi- drates, amino acids, fats, and other nutrients. cation enough. Even so with all these enemas, this Apparently, the lower bowel was not designed was not enough! I had to also give them castor oil by mouth and by enema every other day, at least to absorb substances as well. It does not have the for the first week or so. lacteals, found in the small intestine, which absorb “After these two weeks you wouldn’t recognize nutrients into the blood stream. these patients any more! They had arrived on a stretcher, and now they walked around! They had Second, coffee drunk by mouth, passes appetite. They gained weight and the tumors went through the entire gastro-intestinal system. In down.”—Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy, pp. 407- contrast, a diluted coffee enema only enters the 408. lower part of the large bowel. In strong contrast, if a cup of coffee is swal- Max Gerson’s consistent practice (continued The Physiology of Coffee 5 today by the Gerson Institute and all patients) is The present author suggests that it would have never to give high colonics, but only low enemas. to be the latter. If the coffee entered the blood stream The fluid enters and is retained only in the lower and was carried to the liver,—that same coffee would bowel. also travel throughout the body and produce all those negative effects which coffee taken by mouth Third, coffee, when drunk, remains in the does (heart palpitations, body tremors, etc.). body for up to 5-6 hours, until it is entirely ab- But since a coffee enema produces none of these sorbed by the lacteals and has passed into the blood bad effects, it must be that coffee only sends a sig- stream, thence to be carried throughout the body nal, via the nerves, to the liver. and into every organ, wreaking havoc on the entire Thus we are confronted by the fact that cof- system. fee enemas apparently are not harmful to the But, in accordance with consistent Gerson di- system.