Vitamin C Miracles of Dr. F. Cathcart

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Vitamin C Miracles of Dr. F. Cathcart

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It’s been several years since I first heard of the vitamin C miracles of

Dr. F. Cathcart. He recently retired from his practice in Los Altos,

California, where he has treated over 30,000 patients with high dosages of

vitamin C for conditions such as hepatitis, viral pneumonia, AIDS, flu,

arthritis, to name but a few.

He didn’t start out in his medical career to be an orthomolecular

physician. He started out as an orthopedic surgeon and became famous in the

orthopedic world as the inventor of the Cathcart hip prosthesis (used to

replace

the ball portion of the hip joint). He is published in The Lancet, Journal

of the American Medical Association, Medical Tribune, Journal of

Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Medical Hypothesis, Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine, and

many other medical journals. His research is mentioned in 14 medical

books, including How to Live Longer and Feel Better by Dr. Linus ing. Dr.

ing wrote an article entitled, ** Fulton Cathcart, III, M.D.: An

Orthomolecular Physician**, which was published in The Linus ing

Institute of Science and Medicine Newsletter. Dr. Cathcart’s website is

_www.orthomed.com_ (http://www.orthomed.com) .

While still practicing as an orthopedic surgeon in San Mateo, California,

Cathcart read Linus ing’s book, Vitamin C and the Common Cold. It was

then that he first tried taking a few grams of vitamin C at the onset of a

cold to see if it would stop it. Success followed.

He then wrote to Linus ing stating that two grams of vitamin C every

hour seemed about right but that he preferred to take eight grams at one

time and this usually was effective.

In an interview in 1971 with the journal Chemtech (published by the Americ

an Chemical Society) he said, **I started experimenting with vitamin C,

first on myself and the family, and then on a few selected patients…I went

into association with a general practitioner who planned to go to another town

after about another year. During that year I demonstrated that, properly

used, vitamin C could decrease most of the morbidity and all of the

mortality from viral diseases.**

In the interview he mentioned the fact that Dr. Fred Klenner in the past

thirty years found that he could detoxify most virus diseases with

intravenous doses of vitamin C. He used Vitamin C in the form of sodium

ascorbate

intravenously for carbon monoxide poisoning, barbiturate poisoning, and

snakebites. (See article on Vitamin C Cures of Dr Fred Klenner

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It was at this time that Dr. Cathcart discovered that the sicker a patient

is, the more vitamin C they can tolerate. Here is how he describes it:

**In 1969, I discovered that the amount of ascorbic acid tolerated orally

without loosening of stools (a benign diarrhea) was somewhat proportional to

the free radical toxicity of the condition being treated. The sicker a person

was, the more ascorbic acid they would tolerate orally without it causing

diarrhea. A person with an otherwise normal GI tract, when they were well,

would tolerate 5 to 15 grams of ascorbic acid orally in divided doses

without diarrhea. With a mild cold 30 to 60 grams; with a bad cold, 100 grams;

with a flu, 150 grams; and with mononucleosis, viral pneumonia, etc. 200

grams or more of ascorbic acid would be tolerated orally without diarrhea. The

process of finding what dose will cause diarrhea and will eliminate the

acute symptoms, I call titrating to bowel tolerance.**

Cathcart’s philosophy in treating patients is simple. **My practice is to

let the body take as much vitamin C as it needs…to take an amount

proportional to the amount of toxin that’s around. Remember, everyone else

has been

talking about a fixed dose, usually at what I consider to be only a

homeopathic level. Those studies go from two to maybe four grams a day and they

see little clinical effect and no effect statistically. That doesn’t surprise

me. If you have a hundred gram cold…it’s my custom to put a number before

the name of a disease to represent the amount of vitamin C that that

patient can consume the first couple of days of the disease without

diarrhea…so

that if you have a 100-gram cold and the patient is taking roughly 100

grams a day, you will quickly eliminate perhaps 90% of the symptoms of the

disease. But if you treat that same cold with 2 grams or even 20 grams a day,

you won’t see much happen.**

In the same interview with Chemtech, he discussed infectious hepatitis.

**It’s a cinch for vitamin C. The difference between the course of the

disease with and without vitamin C is quite obvious if only because hepatitis

is

a disease that we can put numbers on. There are various enzyme systems that

we can follow to show the course of the disease. Infectious hepatitis can

be mild, where the patient is just a little yellow and maybe a bit tender

in the abdomen, but not very sick. But the patients I’m talking about - 20

of them, at least - were profoundly ill with hepatitis, and here again we

were able to detoxify them in three to five days. It generally took about six

days for the jaundice to clear. In two or three days the urine returned to

normal color.**

Today, if you go to Dr. Cathcart’s website _http://www.orthomed.com/_

(http://www.orthomed.com/) you will see articles on practical matters like

bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid, and how to prepare an IV solution

with sodium ascorbate. There are also articles on using intravenous sodium

ascorbate to treat terrible diseases such as Ebola, tick borne diseases, bird

flu, polio and hepatitis.

He is a great resource of knowledge on vitamin C and I urge you to take

advantage of it. You never know when you will need it.

To illustrate this point, I once received a call late on a Saturday night

about a man dying of pneumonia (from the sister of my mother’s best

friend). She wanted her brother to receive a massive dose intravenously of

sodium

ascorbate. She wanted to know how to make the formula. I went to Cathcart’s

site and there it was, written out in detail.

There were two problems, however; finding sodium ascorbate late on a

Saturday night and convincing the physician in charge at the hospital that this

would save the man’s life. He didn’t approve it. Her brother died 24 hours

later.

Dr. Cathcart has fought against this kind of medical bias since he

discovered the power and effectiveness of vitamin C in large doses. He told

people

on his website to be prepared for the fact that hospitals and doctors are

reluctant to permit the use of intravenous sodium ascorbate, even when they

have given up hope for saving the patient.

The best way to change this unhealthy state of affairs with the medical

community is with information. And Dr. Cathcart provided all the information

anyone ever needed when it came to large dose use of vitamin C. His

research and writings are a major focus in the 2002 ground-breaking book on

_vitamin C_ (http://www.cforyourself.com/) by _Dr. Tom Levy_

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