Alternate Cancer Remedies by Vance Ferrell - Facts for historians and medical researchers

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by  Vance Ferrell

Alternative Cancer Remedies
Facts for Historians and Medical Researchers
BY VANCE FERRELL
• Nearly four hundred preventive factors
• Over fifty cancer treatment methods
• Based on the findings of eighty cancer researchers
• The three primary methods used today
• Over fifty special herbs
• The four leading herbal formulas
• Anti-cancer organizations and clinics
• Sources of supplies
– and much more
Warning: These alternate methods are not approved by the National Institutes of Health.
This book has been prepared for medical researchers and students of medical history.
It should not be used as a self-help guide to cancer therapy.
Consult your physician.
Pilgrims Books
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Alternative Cancer Remedies:
Facts for Historians
and Medical Researchers
by Vance Ferrell
Published by Pilgrims Books
Beersheba Springs, TN 37305 USA
Printed in the United States of America
Cover and Text Copyright © 1998
by Pilgrims Books
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
—3 John 2
“And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall
bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness
away from thee.” —Exodus 23:25
“If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the
Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight,
and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee,
which I have brought upon the Egyptians: For I am the
Lord that healeth thee.” —Exodus 15:26
“Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases.” —Psalm 103:3
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God
in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
—1 Corinthians 6:20
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own?” —1 Corinthians 6:19
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are.” —1 Corinthians 3:17
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Contents
Important: Read This First 8 Organs of Elimination 19
Alternative Remedies and Congress Chemical Food Additives 19
10
Other Chemicals 20
Interesting Statements 12
Radiation 20
What about Sunlight? 20
INTRODUCTORY FACTS
Protein 21
Meat 21
Types of Cancer 13
Dairy Products 21
Signs of Cysts and Polyps 13
Fats and Rancid Oil 22
Signs of Skin Cancers 13
Diet and Nutrition 22
Signs of Breast Cancer 14
Cooking 23
Facts about Mammograms 14
Problem Foods 23
Signs of Other Cancers 14
Good Foods 23
Recent Cancer Statistics 15
Fasting 25
Vitamins 26
PART ONE: SPECIAL
Minerals 28
PREVENTIVE FACTORS
Other Nutrients 30
Amino Acids 30
Introduction to Part One 16
Preventing Cancer 30
Special Risk Factors 16
Claiming Bible Promises 31
Miscellaneous 17
Supplementary Information 32
General 17
Minerals 33
Worry, Depression, and Stress 17
Vitamins 33
Sorrow of the Heart 18
Nutrition 38
Deep Breathing and Exercise 18
– Important notice –
Cancer is a life-threatening disease. The information in this book was not
intended for use by non-professional readers in treating cancer.
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PART TWO: SPECIAL William Frederich Koch, M.D., 1920
SYSTEMS OF TREATMENT 53
Fever therapy via tissue thrombin /
Glyoxylide: chemical injection, to
Earlier History of Cancer Research and change toxins into antitoxins by
oxidizing them; plus very strict
Therapy 44
diet
William Lambe, M.D., 1809 45
Mikkel Hindhede, M.D., 1920 55
Fruits, vegetables, and pure water
Abundant research reveals that a
T.T. Blake, M.D., 1858 45
non-meat diet is one of the best
Salve made of a mixture of herbs, ways to avoid cancer
topically applied
Harry M. Hoxsey, N.D., 1920 56
J. Weldon Fell, M.D., 1858 45
Herbal formula (herbs listed; ad-
Puccoon root (goldenseal) powder, dress)
zinc chloride
Supplement: The Hoxsey Formula
John Pattison, M.D., 1858 45
58
Hydrastis canadensis (goldenseal)
Alice Chase, M.D., 1920s 59
root powder, water, zinc chloride
Juice, followed by careful diet, plus
William B. Coley, M.D., 1888 46
enemas, etc.
Fever therapy (hyperthermia) trig-
Supplement: The Chase Therapy 59
gered by a dangerous disease
Otto Warburg, M.D., 1930 63
Lucius Duncan Bulkley, M.D., 1890
(Theory only: oxidation; [cf. Koch,
47
Gold, also Revici]
Careful, nourishing diet
Supplement: Oxygen Therapy 64
Supplement: The Bulkley Meal
Schedule 47 Walter B. Coffey, M.D.; John D.
Humber, M.D., 1930 64
The Lancet Comfrey Treatment, 1896
Humber-Coffee extract: adrenal
48
cortex extract from sheep
Powdered comfrey root infusion /
comfrey and herb formula Jethro Kloss, N.D., 1930s 66
Fruit and vegetable juices, broth,
Robert Bell, M.D., 1896 48
diet; plus enemas, baths, deep
Careful vegetarian diet, avoidance of
breathing.
constipation
Emanuel Revici, M.D., c. 1940 66
E.G. White, 1905 49
Chemicals to correct lipid/fatty acids
Causal factors: meat eating, im-
and pH imbalance; plus potas-
proper clothing, masturbation
sium, selenium, copper, and
R.W. Forbes Ross M.D., 1905 50 oxygen (address)
Potassium citrate, phosphate, and
James Sheridan, Ph.D., 1942 67
iodide
Cancel (Entelev): chemical, to inhibit
Charles Othello Ozias M.D., c. 1910 cancer respiration
50
J.H. Lawrence, M.D., Early 1940s 68
Simply prepared natural food, plus a
Factor in urine
herbal mixture
Robert Lincoln, M.D., 1940s 68
John Beard, M.D., 1911 50
Parasitic viruses (bacteriophages) to
Pancreatic enzymes
feed on and destroy cancer
Thomas J. Glover M.D., c. 1918 51 microorganisms
Serum from horse blood
John E. Gregory, M.D., 1945 69
Rees Evans, 1919 52 Antivin: antibiotic to kill cancer
Herbal formulas, and prayer microoganism, also major diet
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Contents
changes Drinking freshly juiced young wheat
grass (address)
Henry K. Wachtel, MD., c. 1946 70
Posterior pituitary extract: energizes William D. Kelley, D.D.S., 1964 85
body to fight cancer Fresh fruits and vegetables, includ-
ing almonds; coffee enemas;
Phillip Drosnes and Lillian Lazenby, c.
chiropractic; vitamin-mineral
1946 71
supplements; also raw meat
Extract from fresh whole wheat,
(address)
taken immediately
Linus Pauling, Ph.D., and Ewan
Steven Durovic, M.D., Andrew C. Ivy,
Cameron, M.D., 1966 86
M.D., 1949 72
Vitamin C (oral, injection, topical,
Krebiozen: growth-control extract
intravenous); nutrition and
from horse serum (Carcalon)
lifestyle changes (address)
Samuel Beale, M.D., Serge A. Koroljow,
P. Knekt, M.D., 1966 89
M.D., 1950s 76
Vitamin E: prevents formation of
Insulin injections
certain cancer-causing chemi-
Evangelos D. Danopoulos, M.D., 1957 cals
76
Mr. Farr, Charles R. Smart, M.D., and
Urea: It disrupts the water matrix
H.H. Hogle, M.D., 1967 90
around the cancer cell, interfering
Chaparral (creosote bush): Dry leaf
with its growth
and stem tea inhibits glucose
L.A. Erf, M.D., B.J. Miller, M.D., 1957 utilization by cancer cells
77
Joseph Gold, M.D., 1968, 91
Theory that cancer is immature cells
Hydrazine sulphate (purified, not
and preventable by proper nutri-
industrial grade) to block (in liver)
tion
lactic acid conversion to glucose
Lawrence Burton, Ph.D., 1959 77 (address)
Immuno-augmentative therapy: Tibor Hajito, M.D., 1968 94
Factor extract from mouse blood
European mistletoe inhibits cell
(address)
production and protein synthesis
Walter Blumer, M.D., 1961 79 within cancer cells
Chelation therapy helps reduce the Virginia Livingston, M.D., 1969 95
likelihood of cancer
Livingston injected vaccine, to kill
Denham Harman, Ph.D., 1962 80 bacteria, plus nutrition and life
Free radicals are a cause of cancer changes, including relaxation
(address) / Abscisic acid in foods
Orlando dei Santi, M.D., 1960s 80
F. Joseph Montagna, 1970s 98
Pau d’arco interfers with cellular
energy within cancer cells Montagna’s 8 primary, and 14 sec-
ondary, herbs (formula listed)
Gaston Naessens, M.D., 1950s 81
Gerhard N. Schrauzer, Ph.D., 1976
Anablast: treatment for leukemia /
714X: camphor nitrogen com- 99
pound injected into the lymphatic Selenium: a trace mineral protecting
system (address) against a variety of carcinogens
H. Ray Evers, M.D., 1960s 82 Michio Kushi, 1978 100
Nutrition; hyperbaric oxygen; Koch Macrobiotics: An unbalanced diet is
vaccination; antioxidant chela- better than the average Western
tion; laetrile; shark cartilage; etc. diet.
H.L. Newbold, M.D., 1960s 82 Jason Winters, 1980 100
Vitamin A and beta-carotene 3 herbs (2 listed; 1 secret)
Ann Wigmore, 1960s 84 E.S. Siris, M.D., 1980 101
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Clodronate: a type of calcium which Research 114
produces bone-cancer remission
(address)
PART THREE: THE LAETRILE
I. William Lane, Ph.D., 1980s, 102
THERAPY
Shark cartilage: keeps tumors from
developing their own blood sup-
ply (address)
Ernst T. Krebs, Sr., M.D., Ernst T.
Josef Issels, M.D., 1980s 102
Krebs, Jr., Ph.D., John A.
Major nutritional (especially organic
Richardson, M.D., 1947 116
foods) and lifestyle changes;
Laetrile: amygdalin enzyme from
amalgam out; oxygen therapy;
apricot kernels. Richardson,
fever therapy; vaccines / Nigella
Kowan, and Contreras added
sativa seed (address)
major nutritional changes (ad-
Edward Rosenow, M.D., 1980s 103
dress)
Hydrogen peroxide: floods body
Supplement: Laetrile Diets 126
tissues with extra oxygen (ad-
dress) Laetrile Foods 126
William Campbell Douglass, M.D., The Richardson Diet 127
1980s 105
The Kowan Diet 127
Photoluminescence: irradiating a
portion of the blood with ultravio- The Contreras Diet 128
let light
Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., 1980s 105
PART FOUR: ESSIAC
Antineoplastons: substances synthe-
THERAPY
sized from human urine (address)
Kuzuhiko Asai, Ph.D., 1980s 106
Germanium-132: increases several Rene Caisse, R.N., 1922 130
body functions against cancer
Essiac: four herbs plus four others
(address)
Rashida Karmali, M.D., 1987 107
Supplement: The Essiac Formula
Omega-3: protects against cancer
137
and fights it when it arrives (ad-
The Original Essiac Formula
dress)
137
F. Sweet, M.D., 1990 108
Ozone therapy is beginning to be The Improved Essiac Formula
discovered. 139
Statement by Rene Caisse
Other Research 108 140
Other Factors 110
Dietetic and Lifestyle Factors PART FIVE: THE GERSON
110
THERAPY
Nutritional Supplements 110
Hyperthermia (Heat Therapy)
Max Gerson, M.D., 1928 142
110
Strict juice and nutritional therapy,
Breast and Skin Applications plus coffee enemas, potassium
112 iodide, etc.
Pleomorphism 113
Supplement: The Gerson Therapy
Additional Areas for Exploratory
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Contents
146 What is the Best Approach? 168
Introduction 146 What Would I Do If I Had Cancer?
169
The Gerson Books 149
The Gerson Adjuvant
Treatments 150 PART EIGHT: ADDITIONAL
The Inside Story: How Cancer Is INFORMATION
Eliminated 151
The Authorized Treatments 175
PART SIX: HERBAL
Surgery 175
PREPARATIONS
Radiation 176
Chemotherapy 178
The Five Top Herbal Formulas 157
Conclusion 179
The Essiac Formula 157
Tests for Cancer 180
The Hoxsey Formula 157
Local tests 180
Comparative Herbal Chart
The Beard-Navarro Test 180
158
The Pre-Cancer Blood Test 182
The Winters Formula 159
Test Addresses 183
The Montagna Formula 159
Glossary 183
The Mono Formulas 159
Bibliography 185
Forty-six Special Herbs Listed
Organizations 186
Alphabetically 159
Therapies 188
Qualities Desired in a Cancer
Herbal Formula 160 Supply Sources 189
Analysis of the Four Herbs in Test Sources 190
Essiac 162
More Herbal Help 164
PART NINE: INDEXES
PART SEVEN: PUTTING IT ALL
Researcher Index (to Part Two to
TOGETHER Five) 191
Preventive Index (to Part One) 192
Sorting Out the Systems 167 Therapy Index (to Part Two to Five)
196
BIBLE PROMISES in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”—
“The Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord Psalm 37:5.
will give grace and glory: no good thing will He “I will cry unto God most high; unto God,
withhold from them that walk uprightly.”— that performeth all things for me.”—Psalm
Psalm 84:11. 57:2.
“Surely I know that it shall be well with “He that followeth after righteousness and
them that fear God, which fear before Him.”— mercy findeth life, righteousness, and
Ecclesiastes 8:12.
honor.”—Proverbs 21:21.
“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also
8 Alternative Cancer Remedies
Important: Read This First
There is no such thing as a cancer cure. eryday, she poured half a cup of vegetable oil
There never has been one, there never will onto her salads.
be one. A “cure” means there is certainty Just little things, like not enough magnesium
that the disease is gone. and too much oil; but it all adds up.
Then why was this book written? It was
The cancer problem, its length, its depth,
prepared to help scientists and researchers
its recoverability, is part of a person’s way of
devise ways to move us closer to solutions
life.
to the cancer problem.
What does this book do? It leads the re-
But there are “remedies” for cancer! There searcher to lots of problems, and points them
are lots of them! Purported remedies of all kinds. toward many helpful factors. It also provides
You will find a remarkable number described in everyone else with ideas to help prevent can-
fair detail in this book. Why are they provided cer in the first place.
here? So medical investigators can wander The many formulas (methods used in the
through the halls of this labyrinth of possi- past to eliminate cancer) are provided to help
bilities—and, hopefully, someday provide us simplify the researchers’ work. For the same rea-
with official government approval of a tech- son, lists of addresses of various alternative can-
nique that really does accomplish the task. cer organizations are given at the back, so re-
searchers can find sources of supplies and ad-
There is no cure for cancer. It is larger than
ditional formulas. Through those addresses, they
any remedy. It is the result of a way of life, seri-
can also locate physicians, primarily outside of
ous deficiencies which can vary for each person,
America, who are regularly working with alter-
a variety of environmental food poisons.
native remedies. Rather than fighting one an-
No remedy can be devised which solves all
other, let us get our heads together—and solve
the problems. No claimed system of treatment
these problems!
in this book (over 50 are listed in Part Two) in-
cludes all the preventive factors (of which over But this book will also be fascinating to
two hundred are listed in Part One). historians and students of medical lore. The
There is no place where you can buy the com- amount of controversy—and downright war—
plete system. There is no package containing which has taken place in the cancer field is
them. There is no doctor dispensing them. unbelievable. It is a fascinating subject.
The cancer problem is the result of the total
Are any of these treatments successful? That
life of an individual; and each individual has
is a question to be pondered by the students of
flaws, needs, and problems unlike those of any-
history and solved by the medical researchers
one else.
for whom this book was particularly written for.
We recently heard of a nationally known in-
dividual who privately tried all types of natural In PART ONE of this book you will find an
diets, etc., but it was not until he added magne- extensive listing of information which earlier
sium, in still larger amounts, that he had remis- research has shown, in laboratory and clini-
sion from cancer. —Yet magnesium is only one cal studies, to be preventive and reduction
of dozens of possible factors! Everyone is differ- factors.
ent! In PART TWO are the remedial systems,
Then there is the Christian mother who, en- each one frequently claiming to be the answer
countering cancer, became something of an ex- to cancer. Are they really cures? Hardly. By far
pert in vitamins, minerals, juices, and green the greater number are narrowed programs: A
drinks. Yet she died. We later learned that, ev- single chemical, a combination of three or four
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Read This first
herbs, or a special procedure is touted as the the nation, work hard, and make it more pros-
final solution. Yet the narrowed therapies gener- perous.
ally do not provide long-term recoveries. It is the fervent wish of the author, that this
The problem is that the systems in Part will help many maintain good health for a longer
Two generally omit the factors listed in Part period of time.
One. In addition, most of the systems ignore — Vance Ferrell
the best of the other systems. As a result the
patient’s entire way of life is not radically al-
tered.
Yet, in research laboratories, men and
women continue to search for that single magic ABBREVIATIONS
bullet which will wipe out the malignant plague.
Certain abbreviations appear in this
—We plead with the researchers, physi-
book:
cians, and cancer organizations to finally start ACS = The American Cancer Society
putting the pieces in the remedy puzzle to- FDA = The Food and Drug Administration
gether! The solution is not in just finding more NCI = The National Cancer Institute
pieces. NIH = The National Institutes of Health
Let us bring together the abundance of SKI = The Sloan-Kettering Institute for Can-
facts that we already have. It is the belief of cer Research
the present writer that the researcher will find AMA = American Medical Association
many of those factors in this book. OTA =Office of Technology Assessment
———————————————————
Other less frequent abbreviations in-
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TREAT
clude:
YOURSELF! You are to be advised that a va-
AAAS = The American Association for the
riety of governmental agencies recommend
Advancement of Science
against your attempting to do this.
CCS = The California Cancer Society
Having said that, although this is not a HEW = The U.S. Department of Health, Edu-
self-help recovery book, it can, with great cation, and Welfare (which more recently has
profit, be used as a means of prevention. You been split into other departments)
will find the nutritional and lifestyle informa- MSKCC = The Memorial Sloan-Kettering
tion in Part One to be of special value. Cancer Center
Carefully read through its pages, reread them USDA = The U.S. Department of Agriculture
and glean out ideas which you can use to im- USDHHS = The U.S. Department of Health
prove your health! Efforts to improve your and Human Services
physical health and stamina are recommended NAS = The National Academy of Sciences
by every government agency in the land. They
want strong, healthy citizens who can strengthen
Caution: The information presented in these chapters is not to be used in any
manner in the non-professional treatment of cancer, nor should people with
cancer attempt to undertake any of these methods. The material which follows
is meant solely as a first step in the education process concerning cancer.
10 Alternative Cancer Remedies
Alternative Remedies and Congress
Later, in Part Two of this book, you will the reasons for the study in these words:
read about more than fifty alternative treat- “To thousands of patients, mainstream
ments for cancer. medicine’s role in cancer treatment is not suffi-
cient . . The attractiveness of unconventional
Over the years, the ongoing battle over
cancer treatments may stem in part from the
them has sometimes led to congressional
acknowledged inadequacies of current medi-
hearings. But one such case resulted in a
cally accepted treatments, and from the too fre-
law by the U.S. Congress, mandating that
quent inattention of mainstream medical re-
research studies be undertaken to verify ex-
search and practice, to the wider dimensions
isting alternative methods of treating can- of a cancer patient’s concerns.”—Office of Tech-
cer or produce new ones. nology Assessment, Congress of the United
States, Unconventional Cancer Treatments,
This law resulted from two facts which, in
September 1990.
the course of years, had become very obvious:
In the request, John Dingell, chairman of the
First, the orthodox methods of treating can-
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on En-
cer (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) rarely
ergy and Commerce, asked that the following
extend life more than one to three years.
points be covered in the OTA study:
Second, when alternative methods have been
• The types of uncoventional cancer treat-
proposed, many of which seem to produce re-
ments most available to Americans.
markable success, they have generally been
• How people gain access to unconventional
hounded to death by the major cancer organiza-
therapies.
tions.
• Costs and means of payment.
Here is how the law came about:
• Profiles of typical users of unconventional
In July 1985, the National Cancer Institute
treatments.
and certain other U.S. agencies managed to get
• Legal issues.
the Bahamian Health Department to close Dr.
• The potential for increasing our knowledge
Lawrence Burton’s Immuno-Augmentative
about the efficiency and safety of these cancer
Therapy (IAT) Centre, located in Freeport, Grand
treatments.
Bahama Island.
When that happened, a large number of The OTA study began in 1986 and contin-
wealthy cancer victims, who had been taking ued for four years. Throughout that entire time,
treatment at Burton’s hospital, were aroused to charges of bias, conflicts of interest, and cover-
a white-hot anger. They demanded that the U.S. ups were hurled back and forth by various in-
Congress take action. Guy Molinari, a New York terests.
congressional representative, with the help of 38 Finally, in 1990, the 312-page report was re-
other representatives, moved on Congress to re- leased to Congress. The Associated Press head-
quest the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) lined the story, “Federal Study Urges Testing of
to investigate Burton’s IAT. Unconventional Cancer Treatments.” But op-
Although the original request was for the test- ponents denounced it as “bad science” and “bi-
ing of IAT, it was later expanded into a full-scale ased research.”
evaluation of alternative cancer remedies. This The OTA report called on Congress to pro-
investigation resulted in the longest, most expen- vide funds for research into alternative cancer
sive, and most controversial study that OTA ever methods. Based on that report, the National Can-
produced. cer Institute, which receives the largest portion
John Gibbons, OTA director, summarized of government funds, was told by Congress to