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PERSECUTION OF NATURAL CANCER THERAPISTS
Walter Last
There is widespread suppression of natural cancer therapies, and persecution of
successful therapists. The undisputed leader in this field is the USA, and
other governments and medical authorities happily follow the US example.
The rationale for this suppression is the claim that natural cancer therapies
have not been scientifically proven to be effective, and such treatment, even
if harmless, would delay the more effective conventional cancer treatment. This
argument would be laughable if it were not so tragic for millions of sufferers.
Nevertheless, one part of this argument is true. Natural therapies are not
scientifically proven to give better results than conventional treatment.
Medical authorities, of course, control all research funds and facilities, and
nothing is given to natural therapists to prove their case. When conventional
medical institutions investigated natural remedies, it was done in such a way
that a negative outcome was guaranteed.
This happened, for instance with laetrile. Thousands of patients and various
scientific studies have shown it to be effective. The official trials by the US
Federal Drug Administration (FDA), which had banned laetrile even before the
trials had begun, were declared negative. The initial tests actually were
positive until a known therapy resistant strain of tumors was used. Even
insiders charged that these tests had been rigged to make sure that they
failed.
It was similar with the official vitamin C trial. Natural therapists know that
high dosages must be continued more or less indefinitely and that it is
extremely dangerous to stop treatment abruptly. In this decisive official trial
10g daily was given to 'terminal' patients for two months and then stopped
abruptly. No patient died during treatment but the high rate of death after the
treatment was stopped was seen as proof that the treatment had failed.
However, natural therapists do not rely on individual remedies. Commonly they
use a holistic program, including cleansing, diet, herbal and nutritional
remedies, as well as emotional and mind therapies. Conventional medical
researchers are completely ignorant in this area; even if they wanted to, they
would not be able to test holistic cancer therapies. Only holistic cancer
therapists are qualified to do so. Yet instead of receiving any resources to
proof their methods, they have been ruthlessly persecuted for the last hundred
years.
The medical profession had an excellent chance to properly investigate
nutritional cancer therapy when a US Senate Committee moved strongly to provide
extensive funds for research of the treatment used by Dr Gerson because
Senators were so impressed with his results.
However, the American Medical Association lobbied so strongly against research
into nutritional cancer therapies that the move was defeated in the Senate,
although by only four votes.
Albert Schweitzer wrote of the man the AMA regarded as a quack: 'I see in him
(Dr Gerson) one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine' and,
'A medical genius who walked among us.'
I am sure history will show eventually who the real cancer quacks were. Because
of such influential support Gerson was not dragged before the courts like other
successful cancer therapists, but the Gerson clinic had to be moved to Mexico
to escape the pressure.
Royal Ray Rife fared even worse. He invented a powerful microscope that enabled
him to see the virus form of a cancer microbe that he then succeeded in
destroying with a specific electro magnetic frequency. Initially he had the
support of the AMA, University departments and the prestigious Franklin
Institute and Smithsonian Institution and many individual doctors reported good
results.
Cancer apparently could be reliably cured. But this caused a sudden change of
mind of the AMA. The Rife instruments everywhere were destroyed; Rife had to
flee while an associate who had carried on after the ban spent three years in
jail.
The Rife saga unfolded during the 1930's and 40's but is currently restaged
with the persecution of Gaston Naessens. He, too, invented a powerful
microscope to observe the effect of treatments on the cancer microbe. From this
he developed a remedy, called 714X, which is injected into a lymph node. His
fame for curing leukemia spread so rapidly in the 1960's that even the more
tolerant French authorities felt obliged to put him on trial for practicing
medicine without a license.
Naessens fled to Canada where he again became famous for his cancer cure.
Despite strong support from influential circles Naessens had to face new court
trials in Canada in the 80s for practicing medicine without a license (Problems
for Naessens have since ceased with recognition of the central chemical
preparation in his therapy - Trimethyl-bicyclo-nitraminoheptane Chloride or
714X - by Health Canada under its Canadian Drug Emergency Program). He
reportedly has helped to cure more than a thousand patients with advanced
cancer and AIDS.
I may add that 'practicing medicine without a license' does not mean that these
people pretended to be medical doctors, but rather that curing cancer in these
countries is legal only for licensed medical practitioners. Bad luck for the
patients of these licensed doctors that they do not know how to do it.
However, there are some outstanding doctors who know what to do but then are
not allowed to do it. Only methods approved by the conventional medical
associations may be used, otherwise a doctor may lose the license to practice.
This happened to the Danish doctor Kristine Nolfi. She had cured her own cancer
with a hundred percent vegetarian and organic raw food diet. Then she helped
her patients in the same way. Her fame spread throughout Scandinavia. Twice she
was dragged before the courts and was lucky only to lose her license.
Dr Issels was the most successful cancer therapist in Germany. He was the first
to have cancer patients replace their amalgam fillings and remove dead and
infected teeth. Basically he used the Gerson diet. The medical association took
him to court for using unauthorized therapies and he received a suspended jail
sentence.
Wilhem Reich was not so lucky. Earlier he had been a leading psychiatrist and
was regarded as the heir to Sigmund Freud's position. However, he fell into
disgrace when he published his sexual theories, especially when he linked
suppressed sexual energies with cancer.
In trying to escape persecution he immigrated to the USA. He experimented with
bio-energy collectors or orgone accumulators and also used a powerful
microscope to demonstrate that cancer cells and cancer microbes were killed by
this orgone energy.
Reich, like Rife and Naessens, made his observations using live tissue, while
conventional microbiologists only use dead and stained specimens. Therefore,
they could not see what Reich and the others saw and they denied that it
existed. Reich published successful results of 15 cases of 'terminal' cancer,
which alerted the FDA.
Reich declined to defend himself, saying that a court was not the place to
evaluate scientific research. This error of judgment landed him in Federal jail
where he eventually died. All his equipment was destroyed and his books and
writing officially burned - six tons of his published works, in fact. That was
in 1957
Dinshah Ghadiali was the pioneer of color therapy in the USA. Despite much
support from doctors and countless patients for the effectiveness of his
treatment with cancer and other diseases, he received many large fines and jail
sentences. His stock of spectrochrome projectors was destroyed and his books
and other writings officially burned. Radionics practitioners in the US had a
similar fate with equipment destroyed and Ruth Drown jailed.
In the beginning of this century a leading American doctor wrote that most
cases of cancer he saw had been operated on or radiated and the cancer had
returned worse than before. However, in those without previous medical
treatment he claimed a cure rate of 95% by using homoeopathic remedies.
Homoeopathy was speedily outlawed in the USA.
William F Koch was probably the most famous medical cancer therapist in the US
and widely respected in influential circles. His homoeopathic oxidation
catalyst was used worldwide but banned in the US. Six hundred doctors came to
his court trial to testify on his behalf and to report the many thousands of
patients that they had cured with his method. He had to be acquitted but tired
of constant persecution he immigrated to Brazil immediately after the trial in
1953.
Jason Winters cured himself of cancer with various herbs that he started
selling. He had to move to the Bahamas to escape the FDA but was hassled even
there.
Harry Hoxsey was the most famous herbal cancer therapist in the US. He had
clinics in various states, and thousands of satisfied patients attested to the
effectiveness of his herbs. Despite being arrested more often than any other
therapist for practicing medicine without a license, the courts confirmed the
therapeutic value of his herb mixture and even the AMA reluctantly admitted
that some of his remedies had merit.
Within a two-year period Harry Hoxsey was arrested about 200 times for
practicing medicine without a licence. The brother of the district attorney who
initiated these arrests had advanced cancer. Unbeknown to his lawyer brother,
he went to Hoxsey and was cured. On learning about this, the district attorney
quit his job and became the defence lawyer of Harry Hoxsey.
A federal report to Congress agreed with Hoxsey's allegations that the AMA, the
FDA and the National Cancer Institute had conspired to suppress a fair
investigation of his methods. Nevertheless, in 1963 he had to move his clinics
to Mexico to escape the mounting pressure.
Dr Johanna Budwig was a fat researcher with the German Government. She was
prevented from publishing her discovery of fatty residues from margarine in
soft tumors and lost her job.
Lawrence Burton, a biochemist, developed a method to effectively stimulate the
immune system of cancer patients. In 1977 he was forced to move his clinic to
the Bahamas. But even there the clinic was closed because his vaccines were
reportedly contaminated with the AIDS virus.
In 1985, a group of his cancer patients complained to the US Congress about the
clinic closure. A subsequent congressional hearing found that these damaging
reports, which originated from the National Cancer Institute and were spread by
the AMA, were false.
The persecution of natural cancer therapists and clinics continues unabated
into the 1990s. Commonly FDA agents raid clinics with drawn guns and confiscate
remedies and equipment used in natural therapies as well as patient files and
other documents. Even if therapists are not dragged before courts, many will be
bankrupted by these actions or simply give up.
The Burzynski cancer clinic operated with the approval of the FDA and was
rather successful using a cancer remedy derived from urine. Nevertheless the
clinic was raided several times and Dr Burzynski brought before four federal
grand juries. Each time he was acquitted. A committee of the US Congress is
investigating the FDA on charges of abusing the grand jury process in order to
harass and persecute Dr Burzynski.
Jimmy Keller had been cured himself with alternative therapies of advanced
metastatic cancer. For the next thirty years he developed a non-toxic program
for helping others with this disease. He had to retreat to Mexico where he was
practicing legally, but in 1991 he was kidnapped by the FBI, taken to Texas for
trial and put in jail. The charge was that a contact person in the United
States had told patients over the phone that he had an effective cancer
treatment.
Now that all successful cancer therapists have been eliminated from the USA a
grave-like silence covers the cancer battlefield.
This decisive victory of the US Cancer Establishment has served to secure the
position of conventional cancer therapy also in other western countries.
Holistic cancer therapists everywhere must be careful to operate on a small
scale and not appear to be successful to avoid being dragged before the courts
if a 'terminal' patient in their care should not make it.
How scientific do you now think our official cancer treatments are? Would it
not be more scientific to allow proper trials of holistic therapies rather than
trying to put successful cancer therapists in jail?
However, in the dark night of this dismal cancer saga there is also a glimmer
of light.
Dr Samuel Epstein, as the spokesman of a group of 65 US cancer researchers, has
just gone public to declare that the 'Cancer Establishment' has hoodwinked the
public into believing that progress has been made. He said cancer rates are
rising and little effort has been made to prevent this cancer epidemic that is
highly preventable.
Furthermore, following a directive of the US Senate, the cancer establishment
has now softened its strong opposition to natural cancer therapies, although
even in 1999 it still managed to get the "Father of Oxygen Therapies' Ed McCabe
into jail, and Dr Hulda Clark ('The Cure of All Cancers'😉 arrested for
practicing medicine without a license. In addition, manufacturers and retailers
of electrical equipment and remedies for holistic cancer treatment continue to
be persecuted in most western ‘democracies’.
However, ultimately this situation is not really the fault of the vested
interests because it is in their nature to be selfish. The real responsibility
lies with governments, which should act in the interests of their citizens, and
not for the benefit of selfish interest groups.