High Dose Vitamin C Part 2
Last week I
wrote about Linus Pauling and Fred Klenner’s basic work on the
clinical usefulness of high dose vitamin C (ascorbic acid, or
AA). Today I want to fill you in on some of the other clinical results with AA derived from the writing of Frederick Klenner, MD, and my own clinical experience with it over the
last several decades.
Pseudomonas
infections on burned skin can be treated with a 3% topical
ascorbic acid spray.
Intravenous AA will also prevent the scars from 3rd
degree burns.
A 3% paste will successfully abort a budding fever
blister or cold sore when used topically and hourly.
AA IV will
reverse shock from most causes (including from an electrical
insult), and is extremely effective in stopping viral
hepatitis B in a matter of days.
Three grams daily of AA will
effectively reverse most cases of urethritis, probably by
acidifying the urine and redissolving crystals that may form.
Chronic or recurrent bladder infections may be controlled in the
same manner by reversing the urine alkalinity typical in such
cases, but doses as high as 10 grams per day may be required.
AA
high dose has a favorable effect in reducing intraocular
pressure in glaucoma cases, and since it is a primary
requirement in collagen synthesis, it may help in the treatment
and prevention of arthritis, and the disorders of ligament
function that often precede it.
AA IV and oral will improve
tolerance to radiation therapy, and will reduce the burns that
sometimes result.
Perhaps the most common and effective
application of IV AA is for acute mononucleosis. This serious
and disabling illness may require 4 to 6 weeks recovery time
unless daily IV AA injections are given. The AA patient usually
recovers within a week.
Klenner reports curing both tetanus and
rabies with high dose IV AA.
Acute pancreatitis responds very
quickly to IV AA.
Schizophrenics appear highly dependent on
higher dose AA and along with high dose niacinamide can help
control this disorder.
AA also effectively treats snake bites,
spider bites, and insect stings.
On the
prevention side high dose oral AA can prevent cavities, reduce
the damage from cigarette smoking and other toxic exposures, and
reduce the endothelial dysfunction associated with
coronary
artery disease and arteriosclerosis.
If added to pre-surgical and
post surgical IV fluids it would dramatically reduce
complications and length of hospital stays.
I’ll never forget
one patient that consulted me about 10 years ago. The man had
been a two pack per day smoker, and worked variously as a miner
with asbestos exposure, and as one who mixed insecticide
chemicals together in a vat using his hands and forearm for
mixing! He had some slight amount of difficulty breathing but
other than that seemed to be fine. I basically asked him how he
had managed to survive to his age with the history of toxic
exposures that he gave me. His answer was that he had taken high
dose oral AA throughout his entire life in doses between 10 and
20 grams. I don’t believe anything else could have been as
effective in keeping this man relatively healthy. As the above
remarkable effects indicate, in my opinion, there is nothing in medicine that
can do what AA can do. I typically recommend a minimum oral dose
of 2000 mg for health maintenance, and of course intravenous and
oral AA combined in patients with various clinical conditions.
Vitamin C is one of the mainstays in our fight against human
disease.
