I discovered Vitamin C over 50 years ago (current age 86), when it turned out to help my multiple respiratory allergies (house dust, cool weather mold, cigarette smoke, ragweed). Dr. Robert Cathcart (Google this) says all healthy people should take 4 grams of C a day spaced out about 6 hours apart. Blood levels of a 1 gm tablet peaks out at about 3 hours and then declines again. Cathcart recommends giving a dose of C to “bowel tolerance” for illness treatment. Excess C causes acid farts or diarrhea. If one has these symptoms reduce the dose slightly so these symptoms stop.
I was once a MASH tent volunteer at a major forest campout. I arrived for my shift and found people trying to help a bee allergic woman who had been stung in the neck by 3 yellow jackets. Her body was swollen all over, her eyes swollen shut, and she was choking. A flower remedy applied was NOT helping. I found a bottle of 1 gm C tablets, crushed 10, mixed with a large glass of water, and asked her to drink. She could still swallow, drank the whole 10 gms, and in 20 minutes her eyes and throat were open, and the body swelling diminished. I spent the next 8 hours giving her 5 gms C per hour, she never had bowel symptoms. Finally she urged me to go get some sleep, and leave her with enough C to self medicate. She hiked 3 miles out the next day.
This happened 40 years ago, and I based this treatment on work by a Dr. Klenner (sp?) from the Carolinas who had discovered this high C treatment for rattlesnake, copperhead, and black widow spider bites. His work was at least 70 or more years ago, well before Cathcart. If you find Cathcart’s article on his Treatment with Vitamin C to Bowel Tolerance, you will see he has treated some 10,000 people with high C, some very severe and often fatal illnesses, using as much as 100 to 200 grams of C IV per day. I tried to find the LD50 for Vitamin C (LD50 is the amount of a substance that kills half the creatures taking it). I could only find the LD50 for rats and C. I calculate that based on the rat fatal dose, people would have to consume more than a pound of Vitamin C to kill half. I found NO cases of people dying from C.
Personally, I have taken around 6 or 7 gm per day for 50 years. Two gms morning and bedtime, and 1 gm doses during the day when my nose gets stuffy. I usually take 1 or 2 gms before doing dusty house cleaning. Two years ago I attended a New Years dinner party where we passed around Chinese dishes to share. Everyone swore they had no illness or had been vaccinated for Covid, and we all used hand sanitizer before starting to pass dishes. Ten tays later my nose began to gush fluid (cells in the nose are the first defense against Covid), something I had never experienced. I began taking 1 or 2 gms of C every 2 hours, for 24 hours, including during the night. I awoke the next day completely healthy and no nose gushing. I think I may have stopped a Covid infection, and one other member of our dinner party had the same symptom of watery nasal fluid.
In fall 2022, 3 of my loved ones were dealing with cancer. One had already received successful treatment and was on the mend. For the other two I began research and made recommendations on things I had already learned regarding Covid treatment. I already knew from Dr. Zelenko’s 3 drug Covid protocol that ZINC was a virus killer, and an IONOPHORE like HCQ or Quercetin helped more Zinc get into virus infected cells. I then found a recent study of several major cancers, including the prostate and liver cancers suffered by my people. The scientists had discovered none of these cancer tissues had any zinc in them even when the surrounding normal tissues were adequately or even well supplied with zinc. The doctors were wildly enthusiastic about this finding, and one even suggested using zinc and an ionophores as a treatment. This was late spring in 2020, but by fall, they were considerably less enthusiastic, in a way that suggested to me that pressure had been applied (Fauci and Big Pharma?). At any rate I added Zinc and Quercetin to the supplements they were already taking. Then I discovered something new about Astaxantine, a supplement I was taking successfully with others for my cataracts. Apparently it lengthened the life of normal cells while shortening the life of cancer cells, a process called apoptosis (normal cell death). I added this to the anticancer regimines. THe person with prostate cancer also had 6 weeks of radiation and anti-testosterone for 2 years, and now has a PSA of 0.01. The person with metastatic liver cancer from colon cancer (surgically removed), was also doing well with a regular chemo and the supplements. Doctors were even suggesting going in and removing some of the cancer tissues. I phoned two weeks later, right after I read an article about the Class Switch of IgG immune cells caused by multiple Covid shots. My brother was happy and proudly announced he had just had his 4th Covid Vax. My heart sank, but I did not share what I considered BAD news. Two weeks later when I phoned he was much worse, on a severe “hail Mary” type of chemo, and a glide path to death.
I was aware of the possible use of high dose Vitamin C for cancer, but it was also said that it had to be used carefully by people with experience in this use. The danger was that massive dosing of a large amount of cancer tissues could cause too much toxic waste to be produced all at once time. In a person already weakened by cancer, and possibly other comorbidities, this could be fatal.
I deeply believe in the life saving and money saving potential of Vitamin C, Zinc, and other supplements in promoting immunity and healing many illnesses. I believe the pressure suffered by the Linus Pauling Foundation deserves investigation as does a lot of other anti-competetive behavior of Big Pharma or what I call the Medical Industrial Complex.
I am so sensitive to vitamin C that I have a hard time getting enough. I have always reacted to high Vitamin C foods and almost all the supplements except very small amounts of buffered C.
Well, I still do react to that but not as bad. I can get enough in me to avoid major deficiencies.
“Vitamin C, Titrating To Bowel Tolerance, etc.” by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
OrthoMed ^ | 1981 | Robert F. Cathcart
Posted on 1/14/2013, 6:34:19 AM by fishtank
VITAMIN C, TITRATING TO BOWEL TOLERANCE, ANASCORBEMIA, AND ACUTE INDUCED SCURVY
Robert F. Cathcart, III, M.D. Allergy, Environmental, and Orthomolecular Medicine 127 Second Street, Los Altos, California 94022, USA Telephone 650-949-2822