In a message dated 10/15/98 6:14:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
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 Case histories are not proofs. For each success, how many failures?
 How many due to chance, or spontaneous remission? So far, there is no
 scientific proof that the Gerson Therapy is effective. In fact,
 specialists consider it as "questionable" (same thing for macrobiotic
 diet and others).

 --Jean-Louis Tu <[log in to unmask]>

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I respect your analytical mind and nature, and skepticism is good, as long as
one keeps an open mind.

I took Phase I of the training in the Gerson Therapy last March and was able
to meet and talk with a number of their "success" stories.

Charlotte Gerson accepts the fact some people, depending on treatment and
surgical intervention they have had, are not good candidates for the G.
Therapy.

A few months ago I contacted her re: a local woman and her husband who had
come to us for help. The 58-year-old woman had just been diagnosed with
terminal cancer of the stomach, liver and spleen and give less than a year to
live, even with chemotherapy and radiation.  She was having to get blood
transfusions about every 10 days.

We first showed them how to make fresh vegetable juices and went over their
diet with a view to making it as close to all raw as possible, and I
recommended they go to take the Gerson Therapy in Mexico.

In view of the woman's health records and weakness (she might not be up to
making a trip to Mexico), the prospects didn't look good, and Charlotte Gerson
let me know this.

 But the couple wanted to try, and rather than burden me, they went to the
internet and found a hospital by the name of Gerson. And the hospital demanded
an outrageous sum of money up front, with no assistance in insurance
reimbursebent or other aid. The couple was so disillusioned they began
checking into other possibilities stateside, but which didn't have the track
record that the Gerson Therapy had.

Inadvertently I learned about this and was shocked about the costs and checked
into it. As it turned out the hospital was Gerson in name only. They
capitalized on the name but did not practice the Gerson Therapy and their
results were not good.

We got the couple back on track with the Hospital Meridien, Charlotte Gerson,
and the doctors with whom I'd trained back in March. But this patient was not
an ideal candicate because her condition was so weak.

Time was running out. There were a number of obstacles, including airl travel,
but with persistence, we finally got her there. I had several calls from her
husband applauding the quality of service and care, and that his wife seemed
to be doing better.

They stayed for 3 weeks. Long enough to be trained in the therapy so it could
be continued at home for a recommended 18 months.

We greeted them at the airport on their return with fresh carrot juice. Both
looked revitalized and happy.

About 3 weeks later the husband called and said things were looking bleak.
That the pain had been so bad, and that tumors were appearing in his wife's
legs.  He'd taken her to 3 different doctors. One felt there was little hope.
Another gave her pain medication. As did the third, along with numerous tests,
to no avail.

I felt helpless. I truly believed in the Gerson Therapy.
I suggested two possibilities:

1. They had strayed from the prescribed therapy
2. She was going through a healing crisis.

When the body gains enough vitality, it "cleans house." (I had gone through
numerous days of raging fever and paralyzing pain when I came close to death
over an oarian cyst and otherwise diseased body. Through an extended fast on
water only, followed by a verys strict raw diet, the cantaloupe sized cyst was
completely resolved without drugs or surgery.)

They insisted they were following the therapy to a "T."

At the end of our conversation, her husband told me he was going to call the
doctor in Mexico the next day.

A few weeks later, the husband called again. I dreaded to talk with him. He
asked if we were sitting down.

They had gone full circle, he said, and eventually ended up with the original
doctor who had made the diagnosis.  He gave her numerous tests.

Result:

"Absolutely no sign of cancer anywhere."

She had been going through "cleansing crises."

The doctor was amazed. He would never have believed it had he not conducted
all the tests himself.
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I was so happy for them.

I also felt vindicated. Even Charlotte was astounded, because the woman was in
such feebled health to begin with.

FWIW:
gc