Giuseppe Nacci , M.D.

Thousand Plants
against Cancer
without Chemo-Therapy
May 2010
650 pages

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE:

2,050 official scientific publications
2,100 various bibliographical references

From:
“Mille Piante per guarire dal Cancro senza
Chemio” book –on line
(http://www.erbeofficinali.org/dati/nacci/index.php

http://aloearborescens.tripod.com

http://www.mednat.org/Nacci%20libro.pdf

http://www.medicinetradizionali.it/nacci.htm

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Everyone is allowed to diffuse
this book, in its paper version
and/or digital format
(CD-ROM or INTERNET),
with no view to profit.

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If the people let the goverment decide what foods they eat and what
medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the
souls who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship.
To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges
to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.
All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a
republic. The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege
for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.

Benjamin Rush, M.D.

(George Washington’s personal physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence)

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The Two Presidents…..

From People,
With People,
For People
Abramo Lincoln

Yes, We can
Barack Hussein Obama

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 DEDICATION…….

…Dr Max Gerson dedicated his life to the mastery of this scourge of
cancer and all should honor his great work…

The Honorable United States Senator Claude Pepper (D-Florida)

..... Cancer is not cured with surgical instruments, but with a vegetarian
diet and medicinal herbs…
Hippocrate of Kos

Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food….
Hippocrates of Cos

…Very often the simple truth is absolutely not believed ;

You can recover from Cancer but not from Chemotherapy:
Out of FIFTY people suffering from cancer who decide to
undergo CHEMOTHERAPY, only ONE will be still alive
after only FIVE years from the first Chemotherapy cycle….
the Author

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….E Noi dovrem, ahimè, morir….

Morir….

Dilegua o Notte…

…Tramontate Stelle…

…Tramontate Stelle…

All’Alba vincerò…

…vincerò…

vincerò !

Luciano Pavarotti

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

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Article No. 11 of the of Declaration of human and civic rights (France, 1789):
“The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious rights of
the man: any citizen may therefore speak, write and publish freely”.

Article No. 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNO, 1948):

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.

Article No. 2 of the Italian Constitution:

“Everyone has the right to freely express thoughts in speech, writing and by other
communication. The press may not be controlled by authorization and submitted to
censorship”.

Article No. 11 of the EU Charter of Rights (2000):

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.

Medical ethics and freedom to consciously choose a therapy

(article No. 32 of the Italian Constitution):

”The Republic protects individual health as a basic right and in the public interest; it
provides free medical care to the poor.
Nobody may be forcefully submitted to medical treatment except as regulated by law.
That law may in no case violate the limits imposed by the respect for the human
being”.

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Note: Scientific references:
In this book the plants are identified by their Latin names –
according to the modern scientific classification (see Chapter 20)
– and 2,050 official scientific publications are quoted (out of 2,100
various bibliographical references (see Chapter 21), useful to in-
depth studies, which confirm the various arguments indicated
here.

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 Thousand Plants against Cancer
without Chemo-Therapy
Ed. 2010

INDEX

DEDICATION…………………………………………………………………………………….5

INDEX…………………………………………………………………………………………….9

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………..20

The case of the “LAETRILE” (Vitamin B17) ……………………………………………………23

The Metabolic Therapy…………………………………………………………………………….27

Chap. 1 : Food ……………………………………………………………………………………..35

Chap. 1.a: CARBOHYDRATES ………………………………………………….……………….36

Chap.1.b: PROTEINS…………………………..………………………………………………….42

Intestinal DISBIOSIS…………………………………….…………………………………………44

Asthma, allergies and food intolerances……………………………………………………………46

Autoimmune diseases…………………………………………….…………………………………46

Malignant tumours…………………………………… …..……..…………………………………47

Other diseases ……………………………………………………………………….……..……….47

Altered impermeability of intestinal walls…………………………………….…….…….………..47

Chap. 1.c: FATS and OILS (“Fatty acids”)………………………………………….……..………48

Chap. 1.d: VITAMINS……………………………...…………………………..………….………50

VITAMINS (In alpahabetic order):………………………….…………………….………..………53

Chap 1.2: “Herb-Therapy must not be prohibited” ……………………………..…………………55

Europe First To Ban Supplements…………………………………..………………………………57

Chap. 2: The ideal diet for cancer therapy………………………………………...………..………59

Chap. 2.2.: Food combinations (cereals + legumes)……………………………...……….……….59

Chap. 2.3.: The dangers of GM food ………………………………………………………………60

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Chap. 2.4.: The importance of oils…………..…………………………………………………62

Chap. 2.5.: Spices, grass used in cooking but also in medicine…………..……………………62

Chap. 2.6: The Pulses………………………………….…..…………………………………..63

Chap. 2.7.: Dried fruit …………….…………….……….…………………………………….64

Chap.2.8.: breakfast, Lunch and dinner……….………………………………………………..64

Chap.2.8.a: Useful breakfast in the morning……………………………………………………64

Chap. 2.8.b.: During the morning……………………………………………………………….65

Chap. 2.8.c: When you cook vegetables ………………….……………………………………65

Chap.2.8.d.: Pickled vegetables……………………………..…………………………………..65

Chap.2.8.e.: Exotic fruit…………………………………………………………………..……..65

Chap.2.8.f.: Drinking water…………………………...…………………………………………65

Chap.2.8.g.: Lunch and/or dinner: The importance of cereals ………………………………….66

Chap.2.9.: Fish……………………………………….…………………………………………..67

Chap.2.10.: Sugars………………………………………….…………………………………….67

Chap.2.11.: Salt……………………………………………….…………………………………..67

Chap.2.12.: Toxic or dangerous food……………………………………………………………..67

Chap.2.13.: Food that is dangerous for health if consumed often:……..…………………………68

Chap.2.14.: The problem of bread…………………………………………………………………68

Chap.2.15.: The GMO dangerous (SEE also below in another pages)……………………….…….69

Chap.2.16.: Domestic pollution…………………………………………………………..………70

Chap. 2.17.: the problem of the labels of food wrappings…..…………………..…………………72

Chap. 2.18: Conventional agriculture (or chemical agriculture, or industrial agriculture)…….….73

Chap. 2.19 : Organic farming and small-scale retail trade ……………………………….….…..…75

Author's considerations of Organic Farming………………………………..……………..………..76

Chapter 2.20 The latest deception: Marker Assisted Selection (MAS).

When genetic deception returns to farmers’ fields through HYBRID plants………………………78

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Chap.2.21.: From hybrid plants to GMO TERMINATOR plants…………………………………..81

Chap.2.22.: The Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms………………………………………..81

Chap.2.23.: Allert G.M.O.: The USA are passing a law that legalizes the contamination of crops
with genetically modified organisms (GMO). Source: Friends of the Earth International
(DECEMBER 2004) ………………………………………………………………………………..88

Chap.2.24.: RUSSIA, GM Food Dangers Directly Affect Biological Descendants and Future
Generations…………………………………………………………………………………………..88

Chap. 2.25.: GMO–Terminator: the new threat……………………………………………………89

Chap. 2.26.: How the European Union destroys the European Agriculture……….………………..91

Chap. 2.27.: Effects of European rules concerning the size of fruit and vegetable markets on
agricultural production………………………………………………………………………………92

Chap. 2.28.: Brussels bureaucracy authorizes parasitical revenues………………...……….……….93

Chap. 2.29.: Obstacles in the way of the Direct Sale from Producers to Consumers………...……...93

Chap. 2.30.: The Non GMO Project (USA)…………………..……………………………..………94

Capther 3 : Anti-oxidative nutrition ………………………………………………….……………96

Chap. 3.a.: Retinoids and Carotenoids………….…………...………………..……….……………98

Chap. 3.b: Camellia sinensis (green tea)………………………………………..…………...…….101

Chap. 3.c.: Vitamin C……………………………………..........……..…………………….…..…102

Chap. 3.d: Vitamin D…………………………………………..…………………………..………104

Chap. 3.e: Vitamin E (alpha-Tocopherol)……………………….…………...……………………105

GMO multinationals are modifying the contents of Tocopherols…………………………………106

Chap. 3.f: vitamin F……………………………………….………………………………… . …..107

Chap. 3.g : Organic Germanium Ge 132……………………………………………………..……111

Organic and inorganic forms of Germanium………………………….............……………..……111

Natural organic Germanium……………………………………………………………..…..…….111

The immune stimulating properties of organic Germanium……………………..……..…..……..111

Anti-oxidant property of organic Germanium………………………………….………………….111

Anti-ischemic properties of organic Germanium………………………………………………….112

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Modifications of the biochemical and functional parameters of the organism induced by organic
Germanium……..…………………………………………………………………………………113

Anti-amyloidosis property of organic Germanium……………………….……………………….113

Analgesic property of organic Germanium…………………………………………………....…..113

Chap. 3.h: Garlic (Allium sativum)……………………………………..…………………………114

Chap 3.i.: Silybum marianum (milk thistle)……………………………….………..…………….122

Chap. 3.l: Lycopene…………………………………………………………………..…………..123

Chap. 3.m: organic acids…………………………………….……………………..……………..124

Chap. 3.n: Hippocrates Soup……………………………………….………………..……………124

Chap. 3.o: Organic Zinc…………………………………………….……………….……………125

Chap. 3.p: Honey ...........................................................................................................................126

Chap. 3.q: other anti-oxidative phyto-medicines……………………………………..…………..128

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Chap. 4 : Phyto medicines with anti-infection activity………………….………………………..132

Chap. 5 : Phyto-medicines with an anti-uricemic activity ……………………………………….137

Chap. 6 : Phyto medicines with a Bio-Chemo-Therapy action: plants which have a “suicide affect”
on Cancer………………………………………………………………..………………………..139

Chap. 6.a : the plants…………………………………………………………………………….141

Chap. 6.b.: The perverse alliance of the agro-industrial and chemical-pharmaceutical

Multinationals……..………………………………………………………………………………148

Chap. 6.c………………….………………………..…………………………………..…………152

Note : Selective inhibitions on telomere activity………………………………..……..…………153

Chap. 6.d: The berries of Pittosporum tobira and Chamaerops excelsa…………………………..154

Chap. 6.e : Limonene……………………………………………..…………………………..……155

Chap.6.f: Elemene………………………………………………………………………….……..156

Chap. 6.g: Other phyto-medicines with an apoptotic or pseudo apoptotic activity…….……...…..156

Chap. 7 : vitamin B 17 (Laetrile)…………………………………………………………….…….167

Allegated: Morrone J.A.: Preliminary Report of 10 cases treated with Laetrile…………………175

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Allegated: Clinical Trial of Chemotherapeutic treatment of advanced cancers with Leatrile (L-
Mandelonitrile-Beta-Diglucoside)…………………………………………………………………174

Amygadin metabolic liver aspects………………………………………………………...……….175

Amygdalin poisoning: medical aspects…………………….………………….……………..……177

Chapter 8: Retroviruses and Cancer………………………………………………………...……..181

RNA tumour VIRUSES (Oncornaviruses)……………………………………….………..………182

Reactions of Oncornaviruses to chemical and physical agents………..………………………….183

Antigenic properties of Oncornaviruses……………………………………………..……………183

Oncornavirus replication and cell transformation………………..……………….………….184

Oncornavirus – induced tumours………………………………….……………………..……184

Complex A [Complex of avian leukaemia – avian sarcoma]…………………………………185

Complex B [Complex of murine leukaemia- murine sarcoma]……………………………..…….186

Complex C [Complex of the murine mammary tumour (carcinoma)]…...…..…….………...……187

Complex D [Complex of feline leukaemia- feline sarcoma]……….………………………...……188

Complex E [Primate Oncornavirus]………………………………….……………………..……..189

Other Retro-viruses……………………………………….…………..…………………..……….189

Chap. 8.2.: Dangers Inherent in the Process Itself - THE USE OF CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC
VIRUS……………………………...…………………………………..…….……………………190

Chap. 8.3.: Scentific Article in WEB (UNDER : Retro virus and Cancer )……………..………...193

Chapter 9: Immune Therapy………………………………………….……………………………196

9.a : Immune stimulation : the experience of S.A.Rosenberg…………………………….……….199

Chapter 9.b : Aloe arborescens……………………………….……………………..………….….200

Chapter 9.c : ESSIAC…………………………………………………………….………………..203

Chapter 9. d : Other plants with an immune stimulating activity…………………………………208

Chap. 9.e.: Anti-cancerous plants or similar plants with immune stimulating properties, mentioned
in Herbario Novo………………………………………………………………..…….…………..223

Chap. 9.f.: Adjuvant immuno-therapy: Phyto medicines with an anti-stromal action on connective
cancer tissue……………………………………………………………………………………….226

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Chapter 9.g: The HOXSEY Therapy…………………………………………..…………………..228

Chapter 9.h : Coley's toxins………………………………….……………..……………….……..234

Chapter 9.i : Bonifacio’s Serum…………………………………………..……………..……….234

Chapter 9.l.: Lectins…………………………………………….………….…………..………….235

Chap. 10: Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes mellitus or adult diabetes……………………..……..236

Chap. 10.1.: Modifications to the diet…………….………………………..……………..……….237

Vitamin C deficiency and the threat of Statins……..………………………………………...……240

Marginal note: Diabetes and the grave threat of Genetically Modified Organisms……..……..….241

Chap. 10.2.: Oral hypoglycaemic drugs………………………………………………….…..……243

Chap. 10.5.: Healing with Gerson-like diet………………………………………………………..244

Chapter 11 Multiple Sclerosis (or Sclerose en plaques)……………………………….………….245

Chap. 11.1.: Multiple Sclerosis Etiopathogenesis and Therapy According to C. Kousmine…...…245

Chap. 11.2.: Etiopathogenesis and Therapy for MS Developed According to a Neurologist of the
University of Oregon Health Sciences Center in Portland……………………………….….…....246

Chap. 11.3.: Personal Clinical Cases…………………………………………………….……..….247

Chap. 12: Tamoxifen and natural phytoestrogens……….………………………………..……….249

Chapter 13: Neurological diseases, cardiovascular diseases and ageing…………..………………251

Chap. 13.1.: Ageing……………………………………..…………………………………………252

Telomeres and ageing……………………………………….………………………………..……252

Other ageing factors……………………………………………..…………………………….…..253

Chap. 13.2.: Cardiovascular Diseases……………………………………………………………..254

Chap. 13.3.: Emergency Medicine……………………………………………..………………….255

Chap. 13.4.: The Failure of the Cronos Study on Alzheimer………………………………...……256

Chap. 13.5.: The common fallacy that cholesterol is bad, the truth about vitamin C deficiency and
the pharmaceutical issue of Statins……………………….………..……………………………..257

The threat of statins…………………………………………...…………………………………..257

Commercial interest in developing statins………………………………………..……………….257

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Chap. 14: Scientific bases of an ANTI-CANCER therapy on a dietary and multivitaminic basis .258

Using energizing substances ...............................................……………………………….……..262

Chap. 14.1: Clinical Aspects, Instrumental Data and Laboratory Values/Results……………….264

INFLAMMATIO LYMPHONODIS (Inflammation of the lymph nodes)…………..…………..264

INFLAMMATIO TUMORIS: ……….………………………………………………..……….…265

FUNCTIO LESA: ……………………………………………………………………..……….…266

DEPROTEINATIO TUMORIS ………………….…………………………………..………. 266

RELIQUATIO TUMORIS…………………………………………….………………..…………267

EXPURGATIO TUMORIS…………………………………………………………..……………268

RESOLUTIO PARTIALIS TUMORIS …………………………………..…………..……..……268

RISOLUTIO TOTALIS TUMORIS …………………………………….…………..……..……268

OBSERVATIONS………………………………………………………..………….……………269

Chap. 14.2: Using phyto-medicines with anti-inflammatory activity……………….……….…..274

Chap. 14.3: Detoxification of the ill organism………………………………………..………….276

Chap. 14.3.a: The usefulness of Potassium for human metabolism……………………….……..280

Chap. 14.3.b: Potassium supplementation on the Gerson Therapy………………………………282

Chap. 14.3.c.: Potassium compound for one’s enema solution…………………………..………283

Chap. 15: Phytotherapics with antiangiogenesis action …………………………………………285

Chap. 16: Based-Protocol of Dr Giuseppe Nacci (M.D.), for Cancer Therapy...............................287

Some Juicing tips offered previously by Dr. Gerson……..……………………………………….298

Chap. 17: Absolute incompatibility of Phyto-Therapy with Chemo-Therapy…………………….303

Chap. 17.1.: the failure of the Chemio-Therapy…………………………………………………..306

When Chemotherapy is useful……………………………………..………..……………….……307

The Dubious Validity of Official Statistics ………………………………….………………….307

Cost of Chemotherapy…………………………………………………………………………….308

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Chap.17.2.: Official statistics of Chemo-Therapy……………………………..………………..309

Brain Tumours……………………………………………………………………………………309

Head and Neck Cancers………………………………………………………………………….309

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer…………………………………….………………………………..310

Small-cell Bronchial Carcinoma ………………………………………………………………….310

Breast cancer………………………………...…………………………………………………….311

Cancer of the Stomach …………………………………………………………………………….313

Cancer of the Pancreas…………………………………………………………………………….315

Kidney cancer…………………………………………………………...…………………………316

Cancer of the Prostate……………………………………………………………………………..316

Ovarian Cancer…………………………………………………………………………………….317

Cancer of the Uterus and Endometrium……………..……………….……………………………317

Colorectal Cancer……………………………….………..………………………………………..317

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia………………………………..……………….……………….318

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in Adults………………………....…………………………….318

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in Children ……………………………………………………319

Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia…………………………….…………………………….…….319

Acute Myelogenous Leukaemia…………………………………...……………………….……..319

Multiple Myeloma………………………………………………………………………….…..…320

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma…………………………………….………………………………..…..…320

Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma……………………………………………………………………….322

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………...….323

QUESTIONS to ask your DOCTOR………………………………………………………….…...325

Chapter 18: Dangerous Plants……………………………………………………………………..327

Chap. 18.1.: Plants that are potentially efficient against tumors, but whose heavy side-effects are
already known or suspected in their use………………………………………………………..…327

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Chap. 18.2.: Plants to Absolutely avoid using………………………………………….…………329

Chap. 18.3.: Families of dangerous or prohibited plants:…………………………………..……..332

Chapter 19: The Law of the Rommunes………………………..…………..…………………….333

Chap. 20 NAMES OF PLANTS of medical interest that have or have not been mentioned in the
previous text……………………….………………………………………………………………340

Chap. 21: Bibliography………………………………………………………….…………...……367

Curriculum vitae of the author…………………………………………………………………….434

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 ALLEGATEDs

ALLEGATED No. 1: The Case for a GM-free Sustainable World ……………………………………..…………….437

ALLEGATED No. 2: Article by AGNES SINAI Researcher……….……………….………..……………………….443

ALLEGATED No. 3 : Mexican Clinics …………………………………………………………..……….…………..447

List of other Clinics in Center/South AMERICA Offering Alternative Therapies………………………….….………450

List of Clinics in the United States Offering Alternative Therapies………………………………….………..……….452

List of Clinics in CANADA Offering Alternative Therapies……………….………………………………..…..……..466

List of Clinics in EUROPE Offering Alternative Therapies……………………………………………..….....……….468

List of Clinics in ASIA / OCEANIAOffering Alternative Therapies…………..………………………………………473

ALLEGATED No. 4 : Emodine-Aloe………….………………………………………………………………….…..474

ALLEGATED No. 5: Sherry Rogers, M.D.: The World's Most Vicious MACC Attack
(MACC - multinational agriculture and chemical corporations)………………………...…………………...…..……485

ALLEGATED No. 6: Official list of authorized GMOs in Europe………………………………..……………...…….489

ALLEGATED No.7: Poverty and globalisation by Vandana Shiva …………………………….…..…….………….491

ALLEGATED No. 8: Phyto-Therapy (Plant therapy) is a classical medical therapy, NOT an alternative
therapy……………………………………………………………….…………………………………..……….……..500

ALLEGATED No. 9: Open Letter to the Government…………………………………….……………………………503

ALLEGATED No. 10 : November 2005: The last letter from America……………………………………….……….504

ALLEGATED No. 11 :
The importance of a Healthy and Self-sufficient Agriculture…………………………………………………………....506

ALLEGATED No. 12: Jason Vale : an American Hero………………………………………..………………..……..507

ALLEGATED No. 13: Joe Cummins and Mae-Wan Ho : Hazards of CaMV Promoter………………………….….516

ALLEGATED No. 14: Mae-Wan Ho : Recent Evidence Confirms Risks of Horizontal Gene Transfer ………….….518

ALLEGATED No. 15: GM crops increase pesticides………………………………………………………...………..523

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ALLEGATED No. 16:
American Academy of Environmental Medicine. OGM : A Moratorium on Gentically Manipulated (GMO) Food
(22/5/2009)……………………………………………………………….………………………………………….….525

ALLEGATED No. 17:

SANA Conference – Bologna 2008, 13th September, Promoted by: AAM Terra Nuova, Scientific coordination: Studio
Agernova Dr. Giuseppe Nacci : “The Threat of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) on alimentary models
accompanying the immune and detoxifying therapy” ………………………………………………………………..528

ALLEGATED No. 18:

SANA (Bologna) 13 /9 / 2008, Aprobado por: AAM Terra Nuova, Coordinamiento Científico: Studio Agernova,
Doctor Giuseppe Nacci “La amenaza OMG (Organismos Modificados Genéticamente) en los modelos alimenticios de
acompañamiento a la terapia inmunitaria y desintoxicante”………………………………………………….…….543

ALLEGATED No. 19:

SANA Kongress – 13. September 2008 in Bologna, Gefördert von AAM Terra Nuova, Wissenschaftliche
Koordination: Studio Agernova, Dr. Giuseppe Nacci “Die GVO-Bedrohung (Genetisch Veränderte Organismen) für
begleitende Ernährungsmodelle zur Immun- und Entgiftungstherapie“…………………………………..……..….566

ALLEGATED No. 20
Conferenza SANA (Bologna) 13 settembre 2008, AAM Terra Nuova, Coordinamento Scientifico : Studio Agernova,
Dott. Giuseppe Nacci “La minaccia OGM (Organismi Geneticamente Modificati) sui modelli alimentari di
accompagnamento alla terapia immunitaria e detossificante”. …………………………….……………………..….590

ALLEGATED No. 21: SICKO (Michael Moore) …………………………………………………………………..….591

ALLEGATED No. 22 : Thirty Clinical Cases of Dr. Gonzales and Dr. Isaac (New York)………………………..…..596

ALLEGATED No. 23 : Dott. Waisbren …………………………………………………………………………….….633

ALLEGATED No. 24: Fifteen clinical cases of the Kroiss Center (Vienna, Austria)…………………………………639

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 INTRODUCTION

From: “The Gerson therapy. The amazing juicing programme for cancer and other illnesses”, by
Charlotte Gerson and Morton Walker, Thorsons ed.

“During a three-day period, July 1 to 3, 1946, the United States Senate took
testimony from nationally known cancer researchers relating to U.S. Senate Bill
1875, also referred to as the “Pepper-Neely anticancer proposal”. In this bill,
Senators Pepper and Neely recommended the appropriation of $ 100 million from the
U.S. government’s budget for cancer researchers to find a cure for cancer once and
for all.

After his two Washington, D.C.-based investigators, a physician and an attorney,

reported back to Senator Claude Pepper (D-Florida) that Dr. Max Gerson did, indeed,
have a successful treatment for cancer for the first time in history, the United States
Senate invited a medical doctor to demonstrate his specific therapeutic approach for
curing cancer. Accordingly, Dr. Gerson brought five of his cured cancer patients and
the records of five more for presentation before the Pepper-Neely anticancer
subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations of the Seventy-ninth
Congress.

The impressive testimony of this anticancer specialist and his patients caused Senator
Pepper to call a press conference for bringing information about the Gerson Therapy
before the media. However, massive numbers of lobbyist for the immensely wealthy
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PMA), the American Medical
Association (AMA), and the American Cancer Society (ACS) prevailed on reporters
to ignore the Gerson press conference and attend a cocktail party instead where free
food would be served and libations would be flowing. The only reporter who
preferred to hear the Gerson presentation was American Broad-casting Corporation
newscaster Raymond Gram Swing. During World War II, Mr. Swing had been a
famous war correspondent on a par with Edward R. Murrow. He attended and took
copious notes at the Senate press conference for use in his East Coast 600 P.M. ABC
network broadcast of Wednesday, July 3, 1946. Here is what Raymond Gram Swing
broadcast then throughout the United States:
…“I hope I have my values right if, instead of talking tonight about the agreement reached on Trieste by the Foreign
Minister in Paris, or the continuing crisis of the OPA in Washington , or President Truman’s signing of the Hobbs
antiracketeering bill, I talk about a remarkable hearing before a Senate Subcommittee in Washington yesterday on
cancer and the need for cancer research in new fields.
A bill is before Congress, the Pepper-Neely bill, to appropriate a hundred million dollars for cancer research with
something like the zeal and bigness with which it went for the release of atomic energy, turning the job over to the
scientists with resources generous enough to solve the problem.

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This alone would make a good theme for a broadcast, just an example of the use a great democracy can make of its
intelligence and wealth. But the subject has been made peculiarly gripping by unprecedented happenings yesterday
before the subcommittee which is holding hearings on this bill, and of which Senator Pepper is chairman.
He invited a witness, a refugee scientist, now a resident of New York, Dr. Max Gerson, and Dr. Gerson placed on the
stand, in quick succession, five patients. They were chosen to represent the principal prevailing types of cancer, and in
each instance they showed that the Gerson treatment had had what is conservatively called “favourable effect on the
course of the disease”. That in itself is remarkable, but it is the more so because Dr. Gerson’s treatment consists mainly
of a diet which he has evolved after a lifetime of research and experimentation. To say that Dr. Gerson has been curing
cancer by a dietary treatment is medically impermissible, for the reason that there must be five years without recurrence
before such a statement is allowed. Dr. Gerson has cured tuberculosis and other illnesses with his diet, but in the U.S.A.
he has only been working on cancer for four and a half years…..
Yet anything that offers even a possibility of treating successfully at least some of the four hundred thousand existing
cancer cases in this country is stirring news, no matter how conservatively it is formulated. There would be non Pepper-
Neely bill to appropriate a hundred million dollars for cancer research if the existing research were coping with the
need.

…I have spoken about this carefully and abstractly, which underplays some of the shock and delight of the experience
yesterday at the hearing of the Pepper Committee. It is one thing to talk about chemistry and diet and vitamins and other
factors in medical science. It is another to see, as the Committee yesterday saw, a seventeen-year-old girl, who had a
tumour at the base of the brain, which was inoperable, and which had paralyzed her. Yesterday, she walked without
assistance to the witness chair, and told clearly about her case and her treatment.

There was a sturdy man, who had been a sergeant in the army. He had had a malignant tumour, also at the base of the
brain, which had been operated on but needed deep X-ray treatment, and this he could not receive because of the danger
to the brain. Yesterday he was the picture of health as he testifield, and quite naturally he was proud of his remarkable
recovery.

There was a woman who had had cancer of the breast which spread. Yesterday she was well, and testified with poise
and confidence.

A few cases showing such improvement cannot, of themselves, affect the outlook of the medical profession. But they
are attested facts and not flukes, and as such they have to be accounted for. And there are many, many more cases
which could have been cited.

It would seem to be the business of medical research to leap on such facts and carry every hopeful indication to a final
conclusion….
So the advocates for the Pepper-Neely bill can argue that, unless we learn now how to deal successfully with cancer,
many millions of persons now living in this country are condemned to die from cancer. A hundred million dollars is
little more than a token payment for America to make, in order to avert such a sweep of death, and they can then point
to the Gerson dietary approach as a most promising field of research….

Dr. Gerson was an eminent if controversial figure in pre-Hitler Germany. He was bound to be controversial because he
was challenging established practice in treating tuberculosis by diet. He has been assistant to Foerster, the great
neurologist of Breslau, and for years assistant to Sauerbruch, one of the great physicians on the Continent. The
Sauerbruch-Gerson diet for skin tuberculosis is well-known to European medicine, and the account of it is part of
accepted medical literature. Dr. Gerson told the Pepper Committee that he had first come upon his dietary theory in
trying to cure himself of migraine headaches. Later he treated others, among them a man with skin tuberculosis as well.
Dr. Gerson was an acknowledged dietary autority in Weimar Germany, and was responsible for the German army of his
time being placed on dehydrated, rather than canned food…..

Raymond Gram Swing continued with his network radio broadcast and brought in
some additional news too. After he ended, the telephone switchboard lit up at the
American Broadeasting Corporation in New York City. People called in from all over
the nation to learn about the Gerson Therapy. But other, darker, more powerful
commercial and political forces had been listening as well.
The executive directors of pharmaceutical companies producing cytotoxic agents
(Chemo-therapy) for cancer treatment – members of the PMA – threatened to cancel

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all radio advertising contracts for their drugs sold over the counter, an annual loss in
revenue for ABC amounting to tens of millions of dollars. Within two weeks of that
fateful radio broadcast which apprised people of a potential cure for cancer, after
thirty years at the same job Raymond Gram Swing was fired his position as a
newscaster for the ABC network.

You might also wish to know what happened to the Senate’s 227-page Pepper-Neely
anticancer bill of 1946-Document No. 89471. By efforts of the lobbyists working
with four senators who were also medical doctors, the bill was defeated. Today,
Document No. 89471 is stored in boxes and gathers dust in the archives of the U.S.
Government Printing Office.

Three questions you may understandably raise are:

1) Why didn’t the U.S. Senate over half a century ago adopt the anticancer budgetary
measure that came before it?

2) Wasn’t the prevention of or treatment for Americans coming down with cancer
vital enough ?

3) Why weren’t anticancer experts requested to at least test the Gerson Therapy back
then when senators were presented with the opportunity ?

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