2010/08/26
2010/08/07
Article: The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic
| Title: | The Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic |
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| Author: | Fred R. Klenner, M.D. |
| Source: | This article claims to be “From The Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 6, 1953, pp. 274-278”, published in 1953. It is extensively foot-noted, and contains some authoritative-sounding references, but we are unable to confirm the original source of the information at this time. A list of links, including alternative sources for Klenner’s publications, is included at the end of this posting. |
| URL: | http://whale.to/v/c/klenner1.html |
The author of this article, Fred R. Klenner, M.D., is credited with early research on the use of therapeutic “megadosing” of Vitamin C against diseases including polio.
Klenner’s research, some of which is outlined in this article, may of interest to individuals presently active in the anti-Vaccine Controversy or Vaccine Resistance Movement, as well as those researching the origins and spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the associated Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), since Klenner’s work seems to have run counter to the “polio vaccine” and other “vaccination” programs which were used e.g. to distribute HIV and other pathogens as part of ongoing eugenics and population reduction programs world-wide.
Interestingly, although the article is titled “Use of Vitamin C as an Antibiotic”, much of the discussion contained in the article is in references to the use of Vitamin C “against the virus bodies”, so technically the article is about using vitamin C as an anti-viral, and as a prophylactic measure against viral infection. This may be due to the fact that this was right over 50 years ago, when virus research was not far advanced. Nevertheless, the author reports
Our interest with vitamin C against the virus organism began ten years ago in a modest rural home. Here a patient who was receiving symptomatic treatment for virus pneumonia had suddenly developed cyanosis. He refused hospitalization for supportive oxygen therapy. X-Ray had been considered because of its dubious value and because the nearest department equipped to give such treatment was 69 miles distant. Two grams of vitamin C was given intramuscularly with the hope that the anaerobic condition existing in the tissues would be relieved by the catalytic action of vitamin C acting as a gas transport aid in cellular respiration. This was an old idea; the important factor being that it worked. Within 30 minutes after giving the drug (which was carried in my medical bag for the treatment of diarrhea in children) the characteristic breathing and slate-like color had cleared. Returning six hours later, at eight in the evening, the patient was found sitting over the edge of his bed enjoying a late dinner. Strangely enough his fever was three degrees less than it was at 2 P.M. that same afternoon. This sudden change in the condition of the patient led us to suspect that vitamin C was playing a role of far greater significance than that of a simple respiratory catalyst. A second injection of one gram of vitamin C was administered, by the same route, on this visit and then subsequently at six hour intervals for the next three days. This patient was clinically well after 36 hours of chemotherapy. From this casual observation we have been able to assemble sufficient clinical evidence that prove unequivocally that vitamin C is the antibiotic of choice in the handling of all types of virus diseases. Furthermore it is a major adjuvant in the treatment of at other infectious diseases.
The article goes on to describe various research and experimental results involving vitamin C and ascorbic acid to treat a variety of conditions and/or pathogens. One section describes the researcher(s) exposing their own children to measles in order to test the efficacy of vitamin C in fighting the disease:
The use of vitamin C in measles proved to be medical curiosity. For the first time a virus infection could be handled as if it were a dog on a leash. In the Spring of 1948 measles was running in epidemic proportions in this section of the country. Our first act, then, was to have our own little daughters play with children known to be in the “contagious phase.” When the syndrome of fever redness of the eyes and throat, catarrh, spasmodic bronchial cough and Koplik spots had developed and the children were obviously sick, vitamin C was started.
While this hardly qualifies as scientific research, and seems to violate several of the guidelines of medical practice, it’s worth remembering that allopathic medicine ruled the medical practitioner in the US in the mid-20th Century, and this work was doubtless going on contemporaneously with e.g. the infamous “Tuskegee Experiments”, so the moral and ethical context of the actions described by the author may be considered alien – even anathema – to modern research.
Reference Links:
- Wiki: Allopathic medicine
- Wiki: Vitamin C
- Wiki: Vitamin C megadosage
- Wiki: Measles
- Wiki: Nutrition
- Wiki: Fred R. Klenner
- Wiki: Search result for “Journal of Applied Nutrition”
- Wiki: anti-Vaccine Controversy
- Wiki: HIV
- Wiki: AIDS
- Wiki: Anti-viral drug
- Wiki: Virus
- Wiki: Infection
- Site: Vaccine Resistance Movement
Editor’s Note: According to Genamics JournalSeek, there is no archive of The Journal of Applied Nutrition currently available online [2010-08-07], so the information presented in this article must be considered as largely unsupported, at this time.
The Hinckley Casino Tomato Basil Soup Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1½ Cups of Milk
- 3 Cups Heavy Cream
- ¼ Cup Butter
- ¼ Cup Flour
- ¼ Cup diced Yellow Onions
- ¼ Cup shredded Carrots
- White Pepper (black is fine) to taste
- Salt, Kosher (iodized is fine) to taste
- 2 Tablespoons of Chicken Base
- 2 Cups of Water
- 1 Tablespoon of Basil, dried
- 1 Cup Tomato Juice
- 2 – 14oz Cans of Diced Tomatoes with the juice
Method:
- In medium stock pot, saute Onions & Carrots in the butter.
- Add Paprika and Basil saute until tender.
- Add Flour to make a roux cook at low heat for 5 to 6 minuites.
- Add Water, Milk, Cream, and Chicken Base and bring to a simmer.
- When Soup comes to a simmer add Tomatoes & Juice.
- Bring soup to a simmer and taste, add salt & pepper to taste.
- Serve
Notes:
- Serves Approx. 12 servings.
- May substitute Chicken Stock for the Chicken Base & Water.
- "LET ME KNOW HOW YOU LIKED IT!" –>>Gary L. Stigsell
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This recipe came to us with the kind permission of Gary L. Stigsell on Facebook who says of the soup: "It’s WONDERFUL! I go to the Casino on Seafood night at $25 a person primarily for this soup"
"The Casino" is The Grand Casino Hinckley in Hinckley, Minnesota.
[recipe edited for spelling and markup, posted to earth_food 2010-08-07]
2010/08/06
Trash Talk: Survival Sanitation – Off The Grid News
Ben from Texas says:
August 4, 2010 at 4:30 pm
- Aluminum cans can be made into life-time shingles:
- File or grind the top and bottom off each can,
- then take a pair of tin snips and cut down the side.
- Then overlap them on your roof to make a life time shingled roof.
- Make sure when you over lap them to cover the nail heads at the top of each shingle to make your roof water proof…Start at the bottom all the way across the roof working your way toward the top and stagger each shingle so the water will run down on the next shingle.
- Glass bottles and plastic bottles can be filled with sand and cap, then lay them down on top of each other making walls for a dog house.
- Put a piece of scrap plywood for a roof and shingle it.
- NewsPaper is nothing more than wood with soybean ink on them. Newspapers, cardboard and other paper can be shredded up ,wetted down by the next rain in a compost pile then in 6 months tilled in your garden as wood compost.
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2010/08/04
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) – the “other bad guys”
via CorpWatch : ADM’s New Frontiers: Palm Oil Deforestation and Child Labor:
About 40 million tons of palm oil worth $20 billion is produced each year – 85 percent of it by Indonesia and Malaysia, where giant oil palm plantations account for the highest rates of deforestation in the world. As of 2009, more than seven million hectares of palm oil plantations had been planted where forests super-rich in diversity once stood. Within a couple of decades, the deforestation is projected to triple to more than 20 million hectares.
We actually heard about this something like 20 years ago. At the time they were saying that – based on current rates of deforestation – Earth’s oxygen supply would begin to fail in about “10 years” – that was 23 years ago, so apparently something changed in the meanwhile. Either that or I’m just suffering oxygen deprivation and haven’t figured it out, yet.
Food Policy: U.S. Sugar Program
Sugar Program Basics.pdf (application/pdf Object) from SweetnerUsers.org:
U.S. Sugar Policy: How Does It Work?
U.S. sugar policy stands on three pillars — price supports, marketing controls and import quotas — that support a minimum price for sugar in the United States.
- Price supports maintain the minimum price through loans to sugar processors.
- Marketing controls regulate sales and indirectly regulate production, in an effort to prevent a price-depressing surplus of sugar.
- Import quotas regulate the flow of sugar into the United States, since our domestic prices are normally twice as high as world-market prices. Price Supports In U.S. farm policy, the government offers loans to producers of several commodities, including sugar. U.S. law sets a price support loan rate of 18¢ per pound of raw cane sugar and 22.9¢ per pound of refined beet sugar. The sugar loan program sets a floor under market prices.
- The loan rate is the per-unit value at which the government makes price support loans available (usually for nine months). Sugar must be pledged as the loan collateral. The owner of the sugar gets a loan equal to the loan rate multiplied by the amount of sugar pledged as collateral, and must either repay the loan with interest, or "forfeit" the collateral to the government in settlement of the loan.
- A rational borrower will forfeit (sell the sugar to the government) only if he or she cannot obtain a better return by selling in the marketplace. This means that forfeitures should only occur when market prices are near or below the loan rate. Forfeited sugar is temporarily unavailable to the marketplace, restricting available supplies – which should then increase prices. In theory, the program should keep market prices at or above the loan rate most of the time.
- Loans are made to producers of many farm commodities. However, in the sugar program, loans are made to processors – the cane mills and beet processing plants that turn sugarcane and sugar beets into sugar. The reason is that loan collateral needs to be storable for nine months or more, but sugarcane and sugar beets are not storable for long periods in their natural state, while after processing, raw cane sugar and refined beet sugar are storable.
- Sugarcane and sugar beets are agronomically different plants which are used to produce an identical end product, refined (or "white") sugar. However, the manufacturing process is somewhat different for the two crops. Sugar beets become refined beet sugar through processing at a single location, a beet processing plant or factory. Sugarcane is processed at a mill, becoming raw cane sugar. The raw sugar is then refined at a cane refinery, usually at a separate location from the cane mill.
- Raw sugar has less value than refined sugar, so the price of raw cane sugar will normally be less than the price of refined sugar, whether derived from beets or cane. The difference between raw and refined sugar prices is often called the "refining margin." (The different prices also reflect the fact that it takes 107 pounds of raw sugar to make 100 pounds of refined sugar.) This price differential explains why the loan rate for (raw) cane sugar at 18¢ per pound is lower than the loan rate for (refined) beet sugar at 22.9¢ per pound.
Marketing Allotments
The 2002 farm bill reinstated marketing allotments, which had previously been in effect under the 1990 farm bill but were then abandoned. Thus, the sugar program – which in its present form dates to 1982 – has operated both with and without controls on output.
- Allotments are established by complex formulae which require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to establish an allotment (called the "overall allotment quantity") for the entire country, then divide it according to a fixed ratio between beet and cane sugar, and finally assign a portion of the allotment (called the "allocation") to each company or cooperative that markets raw cane sugar or refined beet sugar.
- Allotments do not directly regulate how many acres of sugarcane and sugar beets farmers may plant. However, they achieve that result indirectly because contractual arrangements govern farmers’ deliveries to mills and processing plants, and allotments help determine the amount of these deliveries.
- USDA can increase or decrease allotments during the year, and has done so regularly. More frequent adjustments have occurred during unsettled markets, such as the summer and early fall of 2005, when three hurricanes affected both cane production and cane refining capacity, and USDA reacted by increasing the amounts that companies were permitted to sell.
- Any sugar that a cane or beet processor holds in excess of its allotment cannot be sold, but must be stored at the processor’s expense. These supplies are called "blocked stocks" because the sugar program blocks their sale.
Import Quotas
Sugar imports into the United States are governed by a tariff-rate quota (TRQ). Under U.S. obligations to the World Trade Organization, the TRQ must allow access for at least 1,117,195 metric tons of raw sugar, and at least 22,000 metric tons of refined sugar. Imports represent about one-eighth of U.S. sugar consumption. The United States has maintained tariff or quota barriers to sugar imports from the earliest days of the republic, but in recent decades, quotas were introduced in 1982 after a period of relatively unfettered trade in sugar from 1975 to 1981. The quota system has been modified since then, notably by establishment of the minimum import quota after the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture in 1994. (Before that, there was no minimum level for imports.)
- A tariff-rate quota sets a quantity of imports that may enter at a low or zero duty. Imports above the TRQ are legal, but are subject to a tariff designed to be prohibitive, i.e., to make it uneconomical to import. This over-quota tariff on raw sugar is over 15¢ per pound, enough to prevent any significant imports under normal market conditions. (In late 2005, U.S. markets were so short of supplies that measurable quantities of over-quota imports did, in fact, occur.)
- The sugar TRQ is allocated among countries that shipped sugar to the United States during the 1975-81 period of unrestricted trade. Since world production patterns have changed over the past 25-30 years, these allocations among 40 different countries do not necessarily reflect the relative exporting potential of the quota-holding countries today. (In fact, several are now net importers of sugar.)
- Quota imports receive approximately the U.S. domestic price. Since the U.S. is a net importer of sugar, domestic demand exceeds domestic supply and import prices will generally be bid up to the domestic price level. This is a higher price than the sugar quota-holding countries can obtain in the world market; the trade-off is that the quantity of sugar they can sell at this price is limited by the quota. The European Union maintains similar preferential import policies, although these are changing (and will become less attractive) with planned reforms in EU sugar policy.
How is U.S. Sugar Policy Different?
The United States maintains farm programs for many different crops. The sugar program operates quite differently from most of these other programs.
- In the sugar program, the loan rate sets a price floor. For most other commodities such as corn, cotton or soybeans, this was once true but is not the case today. Instead, these commodities have "marketing loans," which permit market prices to move freely even if they go below the loan rate. Farmers are guaranteed to receive at least the loan rate for their crop, since the government makes up any difference with a direct payment. The sugar program does not make direct payments, but instead provides support through a price floor. Critics say the price floor prevents markets from clearing in times of surplus, whereas commodities with “marketing loans” do have a market-clearing mechanism.
- Most other commodity programs do not rely significantly on import restrictions. Since U.S. prices for most of these commodities are near the world price, import flows are generally governed by supply and demand conditions rather than by a large gap between U.S. and world prices, as in the case of sugar.
- Other commodity programs have generally abandoned production controls. As with price supports, there was a time when nearly all supported commodities had some mechanism to control production, but since 1996 these mechanisms have ceased to apply to one commodity after another, with the exception of sugar.
- Under World Trade Organization rules, the sugar program is completely "amber," or trade-distorting. Other commodity programs have moved some subsidies into the "green" box, which means they are judged to distort trade much less under WTO rules. “Amber box” subsidies are tied to current prices and production, while "green box" policies are less price- and production-dependent. The current sugar program accounts for over $1 billion of U.S. "amber box" payments.
Draft revised 4/9/06
Save Salt To Survive – Off The Grid News
You want to save salt as a part of your survival planning because salt can save you. Salt pastes, poultices, and soaks have proven curative powers. It fights infection and also promotes healing. Beauty aids are even based on salt’s powers over the skin, allowing you to keep your vanity intact along with your well-being when survivalist days arrive.
Aside from saving your mirror ready face, there is the matter of saving your precious food stores. Salt is a natural preservative, helping to stretch out fresh food harvests through lean times and uncertain plantings. It also fights spoilage of food, ensuring that carefully hunted, planted, or stowed goods remain ready for use.
Those Nasty Little Bugs And Diseases In Container Gardens – Off The Grid News
Before reaching for a chemical fungicide to fight off those plant diseases, try using an organic one instead. You can also try some home solutions, such as:
- Baking Soda/Oil Combination: Mix ½ tablespoon of baking soda and ¼ teaspoon of cooking oil in a quart of warm water.
- Listerine® Solution: Mix 1 teaspoon of Listerine® into a quart of warm water
- Hydrogen Peroxide Solution: Mix 1 tablespoon per gallon of water.
Using one of the above recipes, mix directly into the sprayer and squirt on your plants every 10 days or so until the fungus or disease is gone.
- Insects can be controlled with a nice little mixture of soap and oil. Mix ½ teaspoon of dishwashing liquid, ¼ teaspoon of cooking oil, and a quart of warm water together. Mist underside and top of all the leaves every 10 days to control many common insects that can destroy your plants.
via Those Nasty Little Bugs And Diseases In Container Gardens – Off The Grid News.
Recipe: Blueberry Pound Cake
- 1 – 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 – box yellow butter flavored cake mix
- 2 cups frozen blueberries, rinsed well
- 12 ounces applesauce
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Lightly grease and flour a 10” tube pan. Combine all ingredients except the blueberries and beat until smooth. (The batter will have a grainy textured consistency because of the applesauce.) Fold in the blueberries. Spoon the batter into the pan, and bake about 1 hour or until the cake springs back when pressed. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
via Blueberries: God’s Perfect Little Fruit – Off The Grid News.










