TOPIC:

HCL (dilute Hydrochloric Acid) Therapy
author unknown

There is a basic phenomenon which occurs over and over again in the practice
lives of physicians and healers. Every practitioner at one time or another has
seen or heard about one or more persons ill with an acute disease hopelessly
beyond human aid or of others afflicted with an incurable chronic disease to
have been able in some inexplicable manner to reverse the vital processess of
injury and repair, action and reaction so that the body having acquired natural
immunity, or shall we say having increased the body's resistance, there results
an increasing cellular or tissue reaction followed by destruction of the
invader, restoration of balance, repair of all injured and diseased tissues and
a seemingly miraculous recovery takes place. As yet no one has come forward
with an intelligent explanation except to call them spontaneous recoveries, or
better yet MIRACLES. In search for a remedy that would stimulate the
reticulo-endothelial systems of the body, I performed a number of experiments.
One experiment was to introduce a number of substances under the cover- glass
slip of the microscope slide while observing the red, white, and bacterial
cells under dark field microscopy. I experimented with serial dilutions of EDTA
as a chelator and hydrochloric acid (HCL) as a reducer. Once I had the
dilutions down to the point where red cell damage did not occur visibly I made
the discovery that I was looking for. Two things were obvious by direct vision
of the infected human blood before my eyes: 1) The EDTA dissolved the bacteria.
2) The hydrochloric acid increased the activity of the white blood cell. The
white cell observation was astounding and led me to a search of the worlds
literature on the use of hydrochloric acid in the human body. The reports that
came in were old but fascinating, I had no alternative but to begin to give
myself the treatment and watch the changes in my own blood. A number of
excellent reports were made by Drs. B. Ferguson, W.B. Guy, I. Howell, W.G.
Brymer, M.A. Craig, A.M. Allen, F.J. James, O.P. Sweatt, R.L. Sills and E.D.
Jackson, and perhaps the largest concentration to the world's literature was by
R.R. Garcia. It was on the strength of their efforts and the years of clinical
work done by my mentor Dr. Black that I made this profound discovery. When
hydrochloric acid is injected into the body in very dilute, physiologic
amounts, the white blood cell systems increase their activity, the blood pH
returns to normal regardless of whether it is too acid or too alkaline and the
number of white cells increase. What follows are some random thoughts on this
subject. The most obvious clinical observation in the treatment of an acute
infectious disease with the use of hydrochloric acid is that a greater
phagocytic activity is imparted to the white cells by the injection of the
dilute solution of hydrochloric acid into the bloodstream, and that the
activity varies in intensity with different individuals. It proved to be a very
important factor in the improvement of the state of resistance of the organism.
Leukocytes and phagocytosis, important as they are, are but a link in a chain
of events of its defense mechanism to combat disease, whether it be acute,
chronic or degenerative. As part of the natural mechanism of defense and repair
we can make several observations in the acute disease. The body must marshall
all of the forces of the defensive mechanism in order to sustain the successful
struggle in the favorable cases. The unfavorable conditions are increasing
injury and diminishing reaction. These must be changed to increasing reaction
and diminishing injury with destruction and ultimate repair of the injured and
diseased tissue. In order to accomplish this effectively there must take place
an adequate febrile reaction to bring about attenuation of the invading
pathogenic microorganisms, rapid elimination of accumulated bacterial and
normal production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. There must be an
increased presence in the bloodstream as the acid responsible for the
maintenance of a normal pH. Obviously in the treatment of any disease process
we must do away with all predisposing conditions such as malnutrition and local
infection. We must bring about elimination of all accumulated bacterial and
metabolic poisons. There must take place restoration of tissue susceptibility,
the production of hydrochloric acid whether too much, or too little, or none at
all, and its presence in the bloodstream must be restored to normal. In other
words a physiological balance must be restored. It is reasonable to believe
that the acid-base balance of the blood is maintained through the acid cells
and since hydrochloric acid is the only inorganic acid normally made in the
body and that it is to this acid specifically that we must attribute the
apparent acidic response of the white cells. When this condition of physiologic
balance exists the individual is in the state of absolute immunity. He is in
good health and in the possession of a normal pH in the bloodstream and other
fluids in the body. The normal pH in itself is what could constitute what is
generally known as a natural immunity. Certain organs and tissues possess an
ability to modify their own immunity make up or local defense mechanism. These
seem to be governed by a normal production of HCL in the stomach and a normal
pH in the bloodstream. Consider continuity of the skin covering, with its acid
mantle, the acidity of the stomach contents, the defense mechanisms within the
nasal passages, the secretions and linings of the eyes, mouth, intestinal
tract, female and male genital urinary tracts, and at times the presence of
specific immunity. It is well known that practically everyone is harboring at
various times in the membranes of the throat, mouth and nasal tract the germs
of influenza, pneumonia, scarlet fever, croop, measles, mumps and other
contagions without becoming a victim of the disease itself. It is also known
that in order that infection shall develop it is not only necessary that the
bacteria grow in the tissues but it is necessary that they injure the tissue
and thus induce the reaction of disease. This they do at times by producing
injurious substances in sufficient quantities, that is, bacterial forms. The
presence of a normal production of hydrochloric acid and its presence in the
bloodstream and other fluids of the body is the agent responsible for the
acidity of the white cells and the maintenance of a normal pH. It is the agent
that renders the fluids and tissues of the body bactericidal and unfavorable as
a media. The more the white cells are maintained in a phagocytic state the
better is the natural immunity.
(HCL and EDTA have both been used with DMSO to get these substances in the
blood stream without the usual shots. DMSO can often be obtained in Health Food
storeas and Vet Suppliers. Diluted with 50% sterile water some treat
themselves..... Such treatment CANNOT BE CONDONED of course, and any medical
problems are best taken care of by private physicians....G)
An infection can go in only so many ways. It can either be aborted, arrested,
or carried on a successful termination. In the treatment of all functional
metabolic, endocrine, allergic, chronic and degenerative disease, once the
production of hydrochloric acid becomes restored to normal there takes place a
restoration of the normal acid base balance, reversal of the vital processes,
followed by repair of all injured and diseased tissues with restoration of good
health. When the production of hydrochloric acid falls short, a fact easily
demonstrable by laboratory techniques and which may be observed to take place
at birth or at any time during our natural expanse of life, the conditions of
hyper-chlorhydria, hypo- chlorhydria or achlorhydria take place. This
deficiency in hydrochloric acid production may be temporary or permanent in
character, and may be brought about by one or more predisposing factors such as
malnutrition, focal infection, chronic poisoning, exposure, fatigue, emotional
distress, shock and so forth. A better understanding of the concept of disease
and immunity can be had by evaluating a few of the things that we are known
about immunity. First of all, antibodies are specific as the organisms which
have called them into existence. Second, the bactericidal power manifested by
blood serum of man or animal toward all microorganisms outside the body is not
dependent on the presence or absence of specific antibodies. Thirdly, the
presence of immune bodies does not convey absolute immunity against a specific
disease and fourth, when invasion takes place and the reactions of disease
manifest, the disease may be mild although not infrequently may be severe
irrespective of the presence or absence of immune bodies. The question that
follows is how can we explain the inherent value of specific immunity and the
manner in which it affords protection? Why does this protection fail so
frequently? It is possible that the it comes into play only when the latter has
failed to prevent invasion? The leukocytes, or the white blood cells, are
factors which aid or supplement the natural immunity. At times, however, when
the virulence of the invading pathogen and the influx of toxins into the
bloodstream is of such a preponderant nature, the immune bodies become
overpowered. The excess toxins not only paralyze or shock the white cells into
inactivity but they also bring about tissue injury and the resultant reactions
of disease. Many times in doing dark field microscopy of individual's blood, I
have found massive accumulations of L-form bacteria and yet the white blood
cells are completely dormant, non-motile, non-phagocytic and huddled up in a
little ball doing nothing. Good health and the presence of absolute immunity
depend on the existence of a normal production of hydrochloric acid and its
presence in the bloodstream and other fluids of the body. When the HCL
production falls short, and a progressive diminution takes place, we find a
loss of absolute immunity, a decreasing degree of tissue susceptibility, an
imbalance of blood chemistry, and poor digestion and assimilation. This is the
starting point of general ill-health and malnutrition. It is a logical
assumption that a lack of sufficient minerals in the daily diet must of
necessity give rise to a deficiency in the hydrochloric acid production. It is
known that certain salts, such as potassium, are needed by the glands
responsible for its production. It is also known that when the hydrochloric
acid production falls short the required amount necessary to maintain the
acidity of the white cells and the acid-base balance becomes insufficient and
hydrogen chloride eventually vanishes from the circulation. When hydrogen
chloride disappears from the circulation some other acid must take its place
immediately in order to maintain the pH of the circulating fluids. The acid
wastes assume the role of hydrogen chloride in the blood chemistry. This is
followed by an imbalance of the blood chemistry. The acid wastes can not be
thrown off as quickly as they are formed so they begin to accumulate in the
fluids and tissues of the body with the resultant struggle between these and
the alkaline reserve. The result is a depletion of the latter. Functional
disorders of a metabolic, endocrine and allergic nature and the condition of
acidosis become manifest. The person loses his natural immunity and is highly
prone to develop focal infection followed by acute disease. In this depleted
condition they lack the necessary reserve to destroy the invading
microorganisms completely. It has been well established that in all cases of
malnutrition the condition of acidosis is always present. There follows a
reduction of physiologic functions and the EVER INCREASING accumulation of acid
metabolic wastes in the bloodstream. The hydrogen chloride production becomes
diminished. The hydrogen ions necessary for the maintenance of a normal pH fall
short and sooner or later hydrochloric acid is replaced by the waste acids in
the maintenance of the acid base balance. These acid wastes include carbonic
acid, diacetic acid, lactic acid, acetic acids, fatty acids, uric acid, etc.
These acid wastes however, are abnormal constituents of the bloodstream and
will act as a disruptor of the natural blood chemistry. When hydrochloric acid
vanishes from the circulation hypersecretion of hydrochloric acid takes place
in the gastric cells responsible for its production. A condition known as
hyperchlorhydria supervenes. The excessive secretion of hydrogen chloride is
but an effort on the part of nature to restore its presence in the bloodstream
by sheer force of numbers. Sooner or later however, the gastric cells begin to
tire and the component chemistry begin to dwindle. Thus the production of
hydrogen chloride begins to fall short. Focal infection pours a continuous
stream of bacterial poisons into the blood stream bringing about a diminution
and ultimately a disappearance of hydrogen chloride from the circulation with a
resultant loss of phagocytic activity. There then follows an extension of the
primary focus to one or more parts of the body creating newer disease processes
and newer foci of infection and the probability of a chrnoic poisoning such as
lead, arsenic, monoxide gas, narcotics, alcohol, and so accumulation of the
absorbed poisons plus the acid metabolic wastes causes a resultant condition of
acidemia. There follows a deficiency of HCL production, malnutrition, loss of
tissue susceptibility and thus the general causation formulation that leads to
the chronic and degenerative disease. Recent studies in Germany and in this
country demonstrate that cancer, diabetes, acute infection, neurosis, passive
congestions, gastric catarrh, severe anemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension,
chemical poisoning, affections of the heart, neoplastic growths, metabolic and
endocrine disorders, senile insanities, dyspepsia, chronic ulcers of the
stomach and duodenum, cholecystitis, appendicitis, duodenitis, worry, anxiety
and pyloric obstruction show pronounced changes in the hydrochloric acid
production. Too much, too little or none at all. Statistical surveys have been
made of the gastric acidity of patients of all ages and it was found that
25-30% of those over the age of 45 showed no free or combined hydrochloric
acid. The incidence of achlorhydria in the whole series of more than 3,000
patients examined was more than 10%. We know that pepsin is inactive unless a
considerable amount of hydrochloric acid is present. We also know that very few
bacteria can survive the acid conditions in the stomach and that the gastric
juice partially sterilizes the food preventing putrifaction during the gastric
phase of digestion. Without acid in the stomach the benefit of this action is
not obtained. Let us consider the protective agencies of the animal organism
but instead of talking about antibodies, vaccines, antitoxins, immunity of the
blood, dietary regimens, etc. let us go to rock bottom and consider the very
essential mineral elements of which our body is composed. It is generally
believed that organic life began in the saline ocean many eons ago and that the
chemical formula of that ocean, of the blood serum, and the temperature of the
body have not changed materially since that time. That the ocean is generally
always free from corruption no matter how many of its animals die within it, is
probably due to its chlorine content. Chlorine related not only to sodium
chloride but also to the chlorides of magnesium, calcium, and other minerals
present. Let us study the part that chlorine plays in the digestion of food and
its absorption into the body tissues. Chlorine may be found free as
hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice or combined with albumin in albuminosis
or it may be found united with sodium chiefly in the fluids of the body and
with potassium in the solids. Potassium was also found as a chloride by
preference in morphological elements like blood corpuscles, muscle cells, etc.
Calcium chloride is found in the gastric juice as a secondary product.
Hydrochloric acid favors the excretion of calcium phosphates. The normal
gastric juice in man contains some two to three parts of hydrochloric acid per
thousand. In healthy dogs five parts is found. It is curious that a healthy dog
can eat septic meat and if its stomach is opened one half hour later the foul
odor of the meat will be found sterile. The acidity and the germicidal quality
of the chorides perform this action. Too often; however acidity of the stomach
is not due to an excess of hydrochloric acid but rather to an excess of lactic
acid and if content of the stomach is alkaline, oxibuteric, diacetic and other
acids due to putrefaction processes are present. What is true of lactic acid is
also true of the other organic acids such as butyric, formic, and acetic, all
of which are especially abundant where there is stagnation of gastric contents
due to pyloric obstruction. Hydrochloric acid is the ONLY normal inorganic acid
in the body's economy. All other acids such as lactic, carbonic, uric, etc. are
WASTE PRODUCTS eliminated as quickly as possible. The normal acid would be the
most likely one to accomplish this end. If we have too great an excess of
carbonic acid we have COMA, as in diabetes or later stages of pneumonia. If the
uric acid is too high we have deposits in the valves, the arteries and
articular surfaces. When the hydrochloric acid content of the gastric juice is
deficient or absent we must expect grave results which will inevitably appear
in the human metabolism. First of all we shall see an increasing and gradual
starvation of the mineral elements in the food supply. The food will be
incompletely digested and failure of assimilation must occur. Secondly, a
septic process of the tissues will appear, pyorrhea, dyspepsia, nephritis,
appendicitis, boils, abscesses, pneumonia, etc. will become increasingly
manifest. Again a normal gastric fluid demands activity of the gallbladder
contents and of the pancreas for neutralization. Deficiency of normal acids
leads to a stagnation of these organs, leading to diabetes and gallstones. In
the absence of or in a great deficiency of hydrochloric acid we find a rise in
the multitudinous degenerative reaction which prepares the way to all forms of
degenerative disease. What then are the causes of hydrochloric acid
disappearance in the gastric fluid following eating of food? We have discovered
that hydrochloric acid secretion may be completely SUPPRESSED by emotion or
worry and in these days of emotional worry and distress, loss of homes,
business, income and monies, we may well fear that in the near future a great
increase of degenerative diseases such as cancer, nephritis, cardiac, nervous
and mental afflictions must assuredly occur unless man can rise above worldly
affairs and find the true and only source of contentment and happiness. When
one considers that this normal acid, hydrochloric acid, is derived from the
tissues of the stomach or gastric membrane and not directly from the sodium
chloride of the blood, one readily realizes that an ample supply of sodium
chloride alone is insufficient to restore normal gastric acidity. Rather, that
it is instead a complex process. The sodium atom is picked up and combined with
the phosphorous atom giving rise to sodium phosphate which must be eliminated
thus allowing the chlorine atom to be set free. The chlorine atom combines with
the potassium and other minerals and albumins in the gastric acid and is made
ready for future digestive functions. In my estimation it is not in the life of
the cell that the secret to malignancies is to be found but rather in THE MEDIA
IN WHICH THE CELL LIVES and the nerves that control it. Cell growth is
materially influenced by the nerve centers of the spinal cord. This is
undoubtedly true as is shown by the rapid wasting of the cellular tissue when
involvement of the anterior horns of the spinal cord occurs in infantile
paralysis and progressive muscular atrophy. Such being the case, a toxin
causing destruction of the inhibiting control of cell growth probably present
in the posterior spinal nerve centers would allow wild growth of cell life.
Therefore, neoplasms in all of their multitudinous forms and a general failure
of the antiseptic powers of the blood serum could bring about what is known as
malignancy. We see cancerous growths frequently appearing when the blood
pressure is low indicating a beginning failure of the adrenal system to combat
toxemia. When hypertension is present the other group of degenerative diseases
makes itself evident. What can we conclude? That normal hydrochloric acid is
necessary for complete healthy digestion, that deficiency of this acid tends to
sepsis, suppuration, and general toxemia, that if adrenals are inactive
degenerative forms of disease usually appear, that if the adrenals are impaired
malignant neoplasms may be expected, that neoplasms are most likely caused by
failure of the inhibitory nerve control probably located in the posterior nerve
centers of the spinal cord, that emotional worry, grief, anxiety, depression
are factors to be considered as causes of acid deficiency of gastric fluid and
thus give rise to many condtions causing degenerative processes in alkalescence
so commonly found in cancerous disease. What is acidosis? An accumulation of
acid or a diminution of the pH reaction. But what acid? We can glibly say,
carbonic acid in the blood or lactic acid in the tissue, uric acid in the
joints and blood vessels, lactic, diacetic, butyric in the stomach or
intestines, etc. We may even visualize hepatic acids in the liver but unless we
know why these acids appear in excess and their relation to alkalosis, we shall
never be able to understand their true significance or marshall our remedies
effectively against them. The only normal acid in the animal body is
hydrochloric acid found in the gastric juice. All other acids are waste
products. The carbonic acid of the breath is created by the oxidation of the
lactic acid of the tissues and therefore an excess of lactic acid is a failure
to oxidize this acid sufficiently. In diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis and
fevers, this failure of complete oxidation is present. The amino acids are but
stages of food digestion and when present in excess show an impaired hepatic
and pancreatic function. The most pernicious form of acidosis is that produced
when a stoppage occurs in the duodenum or pylorus. In this condition the
hydrochloric acid of the gastric fulid disappears and other acids such as the
acetic, butyric, and lactic take its place. The condition of chlorine of the
blood is usually diminished, the urea is increased and the capacity of the
blood to combine with carbon dioxide is increased. Achlorhydria occurs in some
cases of apparently healthy persons and in many cases of gastrointestinal
disease. It is also stressed that it appears frequently in diabetes and with
still greater frequency in thyrotoxicosis as well as in certain nonmegalocytic
hypochondriac anemias. Absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice is a
common symptom in depressive neuroses. It is frequently associated with mental
fatigue, persistent worry and strain especially in persons with a congenital
unstable psyche. The symptoms are very vague, lack of appetite, fullness after
eating, gaseous eructations and diarrhea is more common than constipation. Pain
is absent. Hydrochloric acid reacts with the duodenal membrane to produce a
hormone called secretin which stimulates the pancreas to release insulin,
increase the formation of bile and upgrade the activity of the gallbladder. If
we were to summarize the sequence of events occurring as a result of
hydrochloric acid deficiency we would list the following:
Improper digestion
Fermentation and later putrifaction
Reduced absorption
Reduced liver and pancreas function
Ulcer formation
Elevated blood sugar
Reduced oxidation of lactic acid
Retention of carbon dioxide
Reduced activity of the white blood cells
Reduced destruction of bacteria
Unbalanced mineral levels
Improper digestion means an unbalanced assimilation, an unbalanced mineral
content of the body. What are some of the symptoms of mineral imbalance? First
a surplus of sodium. This is following by tissues that are too watery and a
tendency toward edema and asthma, flabby muscles and a lack of chlorine. A
deficiency of calcium means an excess of sodium and a deficiency of potassium.
Lack of hydrochloric is the main cause of alkalosis. When the cellular tissue
are too alkaline, the fatty acids tend to disintegrate and give off glycerol.
It is interesting to note that the Progenitoracae, a series of bacteria similar
to the Actinomycetales which are similar to the Microbacteria which is the
Tuberculosis bacillus, and that all of these grow rapidly in glycerin or sugar
medias. It is also interesting that fluorine is the most potent inhibitor of
the enzyme enolase. When this enzyme is inhibited, it causes the intake of
carbohydrate to be shunted into the production of Glyceryl instead of being
combusted as fuel energy. In this way industrial fluoride pollution aggravates
infection. If an alkaline condition exists in the body and is accompanied by a
physiologic overcompensation of the gastric chief cells, an unaware physician,
or the patient himself may inadvertently dose himself with alkali antacids.
This results in an aggravation of the existing alkalosis and could force the
body into a compensatory acid production within the tissues. The net result of
this activity is the production of toxemia and the reduction of the final line
of defense and repair. I have made repeated reference to the inactivity of the
white blood cells. It is interesting to note that within two hours of the
injection of hydrogen chloride intravenously, 32% of the white cells were
showing pronounced phagocytic activity and engulfing microorganisms.
Twenty-four hours after the injection phagocytic activity showed that 69% of
the white cells were in phagocytic activity. The average human has 7000-8000
white blood cells per milliliter of blood. Projected out for a 160 pound male
with six liters of blood we would arrive at a white blood cell population of
around 48 billion cells. With the use of hydrochloride injections we can
predictably increase the white blood cell population by another 2000 milliliter
and add around 10 billion more cells into the fight, whatever it may be. We, of
course, know that there are many things which can produce a similar reaction.
Gamma globulin, pancreatic extracts, nucleic acids and so on. But none of these
is as effective or as physiologic as hydrochloric acid. To show the tremendous
support for healing such a therapy can be, consider this case. An individual
who had ulcers in the duodenum and pyloric for 22 years. X-ray confirmed an
active state of one of the lesions. He received 10 injections of hydrogen
chloride and all evidence of the peptic ulcer disappeared. It is probable that
several hormones influencing the motions of the intestine and its accessory
organs are liberated when the acid gastric juice containing digested food comes
in contact with the duodenal mucous membrane. We know that iron salts
precipitate in a neutral or slightly alkaline medium and thus the presence of
hydrochloric acid in the stomach serves a useful purpose in those who are being
given iron for the treatment of anemia. We know that Vitamin B-1 is unstable in
neutral or alkaline solutions and for this reason hydrochloric acid plays some
part in the efficient utilization of this substance given orally. By preventing
the decomposition of thiamine which would otherwise take place in the
achlorhydric stomach, hydrochloric acid allows the full amount taken into the
stomach to reach the duodenum. All disease processes, whether functional,
metabolic, endocrine, allergic, acute, chronic or degenerative are accompanied
by the condition of acidosis and the deficiency of the hydrochloric acid
production. It goes without saying that the longer that ill health is permitted
to exist in the body the less capable the tissues become to respond to
physiological stimuli. Use of hydrogen chloride therapy in rheumatism and
arthritis is rather rewarding. In the treatment of acute articular rheumatism
it is imperative that treatment be started immediately. If treatment is given
when only one joint is effected the process can be stopped right there and
then. In the treatment of arthritis we give intravenous injections of dilute
hydrochloric acid solution daily for about three weeks. When the pain has
subsided we proceed to eliminate or cure all focal infections such as abscessed
teeth, infected tonsils and turbinates, an infected or lacerated cervix,
prostate glands and rectal crypts, etc.. Carbon monoxide has an affinity for
hemoglobin 300 times as strong as that of oxygen. We have found the use of an
injection of dilute hydrochloric acid intravenously will accelerate the release
of carbon monoxide from the hemoglobin. It is well known that a certain reserve
of alkaline salts is necessary to normal physiology and that among many
functions which might be mentioned the oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange
carried on through the presence of an optimal amount of alkalies in the blood.
Decrease this reserve and oxidation becomes materially reduced. Actually the
amount of oxidation going on in the cells or tissues does not depend on the
quantity of oxygen absorbed or on the amount available in the blood but rather
on the capacity of the tissues to use it. The nature of this catalyst or enzyme
is not clearly determined but most physiologists at present recognize that some
such agent as a catalyst is necessary for normal oxidation. It appears likely
that the presence of hydrogen chloride in the maintenance of the acid base
balance is responsible for this normal oxidation. Here is an interesting case
history from the annals of medicine. A very sick woman was seen on a house-call
basis. Upon examination her temperature was found to be 100 degrees,
respiration 56, pulse 160, she was highly toxic, cyanotic with a glassy glare
in her eyes and she was unconscious. She was immediately given 20 cc. of a
dilute solution of hydrochloric acid intravenously and within 5 minutes there
was a marked improvement in the heart, the breathing and the general condition.
The cyanosis disappeared, she opened her eyes and spoke. The attending
physician returned three hours later. The temperature had gone up 1.5 degrees.
She was still conscious and her general condition was good. It was then found
that she had a septic incomplete abortion which was then surgically corrected
and the patient went on to complete recovery. There was a case reported before
the American Association for the Advancement of Science by a doctor. He stated
a case history; "The patient was moribund due to the unexpected effects of an
anesthetic. The hydrochloric acid was injected at 10:15 AM, eight minutes later
the lips began to twitch and ten minutes the hands moved and in forty minutes
the patient was talking coherently." Early in the month of January, Dr. B.
Ferguson was called to see a patient, a man of 55 apparently dying from angina
pectoris. He was alone in the hotel room and could give no history of his
ailment. A partly empty bottle of Digitalis was on the dresser. Breathing from
water-filled lungs precluded any possibility of hearing anything of the very
rapid and tumultuous heart. With the aid of a bellboy he was given an
intravenous injection of hydrochloric acid dilute. Before the completion of the
injection the breathing had improved and the patient rested easier. It has been
observed that an injection of hydrochloric acid dilute intravenously does not
markedly change the carbon dioxide capacity of the blood while the oxygen
content is markedly increased in 30 minutes. It is entirely possible that
intravenous solutions of hydrochloric acid can result in more oxidation of red
blood cells than the inhalation of oxygen through a nasal breathing device. In
a previous passage I showed a sequence of events when hydrogen chloride
supplies diminish. The bacterial growth within the body accelerates, the toxic
levels rise and the sequence continues. Usually the disappearance of hydrogen
chloride is gradual and the bacteria wander into the circulation casually
without provoking the defensive mechanism. There begins a constant and unending
flow of bacteria toxins into the bloodstream followed by slowing up of the
circulation and all other physiological processes. As a result of this the
bacterial toxins start to accumulate in the bloodstream and a mild toxemia set
in. It is generally known that the patient presents himself for the first time
to consult with his family doctor. He complains of mild functional disorders
such as general weakness, a loss of appetite, a lack of endurance, a sallow
complexion and irritability. The avidity with which the white cells absorb or
destroy every foreign substance entering the bloodstream soon manifests itself
in the fact that the white cells become smothered and overpowered by the
increasing accumulation of bacterial toxins. The great influx of bacterial
poisons having rendered the white cells impotent, the phagocytic response
almost nil, even though there may be a high leukocyte count. Examination of the
blood picture after an injection of hydrogen chloride will reveal a great
increase in leukocytic and phagocytic activity. When the hydrogen chloride
supplies in the bloodstream become too low the body begins to manufacture other
kinds of acids to neutralize the alkalosis that supervenes. This is
accomplished by lactic, carbonic, butyric, diacetic, acetic and fatty acids.
This is followed by a functional stimulation of the gastric glands responsible
for the production of hydrogen chloride. As a result of this disturbance an
over-production of hydrogen chloride begins to take place. An over-production
of the acid takes place and a condition of hyperchlorhydria and toxemia becomes
manifest. Our patient now pays his respects for a second time to the family
physician and reiterates his former complaints but with the new added ones of
the sympotoms of gastric distress. A disordered chemistry follows the vanishing
of hydrogen chloride from the circulation and its replacement by the acid
metabolic wastes. Some of these wastes cannot be converted into substances
suitable for excretion. This factor plus the presence of bacterial toxins or
any other form of poisons entering the blood and the progressive slowing up of
the circulation and all other physiological processes of the varied tissues
gives rise to the inability of the body to throw off completely metabolic acid
waste as quickly as they are formed, and therefore they begin to accumulate in
the bloodstream bringing about the condition of incipient acidosis and toxemia.
Our patient now makes a third visit complaining of a lack of endurance,
irritability, nervousness, insomnia, vague pains and digestive problems.
Observe that as the functional disturbances are beginning to become aggravated
new symptoms are beginning to appear. In the disposal of the acid wastes the
bloodstream serves merely as a conveyor. The absence of an adequate supply of
potassium salts, for example, gives rise to a diminution of the hydrogen
chloride production. Be that as it may, the production of hydrogen chloride
falls short and the condition known as hypochlorhydria supervenes. The
progressiveness of this metabolic disorder is apparent for sooner or later
there is a total suppression of the production of hydrogen chloride and the
condition know as achlorhydria becomes manifest. Clinically this train of
events manifests itself as malnutrition and a so-called physiological
disturbance, metabolic, endocrine and organic. Any of the infectious arthritis
and osteoarthritis, endocarditis, ulcerative endocarditis, myocarditis,
rheumatic pericarditis, acute chorea, muscular rheumatism, peripheral neuritis,
herpes, abscess of the brain, acute appendicitis, cholecystitis, salpingitis,
oophoritis, thyroiditis, nephritis, osteomyelitis, phlebitus, synovitis,
various skin disorders, arteriosclerosis, bacteremia and the list goes on and
on. Faulty digestion and assimilation due to a deficiency of the hydrogen
chloride production in the stomach brings about a resulting serious depletion
of the alkaline reserve, malnutrition, impaired metabolism, and a derangement
of the physiologic functions of the varied tissues. Furthermore, the
bloodstream becomes stagnant with the ever increasing accumulation of bacterial
toxins, metabolic acid wastes, acid wastes, acid salts altered secretions of
the endocrine gland and bacteria. The bloodstream becomes a literal cesspool
against which the varied tissues, particularly those with an inheritied
weakness or susceptibility, begin to react. Clinically there becomes manifest
the condition of advanced acidosis and toxemia. Our patient is still with us
and by now he complains of marked general weakness, nervousness, insomnia,
digestive disorders, various functional disturbances of a metabolic and
endocrine nature, functional disturbances of the heart, severe headache,
allergic manifestations, malnutrition, vague pains all over the body and in
addition the symptoms of any inflammatory or organic lesions present. He again
visits his family physician. He is now advised to consult the elite of the
profession, the surgeon, neurologist, endocrinologist, allergist, the stomach
specialist and others. In due time having made the rounds of the various
specialists he finds himself relieved of various appendages and certain sums of
money. His condition, however, continues progressively worse. The deficiency of
hydrogen chloride production, starvation of minerals, vitamins and amino acids
and other food elements and a total unbalance or derangement of all
physiological functions of the varied tissues of the body. Also there is ever
decreasing degree of tissue susceptibility. Furthermore it is to be observed
that at this stage it no longer matters what the predisposing factor has been
that brought about the ill health. Well, time marches on. The ever increasing
degree of intensification of each and every component comprising the general
causation coupled with the presence of one or more pathological processes
brings back our patient not only with the symptoms of the demonstrable
pathology but also the symptoms of advanced progressive acidosis and toxemia,
exhaustion and easy fatigability, insomnia, feeling of pressure in the front of
the head, the top of the head and the back of the neck, the region of the
throat and sternum are also favorite locations in which tight feelings occur.
There may be backache, bellyache, severe headace, dizzy spells, muscular pains
and weakness, dyspepsia, extreme nervousness and irritability, sexual
disorders, mental disturbances, numbness of hands, fingers and toes, clammy
hands and feet, vague pains all over the body, subnormal or above normal
temperature, high or low blood pressure and various functional heart disorders.
By this time one or more allergic diseases have already become manifest. By now
our patient finally realizes the futility of seeking further aid be it
allopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic, neuropathic, or what have
you and settles down in the bitter frame of mind to await his day of
deliverance. On and on the process continues until all the varied tissues
become saturated with these poisons with complete loss of tissue susceptibility
and the aberration of all physiological functions. Degenerative disease is but
a reaction of the tissues against the general pathology. It can take any number
of forms such as areteriosclerosis, diabetes, nephritis, affections of the
heart, neoplastic growths, pernicious anemia, leukemia, lymphadenoma, senile
insanity, multiple sclerosis, and arthritic degenerations. Now let's take a
look at this patient in the final stages. Let us visualize the patient in his
final stage of advanced acidosis and toxemia. Look about you as your friends,
your loved ones. Look at yourself. Ask yourself, "How do you feel, really?" All
of this tragedy, the death, the pain, and despair solvable by simple therapies
generated by a simple process of thought and administered in a simple gesture
of help and kindness. All of this available for more than thirty years. But
what has become of the genius that sprouted forth from the minds of a few
physicians long ago? A simple call to the Bureau of Medical Investigation will
reveal them to be "dead quacks!" At this moment we need an Emergency Survival
Philosophy. In the future we will all participate in the Health Crimes Trials
of the Twentieth Century.
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
www.psychresearch.com/index.html
DILUTE HYDROCHLORIC ACID INTRAVENOUSLY AND INTRAMUSCULARLY
By DESIDIERIUS DE BESZEDITS, M.D.

Former President of the Federal Sanitary Brigade in the
District of Tlaxiaco, State of Oaxaca, Mexico

One outstanding, highly beneficial, naturally progressive result of the past
series of Mexican revolutions and consequent revindications, was the
establishment of the most modernly organized federal health department, the
Mexican Federal Public Health Service, located in a large American-style modern
building, occupying a whole city block in the capital of the Mexican republic,
in delightful Mexico City, so well and favorably known to thousands of American
tourists. The men at the head of each department, as well as their co-workers,
are physicians and surgeons of the highest standing, who, while relatively well
paid, could earn at least double their salaries in private practice. This fact
alone displays their unselfish patriotic service to their country and to
humanity.

The government, the strongest and best Mexico has ever had, leaves a large
budget and practically free hands to these professionals to handle the
country's health service in the most up-to-date and efficient manner, which
they do to the best of their ability. This health department has its physicians
in every state of the republic, doing excellent work in the interest of public
health and hygiene.

Yet Mexico is a very large country, abounding in regions sparsely settled,
lacking ways of communication, our only locomotion for traveling and freight
hauling in these regions (more than half of the country's territory) being on
the backs of our sure-footed patient little burros or their stronger and more
modern cousins: the mule and, more rarely, the horse.

The fact that from our headquarters town it takes us four or five days to reach
the nearest railway or a day or two of forced mule-back ride to attend a call
and reach a hut or shack with its "moribundo" inhabitant, makes us only more
wakeful and appreciative of our wonderfully picturesque surroundings; also more
thankful to great nature, and with lots of time to think and meditate during
these long, slow trips, it brings us nearer to God, and, all in all, with the
infinite silence and solitude, makes us a better man and .... decidedly a
better doctor!

Far away from ordinary civilization, still farther away from hospitals,
laboratories or even nurse service, more isolated yet by months of "rainy
season," content to read week-old newspapers, reading and rereading and reading
again every word of THE MEDICAL WORLD and other journals, and everything
readable we can lay our hands upon, informed and keeping up with the times
somehow, an ideal situation to work out real complicated jig-saw puzzles,
medical and otherwise!

Then comes an "urgent" call-brought by some friendly neighbor who had traveled
for a couple of days on foot as the crow flies. Up here in the Sierra Madre, in
a most primitive log-cabin-like affair, of the poorest charcoal matier native,
set out over almost impenetrable mountain gorges with such a narrow path
leading to it that while it may do for goats and deer, even my experienced and
sure-footed mule must be led along on it where the volcanic cold air and the
wailing tigers and mountain lions help to increase the chill of my bronchial
pneumonia patient; or in the heart of the treacherous, swampy, dripping jungle,
where in the matted tangles of the tall kunai grass, in the very breeding
ground of legions.of mosquitoes and hundreds of kinds of insect pests,
scorpions, snakes and alligators, there stands the poorest fisherman's
loneliest kitchen and living room, all in one palm hut, with an eclamptic
primipara----also a confirmed leper---by the "yellowest malaria fever in it,
awaiting death or the "doctorcito"!

Only such very sick people in such an extreme condition can have such absolute
faith in the doctor. And I just simply must get these sick people well, and
quickly, too, as the old Indian medicine-man, still remembered in their
legends, used to do it, and more so because people with no education or with
the most limited degree of it do not understand the complicated causes of any
eventual delay. Besides, my bread (we have no butter here in the jungle
country) and my reputation depend on my successful doctoring"!

The movie-reel-like picture of all my past ambitions and future hopes of and
for a successfully rounded out professional life flashes through my mind,
but----and by these "buts" human affairs are ordered

---

here I must deal with
present realities!

And now back to realities and facts. So I instinctively turn to my
much-treasured bottle of HC1 solution and use it here at the world's most
tucked-away corner, in the same manner and with the same excellent results, as
used in the great U. S. A. in the very heart of modern civilization. Can there
he anythingi more wonderfully real and more really wonderful than this
accessibility and facility?

Right you are, Dr. Ferguson and your followers: induced leucocytosis and
increased phagocytic activity. Well enough and true, but for me the story, the
"good doing " does not end there. I have seen too much to be satisfied with
these limits. Due to the invariably excellent results I have personally
obtained with HCl solution injected, in my own mind I am convinced that there
is a great deal more as to the cause or causes of the beneficial healing action
of this HCl solution. What the white and red blood cells will do under its
influence we all thoroughly understand. What I want to know, what we do not
know yet, is what HCI solution injected, alone and in itself, due to its
intrinsic therapeutic value and merit,is capable of doing and will do besides,
while and when helping nature to do what only nature can do.

PNEUMONIA

Take, for instance, in my exceedingly severe pneumonia cases, where it has
never failed me. Pneumonia---all types of pneumococci---in hot climates is more
treacherous, more deadly, than in the temperate zone. A characteristic of these
pneumonia cells is that they are inclosed or, should I say, "gum-coated." Thus
incased, this outer coating or casing or capsule contains polysaccharides. This
evidently impermeable coating makes the protected germs inaccessible,virulent,
deadly; more so if each type has its own particular coating. Once made
accessible (to the action of the white blood cells), exposed, undressed, so to
say, these germs are not particularly dangerous.

Then, I ask, when injected, what does HCl solution do to these pneumonia cells,
to this perhaps impenetrable coating? Is it that it itself attacks and simply
"skins" them? After which, once made accessible, their undoing and elimination
are simple through the natural process of leucocytosis plus phagocytosis. Am I
on the right trail in my deductions?

Or would this HCl solution injected, do some biochemical wonder as to
respiration and the physiology of circulation, since the exudates (blood, pus,
serum, germs) that accumulate in the minute air chambers of the lung cause it
to lose its "sponginess" and become liver-like; the devitalized air cells
definitely collapse; no adequate amount of oxygen can get into the blood;
neither can carbon dioxide and toxins constantly produced by the attacking
germs escape from the blood; the lungs, under the undue labor, become
exhausted; so does the toxin-poisoned heart.

Yet noting the unfailing beneficial effect I always obtain with HCl solution
injected, even in such extreme conditions, isn't it reasonable if I ask: did it
cause dilatation of the plugged air spaces (so that the white cells can get to
the toxins?) so that enough oxygen can get through, so to sustain the patient
until (the white blood cells having done their work) carbon dioxide gets into
the blood and helps (via the brain) to excite the lungs to expand and contract,
thus re-establishing normal breathing and saving the patient?

Or can or does HCl solution injected act as a detoxifier or a "toning up" agent
when the toxin-poisoned cells are no longer able to take and deliver life's
essential oxygen?

The most trying circumstances----numerous civil uprisings, thus not only far
away, but cut off from any possible help simultaneously with the burning down
of my house and drug store-- under which I have been laboring in my daily
clinical work, compelled me at first not only to use, but really to abuse, HCl
injections. At first I entertained very serious doubts about this substance,
and did not approve its promiscuous use in almost every case that came to my
clinic, my only excuse (to myself) being of the sheerest necessity: numerous
sick people seeking treatment and absolutely no other medicine available. So if
necessity is mother of all inventions, so much more was it mother in my case of
innovation or discovery or, better yet, "revelation" of this humble, but
marvelous, acid.

Little by little, the more I used it-upon others as well as on myself-my doubts
turned into hopes and gradually my hopes into happy surprises. Looking back
now, after having used several thousand injections-I am not only not sorry for
having done my "dangerous" experiments, but I am decidedly glad for all, for
HCl injected had proved to be a godsend therapeutic agent on all occasions when
used with due caution and prudence.

My investigations-with the capable guidance of a competent American biochemist
I employ---I consider far from being complete. However, to me it is certain
that HCl, besides its action upon cellular life and cell behavior, does have
some additional inherent "virtue," for it accomplishes much more than claimed
by its most ardent advocate.

So far we have only heard of what it will do in infectious diseases.

My observations, my failures and results, my work with this substance, lead me
to reason thus: man is the center of medicine; he is either the victim of
illness or is the cause of his own disease; so human diseases may be put into
two general divisions: from within, degenerative diseases; from without, the
infectious diseases. Numerous subdivisions are possible, but not necessary.

In the infectious diseases the leucocytosis and phagocytosis theory--as
championed by Dr. Ferguson and his followers---certainly is correct and most
satisfactory.

But what about the degenerative diseases, due to tear and wear, where the
"cogs" in the wonderful human machinery become more or less worn and out of
alignment; life-giving and sustaining substances----minerals----depleted or
exhausted?

What will HCl solution injected accomplish in order to obtain "repair"?

What are the coadjuvants that are needed to make it a complete success? In
pernicious types of malaria and in a malignant type of highly infectious
dengue, as seen only in tropical climates, HCl solution injected intravenously
produces a notable effect--- quick and sure---upon the hematopoietic elements
of the spleen, marrow, and lymph glands.


MALARIA

The gradual re-establishment of the acid-base equilibrium of the body, the
renewed carbon dioxide combining power of the blood, the relation of the
chlorides of the blood plasma under its action attest its highly active and
beneficial (repairing, coagulating, etc.) influence.

This is my tenth year of clinical experience in Mexico, spent in different
parts, mostly on the coast in the hot country. I usually see from two to twenty
malarial cases every day, besides all the diseases that one finds "in the
books," and sometimes I think that there still are some "unwritten" ones that
occasionally come to me.

Among all, my own case was, perhaps, the most characteristic and most
malignant. Though saturated with quinine, I was daily shaken with chills
lasting 45 minutes followed by high temperature up to 105 degrees of two to
three hours duration; then profuse sweating.

Having exhausted all my own malarial knowledge, I consulted two of our best
malaria expert M.D.'s whose three weeks' treatment did me no good. Of my usual
weight of 170 lbs., I have lost 65 lbs., became the yellowest-skinned skeleton,
with added tropical dysentery and stomach ulcers, and---seriously contemplating
suicide.

Then, just at this time, my house and small drug store burned down. Thereafter
the only medicine I had left was a scorched bottle of "acid phosphate of Dr.
Horsford," and at that time it enjoyed quite a large sale in Mexico. It is
composed of different mineral phosphates and dilute HCl.

Hardly able to drag myself around, and with many sick people asking for
treatment, I decided on something "big and bold." I diluted that bottle to the
limit, so that it would go a long way, and I myself took it by the mouth and in
intramuscular injections and administered it to every one of my patients for
any and all ailments.

Seems and looks foolish, doesn't it, this my "Indian medicine man" attitude and
action? Yes, I think so myself, but everything is fair in love and in war. So
is everything excusable for a sick person trying to get well! To be short---in
one week we all were well and happy. This, again, gave me the idea to use
certain mineral salts as coadjuvant with minute doses of HCl.

Since then I have treated a great many similar malignant types of
malaria---bilious, hemoglobinuric or black-waterfevers. One of them that I
treated with quinine and salvarsan terminated fatally, with persistent
hiccough, hepatitis and abundant vomiting of blood. All others treated with my
HCl mineral prescription survived, like myself. In the most severe cases of
tropical malaria, with "access pernicieux" (when death may supervene with
unexpected suddenness) and with cerebral involvement and consequent coma, the
very efficient and quick effect of HCl injected is noticeable in copious
sweating, this "crisis" of sweating usually terminating the comatous state and
heralding the beginning of nursing back to health.

Now, why is this sweating? What effect can HCl produce on the "glandulas
sudorificas"? Or on the corresponding nervous system in malarial amblyopia that
under the action of the HCl solution, injected intravenously, will clear up
readily? How does it work in this case upon the benumbed or oppressed nerves
(causing release from oppression)? What deductions and explanations can
doctors, thoroughly familiar with the blood picture, morbid anatomy, pathology
and pathological anatomy, etc., of this "multiform" disease, make as to the
action of the HCl injected? Those who know malaria and quinine therapy in all
its forms and manifestations know that quinine is not a specific for malaria.
It is only that certain types of malaria and malaria in its certain "phases"
are amenable to quinine. But, all and every malarial case will clear up when
the sulphate of quinine is used, dissolved with water with the aid of HCl. And
in the opinion and practice of our best malaria experts, it is infallible when
the chlorides, as recommended by Dr. Walter B. Guy in the pages of THE MEDICAL
WORLD, are added.

Not to apply the HCl solution with quinine in all malaria cases right from the
start I would consider a culpable error.

If HCl solution so used does not prevent the next succeeding "chill" (it always
diminishes it), or if relapse is prone to occur, it is only because the right
dose was not given.

Can it be that HCl solution injected, due to its inherent quality or virtue,
exerts a toxic influence upon malarial parasites, killing them by poisoning or
"burning: them up or choking them to death by engulfing them, by isolation or
saturation? Or is it that the white blood cells will do any or all this when
stirred up by the HCl solution injected?

What an immensely broad field is offered here for the most interesting research
work as to the possible or likely effect of HCl solution injected, upon these
and all other parasite germs. Is such effect the same on the filterable as on
the different bacterial germs? On those that are reproduced by dividing or
splitting or on those that grow spores? When they alone can or do cause the
disease or when acting in concert with some other contaminating organism that
somehow gets into the colony? On new germs or on new forms of the old ones?
During the reproductive or other evolutive period, in free state or when
encapsuled? Such research and accompanying experiments should be carried on and
kept up until the final solution is reached, for the hot countries, as well as
the temperate zones, have a great many seasonal and regional, but in all
"international," pathological puzzles. ELEPHANTIASIS

In another interesting trial I have put the HCl solution in two cases of
elephantiasis arabum, and in a good many cases of elephantiasis graecorum. The
first, said to be caused by the filaria sanguinis hominis, and the second by
the specific bacterium, the bacillus leprae of Hansen. HCl solution injected
intravenously in these hopeless cases produces surprising effects.

It is an accepted fact in pathology that the causation of the condition as in
the first case is due to lymph stasis, or to an occlusion in the lymph stream.
Naturally, the involvement of the lymphatic glands ensues; or lymphangitis may
be due to specific infection in the congested area.

NOTE: This is a very long article and I haven't finished the editing of very
interesting parts that will follow.
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
CONCLUSION:

The world is in sore need of a reliable, effective remedy for cancer and
tuberculosis, also a preventive treatment. The writer does not claim that he
has a perfected remedy, but he does claim, by repeated proofs, that this
solution contains in itself an ability to promptly cause many precancerous
lesions to disappear, that cancerous conditions of the internal organs, where
other methods are so futile, are and have been dissipated, and that in cases
too far advanced for recovery, relief of pain and distress is so marked that
such patients believe they will entirely recover.

If the chlorine deficiency hypothesis be true, as it seems to be, we have in
this solution a reliable, inexpensive medication which, taken daily for several
months, will prevent the imbalance of minerals; likewise restore into the
circulation, for assimilation or excretion, pathological mineral deposits in
the tissues involved.

Other physicians will doubtless test out these claims, as some are doing now,
and publish results, and the writer hopes that in the near future hope will
take the place of despair, and no longer need cancerous victims face inevitable
and untimely death.

(1) The intravenous dose used by writer is 3 to 5 minims (drops) in 5 c.c. of
distilled water at 5 to 7 day intervals. Dose by mouth: 3 to 20 minims well
diluted 3 to 6 times daily.

(2) The solution has been proved by the writer to be an effective and curative
remedy in many cases of cancerous growths; also it points the way to the
etiology of cancer and how cancer may be avoided.

(3) The remedy can in no wise cause injury; also advanced cases of cancerous
disease ofttimes find great relief from pain and toxemia.

(4) It has curative properties in diabetes, tuberculosis and other degenerative
diseases.

(5) It will restore the normal acidity of the stomach, and thus bring about
those conditions whereby the digestive organs will absorb those minerals
necessary for sustained health.

(6) The solution should be administered before and after surgical or other
methods of treatment in cancerous affections.

(7) The formula is the result of over three years' clinical study in many
diverse diseased conditions, testing and eliminating unnecessary salts, and as
now constructed should produce even better results than those herein reported.

( Certain minerals in a weak hydrochloric acid solution by reason of its free
ions, are quite active, and but small doses are required.

(9) Taken regularly for sufficient time, the solution will correct alkalosis
and put into circulation precipitated salts.

(10) The solution by releasing free chlorine ions, raises immunity against
infection and also an increased phagocytosis.
``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
CONCLUSION

Much more could be said concerning the complex cellular chemistry, but many of
my medical colleagues can hold up their own hands or those of their elderly
patients, and see their swollen or distorted joints and say, "Aklalosis." Then
if they will, they can take this formula and week by week see these infiltratcd
joints subside with increase of bodily comfort and. physical strength, and
realize that alkalosis causes precipitation of waste products, and that the
administration of alkalies but changes the acid waste products into salts, to
be deposited as sodium urate, in those joints farthest removed from the heart,
or to form calculi in bile or kidneys. Destroy these acids by the stronger
natural normal acid (HCI) and they will be eliminate; broken down by alkalies
they become deposits. The formula is designed to increase the amount of HCI in
the gastric juice, to supply deficient minerals, and finally to restore the
chemical reactions of the body to their normal metabolism. A word of warning
seems necessary, viz.: keep to a small dose. Recently a fisherman with
furunculosis of arms took instead of 9 drops, a teaspoonful as a dose. After
the second dose he had to walk about for half an hour to overcome the numbness
and failure of circulation in his legs. Needless to say his boils soon
disappeared.

The potassium salts suspended in an acid medium have free ions and are rapidly
assimilated. The formula is self-sterile and can be given intravenously, 3 to 5
minims in 10 c.c. of distilled water as needed; by mouth, well-diluted, 5 to 20
drops three to five times daily. The writer gives it in hot water in cases of
cholecystitis, with inevitably happy results. If desired, calcium chloride can
be used in place of the potassium salts when indicated in edema, asthenia
(weakness), etc.
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
NATURE IS THE BEST DOCTOR
By WILLIAM I. HOWELL, M.D. Lexington, Tenn.
With the Collaboration of Burr Ferguson, M.D., Birmingham, Ala.


EDITOR:This article on hydrochloric acid therapy was published in the early
1930s. It seems very pertinent today, especially for cancer and pneumonia,
where the old-timers apparently had good results with dilute hydrochloric acid.

Thirty-two years of general practice in a small town without the resources of
laboratory help made me often wish I might live and work in a larger community
where I might have more assistance with many of my cases. Drugs, as I had been
taught to use them in the treatment of infections that came under my
observation, did not have the cffect on my patients promised by my studies of
materia medica. Hence, when my patients reported all too often that the were
not doing well under the plan of treatment in use, changed the prescription and
hoped for the best.

During those years there was the occasional visit from a detail man from some
chemical house, from whom I would hear of many new specifics for this, that or
the other infection. After a few trials of the new serum, drug or vaccine there
still seemed to be something lacking; so I reached the conclusion that there
must be somethin

Good old MMS2 - hydrochloric Acid - Great Article - Thanks For Posting- Great find.

John D.

I apologize I read wrong, i was thinking Hypochloric Acid and not Hydrochloric Acid. Very Interesting Article. However I assume the Acids are very alike and both Oxidize and Boost the Immune System at the same consistency I wonder?

Really interesting article! thank you.