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I am attaching and also pasting below a copy of Chapter 27 of Max Gerson’s book A Cancer Therapy in which he discusses healing flareups. This is the phenomena variously referred to as Herxheimer reactions, die-off, healing reactions etc. in which the unpleasant symptoms are necessary for healing.

I am posting this here because it appears to me people who are following an intensive MMS regimen such as Protocol 2000 can and possibly will experience such effects. Powerful episodes of healing typically lasting one or two days are a fully expected part of the Gerson juicing therapy. Gerson physicians are trained to expect these flareups and how to handle them. This is the only therapy I know of where dramatic healing reactions like this are such an expected and routine part of the regimen among the practitioners.

If you experience a full blown Gerson type flareup yourself it is scary. I know, I have experienced several in the approximately 15 years I have been following the Gerson regimen. These occurred when I was following the intensive regimen of one fresh made juice every hour for 12 hours per day optimally, or at least 6-8 hours per day.

Gerson’s description below downplays the flareups, because he wants them to be considered normal and no cause for alarm. If you experience one of these, your body launches into an intensive healing period in which you feel like you are dying. It often feels like a real bad cold or flu coming on which may then progress into nausea, diarrhea and or vomiting and lots of pain and other wild symptoms. A mild flareup may only have the flu symptoms for a day or two. Even though you stop taking the juices, or MMS, the symptoms can persist from several hours to a day or two or more. Usually you cannot stop the symptoms even though you cease all therapy, you just have to ride it out. The biggest problem is loss of fluids/dehydration if you cannot keep anything down while you are losing so much.

I have now witnessed a full-blown Gerson type flareup occur in a lady I have been corresponding with. She was in bad shape and was diagnosed with late stage cervical cancer (large squamous cell carcinoma) when she went on MMS Protocol 2000. Her regimen is to take oral doses of 10 or 15 drops six times a day and a 400 mg. MMS2 capsule at the same time. She has to have food in her stomach or she cannot do it. She gets some nausea and diarrhea with these doses but it is manageable; higher doses cause too much nausea and diarrhea. She tries to douche four times a day with 1/2 teaspoon MMS1 dose and she takes a bath with a 3/4 teaspoon MMS1 dose each day. Some days she only gets 4 oral doses in and 2 or 3 douches. She has been on a healthy diet for many years and weighs only 100 lbs. Amazingly, she has quite a lot of energy and works a full time demanding job while doing this.

I believe it was 2 weeks after adding the MMS2 into her regimen she had a full-blown healing flareup with 12 solid hours of vomiting and diarrhea of anything and everything. She stopped the MMS doses right away but could not hold anything down, vomited everything she tried. Also she was experiencing bleeding from the female organs during this time. She said she thought she was going to die and it felt like a bad cold but she did not see how that was possible with all the MMS.

She survived it and went off oral doses for a couple days, then during douches the next day she started discharging chunks of flesh from the female organs that looked like liver she said. She then got back onto her regimen. She had another healing flareup a couple weeks later when she had a voluminous discharge lasting a couple hours while working outside. She said it was not bloody but was like blood plasma. During douches, more fleshy material comes out, and this has been ongoing since the flareups started.

I have related only part of her story, I have extensive correspondence with her and what she experienced is so much like the flareups I experienced that I believe Gerson’s insight into this should be incorporated in our work, especially with Protocol 2000. I do not think this woman’s case will be unusual. I also followed the reports of a man who diligently followed the OCC/MMS protocol while following a milder Gerson juicing and coffee enema regimen. He also experienced what I would describe as medium level healing flareups similar to ones I have experienced on the Gerson regimen.

I submit this info from Gerson hoping we can learn from it and keep it in mind when helping people with intensive regimens such as Protocol 2000. So far my experience indicates an intensive MMS regimen such as Protocol 2000 can initiate just these types of Reactions/Flareups as a necessary and beneficial part of the healing process, just like Gerson says in regard to his protocol.

I believe this material is consistent with everything Jim has said up to this point. I believe this material adds to our knowledge by showing these intensive multiple symptom complexes lasting a day or two can be identified as expected episodes of healing that may occur on a regular basis and gradually taper off and reduce in frequency and severity like Gerson describes. Gerson does not mention this below, but elsewhere in the book he says Flareups are also a time when tumors or cancerous or diseased tissues are killed off by the body and then excreted or absorbed as necessary. When this occurs, it may be very helpful to aid the body’s elimination routes using techniques Gerson instituted in his protocol.

Michael

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A number of patients have remarked, within the first two weeks of the treatment, that they cannot "stand" the diet and wish to discontinue it. They based their opinion on the following occurrences: Nausea, headaches, in some cases vomiting, spasms in the intestines, more gas accumulation than usual, no appetite, inability to drink the juices, and difficulties with coffee enemas. All of the above are symptoms of what we call "the reaction period." These reactions appear with the present treatment after from , three to six days, and in more difficult cases after eight to ten days: they recur almost every ten to fourteen days, and later once a month. There is no connection with menstruation in women. However, in some case, I observed the return of menstruation which had already ceased for years. The return occurred after three to four months of the treatment, with intense spastic pain on both sides of the lower abdomen. As far as the regular "reaction periods" are concerned, one may observe that the patients vomit some bile with an offensive odor. I assume that this bile, flowing out of the common duct, causes some spasms in the duodenum or the upper small intestines, and flows over into the stomach, producing nausea, bad breath, coated tongue and reluctance to food, and even to juices. At such times patients need large quantities of peppermint tea, served with some brown sugar and a bit of lemon. They drink one to two quarts of this liquid a day; some patients consumed as much as four quarts in 24 hours. These masses of tea wash out the accumulation of bile from the stomach and duodenum, relieve the patients of the spasms and permit them to resume the intake of juices and administration of coffee enemas. The juices must be mixed with gruel; patients refuse to take cooked food, but accept raw grated apples, mashed bananas, applesauce. Such a "flare up" may last from one to three days. After a "flare up," patients feel greatly relieved, normal circulation resumes, the yellowish color with an occasional tinge of jaundice, which sometimes is noticed on the sclera of the eyes at these periods, disappears, and patients are able to eat and drink again. With the present treatment, and more frequent enemas, we reduced the "flare up" period for the most part to 24 hours, and in rare cases, to two days. The first 'flare up" is the most violent one and is usually accompanied by severe headaches, weakness of the entire body, bad mood, and feeling of depression. Patients remain in bed.

Subsequent "flare ups" lose in violence and duration and can be made more easily bearable by more coffee enemas. Some patients increase the number of their coffee enemas by themselves, some taking as many as eight or ten or twelve in 24 hours, as they feel great relief after each coffee enema. Some of the patients suffer outbreaks of perspiration or offensive odor during these periods; these persist a little longer than other symptoms. The aromatic acids eliminated during these reactions are so intense they may form chemical compounds with the paint of the walls and ceilings of the patients' rooms, and these compounds cannot be removed by soap and water or other cleaning methods. The room often had to be repainted after the patient's departure.

At the beginning of the treatment some patients assume that these are allergic reactions and refer to them as such in their reports to physicians. Some claim that they never could stand orange juice; others say they could never take even a small piece of apple, and still others claim they could never stand tomatoes or peaches, prior to the treatment. One patient reported that she had been unable to take even a half grain of thyroid in 20 years, as her metabolism was always minus 20 and less. All physicians tried to give her thyroid and Lugol solution, starting with the smallest doses and in weak solution, With this treatment, she was able, almost from the beginning, to take up to five grains of thyroid and 18 drops of Lugol solution, half strength, per day.
Laboratory analysis shows a trace of albumin and a greater amount of sodium in the urine during the reaction periods. The blood count shows a relatively higher number of leukocytes (up to 12,000-18,000) and an increase in lymphocytes if the lymphocyte count was abnormally low before, or a slight decrease in lymphocytes if the lymphocyte count was abnormally high before.
The detoxification during the reaction periods gives the patients a great psychological relief; generally after a few days they lose their fears and depressions, and demand getting out of bed. Their feeling of well being is supported by conversations with other patients, who report similar favorable effects after these "flare ups." Clinically, these "flare ups" are favorable reactions and should be regarded as part of the healing process.