No real scientist would be guilty of such arbitrary subterfuge. Only someone whose moral integrity is subordinate to his material gain could have effected this substitution. Be that as it may, the fact remains that from now on a number of medicinal, enzymatic, digestive, assimilative and catalytic properties of foods were declared as functions of some vitamin without any justification.
Let us see form concrete examples what happens if devitalized food is consumed and its effects treated with what is called vitamin. If a calf is fed boiled or canned milk instead of nursed by its mother, it gets tired and weak and dies on the 15th day. If a lamb is fed this same milk, it died in about three weeks. If these animals are given raw milk at a moment when they are so sick and weak from boiled milk that they cannot stand on their feet any more, they immediately revive and are able in 24 hours to hop about as if they had never been sick. This same experience, with the same details, has been repeatedly seen in children.
In fact millions of children have been killed by their mothers with boiled milk. In my early practice, over 35 years ago, I saw several children die that way. Their mothers were taught the dangers of germs and the importance of thorough cooking. So they fed their babies boiled milk, sugar and Cream of Wheat, last they thoroughly cooked and which had been devitalized by the miller before. Children died unless a doctor was called who knew his business. The situation today is hardly different. Today babies are fed canned milk, milk sugar, a few drops of orange juice and a few drops of fish oil or a vitamin consisting of concentrated fish oil.
If such a feeding is started immediately after birth and no other more vitalized foods are given, the child will be near death by the end of his second month. This has not been our experience-ED. What he develops is scurvy. The child is pale, emaciated, suffers from catarrh in the respiratory passages and from a papular dermatitis. If, from time to time, his menu is improved by some energizing foods, his disease comes more slowly and what he develops is called rickets. Fish oil being a centuries-old remedy for rickets and fruit juices also being a centuries-old remedy for scurvy, they should have protected the child against these diseases but they have not. This is perfectly logical.
These diseases are only cured if uncooked milk is substituted for the cooked, that is if the cause of the disease is completely removed from the diet. If this is done and then fish oil added, the cure is effected more quickly, but no one can say that it is effected by the oil. The oil only accelerates it. If fruit juice is added, the fruit juice does not cure, it only contributes to the cure. Different kinds of fruit juices can be chosen and instead of uncooked milk other foods can be given and the cure will also be effected provided these other foods are not devitalized. It is a mistake to think that cooked milk which cannot be assimilated will be assimilated by the addition of fish oil and fruit juices.
It is a mistake to think that fish oil and fruit juices will counteract the toxins generated by the unmetabolized and unassimilated milk. The addition of these two foods never makes the cooked milk assimilable. The child will suffer from the acidosis caused by the toxins of the devitalized milk just the same, all that will happen will be a slight retardation of his sickness. We often see children who with all the constipation of vitamins are so saturated with acids caused by the canned milk that their perspiration, their urine, their stool and their breath smell sour and their skin is so irritated that it is inflamed and covered with secretions and their respiratory tract is also so irritated that it is filled with mucus.
The present-day vitamin therapy of children is only making the parents believe that the toxicity of the canned milk is neutralized by the vitamin, a doctrine which is more harmful than all the germs and all the epidemics have ever been.
It is an old observation that fresh fish oil is most active oil in treating rickets and allied diseases. It it is refined, it is less active and still less is old and exposed to light and air. In time it loses its life energy completely. Since Vitamin A is a preparation of fish oil and often lies on the shelves of the drugstores for years before it is sold, it loses its force and when completely devitalized, it is harmful to everybody. This applies to all vitamins. A therapeutic effect can be expected only from relatively fresh products.
This is a bad situation, but in recent years it has become worse. Most manufacturers, not all, are now producing synthetic vitamins, that is, out of dead chemical material and not such as nature grows, not of vitalized foods such as years, wheat germ, vegetables, fruits, livers, endocrine glands, etc. These synthetic vitamins are invariably injurious as everybody can find out for himself.
The manufacturing of such vitamins would have been forbidden by the Government administration long ago, had not some chemists, employed by big business, falsely testified that there was no difference between the natural and synthetic vitamins. This was their testimony at a time when everybody interested in this matter knew the truth about it and when the Hungarian vitaminologist, Szent Gyorgyi, proved clinically that synthetic vitamin C cannot cure scurvy.
Before me lies an advertising pamphlet on a synthetic vitamin B product which illustrates the business acumen of the manufactures and proves that they were well aware of the toxicity of their products as it says.” Caution! Although no toxic reactions have been reported and no contraindications to its use have been discovered, excessive doses for prolonged periods of times seem inadvisable until more extensive investigations have been completed.” Why caution where there is no danger?.
Since such a gold mine could not remain productive very long, the business men added to these vitamins other known drugs which had been commonly used for their therapeutic effects.
Their choice fell on mineral salts, bile salts, iron, copper and iodine. Everybody who knows something about the manner in which drugs act can see that such maneuvers only change the bad to worse.
Recently the money mania has driven the vitamin producers to expand their tentacles over the field of endocrinology. Devitalized foods harm the endocrine glands, therefore, if you can’t eat properly, which they are sure can’t, you must use not only their vitamins but also their extracts of endocrine glands, if you expect to stay well. So they mix these gland extracts with heir vitamins and mineral salts and metals and what-not so that now no one will be sick any more.
Also the natural vitamins can be harmful if not indicated in a given case or if used in excessive amounts. Long before the vitamin era it was known that the good old cod liver oil could be injurious. In fever, in cases of deficient liver function, in digestive troubles and neurasthenia it may do harm. And it has been found that experimental animals become paralyzed from large doses of vitamin A.
And who would think that yeast could harm anybody? But it does harm people with weak hearts, low blood pressure or anemia. If such people eat bread fresh out of the oven, they immediately become tired. This tiredness is the effect of yeast. When the bread is cooled off, it loses its strength and does not have this tiring effect any more. I tried yeast on myself. In order to be sure that I was taking nothing but yeast, I made it myself. The first dose pepped me up, which lasted a week. When the condition were off, I took the second dose. This time it had the opposite effect. It tired me immediately.
A day later I took the third dose and then three more doses, one each day, and then no more. I had to stop taking it because my heart became so weak and my blood pressure so low that I was afraid to continue. A big fat lady came to my office complaining. “Oh, doctor, I shall die, I shall die, I am so weak.” Questioning brought out that she was taking Vitamin B, undoubtedly made from yeast. She discontinued it and in a few days all her weakness was gone. One day I saw a friend on the street, looking pale and tired and I asked him what he was doing. He was taking Vitamin B and I said: “Stop the damned stuff!” He did and in a week he was pink again.
Also the good fruit acids and their Vitamin C can be injurious. Known is the story of the plump and blooming French girl who drank a large glass of wine vinegar in order to reduce.
Soon she lost flesh, became pale and weak, night sweats set in and fever, cough, diarrhoea and death followed.
According to all this we can safely say that the so-called Vitamins exist only in imagination and that in reality they are drugs like any other drugs. They can be good and they can be bad. You have to know in advance when they will be good and when they will be bad, if you want to use them. To determine unequivocally in which condition they can be used therapeutically, it is necessary to use Hahnemann’s method of drug proving on the human and so establish their pathogenesis.
