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THE CLASSICAL nutrition was developed under the influence of the discoveries of Justus v. Liebig (1803-1873) and continued by several authors up to the time of v. Noorden, who regarded human nutrition more or less as material for oxidation and restoration. Prior to v. Noorden, the task of the physician was mostly the organization of calories according to the needs of the patient, to give him strength and power to resist chronic degenerative diseases for a longer period of time. In contrast to this more superficial procedure, the modern physician has the task to adapt quality and quantity of nutrition to other factors such as deficiencies in minerals, vitamins and hormones, selection of special proteins, fats, etc. The quantity of food is considered in most cases or adapted to the changing needs of the patients.
The nutrition of the healthy human being is no longer deemed basic for any dietary regime, as v. Liebig had regarded it. The modern concept of examining every item of the diet by itself before selecting it for a special regime produced only failures in my experience. The majority of nutrients are regarded as "pharmakon" according to the doctrine of Hippocrates; this means a medication prescribed for a special purpose in a special dosage. The dietary regime, therefore, does not attempt to compose special nutritional principles of general value. It examines and tests the effect of a properly dosaged diet on the reaction and course of the disease.
The fact that the liver therapy brought about the restoration of new red blood corpuscles (reticulocytes) made it a medication. It seemed reasonable to assume that such a powerful substance, rich in activated enzymes, would also have similar strong pharmacological effects on other degenerative diseases.
Our experiments showed that patients who followed a dietary regime, rich in potassium, saltless, poor in protein and fat, responded much more strongly and positively to different types and doses of liver medication. On that basis we reduced the protein content of the regime more and more and finally came to the conclusion that we should discontinue all animal proteins in the beginning, as far as possible. We studied the response to different doses of liver medication and found the damaging influence of animal proteins. We found that additional small protein nutrients reduced urine secretion and sodium elimination, even if the urine test showed normal kidney function. We also observed that the detoxication process was retarded and the disappearance of allergic harmful reactions delayed.
Finally, we felt that it may be possible to draw conclusions from the effects of the treatment on visible processes in skin cancers to analogous reactions in the internal organs of the body. Experiences with diabetic patients revealed that additional protein nutrients burden liver and kidneys and make increased doses of insulin necessary. The end products of the general protein metabolism which is urea nitrogen, and uric acid which is from the cell metabolism, could be eliminated in greater amounts the less animal proteins were administered. Frequent occurrences of spasms in the diaphragm, the intestinal tract and even in the heart vessels pointed to overstimulation of the visceral nervous system by additional animal proteins under the conditions degenerative diseases.
The nuclei of liver cells contain a greater amount of nucleic acids which have to be broken down to uric acid and purin bases. The favorable results obtained with a saltless diet and large doses of liver therapy in the form of raw liver, liver injections, and best with liver juice1 exceeded by far the results seen by the appliction of the normal nutrition plus the usual liver therapy.
Practical experience taught us that in malignancies it is advisable to apply immediately larger doses of liver juice79 and injections with the crudest liver extract like Lilly No. 370 3cc. combined with vitamin B12 1cc equal 50 mcg. Vitamin B12 seems to help the body make the correct use of amino acids, so that they will not be burned unnecessarily but used instead for constructive purposes. In cancer, it is one of the essential processes to restore the conditions under which foodstuffs can be used in the correct manner. In the last seven to ten years we treated a great number of patients, mostly difficult or terminal cases, with relatively favorable results.
The application of the liver therapy increased the effect of the therapy to a considerable degree. Some indications where the therapy was found favorable may be mentioned here:
It may be added that leukemias and myelomas need greater doses of liver juice1 and vitamin B12 too. In my opinion these two types do not really belong to the "cancers" (So called by Ewing) as their metabolisms are much "deeper" and more differently deranged than we see it in other cancer types.
In the case of all of these diseases, we have cause to assume that concomitant damage to the liver has occurred as a result of permanent intoxication or functional disorders of the neighboring organs (dropped stomach) or by vagus-sympaticus disturbances (in allergies). Casimir Funk pointed to the close connection between liver dysfunction, digestive disturbances and allergic diseases many years ago.
In the beginning of the treatment some patients vomit a great amount of bile and suffer from a kind of toxic diarrhea. They become excited, frantic and want to discontinue the treatment. These strong reactions are actually indications of the beginning of improvement, with increased bile production, greater activity of the liver and elimination of toxins and poisons. After a period of one or two days, patients feel greatly relieved, show better circulation, complexion and color, and have more appetite. Then it was found out that detoxication can be accelerated by the increase of coffee enemas and additional castor oil treatments (castor oil by mouth and castor oil enemas), and these violent reactions no longer occurred. We see again the fundamental importance of the liver for recovery; but we should not forget that the function of the liver depends upon the regulation of the visceral nervous system. Therefore, the discontinuance of all sedatives and most intensive elimination of toxins and poisons are indispensable: that means liver and pancreas apparatus taken as a whole and the visceral nervous system must be able to function freely.
Liver can be taken as nourishment even by those allergic patients who are highly hypersensitive to animal proteins; as therapy, however, liver nutrition is not sufficient, but must be supported by a more specific liver therapy. Where stronger liver stimulation appears necessary, as in cases of serious intoxication and degenerative diseases, extensive liver injections and liver juice1 therapy are necessary. The combination of liver therapy and diet was necessary in serious cases of osteoarthritis, asthma, angina pectoris and malignancies. The combination of a saltless diet, poor in fat and proteins, with the liver therapy, regularly lowers the blood sugar considerably, so that the diet increased the effect of the liver enzymes, increased the effect of insulin, and decreased the adrenalin effect to a great extent. According to Ernst Leupold, the lowering of the blood sugar level is of great significance in cancer patients, and the decrease of the adrenalin effect is regarded so important, that in the last decade even both adrenals were removed by operation, which is too radical and prevents the restoration.80
The conclusion of Dr. Edward H. Ray was that "the benefits of the adrenalectomy are so meager and of such short duration that further use of this procedure should be discouraged."81
"After oophorectomy the adrenal glands are the most significant source of estrogens. Seventy-nine patients with advanced metastatic breast carcinoma underwent bilateral oophorectomy and adrenalectomy as a combination treatment-prophylaxis technique. There was no objective improvement in 38.7 per cent of the patients and subjective improvement in 57.3 per cent. Indications for this type of surgical management include objective demonstration of disseminated metastases. Jaundice from extensive metastases has been considered the only contraindication as far as the location of the metastatic lesions is concerned."82
As a whole, the liver therapy may be looked upon as a kind of hormone-enzyme therapy, but in a very mild dosage and natural manner. It was found helpful in returning glycogen, K-group minerals and vitamins to the liver and other tissues and finally in preparing the conditions for the function of the oxidizing enzymes.